Advocates fear Senate's version of Trump's budget bill could leave millions without healthcare and boost corporationsAdvocates are urging Senate Republicans to reject a proposal to cut billions from American healthcare to extend tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthy and corporations.The proposal would make historic cuts to Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled people that covers 71 million Americans, and is the Senate version of the big beautiful bill" act, which contains most of Donald Trump's legislative agenda. Continue reading...
Like a sleep divorce, where couples sleep in separate beds, separating screens means that you both get to watch what you want on the TVRelationships are all about compromise, but there are some areas where it's simply impossible. Then it becomes about a mutually beneficial workaround instead. A poll has revealed that 55% of couples regularly argue over which TV show to watch: hot on the heels of the sleep divorce (different bedrooms) are we headed for the screen divorce (different tellies)?Don't mean to boast, but my husband and I are one step ahead of this trend - screen separated, if you will. In the Venn diagram of programmes we enjoy, the intersection is big enough to fit the words Taskmaster and The Traitors, and that's about it. He's tried to lure me into his televisual world, I've tried to tempt him into mine, but no dice. Eventually, we realised one of us was always watching through gritted teeth, while the other felt guilty. And so, just like the courageous pioneers of the sleep divorce, who made the decision to prioritise healthy rest above convention, we needed to take action. To divide and conquer. Continue reading...
Emerson Colindres reflects on traumatizing' ordeal after Ice sent him to Honduras despite having no criminal recordThe Ohio high school graduate and soccer standout who was recently deported from the US to Honduras despite having no arrest record has described being handcuffed like we're some big criminals" for the entirety of his deportation flight.To me, it was kind of more traumatizing because I haven't been to my birth country in years," Emerson Colindres, 19, who was brought from Honduras to the US by his family at age eight, said to the Cincinnati news station WCPO in an interview over the weekend. Continue reading...
The emergence of Hawk Trump dismayed some of his Maga base but students of US adventurism were unsurprisedSo the military parade that brought tanks to the streets of Washington on Donald Trump's birthday was more than just an authoritarian ego trip. It was a show of strength and statement of intent.Exactly a week later, sporting a Make America great again" (Maga) cap in the situation room, the American president ordered the biggest US military intervention in decades as more than 125 aircraft and 75 weapons - including 14 bunker-busting bombs - struck three Iranian nuclear sites. Trump called it a spectacular military success" - but it remains unclear how much damage had actually been inflicted. Continue reading...
From bustling Free Huey rallies to private moments smoking with Angela Davis, Stephen Shames's photographs tell the revolutionary organisation's incredible story Continue reading...
Freed from Ice detention days earlier, Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil stood just outside the gates of Columbia University to renew his commitment to the cause of Palestinian freedom and opposition to both the university and the Trump administration. During a speech to the crowd, Khalil took aim at the 'shameful board of trustees at Colombia University', adding that they were 'attempting to expel 15 more students and to suspend tens of others, basically stealing their future, their degrees, their labor, merely because these students are not afraid'
The political centre sees the US and Israel's war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached rhetoric and bloody reality widensSince the war on Gaza started, the defining dynamic has been of unprecedented anger, panic and alarm from the public, swirling around an eerily placid political centre. The feeble response from mainstream liberal parties is entirely dissonant with the gravity of the moment. As the US joins Israel in attacking Iran, and the Middle East heads toward a calamitous unravelling, their inertness is more disorienting than ever. They are passengers in Israel's war, either resigned to the consequences or fundamentally unwilling to even question its wisdom. As reality screams at politicians across the west, they shuffle papers and reheat old rhetoric, all while deferring to an Israel and a White House that have long taken leave of their senses.At a time of extreme geopolitical risk the centre presents itself as the wise party in the fracas, making appeals for cool heads and diplomacy, but is entirely incapable of addressing or challenging the root cause. Some are afraid to even name it. Israel has disappeared from the account, leaving only a regrettable crisis and a menacing Iran. The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, has called for de-escalation. But he referred to the very escalation he wishes to avoid - the US's involvement - as an alleviation of the grave threat" posed by Iran, all the while building up UK forces in the Middle East.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Trump campaigned on the promise of no more wars' but the US is now embroiled in another Middle Eastern conflict - key US politics stories from Sunday 22 JuneDuring his presidential campaign, Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of no more wars" but global events have radically changed his views.In what could be his most consequential day as president yet, Trump decided to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday in an operation he deemed a spectacular military success". Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities, he boasted, have been completely and totally obliterated." Continue reading...
