Addison Bethea, 17, insisted ‘I’m still going to do what I love’ as she faces amputation following Fourth of July incidentA teenager who was in hospital to have her right leg amputated on Tuesday after a shark bit her off Florida’s coast said she had no intention of abandoning her love for the water.“Don’t be scared of the ocean,” Addison Bethea told Miami’s CBS affiliate from her bed when asked to send a message to the public. “I’m still going to do what I love – don’t just let fear overtake your life.” Continue reading...
Lawyers for Ramiro Gonzales, who is set to die by lethal injection on 13 July, requested 30-day reprieve so he can provide donationA Texas man set to be executed in less than two weeks asked to delay his execution so he can donate a kidney.Ramiro Gonzales, 39, who is set to die by lethal injection on 13 July, has submitted formal requests to postpone his execution so he can provide a kidney donation for someone urgently needing a transplant. Continue reading...
Doctors’ ‘good faith’ prescribing decisions drove volume of painkillers shipped to pharmacies, says district judge David FaberThe US’s three largest pharmaceutical distributors were not responsible for fueling an opioid epidemic in a part of West Virginia, a federal judge ruled on Monday.District judge David Faber rejected efforts by the city of Huntington and Cabell County to force McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health to pay $2.5bn to address a drug crisis prompted by a flood of addictive pills in their region. Continue reading...
Footage has emerged of crowds flee from gunfire at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Chicago. A gunman opened fire from a rooftop, killing six people and wounding more than 36 as they celebrated Independence Day. The suspect is now in custody after more than 100 officers locked down the area
Witnesses speak of their terror after at least six killed and 30 injured at public event in Highland Park, Chicago. Plus, US drag queens stand their groundGood morning.A person of interest in the mass killing that targeted a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park has been taken into custody, the Highland Park police chief said yesterday evening.Is Crimo the person in custody? Police are still investigating Crimo’s connection to the shooting and declined to immediately identify him as a suspect. But they said identifying him as a person of interest and sharing his name and other information publicly was a serious step.Who were the victims? Among the victims was Nicolas Toledo, a 76-year-old grandfather who was identified by his family. He was watching the parade from his wheelchair when gunshots rang out. The other victims have yet to be named.What has Planned Parenthood’s chief said about the fight for abortion rights since the supreme court ruling? Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and CEO of the US’s largest abortion provider, outlines the three goals she has to get women the access they need. Continue reading...
A midwestern transplant is the latest target of the city’s wrath for daring to criticize the beloved corner storesA piece of advice for anyone considering a move to New York: don’t mess with bodegas.The celebrated stores – which vary widely but generally function as convenience stores, delis, food markets and coffee shops – have been a city staple for decades, inspiring unwavering loyalty from locals: “If you’re not cool with your corner store guy, you’re not from New York,” as one worker told NPR. Continue reading...
Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and CEO of the US’s largest abortion provider, outlines the three goals she has to get women the access they needIn the time after the US supreme court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion in America and thereby allowed nearly a dozen states to outlaw the procedure, the president and CEO of the US’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, has worked feverishly with three goals in mind.Alexis McGill Johnson wants to get women where they need to be to access abortion, whether that means helping patients cross state lines or flying doctors to states where abortion remains legal. Continue reading...
Rumors are swirling that the ex-president could make an announcement soon, as January 6 revelations continueSpeculation is swirling in the US media that Donald Trump is considering announcing a 2024 presidential run as early as this summer and in the face of ever more damaging revelations from a congressional investigation of his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.Irrespective of Trump’s chances of winning a second term, another presidential campaign under consideration – as reported by the New York Times, CBS and other US outlets – could give the former president a multi-year shield to deflect the attention of prosecutors. Continue reading...
As the European calendar officially shifts to preseason, we take one final look at the best American and Canadian men’s players abroad over the past yearAs the European calendar officially shifts to preseason for the 2022-23 season (and well into the never-ending transfer season, at times the best season), let’s take one last look at the 2021-22 campaign for Americans and Canadians abroad.Here’s a Best XI of Americans and Canadians in Europe from the 2021-22 campaign. Continue reading...
