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Administration claims website is resource for new and expecting mothers' but group of senators says it raises profound' health and safety concernsA group of 11 senators have sent a letter to Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy urging them to remove a federal website and cease using federal resources to direct people to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers".On Mother's Day this year, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched Moms.gov, a resource they claim is for new and expecting mothers" and offers guidance and information to support the health and wellbeing of mothers and their families". Continue reading...

Gen Christopher Donahue, commander of forces in Europe and Africa, is leaving after just 18 months in the jobThe army's commander of its forces in Europe and Africa - who was famously the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan in 2021 - is unexpectedly stepping down from his post after just 18 months in the job, the Army confirmed late Tuesday.Gen Christopher Donahue, commanding general of US Army Europe and Africa and commander of Nato's Allied Land Command, will relinquish his command on 2 July, according to an army statement provided to the Associated Press. He is the latest in a line of nearly two dozen top military leaders to either retire or depart their jobs early under the leadership of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who has undertaken an effort to thin the ranks of the military's top brass with the mantra less generals, more GIs". Continue reading...

Camp owners said total debt exceeds $10m in chapter 11 filing after catastrophic flood last JulyCamp Mystic, the Christian summer camp in Texas where 28 people died in a catastrophic flood last July, has filed for bankruptcy, according to court records.In a Chapter 11 filing, submitted Wednesday in the southern district of Texas, the camp's owners said that the camp's total debt exceeds $10m". Continue reading...

For years the United States sought a single soccer identity. Instead, its best team emerged from a patchwork of backgrounds, cultures and development pathsIn 1993, the United States Soccer Federation handed a contract to Rinus Michels. But the Dutch godfather of Total Football, operationalized through his on-field avatar Johan Cruyff, was not hired to coach the national team, or to coach anybody, really.By this time, Michels, who managed the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League in 1979 and 1980, had already turned down the chance to manage the US men's national team twice. Once, in 1983, when it would be entered, disastrously, into the NASL as Team America. And once more in 1991, when Bora Milutinovi was appointed instead. Continue reading...

The New York Knicks might have won in five, but the city's mayor did it in three: a trio of candidates backed by Mamdani appear set to land seats in US Congress

AJ Dybantsa went No 1 in a draft that proved to be low on drama, but loaded with generational talentThe tanking teams Continue reading...

Mamdani-backed candidate won New York's 13th congressional district with no experience in office but ideas for how politics can actually invest in life'

Those who work with animals are at greater risk for infection, but face challenges in accessing healthcareAgricultural workers are among the highest risk group for human infection during the screwworm outbreak in the American south, yet they frequently face challenges in accessing public health - an ongoing concern amid zoonotic spillovers such as H5N1 bird flu.Screwworm has been detected in goats and sheep in three Texas counties in recent days, bringing the total to 16 known cases among animals and none reported in people. Continue reading...

The Dialog society grades its attendees on a hidden scale, tackles issues from sex to world wars, and offers matchmakingWhat would happen if roughly 200 members of the global elite gathered every year for a top secret retreat? What would they do? What would they talk about? Who would be on the guest list?Well, data leaked by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew (who also brought us the justice department's no-fly list back in 2023) is shedding new light on Dialog, the private social club co-created by the former PayPal boss Peter Thiel and the angel investor Auren Hoffman.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Glaude's new book shows political turmoil historically reaching its boiling point around Fourth of July celebrationsThe mere presence of Black people at the Fourth of July celebrations, acting as if freedom belonged to them, exposed the lie at the heart of this ritual of remembrance by the nation: ours was not a nation committed to liberty and equality." So goes the second chapter of the author Eddie S Glaude Jr's latest book America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries.The Princeton University professor's new text illustrates how political turmoil has historically reached a boiling point around celebrations of the nation's founding on the Fourth of July. The text is especially relevant now as the United States approaches its 250th birthday. Throughout the book, Glaude argues that since the very beginning, Black Americans have played a vital role in establishing this country. Their presence is a constant reminder that the mythological America - one of a white republic - does not exist. Celebrations of the nation's founding, he says, reinforce myth-making at the expense of the truth. They're treated as sacrosanct events, thus justifying the sanitization of the nation's brutal history. Continue reading...

