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The system is failing women, with often devastating impacts on our families, mental or reproductive health. But those who have been inside can change it for the better - if we are allowedWhen I started my jail sentence in Bogota, Colombia, it was 2008 and I was 31 with a four-year-old daughter. I was imprisoned for nine years and three months. I don't tell people the reason I went to prison. Not for me, but for all the free women who face so many problems because of the time they spent in jail. My crime doesn't make me the person I am.Most women in Colombia commit crime out of a need to provide for their families. They are judged and punished without society or the justice system taking the circumstances surrounding the crime into account. Continue reading...

Keeping a statue to William Beckford on display reeks of moral failure. It belongs in a museum, alongside clear details of his crimes against humanityThe statue of the 18th-century plantation owner William Beckford, which stands in Guildhall in London, will be recontextualised rather than permanently removed, says the City of London Corporation. A plaque will be placed alongside the statue explaining its connection to the transatlantic chattel slave trade. To me - a descendant of the people he enslaved - the decision feels like a moral failure.Last year, I was involved in some of the discussions with the Ironmonger's Company and other stakeholders in the statue. It became apparent that after the decision in 2021 that the figure would remain in the Great Hall, there was not as much resistance as I would have expected. But as a Jamaican-British man and a descendant of those whom Beckford exploited and murdered, I believe that leaving the statue in a prestigious place, even with a note of explanation, is morally reprehensible. Or, in the words of my Jamaican grandparents, it is devilish". The decision, which I am sure was the culmination of serious deliberations, underplays the radical evil of slavery's racial capitalism and its continuing destructive consequences for people racialised as Black. Continue reading...

Lowriding is the Mexican-American subculture of cruising as close to the asphalt as possible. Photographer Owen Harvey went along for the ride Continue reading...

Community rallies to save colossal 150-year-old tree after Maui wildfires badly singed it last monthA colossal, beloved 150-year-old banyan tree at the centre of Lahaina town that was scorched when deadly wildfires ravaged Maui, Hawaii, last month is showing viridescent signs of new growth.The tree, which has been described as the heartbeat of Lahaina Town" was badly singed, but still standing last month after fires killed at least 97 people and reduced much of the historic town to ash. Continue reading...

The new claims made me think about the media's treatment of the woman he so famously humiliated on Radio 2. I hope we all know better nowContemplating the notion of crossing the line, Russell Brand once remarked: As I always say, there is no line. People draw that line in afterwards to fuck you up." Anyway: here we all are in the afterwards.Back in the day, though, a lot of people were thrilled to be on what they thought was Russell's side of the line. For a certain type of mournfully uncool man on the left, Russell Brand was quite the excitement. You only had to watch their little faces in his presence - lit up at being fleetingly indulged by the kind of guy who would probably have bullied them at school. He was a sports columnist at the Guardian (often also writing opinion columns), he guest-edited the New Statesman, while the apogee of this particular stage of Brand's inevitable journey toward alt-right-frotting wingnut was surely the ludicrously feverish speculation over whether he'd endorse Labour in the 2015 general election. Keen to be awarded his royal warrant, the then Labour leader, Ed Miliband, traipsed to Brand's London flat during the final stages of the campaign, for a filmed interview where committed non-voter Russell inquired rhetorically: Since suffrage, since the right to vote, what has meaningfully occurred?" Nothing much, he reckoned. Somehow, this disqualifyingly moronic assumption did not deter his political acolytes. Continue reading...

Recovery team worked to secure the debris field of a Marine Corps F-35 fighter jet after pilot ejected and parachuted to safetyAuthorities found a debris field Monday from a Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighter jet that crashed in South Carolina after the pilot ejected and parachuted to safety.The debris field was located in rural Williamsburg county, according to the Marine Corps' Joint Base Charleston. The field is about two hours north-east of the base, and residents were being asked to avoid the area while the recovery team worked to secure it. Continue reading...

Trump denies wrongdoing after ex-assistant reported he wrote tasks for her on back of sensitive materials during presidencyDonald Trump has denied wrongdoing after a report on Monday said that one of the former president's long-time assistants told federal investigators he repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on documents from the White House marked classified.The aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that more than once she got requests or tasks from Trump written on the back of notecards that she later recognized as sensitive White House materials, ABC News reported on Monday, citing sources. Continue reading...

