Staff reportedly baffled after remark from David Richardson - but spokesperson says comment was a jokeStaff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the US disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.The US hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year's season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes. Continue reading...
Democratic senator hits back at smear' after being accused of missing votes and skipping committee hearingsThe Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board has issued a sharp rebuke of Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman in a new opinion piece, urging him to take his job seriously" and writing that it's time for Fetterman to serve Pennsylvanians, or step away."In a strongly worded piece published on Sunday, the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer, which endorsed Fetterman during his 2022 Senate campaign, said the first-term Democrat has missed more votes than nearly every other senator in the past two years" and regularly skips committee hearings, cancels meetings, avoids the daily caucus lunches with colleagues, and rarely goes on the Senate floor". Continue reading...
Resident of homeless center arrested after incident at Union Gospel Mission-run facility in SalemA dozen people were stabbed at a shelter for the unhoused in Salem, Oregon, on Sunday evening, according to authorities.Salem police said they arrested a man in connection with the mass stabbing carried out at about 7.15pm local time at a facility run by an organization called the Union Gospel Mission. Continue reading...
Joni Ernst makes light of fears that Medicaid cuts could be fatal, later filming a reply in what appeared to be a graveyardSenator Joni Ernst triggered fierce criticism after making light of voters' fears that Republican Medicaid cuts could prove fatal, telling a town hall audience we all are going to die" and then filming a mocking response video over the weekend.The Iowa Republican, who is facing a possibly challenging re-election battle in 2026, was explaining at a Friday town hall how the Republican immigration and tax package would affect Medicaid eligibility when an audience member shouted that people could die if they lost coverage through the proposed cuts. Continue reading...
Politicians described the violent incident at a Boulder mall as targeting the Jewish community in America'Political leaders across the US have condemned what they describe as a horrific, antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado, after a man allegedly used a makeshift flamethrower and incendiary devices to target people at a rally calling for the release of the hostages held by Hamas.Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, has been charged with multiple felonies after allegedly shouting Free Palestine" as he attacked the crowd on Sunday. The incident occurred during an event organized by Run for Their Lives, a group that aims to draw attention to people taken hostage following Hamas's attack on Israel in October 2023. Continue reading...
Alisa Petrov, 15, last seen on 21 April, walked into Colorado Springs police department and identified herselfA 15-year-old Utah girl, who vanished in April, has been located safe and in good health in Colorado Springs, authorities confirmed late on Sunday night.According to Sgt Shaun Becker, Alisa Petrov walked into the Colorado Springs police department earlier that evening and identified herself. Officials stated she appeared to be unharmed and physically well. Continue reading...
The attack by a man hurling molotov cocktails struck at the heart of one of Colorado's largest Jewish communitiesThe first 911 calls reporting the Colorado flamethrower attack were as horrific as they were unbelievable.There is a male with a blow torch setting people on fire," a dispatcher advised the city's police department, passing on the account of an eyewitness. Another official reported: Multiple burns, potential terror attack." Continue reading...
Manufacturing survey signals third monthly decline in output in a row amid uncertainty over tariffsUS manufacturers have warned that Donald Trump's trade war is hitting production, pushing the dollar close to a three-year low against sterling on Monday.The greenback suffered a fresh sell-off, after the closely watched ISM survey of the manufacturing sector signalled a third monthly decline in output in a row. Continue reading...
Correspondent for far-right outlet was fired after accusing defense secretary of clamping down on press accessA pro-Donald Trump journalist says she was fired from her job after criticizing the president's secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, over his attempts to restrict media access at the Pentagon.Gabrielle Cuccia, the former chief Pentagon correspondent for the far-right, Trump-friendly media outlet One America News (OAN), says she was terminated shortly after she published a Substack post accusing Hegseth's defense department of clamping down on press access. She had said the restrictions were disturbing, questioned the defense department's motives in tightening media restrictions, and noted that Hegseth has yet to hold a formal press conference since taking office. Continue reading...
Megha Vemuri gave speech the day before commencement, condemning the university's ties to IsraelMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) barred its 2025 class president from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after she delivered a speech during a commencement event the day before condemning the war in Gaza and criticizing the university's ties to Israel.The student, Megha Vemuri, spoke at MIT's OneMIT commencement on Thursday in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wearing a keffiyeh over her graduation gown, she praised student protests against the war in Gaza and condemned MIT's ties to Israel. Continue reading...
