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Aryna Sabalenka opened her French Open campaign with a straight-sets win over Kamilla Rakhimova on the first day at Roland GarrosOn Lenglen, Svitolina is serving for the first set, 5-1 up on Sonmez; on Mathieu, a fine backhand return, dipping cross, is too good for Paul, whose volley floats long, and that's a break for Moller, the 21-year-old lucky loser, who leads 3-2 in the first.On TNT, they're talking about Sabalenka, who sounds full of it as she discusses her ambition to win on clay. Her Aussie Open defeat to Madison Keys will have stung her badly, though - earlier in her career she was the one who choked - and as soon as she's put under serious pressure, we'll see whether the wound has healed. Continue reading...

Institutions in Los Angeles and beyond have seen millions in grants wiped away almost overnight. What happens when they can't tell their stories?For the past two years, a small arts non-profit has been telling stories about the communities living alongside the Los Angeles river, one voice at a time.The organization, called Clockshop, has collected the oral histories of nearly 70 local residents, activists and elected officials. Their knowledge is compiled in a vast cultural atlas - which contains videos, an interactive map and a self-guided tour exploring the waterway and its transformation from a home for the Indigenous Tongva people to a popular, rapidly gentrifying urban space. Continue reading...

NGO shelters along US-Mexico border, which have long provided aid, rattled by letter from FemaThe Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to non-governmental shelters along the US-Mexico border after previously telling those same organizations that providing immigrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers.Border shelters, which have long provided lodging and meals before offering transportation to the nearest bus station or airport, were rattled by a letter from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) that raised significant concerns" about potentially illegal activity and demanded detailed information in a wide-ranging investigation. Continue reading...

Unlike autocracies such as Russia or China, the US has strong liberal guardrails to prevent a dictatorship. But Trump has a plan for dismantling themThere is some mystery surrounding Donald Trump's moves to dismantle many cherished principles of American history and its culture of governance: his globalization denialism; his romance with Russia; his demolition of universities; his contempt for European values and histories; his campaign to humiliate Canada. These are all known examples, but it can be hard to see across them to discern anything like a unified theory of Trumpism.There are two possibilities here. One is that there is no rhyme or reason to Trump's actions. He is simply a randomizing generator of chaos. The other is that there is a method. Continue reading...

Assailant in Carmel tried to punch 13-year-old in face before she threw him to the ground and broke his ankleA 13-year-old California girl is reminding the public that knowing self-defense can save one's life after she reportedly used her martial arts training to fend off a stranger who tried to assault her - breaking the grown man's ankle in the process.The girl, whose name has not been widely shared, recently had to fight to protect herself three years since she began attending jiu-jitsu classes in Carmel, California, about 75 miles (120km) from San Jose, the local news station KSBW reported. Continue reading...

It grew out of a Google Doc, and now has millions of US members - what's the secret of Indivisible's success?After the biggest day of protest of the second Trump presidency, when millions of people rallied in more than 1,300 cities and towns across the country, Ezra Levin addressed thousands of faithful progressive activists.For the previous few months, as Trump reclaimed the White House and Democrats struggled to oppose him, the drumbeat of opposition had steadily grown. Protest was back in the air. Democrats were finding their way. And it was because of activists like them, Levin told the crew gathered on a weekly organizing call for Indivisible, the progressive movement that started during Trump's first term. Continue reading...

Blinded, beaten or jailed, some protesters are still recovering physically and financially from speaking outFive years ago, on 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. During an attempted arrest, Chauvin kneeled on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, cutting off his oxygen supply. The gruesome killing was captured on video.Floyd's murder sparked global outcry, launching the largest protests seen in the US since the civil rights movement. During the summer of 2020, upwards of 26 million people protested nationwide to condemn police brutality and demand racial justice. Rallies also spread across the globe, with some 93 countries and territories participating in the uprisings. Continue reading...