Man wrongfully deported by Ice amid Trump crackdown has pleaded not guilty to human smuggling chargesA Tennessee judge on Sunday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But he is not expected to be allowed to go free.At his 13 June detention hearing, prosecutors said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) would take Abrego Garcia into custody if he were released on the criminal charges, and he could be deported before he has a chance to stand trial. Continue reading...
Activist condemns Columbia's shameful trustees' but praises students' courage after release from Ice detentionMahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian rights activist, freed from Ice detention on Friday, returned to Columbia University on Sunday to renew his commitment to the cause of Palestinian freedom and opposition to both the university and the Trump administration.Khalil arrived back in New York on Saturday after being released from more than 100 days in detention in Louisiana by a federal judge who ruled that punishing someone over a civil immigration matter was unconstitutional and ordered his immediate release on bail. Continue reading...
Kat Cammack blames left's fearmongering after medical staff hesitated to give her drugs needed to end pregnancyA Florida Republican congresswoman is blaming fearmongering on the left for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy that threatened her life.Kat Cammack went to the emergency room in May 2024 where it was estimated she was five weeks into an ectopic pregnancy, there was no heartbeat and her life was at risk. Doctors determined she needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her pregnancy but since Florida's six week abortion ban had just taken effect medical staff were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail if they did. Continue reading...
Vice-president declines to double down on Trump's stance that Iran's nuclear sites were totally destroyedJD Vance has said the US is not at war" with Iran - but is with its nuclear weapons program, holding out a position that the White House hopes to maintain over the coming days as the Iranian regime considers a retributive response to Saturday's US strike on three of its nuclear installations.In an interview Sunday with NBC News' Meet the Press, the US vice-president was asked if the US was now at war with Iran. Continue reading...
Gunman opened fire at CrossPointe Community church in Wayne, Michigan, but was shot by security guardA gunman opened fire during a service at a suburban Detroit church on Sunday, wounding one person before he was shot and killed by a security guard, police said.The person shot in the leg was the security guard, according to what the church's pastor told the Detroit News. No one else was hurt in part because a church member ran the attacker over with a truck, said the CrossPointe Community church pastor Bobby Kelly Jr. Continue reading...
Manager has to use Caicedo, Fernandez and Lavia wisely with Club World Cup useful exercise for next seasonEnzo Maresca sometimes gives the impression he would love nothing more than to name an entire team of midfielders. A conundrum facing Chelsea's head coach, though, is that he will struggle to find space in his starting XI for everyone next season.Chelsea are not short of options in the middle. They have the 100m buys, Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo, and the elegant, deep-lying Romeo Lavia. Yet starting them all in a midfield three is not easy if Cole Palmer plays as a No 10. Continue reading...
Blasts were heard in Isfahan after the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. Explosions from the direction of the Isfahan nuclear site could be heard in a video posted on social media, and at least one fiery ball illuminated the night sky
Boat overturned after apparently being hit by a large swell, in a region that's a popular spot with touristsSix people have died and two others were missing after a boat capsized on Saturday on California's Lake Tahoe, local authorities have said.A 27ft-long boat overturned in the afternoon after apparently being hit by a large swell near DL Bliss state park, according to the Coast Guard. Lake Tahoe and its surrounding wilderness region is a hugely popular spot with tourists. Continue reading...
GOP officials had previously manipulated districts as well to wrest voting power from Black electorateRepublicans in Florida racially gerrymandered two key state senate districts to disenfranchise Black voters and skew results in the Tampa Bay area, a panel of judges has heard.In one district, they took a small chunk of St Petersburg heavy with minority voters and added it to an area of Tampa in a different county, and across a 10-mile waterway, leaving the remainder of its electorate artificially white", the court was told. Continue reading...
The political temperature is dangerously high - and shows few signs of coolingIt has been a grim couple of weeks in the US, as multiple acts of politically motivated violence have dominated headlines and sparked fears that a worrying new normal has taken hold in America.Last Saturday, a man disguised as a police officer attacked two Democratic legislators at their homes in Minnesota, killing a state representative and her husband, and wounding another lawmaker and his wife. The alleged murderer was planning further attacks, police said, on local politicians and abortion rights advocates. Continue reading...