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FTSE 100 firm says Prologis all-share proposal turned down as it falls long way short of its own views on valueThe UK warehouse landlord Segro is at the centre of the latest transatlantic takeover battle after rejecting a 12.6bn takeover approach from the US rival Prologis.Prologis has gone public with its offer for the FTSE 100 company after it was unequivocally rejected" by Segro's board on Tuesday despite valuing the company at almost 25% more than its market value at that day's close. Continue reading...

Mace's TRANS MICE Act is designed to end radical transgender-related experiments on animals'. But is this all a stupid misunderstanding?First they came for your children. As Donald Trump has claimed without evidence (because facts are woke), US schoolkids have been getting gender-reassignment surgery in between classes. Can you imagine you're a parent and ... you say, Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school,' and your son comes back with a brutal operation," Trump said during a rally in 2024. What the hell is wrong with our country?"Now it seems the woke brigade has come for poor little mice. According to Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace, who once called herself Trump in high heels", American taxpayers are funding transgender rodents. Last week Mace, who is leaving politics next year after coming last in her state's Republican primary for governor, promoted a new bill called the TRANS MICE Act, designed to put an end to the use of taxpayer dollars for radical transgender-related experiments on animals". Continue reading...

Guardian investigation: Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar complain they're deluged by unfair' and inflated' fees. The company denies these claimsTenants at apartment complexes operated by Greystar, the largest owner and manager of apartments in the US, don't just pay rent. They pay a mass of fees that many renters have never heard of before.These add-ons include boiler management fees", variable refrigerant flow fees", solar rebill" fees, even lifestyle fees". Continue reading...

According to Heidi Blake in the New Yorker, the Tate and Trump circles have overlapped at Mar-a-Lago. What does that mean?Donald Trump has told many stories and denied many others about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. But those questions center on Epstein's actions and crimes, which Trump says he denounces and wasn't a part of. The White House has moved heaven, earth, the truth and much else to protect Trump from what the Epstein files might tell us about him. But there is a larger question about what Trump makes of Epstein's values. Does he reject them, or does he endorse and embrace them? Looking to his administration's ties to Andrew Tate may be instructive.According to Heidi Blake's thorough investigation of Tate in the New Yorker earlier this month, the Trump administration intervened last year to buffer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan from the consequences of their criminal charges in Romania. The Tate and Trump circles, she also reports, have overlapped at Mar-a-Lago. Continue reading...

Progressive supporters of mayor celebrate as former city comptroller's critical approach to Israel helps defeat incumbent congressman Dan Goldman in primaryThe polls closed at 9pm in New York on Tuesday. It took less than five minutes for Brad Lander, the Zohran Mamdani-endorsed candidate, to be announced the winner in the Democratic primary in the 12th district: a dominant victory that reinforced the power of New York City's mayor and the durability of the progressive movement.Cheers rang out at 9.04pm at the bar where Lander held his victory party, as the former city comptroller and former mayoral candidate was declared to have easily defeated Dan Goldman, the district's two-term incumbent, in the Democratic primary. Continue reading...

JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg fails to advance in election to replace Jerry Nadler in Manhattan districtZohran Mamdani's growing influence over the Democratic party was on show in New York City on Tuesday as three congressional candidates endorsed by New York's democratic socialist mayor won closely watched primaries, while voters in Maryland, Utah and South Carolina cast ballots in primaries and runoffs.Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller who also ran for mayor last year before endorsing Mamdani, won his race comfortably, defeating the Democratic representative Dan Goldman. Continue reading...

Colombia book their last-32 spot after edging out DR Congo with a goal to Daniel Munoz in GuadalajaraToday's other game was the Group I clash between England and Ghana. Thomas Tuchel's team got a stern reality check from a dogged Ghanaian side who were happy to sit back and defend.David Hytner was at Boston Stadium:England's idea was to maintain the momentum they had generated in the 4-2 win over Croatia in their opening Group L tie but there was no surge here. Only stodge. England laboured to create against an ultra-defensive Ghana team, their only pulse-quickening moments coming towards the very end. Continue reading...