Prosecutors appear to be more focused on forensic evidence than during 2024 trial of woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriendDuring week five of the retrial of Karen Read, a Massachusetts woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriend, prosecutors continued to present forensic evidence to prove that she intentionally ran over the victim. Meanwhile, defense attorneys tried to illuminate potential flaws in their case, according to legal experts.The case, which has attracted true crime fans around the globe and was the subject of an HBO Max docuseries, previously ended in a mistrial in July 2024 after a jury could not reach a verdict. Continue reading...

Five years after George Floyd's murder, America's view on policing has fundamentally changed. But one summer of protest isn't enoughMemory is a strange thing - the way sounds, images, and sensations converge to cement a moment in our minds. For millions of people, the memory of what happened to George Floyd five years ago in Minneapolis will stay with us for ever.On Sunday, we remember the life of George Floyd and reflect on the summer of 2020, when movement builders activated as many as 26 million people into the streets to demand an end to the state's violent disregard for Black lives. Many people will opine today about the perceived failures of that time and the years that followed, focusing on how corporate pledges to increase diversity have since been revoked or zeroing in on how many police departments did not cut their budgets, all in an effort to decide whether the summer of 2020 was really as powerful as it felt.M Adams, Co-Executive Director, Movement for Black Lives & Miski Noor, Publisher of the Forge and former Co-Director of Black Visions Continue reading...

Five years ago, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. Writers and activists from Brazil to Berlin talk about the protests, hope and disappointment that followedDo 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...

Former US vice-president tells conference I do worry, frankly, about what's happening right now in the world'Kamala Harris has criticised Elon Musk, noted it's important that we remember the 1930s" and raised concerns about AI when speaking to an audience of 4,500 real estate agents at an industry conference on the Gold Coast.The former US vice-president, who is visiting Australia for the first time, was the guest of honour at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference on Sunday. Continue reading...

US coast guard says accident occurred while employees were doing work involving a flame or sparksAn explosion on a boat carrying raw sewage that was docked on the Hudson River in New York City killed a longtime city employee, authorities said.Another worker on the city-owned Hunts Point vessel was injured and taken to the hospital after the blast about 10.30am Saturday near the North River wastewater treatment plant, according to city deputy assistant chief David Simms of the fire department. A third worker refused medical treatment. Continue reading...

Short shrift for Trump's 50% tariff' outburst; thousands of Americans want to become British for good - key US politics stories from Saturday 24 May at a glanceAs he continued his on-again, off-again tariff war with much of the world, Donald Trump went on social media to complain that the EU was taking advantage of the United States on trade" and not coming to the table about it. Therefore I am recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025."The EU's trade commissioner had a call with the US trade representative Jamieson Greer and Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Maro efovi said afterwards: The EU's fully engaged, committed to securing a deal that works for both." Continue reading...

Thomas Barrack also stresses temporary lifting of sanctions for first time since 1979 after meeting with Ahmed al-SharaaDonald Trump's old friend Thomas Barrack, now serving as the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, praised Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, after a meeting in Istanbul on Saturday.I stressed the cessation of sanctions against Syria will preserve the integrity of our primary objective - the enduring defeat of ISIS - and will give the people of Syria a chance for a better future," Barrack said in a statement, referring to actions taken on Friday by the Trump administration to temporarily suspend sanctions imposed on the government of the former president, Bashar al-Assad, who was deposed by rebel forces led by Sharaa late last year. Continue reading...

John Woeltz, 37, being held without bail after allegedly beating, shocking and dangling man from five-story homeA cryptocurrency investor was arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on Saturday morning and charged with kidnapping an Italian man and then beating and torturing him for several weeks, allegedly to extract cryptocurrency passwords.The 37-year-old crypto investor, John Woeltz, was arrested on Friday after allegedly torturing the man in a swanky home in the upscale Manhattan neighborhood of Soho. The victim reportedly escaped the five-story home on Friday and sought help from the police, who later arrested Woeltz. Continue reading...