Karol Nawrocki's win is a blow for prime minister Donald Tusk - and it symbolises a larger battle over the political narrativePolish voters returned to the polls on Sunday for the decisive round of a presidential election whose outcome reverberates far beyond Poland's borders. The race was a showdown between two candidates who represent the country's stark political and ideological divide: Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian backed by the far-right opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), and Rafa Trzaskowski, the liberal and strongly pro-European mayor of Warsaw representing the Civic Platform (PO) party of the prime minister, Donald Tusk. The razor-thin victory for Nawrocki, who secured just over 50% of the vote, is a domestic setback for Tusk, but it also threatens wide and gloomy repercussions within the EU and beyond.Tusk's return to power as prime minister in 2023, after previously serving from 2007 to 2014, was widely seen as a bid to re-anchor Poland within the European project. His government promised reforms, especially in restoring the rule of law, after years of confrontational policies under PiS aimed at undermining the independence of the judiciary and the constitutional court. Those ambitions now face a significant institutional roadblock. While the Polish presidency is largely ceremonial, the president has significant powers: they can veto legislation and influence domestic, foreign and defence policy. The outgoing president, Andrzej Duda, who is also aligned with PiS, used his veto to block Tusk's reform efforts. With Nawrocki now set to occupy the presidential palace, such obstruction is expected to intensify rather than ease.Catherine De Vries is Generali chair in European policies and a professor at Bocconi University in Milan Continue reading...
After years as a directionless collection of celebrity footballers, PSG are a true team now. But they still represent one of the sport's darkest trends
Saquon Barkley and other Philadelphia stars lent their names to Life Surge, a controversial faith-based financial seminar. What were they doing there?The thousands who gathered on Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia weren't there for a basketball or hockey game. Instead, the 21,000-seat arena played host to a very different spectacle. The stage was bathed in lights, Christian pop thundered from the speakers and the congregation filed in to hear not just sermons, but also strategies: how to get right with God and get rich doing so.The headliners were five current and former members of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Head coach Nick Sirianni, star running back Saquon Barkley, second-year cornerback Cooper DeJean, and longtime fan favorites Brandon Graham and Brian Dawkins all appeared on promotional materials for Life Surge, a touring Christian financial seminar that promises attendees a blueprint to grow and use wealth for Kingdom impact". Ticket packages offering photo ops with the players sold out in advance. Continue reading...
The reproductive health giant is navigating a loss of federal funding and fresh threats from multiple directionsAt least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics across seven states have shuttered since the start of 2025 or have announced plans to close soon - closures that come amid immense financial and political turbulence for the reproductive health giant as the United States continues to grapple with the fallout from the end of Roe v Wade.The Planned Parenthood network, which operates nearly 600 clinics through a web of independent regional affiliates and is overseen by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is facing a number of threats from the Trump administration. A Guardian analysis has found that Planned Parenthood closures have occurred or are in the works across six affiliates that maintain clinics in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Utah and Vermont. Continue reading...
Trial will move on to closing arguments without testimony from the former movie studio bossHarvey Weinstein doesn't plan to testify at his New York sex crimes retrial in a move that means jurors soon will get the case against the former movie studio boss who propelled the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct.The trial will move on to closing arguments on Tuesday without testimony from Weinstein, his lawyer Arthur Aidala said on Sunday night. Continue reading...
Morgan Akin, 84, has taken down his American flag - and taken to the streets in his conservative California communityEarlier this year, Morgan Akin took down the American flag that had flown for decades outside his home in deep-red far northern California. It was a small gesture, one that did not echo through the halls of the US Capitol or make headlines.But for the 84-year-old Vietnam-era veteran and retired game warden, it represented a monument shift, one his family immediately took note of. It was Akin's way of taking a stand in response to a country that had become increasingly unrecognizable to him. In the weeks before, masked officers arrested an international student who had co-authored a campus newspaper op-ed about Gaza in the street, the defense department temporarily removed Jackie Robinson's biography from its website, and the president planned to host a massive military parade to celebrate his birthday. Continue reading...
Plan would give descendants of one of the worst racial attacks in US history scholarships and housing helpThe new mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday proposed a $100m private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in US history.The plan by Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma's second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob. Continue reading...