Nancy Lacore will spearhead effort to flip Republican House seat in November's midterm electionsA three-star navy rear-admiral fired by Pete Hegseth last year in the defense secretary's purge of senior US military officials has won the Democratic primary in a closely watched congressional race.Nancy Lacore secured the party's nomination for the US House of Representatives in South Carolina's first congressional district on Tuesday after defeating Mac Deford, a US Coast Guard veteran, in a runoff. Continue reading...

Four Republicans broke with their party to support the measure, which passed the House of Representatives earlier this month - key US politics stories from Tuesday 23 June at a glanceThe US Senate approved a war powers resolution preventing Donald Trump from continuing hostilities against Iran, delivering the president a significant but symbolic rebuke over a conflict that has proven unpopular with the American public.The resolution passed by a 50-48 vote, with four Republicans - Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rand Paul of Kentucky - breaking with their party to support its adoption. John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, was the sole Democrat to vote against the resolution. Continue reading...

Judge vacates administrations policies, finding actions of ICE and another government arm arbitrary and capricious'A federal judge in California vacated the Trump administration's nationwide policies expanding arrests at immigration courthouses and the duration for detaining noncitizens in short-term facilities, finding the actions of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and another government arm arbitrary and capricious".US district judge P Casey Pitts of the northern district of California on Tuesday vacated ICE's policies that had rescinded previous strictures on arrests at immigration courthouses and allowed detainees to be held in short-term cells for up to 72 hours. He did the same for a similar policy undertaken by the US Department of Justice's executive office for immigration review that removed limits on courthouse arrests. Continue reading...

Donald Trump has indicated he will sign rare bipartisan initiative to tackle affordability after 358-32 vote in HouseThe House gave final approval on Tuesday to a broad bipartisan bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing, with lawmakers in both parties eager to show progress on affordability issues ahead of this year's midterm elections.The 358-32 vote sends the bill to Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it into law on Wednesday at the Capitol. The Senate passed the legislation 85-5 on Monday. Continue reading...

Firings come less than a week after US president appointed Bill Pulte as acting director after Tulsi Gabbard left the postSeveral staff members have reportedly been fired from the US office of the director of national intelligence (DNI), multiple outlets have reported. These firings come less than a week after Donald Trump appointed Bill Pulte as the acting director after former director Tulsi Gabbard announced she was leaving the post in late May.According to CNN, which was first to report the firings on Monday, political appointees with ties to Gabbard were among those purged. ABC News reported that cuts to the National Terrorism Center were expected to be particularly large. Continue reading...

Gunman, 18, faces first-degree murder charges after killing two people and injuring a child at library in Butte countyAn 18-year-old gunman, who police said wanted to carry out a Columbine high school massacre-type shooting, was expected to face first-degree murder charges after killing two people and injuring a child at a northern California library Monday evening.Chico police dispatchers received multiple 911 calls around 5.12pm on Monday where they could hear what sounded like screaming and gunshots, Billy Aldridge, the city police chief, said during a press conference on Tuesday. Aldridge said police were on the scene and had the suspect in custody within four minutes, crediting the rapid response time for preventing more deaths. Continue reading...

Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump's crackdown on dissentA group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received unusually harsh sentences of at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday in a closely watched case that was widely seen as a test case of the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on dissent.After a three-week jury trial, the nine activists were all found guilty of a slew of criminal charges in March, stemming from a Fourth of July protest at an immigrant detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, south of Fort Worth. The demonstrators arrived late at night with a plan to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with those detained inside. A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived. Continue reading...

Ruling lets DHS apply expedited removal to non-citizens who are living far from borderA federal appeals court cleared the way on Tuesday for the Trump administration to expand a fast-track deportation process that would allow for the expedited removal of immigrants who are living far from the border.A panel of the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled 2-1 to overturn a decision by a judge who in August 2025 blocked the US Department of Homeland Security's move to expand who qualifies for expedited removal. That expedited removal process has for nearly three decades been used to quickly return migrants apprehended at the border. Continue reading...

