Thirteen candidates appeared at the Republican party's 2023 Lincoln Dinner fundraiser to address donorsNearly every major Republican presidential candidate shared the stage in the early voting state of Iowa on Friday night, as Donald Trump continues to dominate in the polls despite his numerous legal liabilities.Thirteen candidates appeared at the Iowa Republican party's 2023 Lincoln Dinner fundraiser, taking the opportunity to address donors and local party leaders with less than six months left before the state's crucial caucuses. Continue reading...
Four-year-old Navy is the daughter of the US president's son Hunter and was revealed after her mother sued for child supportThe US president, Joe Biden, has for the first time publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a four-year-old girl, Navy, fathered by his son Hunter with Arkansas woman Lunden Roberts in 2018.Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," Biden said in a statement that was first reported by People magazine. Continue reading...
Tuna saga started in 2021 after lawsuit prompted chain to defend itself as news media investigated potential fishiness in sandwichesA lawsuit filed by a California woman who claimed that Subway's tuna products don't in fact contain any tuna has been dismissed.The plaintiff, Nilima Amin, and the sandwich chain have come to agreement regarding dismissing the case with prejudice", meaning it cannot be brought again, court records show. Subway, with nearly 37,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries, said it welcomed US district judge Jon Tigar's decision on Thursday to dismiss the case. Continue reading...
Police in California discovered dozens of people forced to work in illicit marijuana business after being brought across borderDozens of human trafficking victims were forced to work on an illegal marijuana operation while living in horrible conditions", California authorities said.The Merced county sheriff's office in the state's Central valley this week found 60 people, including men, women and at least one child, at an operation. The group arrived several days earlier and was promised good-paying jobs and a place to stay, law enforcement said in a statement. Continue reading...
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Alabama authorities file criminal charges after Russell says story that she was kidnapped after checking on toddler was hoaxAuthorities in Alabama said on Friday they had filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway.Carlee Russell was charged with misdemeanor false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident. Continue reading...
Alicia Navarro, who police said had not been harmed and does not face charges, disappeared days before her 15th birthdayWhen Alicia Navarro disappeared in 2019 from her home in a Phoenix suburb, days before her 15th birthday, she left a signed note promising she would return.I will be back, I swear," the note read. I'm sorry." Continue reading...
Bipartisan disapproval for Derrick Van Orden, who yelled and cursed at school-age Senate helpers during late-night Capitol tourA freshman Republican congressman from Wisconsin yelled and cursed at high school-aged Senate pages during a late-night tour of the Capitol this week, eliciting a bipartisan rebuke from Senate leaders.Derrick Van Orden, who represents western Wisconsin's third district, used a profanity to describe the young pages as lazy and another to order them off the floor of the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday night, according to PunchBowl News. The pages were lying down to take photos, according to the publication. Continue reading...
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Questions remain around mental fitness of Republican Senate leader, 81, after health scare in public earlier this weekMitch McConnell, the 81-year-old Republican leader in the US Senate who suffered a public health scare this week, should step down from the role he has filled since 2007, an unnamed GOP senator said.McConnell, from Kentucky, remains intellectually sharp" on a whole host of issues including baseball", the anonymous senator told NBC News.Reuters contributed to this report Continue reading...
School district member files challenge to Arthur's Birthday, 1989 book by Marc Brown, which is among 45 titles pending reviewA title in the Arthur children's book series is facing a potential ban after a conservative activist claimed that it damaged souls".On 12 July, Bruce Friedman, a member of the Clay county school district community in Florida, filed a challenge to Arthur's Birthday, a 1989 children's book by Marc Brown about a fictional brown aardvark whose birthday falls on the same day as another party of a different classmate. Continue reading...
Mass protests by ordinary people against the man who was Trumpian before Trump are part of a worldwide struggleBeware the strongman leader who fears jail. Donald Trump is running for president in part because he sees a return to the White House as a literal get-out-of-jail-free card: reinstalled in the Oval Office, he would be able to pardon himself for the mounting pile of serious federal crimes for which he is indicted. His legal strategy is his political strategy.But the exemplar of the phenomenon is the man who was Trumpian before Trump: the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. It is Netanyahu - and the war he is currently waging against his own country - whom all those who care about the wider future of democracy should be watching. For Israel has become the test case in the global fight against ultranationalist populism.Jonathan Freedland 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...