Judge says Guatemalan's removal to Mexico, despite fears of being harmed there, lacked any semblance of due process'A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday night to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico, in spite of his fears of being harmed there, and who has since been returned to Guatemala.The man, who is gay, had applied for asylum in the US last year after he was attacked twice in homophobic acts of violence in Guatemala. He was protected from being returned to his home country under a US immigration judge's order at the time, but the Trump administration put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead. Continue reading...

Julion Alvarez was to perform before 50,000 fans in Texas, but he is the latest Mexican musician to have their visa revokedA popular Mexican singer had to cancel a concert in Texas scheduled for Saturday after the Trump administration allegedly revoked his visa, preventing him from entering the country. The singer, Julion Alvarez, was supposed to perform for 50,000 fans at the Arlington, Texas, stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play but was informed that his visa had been revoked with no further information, according to a video statement he posted on Instagram.We don't have the ability to come to the US and fulfill our commitment to you," the singer said. The event will be postponed, until we hear what comes next." Continue reading...

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US president pans previous administrations for fighting foreign wars and wasting our time, money and souls'Donald Trump told graduating West Point military academy cadets on Saturday that they were entering the officer corps at a defining moment in the army's history", in a commencement address that included political attacks and a discourse on the folly of older men marrying trophy wives".Referring to US political leaders of the past two decades who had dragged our military into missions" that people questioned as wasting our time, money and souls in some case", Trump told the young leaders that as much as you want to fight, I'd rather do it without having to fight". He predicted that, through a policy of peace through strength", the US's adversaries would back down. I just want to look at them and have them fold," he said. Continue reading...

Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested himAuthorities wrestled a US-born citizen to the ground, cuffed him and dismissed his so-called Real ID as fake" during an arrest operation targeting undocumented people on Wednesday under the direction of the Trump administration, according to a viral video and reporting by Telemundo.Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was at his construction job in Foley, Alabama, when officials arrived to arrest workers there. Garcia Venegas - who was born in Florida to Mexican parents - began filming the arrests with his mobile phone before officials reportedly knocked the device out of his hand and tried to arrest him as well. Continue reading...

The killing of two Israeli embassy staffers is unconscionable and does not advance the cause of Palestinian liberationThe killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington DC on Wednesday night is unconscionable. The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, should be alive, and justice must be meted out to their assailant. This brazen act of political violence in the heart of the nation's capital only underscores the obvious: all this violence - whether it's in Washington DC, Gaza, Jenin or Israel, and whether it's by bullet, bomb or forced starvation - all of it must end, and it must end immediately.What we know so far is that shortly after 9pm on Wednesday evening, a gunman approached a group of four people who were departing an event at the Capital Jewish Museum that had been hosted by the American Jewish Committee. (It's been reported that the event focused on bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza through Israeli-Palestinian and regional collaboration".) The suspected gunman, identified in media accounts as 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, had been seen pacing outside the museum when he spotted the group of four leaving the building. He opened fire on the group, fatally wounding two at close range. He then entered the building, where he was detained by event security. He can be seen on video in handcuffs and chanting free, free Palestine". Continue reading...

Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwardsA vacation lodge known as the Wagon Box Inn in the tiny town of Story, Wyoming, has emerged as an unlikely hub of rightwing ambitions to reorient US politics and culture.Events held there since it opened, and others planned for this spring, have brought together figures from the so-called dissident right", political figures backed by reactionary currents in Silicon Valley, and proponents of the network state" movement. Continue reading...

A potential agreement with survivors is in the works, but some parties are unhappy with settlement amountThe Catholic archbishop of New Orleans made a rare in-person appearance in federal bankruptcy court on Friday, days after announcing a potential agreement to settle claims with hundreds of clergy abuse survivors that has been met with pushback from some of the plaintiffs.I'm here because I'm concerned for the survivors," Gregory Aymond said in an interview with WWL Louisiana away from the cameras after what is believed to have been his first appearance in person for an open court hearing in the five years since his archdiocese - one of the US's oldest - joined roughly 40 Catholic institutions to file for bankruptcy protection amid the worldwide church's long-ongoing clergy molestation scandal. Continue reading...

