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In 1990 incident, Sheila Keen Warren is alleged to have dressed as a clown before shooting her employer’s wife in the faceThe trial of a Florida woman accused of dressing up as clown in 1990 and fatally shooting the wife of a man she later married has been postponed, following the disclosure of a law enforcement file containing information about other clown-sighting leads at the time.Prosecutors informed defense attorneys for Sheila Keen Warren last Thursday that they had found a “clown sighting file” which defense attorneys had been demanding but prosecutors had been saying they didn’t have, according to a court filing by defense attorneys in the Palm Beach county case. Continue reading...

Judge acts after prosecutor says woman and Paul Bellar, 24, had ‘non-verbal communication’ in form of eye contact and smilingA judge dismissed a young woman from the jury hearing the trial of three men in connection with a 2020 plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, after attorneys accused her of flirting with a defendant.Judge Thomas Wilson announced on Friday that the woman had been removed from the jury, two days after attorneys raised concerns she was having too much non-verbal communication with the defendant Paul Bellar, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported. Continue reading...

Barnes, who would be the first Black senator from Wisconsin, is looking to unseat Republican Ron JohnsonBarack Obama, who twice won Wisconsin by large margins, will travel to the battleground state in the final weeks of the current midterm elections, seeking to boost Mandela Barnes, the young lieutenant governor looking to unseat the Republican Ron Johnson in a key US Senate contest.Barnes would be the first Black senator from Wisconsin. He held early leads over Johnson but the Republican, a prominent figure on the GOP hard right, has surged back. This week, a Marquette University Law School poll showed Johnson in the lead. Continue reading...

Authorities have not commented on what charges teen could face after five people killed and two injuredA 15-year-old boy alleged to have killed five people and injured two in a shooting rampage in Raleigh, North Carolina, will be charged as an adult, authorities said.Authorities did not immediately comment on what charges the teen could face. But the Wake county district attorney, Lorrin Freeman, said adult charges would be brought. Continue reading...

In a video shown to the January 6 committee, Roger Stone calls Donald Trump's daughter an 'abortionist bitch' amid his fury at not being pardoned for his activities around the Capitol attack. The Republican operative also says Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband and, like her, an adviser to the former president in the White House, 'has an IQ of 70'. The video was shot by Danish film-maker Christoffer Guldbrandsen and shown in Thursday’s dramatic hearing

Republican operative calls Trump an ‘abortionist bitch’ in video released by film-maker who provided footage to January 6 panelIn video released by a Danish film-maker who provided footage to the January 6 committee, Roger Stone, furious he will not be pardoned for his activities around the Capitol attack, is seen to call Ivanka Trump an “abortionist bitch”.The Republican operative also says Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband and like her an adviser to Donald Trump in the White House, “has an IQ of 70”. Continue reading...

The Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker addressed his past claims about being a law enforcement officer by producing what he said was a police badge. The former college football and NFL star, who is endorsed by Donald Trump, was accused of ‘pretending to be a police officer’ by his rival, Democratic senator Raphael Warnock, during a debate on Friday. Saying ‘I have to respond to that,’ Walker produced his badge. Walker has never been a trained law enforcement officer, though he has law enforcement endorsements

As Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Paul Haggis are all in court, it is clear that there has, in fact, been forward motion – in the courts, in our workplaces, in societyFive years nearly to the day since the New York Times and the New Yorker published their explosive exposés on Harvey Weinstein and his myriad misdeeds – all of them leveraging his vaunted position in Hollywood to extract sex and force humiliation on hopeful actresses – Weinstein and several other men accused as part of the broader #MeToo movement are seeing the inside of a courtroom.

Two decades before Colin Kaepernick’s protest of oppression and tyranny during the national anthem, the former NBA star followed a similar path guided by principle – and met a similar fateThe United States of America was born from protest: the country’s roots grew from dissent. Yet, today, social protest is often looked upon with disdain, even as selfish. If any evidence is needed, just look at how Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel for the national anthem effectively cost him his NFL career. While the fallout from Kaepernick’s actions became an international talking point, it wasn’t at all unsurprising. Especially if you were to ask former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who, 20 years before Kaepernick, himself began to protest oppression and tyranny during the national anthem – and also suffered the consequences.“When I first heard [of Kaepernick kneeling], immediately I ended up sending – I didn’t have access to him, so I sent something on social media saying, ‘I’m with you 1,000%’” Abdul-Rauf tells the Guardian. “But my mind was – he’s getting ready to get it, right? Because history shows that any time an athlete, particularly a Black athlete, says something like that, whether it’s Muhammad Ali or Tommie Smith and John Carlos, you’re going to be ridiculed and condemned for it.” Continue reading...