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition says governor has caused confusion and fear despite amendment that lifted lifetime banA voting rights group in Florida filed a lawsuit against rightwing governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, saying his administration created a maze of bureaucratic and sometimes violent obstacles to discourage formerly incarcerated citizens from exercising their right to vote.Florida voters in 2018 overwhelmingly passed a constitutional referendum, called amendment 4, that lifted the state's lifetime voting ban for people with felony convictions. Continue reading...
De Oliveira was a valet, maintenance worker and more recently a property manager at Trump's resort, Mar-a-LagoCarlos De Oliveira was added as a third defendant in Donald Trump's complicated classified documents indictment on Thursday. He faces charges such as trying to obstruct justice, concealing records and documents, and making false statements to the FBI.The case, which concerns the former president's handling of top secret documents, also includes Waltine Nauta, Trump's personal valet and bodyman". Continue reading...
Peaches Stergo, 36, handed four-year prison term after pleading guilty to charges she swindled 88-year-old man in New YorkA Florida woman who stole nearly $3m from a Holocaust survivor through what authorities described as a romance scam must serve more than four years in prison, a federal judge ruled.Peaches Stergo, 36, received her sentence on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, after pleading guilty to wire fraud in April. She was arrested in January on charges that she stole $2.8m from an 88-year-old man who, investigators said, fell for a prolonged ruse which ended in 2021. Continue reading...
Ty Cobb, who represented Trump in Mueller investigation, says classified documents case is tight' after new charges filedA former Trump White House lawyer said the evidence against the former president over his handling of classified documents was now overwhelming" and would last an antiquity", after new charges were filed in the case on Thursday.I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity," Ty Cobb told CNN. This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming." Continue reading...
Greg Abbott has been accused of pushing a US-Mexico border policy that is racist and inflammatoryRightwing Texas governor Greg Abbott is conducting a border policy that is criminal" and inhumane" by deploying razor wire and a huge floating buoy in the Rio Grande, a top Texas Democrat has told The Guardian.Abbott has earned widespread condemnation from civil rights groups and immigration activists for his actions on the border and been accused of pushing a policy that is racist and inflammatory. The US department of justice has sued over the issue - though Abbott is currently defying the federal government and not changing tack. Continue reading...
As Le Jeux de la Francophonie begin in Kinshasa, questions must be asked about the event's value and France's role in African affairsWith a joyous rumba-filled opening ceremony, the 10 days of Le Jeux de la Francophonie begin on Friday in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Staged every four years since 1989, and aimed at people aged 18 to 35 from French-speaking countries, the games include photography, dance and painting alongside weightlifting, running and cycling. It is presented as a utopian vision of a world where the French language is shared and not imposed - a fiction too many go along with. Continue reading...
Editors like me are accused of brainwashing' children. But I simply strive to bring books into the world that let trans children know they aren't aloneEvery day, there's a new, terrible development from those attempting to restrict trans life. From laws in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia that are denying trans-related healthcare to minors (and in some cases, adults), to federal laws restricting trans inclusion in sports, to a law in Tennessee that's expected to be replicated in other states, which would charge publishers with a class 3 felony for publishing books for children that they deem obscene" (which probably means having queer- and trans-related content, in their eyes), one doesn't have to look far to see the actions of those who would bar trans people from public life, or any kind of life.At the center of a lot of the LGBTQIA+ debates have been books that introduce young people to the ideas of queerness and transness. These books have been banned in some states, taken off library shelves in others, decried by rightwing pundits who think teaching children about natural variations in life such as transness is corrupting" them. Continue reading...
Election workers in rural Spalding county, Georgia required to hand-count each ballot after false claims about voter fraudA rural Georgia elections office run by Republicans who promote falsehoods about the 2020 election approved a motion on Monday to institute automatic hand recounts for all future elections.The decision will require elections staff in Spalding county to hand-count each ballot, then compare those vote totals with totals reached by voting tabulation machines provided by the secretary of state. Hand counts slow certification of election results and are less reliable than tabulations carried out by machines. Continue reading...