Tim Ballard, whose work was dramatized in Sound of Freedom, has left the Operation Underground Railroad organizationThe anti-child slavery activist Tim Ballard, whose work was dramatized in the movie Sound of Freedom, resigned from the Operation Underground Railroad (Our) organization he founded amid allegations he sexually harassed colleagues, it was reported on Monday.Ballard, a former adviser to the Trump administration on child sexual trafficking, who is reported to be exploring a run for a US senate seat in Utah, resigned abruptly from the group in June for then-unknown reasons. Continue reading...

Todd Rokita claims Indiana University Health wrongly said doctor had not violated patient privacy laws in public commentsIndiana's attorney general, Todd Rokita, is suing the largest hospital system in the state, alleging the mishandling of a case involving a 10-year-old rape victim who got an abortion through one of its doctors - a case that made headlines across the country in the days after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade.In a lawsuit filed on Friday, Rokita alleged that Indiana University Health wrongly said that Dr Caitlin Bernard, who talked about the 10-year-old's case to journalists, had not violated patient privacy laws. Indiana University Health had told media outlets that, after reviewing Bernard's case, it had determined that she had been in compliance with privacy laws", according to the lawsuit. However, the Indiana Medical Licensing Board later found that Bernard had broken patient privacy laws. (The board also concluded that she was fit to practice medicine.) Continue reading...

Kevin Cataneo Salazar arrested in killing of Ryan Clinkunbroomer, who was shot as he sat in his patrol car at a red lightAuthorities have arrested a 29-year-old man in the investigation of the fatal shooting of a Los Angeles county sheriff's deputy after a manhunt to find the perpetrator behind the ambush killing this weekend.Thirty-six hours after the killing of Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, law enforcement arrested Kevin Cataneo Salazar at a home in Palmdale, about 60 miles north-east of Los Angeles, following an hours-long standoff early Monday morning. Continue reading...

Representative Jennifer Wexton, diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, to step down after finishing out current termDemocratic congresswoman Jennifer Wexton said on Monday that she will finish out her term but not seek re-election for the northern Virginia-based seat that she has held since beating a Republican incumbent in 2018.Wexton, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease earlier this year, said in a statement that her doctor had modified my diagnosis to supra-nuclear Palsy". She described it as a kind of Parkinson's on steroids'". Continue reading...

Trump has portrayed the president as too old and too mentally fogged to occupy the Oval Office, but his tactics rebounded on FridayDonald Trump has long attacked Joe Biden, his likely opponent at the polls next year, as Sleepy Joe", portraying the 80-year-old president as too old and too mentally fogged to occupy the Oval Office. As recently as Friday, the former president attacked his successor for being unfit to deal with Russia and the threat of nuclear war.But Trump's tactics rebounded when he said Biden threatened to lead the US into world war two" - and suggested that he, Trump, thought he had beaten Barack Obama for the presidency back in 2016. Continue reading...

New allegations about the star's behaviour are disturbing. So is the way he was indulgedUntil the Times and Sunday Times published reports on Russell Brand over the weekend, and Dispatches broadcast a film of their joint investigation, it was not widely known that the star is an alleged rapist and sexual abuser. The testimony of Alice" (a pseudonym), who was 16 when Mr Brand, then aged 30, allegedly initiated a sexual relationship with her in London, shocked millions of people. She described him choking her with his penis and forcing her to swallow his saliva.Another woman, Nadia", alleged that she was raped by Mr Brand in 2012 and has evidence of records from a rape crisis centre. She saved text messages that reveal him apologising, and her reply of when a girl says NO it means no". A third woman, Phoebe", recalled running from his house in bare feet, terrified by what she alleges were his attempts to initiate sex while naked and wearing a glazed expression.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...

President's son is facing criminal charges over gun possession and is expected to be indicted on tax mattersHunter Biden sued the US Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging the agency violated his privacy rights as it investigated his tax affairs.The business career of the US president's son is at the centre of Republican attempts to impeach Joe Biden over unsubstantiated allegations of corruption. Continue reading...

