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Ismael Zambada was co-founder of Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin El Chapo' Guzman, now imprisoned in USThe Mexican drug lord Ismael El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges as well as running a criminal enterprise on Monday, more than a year since he was arrested in Texas after what has been described as a kidnapping.I recognize the great harm illegal drugs have done to the people in the United States and Mexico," the 77-year-old Zambada said in court through a Spanish-language interpreter. I apologize for all of it, and I take responsibility for my actions." Continue reading...

Southaven police said a man was arrested and charged with murder in connection with Baltimore entertainer's killingThe Baltimore comedian Reginald Reggie" Carroll has died after being shot in northern Mississippi, according to authorities and media reports.The entertainer was 52, and among those who have paid tribute to him was the Oscar-winning actor Mo'Nique, who called Carroll a brother" in comedy. Continue reading...

Move is an escalation in president's efforts to take control of law enforcement in the capital city and beyondDonald Trump on Monday signed two executive orders aimed at eliminating cashless bail for people accused of crimes in Washington DC and other jurisdictions, an escalation in his efforts to take control of law enforcement in the capital city and beyond.The executive orders direct Washington and other localities to end their cashless bail programs, which allow people charged with crimes to leave jail while they await trial without paying what can be large sums of money. The order says that the federal government will reconsider funding decisions, services or approvals if Washington does not comply. Continue reading...

US president attempts to circumvent 1989 supreme court decision which said flag burning is protected speechDonald Trump signed an executive order on Monday instructing federal prosecutors to pursue criminal charges against individuals who burn American flags during protests.The order tells the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to look at cases where people burned flags and see if they can be charged with other crimes like disturbing the peace or breaking environmental laws. Continue reading...

Jeffrey Epstein associate attended Clinton Global Initiative conference in 2013 as advocate for ocean conservationGhislaine Maxwell was honored by the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2013, four years after sexual abuse accusations against her emerged - and two years after the former president Bill Clinton's staff recommended banning her from official events, CNN has reported.Maxwell - who in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and related crimes - attended the CGI conference as a guest of merit, where she was applauded for her work on ocean conservation alongside other Commitment to Action" leaders, according to the network. Continue reading...

Questions around goalkeeping and style of play raise questions about whether Man City can regain the aura of invincibility that once surrounded themThe truly great sides always come with an aura. One of the elements that makes them so hard to beat is that beating them seems so inconceivable. Even when they hit a bad run, the expectation is always that at some point they will rediscover their form. To some extent, Manchester City did that last season. As miserable as much of the campaign was, after losing to Nottingham Forest at the beginning of March, they put together a run of 10 games unbeaten and ended up third - even if defeat to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final demonstrated the shortcomings that remain.That game showcased City's flatness at times going forward but also a strange openness at the back that was apparent again in the 4-3 defeat to Al-Hilal in the Club World Cup. Pep Guardiola sides, given how high their line is, will always be susceptible to direct balls played in behind them if something goes awry with the press; it's an inevitable part of the risk-reward of that style of play.This is an extract from Soccer with Jonathan Wilson, a weekly look from the Guardian US at the game in Europe and beyond. Subscribe for free here. Have a question for Jonathan? Email soccerwithjw@theguardian.com, and he'll answer the best in a future edition. Continue reading...

Pentagon sources have told news outlets of plans to send troops to the city, but no final decision has been announced

HHS told Reuters patient had returned from El Salvador but beef industry said person had traveled from GuatemalaThe US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Sunday reported the first human case in the US of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an outbreak-affected country.The case, investigated by the Maryland department of health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was confirmed by the CDC as New World screwworm on 4 August - and involved a patient who returned from travel to El Salvador, an HHS spokesperson, Andrew G Nixon, said in an email to Reuters. Continue reading...

His concerns are understandable after decades acting in his own best interest. On the other hand, he's very richWill Donald Trump get into heaven?" I know this is a question weighing heavily on your mind right now. The current president of the United States is 79 years old, so we don't have much time left to sort this one out. Trump clearly has eternity at the top of his agenda, having spoken on at least two occasions about what happens when we die. He called into a radio program called the Todd Starnes Show, which is a thing people listen to when the internet is out on their block. He waxed on about his military deployment in Washington DC, but also about the possible system that decides the fate of your everlasting soul. There has to be some kind of a report card up there someplace, y'know, like: Let's go to heaven, let's get into heaven.' It's sort of a beautiful thing," he said to Starnes. He's probably hoping they grade on a curve.On Fox News, Trump expressed serious doubt he's going to get called up to the big leagues of life after death. I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole." I don't know who he's hearing this from. Is there a Quinnipiac poll I haven't read? Has Steve Kornacki weighed in from the MSNBC (sorry, MS Now) big board? Continue reading...