Canine officer fired after allegedly ignoring other police not to release dog on man stopped for a missing mudflap on his truckA shocking case of an Ohio police officer who released a police dog on an unarmed Black man who had his hands raised has thrown the use of canines by law enforcement back into the national spotlight in the US.On Wednesday, the Circleville police department announced that the officer, who has been identified as Ryan Speakman, had been terminated effective immediately", New 5 Cleveland reported. Continue reading...
You're more likely to die taking a selfie than in a shark attack: as oceans warm, we need to get used to close encountersSilly season is upon us and sharks are dominating the headlines again. As a marine conservationist, if I see another headline along the lines of Menacing man-eating shark lurking off the coast of Britain" accompanied by a photo of a basking shark - a species that exclusively consumes plankton - I think I might scream.It seems all a shark needs to do these days is push its dorsal fin above the ocean waves and panic immediately ensues. Just this week, that's exactly what happened off the French coast. A blue shark - a species typically found in the open ocean with an extremely low record of unprovoked attacks on humans - was spotted close to the shoreline. Instant drama ensued, with lifeguards closing the beach and swimmers watching on from the water's edge. What is it about sharks that makes us lose our minds?Hannah Rudd is the author of Britain's Living Seas: Our Coastal Wildlife and How We Save It, a marine scientist at Shark Hub UK, and policy and advocacy manager at the Angling Trust Continue reading...
Brittney Griner's ordeal in a Russian prison highlighted the risks of pursuing a basketball career overseas. A new league hopes to solve the problemCandace Parker spent the prime of her career as most WNBA players do, rushing back and forth across the United States during the league's season while representing her country in international competition and playing club basketball overseas during the offseason, supplementing her domestic income with significantly higher paydays in Russia, China and Turkey.Until she didn't. Parker signed a lucrative TV broadcasting deal with Turner Sports in 2018 as an analyst and commentator for NBA games, allowing her to stop playing overseas and to even take a pay cut to join the reigning champion Las Vegas Aces last offseason. Parker made a reported $7m in off-court earnings alone in 2022 by leveraging her charismatic personality and platform as one of the greatest hoopers of all time. Continue reading...
Prosecutors bring additional charges against former president as Mar-a-Lago worker Carlos De Oliveira named as third defendantFederal prosecutors on Thursday expanded the indictment against Donald Trump for retaining national security documents and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them, unveiling new charges against him and an employee over an attempt to destroy surveillance footage.The new charges - filed by the special counsel Jack Smith in Florida - were outlined in a superseding indictment that named Mar-a-Lago club maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira as the third co-defendant in the case. Trump's valet Walt Nauta was previously indicted for obstruction with the former president last month. Continue reading...
Tony Klein, 38, convicted of 21 of 23 federal charges and could face life imprisonmentA former nurse at women's prison in Oregon was found guilty of sexually abusing nine women while they were in custody.Tony Klein, 38, was convicted of 21 of the 23 federal charges, including 17 counts pertaining to sexual assault and four of making false statements under oath in a deposition. Continue reading...
But Jeddah's demands for brokering an Israeli-Palestinian respite are reportedly a non-starter' and a sucker's bet'The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has held talks with the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in Jeddah, in what was reported to be part of a bid for an ambitious and far-reaching diplomatic breakthrough in the region.The White House said Sullivan and the prince discussed on Thursday initiatives to advance a common vision for a more peaceful, secure, prosperous and stable Middle East region interconnected with the world". Continue reading...
Spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre says no possibility of president pardoning son, who pleaded not guilty to tax charges WednesdayJoe Biden will not pardon his son Hunter on tax- and gun-related charges, the White House said on Thursday.At a briefing, the press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, was asked: From a presidential perspective, is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son?" Continue reading...
CDC issues warning over alpha-gal syndrome, red-meat allergy primarily associated with lone-star tick salivaUp to 450,000 Americans may have been affected by a potentially life-threatening red meat allergy caused by ticks as many doctors remain unaware of what it is or how to treat it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In new reports released on Thursday, the CDC found that between 96,000 and 450,000 Americans since 2010 may have been affected by alpha-gal syndrome. The syndrome, also known as a red meat allergy or tick-bite meat allergy, stems from alpha-gal, a sugar molecule not naturally present in humans. Instead, it is found in meat including pork, beef, rabbit, lamb and venison, as well as products made from mammals including gelatin and milk products. Continue reading...