He lacks the late Queen's aura of inevitability, nobility and self-abnegation - and so the jeering at sports events is only getting louderAt the Scotland versus England friendly last week, God Save the King was booed by half the crowd - the Scottish half. In a way, this is surprising, because it is, of course, the national anthem of the UK, so they were technically booing their own song. Yet it is also entirely unsurprising - so much so, in fact, that commentators dredging up outrage at the boos had to find secondary sources, such as: Why does the Scottish first minister appear to be smirking during the booing?"Even before the passing of the Queen, it was far from unheard of for Scotland supporters to boo the national anthem. It happened right after the independence referendum, the message at that time being: Like all referendums on constitutional matters, this ballot has opened up cracks in society - irreconcilable differences in its branching futures, if you like - that will not quietly go away." Scottish fans once booed Liechtenstein's national anthem, Oben am Jungen Rhein. Really easy mistake to make, as the tunes are identical - except they must have known they were playing Liechtenstein, right? So perhaps the message was less complicated; not so much: The yoke of this union is a heavy one to bear and we decline to celebrate it in song," more: We do not like this tune. It is not even a real tune. How on earth two nations (well, five) chose it is beyond us." Continue reading...

The Labour leader says he wants to foster a closer' trading relationship with the EU. I recommend a return to the customs unionKeir Starmer should not be frightened. This week he admitted in Montreal that Britain's Brexit agreement was not a good deal" and that he wanted a closer" trading relationship with the EU. What does he mean? He mentioned security and research, ties that Rishi Sunak has already initiated. Yet he shudders with fear at any accusation that he might favour returning to Europe's customs union or single market, let alone to the EU itself. He quails at the thought of what a Brexit voter in a red wall" seat might say. Each week his apologists explain this as paranoia over losing his 20-point poll lead. They promise he is a radical at heart. That is what they all say.The Labour party bears its share of the blame for the failure of Theresa May's search for a soft Brexit. There were a number of attempts to piece together a Commons coalition behind staying in the customs union or single market. Yet Labour MPs, who overwhelmingly favoured softer versions of Brexit, retreated into a militant Commons polarisation. Why should they help May just because it was in the nation's interest? They duly allowed the Tory right to enforce its hard" definition of Brexit as a total divorce from Europe's economic zone. In their study of this chaotic period, The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit, political scientists Meg Russell and Lisa James graphically describe the ignorance of most Labour MPs in what they thought they were voting for. They just obeyed their whips. It was a dreadful chapter in parliament's history.Simon Jenkins 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...

The comedian moved effortlessly from mainstream fame to the embrace of the populist right. Both enabled an undisguised misogynistRussell Brand has always invited outrage. It was what he did, his shtick and his selling point: a willingness to cross the line that - when sweetened by his undeniable charisma, and by enough long words to make the crude sex gags sound more intellectual - earned him a fortune over the years.But could that willingness to shock, to transgress in plain sight, have functioned also as a kind of shield? What could he be accused of to which he hadn't already titillatingly half-confessed, in that gleeful way that meant you never knew if he was serious or not, but which somehow made the audience complicit anyway? When he described in his insufferably titled memoir My Booky Wook being asked to write a list in rehab of the women he'd wronged over the years, and feeling like Saddam Hussein trying to pick out individual Kurds", his candour somehow disarmed the obvious questions about what exactly he had done to all those nameless women. Continue reading...

As federal prosecutors charge Joe Biden's son over illegally possessing a firearm, we look back at a list of controversiesFederal prosecutors indicted Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, over illegally possessing a firearm in Delaware on Thursday. The indictment comes a month after the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, appointed the US attorney David Weiss, a Trump nominee, to oversee the investigation as special counsel.Hunter Biden has been at the center of a years-long investigation into his tax affairs that was set to close with a guilty plea. But that plea deal fell apart at a Delaware courthouse after the Trump-appointed judge said she could not agree to the deal, which ensured Biden would avoid jail time in a separate case of illegally possessing a gun while using drugs. Continue reading...