Speculation rife that president could endorse Cuomo or Adams - which could be good news for Zohran MamdaniMillions of people will go to the polls in New York City in November, but in a closely watched election for mayor it's a high-profile, highly unpopular former New Yorker who is attracting most of the attention.Donald Trump, who spent nearly seven decades in New York before leaving town after his first term as president, is the ghost at the feast in America's biggest city, a looming presence as he weighs whether to insert his considerable heft into the race. Continue reading...

Horror stories about detainments at the border have also soured some from visiting during Trump's second termKeith Serry was set to bring a show to New York City's Fringe festival this year, but pulled the plug a few weeks out. After 35 years of traveling to the United States, he says he no longer feels safe making the trip.The fact that we're being evaluated for our opinions entering a country that, at least until very recently, purported to be an example of democracy. Yeah, these are things that make me highly uncomfortable," said Serry, a Canadian performer and attorney. Continue reading...

A win for Democrat Catelin Drey over far-right Christopher Prosch would hamstring the state's Republican governorHe has compared abortion access to the Holocaust and pushed conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 2020 presidential election and climate crisis. Christopher Prosch is betting that Maga still rules in the US heartland.On Tuesday, the far-right Republican will take on Democrat Catelin Drey in a special general election for Iowa state senate district 1 after the previous incumbent, Republican Rocky De Witt, died in June. Continue reading...

The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feelIn most of America's largest cities, crime, especially violent crime, is down. But the fear of crime is increasing.Donald Trump has made a career out of ignoring the reality of crime rates and of stoking that fear. Well before he entered politics and throughout his political career, he has talked about city life as life in a proverbial jungle.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty Continue reading...

Rafael Nadal aside, there has been a paucity of male southpaw champions in recent decades. But that could change at Flushing Meadows this yearDuring the peak years of the Big Three, from 2008-2020, the only relevant issue to be discussed when discussing a grand slam draw was which of the trio was scheduled to meet before the final. And what this ultimately meant was that semi-finals often turned out be better than the finals (see: the 2010 and 2011 US Open semi-finals between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, or the 2013 and 2021 French Open semis between Rafael Nadal and Djokovic).Tennis hadn't had that kind of impenetrable triangle of stars since the Jimmy Connors-Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe troika's very brief hold on the sport in the late 1970s and very early 1980s. What makes that long-ago epoch stand out even further is the preponderance of left-handed players. Consider - from 1974 through 1984, a southpaw triumphed in every one of those 11 years at the US Open; Connors in 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982 and 1983; Manuel Orantes in 1975, Guillermo Vilas in 1977 and John McEnroe in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1984. Further, in 1979 four of the top-six ranked men were lefties - Connors, McEnroe, Vilas and Roscoe Tanner. And just prior to Connors and McEnroe's dominance, the left-handed Rod Laver had been - by far - the best men's player in the world when the open era began. Continue reading...

As relocation firms report a surge in inquiries, US citizens who have made the move talk about why they left - and what they think could happen back homeThe scramble began in November as news broke that Donald Trump had been re-elected. Benjamin and Chrys Gorman had long said they would leave the US before seeing Trump inaugurated again, giving them exactly 76 days to sell their home, cars and most of their belongings and move four people, three dogs and two cats to Barcelona.I was saying: we've got more time than that, it won't go that fast," said Gorman. My wife said no, we need to be out of here - not just on inauguration day, but a few days before. And she was so right." Continue reading...

House minority leader decries plan confirmed by Pentagon while Chicago mayor calls it most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century' - key US politics stories from Sunday 24 AugustHakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader and New York Democratic congressman, said Donald Trump had manufactured a crisis" to justify sending federalized national guard troops into Chicago next, over the heads of local leaders.Jeffries, appearing on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, accused the US president of playing games with the lives of Americans" with his unprecedented domestic deployment of the military, which has escalated to include the arming of troops currently patrolling Washington DC - after sending troops into Los Angeles in June. Continue reading...

Nobody's Girl, which Giuffre had been working on before her death, is set to be released this autumnThe posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, will be published in the autumn, a publisher has announced.Giuffre had been working on Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, with the award-winning author and journalist Amy Wallace before her death earlier this year.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

Pentagon official confirms plan as House minority leader Jeffries says president is playing' with Americans' livesPlanning is underway to send national guard troops to Chicago, an official at the Pentagon confirmed to ABC News on Sunday.We won't speculate on further operations. The Department is a planning organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to protect federal assets and personnel," a Department of Defense official said, according to ABC. Continue reading...

