Brian Hooker seems to not have alerted authorities of his illness after leaving west TexasOne of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the US says he caught measles in west Texas and traveled back home - but he seems not to have alerted local authorities of his illness, which means the highly transmissible virus may have spread onward.Measles is a threat to people who are unvaccinated or immune-compromised. In anti-vaccine communities, it may quickly find a foothold and spread largely under the radar before ballooning into an outbreak. Continue reading...
Bird strikes cause fatal crashes and cost airlines money. Experts have tactics for chasing away these errant fowlMy tone wavered between enthusiasm and concern. Is that a great black-backed gull," I asked.It was a cold December morning, and I was cruising along the interior roads of Boston's Logan international airport in a white pickup truck. At the wheel was Jeff Turner, who, among other duties, oversees efforts to control wildlife at the airport, including making sure that errant gulls and other birds don't stray into flight paths and cause an accident. He glanced toward the harbor and confirmed that a lone great black-backed was indeed mixed in with a few herring gulls. Continue reading...
The US vice-president has chosen to holiday among the Chipping Norton set, which includes Boris Johnson and Jeremy Clarkson, in a country he says has gone to the dogs. It feels like he is trolling the UK ...You have to let politicians go on holiday, I guess. You have to accept the existence of world leaders with whose views you disagree, especially now that it's almost all of them. So why does it feel like a particular provocation for JD Vance to be planning a trip to the Cotswolds? His itinerary isn't yet known, but its bare bones are that, sometime in August, the Vances will visit London, Oxfordshire and Scotland.For a recap on what, exactly, is wrong with the US vice-president, there is nothing more evocative than February's press conference with Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Of course, many of Vance's more extreme views - calling Democratic politicians a bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives", claiming that staying in an abusive relationship was preferable to getting divorced, and saying that abortion should be banned - were already well known, from a combination of his voting record and his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. But Republicans say a lot of things, particularly while seeking election. You may have been able to infer Vance's drive to dominate and control others, but it wasn't until that exchange with the Ukrainian president that you could witness it. Continue reading...
Keith McAllister had approached machine after wife called for help, and was sucked in by device's magnetic forceA man who wore a large weight-training chain around his neck and approached his wife while a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine scanned her knee at a clinic in New York died after the device forcefully pulled him, according to police and media reports.Keith McAllister, 61, was killed at the Nassau Open MRI clinic in Westbury, Long Island, after he accompanied his wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, there on 16 July. Continue reading...
Democrats are livid over the governor's plan to redraw districts at a time when Texas officials are supposed to be focused on recovery from the floodsA plan for Texas to redraw its congressional districts and gain five additional Republican seats barrels through flimsy legal arguments and political norms like a rough-stock rodeo bronco through a broken chute.But the fiddly process of drawing the maps to Republicans' advantage for 2026 may require more finesse than cowboy politics can produce. Continue reading...
Israeli forces open fire on Palestinians in one of bloodiest incidents involving aid seekers. Plus, Ellen DeGeneres confirms she moved to the UK because of Donald Trump
There is no way around the fact that in 2024, those Americans didn't hear anything worth voting for. Will it be different next time around?Since Bernie Sanders's first presidential campaign, the electoral theory of the American left has rested upon the idea that a sizable bloc of Americans - alienated from the traditional politics of left and right - have withdrawn from politics entirely. They stand closer to the Democrats on many issues, but, seeing little by way of material benefit from the party's soaring rhetoric of defending democracy", they have opted out of the political process. And, as the theory goes, a bold, populist candidate - someone like Sanders himself - could bring this silent constituency back into the fold.If that logic once explained how Sanders might have won, it might now explain why Kamala Harris lost. And, as new troves of post-election data surface, the debate over whether Democrats might have avoided last year's defeat by mobilizing non-voters has become one of the party's hottest factional disputes. Continue reading...
About 3,000 workers have left the agency through firings and buyouts in a move Democrats and staff call unlawful'Workers at the US state department say firings, resignation buyouts, a proposed budget cut of 48%, and reorganization under the Trump administration has left staff with low morale and will likely have long-term impacts.Foreign programs and services aimed towards LGBTQ+ communities, maternal and reproductive health, and minority groups have been removed or cut in place of far-right ideological policies being pursued by a 26-year-old senior adviser and Trump appointee at the agency. Continue reading...
