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Republicans reward Emil Bove for Trump loyalty with lifetime judgeship
Confirmation fits pattern as Republicans line up behind faithful Trump footsoldier with minimal questioningWhen more than 80 judges signed a letter opposing Emil Bove's judicial nomination, they implored the US Senate to do its job in interrogating and investigating a host of serious claims that undermine the independence and credibility of his potential judgeship.Now, Bove is among them - a member of the judiciary. Continue reading...
With Joe Burrow and a too-familiar cast, the Bengals’ Super Bowl window is closing fast
Cincinnati left several glaring issues unaddressed this offseason, leaving holes even elite quarterbacking can't paper overHere the Bengals go again. They have now had five cracks at building a championship roster around Joe Burrow since drafting him No 1 overall in 2020, and have fallen short all five times. Entering year six, it's already starting to feel like Burrow is this generation's Dan Marino or Philip Rivers, an all-time great quarterback let down by the franchise around him.After going 4-12 in Burrow's rookie season, Cincinnati made the Super Bowl, lost, returned to the AFC title game the next season, and then lost there. Burrow missed almost all of his fourth season with an injury, but put forth the best season of his career statistically last year ... before the Bengals surrendered it, finding novel way to give up close leads early in the season and failing to reach the playoffs despite winning five straight games to close it. In a league where 44% of teams make the postseason, it was almost impressively bad. Continue reading...
Trump’s Unesco withdrawal is part of a broader assault on democracy | Liesl Gerntholtz and Julie Trebault
The US exit from the cultural heritage organization is no surprise. But it's not too late to fight backDonald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States a second time from what is essentially the beacon of global culture and heritage - Unesco - is depressing but unsurprising given the administration's lack of respect for art and culture that celebrates the diversity of humanity in all of its fullness. But it is still a grave error of moral leadership that harms the United States' global standing on free expression, human rights and democracy.Earlier this year, he initiated a takeover of the Kennedy Center's programming and content, and linked National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants to highly partisan ideological conditions. Meanwhile, the government's attempts at censorship in schools are all but rewriting American history. Continue reading...
Idaho’s Matteo Jorgenson gave it all for a Tour de France he could never win – and triumphed anyway
Assigned an unwinnable task, battling illness and fatigue, the American rider's sacrifice helped bring down a giant. His Tour was not about glory, but purposeTadej Pogaar's victory looked certain as he flew up Butte Montmartre for the second of three times on the Tour de France's final stage. His lead in the race's general classification (GC) stood at four minutes and 27 seconds over Jonas Vingegaard, more than 10 minutes clear of everybody else, and GC times had been frozen for the final stage. He had won four stages already; that he hadn't won at least six seemed more his choice than anybody else's. There was no need to be at the front here, to add a fifth cherry atop the ice cream, but Pogaar's unquenchable competitive spirit demanded an attempt. He stamped on his pedals on the cobblestoned hill, scything riders off the back of the bunch. By the time he crested Montmartre, he had just four others for company.Among them were the American Matteo Jorgenson and Wout van Aert, both of Vingegaard's Visma Lease-a-Bike team. Thanks to superb climbing performances and helming the deepest team in the race, Vingegaard managed to defeat Pogaar at the 2022 and 2023 Tours de France - given Pogaar's dominance since, these Tours now feel like distant memories from an obsolete world. Back then, Visma used Pogaar's raw aggression against him. With the knowledge that he would respond to every acceleration, Vingegaard and his teammates threw jab after jab and Pogaar exhausted himself trying to counter with haymakers. Continue reading...
This trade deal is the EU’s Suez moment – its subservience to Trump is on show for all to see | Larry Elliott
Critics have described the one-sided deal as an admission of weakness, and a dark day for Europe. They are absolutely rightThe Suez crisis in 1956 was a humiliating moment of truth for the UK. Faced with implacable opposition from the US, Anthony Eden's government was forced to abandon military action in Egypt. Capitulation to American pressure was a recognition of Britain's diminished status on the world stage.The trade deal agreed between Washington and Brussels this week lacks the drama of troops being sent in to recapture one of the world's key waterways, but it is the EU's Suez moment all the same. What's more, European politicians know as much.Larry Elliott is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
As Trump’s tariff deadline looms, where do things stand on trade agreements?