Small businesses are doing OK right now, even if there is a bit of concern about tariffs, inflation, labor shortages and higher costsSmall businesses in the US account for approximately half of the country's jobs, so when small businesses are doing well, it's likely that the economy is doing well. Media reports recently indicated that many small businesses are challenged by Trump's tariffs, ongoing inflation, labor shortages and higher financing costs. So how are small businesses doing so far in 2025? Not great. But not that bad either.In just the past two months, there have been no less than seven comprehensive surveys conducted by well-known companies and brands that altogether surveyed or drew from their internal data of tens - even hundreds - of thousands of small businesses. And they give a pretty good idea of how they're doing. Continue reading...
Pete Hegseth said overnight airstrikes targeting the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan facilities 'devastated' Iran's nuclear programme. At a press conference at the Pentagon, he said the strikes, which followed a 'focused, powerful and clear' order from the US president, Donald Trump, did not target Iranian troops or civilians
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, called the US airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday night 'an outrageous, grave and unprecedented violation of the principles of the UN charter and international law'. He added: 'Iran reserves all options to defend its security interests and people' Continue reading...
Social media popularizes the deadly activity, and a 1847 law stymies families who try to hold the city to accountJaida Rivera's 11-year son, Cayden, was supposed to be in school at Brooklyn's Fort Greene preparatory academy on the morning of 16 September last year. Staff saw him in the cafeteria after his grandmother dropped him off at 7.45am.But 30 minutes later he was marked as absent. Cayden had somehow slipped out, boarded a G subway train traveling south and was riding on top of one of its carriages when he fell on to the tracks at the Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street station just after 10.00am. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Continue reading...
Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likelyBombing will not make Iran go away. US bombs will not destroy the knowhow needed to build a nuclear weapon or the will do so, if that is what Tehran wants. The huge attack ordered by Donald Trump will not halt ongoing open warfare between Israel and Iran. It will not bring lasting peace to the Middle East, end the slaughter in Gaza, deliver justice to the Palestinians, or end more than half a century of bitter enmity between Tehran and Washington.More likely, Trump's rash, reckless gamble will inflame and exacerbate all these problems. Depending on how Iran and its allies and supporters react, the region could plunge into an uncontrolled conflagration. US bases in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere in the region, home to about 40,000 American troops, must now be considered potential targets for retaliation - and possibly British and allied forces, too. Continue reading...
The race has turned into an Israel-Palestine proxy war of sorts, even as voters on both sides wish the focus remained on local issuesSpeaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New York City voters: There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state has a right to exist," said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn. We don't want to be in a situation like this in America."Sutton called on New Yorkers to elect a great friend of the Jewish people": Andrew Cuomo, New York's former governor. Continue reading...
Trump calls attacks on Iranian nuclear sites a success, but some US lawmakers immediately called the attack unconstitutional. Key US politics stories from Saturday 21 JuneWashington was in a flurry late on Saturday as Donald Trump announced that the US had completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's effort to destroy the country's nuclear program.American politicians reacted to the news of the US bombing of nuclear targets in Iran with a mix of cheering support and instant condemnation, reflecting deep divisions in the country, as Washington grapples with yet another military intervention overseas. Continue reading...
The administration has torn up the rulebook as it seeks to implement a hardline agenda to expel people from the USDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage the largest deportation operation in American history". As previewed, the administration set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting people requesting asylum and refugees while conducting raids and deportations in undocumented communities, detaining and deporting immigrants and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multipronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president's ideological agenda. This extraordinary assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...
Governor Greg Abott signs bill into law but challenge expected from critics who consider it unconstitutionalTexas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation's largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.The bill, which was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott, is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. Continue reading...
Officials say two men and a woman killed around town of Enderlin as region experiences powerful winds and hailPowerful winds - including a tornado - that swept across parts of the upper midwest left three people dead and a regional airport heavily damaged, while nearly 150 million Americans were under a heat advisory or warning as the weekend warmed up in much of the US.A complex storm system wreaked havoc in parts of North Dakota, northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin, with reported tornadic activity, large hail and strong wind gusts, according to Brian Hurley, meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center. Continue reading...
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