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‘Infuriating’ exclusions made just weeks before Joe Biden’s Saudi visit and expected rapprochement with the crown priceFamily members of several US nationals who are being held in Saudi Arabia and Egypt were not invited to attend a recent call with Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, in a move that was called “infuriating and discriminatory” by one critic.The apparent decision to exclude the families from a June 22 call between Blinken and relatives of US nationals who are hostages or otherwise wrongfully detained in Russia, Venezuela, Rwanda, and other countries, was made just weeks before Joe Biden’s controversial trip to the Middle East and an expected rapprochement between the US president and Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince. Continue reading...
Two Philadelphia police officers were shot near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway as thousands of people celebrated a Fourth of July concert and fireworks show. Both officers were in stable condition. Video footage taken close to the scene showed people running from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and helicopters with searchlights flying above. Police instructed people in surrounding buildings to shelter in place.Earlier in the day in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, a gunman on a rooftop opened fire on families waving flags and children riding bikes at a Fourth of July parade, killing six people and wounding more than 36
The party has shown little enthusiasm to help those affected by unplanned pregnancies – is anything likely to change?Republicans across the United States cast the supreme court’s decision last month that allowed states to ban abortion as a victory for “life”. Left unsaid was the quality of life that families and mothers set to be left dealing with unplanned pregnancies might have.For years, the Republican party has pushed to ban a procedure that is mostly sought out by people who are poor, while showing much less enthusiasm for efforts to permanently expand the country’s social safety net. Critics have labeled the party’s stance as caring a lot politically about unborn fetuses, but losing interest in them when they are born as American citizens. Continue reading...
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Witnesses speak of their terror after at least six killed and 30 injured at public event in Highland ParkA person of interest in the mass killing that targeted a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park has been taken into custody, the Highland Park police chief said on Monday evening.More than 100 law enforcement officers had scoured the suburb and surrounding areas after at least six people were killed when a lone gunman rained down bullets on the town’s independence celebrations on Monday morning. Continue reading...
A shooter opened fire on Four of July parade-goers from a rooftop, killing at least six people and wounding at least 30 in Highland Park, a Chicago suburb. Witnesses have described how the celebration turned into a nightmare. One father, Alexander, said, 'We ran behind the building and I put my son in a dumpster. He sat there with his dog and I went back to look for the rest of my family.' The governor of Illinois said he was 'furious' at gun violence in his country: 'There are no words for the kind of evil that shows up at a public celebration of freedom, hides on a roof and shoots innocent people with an assault rifle.' An eight-hour search took place before a person of interest was taken into custody
In letter passed to White House, athlete says she fears she may be stuck in Russian prison for everThe imprisoned basketball star Brittney Griner has made an appeal to Joe Biden in a letter passed to the White House through her representatives, saying she fears she may never return home and asking that he not “forget about me and the other American detainees”.Griner’s agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas said the letter was delivered on Monday. Most of the letter’s contents remain private, though Griner’s representatives shared a few lines from the handwritten note. Continue reading...
Further comparisons with another player of Russian descent are likely after Anisimova swiftly dispatched FrenchwomanWhen Amanda Anisimova watched Harmony Tan’s first-round upset of Serena Williams in the Dog and Fox pub in Wimbledon village, she didn’t really clock her unusual style at the time. Clearly the American has done her homework since, because she brought a swift end to Tan’s surprise run here, dispatching the world No 115 6-2, 6-3 with a blithe assurance that will only add to comparisons with a certain other player of Russian descent.The rangy legs, the blonde plait swinging from behind the visor – even the way the 20-year-old, who was born to Russian parents in New Jersey, holds her racket is reminiscent of her role model Maria Sharapova, with whom she shares an agent. Her lithe movement around the court here, not to mention the power with which she hit from the back of it, hints that the idolatry may not be in vain. Continue reading...
‘Freedom is under attack in your state,’ California governor says in ad paid for by his re-election campaign that aired on Fox NewsGovernor Gavin Newsom of California has aired a commercial in Florida over the Fourth of July holiday weekend urging residents there to fight for freedom, or move to his state in order to find it.The ad – which pits blue state California against currently red state Florida – exemplified the growing divides in the US as Republican-led state legislatures have pursued rightwing policies on a slew of issues from banning abortion to attacking LGBTQ+ rights and voting issues. Continue reading...
Nadal, Garín and Kyrgios into men’s quarter-finals; Tomljanovic, Halep and Rybakina into women’sDe Minaur soon enough has two set points at 40-15, he’s dominating Garin while not being asked to play anywhere near his best tennis. And, after a couple of let-cords, Garin nets, and it’s a 6-2 first set in just about 40 minutes.Nice serve and volley from Garin as he responds well to De Minaur’s speed at deuce, only to misread on the next point to find himself back at deuce. He eventually concedes the double break to a whipped lob from the Australian who at 5-2 will serve for the first set. Continue reading...
