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Letter reportedly threatens loss of all federal financial resources' over treatment of Jewish and Israeli studentsThe Trump administration has concluded that Harvard University violated federal civil rights law in its handling of Jewish and Israeli students, and it threatened the school with a potential loss of all federal financial resources" as a result, according to the Wall Street Journal.In a Monday letter addressed to the Harvard president, Alan Garber, administration attorneys stated that the university was aware Jewish and Israeli students felt unsafe on campus but failed to take meaningful action. The letter, obtained by the Journal, accused Harvard of deliberate indifference" toward those concerns. Continue reading...

Case filed when JD Vance was senatorial candidate claims that restrictions impede first amendment rightsThe US supreme court agreed on Monday to hear a case that could further erode restrictions on money in politics, in a challenge that comes in part from Vice-President JD Vance.The National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Vance and Steve Chabot, a former Republican congressman from Ohio, are challenging limits set on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates. The case was filed when Vance was a senatorial candidate, in 2022. Continue reading...

Police find body of suspect, who they said started the fire intentionally to ambush first respondersA man armed with a rifle intentionally started a wildfire and then began shooting at first responders in a northern Idaho mountain community, killing two firefighters and wounding a third during a barrage of gunfire over several hours, authorities said.A shelter-in-place order was lifted on Sunday night after a tactical response team used mobile phone data to home in" on a wooded area where they found the suspect's body with a firearm nearby as flames rapidly approached, said Bob Norris, the Kootenai county sheriff. Continue reading...

Luis Alvarez being held in jail after police stopped him and said he was driving without headlights onA man who helped rescue a nine-year-old girl after she was attacked and badly injured by a shark in Florida has been detained by immigration authorities - and he could face deportation.Luis Alvarez was stopped in the early hours of 14 June after police said he was driving without headlights on, according to an arrest report seen by the Fort Myers News-Press. The paper revealed Alvarez was being held in jail by the US's immigration and customs enforcement (Ice). Continue reading...

Extremely tragic situation' as all six people onboard Cessna 441 bound for Montana died in crash on SundaySix people were killed when a small plane crashed minutes after taking off from an Ohio airport, officials said.The Cessna 441 with six people on board crashed near Youngstown-Warren regional airport on Sunday morning, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities remained on the scene on Monday. Continue reading...

Trump administration says Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes owned SUV Salvadorian allegedly used to smuggle migrantsCourt records show that the Trump administration has agreed to spare from deportation a key witness in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in exchange for his cooperation in the case.Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, 38, has been convicted of smuggling migrants and illegally re-entering the United States after having been deported. He also pleaded guilty to deadly conduct" in connection with a separate incident where he drunkenly fired a gun in a Texas community. Continue reading...

Missing stars and short on sparkle, the USMNT have still found something vital at this Gold Cup: a renewed sense of belief, identity and collective fightYou can, as they say, only beat the teams in front of you. You can only play with the guys you've got. And you can only overcome the challenges you are confronted with.When the United States men's national team gathered to embark on the ongoing Concacaf Gold Cup in early June, success at the regional championship was tricky to define for the seven-time champions. They would, after all, be appearing absent 10 regulars and entering an event that hardly offered up the world's strongest opposition. Continue reading...

President insulted Republican senator and threatened to back his primary challenger after he opposed domestic bill. Plus, how a generation of virgins' is leading America's next sexual revolutionGood morning.Thom Tillis announced yesterday that he would not run for re-election to the US Senate next year, one day after the North Carolina Republican's vote against Donald Trump's signature piece of domestic legislation prompted the president to launch a barrage of threats and insults - as well as promise to support a primary challenger to defeat him in their party's 2026 primary.What is the latest on Trump's big beautiful bill'? The US Senate opened debate on the sprawling domestic policy legislation yesterday. Formal debate on the measure began after Democrats forced Senate clerks to read the entire 940-page bill aloud, to underscore their argument that the public is largely unaware of what the package actually contains.Follow live updates here.What's happening with the planned ceasefire talks? Israeli officials are due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by the US, which is fuelling the war by providing weapons to the Israeli military. Israel's strategic affairs minister, Ron Dermer, is expected at the White House later today for talks on Iran and Gaza, an Israeli official said. Continue reading...