One relationship ended publicly, then I fell for another broken-bird boy. I had to acknowledge what these situations had in commonFor some people, heartbreak looks like inhaling a chest freezer’s worth of Ben & Jerry’s, sitting saucer-eyed in the bath like a sad frog, or screaming your way through Alanis Morissette’s entire back catalogue.For me, heartbreak looked like a flight from Los Angeles to New York in March after yet another “romantic estrangement”. We started experiencing turbulence somewhere over Nebraska. The plane lurched, lights flickered, and a bowel-emptying plunge took those who had not belted up out of their seats. Masks dropped, adults prayed and children screamed bloody murder. Me? I just sat staring straight ahead, uncaring. My heart had been ripped out a couple of days earlier. I was already dead.Rebecca Humphries is an actor and author of Why Did You Stay?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...

Not only did it create a booming avenue of tourism for Denver, but it caused a domino effect, leading to 19 states and DC legalizing recreational marijuanaTen years ago voters in Colorado approved a ballot measure called Amendment 64 that legalized cannabis for adult, recreational use. This not only created a booming avenue of tourism for Denver – which became the Las Vegas of legal weed – but sparked a domino effect of similar reforms across the US, eventually leading 19 states (and DC) to legalize recreational marijuana, and increase the number of medically legal states to 37.Since then, Colorado has racked up $13.2bn in cannabis sales, which has gleaned $2.2bn in taxes and fees for the state. Continue reading...

The former president is considering granting the Capitol attack committee’s demand to appear – but would such a move be wise?The House January 6 select committee’s unanimous move to subpoena Donald Trump, demanding that he testify about his knowledge of the Capitol attack, sets up the prospect of a political spectacle as the congressional investigation races towards what could be an explosive conclusion.The former US president may decide to ignore the subpoena and decide not to cooperate with the inquiry, or alternatively, believing that he is his own best spokesman and can answer for his actions to anyone, may agree to a dramatic deposition. Continue reading...

Republican spars with Democratic senator Raphael Warnock in one-off contest in vital midterms raceThe Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, a staunch anti-abortion politician accused by a former girlfriend of encouraging and paying for her abortion in 2009, used his only debate against the Democratic senator Raphael Warnock on Friday to deny his previous support for an outright national abortion ban.The former college football and NFL star, who is endorsed by Donald Trump, was asked about his support for “a complete ban on a national level”. He said the moderator misstated his position. That contradicted statements made repeatedly on the campaign trail, including in July when Walker said it was “a problem” that no national ban existed. Continue reading...

President tells demonstrators that Iran’s protests ‘awakened something that I don’t think will be quieted for a long, long time’Joe Biden has said he is “stunned” by the mass protests in Iran and that the US stands with that country’s “brave women”.The US president said at a college in Irvine, California, during an address to a group of protesters holding “Free Iran” signs: “I want you to know that we stand with the citizens, the brave women of Iran.” Continue reading...

Independent arbiter was tasked to inspect thousands of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago in August search by FBIThe US justice department has asked the 11th circuit court of appeals to void the appointment of the special master examining materials seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for privilege protections, arguing it impedes the criminal investigation into mishandling of sensitive documents.In a 53-page brief filed on Friday, the justice department argues that the Trump-appointed US district court judge who oversees the case, Aileen Cannon, should never have granted the former president’s request to have a special master because he failed to demonstrate the need for such a process. Continue reading...

Democrats call for suspension of transfer of Patriot missiles in wake of ‘turning point’ in relationship with SaudisDemocrats on Capitol Hill have suggested transferring US weapons systems in Saudi Arabia to Ukraine and suspending a planned transfer of Patriot missiles to Riyadh in the wake of what they call a “turning point” in Washington’s relationship with the kingdom.Ro Khanna, a Democratic congressman from California who is a leading supporter of a weapons freeze, said he believed that “at the very least” Congress would move to halt the transfer of Patriot missiles to the kingdom, and probably pause other defense initiatives. Continue reading...

FDA says supply does not meet demand and drug-maker says backorders are due to ‘significant rise’ in prescription ratesAn increase in prescriptions and an ongoing labor crunch have helped contribute to a nationwide shortage of Adderall across the US.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday confirmed the shortage of the drug, used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. The FDA said Teva, the largest manufacturer, is facing “ongoing intermittent manufacturing delays”. Continue reading...