Nearly 2,000 applications for British citizenship submitted since January, when Donald Trump took officeDuring the 12 months leading up to March, more than 6,000 US citizens have applied to either become British subjects or to live and work in the country indefinitely - the highest number since comparable records began in 2004, according to data released on Thursday by the UK's Home Office.Over the period, 6,618 Americans applied for British citizenship - with more than 1,900 of the applications received between January and March, most of which has been during the beginning of Donald Trump's second US presidency. Continue reading...

Jesse Watters' list is so bizarre, it has me agreeing with Ted Cruz - and Watters' show helps shape US politicsTim Burchett, a Republican congressman, would like you to know that he is not a straw man. No sir. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the Tennessee lawmaker explained that he is a red-blooded American male who does not drink out of a straw" because that's what the women in my house do". And no self-respecting man wants to be like the women in their house, do they? Yuck.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Cases in New Mexico and Kansas give experts reason to be concerned' in second-worst US measles year since 2000The measles outbreak in Texas is showing signs of slowing, though other states are seeing more cases and health officials are warning against complacency as the US continues to experience high rates of measles amid falling vaccination rates.It has been a handful of days since anyone in Lubbock, Texas, has tested positive, and there are no known measles hospitalizations at the children's hospital in the city, which has also cared for children from nearby Gaines county. Continue reading...

Maro efovi's remarks come after pace of talks prompted Trump to propose 50% tariff on goods from blocThe European Union's trade chief has struck a defiant tone after Donald Trump threatened to place a 50% tariff on all goods from the bloc, saying any potential trade deal between Brussels and Washington must be based on respect not threats".The US president made his announcement after voicing frustration with the pace of progress on a trade agreement with the EU. The new rates would come into effect from 1 June. Continue reading...

The drop in productions is causing alarm - can Tinseltown halt the exodus and reclaim its spot as the home of movie-making?When Adam Scott was working on the hit TV show Parks and Recreation in the early 2010s, the Los Angeles studio where the show was filmed was packed - every stage was filled and working".These days, he told his former co-star Rob Lowe in a much-discussed recent podcast conversation, it's quiet over there" - in part because it's just too expensive to shoot here". Continue reading...

Adriana Smith, declared braindead in February, is being kept alive because she's pregnant. Where was the concern for her life while she was here?A Black pregnant woman who was declared brain dead back in February is still being kept alive on a ventilator, because of a Georgia law that prohibits abortions beyond six weeks. If this sounds like the stuff of speculative fiction, it's because there's literally a Handmaid's Tale episode about this. And while the TV show based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 book may have gotten many things right about the soul of authoritarianism and a violently patriarchal society, living that reality is even more sickening.Anyone who thinks this is about the life of Adriana Smith's child is fooling themselves. This is the state, boundary testing to see how far they can take their efforts to have full reproductive control over American women, and gauging how much the American public is willing to tolerate.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

The rallying cry from 2020 Black Lives Matter protests pushed some US cities to divert money towards housing and community servicesAfter George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, protesters who swarmed the streets across the US shouted the refrain: Defund the police." An idea that was once viewed as radical - to redirect money from law enforcement to other city departments and social services - became a rallying cry overnight.As a result of continued pressure, dozens of jurisdictions throughout the nation promised to reduce their police budgets. While most of them backtracked and increased law enforcement funding in the next year or two, several cities changed policies or added new public safety and homeless services departments. Continue reading...