Experts stress that a weakened Iran isn't in a position to attack on US soil and doesn't want to invite Trump's wrathAs the war between Iran and Israel intensified, teasing the eventual involvement of the US military, American security agencies began to warn of a looming threat of Tehran-backed sleeper cells" known to be active stateside that could be called in for retaliatory attacks.But as the B-2 bombers struck nuclear sites across Iran and the Iranian military responded with a missile barrage on US bases in the region, a ceasefire took shape. In the end, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - Iran's elite military and intelligence branch, wielding a global web of terrorist groups and agents acting on its behalf - didn't appear to sponsor or carry out any covert operations inside the US, nor has it since. Continue reading...

Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president's opponentsDraw a circle around all the assets in the US now devoted to artificial intelligence.Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US military.The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...

Boy's Virginia home town commends remarkable heroism' after he singlehandedly rescued grandmother and siblingsA city in Virginia has awarded a hero's proclamation to a 12-year-old boy who rescued his grandmother and two younger siblings from a fire that burned their house down recently.The courage that Ramir Parker demonstrated when confronted with the blaze is a shining example of resilience, responsibility and the power of instinctive leadership in our youth", said the proclamation that officials in Petersburg gave to the local seventh-grade student. Continue reading...

Workers claim the company has used AI to deny requests for accommodation and policed an employee Slack channelDisabled corporate workers at Amazon have accused the company of engaging in systemic discrimination", aggressively quashing their attempts to organize, and using artificial intelligence systems that they allege do not comply with US disability laws.At the center of the Amazon workers' complaints are allegations that the company has denied requests for accommodations for disabled staff in an automated" or semi automated" way and have allegedly repeatedly removed messages and a petition from an employee Slack channel. Continue reading...

A lockdown order at the scene of a sniper ambush that killed two firefighters has been lifted after authorities found the body of a man with a firearm nearby. Police say firefighters were ambushed by sniper fire while responding to a blaze in a northern Idaho mountain community

The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with MuslimsZohran Mamdani's stunning win in New York's mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with hopeful, progressive politics went up against the decaying gods of the establishment, with their giant funding and networks and endorsements from Democratic scions, and won. In another, in an appalling paroxysm of racism and Islamophobia, a Muslim antisemite has taken over the most important city in the US, with an aim to impose some socialist/Islamist regime. Like effluent, pungent and smearing, anti-Muslim hate spread unchecked and unchallenged after Mamdani's win. It takes a lot from the US to shock these days, but Mamdani has managed to stir, or expose, an obscene degree of mainstreamed prejudice.Politicians, public figures, members of Donald Trump's administration and the cesspit of social media clout-chasers all combined to produce what can only be described as a collective self-induced hallucination; an image of a burqa swathed over the Statue of Liberty; the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, stating that Mamdani's win is what happens when a country fails to control immigration. Republican congressman Andy Ogles has decided to call Mamdani little muhammad" and is petitioning to have him denaturalised and deported. He has been called a Hamas terrorist sympathiser", and a jihadist terrorist". Continue reading...

Former Chelsea manager answers your questions on life and work in the US, what she's looking forward to in this summer's Euros and pining for roast chicken

Makers of Aston Martins and Range Rovers expect high demand but British farmers say they have been used as collateralShiploads of Minis, Aston Martins and Range Rovers will set sail for the US on Monday as the UK-US trade deal kicks in, but British farmers say they have been used as collateral to save the car industry.Auto shipments across the Atlantic were down more than half in May after Donald Trump's imposition of a 25% tariff on 3 April on top of an existing 2.5% levy. Continue reading...

US Senate opens debate as budget office finds bill will also result in even bigger losses to healthcare coverage; Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources over Iran report - key US politics stories from Sunday 29 June at a glanceThe US Senate has opened debate on what Donald Trump calls his big beautiful bill" as new analysis says changes made to it in the chamber will add nearly $3.3tn to the nation's debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in healthcare coverage.The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's analysis adds to the challenges for Republicans as they push to get the bill over the line by the US president's self-imposed deadline of 4 July. After release of the bill's new costs, Trump cajoled and threatened lawmakers from his own party, posting on his Truth Social platform: REMEMBER, you still have to get reelected." Continue reading...