Executive order makes voting easier in Florida’s Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties but not in Democratic Orange countyGovernor Ron DeSantis has made voting easier in certain Florida counties battered by Hurricane Ian – but only Republican-leaning ones.DeSantis signed an executive order on Thursday that eases voting rules for about 1 million voters in Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties, all areas that Hurricane Ian hit hard and that all reliably vote Republican. Continue reading...

This is the biggest humiliation of Britain since Suez, a reminder that no government can ignore realityHard to believe now, when we’re in the middle of the maelstrom, but one day this too will be the past. And when it is, when we’re out of the hourly psychodrama – no longer staring at the screen, watching Kwasi Kwarteng’s plane do an actual U-turn in the sky en route to his being fired on touchdown, for the crime of doing what his boss wanted him to do – it may not look all that complicated.Historians will look back and see a point of origin to the current madness, one that explains how a new prime minister could see her administration fall apart in a matter of weeks, even if we struggle to name that cause out loud right now. When the textbooks of the future come to the chapter we are living through, in the autumn of 2022, they will start with the summer of 2016: Brexit and the specific delusion that drove it.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Sources tell Guardian ex-president may choose to appear before Capitol attack committee after Thursday vote to subpoena himDonald Trump is considering testifying in front of the House January 6 committee, which this week concluded a dramatic hearing establishing what it says is his culpability for the deadly Capitol attack by voting to subpoena the former president.On Friday, sources close to Trump confirmed to the Guardian that he may choose to appear before the congressional panel. Such an appearance would set up an unprecedented, high-stakes political event. Continue reading...

Seven slayings in Stockton and Oakland, with the killer still at large, has shocked the majority Latin residents of the two citiesKimberly Warmsley does not remember the last time a string of homicides have so deeply affected her community, as the seven slayings that have rocked the cities of Stockton and Oakland.“All of this keeps me up at night,” said Warmsley, who serves as a city council member in this Northern California city. “It’s caused some of our residents, especially in our Hispanic community, to be a little disturbed and uneasy.” Continue reading...

Sheriff’s certification of ‘unlawful criminal restraint’ would open the path for U-visa, which usually leads to a green cardA Texas sheriff has certified that 48 migrants who were involuntarily flown to Martha’s Vineyard were victims of a crime, a procedure that would immediately qualify them for a US visa or green card.The certification by the Bexar county sheriff, Javier Salazar, would open the path for a U-visa, which usually leads to a green card, for the victims. Continue reading...

We would like to hear from people in the US about the House committee’s investigationThe House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol ended its likely final public hearing by subpoenaing former US president Donald Trump to give evidence.We would like to hear what readers in the US think about the committee’s investigation so far. How many of the televised hearings did you watch? What did you make of the evidence presented? Did it change your mind on anything? Continue reading...

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol wrapped up what may be its last public hearing when it voted to subpoena Donald Trump to give evidence. Here are the key takeaways from the two-and-a-half-hour hearing

Kwarteng is out, Hunt is in, and the farcical merry-go-round keeps spinningTo Westminster, district of the damned, where the Conservatives are plotting to commit leadercide yet again. They’ve dispatched so many over the past few years that it’s possible they regard Harold Shipman as the real opposition. You certainly get the feeling he could poll higher than them.This morning, hot-mess chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng landed back in the UK, ready to drop the corporation tax cut in a joint announcement with Liz Truss, the new prime minister, whose central leadership pitch it was. Long story short: former Rishi Sunak-backer Jeremy Hunt is now chancellor and Truss has given one of the worst press conferences in the entire history of the genre, shortly after sending Kwarteng a letter “deeply respect[ing]” his decision to get knifed by her. Even Kwarteng’s predecessor, Nadhim Zahawi, held the office longer. Continue reading...

White juvenile male arrested with one survivor in critical condition after shooter opens fire on walking trail in RaleighFive people were killed by a shooter who opened fire along a walking trail in North Carolina’s capital city and eluded officers for hours before he was cornered in a home and arrested, police said.A 15-year-old white male suspect is in custody and in critical condition, the Raleigh police commissioner, Estella Patterson, told a press conference on Friday. Continue reading...

