US navy and Australian authorities are conducting search and rescue operations in the Timor Sea after reports of possible sailor overboard'A search-and-rescue mission is under way in the Timor Sea for a US sailor believed to have gone overboard from the USS George Washington on Monday.The aircraft carrier and its carrier strike group are conducting search-and-rescue operations in the sea, after reports of a possible sailor overboard" on Monday afternoon, the US navy said in a statement. Continue reading...
Crescent City ID program will help immigrants and those who are homeless obtain ID proof and access servicesThe city of New Orleans has announced a municipal identification program to provide ID cards to residents who may not be able to access such cards otherwise in a move seen as a positive step for the city's migrant communities as the Trump administration continues targeting undocumented people.The municipal government of New Orleans launched the Crescent City ID program on Monday, which is designed to promote inclusion" in the city. Continue reading...
President says pair fell out because Epstein poached staffers, including Epstein accuser who died in AprilDonald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender he socialized with for more than a decade, stole" Virginia Giuffre and other young female staffers whom he hired away from the president's Mar-a-Lago country club.Speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Scotland, Trump was asked to elaborate on his earlier comments about falling out with Epstein because he took employees from his business. The president said on Monday that he had kicked Epstein out of his club because he did something that was inappropriate" - specifically, that he stole people that worked for me". Continue reading...
Attorneys general challenge request for data of people enrolled in federally funded food assistance programA coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration's demand that their states turn over personal data of people enrolled in a federally funded food assistance program, fearing the information will be used to aid mass deportations.The data demand comes as the Trump administration has sought to collect private information on mostly lower-income people who may be in the country illegally. It has already ordered the Internal Revenue Service and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to share private information with the Department of Homeland Security to aid in deportation efforts. Continue reading...
The league first publicly accepted there was a link between the sport and the incurable brain disease in 2016 - but still outright denied claimsOn Monday evening, a man brandishing an AR-15-style rifle walked into the east midtown Manhattan office tower where the NFL is headquartered and killed four people before turning the gun on himself.Authorities say the man, 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura of Las Vegas, traveled to New York days before the incident, and surveillance footage from the Park Avenue address showed him arriving in a suit and tie that concealed body armor. Continue reading...
Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker's lawyer responds to subpoena from House panel with conditionsGhislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, says that she is willing to testify before Congress but only if certain conditions are met, including being granted immunity, according to a new letter sent to the House oversight committee by her lawyer on Tuesday.Last week, the House committee on oversight and government subpoenaed Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence, to testify via deposition next month at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is currently in custody. Continue reading...
NYPD officer Didarul Islam and Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner among the four killed in Monday's attackAn off-duty New York police officer as well as a high-ranking real estate executive were among those killed on Monday evening during a shooting at a Manhattan high-rise building that left four victims dead and one other person seriously injured, according to officials.The New York police department (NYPD) officer Didarul Islam, 36, who was assigned to a Bronx precinct and had been on the job for three and a half years, was off duty when the attack began. Continue reading...
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First minister says there is window of opportunity' as he holds talks with US president at Aberdeenshire golf resortScotland's first minister has urged Donald Trump to exempt scotch whisky from 10% tariffs as the leaders met before a lavish opening ceremony for a second golf course at the US president's Aberdeenshire resort.John Swinney said he believed there was a window of opportunity" to look at the specific tariff, which is believed to be costing the scotch whisky industry 4m a week. Continue reading...
Action tees up a state v state battle involving mailing of abortion pills that's expected to go to US supreme courtTexas has sued a New York official for refusing to take action against an abortion provider, teeing up a state-versus-state battle that is widely expected to end up before the US supreme court.Ken Paxton, Texas's attorney general, has petitioned the New York state supreme court to order a county clerk to enforce a fine against Dr Margaret Carpenter, a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines. Continue reading...
US president has championed his course Turnberry to stage world's oldest major but hosting Scottish Open is more realisticEven a cursory glance towards the scale of this year's Open Championship at Royal Portrush emphasised why ongoing and occasionally fevered chatter about Turnberry staging the world's oldest major is futile. Whether the Turnberry owner was Donald Trump or Donald Duck, its lack of adjacent infrastructure makes it unfit for the Open. The Ayrshire venue, lauded again by its owner Trump during a visit in recent days, is simply incapable of hosting the Open in its present form.This need not be an uncomfortable reality for the US president, who can secure at least a portion of the profile and kudos he desires for Turnberry - one of the world's most outstanding golf courses - from an alternative source. It would, in fact, now be a surprise if Turnberry does not appear on the Scottish Open's rota at some point soon. Mutual convenience is staring us all in the face if Trump can even temporarily accept a prize which sits in the shadow of the championship he has craved since buying Turnberry in 2014. Continue reading...