Pride parades took place across the world over the weekend in support of LGBTQ+ rights.From New York to Madrid, marchers filled the streets with music and calls for equality. Many carried messages of protest, highlighting ongoing discrimination and growing political pressure in several countries. In Istanbul, police detained more than 50 people as they tried to take part in a Pride March, which authorities had banned as part of a years-long clampdown on LGBTQ+ events, an opposition politician said

Democrats required clerks to read aloud the 940-page bill focused on tax cuts, immigration policy and healthcareThe US Senate opened debate on Donald Trump's sprawling domestic policy legislation on Sunday, the package of tax cuts, increased spending on immigration enforcement, and drastic reductions in funding for healthcare and nutrition assistance that the president calls his big beautiful bill".Formal debate on the measure began after Democrats forced Senate clerks to read the entire 940-page bill aloud, to underscore their argument that the public is largely unaware of what the package Trump branded beautiful" actually contains, and to delay a final vote until Monday. Continue reading...

President insulted Republican senator and threatened to back his primary challenger after he opposed domestic billThom Tillis announced on Sunday that he will not run for re-election to the US Senate next year, one day after the North Carolina Republican's vote against Donald Trump's signature piece of domestic legislation prompted the president to launch a barrage of threats and insults - as well as promise to support a primary challenger to defeat him in their party's 2026 primary.In Washington over the last few years, it's become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species," Tillis said in a statement sent to reporters. Continue reading...

Amir-Saeid Iravani says Tehran is ready for negotiations but Trump's unconditional surrender is not negotiation'Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, said on Sunday that the Islamic republic's nuclear enrichment will never stop" because it is permitted for peaceful energy" purposes under the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.The enrichment is our right, an inalienable right, and we want to implement this right," Iravani told CBS News, adding that Iran was ready for negotiations but unconditional surrender is not negotiation. It is dictating the policy toward us." Continue reading...

Cause unknown after several homes faced extensive fallout, including collapses, firefighters sayOne person died and two others were injured after an explosion damaged several homes on Philadelphia's north side early on Sunday, according to authorities.Firefighters responded to a report of an explosion just before 5am, according to the Philadelphia fire department. Continue reading...

Mark Warner says school would face slashes to jobs and financial aid if its president did not resign over DEI practicesThe University of Virginia (UVA) received explicit" notification from the Trump administration that the school would endure cuts to university jobs, research funding and student aid as well as visas if the institution's president, Jim Ryan, did not resign, according to a US senator.During an interview Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, Mark Warner, a Democratic senator for Virginia, defended Ryan - who had championed diversity policies that the president opposes - and predicted that Donald Trump will similarly target other universities. Continue reading...

Democratic mayoral candidate denies Trump's accusation that he is communist while reaffirming push to tax wealthyDonald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut New York City off from federal funds if favored mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, doesn't behave himself" should he be elected.Mamdani, meanwhile, denied that he was - as the president said - a communist. But he reaffirmed his commitment to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers while saying: I don't think that we should have billionaires." Continue reading...

President dismisses leaked assessment suggesting strikes only temporarily disrupted Iran's nuclear developmentDonald Trump said he is weighing forcing journalists who published leaked details from a US intelligence report assessing the impact of the recent American military strikes on Iran to reveal their sources - and the president also claimed his administration may prosecute those reporters and sources if they don't comply.In an interview Sunday with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Trump doubled down on his claim that the 21 June airstrikes aimed at certain Iranian facilities successfully crippled Iran's nuclear program. He insisted the attacks destroyed key enriched uranium stockpiles, despite Iranian assertions that the material had been relocated before the strikes. Continue reading...

Sattitla Highlands, with its unique lava-flow landscape, feels like another planet', but its protected status, granted by Joe Biden, is now threatenedIt's easy to get lost in the Sattitla Highlands in remote north-eastern California. There are miles of rolling lava fields, untouched forest and obsidian mountains. At night, the darkness and silence stretch on indefinitely.This is one of America's newest national monuments. It's also one of the most threatened. Continue reading...

Jonathan Reynolds contacted sports car maker after it emerged it was considering moving production from UK to USLotus has reassured the UK business secretary at an urgent meeting on Sunday that it has no intention of shutting its Norfolk factory, as the British sports car maker prepares to resume production as US tariffs are reduced.Jonathan Reynolds contacted Lotus bosses after it emerged that the carmaker was considering ending production of its sports cars in the UK and moving it to the US - a move that would jeopardise 1,300 jobs. Lotus's Chinese owner, Geely, was thought to be looking at options including manufacturing its Emira sports car in the US, and permanently stopping production at its factory in Hethel, Norfolk. Continue reading...