US president planned to revamp the now algae-stricken pool ahead of the holiday and America's 250th birthdayDonald Trump has acknowledged that repairs to the algae-stricken reflecting pool in Washington DC may not be completed in time for the Fourth of July, when the president plans to convene a big celebration on the National Mall to ring in the country's 250th birthday.The iconic body of water began filling with algae blooms and peeling paint after the Trump administration ordered a $14.2m renovation to turn it American flag" blue, prompting the president to claim - without providing evidence - that vandals armed with a knife had damaged it. Continue reading...

Prominent Florida real estate broker found not guilty by Miami jury of manslaughter and felony vessel homicideThe family of a teenager left with a permanent disability from a birthday party boat crash that killed another girl has reacted with dismay at the acquittal of the prominent Florida real estate broker helming the vessel.George Pino was found not guilty by a Miami jury on Monday evening of manslaughter and felony vessel homicide after the 4 September 2022 boat wreck during a celebration that he and his wife, Cecilia, were hosting for their daughter's 18th birthday, with 11 of her friends as guests. Continue reading...

Poetica Coffee in Brooklyn now faces DoJ investigation after sharing post criticizing Democrat Dan GoldmanNew York Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman has said it is sad" that a Brooklyn coffee shop banned him over his views on Israel - a move which has put the cafe under investigation by the Trump administration's justice department.Goldman represents New York's 10th congressional district and holds pro-Israel views. He made the sad" remark to CNN after Brooklyn's Poetica Coffee banned him in a viral, since-deleted social media post after a visit from him on Sunday. Continue reading...

Kent Kiehl convinced the US legal system he can find violence in prisoners' brains. His theories have been since used by defense lawyers - with grave consequences for prisoners Continue reading...

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In a 6-3 opinion, the court says Louisiana prisoner cannot sue guards after he grew his hair for more than 20 yearsThe US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let a Rastafarian man sue state prison officials in Louisiana after guards held him down and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs, in a landmark case.The case was brought under a federal law designed to protect incarcerated people from religious discrimination. Continue reading...

As the US tries to limit the damage from the Iran war, its vice-president has admitted he doesn't understand diplomacy. Of course not: he's been too busy churning out another memoirHas JD Vance been injecting Barron Trump's new energy drink straight into his veins? It would explain a few things, including how the man manages to juggle so much. First there's the parenting: Vance has three young kids and a baby due soon. Then there's the vice-presidenting. But despite his long to-do list, Vance still makes time for endless holidays. And he's even managed to get some writing done: the bestselling Hillbilly Elegy author recently published his second book. It's a memoir about his spiritual journey called Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.So, should you find your way to a bookshop to buy a copy? Most book critics seem to say no. It's hard to know exactly what regular readers think because two of the biggest review platforms have restricted feedback. Amazon says reviews are limited to verified purchasers because of unusual review activity" (translation: a torrent of one-star reviews), while Amazon-owned Goodreads has suspended reviews altogether. It's a shame that Usha Vance, a voracious reader whose Goodreads account notes she just finished Communion (shortly after reading Death Comes for the Archbishop), hasn't had a chance to give hubby a five-star review. Continue reading...

Suit alleged California-based company developed technology that allowed China to surveil members of movementThe US supreme court further limited the reach of a federal law used to hold corporations liable for human rights abuses committed abroad, as it issued a ruling on Tuesday ending a lawsuit by members of the Falun Gong movement accusing Cisco Systems of facilitating religious persecution in China.The justices reversed a lower court's decision that had breathed new life into the 2011 lawsuit, which was brought under the Alien Tort Statute of 1789. The suit had alleged that Cisco knowingly developed technology that allowed China's government to surveil and persecute Falun Gong members. Continue reading...

The US health department said the enforced 42-day quarantine was necessary to protect the publicEight Americans quarantined for six weeks in Nebraska after they were exposed to a deadly hantavirus outbreak were released on Monday, including one who accused the government of holding her against her will.The US health and human services department (HHS) confirmed that it had ended the required isolation for the group, who were among dozens evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship in the Canary Islands early in May. Continue reading...

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the reporters behind Regime Change, were up against an administration that is very good at keeping secrets'They cracked the White House situation room, unearthing secrets from the heart of a secretive administration. But the reporters behind Regime Change, a blockbuster new book on Donald Trump's second term, ran up against a wall when reporting on one issue surrounding the 80-year-old US president: his fitness for office.His health has always been a very specific lockbox for him, going back decades," Maggie Haberman, co-author with Jonathan Swan, said in an interview. Illness freaks him out; he perceives illness as weakness, usually, and he certainly perceives any sense that he is having an issue as a projection of weakness, and his advisers are very, very attuned to that. Continue reading...