The league's best players believe they are not being given a fair deal when it comes to compensation. But sports accounting is a tricky affairNapheesa Collier was in record-breaking form on Saturday night as she set a new high for a WNBA All-Star Game, with 36 points. But much of the attention was focused on what happened before the game when players warmed up with shirts bearing the message Pay us what you owe us."The move came after players and the league failed to reach a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. Do they have a point though? Evaluating athlete pay is notoriously tricky because sports accounting always includes a certain amount of voodoo. Continue reading...
Our award-winning photographer has been at Royal Portrush for the Open. Here are some of his best shots as Scottie Scheffler claimed a fourth major triumph with a dominant four-shot victory, completing a third leg of the career grand slam Continue reading...
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in FloridaMigrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates like dogs", according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities.The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees. Continue reading...
Larson, who survived Normandy landings, gained 1.2 million followers on social media platform by sharing second world war storiesD-day veteran ''Papa Jake'' Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy's beaches in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to commemorate the second world war and his fallen comrades, has died aged 102.An animated speaker who charmed strangers young and old with his quick smile and generous hugs, the self-described country boy from Minnesota was cracking jokes til the end,'' his granddaughter wrote in announcing his death. Continue reading...
Donald Trump calls on Commanders and Guardians to revert to names that were abandoned due to being racially insensitive - key US politics stories from Sunday 20 July at a glanceDonald Trump has weighed into a new fight - this time with two sports teams. The president wants Washington's football franchise the Commanders and Cleveland baseball team the Guardians to revert to their former names, which were abandoned in recent years due to being racially insensitive to Native Americans.Trump said on Sunday on Truth Social that: The Washington Whatever's' should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team .... Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past." Continue reading...
A four-shot margin of victory at the Open led Xander Schauffele to say the world No 1 is taking the throne of dominance' that American legend once hadNo sooner had the Claret Jug been lifted high above Scottie Scheffler's head than the scramble for superlatives began. With every word and exaltation there was also a sense that golf's Overton window had shifted, with his peers daring to voice opinions previously beyond the pale.It was Xander Schauffele who perhaps said it best, as Scheffler was slowwalking up the 18th, as if trying to savour every second of a first Open Championship victory. Continue reading...
Search and rescue operation under way after group went over Dillon Falls on the Deschutes RiverOne person has died while two others remain missing after six people were swept down a waterfall in Oregon over the weekend.On Saturday, the Deschutes county sheriff's office announced a multi-agency search and rescue operation after the group went over Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River west of Bend on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading...
Scottie Scheffler won the title but it was the Northern Irishman who had the unequivocal backing of the crowd at Royal PortrushThe loyalist bands were out in force in Portrush on Saturday evening, for a two-hour parade that shut down all the traffic in and out of town. The R&A did its best to funnel the paying spectators in the other direction as they walked off the course, but there were still plenty of bewildered golf fans who got caught up in it all. I was one of them myself. While I wouldn't want to contradict the organisers' description of it as a cultural extravaganza", if I had one note to pass on it may be that these sorts of local folk traditions go over better with the tourists when they don't have sectarian overtones and aheavy police presence.On the links, there was a different side of Ireland on show. Northern Irish or from the Republic, Nationalist or Unionist, Catholic or Protestant, whatever else divides the 300,000-odd people who attended in the past week, they were all united in collective yearning to see Rory McIlroy make that next birdie. Continue reading...
Legal advocates and attorneys general argue practice poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fearThe head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Sunday that he will continue allowing the controversial practice of his officers wearing masks over their faces during their arrest raids.As Donald Trump has ramped up his unprecedented effort to deport immigrants around the country, Ice officers have become notorious for wearing masks to approach and detain people, often with force. Legal advocates and attorneys general have argued that it poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear. Continue reading...
US vice-president also plans to visit London and Scotland next monthHe made his name with a memoir set among the hillbillies of the rugged Appalachians - yet it seems JD Vance now favours altogether more gentle hills.For his family's holiday this year the US vice-president is understood to have chosen the Cotswolds, where Land Rovers outnumber pickup trucks. Continue reading...
James Patterson and Vicky Ward offer a definitive, and sadly true, account of Kohberger and the Idaho student murdersIn the early hours of 13 November 2022 in an off-campus apartment in Moscow, Idaho, a masked assailant murdered four students. The dead, who would come to be known as the Idaho Four, were Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen. Each was stabbed multiple times. The killer left a gruesome scene and the motive was not readily apparent.Videos, cellphone records and solid detective work led law enforcement to Bryan Kohberger, a doctoral candidate at Washington State University. Arrested at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, in late December, he was extradited back west. Continue reading...
Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospitalAn 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead.According to Morning Call, which first reported the story, long-time Allentown resident Luis Leon - who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet - lost his wallet containing the physical card that confirmed his legal residency. So he and wife booked an appointment to get it replaced. Continue reading...
City's fire department says car hit line of people waiting outside a nightclub, with at least five in critical conditionA man drove a car into a busy crowd of people waiting to get into a nightclub in Los Angeles early on Saturday, injuring 30 people, with at least five in critical condition.The driver, who is now in custody, has been identified as Fernando Ramirez, 29, and faces potential charges including attempted murder, police said. Continue reading...
Between AI, changes under Trump and a tougher environment', what do we really know about the jobs market?Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that, as a result of the tougher environment" in the labor market, companies are in control again" and are warning applicants of long hours and few boundaries".At the same time some industries are reporting worker shortages due to Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. And then there's artificial intelligence, which is about to devastate the jobs market - or is about to create new jobs. Continue reading...
Newberry Springs was almost lost to the desert. But as America's mother road' turns 100, locals see hope that the boom times could returnThe tiny desert cafe, caught in a desolate middle between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, had only been open for five minutes when the first customers of the day ambled in from the already blistering heat.It was a Friday morning in June, sand swirling outside across the cracked street and towards the Bagdad Cafe's front door. In the same parking lot, a 1950s-era sign advertised a motel that no longer exists. In the distance, only a few surviving businesses remained: a small community center, a veterans organization and a long-standing roadhouse bar popular with locals. A few miles to the north, an entire neighborhood was abandoned in the 1990s after mounds of blowing sand swallowed it whole; today, only rooftops and chimneys peek out from the towering sand dunes. Continue reading...
US defense secretary reverted to Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, but the men they honor aren't role modelsSince Donald Trump returned to office this year, his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has ripped the new names off a series of US army bases and brought back their old traitorous Confederate names.His actions have angered Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress, prompting a rare rebuke of the Trump administration by the Republican-controlled Congress last Tuesday. The GOP-led House of Representatives Armed Services Committee voted on 15 July to block Hegseth from renaming the bases after Confederates. Two Republicans voted with the Democrats on the committee to pass the measure, which was an amendment to the Pentagon's budget bill. Continue reading...
A Black man like me is not supposed to love Oklahoma. But in studying my home state's history of violence, theft and wild ambitions, I learned to reckon with its legacyIn a moment, I will tell you how I learned to love Oklahoma, a state I have had to point out on a map more times than I can count to Americans and foreigners alike. One with 77 crimson red counties and a license plate that once simply read: OKLAHOMA IS OK."But first, it is important to tell you about my first Oklahoma school history lesson - one I learned when I was eight years old, after my parents moved our family cross-country. Continue reading...
Trailblazing Illinois Democrat reflects on political career and says party is in a daze' about how to combat TrumpOh, I wish I was in the land of cotton ... "Carol Moseley Braun was riding a lift in the US Capitol building when she heard Dixie, the unofficial anthem of the slave-owning Confederacy during the civil war. The sound was not very loud, yet it pierced my ears with the intensity of a dog whistle," Moseley Braun writes in her new memoir, Trailblazer. Indeed, that is what it was in a sense." Continue reading...
Atlanta Police Foundation forced to disclose a year after a lawsuit, and could have implications for other citiesMore than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for allegedly violating Georgia's open records law, the foundation has sent plaintiffs nearly 300 pages of records linked to its role as the driving force behind the police training center known as Cop City".The outcome opens the door to what we want; it's a guide stone for getting records from police foundations, so they can't be a black box", said Matt Scott, executive director of Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC), an Atlanta-based digital news outlet and one of two plaintiffs in the case. Continue reading...
US president using invented' national energy crisis to justify expansion of coal, oil and gas, experts sayEver since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an invented" national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy - despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs.It's an agenda that in only its first six months, has put back environmental progress by decades, they say. Continue reading...
Six months into his second term, the president has been disastrous for democracy - but extraordinarily politically adeptIn the first six months of his second term as president, Donald Trump has dominated the national political conversation, implemented an aggressive agenda of constitutional reform, scrambled longstanding American alliances, and helped alter US political culture.Pro-democracy forces have been left with their heads spinning. They (and I) have spent too much time simply denouncing or pathologizing him and far too little time learning from him.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty Continue reading...