Coming changes at the state department follow pattern of moving resources away from programs that focus on preventing far-right violenceUS state department employees recently opened up their emails to find a PDF to their new style guide", which dictates what language and terminology they can and can't use.According to this new updated guide, the term racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism"- REMVE" or RMVE" - was now banned, except in situations where they were legally compelled to use it. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Staff in Britain now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above global average of 1.3 daysUK workers continue to work from home more than nearly any of their global counterparts more than five years after the pandemic first disrupted traditional office life, a study has found.UK employees now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above the international average of 1.3 days, according to the Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), a worldwide poll of more than 16,000 full-time, university-educated workers across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa that began in July 2021. Continue reading...

I thought we all believed in a collective responsibility towards children. This terrible conflict has made me question thatI have seen images on my phone screen these past months that will haunt me as long as I live. Dead, injured, starving children and babies. Children crying in pain and in fear for their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers. A small boy shaking in terror from the trauma of an airstrike. Scenes of unspeakable horror and violence that have left me feeling sick. Sometimes I skip over these photos and videos, afraid perhaps of what I will see next. But more often than not, I feel compelled to bear witness.I know I am not alone. So many of us, privileged in our comfort and safety, have watched the suffering of the children of Gaza through social media, images mixed in jarringly with ads and memes and pictures of other people's children, smiling and safe. It renders the horror even more immediate: these could be your kids, or mine, or any kid you know, but for the lottery of birth.Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnistDo 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...

It is easy to look back at 2020 and feel aggrieved, even fooled. But in the British city where slaver Edward Colston's statue was pulled down, I found cause for optimismIt has been five years since George Floyd, a Black man who lived in Minneapolis, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. The killing, captured in a distressing 10-minute video that quickly flooded social media timelines, sparked something that felt like an international revolution: protests took place across the world, forcing countries and cities to reckon with their present and historical treatment of Black people.In Britain, protests reached fever pitch when activists in Bristol toppled a statue of Edward Colston, the slave trader and deputy governor of the Royal African Company, and hurled it into the harbour. Bristol, once a major slave-trading port, had maintained a veneration of Colston that was increasingly divisive. The statue in particular had been a key focus of tensions: attempts to add a second plaque acknowledging Colston's role in the slave trade were frustrated in 2018. For many Bristolians, the direct action provided a moment of long-overdue relief.Jason Okundaye is an assistant newsletter editor and writer at the Guardian. He edits The Long Wave newsletter and is the author of Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay BritainDo 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...

From a media prize with a dubious pedigree to the horrors of Gaza, the establishment forgets and remembers what suits it bestGrowing up in Germany, we were taught to believe we had done better. Better than our grandparents' generation, who swept their complicity under a thick rug of silence. Better even than our parents, whose revolts in the late 1960s rarely led to any serious reckoning with the legacy of the Holocaust.Born in the late 1980s, my generation learned about Auschwitz early on. We visited former concentration camps and studied the Nazi regime not as an alien aberration, but as a warning: this is how democracies die. Today, with the far-right AfD and ethno-chauvinism on the rise, that warning has never felt more urgent.Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based journalist and author. He worked as a senior editor in Berliner Zeitung's culture department, specialising in contemporary art and politicsDo 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...

Defense secretary's move outlined in memo seemingly punishes media for reporting on leaks inside departmentDefense secretary Pete Hegseth moved on Friday to dramatically curtail press access inside the Pentagon, seemingly punishing the news media for reporting on leaks of classified and unclassified information in recent weeks.The changes, announced in a two-page memo issued by Hegseth, effectively boxed credentialed reporters into one corner on one floor of the building that houses the press office and spaces used by news organizations. Continue reading...

This blog has now closed. Read our latest politics story hereHarvard University has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke the Ivy League school's ability to enrol international students, a move the school called unconstitutional and retaliatory.Reuters reports that in a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Harvard called the revocation a blatant violation" of the US constitution's first amendment and other federal laws. Continue reading...