Some critics allege phrase is coded promotion of eugenics and accuse campaign of being tone deaf'A new ad campaign from American Eagle starring the US actor Sydney Sweeney is meeting backlash, with some critics alleging online that the advertisement's use of the phrase great jeans" is a coded promotion of eugenics.In the campaign, the 27-year-old Euphoria and White Lotus star is dressed in American Eagle denim outfits, accompanied by the tagline Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans". Continue reading...
A new analysis suggests Donald Trump's tariffs could increase factory costs by 2% to 4.5%As Donald Trump prepares to announce new tariff increases, the costs of his policies are starting to come into focus for a domestic manufacturing sector that depends on global supply chains, with a new analysis suggesting factory costs could increase by roughly 2% to 4.5%.There's going to be a cash squeeze for a lot of these firms," said Chris Bangert-Drowns, the researcher at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth who conducted the analysis. Those seemingly small changes at factories with slim profit margins, Bangert-Drowns said, could lead to stagnation of wages, if not layoffs and closures of plants" if the costs are untenable. Continue reading...
The Epstein files may never be released, but it's increasingly likely that Epstein's right-hand woman could be. The groundwork is already being doneRoll up! Roll up! The Ghislaine Maxwell Rehabilitation Tour is coming to town. You may think Jeffrey Epstein's associate and former girlfriend is now behind bars for good reason but, according to some big brains in the Maga-sphere, poor old Maxwell may have suffered a terrible miscarriage of justice.Maxwell just might be a victim", Newsmax anchor Greg Kelly mused on air recently. She just might be. There was a rush to judgment ... All right, granted, she hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, and I know that's apparently not good, but she's in jail. For how long now? Twenty years."Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Hernan Castro, a legal US resident and beloved forager in Arizona, is facing deportation over a decades-old drug arrestAs potent monsoon storms awaken a dormant desert around this time each year, Hernan Castro prepares to head for the southern Arizona mountains to forage for mushrooms that are a centerpiece of his life.Castro's passion for mushroom cultivation and ethical harvesting has earned him the nickname mushroom man" in his hometown of Tucson. A self-trained mycology expert and regular fixture at farmers markets, he makes a living leading foraging trips to mushroom-rich places and selling fungi-related products through his online business. Continue reading...
A gunman killed four people at a Manhattan skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the NFL and the offices of several major financial firms before turning the gun on himself, New York officials have said. An NYPD officer identified as Didarul Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh and a father of two whose wife is pregnant, was among those killed. Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner, confirmed that 'the lone shooter has been neutralised'
As Trump moves to strip over 1 million immigrants of legal status, factories grapple with slowdowns, say employeesDonald Trump's crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to leave their jobs.As economists warn the administration's full-scale deportation ambitions could ultimately cost millions of jobs, workers at two sites - in Michigan and Kentucky - told the Guardian that industrial giants are grappling with labor shortages. Continue reading...
Elected officials and law enforcement are starting to take threats more seriously in wake of political assassinationsTell Eric Swalwell that we are coming and that we are going to handle everyone. We are going to hurt everyone. We are coming to hurt them."The staff at representative Swalwell's California district office had heard the man's voice before. He had called twice in previous weeks to leave revolting, racist threats against the Democratic congressman and his wife in voicemails, according to an FBI criminal complaint released on Monday. Continue reading...
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Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide nowThe world has stood by as Israel has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, wounded more than double that number, buried countless more under the rubble and devastated civilian infrastructure. The territory's survivors, displaced repeatedly by the Israeli military, are in a state of enforced starvation and utter precarity. Despite Israel's ban on international journalists, witnesses and victims are livestreaming unbearable images and videos of emaciated children and adults shot while desperately seeking aid. Israeli officials have proposed the construction of what would be concentration camps and the deportation of surviving Palestinians.Motivated by our deep scholarly and ethical engagement with political violence and mass atrocity, including the Nazi genocide of Jewish people, we helped found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network in April. More than 400 scholars of genocide and Holocaust studies from two dozen countries joined within weeks of its launch. The rapid growth of the group testifies to the urgency of this moment. Today, along with hundreds of humanitarian organizations, dozens of governments, and millions of protesting students and citizens across the globe, we call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians. Continue reading...