Kristi Maris, who worked at school for 19 years, lost job after going to show in her own time and posting it on social mediaA veteran teacher was fired by a private Christian school in Texas for attending a drag show in her own time and posting about in on social media.Drag performances have become a popular recent target for numerous Republican-controlled states that have proposed or enacted laws restricting or criminalizing such shows. Continue reading...
Civil pattern and practice inquiry comes after claims of brutality and discrimination, including death of Tyre Nichols in JanuaryThe US Department of Justice has announced an investigation into the city of Memphis and the Memphis police department (MPD) over its policing practices to examine if they are discriminatory.The civil pattern or practice investigation will determine if Memphis police violated federal laws or the US constitution. The announcement comes after the police department came under scrutiny for its use of force, stops, searches and arrests that often targeted people of color. Continue reading...
House panel was to consider resolution on Meta chief for allegedly failing to turn over internal documents to investigatorsMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, is no stranger to Capitol Hill, where he has sparred with Republicans and Democrats over how he runs his platforms. A Republican-led panel was set to vote on Thursday on a resolution to hold him in contempt of Congress, for allegedly failing to turn over internal documents on content moderation.However, House judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan, a Republican of Ohio, temporarily suspended the vote. Continue reading...
After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuitSince 1870, the Augusta judicial circuit has been home to the criminal justice system of a three-county area on Georgia's border with South Carolina. In that time, no African American has been elected district attorney of the circuit - until 2020, when a Black lawyer named Jared Williams upset a conservative, pro-police candidate with just more than 50% of the vote.But that historic win was short-lived. The day after his election, a lawyer and state lawmaker in the area proposed something unusual: that the circuit's whitest county separate itself from the Augusta circuit, creating a new judicial circuit in Georgia for the first time in nearly 40 years. Continue reading...
The Americans should still make it to the knockouts. But they will need to improve quickly if they are to make a serious challenge for the titleWhen the United States won the 2019 Women's World Cup, they did so with a team certain of their identity, one that pressured opponents into submission early in each match. The Americans scored in the 12th minute or earlier in each of their first six games of that campaign. A defining characteristic of the USA in that era was their high press and counter-press after losing possession. It was suffocating and relentless - and it forced some of the best teams in the world to panic.Since taking over after that World Cup, head coach Vlatko Andonovski has attempted to add nuance to the team's style. They still press high - just not as often. Now, the US drop off at times and let their opponents play. Thursday's 1-1 draw with the Netherlands brought to fore the realities of that double-edged sword. Continue reading...
Republican also fell and sustained concussion four months ago and reportedly uses wheelchair in crowded airportsMitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the US Senate, suffered an initially unreported fall earlier this month, before a very public health scare this week revived questions about his age and fitness.On Wednesday, while speaking to reporters at the US Capitol, the 81-year-old appeared to freeze for nearly 20 seconds. Another Republican senator, John Barrasso of Wyoming, a doctor, then escorted his leader away from the cameras. Continue reading...
Alpha Phi Alpha joins a number of companies and organizations boycotting state in protest of governor's extremist positionsA historic Black fraternity is pulling its 2025 conference from Florida to protest the rightwing governor Ron DeSantis's continued assault" on minority communities, which includes new state teaching standards that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved people.Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated said the decision to move its event from Orlando, joining a growing number of companies and organizations boycotting the state, was to highlight DeSantis's harmful, racist and insensitive policies against the Black community". Continue reading...
Dendy cinemas says they will screen movie promoted by American right wing due to overwhelming demand', despite questions as to actual popularityAn Australian cinema chain co-owned by actor Mel Gibson will screen the QAnon adjacent Sound of Freedom film in August, after the film became a hit among the far right and conservatives in the United States.Sound of Freedom is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former homeland security department agent who tried to rescue children from sex traffickers in Colombia. Ballard is played by Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus Christ in Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Continue reading...
Alicia Navarro, 18, showed up alone this week in a small town in Montana and identified herselfThe mother of an Arizona teenager who has reappeared safe and well after going missing four years ago has hailed her return as a miracle".Alicia Navarro, 18, vanished without a trace in 2019 but showed up alone this week in a small town in Montana about 40 miles from the Canadian border and identified herself, according to police in Glendale, a Phoenix suburb. Continue reading...