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year. Where is the accountability?It was early April 1988, at the height of the first intifada, and the hills were awash with spring flowers. I took the professor and activist Noam Chomsky to visit the Palestinian village of Beita near Nablus. He wanted to speak to the villagers about a recent incident in which a group of Israeli settlers from Elon Moreh, 10km (6 miles) from Beita, had got into a confrontation with some villagers while out hiking. Two of the Palestinian villagers and one of the Israeli settlers were shot and killed. The army initially blamed the Palestinians for the settler’s death. It emerged later that she – like the two dead villagers – had been killed by a bullet fired by one of the men guarding the settlers. But, by then, the army had invaded the village, destroyed at least 14 houses, killed a third villager, arrested dozens of men in the village and deported several of them. Chomsky listened attentively and was saddened but not surprised. He had anticipated that an increased rate of settlement-building would place the occupier and the occupied, the land confiscators and those who lost their land, close together physically – with predictable results.

The more wealth Ye acquired, the more he moved right. Is his billionaire status to blame?I remember when it started. Kanye West appeared on TMZ live years ago with a Black rightwing political commentator. He said that he liked that she was a “free thinker”. This commentator in particular had boisterous critiques of the Democratic party. She argued that the party uses Black people for political gain. Kanye seemed moved by the boring and accurate claim. But the tragedy is that he accepted her conclusion: that Black people should embrace openly racist Republicans instead.I had not thought of their budding friendship until last week. The pair reappeared at Paris Fashion Week wearing contrasting long-sleeve “White Lives Matter” shirts. Backlash ensued, to which Kanye responded with defense, jest, appreciation, online bullying against fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, and now, antisemitism. Continue reading...

Slavery and civil war tested us 160 years ago. Again, we are being tested. Midterms are less than a month awayThursday’s House select committee was one like no other. Shortly after 1pm, Liz Cheney, the daughter of a vice-president and Republican grandees, warned that the US, as a constitutional republic, was in danger. Two-and-a-half hours later, seven Democrats and two Republicans unanimously voted to subpoena Donald Trump. In all likelihood, he will never appear. Regardless, history had again been made.“Why would Americans assume that our constitution and institutions of our Republic are invulnerable to another attack?” Cheney pondered.Lloyd Green is a regular freelance contributor and served in the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992 Continue reading...

Democrats finally seem to realize that accountability is more important than risk aversionOne of the first things that most pundits will tell you about Thursday’s January 6 committee broadcast – the first since August, and probably the last before the November midterms – is that the committee’s subpoena of Donald Trump won’t go anywhere.Sure, there were other notable moments in Thursday’s hearing. The committee presented a thorough summary of their findings, seemingly aiming to remind voters ahead of the midterms of the depth of Donald Trump’s commitment to his plan to overthrow our democracy in the service of his own ego.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Committee says ex-president – ‘the central cause of January 6’ – led effort to overturn the election. Plus, $1bn Kushner deal investigated

The option to bypass the legislature, which allowed for marijuana legalization and minimum wage increases, is under threatIn November, voters in Arizona will decide whether to limit citizens’ ability to get measures on the ballot, a change that could severely curtail direct democracy.Three upcoming measures, referred to the ballot by Republican state lawmakers, would require a supermajority to approve any taxes on the ballot, limit initiatives to one topic and allow lawmakers to alter ballot measures if any language is illegal or unconstitutional. Continue reading...

American Shields and Britain’s Marshall headline the first all-female UK boxing card with 11 bouts and 22 womenTwenty-four years ago, in August 1998, women’s boxing was still banned in Britain. It was only in the middle of that month that, finally, Jane Couch became the first woman to be granted a licence to fight professionally by the British Boxing Board of Control. Couch had been forced to take the board to the high court where she won her case after male administrators tried to argue that women were too “emotionally unstable” and “frail” to become boxers.On Saturday night, at the O in London, a different kind of history will be made as the first-ever all-female UK boxing card features 11 bouts and 22 women fighters. Claressa Shields, from America, and Britain’s Savannah Marshall will become the first women to headline a boxing promotion at the O. Even more powerfully, their fight has the ingredients of a compelling contest which could echo some of the most intense and fierce rivalries between great male boxers. Continue reading...

With so many pubs facing closure this winter, some are trying to create the new WFH – let’s call it WFP“I guess you can just sit wherever, really,” the woman says, seeming a little nonplussed as she gestures at the dozens of empty tables. I booked a slot at this London pub on its “work from the pub” scheme, but it seems I needn’t have bothered with the planning. I am the only customer in here. Which makes sense – because this is a pub, and it’s 11am on a Tuesday.Trouble is brewing for pubs. Earlier this year there were 7,000 fewer of them in England and Wales than a decade ago. Pubs were bruised by the pandemic, and now, like all hospitality venues, they are staring down the barrel of the cost of living crisis, which will mean vastly increased energy bills and customers with less beer money in their pockets. More than 70% of pubs do not expect to survive the winter, according to one survey.Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist based in London Continue reading...