Jody Plauche was 11 years old when his father Gary shot and killed his accused molester at a Louisiana airport in 1984A child abuse survivor whose father shot his accused abuser to death in plain view of television news cameras in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 1980s says he suggests parents whose children are molested not to take the law into your own hands and put yourself in a position to be prosecuted".Instead, I would advise [them] ... to be there for their child," Joseph Boyce Jody" Plauche remarked in a new interview that was recently published by People. Continue reading...
Arturo Suarez and others deported in Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown describe dire conditions at CecotArturo Suarez struggles to pinpoint the worst moment of his incarceration inside a prison the warden boasted was a cemetery of the living dead".Was it the day inmates became so exasperated at being beaten by guards that they threatened to hang themselves with their sheets? The only weapon we had was our own lives," recalled the Venezuelan former detainee. Continue reading...
Every company at every stage of the supply chain will try to pass on the cost of US tariffs, as much as possibleBurying the hatchet with Brussels, Donald Trump - flanked by the leader of the European Commission - hailed a bold new era of transatlantic relations, an ambitious economic pact, and declared: This was a very big day for free and fair trade."That was seven years ago. And then on Sunday, the US president - flanked by a different leader of the European Commission - hailed another new era of transatlantic relations, another economic pact and declared: I think it's the biggest deal ever made." Continue reading...
An NYPD officer described as a true blue hero' was among those killed by a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, officials sayA gunman killed four people at a Manhattan skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the NFL and the offices of several major financial firms before turning the gun on himself, New York officials have said.An NYPD officer identified as Didarul Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh and a father of two whose wife is pregnant, was among those killed. He was working off-hours as a security guard at the time, New York mayor Eric Adams told reporters, describing him as a true blue hero". Continue reading...
Trump lawyers ask judge to order Wall Street Journal owner to testify within 15 days. Key US politics stories from Monday 28 July at a glanceDonald Trump has asked a US court to order a swift deposition for billionaire Rupert Murdoch in the president's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal.The US president sued the publication and its owner over a 17 July article asserting that Trump's name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for Jeffrey Epstein, who was later a convicted sex offender. Continue reading...
Hospital reports receiving several patients with gunshot wounds after incident in RenoA gunman opened fire at a Nevada casino on Monday morning, killing three people before being taken into custody, police said.The suspect had no known connection to the victims, police said, adding that the motive is unknown. Continue reading...
Six people pulled from water, with two other kids in critical condition, after crash sends them overboard, officials saidTwo kids were killed and two more are in critical condition after a barge appears to have struck their boat and sent them overboard during a sailing camp in Miami on Monday, authorities said.All six people on the sailing boat were pulled from the water by responders, and four kids were rushed to a nearby hospital where two were pronounced dead upon arrival, said petty officer 3rd Class Nicholas Strasburg, a spokesperson for the US Coast Guard. Continue reading...
In letter, 21 senators say funding to GHF resulted in killings of more than 700 civilians seeking food and violated the lawTwenty-one Senate Democrats are demanding Donald Trump immediately cut funding to a controversial Gaza aid organization they say has resulted in the killings of more than 700 civilians seeking food and violated decades of humanitarian law.The letter, led by senators Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Peter Welch of Vermont, comes as international criticism mounts over the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's operations, arguing that its model shatters well-established norms that have governed distribution of humanitarian aid since the ratification of the Geneva conventions in 1949" by blurring the lines between aid delivery and military security operations. Continue reading...
Several passengers told media outlets that law enforcement officers removed co-pilot from plane in San FranciscoA co-pilot with Delta Air Lines was reportedly arrested by federal agents at San Francisco international airport over the weekend on charges related to child sexual abuse materials, according to a senior official with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and multiple media reports.The arrest reportedly took place shortly after the flight -Delta Flight 2809 from Minnesota - landed at the California airport at about 9.35pm on Saturday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Continue reading...
Reproductive health giant is battling political and economic headwinds as Trump works to defund' the organizationThe Trump administration must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in an escalating legal war between the reproductive health giant and the White House over Republican efforts to defund" Planned Parenthood.Days after Donald Trump signed his sweeping tax bill, Planned Parenthood sued over a provision in the bill that ended Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, such as Planned Parenthood. The new court order, from US district judge Indira Talwani in Boston, will protect Medicaid funding for all Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide while litigation in the case continues. Continue reading...