Exclusive: rampant anti-Asian hate in 2024 reflected divisive election season, survey findsAsian Americans and Pacific Islanders faced chilling levels of hate in 2024, a new survey has found, reflecting the impact of a divisive presidential election year that included historic representation and rampant anti-immigrant rhetoric.The report by Stop AAPI Hate, shared exclusively with the Guardian ahead of its release, shines a light on underreported incidents largely overlooked in government data and national news media. The coalition conducted its second annual survey with Norc at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan research organization. Fifty-three percent of respondents said they experienced a race-based hate act in 2024, a small rise from 49% in 2023. Incidents ranged from bullying at school and workplace discrimination to harassment and physical violence. Continue reading...
Current students, recent students and parents, tell us your recommendations at thefilter.us@theguardian.comWe're putting together a guide to dorm room essentials - and we need your help.Students and parents alike, we want to know the must-have items that got you (or your child) through college. What small gadget made living in a tiny space more manageable? What do you wish you'd brought from home? Continue reading...
A 45-year-old man, named as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was arrested on Monday in Boulder, Colorado, after he allegedly threw an incendiary device at a crowd gathered to support hostages held in Gaza. 'It is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism,' Mark Michalek, an FBI special agent, told a press conference.Those injured were aged between 67 and 88, police said. Four were taken to a local hospital and two were airlifted to a hospital in Aurora
Frustration and anger mount as Trump administration contemplates new trials and restrictions for Covid vaccinesAs the Trump administration contemplates new clinical trials for Covid boosters and moves to restrict Covid vaccines for children and others, parents whose children participated in the clinical trials expressed anger and dismay.It's really devastating to see this evidence base officially ignored and discarded," said Sophia Bessias, a parent in North Carolina whose two- and four-year-old kids were part of the Pfizer pediatric vaccine trial. Continue reading...
The big, beautiful bill' has reaffirmed that a pledged golden age is really just a windfall for the uber-wealthyThe blush is off the rose, or, rather, the orange. The erstwhile First Buddy" and born-again fiscal hawk Elon Musk recently said he was disappointed" by Donald Trump's spendthrift budget currently under debate in the US Senate. Squeaking through the House of Representatives thanks to the capitulation of several Republican deficit hardliners, this big, beautiful bill" certainly increases the federal debt bigly - by nearly $4tn over the next decade.Equally disappointed are those who have been busy burnishing Trump's populist veneer. Steve Bannon had repeatedly promised higher taxes for millionaires, but he has confessed he's very upset". That's because the bill would cut taxes by over $600bn for the top 1% of wage-earners, also known as millionaires. It amounts to the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history. Continue reading...
The word has lost all meaning, we are told. Could my favourite dad-jectives replace it?Vogue has spoken: chic is dead. Not being it, but the word. Chic has, Lauren O'Neill argues, lost its essence, co-opted to cover whatever glazed-doughnut-skinned influencers on TikTok decide it should, from monogrammed lip balm to iced matchas. Chic has come to be mistaken for certain monied strains of taste, rather than the sort of unique je ne sais quoi that I think the word at its purest actually means."Baudelaire - the 19th century's Nicky Haslam, given how many things he disapproved of: photography, Belgium, Victor Hugo - would have agreed. He called chic an awful and bizarre word". Are he and Vogue right? Continue reading...
PSG left little doubt as to who the best team in this season's Champions League was, but there was individual brilliance on plenty of other squadsGianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain) Continue reading...
A new book explores the impact of birth order, but how we measure up against our brothers and sisters can be complexA new book about sibling relationships, The Family Dynamic by Susan Dominus, examines how things like birth order and the specific achievements of your siblings affect a person's life trajectory. As such, some of my favourite research is back in the public eye: the studies that suggest that I, as the eldest of three children, am the cleverest.I'm kidding. I don't actually think this is true in my own sibling group, but sure, I'll take it, and say so in the national press: I'm smarter than you guys, science confirms. I am very interested in siblings and their influences, though. So much so that I wrote my first novel about a brother-sister relationship. Siblings shape you in ways that are less deliberate than parents, which means their influence is less discussed, though just as important. That said, birth order has remained a public fascination, with parents agonising over whether a middle child is overlooked or eldest is overburdened.Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist Continue reading...
Police alleged the man yelled Free Palestine' as he threw an incendiary device at people gathered to show support for Israeli hostages in GazaEight people were injured in an attack in Boulder, Colorado after a man is alleged to have thrown an incendiary device into a crowd and yelled Free Palestine", in what the FBI is treating as an act of terrorism".The 45-year-old man, identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is alleged to have thrown the device into a group of people who had assembled in a pedestrianised zone for a peaceful protest for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. Continue reading...