State set execution dates on Friday for six inmates and plans for executions to take place about once a month through 2024Oklahoma is planning to execute a prisoner on death row nearly every month starting in August through 2024 in a move that is likely to cause outrage among opponents of the death penalty.The Oklahoma court of criminal appeals set the execution dates on Friday for six inmates, who have all exhausted their appeals, and plans for executions to take place about once a month. The inmates’ capital punishments were on hold because of a lawsuit over botched lethal injections, which led to a more than five-year execution moratorium. Continue reading...
Protesters took to the streets on Sunday night, demanding answers and justice after an unarmed Black man in Akron, Ohio was killed by police in a hail of gunfire as he ran away after a car chase. The march held for Jayland Walker was largely peaceful and concluded at Akron’s Justice Center, where teargas was eventually fired by police officers in riot gear
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Bodies found after reports of a foul stench coming from funeral home, where some of the remains were kept since MarchAuthorities in Indiana are investigating the discovery of 31 bodies, some in advanced stages of decomposition, and other post-cremation remains at a funeral home.The bodies were found on Friday after reports of a foul stench coming from the Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center, where some of the remains were kept since March. Continue reading...
Walker, 25, was killed 27 June and sustained more than 60 wounds as multiple officers shot at him, but footage was released SundayCivil rights groups and local politicians have reacted with outrage to the release of video of police killing a Black man in Akron, Ohio, who was shot in a hail of gunfire as he ran away after a car chase.It’s not clear how exactly many shots were fired by the eight officers involved, but Jayland Walker sustained more than 60 wounds as multiple police officers shot at him. An attorney for Walker’s family said officers kept firing even after he was on the ground. Continue reading...
Attorneys for the Brooklyn detention center where the singer is being held say he matches the criteria to be put under supervisionGovernment prosecutors have defended a decision to place the disgraced R&B singer R Kelly under suicide watch following his sentencing to 30 years in prison on sex trafficking and racketeering charges last week.In documents filed over the weekend in response to a lawsuit that claimed Kelly, 55, was “placed on suicide watch as a form of punishment even though he was not suicidal”, attorneys for the Brooklyn detention center where the singer is being held said he matched the criteria to be put under supervision. Continue reading...
Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony inspired more witnesses to come forward, says Republican congressmanRepublican congressman Adam Kinzinger has said that bombshell testimony given by Cassidy Hutchinson to the January 6 hearings last week has inspired more witnesses to come forward and the committee is getting more new evidence by the day.The panel is investigating the events surrounding the 2021 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Kinzinger is one of two Republicans serving on the panel which has publicized explosive testimony about the insurrection and an apparent plot to subvert the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won. Continue reading...
Photos showing targets were taken during a Boy Scouts field trip to the Farmington Hills police department in AprilA Michigan police department will conduct a legal review after photographs showing shooting targets with the images of Black men on them were taken at the department’s practice area.The photographs were taken during a Boy Scouts field trip to the Farmington Hills police department in April, prompting allegations of racial bias after the images showed targets of Black men holding weapons and children gathered around one of the targets. Continue reading...
Attorneys and activists say they cannot solely rely on the courts – and are planning fresh approaches to advancing racial justiceCivil rights attorneys are planning new approaches to advancing racial justice after the US supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade and recent rulings that have eroded civil rights victories.Over its long history, the court has been viewed as a friend and a foe of racial progress. Last week’s decision to overturn a 50-year precedent in the landmark abortion case, signaled another turning point, said ReNika Moore, the director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program. She immediately saw how the decision would disproportionately imperil the lives of low-income and women of color, particularly Black women. She also saw the implications of the decision for cases where race is at the heart of the matter. Continue reading...
Republican politicians fear their base, while Democratic politicians don’t. That’s why we are in this messAfter the overturning of Roe v Wade, there is bad news and there is good news. But first, an admission.For most of my adult life, I’ve clung to a grand unifying theory: the only way to fight off rightwing fascism is to build not just a well-organized progressive movement, but to also mobilize rank-and-file apolitical Democratic voters to press their own party to deliver. Continue reading...
Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable over election fraud claims. Plus, the amazing fates of Hollywood’s greatest dressesGood morning.In the months after the 2020 US presidential election, rightwing TV news in America was a wild west, an apparently lawless free-for-all where conspiracy theories about voting machines, ballot-stuffed suitcases and dead Venezuelan leaders were repeated to viewers around the clock.What does Dominion say Fox Corp did? In the $1.6bn lawsuit, Dominion accuses Fox Corp, and the Murdochs specifically, of allowing Fox News to amplify false claims that the voting company had rigged the election for Joe Biden.Should Fox News be worried? Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a legal expert, thinks Dominion has a good case. “What’s particularly bad for Fox is [that] Dominion asked them to stop and correct the record in real time, and Fox persisted in spreading misrepresentations about the voting machine company,” she said.What else is the supreme court set to tear up? The ideologically driven conservative majority is likely to further weaken key civil rights legislation after a term of radical rulings. Continue reading...
The United States is unique in how its national teams are entirely supported through private funds. And yet America’s success would be almost impossible without government favorMajor League Baseball formed upon the merger of the National League and American League in 1903. But the business story of America’s dominant baseball league starts in 1890. That year, Congress passed and President Benjamin Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which became the bedrock of anti-monopoly law in the United States. Its intended use was to prevent businesses from making anti-competitive agreements and monopolizing industries – except, as it turns out, the industry of the national pastime.In 1913, 10 years after the AL-NL merger, a competitor circuit called the Federal League emerged. The NL and AL owners banded together to push the Federal League out of business by buying up its teams and paying Federal League owners to cease their operations. At this time, MLB also had a reserve clause that bound players to their teams for their whole careers, so long as the team didn’t cut the player. The clause severely curtailed competition for talent and thus allowed teams to save money on player salaries. Both of these practices – the reserve clause and the chasing-off of a competitor league – struck a number of stakeholders and observers as classic monopoly behavior that should have been illegal.This article was originally published by Global Sport Matters, a project of the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University. For more stories like this, visit the Global Sport Matters website. Continue reading...
Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company DominionIn the months following the 2020 US presidential election, rightwing TV news in America was a wild west, an apparently lawless free-for-all where conspiracy theories about voting machines, ballot-stuffed suitcases and dead Venezuelan leaders were repeated to viewers around the clock.There seemed to be little consequence for peddling the most outrageous ideas on primetime. Continue reading...
True patriots don’t fuel racist, religious or ethnic divisions. Patriots seek to confirm and strengthen and celebrate the ‘we’ in ‘we the people of the United States’On this Fourth of July, it’s worth pondering the true meaning of patriotism.It is not the meaning propounded by the “America first” crowd, who see the patriotic challenge as securing our borders.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...
Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will ‘never embrace the union’Several weeks after Starbucks workers in Ithaca, New York voted to unionize, the company announced with just a week’s notice that their store on College Avenue, one of three in Ithaca, would be shut down. Starbucks claimed the decision to close was unrelated to unionization and was due to a problem with the grease trap system. Workers felt the store closure was retaliatory to the union.The dispute is just one of many that newly unionized workers can expect in the coming months. Starbucks workers have driven an unprecedented wave of union organizing victories, in the face of fierce opposition from the company. Now comes the hard part – agreeing a contract and moving forward with a company determined to stamp out its nascent union movement. Continue reading...
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West Virginia senator Joe Manchin announced move at memorial for late marineThe last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from the second world war will lie in state at the US Capitol, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin announced at a memorial on Sunday where the late marine was remembered for his courage, humility and selflessness.“He never quit giving back,” Manchin said of Hershel W “Woody” Williams. That included raising money for gold star families – immediate family members of fallen service members – with an annual motorcycle ride. Continue reading...
Zach Gallo was reportedly participating in a water training exercise when incident occurred on Long IslandJust when it was warm enough to go back in the water, Fourth of July revelers on a popular beach on New York’s Long Island were ordered out again after a shark bit a lifeguard.Zach Gallo was reportedly playing a victim in a water training exercise Sunday when a 4- to 5-ft-long shark bit him in his chest and right hand off Smith Point Beach, 70 miles east of Manhattan. Continue reading...
Son of Michael Schumacher’s P8 finish earned four points for Haas ahead of Fourth of July holidayFighting to keep his job at the pinnacle of motorsport, the son of the legendary, seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher scored his first ever points for the only American team on the F1 grid after finishing eighth in Sunday’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone.Mick Schumacher’s P8 finish earned four points for Haas – which is headquartered in North Carolina – the day before the US celebrates Monday’s Independence Day holiday. Continue reading...