The US president has been at pains to promote agreements clinched with trading partners, but many still face the prospect of no deal and high tariffsThe clock is ticking closer to Donald Trump's latest tariff deadline of 1 August, and while the president has been at pains to promote the agreements clinched with some major trading partners, many others are facing the prospect of no deal and increased levies on their exports to the Unites States.Dozens more are caught somewhere in the middle - with no trade deal signed, but as yet no threat of higher tariffs. Among them are some of America's closet allies and biggest trading partners, including Australia, Taiwan and New Zealand. Continue reading...
The Helsinki accord was a masterpiece of European diplomacy. Fifty years on, we need its spirit more than ever | Kai Hebel and Richard Davy
The OSCE hasn't stopped Putin's aggression, but it has the potential to help broker a peace in Ukraine when the time is rightVladimir Putin will probably never give up on his attempts to bring Ukraine into Russia - which is where it belongs, according to his warped view of history. Those who oppose him tend to fall out of windows or suffer other accidents" or go to prison.If he agrees to a ceasefire, it will be only to gain time to replenish his forces before trying again. All that would stop him then would be armed peacekeepers of some kind, as is already being discussed. If someone replaces him from his inner circle, there is unlikely to be change.Kai Hebel is author of Britain, Detente, and the Helsinki CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe); he is assistant professor of international relations at Leiden University. Richard Davy is the author of Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond Continue reading...
FBI opens first office in New Zealand ‘to counter China and cybercrime’
Kash Patel says the office will strengthen protection of the Five Eyes nations and that the US and New Zealand would work on important global issues'The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, has opened the bureau's first ever office in New Zealand, in what he said was an attempt to help counter China's activities in the Indo-Pacific, crack down on issues including cybercrime, and strengthen protection of the Five Eyes nations.Patel, who opened the office at the US embassy in Wellington on Thursday, called the event an historic moment". Continue reading...
Trump news at a glance: president on tariff blitz ahead of August deadline
Trump accused of attack on Brazilian democracy' for sanctioning Bolsonaro judge while slapping a 50% levy on the country - key US politics stories from Wednesday 30 JulyDonald Trump's administration has imposed sanctions against the judge overseeing the prosecution of his far-right ally Jair Bolsonaro and hit Brazil with huge tariffs amid accusations from the country's president that Trump has launched a direct attack on Brazilian democracy".The US president has partly attributed his 50% tariff to his outrage at the supposed political witch-hunt" against Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president, who is on trial over an alleged coup attempt after the 2022 election. Continue reading...
Senate votes against resolutions to block arms sales to Israel even as it continues to starve Gaza – as it happened
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MLB trade deadline: Phillies land Jhoan Durán as contenders pay big for bullpen arms
US to impose 15% tariffs on South Korea as part of trade deal, Donald Trump says
President Lee Jae Myung says deal puts South Korea on an equal or better footing than other countriesPresident Donald Trump has said the US will charge a 15% tariff on imports from South Korea as part of an agreement with the key Asian trading partner and ally that avoids even higher levies.The arrangement, announced shortly after Trump met with Korean officials at the White House, came during a blizzard of trade policy announcements ahead of a self-imposed 1 August deadline. Continue reading...
Ice entices new recruits with patriotism pitch and pledge of $50,000 signing bonuses
Brave and heroic Americans' campaign seeks investigators, officers and lawyers after agency gets funds from CongressThe agency responsible for carrying out Donald Trump's mass deportations is launching a recruiting campaign to entice brave and heroic Americans" to serve as new deportation officers, lawyers and investigators as the government gears up for a major expansion of immigration enforcement thanks to a recent infusion of money from Congress. The icing on the cake: a promise of up to $50,000 in signing bonuses.The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign, which rolled out late Tuesday, recalls recruiting posters from the second world war with images of Uncle Sam and the words AMERICA NEEDS YOU." There also are photos of the US president and top homeland security officials with the words DEFEND THE HOMELAND" across the images. Continue reading...
Brown University reaches deal with Trump administration to restore $50m in funds
Ivy League school will commit to nondiscrimination in admissions and campus programs, and grant officials access to dataBrown University has reached an agreement with the Trump administration that will reinstate nearly $50m in research funding and close several federal investigations into the institution, university president Christina Paxson announced in a campus-wide email on Wednesday.The settlement follows the Trump administration's threat in April to freeze $510m in federal support to Brown. This makes Brown the third Ivy League school to reach a resolution with the federal government this month. Continue reading...