Former champion Emma Raducanu secured her first victory at Flushing Meadows since lifting the trophy in 2021Shibahara's double fault allows Raducanu to make it 15-all, and a forehand into the net gives Raducanu the next point. But Shibahara is finally on the board, a forehand down the line providing her some relief. Raducanu leads 5-1.Shibahara finds the net while trying to return a backhand slice and goes long moments later, allowing Raducanu to go 5-0 up. Continue reading...

The US president has an aptitude for elbowing himself into the spotlight, and next year he'll make sure he has the world's attentionWhen Donald Trump remained on stage, grinning in the sun as Chelsea lifted the Club World Cup trophy last month, it was all too easy to treat the incident as a one-off mistake. A moment that said plenty about Trump's ego, sure. But ultimately, only a moment.Nope. It's reality. Inescapable. Donald Trump will be everywhere Fifa is in the US, including at the 2026 World Cup - due to start in about 10 months, when Canada and Mexico will co-host. Continue reading...

Weaponized AI surveillance platforms threaten human rights around the world. Here's how they workIce is just around the corner," my friend said, looking up from his phone. We were writing at a coffee shop in one of the oldest neighborhoods of New York City, where schools and churches support thriving migrant communities as they have since long before the United States existed. Now the agents of this rogue federal agency - recognized for civil rights abuses like racial profiling, wrongful detention, medical neglect and inhumane detentions - were just footsteps away, shaking down our neighbors in their homes and at the park across the street.A day earlier, I had met with foreign correspondents at the United Nations to explain the AI surveillance architecture that Ice is using across the United States. The law enforcement agency uses targeting technologies which one of my past employers, Palantir Technologies, has both pioneered and proliferated - tools I was once charged with illustrating as a graphic designer and writer, yet the consequences of which I am just coming to understand. Although largely invisible, technology like Palantir's plays a major role in world events, from wars in Iran, Gaza and Ukraine to the detainment of immigrants and dissident students in the United States. But despite its ubiquity, lawmakers, technologists and the media are failing to protect people from the threat of this particular kind of weaponized AI and its consequences, partly because they haven't recognized it by name. Continue reading...

The R&B star's unlikely set during SeaWorld's viral' summer shows became a stylish lesson in how to age as a performer with dignityJust before sunset on a luminous August evening, a few boats pulled up outside a waterfront stage at SeaWorld San Diego, the controversial theme park known for its dolphin and orca shows. Two people on a jetski idled next to the boats. They were waiting for the music to begin.Everyone was here to see Ginuwine, the R&B singer famous for Pony (1996) and In Those Jeans (2003). But why was the 54-year-old master of the late-90s sex ballad headlining a show at an aquatic theme park for children? Continue reading...

Serena Williams made a a surprise appearance at the International Tennis Hall of Fame ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island, emerging from behind the stage to introduce 'former rival, former fan and forever friend' Maria Sharapova for her induction on Saturday night. 'My favourite moments were always the quiet victories,' Sharapova told the audience. 'In giving my life to tennis, tennis gave me a remarkable life.'

Graham Platner's viral X post and unusual campaign launch video are bringing attention to his effort to unseat Susan CollinsOne of Graham Platner's high school yearbooks shows him babyfaced with a buzzcut, holding a sign proclaiming, in part: Free Palestine." The image is accompanied by a superlative his classmates bestowed upon him: Most Likely To Start A Revolution."Well see!" Platner wrote on X Thursday, posting a photo of the yearbook page, in a post that's been viewed 4.5m times. Now bearded, burly and tattooed, with a sweep of dirty blond hair above a sunburnt face, Platner still believes in a free Palestine. He also thinks it'll take something revolutionary to save the US, so earlier this week, when the oysterman announced his candidacy to be the next US senator from Maine, he pulled no punches. Continue reading...

As Trump threatens funding and public trust plummets, US schools are in the fight of a lifetime. This is how they can survive - with their souls intactIt is no secret that American universities are in the fight of a lifetime. With billions of dollars in federal support on the line, their ability to fund their research activities is clearly at stake. But for the biggest targets, such as Harvard, their pockets are unfathomably deep. While cuts may be painful, no financial threat is likely to be existential. What is harder to know is whether universities can come out of their current predicament with their souls intact.The groundwork for this situation has been in the making for more than a decade. While the destruction is a bipartisan phenomenon, early warning signs appeared in cancel culture", the left's version of campus censoriousness. More recently, the right's version has been even more brazen, as seen in boorish attempts by the Trump administration and some state governors to control what is taught in university classrooms. Continue reading...

Gavin Newsom has trolled the president mercilessly online, but he's counting on his redistricting scheme to reclaim the House for Democrats - and boost his presidential ambitionsIn the opening weeks of Donald Trump's second term, Gavin Newsom wagered that peacemaking was best: a tarmac greeting for Air Force One, an Oval Office visit and a podcast slot for Maga's biggest names. But then Trump came for California, and its governor dropped the niceties.With a flood of all-caps social media posts, a counterpunching redistricting proposal and a string of lawsuits challenging the new administration, Newsom is not just taking on Trump, he's stealing his tactics: fight, fight, fight. Continue reading...