Three were employees of Sound Talent Group, including founder, listed as plane's owner and had a pilot's licenseSix people on board a small plane that crashed in San Diego on Thursday morning were confirmed dead, officials said, as authorities worked to ascertain their identities and investigate the cause of the incident.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at a press conference Friday afternoon that local authorities were the entity in charge of releasing the names of the victims. Continue reading...

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed paroled after 18 months from facility in New Mexico to her home in Bullhead City, ArizonaThe armorer convicted in the fatal 2021 shooting involving Alec Baldwin on the set of the film Rust was released Friday from a New Mexico prison.Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was paroled to her home in Bullhead City, Arizona. She was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March 2024 for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed when Baldwin discharged a prop gun loaded with a live round during a rehearsal. Director Joel Souza was also injured. Continue reading...

San Francisco authorities say officials from Bureau of Prisons visited famous site last week and plan to returnFederal prison officials visited Alcatraz last week after Donald Trump's announcement earlier this month of plans to rebuild and reopen the infamous island prison, which has been closed for over 60 years.David Smith, the superintendent of the Golden Gate national recreation area (GGNRA), told the San Francisco Chronicle that officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons are planning to return for further structural assessments. Continue reading...

Staff to be cut to dozens, with more authority expected to be handed to state and defense departmentsA large restructuring of the US National Security Council got under way on Friday as Donald Trump moved to reduce the size and scope of the once-powerful agency, five sources briefed on the matter said.Staff dealing with a variety of major geopolitical issues were sent termination notices on Friday, said the sources, who requested anonymity as they were not permitted to speak to the media. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Critics and defendant's legal team accuse US president of trying to do favor for Salvadorian leaderDonald Trump's administration is attempting to dismiss criminal charges against a top MS-13 leader in order to deport him to El Salvador, according to newly unsealed court records - igniting accusations from critics and the defendant's legal team that the US president is trying to do a favor for his Salvadorian counterpart, who struck a deal with the gang in 2019.According to justice department records, the MS-13 figure in question, Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez, has intimate knowledge of that secretive pact, which - before eventually falling apart - involved Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's government ceding money and territory to the gang, who in return promised to reduce violence from its side and provide Bukele's party with electoral support. Continue reading...

President's order sought to suspend lawyers' security clearances after accusing firm of undermining justice'A US judge on Friday overturned Donald Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & Block, a big law firm that employed a lawyer who investigated him.Trump's executive order, called Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block, suspended security clearances for the firm's lawyers and restricted their access to government buildings, officials and federal contracting work. Continue reading...

Several people held in connection with jailbreak as manhunt enters second week and criticisms mount over jail managementSeveral people have been arrested on accusations of helping some of the 10 men who broke out of New Orleans's jail on 16 May - and half of the escapers remained on the run as a manhunt for them entered its second week, according to authorities.Police said on Friday that they had booked Casey Smith, 30, a day earlier on allegations that she provided transportation to at least two of the escapers in the hours after the jailbreak. She had allegedly admitted to doing that alongside another woman whom police took into custody on Wednesday, identified as 32-year-old Cortnie Harris, Smith's cousin and the girlfriend of one of the escaped men, Leo Tate, 31. Continue reading...

Biden had blocked Japanese acquisition, citing national security, with Trump previously agreeing he was totally against' itDonald Trump has thrown his weight behind a partnership" between US Steel and Nippon Steel, months after insisting he was totally against" a $14.9bn bid by the Japanese firm for its US rival.While the US president stopped short of an all-out endorsement of the takeover, he announced a deal between the two businesses on social media on Friday. Continue reading...

Airplane giant will pay and invest $1.1bn after misleading US regulators, including $445m for crash victims' familiesThe justice department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed on Friday.Under the agreement in principle" that still needs to be finalized, Boeing would pay and invest more than $1.1bn, including an additional $445m for the crash victims' families, the justice department said. In return, the department would dismiss the fraud charge in the criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer. Continue reading...