Scotland's first minister criticised over talks to provide public funding for US president's resort as it hosts Nexo championshipDonald Trump has delivered a rambling exposition on his opulent and beautiful" golf resort at Turnberry as he continued to mix granular business interests and international diplomacy on his five-day trip to Scotland.The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, looked on in apparent discomfort during Monday's joint press conference as Trump answered a question initially pitched about the expense of refurbishing the Federal Reserve's historic building with a lengthy detour about the maintenance on his luxury golfresort. Continue reading...
US president expresses frustration with Putin after meeting with UK PM amid pressure on Russia for ceasefireDonald Trump's timeline for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine has sped up, the president said while visiting Nato ally Great Britain on Monday.I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today," Trump said in response to a question while sitting with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. There's no reason in waiting. There's no reason in waiting. It's 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made." Continue reading...
Delia Ramirez calls for investigation into federal funds paid to El Salvador to detain migrants at secretive Cecot siteCongresswoman Delia Ramirez is urgently" requesting a congressional hearing regarding the use of federal funds to pay El Salvador to detain immigrants inside a secretive terrorism prison, according to a letter she sent to the US House's homeland security committee.Ramirez, an Illinois representative and Democrat who sits on the committee, is requesting a hearing to address human rights abuses" at the facility, where the US government sent nearly 300 immigrants after Donald Trump's second presidency began in January. Continue reading...
Congresswoman says she can think of nothing more American' than Ice dragging people out of courtRepublican congresswoman Nancy Mace has claimed she cruises the web for videos of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents dragging people into custody, saying she can think of nothing more American".I have to tell you - one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube these days are ... court hearings where illegals are in court and Ice shows up to drag them out of court and deport them," the South Carolina representative said during an appearance on Sunday on Fox Report Weekend. Continue reading...
Plane maker expects over 3,200 union workers at three St Louis-area plants to strike after overwhelming no voteBoeing Co expects more than 3,200 union workers at three St Louis-area plants that produce US fighter jets to strike after they rejected a proposed contract on Sunday that included a 20% wage increase over four years.The International Machinists and Aerospace Workers union said the vote by District 837 members was overwhelmingly against the proposed contract. The existing contract was to expire at 11.59pm central time on Sunday, but the union said a cooling off" period would keep a strike from beginning for another week, until 4 August. Continue reading...
Witnesses at Point Pinos in Monterey county reported hearing an aircraft engine revving and a splash in the waterThree people were killed - and their bodies have been recovered - after a small airplane crashed in the ocean off the central California coast, authorities and local media said.Emergency crews responded late on Saturday after reports of a plane down about 300 yards (275 meters) off Point Pinos in Monterey county, the US Coast Guard said in a statement on Sunday. Continue reading...
In my lifetime, I have witnessed a shift from support of decency to tolerance of cruelty. Where do we go from here?We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end of the second world war.The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era?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. His next book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, will be out on 5 August Continue reading...
Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face embarrassing' dismissalsUS immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.The officers' testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with assaulting" and impeding" federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers' inaccurate reports, court records show.Out of nine assault" and impeding" felony cases the justice department filed immediately after the start of the protests and promoted by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, prosecutors dismissed seven of them soon after filing the charges.In reports that led to the detention and prosecution of at least five demonstrators, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents made false statements about the sequence of events and misrepresented incidents captured on video.One DHS agent accused a protester of shoving an officer, when footage appeared to show the opposite: the officer forcefully pushed the protester.One indictment named the wrong defendant, a stunning error that has jeopardized one of the government's most high-profile cases. Continue reading...
Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force. Plus, US readers on the financial stress delaying milestones
His companies may have hacked phones and broadcast lies, but Murdoch appears ready to battle the president to uphold editorial freedomsYears before Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal, the writer John Lanchester suggested that his primary motivation - more than ideology or even money - was a love of crises, of the point when everything seems about to be lost".More than two decades later, is the crisis in the US media, one in which everything seems about to be lost, motivating Murdoch to take on the most powerful man in the world? It is as good a reason as many of those given over the past week for the fact that the billionaire whose Fox News channel has acted as a Trump cheerleader throughout is now, alone among US media titans, preparing to do battle in the courts.Jane Martinson is professor of financial journalism at City St George's and a member of the board of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group Continue reading...
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