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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...

Dans, one of the main forces behind the conservative blueprint, joins primary that will serve as a litmus test for Trump's Maga coalition

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...

After years spent in striker-less formations, the Premier League's top teams are seemingly all set to rely on a big body (or two) up top

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...

Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force

US president says he has told Israel maybe they have to do it a different way' before bilateral talks with Keir Starmer

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...

In the 60s, the white city of Hayward removed residents of Russell City. Now a $1m reparations fund has been approved - and important histories are coming to lightIn the early 1940s, Gloria Moore's parents migrated west from Arkansas, seeking - as many Black southerners did at the time - work, and a reprieve from poverty and Jim Crow.They first found jobs working in the wartime shipbuilding industry in Portland, Oregon, before ultimately settling in Russell City - a small, unincorporated community in the San Francisco East Bay, and a bastion of Black and Latino culture and life. There, the Moores bought several acres of land, built a house, and raised Gloria and her three siblings. Continue reading...

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says there is a very, very high' chance Virginia-class subs will never arrive under Australian control

Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen announced a deal on Sunday, but questions remain over what the finished picture will beDonald Trump has announced a deal with the EU imposing tariffs of 15% on most goods entering the US from Europe and requiring the bloc to make huge investments in US energy products, averting a trade war between the two of the world's largest economies.Though the 15% rate is half of what Trump had threatened, many will be disappointed by it. When the UK accepted tariffs of 10% in its trade deal with the US in May, it was widely reported that European leaders considered it to be a bad deal. Continue reading...

Political platitudes and a few trucks of aid won't save the children dying now. But they show leaders can't ignore public opinion for everThe children die first. In conditions of starvation, their growing bodies' nutritional needs are higher than those of adults, and so their reserves are depleted faster. Their immune systems, not yet fully developed, become weaker, more susceptible to disease and infection. A bout of diarrhoea is lethal. Their wounds don't heal. The babies cannot be breastfed as their mothers have not eaten. They die at double the rate of adults.Last week, over a period of just 72 hours, 21 children died in Gaza of malnutrition and starvation. The path to death from starvation is a slow and agonising one, especially in a territory suffering shortages of not just food, but medicine, shelter and clean water. The total death toll from hunger surpassed 100 at the weekend; 80 of those were children. An aid worker reported that children are telling their parents that they want to die and go to heaven, because at least heaven has food". Continue reading...

Trump says tariff deal solves a lot of stuff', while Mike Johnson expresses concern over any pardon for Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell - key US politics stories from Sunday 27 JulyDonald Trump has hailed what he called a powerful deal" on tariffs with the European Union to avert a damaging transatlantic trade war after months of tough negotiations between the two sides.It solves a lot of stuff and was a great decision," the US president said of the agreement after meeting the European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, in Scotland. The important" partnership involved the EU agreeing to spend tens of billions of dollars more on US energy products, Trump said. Continue reading...

New revelations about Trump's relationship with late sex offender dominate the news, yet many Trump boosters say they're overblownIt has united luminaries of the far right, from media personality Tucker Carlson to activist Laura Loomer, from tech billionaire Elon Musk to congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Typically unwavering in support of Donald Trump, all have criticised his administration's handling of files about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.But in towns and cities across the US, a more complicated and nuanced picture emerges, serving as a reminder that - like any other political constituency - Trump voters are not a monolith. Continue reading...

The US and EU announced a trade framework on Sunday after a meeting between President Donald Trump and the European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen. The agreement comes before a Trump administration deadline to impose tariffs on Friday

Several passersby were seen yelling throw it away' and get on the ground' to a knife-wielding man now in custodySeveral passersby helped apprehend a knife-wielding suspect who stabbed 11 people at a Walmart in Michigan, video has revealed.Footage circulating on social media showed several citizens in Traverse City confronting a 42-year old man outside the supermarket on Saturday during the attack. Among the people confronting the suspect included an armed citizen who could be seen pointing his gun at the man. Continue reading...