The Mexican side started scoring in short order and never let up en route to winning their seventh continental title.3 min: The opening moments have been cagey, to say the least. Vancouver is happy to sit back with Cruz Azul in possession in their own defensive third, and vice-versa. This will certainly change, and a lot, in the next 20-30 minutes or so.The game is on in Mexcico City. Continue reading...
VA physicians and scientists ordered not to publish in medical journals without seeking clearance from Trump appointees. Key US politics stories from Sunday 1 JuneSenior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered VA physicians and scientists not to publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump.Veterans advocates say the decision fits into a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, and came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas. Continue reading...
Officials say about 100 people, many high school students, were present when one or more people began firingAt least 80 shots were fired in a North Carolina neighborhood, killing one person and injuring 11 others, authorities said Sunday.The shooting early Sunday took place in Hickory, the Catawba county sheriff's office said. No arrests have been made, but authorities said there was more than one shooter. Continue reading...
Move that seeks political control of doctors' and scientists' published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates saySenior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned.The edict, laid down in emails on Friday by Curt Cashour, the VA's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, and John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA secretary Doug Collins, came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas. Continue reading...
President of sheriffs' association says noncompliant' list violated the core principles of trust' with law enforcementThe US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed a list of sanctuary" states, cities and counties from its website following sharp criticism from a sheriffs' association that said a list of noncompliant" sheriffs could severely damage the relationship between the Trump administration and law enforcement.DHS on Thursday published a list of what it called sanctuary jurisdictions that it deemed were included in areas that have a policy of limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The list prompted a response from the National Sheriffs' Association, which represents more than 3,000 elected sheriffs across the country and generally supports federal immigration enforcement. Continue reading...
Amid bipartisan opposition, director of management and budget office says Trump prefers to use executive tools'Russell Vought, the director of the office of management and budget (OMB), on Sunday cast doubt on the constitutional obligation of the White House to ask Congress to sign off on Donald Trump's massive cuts to the federal workforce spearheaded by Elon Musk.Vought indicated the White House preferred to rely on executive tools" for all but a necessary" fraction of the cuts instead of submitting the whole package of jobs and agency slashing that took place via the so-called department of government efficiency" (Doge), to the congressional branch for its official approval. Continue reading...
AB Hernandez, 16, ties for first place in two events as Trump administration threatens to withhold federal fundingA teenage transgender athlete in California, who has been at the center of widespread political attacks by rightwing pundits and the Trump administration, won in two track events over the weekend. The 16-year-old athlete, AB Hernandez, tied for first place alongside two other athletes in the high jump, and tied for first place in the triple jump.This comes as the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funding from California for allowing trans athletes to compete in girls' sports. Continue reading...
Russ Vought defends Trump's sweeping tax-cut bill that will slash safety net programs Medicaid and SnapThe White House budget director Russ Vought on Sunday dismissed as totally ridiculous" fears expressed by voters that cuts to benefits in the huge spending bill passed by the House will lead to premature deaths in America.Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill act, now awaiting debate in the US Senate, will slash two major federal safety net programs, Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), which helps people afford groceries, which will affect millions of people if it becomes law. Continue reading...
John Miller and Chinese national Cui Guanghai are facing extradition in connection with an FBI investigationA British businessman has been indicted in the US with attempting to traffic sensitive American military technology to China and silence a critic of the Chinese president.John Miller, 63, was named by US authorities at the weekend after his arrest in Serbia, where he is facing extradition in connection with an FBI investigation. The Mail on Sunday reported that he was from Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Continue reading...
As Altadena prepares to rebuild after the devastation of the LA fires, an exhibition centers its creative historyOn the walls of the gallery, Keni Arts" Davis's watercolors show Altadena before and after the fires. There is a local hardware store, a beloved diner, the quirky local Bunny Museum, which held tens of thousands of rabbit-related items.Then, in gentle strokes of paint, there is the wreckage of each place: rubble, charred beams, burnt-out cars. Davis labels each of these images BFA", beauty from ashes. Continue reading...