Building had been vulnerable before it collapsed in the middle of the night, killing 98 people in 2021The deadly destruction of a Florida beachfront condominium actually started weeks before it collapsed into a pile of rubble in the middle of the night, killing 98 people in 2021 - but the building had been vulnerable from the start, federal investigators found in a final report issued on Monday.The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said in the report that two connections between garage columns and the pool deck started to fail around early June. The combination of a structure design that did not meet building codes and alterations made to it over its 40 years meant that the other parts of the pool deck weren't strong enough to withstand the extra load, leading to the type of slow-motion collapse. Continue reading...

Note reportedly said kidnappers her didn't mean to kill mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, but she died shortly after her disappearanceA ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie - the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie - said the 84-year-old had died, CNN and other news organizations are reporting, citing law enforcement sources.Some media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes tied to the case in the days after Guthrie's disappearance in early February from her home in the foothills just outside Tucson, Arizona.Guardian staff contributed reporting Continue reading...

The administration interrupted data streams that are key to forecasting. These systems should not be vulnerable to political whimsIn 1877, North Americans experienced an unusually mild winter - it was known as the year without a winter". It coincided with one of the strongest El Nino events ever recorded. Scientists suspect the same El Nino was a major factor in one of the worst environmental disasters in history. As much of the world was enveloped in drought, harvests collapsed in India, China, parts of Africa, and Brazil. The drought, compounded by colonial and other socioeconomic policies, led to the Great Famine", which killed between 30 and 60 million people, about 3% of the world's population at the time.What distinguishes us from the victims of 1877 is not luck but data. When I served as deputy administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, I saw modern ocean monitoring and forecasting provide the advance warnings the Victorians lacked. This lead time saves thousands of lives and billions of dollars each year. Today, we can anticipate climate shocks before they arrive.Terry Garcia is a former deputy administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Continue reading...

When Andre Robinson Jr was shot and killed in Oakland in 2020, his family was upended - how do siblings navigate the fallout from violent loss?The Robinson family once looked forward to Sundays. It was the day they would gather with dozens of their closest relatives and friends to eat, laugh and catch up. Sunday was the day that we cherished the most," said RoShanda Robinson, the oldest child in the family.But in the fall of 2020, these get-togethers abruptly stopped. A day that used to include bountiful meals and booming laughter suddenly became a painful reminder of life-changing loss. Continue reading...

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Democratic primary elections to test strength of party's left flank as old guard faces string of challengesNew Yorkers were voting on Tuesday in a slate of Democratic primaries poised to reveal the strength of the party's left flank and shape the battle for control of the US House of Representatives in November.Voters in Maryland and Utah will also nominate congressional candidates on Tuesday, while South Carolina holds a series of runoff elections for candidates who did not receive a majority of the vote earlier this month. Continue reading...

The symbolic power of a stagnant pond beneath Lincoln's statue has proven irresistible for the president's criticsNarcissus was cursed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Donald Trump is finding that his effort to overhaul the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington has turned into a perverse tourist attraction and 2,028ft national metaphor.On Monday afternoon a massive algae bloom had turned the pool a green reminiscent of a plane passenger clutching a sick bag. It also stank, but that did not deter a steady flow of curious tourists snapping photos and TV crews doing eyewitness interviews about the folly of Donald Trump's $14.7m renovation. Continue reading...

Sharper, who pleaded guilty or no contest to raping women in four states, was transferred to a halfway house in MayConvicted serial rapist and former National Football League champion Darren Sharper has registered as a sex offender in his home state of Virginia, after being transferred from federal prison to a halfway house there, according to official records.With a projected 2028 release date nearing, the US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) recently confirmed that the 50-year-old Sharper had been moved on 27 May from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to either home confinement or a facility colloquially known as a halfway house overseen by the agency's residential re-entry management office in Baltimore.Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organizations. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html Continue reading...