American Medical Association writes to health secretary after reports he aims to overhaul taskforce for being woke'A top US medical body has expressed deep concern" to Robert F Kennedy Jr over news reports that the health secretary plans to overhaul a panel that determines which preventive health measures including cancer screenings should be covered by insurance companies.The letter from the the American Medical Association comes after the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Kennedy plans to overhaul the 40-year old US Preventive Services Task Force because he regards them as too woke", according to sources familiar with the matter. Continue reading...

Another Republican says it should be on table, illustrating challenge posed by scandal for Maga base and the partyThe US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday he would have great pause" about granting a pardon or commutation to Ghislaine Maxwell while another House Republican said it should be considered as part of an effort to obtain more information about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.Donald Trump and his allies, including Johnson, have been under immense pressure to disclose more information about Epstein for weeks, especially amid scrutiny over the extent of Trump's relationship with Epstein. The splits over what to do with Maxwell illustrate the complicated challenge posed by the scandal for Trump, his Maga base and the broader Republican party. Continue reading...

Mayoral candidate's ties to NYC's democratic socialists may have aided his primary win - but can the group overcome critique from Democrats?Was it his charisma, communication skills or his captivating short-form videos? His high-profile endorsements or his clothing style? These elements were said to have contributed to Zohran Mamdani's record-setting success in New York's June mayoral primary.But another major factor in his win may have been his ties to the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Continue reading...

Police investigate death of Ke'Torrius Starkes Jr, three, who was left inside car by contractor for state human resourcesAn investigation has been triggered after a three-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car by a contractor for the state human resources department in Alabama.Ke'Torrius Starkes Jr, who was in foster care, had been picked up in the late morning on Tuesday by the worker after a supervised visit with his father, the New York Times reported. He was supposed to be transported to a daycare program by a worker for the department, which oversees child protection other social services. Continue reading...

The Trump baby account will be good for beer money when your kids are in college. Don't neglect to fund better plansThere's Trump Mobile, $Trump coins, Trump watches, Trump sneakers and now ... the Trump baby savings accounts! Will it be popular? As a financial adviser, I'm not so sure.The Trump IRA (or individual retirement account) was established as a part of the recently passed big, beautiful bill" and aims to help young people save. Parents and employers can annually contribute up to $5,000 into an account for their kids who are under the age of 18. Within limits, the contributions are not taxed to the employee and employers even receive a deduction. Continue reading...

A man and a woman were found dead at Devil's Den state park as police seek a white male suspectTwo people were found dead along a walking trail in a state park in Arkansas, authorities said on Sunday.A 43-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman were found dead at Devil's Den state park in Washington county, according to the Arkansas state police. Its criminal investigation unit is handling what it calls a suspected homicide". Continue reading...

Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend knows where the bodies are buried', his lawyer says, but her previous testimony may count against herEarly one afternoon in April 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell got so angry that she struck a table.Maxwell, who was facing a defamation lawsuit from the late Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre Roberts, was being deposed by attorneys and seemed to grow incensed during questioning. Continue reading...

Everything the US president does is for money - and in serving his avarice, he's managed to triumph over the marketDonald Trump embodies dealmaking as the essence of a particular form of entrepreneurship. Every deal begins with his needs and every deal feeds his wants. He thus appears to be like other super-rich people: seemingly bottomlessly greedy, chasing the next buck as if it is the last buck, even when they have met every criterion of satiation.But Trump is different, because his brand of greed harks back to an idea of leadership that is primarily about adversarial dealmaking, rather than about innovation or improved managerial techniques. Trump's entire career is built on deals, and his own narcissism is tied up with dealmaking. This is because of his early socialization into his father's real-estate dealings in and around New York. Real estate in the United States, unlike the money-making modes of super-rich individuals in other countries, relies on deals based on personal reputation, speculation on future asset values, and the ability to launder spotty career records. Profits and losses over time can be hard to identify and quantify precisely, as Trump's auditors and opponents have often confirmed, since profits, which depend on speculation and unknown future value, are by definition uncertain. Continue reading...