More than most elite sides, Mikel Arteta's team seem prone to mood swings. Their win at Everton showed a steeliness that could help their title chances

Landing accident' happened on the last day of the air races in Reno, where at least 23 pilots have died since event began in 1972Two air-racing pilots were killed at an airshow Sunday in Reno, Nevada, when their planes collided and crashed.Officials with the Reno air racing association said the crash was a landing accident" that happened after the T-6 Gold Race at the national championship air races. The pilots killed have been identified as Chris Rushing, who flew out of Van Nuys in Los Angeles, and Nick Macy of Tulelake, California. Continue reading...

In a contingent election', he could lose the popular vote, electoral college and all his legal cases and still end up the legal US presidentIn an ordinary time, under ordinary political conditions, the specter of another Trump presidency would be strictly the stuff of nightmares. The former president is facing 40 criminal charges for his mishandling of classified documents, and will have to interrupt his campaign next summer to defend himself in court. Those charges are apart from the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records he faces in New York. And then there's the rape defamation lawsuit, which will begin in January, and which he will almost certainly lose.The American people, however, can be awfully forgiving. In current polling, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are tied nationally; no Republican nominee has emerged to challenge Trump. But, as we have been learning pretty much continuously since 2000, the will of the majority of the American people no longer matters all that much in who is running their country. Continue reading...

In interview about new book The Masters, Wenner had said no female or Black musicians were as articulate' as white performersJann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone and a co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has apologized for remarks he made disparaging Black and female artists as less intellectually articulate than their white counterparts.The 77-year-old's statements - made in an interview published on Friday by the New York Times in which he explained why he had included only white rock performers, whom he dubbed the philosophers of rock", in a book compiling his interviews - led to a unanimous vote removing Wenner from the hall of fame board. Continue reading...

From the climate crisis to economic decline, the period in which this online generation remain blissfully ignorant has shrunkIt's never been easy, as Britney Spears sang, to be not a girl, not yet a woman". But a new survey carried out for Girlguiding shows that young women are less hopeful than ever of emerging on the other side, with the happiness of seven- to 21-year-olds plummeting to its lowest level since 2009.At 32 years old, I am profoundly grateful not to be a girl today - or even much younger than I am now. When I was a teenager, through the mid-2000s, there were the time-honoured troubles of growing girls: depression, anxiety, bullying, body image issues, disordered eating, problematic interactions with the opposite sex. But - without minimising those struggles, or being blithely superior about my day" - there were some limits in place that served as checks against external harm and the adolescent impulse towards self-destruction. Continue reading...

Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate have until start of October to avoid shutdownWith a possible partial US government shutdown looming in two weeks, Kevin McCarthy on Sunday said he would bring a defense spending bill to a vote win or lose" this week, despite resistance from hardline fellow Republicans.The House speaker is struggling to bring fiscal 2024 spending legislation to the floor, with Republicans fractured by conservative demands for spending to be cut to a 2022 level of $1.47tn - $120bn below the spending on which McCarthy agreed with Joe Biden in May. Continue reading...

US senator is popular among blue-collar workers and people of color, but seat not assured in increasingly Republican stateThe Democrats desperately need Sherrod Brown. Whether the Ohio senator is quite so keen on being identified with the party as he fights for re-election in a state that swung firmly to Donald Trump is another matter.Brown's seat is one of three tight races for the Democrats next year that are likely to decide control of the US Senate. The prevailing winds are not good. Republicans now control every state-wide office in Ohio except for Brown's place in the Senate. Trump took the state from the Democrats to win it twice by a margin of more than 8% each time. Continue reading...

Indictments were unexpectedly useful for Trump to test theory that his criminal cases could benefit his campaign, and vice versaDonald Trump is intent on leaning into his criminal cases to boost his 2024 campaign through the election next year, according to multiple people close to the former president, after he tested that strategy through multiple indictments and decided it gave him major political advantages.The summer was devastating for Trump from a legal perspective, after he was charged with retaining national security documents in Florida as well as with seeking to overturn the 2020 election in Washington and in Georgia, the trials for which will occur before the election. Continue reading...

Conservationist Morad Tahbaz among prisoners to be swapped in deal involving unfreezing of Iranian oil money. Plus, has the Chinese economy reached its peak?