In an extract from his new book, Jonathan Gelber explores the events leading up to the death of a Black football pioneerUpstairs in his room, Jack sat at a small desk. Unable to eat with his teammates because of the color of his skin, his mind turned to greater things. His was no stranger to prejudice; after all, no Black man was. But the divide between him and those around him seemed to be widening. Maybe not physically but certainly culturally.Students would later recall Jack strolling through the south side of campus. He worked out in the gym. He attended convocation. He rubbed elbows with them. But he never stepped over “the invisible barrier.” He “lived alone and apart.” Like his high school yearbook, the college newspaper commented on his smile. Even the students on campus who didn’t know him personally still experienced his smile. But to many, that was as close as they could get to Jack. It was true: There was a barrier. But it wasn’t invisible. It was black. Jack worked for the greater good, to lift up those around him. He was an idealist.This is an extract from The Idealist: Jack Trice and the Battle for A Forgotten Football Legacy by Jonathan Gelber. Available to buy now. Continue reading...

New York City FC are looking to defend their title but they will face tough competition from opponents on both coastsRegular season finish: 1st in Western Conference (Supporters’ Shield winners) Continue reading...

Devastating testimony, nearly all from Republicans, will have given attorney general Merrick Garland plenty of food for thoughtAfter more than a year of work that consisted of interviewing 1,000-plus witnesses and reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents, the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol chose a simple message for its final public hearing: Donald Trump was singularly responsible for the attack.Since its first hearing in June, the committee’s work has been aimed at two audiences. One of those has been the broad American public. Tactfully using video, the committee has told a disciplined, clear story of what happened on January 6, and the days leading up to it, filled with jaw-dropping soundbites from Trump’s closest aides. Continue reading...

In plenty of Tory marginal seats, soaring rents are already leading frustrated voters to look elsewhere for answersWhen Liz Truss met her MPs on Wednesday, the mood, by all accounts, was as if there had been a death in the family.One MP reportedly described “a terrible feeling of sorrow in the room” as backbenchers listened despondently to a leader who has barely been in office a month yet already seems broken beyond repair.Gaby Hinsliff 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...

In previously unseen footage shared by the January 6 House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, top lawmakers are seen scrambling to respond. The footage shows House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and others trying to maintain order

Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said multiple people were shot on the Neuse River greenway trail and the suspect had been containedA North Carolina mayor announced that five people, including a police officer, were killed in a shooting in a residential area on Thursday.Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin told reporters that multiple people were shot on the Neuse River greenway trail around 5pm, and that the police department told her around 8pm that the suspect had been “contained” at a residence in the area. Continue reading...

House speaker continued to try to find a way for House and Senate to reconvene despite turmoilNew footage of the January 6 riots at the US Capitol shows House speaker Nancy Pelosi calmly trying to take charge of the situation as she sheltered at Fort McNair, two miles south of the Capitol.

Committee wraps up its likely last hearing with a bang when it voted to subpoena Trump to give evidenceThe House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol wrapped up its likely last public hearing with a bang – not a whimper – when it voted to subpoena former US president Donald Trump to give evidence.The move was the culmination, not just of the last hearing, but of the panel’s work so far in placing Trump dead at the center of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election and then to foment a violent riot in Washington DC aimed at preventing Democrat Joe Biden being certified as the winner. Continue reading...

In the final minutes of its two-and-a-half hour hearing, the Jan 6th hearing panel subpoenaed Donald J Trump.

The committee expressed it had ‘no doubt’ the ex-president led the effort to overturn the electionA congressional panel has voted to compel Donald Trump to testify under oath after naming the former president as the “central cause” of the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6.The House of Representatives select committee investigating last year’s riot voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena Trump for testimony and documents in what may prove a mostly symbolic gesture, given time constraints and his likely legal resistance. Continue reading...

Senate finance panel chair sends detailed questions to financial firm on deal for property owned by then White House aide’s familyA financial firm that operates billions of dollars in real estate properties around the world is facing new questions from the powerful chairman of the Senate finance committee about whether Qatar was secretly involved in the $1.2bn (£1bn) rescue of a Fifth Avenue property owned by Jared Kushner’s family while Kushner was serving in the White House.Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat who leads the finance committee, has given the chief executive of Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management until 24 October to answer a series of detailed questions about a 2018 deal in which Brookfield paid Kushner Companies for a 99-year lease on the family’s marquee 666 Fifth Avenue property. Continue reading...