Officials brace for fresh protests after 25-year-old Black man was killed running from officers during a traffic stopAuthorities in Akron, Ohio, have released chilling police body-camera video in the shooting death of Jayland Walker, a Black motorist who was gunned down after running from officers during a traffic stop on Monday.The video, which shows a fast police chase of Walker’s vehicle, culminates with several officers surrounding the 25-year-old in a parking lot, attempting to Taser him and then opening fire. Walker was accused of firing a handgun at police from his vehicle before leaving the pistol in the driver’s seat and trying to run from officers. Continue reading...
Case places prominent anti-abortion figures in position of balancing rights of women and girls while defending restrictionsThe case of a 10-year-old child rape victim in Ohio who was six weeks pregnant, ineligible for an abortion in her own state, and forced to travel to Indiana for the procedure has spotlighted the shocking impact of the US supreme court ruling on abortion.The story of the girl came to light three days after the court overturned a nationwide right to terminate pregnancy, and Ohio’s six-week “trigger ban” came into effect. Continue reading...
Alejandro Mayorkas says ‘migrants received false information from smugglers’ after 53 died in a trailer in Texas last weekThe secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, repeated warnings against attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border on Sunday after 53 died inside a trailer in San Antonio, Texas, last week in the deadliest ever migrant smuggling episode at the border.“These migrants received false information from smugglers,” Mayorkas told CBS’s Face the Nation. “They put their lives, their life savings, in the hands of these exploitative organizations, these criminal organizations that do not care for their lives and only seek to make a profit.” Continue reading...
January 6 committee vice-chairwoman says ‘a man as dangerous as [him] can never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever again’The vice-chairwoman of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is not ruling out a criminal referral against Donald Trump, saying “a man as dangerous as [him] can never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever again”.Liz Cheney’s remarks Sunday came after the committee’s chairman, Bennie Thompson, once said he did not expect the panel to indicate whether or not it would make a recommendation for federal prosecutors to charge the former president with an alleged role in the Capitol attack. Continue reading...
I have fancied everyone from cartoon foxes to wrestlers. Do I have to say goodbye to all that?Unlike Jimmy Carter, the former US president, I have not committed adultery in my heart many times. But only because I have never been married. Over the course of my life, I have had more crushes than a Florida orange. As a child, I fancied everyone from a medieval cartoon fox to a noodle-haired wrestler to a student physics teacher. I was lusty before I even realised what lust was. And I know I’m not the only one.The brilliant podcast Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith has delighted me for three months with stories of hapless supermarket flirtations, hopeless workplace infatuations and helpless attempts to make various band members notice you. Listening to an episode featuring Shaparak Khorsandi, I remembered with a flash of shame hiding in a woodshed with a family friend as part of a game of hide and seek, and being so desperate to touch him that I pretended to stroke a woodlouse off his back just to feel his skin. I was six years old. It was on Crushed that I also learned, somewhat encouragingly, that Gary Numan is married to a member of the Gary Numan fan club, while Sara Pascoe’s parents met because her mother camped outside her musician dad’s house with a gaggle of other teenage fans. If it worked for them, you reason, there is hope for us all.Nell Frizzell is the author of The Panic Years and Square One, which will be published on 7 July Continue reading...
This is an attack on the epic social, political and cultural transformations of that remarkable period in the 1960s and 1970sThe supreme court, thank heaven, finally adjourned on Thursday, after a week of decisions that blew up much of the framework of American policy and politics. And a key thing to notice about that assault on American norms was how many of their targets were adopted in a few short years in the 1960s and 1970s.Roe v Wade, of course, dates to 1973, the fruit of many year’s work by committed feminists. Thursday’s attack on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases guts the Clean Air Act, which in its strong form dates from 1970 – indeed, both that law and the EPA itself were the result of the first Earth Day protests in April of that year, which drew 20 million Americans (10% of the country’s population in those days) into the streets demanding action. Even firearms sanity, badly weakened once more in last week’s decision on concealed carry permits, reached its zenith in 1968 with the passage of the Gun Control Act in response to the assassinations of that turbulent year.Akaya Windwood, former head of the Rockwood Leadership Institute, is lead adviser of Third Act; the group’s founder, Bill McKibben, is a longtime environmental activist and author. Continue reading...
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