American Airlines evacuated passengers using slides amid signs of a fire underneath the plane, the FAA saysOne person was injured after a plane in Denver aborted its takeoff and evacuated those on board using its emergency slide, authorities reported.The Federal Aviation Administration said that a possible landing gear incident" hit the American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 and the slides were deployed amid signs of a fire underneath the plane. Continue reading...

The big, beautiful' bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of itThe road to four struggling rural hospitals now hosts a political message: If this hospital closes, blame Trump."In a series of black-and-yellow billboards erected near the facilities, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) seeks to tell voters in deep red states who is responsible for gutting rural healthcare". Continue reading...

Every day brings more devastation. But daily forms of rebellion can restore our sense of purposeThe exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the government and people's hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear. We wake each morning, holding our breath to bear witness to the new devastation: PBS and NPR defunded, cuts to the fight against human trafficking, Medicaid gone for millions, Ice working to surveil critics, tons of food for the poor ordered burned and wasted.The momentum of cruelty always feels inevitable. Cruelty is by definition a callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain". For those of us who have suffered physical, political, racial and emotional abuse, it feels like a familiar steamroller of violence. We only have to witness the cries of parents being separated from their children, men screaming out for libertad" from cages in Everglades detention center (AKA Alligator Alcatraz), non-violent protesters beaten for trying to stop a genocide, to be frozen in that same incapacitating dread and fear.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...

While the Wall Street Journal cast a stone against the president, Fox News is more than making up for itIn the wake of new revelations regarding the friendship of Donald Trump and disgraced and deceased billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, Rupert Murdoch's media empire has both poured gasoline on to the story and come to Trump's loyal defense. Experts say that, much like the broader Maga movement, the Epstein affair is testing Trump and Murdoch's mostly chummy relationship.To think, only months ago, at Jimmy Carter's funeral, Barack Obama and Donald Trump were laughing together in the pews. Continue reading...

Jobs, homes, kids, retirement - some say instability worsened under Trump is forcing them to postpone it allAmericans are getting married, having kids, buying a home, and retiring years later than what once was the norm. Many don't ever reach these milestones.While there is a complex web of factors that go into decisions like having kids or buying a house, a person's financial situation often plays an major role. In a May Harris/Guardian poll, six out of 10 Americans said that the economy had affected at least one of their major life goals, because of either a lack of affordability or anxiety about where the economy is heading. Continue reading...

Was I surprised by reports that tourists are being ripped off in France? LOL, non! But there are ways to minimise the riskWhen an investigation into the tricks of Parisian waiters found that foreign tourists were being ripped off, all I could think was, Quelle surprise!" Anyone who has stared in shock at a bill for a citron presse and an espresso near the Boulevard St Germain - as I did on one of my recent visits - will no doubt join me in a feeling of vindication. Undercover journalists for Le Parisien, posing as cafe punters around the Champ de Mars, have discovered that foreign tourists are being charged as much as 50% more than French customers, using a variety of tricks including only offering bottled water or more expensive drinks, being told service isn't included when it is, and swapping the wine ordered for the cheapest on the menu.As a former waitress in the French capital, I'm someone who has been on both sides of this conflict. Before I left home, at 18, to move there, my mother warned me of the tourist tax", having visited with my father in the mid-1980s and noted the suspicious fiver that seemed to appear on all their bills. As a result, I was slightly on guard whenever I was en terrasse, always making sure to ask for tap water and quibbling anything that didn't look right. Then I became a waitress myself.Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Donald Trump also criticises European leaders on immigration ahead of crunch meeting with Ursula von der Leyen. Key US politics stories from 26 July 2025Donald Trump spent the night at his family-owned golf resort in Scotland but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration, claiming there won't be a Europe unless they get their act together".I say two things to Europe. Stop the windmills. You're ruining your countries. I really mean it, it's so sad. You fly over and you see these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys and killing your birds," he said. Continue reading...