Clearing an important procedural hurdle, the Senate voted 51 to 49 to open debate on the legislationThe Republican-controlled US Senate advanced president Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill in a key procedural vote late on Saturday, raising the odds that lawmakers will be able to pass his big, beautiful bill" in the coming days.The measure, Trump's top legislative goal, passed its first procedural hurdle in a 51 to 49 vote, with two Republican senators voting against it. There was still work to do for the bill to actually gain passage in the Senate, which might not happen until about Monday. Continue reading...

T-shirt worn during a Paris concert sparked criticism for calling Native Americans the enemies of peace'A T-shirt worn by Beyonce during a Juneteenth performance on her Cowboy Carter tour has sparked a discussion over how Americans frame their history and caused a wave of criticism for the Houston-born superstar.The T-shirt worn during a concert in Paris featured images of the Buffalo Soldiers, who belonged to Black US army units active during the late 1800s and early 1900s. On the back was a lengthy description of the soldiers that included their antagonists were the enemies of peace, order and settlement: warring Indians, bandits, cattle thieves, murderous gunmen, bootleggers, trespassers, and Mexican revolutionaries." Continue reading...

Although gen Z may be getting laid less than their elders, they're resisting older definitions of sex and gender - in the face of the right's bid for bodily controlThe journalist perched on a stool in a corner of the bedroom, pen in hand, ready to jot down the most intimate details of our sex lives.Her name was Peggy Orenstein, and she was writing a book about girls and sex. As a 20-year-old college sophomore, I apparently still qualified as a girl, and I was having sex. So, one night in late 2013, I agreed to let Orenstein hang out at my sorority house. Continue reading...

Mark Richards says a parent complained to New Orleans' St Francis Xavier school after reading his late husband's obituaryA longtime music teacher at a Catholic school in the New Orleans area recently lost his job when it was revealed to an evidently disgruntled" parent that he was another man's widower, igniting a scandal within an archdiocese that has otherwise largely been occupied with trying to reorganize its finances in federal bankruptcy court after its clergymen spent decades sexually molesting children.In an email to community members at the archdiocese-run school from which he was dismissed, Mark Richards explained that he had been fired because a parent notified officials about an obituary for his husband, who died of a heart attack in September 2023. Continue reading...

Every action matters now. Every effort small or large counts. And moving, movement is the essential key to dispelling despairIn this authoritarian and suffocating climate where being an American feels like a curse, where just breathing here feels like complicity with genocide, psychotic imperialism, misogyny and endless racism, it is hard to move, let alone imagine what one can do to transform this horror to good.Every day people are kidnapped by masked men in unmarked cars, taken to hidden sites and left in deplorable conditions; starving people in Gaza are slaughtered as they clamor for a bag of flour; public officials and leaders humiliated and murdered; the T erased from LGBT; brain-dead women forced to give birth; the glib language of hate and cruelty and easy thoughtless threats of world war, assassination, and dehumanization circling like invisible poison. What feels most perilous is the steady evaporation of the boundaries of what seemed impossible only a few weeks ago. Morality, compassion, care - slashed and burned.V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a playwright and activist and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls Continue reading...

RFK Jr has direct control, but Senate testimony in May that someone else is running the agency has created confusionWho is in charge at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? The answer is more complicated than it may seem.With no confirmed or acting CDC director, Robert F Kennedy Jr has direct control over the agency, allowing him to sign off - or not - on vaccine recommendations, according to legal experts. Continue reading...

Democrats have been receptive to the Tuesday Group' but the Republicans who control Congress are looking the other wayThe Tuesday Group was feeling something familiar as its members milled around a bank of elevators in the bustling basement of a Senate office building: rejection.They had often been told no over the past months - when the government moved to fire them with Donald Trump's blessing, when judges rejected challenges to that decision and when the lawmakers who they have taken to tracking down on Capitol Hill once a week when Congress is in session would turn a deaf ear to their pleas. Continue reading...