The beloved children's entertainer has been speaking out as tens of thousands of children are killed or injured in GazaIf you believe that babies can tell when a person is truly good, then it should be no surprise that Ms Rachel - the beloved kids YouTube sensation - has remained on the right side of every socio-political debate since the image of her pink tee and denim dungarees became ubiquitous in households with children across the world.But when Ms Rachel, whose given name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, began speaking out about the genocide in Gaza, pro-Israel rightwingers put a massive target on her back. Continue reading...
I've spoken to white nationalists in Tennessee and Black activists in Texas - and learned about what it takes to connect across differenceThe residential community was lodged near a national forest on the outskirts of Scottsdale, Arizona. Forbidding gates and sentry posts restricted access to the exclusive development and its elegant homes. But security here went much further.Each cul-de-sac in the colony had its own individual railway gate, and many of the homeowners had installed gates across their own driveways as well. Anyone coming in or out of those houses would have to clear three checkpoints that set them apart from the wider world beyond. Continue reading...
Ever since lockdown we've supposedly all been in it together, doing conference calls in our slippers. But in straight couples, guess who gets the spare bedroom and the proper desk?I'm wary of gendered generalisations. They rightly raise hackles: we are unique, not defined by gender, not all men! But I was struck by one I read from Ella Risbridger in her review of Jessica Stanley's recent novel, Consider Yourself Kissed. Exploring one of its themes, Risbridger wrote: I have long noticed that in a house with one spare room and a heterosexual couple who both work from home, the spare room is where he works - with a door that shuts and perhaps even a designated desk - and she works somewhere else. (Always for good reasons, but always.)"This stopped me in my tracks. Not because it's my experience: my husband and I are lucky enough to have an office each, and mine is bigger and objectively nicer. I get the garden view; he has the ballet of Openreach and Amazon vans. (See - not all men.) It's not Stanley's experience either: she uses the spare bedroom; her husband has half the living room, she told the Cut's Book Gossip newsletter.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...
From warnings about president to Kermit's innocuous remarks, speeches respond to a politically charged USIt is graduation season in the United States and with it a tradition of commencement speeches to departing college students, usually from high-profile figures who seek to inspire those leaving academia.But, as with many things under Donald Trump's second term in the White House, commencement season this year has been far from normal, especially as the US president and his allies have waged conflicts against the nation's universities. Continue reading...
Lawsuit challenges president's move to cut federal funding as station says it is matter of necessity and principle'In the Trump administration's unprecedented war on the American media, a lawsuit brought by public broadcasters could mark a much-needed strike back for press freedom.The lawsuit, brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations, challenges an executive order that cut federal funding to what Donald Trump described as biased media", with lawyers arguing that the order violated the first amendment right to free speech. Continue reading...
by Rev Dr Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back on (#6XNTT)
Anti-poverty activism has provided a model for transformational power, based on four strategic principlesFor tens of millions of people, Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill" is a grotesque nightmare. The proposed legislative cuts, including historic attacks on Medicaid and Snap, come at a time when 60% of Americans already cannot make ends meet. As justification, Maga Republicans are once again invoking the shibboleth of work requirements to demean and discredit the poor, even as they funnel billions of dollars into the war economy and lavish the wealthy with tax cuts.As anti-poverty organizers, we've often used the slogan: They say cut back, we say fight back." It's a catchy turn of phrase, but it reveals that for too long we've been on the back foot. In the world's richest country, in which mass poverty exists beside unprecedented plenty, we're tired of just fending off the worst attacks. Too much ground is lost when our biggest wins are simply not losing past gains. Amid Trump's cruelty and avarice, it's time to fight for a new social contract - one that lifts from the bottom of society so that everybody rises.The poor must unite across their differences and assume strong leadership within grassroots movements.These movements must operate as a politically and financially independent force in our public life.The leaders of these movements must attend to the daily needs and aspirations of their communities by building visionary projects of survival.These projects of survival must serve as bases of operation for broader organizing, political education, and leadership development.The Rev Dr Liz Theoharis is the director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and co-founder of the Freedom Church of the Poor. Noam Sandweiss-Back is the director of partnerships at the Kairos Center. They are co-authors of You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty (Beacon, 2025) Continue reading...
Despite being up for sale and unfancied, the Canadian side have been MLS's best as they seek to stun the region.In his post-election victory speech late on the night of 28 April, Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, celebrated a momentous political comeback by reinforcing what he felt were the country's three core values: humility, ambition and unity.But in the face of constant threats, gleeful taunts and mounting tension, there was also a warning to the United States. Continue reading...
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