Duvan Tomas Perez killed at slaughterhouse while department found 4,474 children working illegally since start of fiscal yearThe US Department of Labor has decried a national surge in child labor as the agency has found thousands of violations and is currently investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala, Duvan Tomas Perez, who was killed on the job at a slaughterhouse this month in Mississippi, reported the New York Times.Two other 16-year-olds have died on the job in the US this year. Michael Schuls was killed on 29 June while working for a sawmill in Wisconsin. He was attempting to unjam a wood stacking machine when he was caught and pinned by the conveyor belt. Will Hampton was died in Missouri on 8 June while working at a landfill when he was pinned between a tractor trailer rig and its trailer. Continue reading...
The code sets out the principles, values and standards that drive Guardian and Observer journalismIt is a little over 21 years since the Guardian put its editorial code on public view for the first time, posting the document on its website in what was then a pioneering step for a British newspaper. This statement of professional and ethical standards has been revised twice since then, in 2007 and 2011, and today a fully updated fourth iteration is published.At more than 30 pages, the latest code is the most comprehensive to date, expanding on existing sections, such as right of reply, and elsewhere introducing new guidance, notably on artificial intelligence - a burgeoning subject on which almost 400 articles have been published by the Guardian and Observer this year alone.Elisabeth Ribbans is GNM's global readers' editor guardian.readers@theguardian.comDo 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...
Biden had the last opportunity of any president to keep the world under 1.5C of heating. Instead he is squandering time we do not haveWe've passed into a ferocious new phase of global heating with much worse to come. Biden must declare a climate emergency.I'm terrified by what's being done to our planet. I'm also fighting to stop it. You, too, should be afraid while also taking the strongest action you can take. There has never been a summer like this in recorded history: shocking ocean heat, deadly land heat, unprecedented fires and smoke, sea ice melting faster than we've ever seen or thought possible. I've dreaded this depth of Earth breakdown for almost two decades, and, like many of my colleagues, I've been trying to warn you. As hard as I could. Now it's here.Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist and author of Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution Continue reading...
Volume of water lost equal to Lake Mead, US's largest reservoir, or enough water to fill around 15bn Olympic-sized pools, study findsThe climate crisis has caused the ailing Colorado River basin, a system relied upon by 40 million people in the US west, to lose more than 10tn gallons of water in the last two decades, new research has found.The volume of water lost due to rising global temperatures has been so enormous that it is equal to the entire storage capacity of Lake Mead, the US's largest reservoir that was formed by the Hoover Dam, or enough water to fill around 15bn Olympic-sized swimming pools. Continue reading...
Irish singer known for Nothing Compares 2 U, one of the biggest-selling singles of 1990, has died. Plus, why we fear being scammedGood morning.Sinead O'Connor has died at the age of 56, prompting grief and tributes for a singer who enchanted and at times shocked the world.What tributes have been paid to her? Micheal Martin, the Irish deputy prime minister, said Ireland had lost one of its greatest music icons. Our hearts goes out to her children, her family, friends and all who knew and loved her." Colm O'Gorman, the executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, said few artists had made such a social and cultural impact. What a loss. Heartfelt condolences to her children, her family and all who loved her."What has Morrissey said? The former Smiths frontman has written a vociferous tribute to O'Connor, decrying the media and music industry for a lack of support for her. Praising her proud vulnerability", he wrote on his website: There is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don't fit in' (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death - when, finally, they can't answer back [...] You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you."Can USA still win the group? The 1-1 draw means the group winner will probably be decided by goal difference in the final matches, assuming the Netherlands and USA both win their final matches. The USA will face Portugal and the Netherlands will play Vietnam in simultaneous matches on Tuesday. The Americans currently sit atop Group E with a superior goal difference. Continue reading...
Former Fox News host, who has long been accused of pushing racist invective on his show, denies being racist in biographyFar-right former Fox News host Tucker Carlson denies being racist - but says if he was, he would just say so".Being racist is not a crime," Carlson says in a new biography, Tucker, by Chadwick Moore. Maybe [it is] a moral crime, but not a statutory crime - so if I was racist, I would just say so." Continue reading...
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