I had 20 nicotine obsessed years: first cigarettes and then the plastic alternative. I came to realise it wasn't a want: it was a needI have been a nicotine fiend ever since I smoked my first cigarette at the age of 14, perched on some steps during my school lunch break. It tasted disgusting but I persevered and soon I was hooked. I must have looked like some kind of Dickensian urchin, trailing around north London in my school uniform puffing on a ciggie.And boy, did I love to smoke. It was great fun for a while. I happily trooped into the pens outside nightclubs and pubs where the smokers were held. Smoking was a group activity back then. I swapped white-and-gold packets of Marlboro Lights for the more cost-efficient squishy green pouches of Golden Virginia tobacco. My best friend and I chain-smoked rollies until our flat reeked and the ashtray overflowed. Continue reading...

Conservationist Morad Tahbaz among prisoners to be swapped in deal involving unfreezing of Iranian oil moneyThe US and Iran are expected to pull off a controversial prisoner swap on Monday involving the unfreezing by the Biden administration of $6bn (4.8bn) of Iranian oil money held in South Korea since 2018.Tehran and Washington are due to swap five prisoners each, including the conservationist Morad Tahbaz, a British-American citizen. Continue reading...

The 29-year-old ended a long American drought with victory in the Vuelta a Espana. And he did so with a very different style to his predecessorsAfter a long wait, an American is once again at the center of the cycling universe. For three weeks, Sepp Kuss, the 29-year-old climber from Durango, Colorado, navigated the Pyrenees, the rampas inhumanas of Asturias, and threatening attacks from outside and within his own team. And he has emerged as the winner of the Vuelta a Espana.This is the first grand tour win for an American since Chris Horner's stunning victory over Vincenzo Nibali at the 2013 Vuelta. In the intervening years, no American man has won a world championship or a monument either; Kuss is the only American to even lead a grand tour since Horner, and the only American since 2011 to win a stage of the Tour de France. Continue reading...

The head coach called out the efforts of his predecessor in Denver, Nathaniel Hackett. But he is hardly shining in Denver himselfWhen Sean Payton called Nathaniel Hackett's 15-game stint with the Broncos one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL," it sounded cruel and unnecessary. Now it sounds foolish. Hackett was 1-1 at this point last season in Denver. Payton's Broncos are 0-2 after giving up an 18-point lead to the Washington Commanders in a thriller that ended 35-33 after a failed Denver two-point conversion following a miraculous Hail Mary.The game ended in controversy as Commanders cornerback Benjamin St-Juste was draped all over Courtland Sutton during that final two-point conversion. But none of that should take away from the fact that Denver should have been riding into Week 3 with a 1-1 record, thrilled with the direction of the Russell Wilson-Payton marriage. Continue reading...

I've seen the bravery and resilience of the Ukrainian people. At this week's UN general assembly, world leaders must help themRecently, Michael Kofman, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the foremost analysts of the war in Ukraine, urged that the west plan for the long war". He was talking about the military challenges facing the country: ammunition, air defence, key enablers and scaling up training.Kofman is right - the massive scale of the operation ahead cannot be underestimated. A recent trip I made to Kyiv confirms the extraordinary bravery, resilience and commitment of the Ukrainian population. But it also laid bare the civilian cost of the war, visible and invisible. With no end to the war in sight, civilian and humanitarian needs must be planned for, not just military ones. Continue reading...

For the past decade, the photojournalist and Baltimore native JM Giordano has been documenting the city's gun violence and the activists who organised to combat it.Giordano's new book, 13-23, from Nighted Life press, documents the rise of anti-gun-violence groups following the violent summer of 2013. The book covers the intersectionality of the city's gun violence epidemic and activist movements created to tackle that violence Continue reading...

Ro Khanna of California threw cold water on House speaker Kevin McCarthy's capitulation to the hard right over government fundingOne of Joe Biden's key congressional allies has rejected the notion that Republicans can bait the president's fellow Democrats into embracing an impeachment inquiry as an opportunity for him to be cleared over questions about his son's business affairs.What the American people want is for us to fund government and solve their issues," the California congressman Ro Khanna said on Fox News Sunday, referring to how some hard-right Republicans have made a Biden impeachment inquiry a condition for them to support new funding that would avoid at least a partial federal government shutdown after 30 September. Continue reading...