Romeo and Juliet among at least 20 coyotes in New York City as animals gradually expand eastward into citiesIn the spring this year in New York, Chris St Lawrence would finish work as a naturalist on a whale watching boat and then quickly make the 90-minute trek to Central Park to arrive in time for sunset, when a pair of coyotes often start to creep out.St Lawrence, who is also a photographer, said it's taxing to stand for four hours on a boat, keeping his eyes peeled for marine mammals, and then to remain just as alert at the park in the middle of Manhattan, looking for Romeo and Juliet, as the coyotes have become known. Continue reading...

First Letitia James, then Adam Schiff and now president has trained his ire on Lisa Cook, threatening to fire Fed governorDonald Trump and his allies have been accused of executing a pattern of lawfare" akin to those exerted by authoritarian regimes in Hungary and Russia after adopting a new strategy to target political opponents: allegations of mortgage fraud.First it was Letitia James, the New York attorney general, then it was Adam Schiff, a California senator. Now, the president is targeting Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, demanding she resign and threatening to fire her. Continue reading...

When Putin blamed the 2020 US election result on mail-in voting he bolstered a Trump obsession - just one example of the blurring of international goals and domestic grievancesIt was a language he could understand. Donald Trump had lost the 2020 US presidential election, Russia's Vladimir Putin told him last Friday, because it was rigged through mail-in voting.Three days later, the president announced that lawyers were drafting an executive order to eliminate mail-in balloting, a method used by nearly a third of Americans that has not been credibly linked to election fraud. Continue reading...

The seven-times major champion is making her 25th appearance, facing Karolina Muchova in the stadium she helped christen in 1997Venus Williams will take the court on Monday night for her record-extending 25th US Open singles appearance, the Here We Go Again meme brought to life, quite literally as enduring a part of the Flushing Meadows iconography as Arthur Ashe Stadium itself. At 45, two years removed from her last grand slam match and ranked No 610 in the world, she will face Karolina Muchova, the Czech 11th seed and 2023 French Open runner-up who has twice reached the semi-finals in New York.If the scale of the task before her is formidable, so too is the symbolism of her presence. Williams is the oldest singles competitor at America's national championships since Renee Richards 44 years ago. She made her debut here as a 17-year-old in 1997 - the same year Ashe was completed and replaced Armstrong as the tournament's main stadium - becoming the first unseeded player in the Open era to reach the final before losing to Martina Hingis. Twenty-eight years later, she returns with her place in history long since assured but her taste for the fight undiminished. Continue reading...

The Trump administration plans to deport Abrego to Uganda after a months-long saga that saw him wrongfully deported to El Salvador

Immigrant population falls by more than a million people since Donald Trump took office in January. Key US politics stories from Saturday 23 AugustThe immigrant population of the United States, which has been growing for more than 50 years, has declined by more than a million people since Donald Trump took office in January.According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, there were a record 53.3 million immigrants in the US in January, when Trump took office for the second time. By June, that number had dropped to 51.9 million. Continue reading...

Wall Street Journal says move is part of Trump administration's effort to get Putin into peace talksUS defense officials have blocked Ukraine from using US-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia since late spring as part of a Trump administration effort to get Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks , according to a report on Saturday.The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon has blocked Ukraine from using US-made Army Tactical Missile Systems, or Atacms. Continue reading...

Pew Research Center study shows 51.9 million immigrants in US in June, down from record 53.3 million in JanuaryThe immigrant population of the United States, which has been growing for more than 50 years, has declined by more than a million people since Donald Trump took office in January and defined immigration as a threat to the nation, not one of its strengths.According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, there were a record 53.3 million immigrants in the US in January, when Trump took office for the second time. By June, that number had dropped to 51.9 million. Continue reading...

The Democratic nominee far outpaces former governor Andrew Cuomo and embattled incumbent Eric AdamsZohran Mamdani pulled in almost double the funds of his nearest rivals for New York City mayor between early July and mid-August, as the candidates prepare for the crucial post Labor Day push to the November poll.New York's City's campaign finance board said on Saturday that the democratic socialist, who won the Democratic party nomination in June against former state governor Andrew Cuomo, raised $1,051,200, with an average donation of $121 recorded equally from donors in and outside the state. Continue reading...

Bus overturned about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh while carrying players from Aliquippa junior high schoolA bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed on Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people onboard to the hospital, officials said.Twenty-five Aliquippa junior high students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh. Continue reading...