Pro-choice Alaskan was one of the few Republicans to vote to convict Trump at president's second impeachment trialLisa Murkowski is Alaska's four-term senator, first appointed in 2002 by Frank Murkowski, her father and the state's governor. An avowed moderate Republican, she entertains the possibility of caucusing with the Democrats if the Senate emerges deadlocked from next year's midterms. Her relationship with Donald Trump is fraught.In 2016, she voted for the former Ohio governor John Kasich. In Far From Home, her first book, she writes: One of my simple rules ... has been to withhold my vote from any candidate of bad character, regardless of the politics."Far From Home is published in the US by Penguin Random House Continue reading...

Like Putin, Israel's prime minister sees continuing destruction as an opportunity to boost support and outflank his enemiesThe war is over! Except it's not, not by a long chalk. The verbally agreed Iran-Israel ceasefire could be ripped to shreds at any moment. An aggressive theocratic regime still holds power in Tehran. The same is true of Jerusalem. In Washington, a president whose stupidity is matched only by his vanity prattles about making peace, but the angry old men in charge have learned nothing. Meanwhile, hundreds of civilians lie dead, thousands are wounded and millions have been terrorised.The war is over! Except only the naive believe that Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister and prime warmonger, is done fighting. Even if Donald Trump is right and Iran's nuclear facilities have been obliterated" (severely damaged" appears more accurate), its nuclear knowhow and elusive stockpile of enriched uranium have not. At the first sign, real or imagined, of rebuilding, Netanyahu and his cronies will surely attack again. Trump called them off last week. But this is a man who can change his mind three times before he's even had breakfast.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

The key procedural hurdle was cleared hours after the debate opened - key US politics stories from 28 JuneAfter a scramble in the Senate, Republicans voted on Saturday to advance Trump's signature big, beautiful" bill, with a 51-49 vote.Republicans had been divided over the controversial bill, with some rejecting the proposal to cut welfare programmes in order to cover tax breaks, and others demanding deeper cuts. Continue reading...

Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases riskPolice in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of such arrests, as masked, plainclothes immigration agents are deployed nationwide to meet the Trump administration's mass deportation targets.The man, Fernando Diaz, was arrested by Huntington Park police after officers said they found a loaded gun and official-looking documents with Department of Homeland Security headings in his SUV, according to NBC Los Angeles. Officers were impounding his vehicle for parking in a handicapped zone when Diaz asked to retrieve items inside, the police said. Among the items seen by officers in the car were multiple copies of passports not registered under the individual's name", NBC reports. Continue reading...

Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Garcia abandoned locked truckload of people in summer heat with no AC in 2022Two men face spending the rest of their lives in prison after a federal judge sentenced them on Friday for their roles in the deaths of 53 people - including six children - who were found dead in an abandoned tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022.A federal jury in Texas had found the two men, Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Garcia, guilty of various charges at the conclusion of a trial in March. Federal judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Torres to life in prison and Ortega to 83 years of incarceration, essentially a life sentence. Continue reading...

Governor Tim Walz eulogizes Melissa Hortman, killed with husband, as most consequential speaker' in state's history

Woman's injuries were not life-threatening, and officials were unable to find the likely young sand tiger sharkA 20-year-old woman was likely bitten by a juvenile shark while waist-deep in the surf at a suburban New York beach, according to state officials.The unidentified woman suffered minor lacerations to her left leg and foot after being bitten Wednesday at Jones Beach state park on Long Island. She was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, according to a release from state parks officials. Continue reading...

Meta CEO reportedly to offer pay packages worth up to $100m, a gambit OpenAI's Sam Altman calls crazy'Mark Zuckerberg reportedly spent months putting together a list of the top AI engineers and researchers across the globe, preparing to offer potential recruits lucrative compensation packages in Meta's attempt to poach AI talent from key competitors.Silicon Valley has been talking for weeks about the Meta CEO's quest to attract top AI talent, including by offering pay packages worth up to $100m. Continue reading...

As Trump urges more deportations, veterans are seeing their parents, children and even themselves detainedThe son of an American citizen and military veteran - but who has no citizenship to any country - was deported from the US to Jamaica in late May.Jermaine Thomas's deportation, recently reported on by the Austin Chronicle, is one of a growing number of immigration cases involving military service members' relatives or even veterans themselves who have been ensnared in the Trump administration's mass deportation program. Continue reading...