Search for F-35B Lightning II fighter jet focused on two lakes after Marine Corps pilot ejected over North Charleston for unknown reasonUS military officials have appealed to the public for help to find a fighter jet after losing track of it somewhere over South Carolina when the pilot ejected.A Marine Corps pilot safely escaped the F-35B Lightning II jet over North Charleston on Sunday afternoon after a mishap", military officials said, and the search for his missing aircraft was now focused on two lakes north of North Charleston. Continue reading...

Jordan Steinke to serve 30 months' probation for 2022 incident in which she handcuffed and placed woman in car parked on train tracksA former Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train, inflicting serious injuries to the woman, has avoided a jail sentence and must serve 30 months on supervised probation.Jordan Steinke, 29, was sentenced on Friday by Weld county district court judge Timothy Kerns, who found her guilty of reckless endangerment and assault for the 16 September 2022 crash near Platteville. Kerns acquitted the former Fort Lupton police officer of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter after her bench trial in July. Continue reading...

Ryan Clinkunbroomer had become engaged just four days before he was slain in brazen attack in PalmdaleA gunman ambushed" a Los Angeles county sheriff's department deputy in his patrol car Saturday night, shooting him to death in a particularly brazen attack, authorities said.The deputy, Ryan Clinkunbroomer, was found unconscious in his vehicle near the intersection of Sierra Highway and Avenue Q in Palmdale, California. A passerby discovered the mortally wounded deputy and then alerted authorities.The Associated Press contributed reporting. Continue reading...

Remarks by congresswoman came after a written apology on Friday in which she said her actions simply fell short' of her valuesLauren Boebert has issued a second apology for her now infamous theatre date which saw her get ejected from watching a Beetlejuice: The Musical performance after she openly vaped in the audience, groped her companion and was graphically felt up in kind.In an interview on Sunday with the conservative One America News Network, the far-right Colorado congresswoman attributed the behavior - recorded on security camera footage - to what she described as her being maybe overtly animated". Boebert, 36, thus implied that her extrovertedness had somehow fused with a stage production that the New York Times reviewed as a jaw-dropping funhouse". Continue reading...

Trump talks about democratic principles, ageing politicians and abortion rights in wide ranging NBC interviewDonald Trump grappled with a wide range of contentious issues in an interview with NBC that generated criticism against the network, including his thoughts on democratic principles, abortion rights and ageing politicians.He also confirmed his interest in choosing Kristi Noem to be his vice-presidential running mate if he wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 as he seeks a second term in the White House. Continue reading...

Candid, substantive and constructive' talks were held as a possible prelude to a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in NovemberTop US and Chinese diplomats met in Malta over the weekend as the world's two largest economies attempted to smooth strained relations and clear a path for their respective presidents - Joe Biden and Xi Jinping - to meet in November.According to both Beijing and Washington, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met multiple times with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Malta, where - according to separate statements - candid, substantive and constructive" talks were held. Continue reading...

Another person was also charged with murder in relation to the fatal overdose and the sickening of three other childrenA Bronx daycare owner was jailed on a count of depraved indifference murder as well as drug charges on Saturday after a one-year-old infant died from apparent fentanyl poisoning on her watch, according to officials.Three other children - an eight-month-old girl and a pair of two-year-old boys - also appeared to have been sickened by the potent, synthetic opioid, authorities said. Continue reading...

Vermont senator says technology should benefit not just people on top' as he cites financial stresses confronting most AmericansIf the US's ongoing artificial intelligence and robotics boom translates into more work being done faster, then laborers should reap some of the gains of that in the form of more paid time off, the liberal US senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday.I happen to believe that - as a nation - we should begin a serious discussion ... about substantially lowering the workweek," Sanders remarked on CNN's State of the Union. Continue reading...

Man was outside a Los Angeles theater where Democratic presidential candidate was scheduled to give a speechAn armed man accused of impersonating a federal officer was arrested outside a Robert F Kennedy Jr campaign event in Los Angeles.A Los Angeles police department statement said police received a call on Friday afternoon that a man with a loaded gun and holster and wearing a US marshals service badge was outside a theater where the Democratic presidential candidate was scheduled to give a speech. Continue reading...