A Salvadorian reporter with an audience of millions, Mario Guevara was arrested while livestreaming a protest against Trump in June - and is still struggling for freedomProsecutors dropped the last remaining charges against Atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara last week after he was arrested while livestreaming a protest in June. But the influential Salvadorian reporter remains penned up in a south Georgia detention center, fending off a deportation case, jail house extortionists and despair, people familiar with his situation told the Guardian.Donald Trump's administration has been extreme in unprecedented ways to undocumented immigrants. But Guevara's treatment is a special case. Shuttled between five jail cells in Georgia since his arrest while covering the No Kings Day" protests, the 20-plus-years veteran journalist's sin was to document the undocumented and the way Trump's agents have been hunting them down. Continue reading...
Murdering and massacring innocents is indefensible. So why on earth is it allowed to continue? The answer is moral relativismThe quest for peace in major conflicts has rarely been so desperate and so seemingly futile. In Gaza, talk of ceasefires, truces and pauses typically ends in tears. In Ukraine, the war is now well into its fourth year with no end in sight, despite Donald Trump's new 50-day deadline. Syria burns anew. Sudan's horrors never cease. Last year, state-based conflicts reached a peak - 61 across 36 countries. It was the highest recorded total since 1946. This year could be worse.The sheer scale and depravity of war crimes and other conflict-zone atrocities is extraordinary. The deliberate, illegal targeting and terrorising of civilians, the killing, maiming and abduction of children, and the use of starvation, sexual violence, torture and forced displacement as weapons of war have grown almost routine. Israel's killing last week of children queueing for water in Gaza was shocking, made doubly so by the fact that scenes like this have become so commonplace.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentatorDo 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...
Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glanceThe current administration is waging a war on science," warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard's School of Public Health.That war appeared to enter a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings - effectively greenlighting the politicization of science. Continue reading...
Cornelius Taylor was killed during a sweep of a homeless encampment in city's preparation for MLK weekendThe family of a man who was killed after city workers crushed his tent with a bulldozer during a sweep of a homeless encampment in Atlanta, Georgia, filed a lawsuit against the city on Friday over his death, calling it tragic and preventable".The lawsuit filed by Cornelius Taylor's sister and son alleges that city employees failed to look to see if there was anyone inside the tents in the encampment before using a bulldozer to clear it in the 16 January sweep. Taylor, 46, was inside one of the tents and was crushed by the truck when his tent was flattened, the lawsuit says. Continue reading...
Home favourite in disbelief after shot on the 11th sends an old ball flying but eagle a hole later sends fans into ecstasyDeep into day three of the Open and Rory McIlroy is still surfing gigantic waves of momentum and goodwill. He has jumped to six under, at this point only four shots off the lead, with each birdie sounding like a sonic boom over Portrush. It is manic, messianic and a lot of fun. And then it gets weird. Twilight Zone weird.McIlroy has just twirled a drive into the rough at the 11th. For a moment he fears that his ball is lost, only to get the all clear from the marshal. Better still, he will be playing from trampled-down ground. He pauses. Takes aim. And then as his ball flops wearily into air, a member's Titleist ball, which has been deeply buried under ground, suddenly jumps up beside him. Continue reading...
Andy Byron leaves startup Astronomer after he and Kristin Cabot were placed on leave over Jumbotron incidentThe married CEO who was filmed at a Coldplay concert in the US with his arms around his company's HR head in a video that went viral has now resigned, the company Astronomer said on Saturday.In a post on Linkedin, the software startup said: Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted." Continue reading...
This liveblog is now closedAs Donald Trump tries to claim he was not a fan" of Jeffrey Epstein, photos, videos and anecdotes paint a picture of their relationship, writes Adam Gabbatt:Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them of a treasonous conspiracy" intended to show that Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election win was due to Russian interference. Continue reading...
At least 30 people were injured early on 19 July when a vehicle drove into a crowd outside a club on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, the city's fire department and local media reports have said. At least seven people were in critical condition and six others were seriously injured, the fire department said in an online statement. Captain Adam VanGerpen, a fire department spokesperson, was quoted by ABC News as saying that a paramedic assessing one of the injured found a gunshot wound. He said he was unable to confirm reports it was the driver of the car that hit the crowd. The Los Angeles police department confirmed that the investigation is ongoing
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