Colorado dentist convicted of murder after poisoning wife’s protein shakes
James Craig also found guilty of trying to cover up killing by asking others to fake evidenceA jury convicted a Colorado dentist of first-degree murder on Wednesday after he repeatedly poisoned his wife, including by lacing her protein shakes.Prosecutors had accused James Craig of repeatedly poisoning his wife, Angela Craig, over 10 days in March 2023. When those attempts failed, prosecutors said the dentist gave his wife a final dose of cyanide as she was hospitalized in suburban Denver with symptoms that puzzled doctors. She was declared brain dead soon after. Continue reading...
Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Aggressive maneuver comes as the Republicans try to stave off losses in next year's midterm electionsRepublicans have unveiled a new congressional map in Texas that would allow the party to pick up as many as five additional congressional seats, an aggressive maneuver that has already met decisive outcry from Democrats and comes as the GOP tries to stave off losses in next year's midterm elections.Republicans already hold 25 of Texas's 38 congressional seats. But at the urging of Donald Trump, Texas's governor, Greg Abbott, called a special session this month to redraw the state's congressional districts. After contentious hearings across the state, Republicans unveiled their proposed map on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Kamala Harris announces she will not run for governor of California
Decision leaves race wide open, with candidates including Xavier Becerra, Antonio Villaraigosa and Katie PorterKamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California - a highly anticipated decision that leaves the contest to lead the country's largest blue state wide open.For now, my leadership - and public service - will not be in elected office," Harris said in a statement, ending months of speculation about her political future after losing the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump. Continue reading...
Trump plans to impose 50% tariff on copper pipes and wiring
Move roils US prices as new policy falls short of US president's initial threats to introduce sweeping new levyThe Trump administration announced plans to impose a 50% tariff on copper pipes and wiring, roiling US prices after details of the levy fell short of the sweeping restrictions expected.By leaving out copper input materials such as ores, concentrates and cathodes, the new policy will fall significantly short of Donald Trump's initial threats to introduce a sweeping new levy on overseas shipments of the metal. Continue reading...
Shannon Sharpe reportedly out at ESPN after settlement of sexual assault suit
Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas charged over high-stakes illegal poker ring in Los Angeles
White House freezes $108m in funds to Duke University over affirmative action
Trump administration says North Carolina school violated Civil Rights Act by using racial preferences in hiring
Arizona Democrat challenges Trump after denied entry to Ice facility: ‘We can’t look the other way’
Greg Stanton was turned away from Arizona immigration facility when attempting to check on a restaurant owner, despite bringing copy of the law
Antisemitism training designed by pro-Israel groups is becoming compulsory at US colleges. What’s in it?
Training asks students to attribute the statement every time I read Hitler, I fall in love' to an anti-Israel activist'Near the end of an antisemitism training video that Northwestern University students are required to watch, the narrator urges viewers to play a guessing game. Six statements pop on to the screen - the viewer must choose whether they were made by anti-Israel activists" or the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.Among the statements: Every time I read Hitler, I fall in love again." The video reveals that the statement was made by an anti-Israel activist". The narrator then states: The fact that you can't tell the difference is terrifying." He adds that for most Jews, being anti-Israel and antisemitic are the same". Continue reading...
New York skyscraper mass shooter assembled weapon himself, police say
Authorities are piecing together days preceding Monday's attack in which four people died in Manhattan office towerThe man who stormed a New York City skyscraper and shot dead four people before he took his own life early on Monday had constructed the rifle he used himself, from parts, the police have said.The authorities are questioning an associate of the suspect about supplying components of the AR-15-style assault rifle used in the attack. Continue reading...
Brazil’s president Lula hits back as Trump tariffs threaten US trade showdown
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he won't be cowed by Trump ahead of 50% tariffs set to hit Brazil on FridayBrazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has said he does not fear getting on the wrong side of Donald Trump, as South America's largest economy braces for the introduction of 50% tariffs on Friday.Trump announced plans to slap Brazil with tariffs on 1 August earlier this month, partly in retaliation for a supposed political witch-hunt" against his far-right ally Jair Bolsonaro. The former Brazilian president faces decades in jail for allegedly plotting a military coup to stop Lula from taking office after the former lost the 2022 presidential election. Continue reading...
Minnesota calls in national guard after capital city slammed by ‘digital attack’
St Paul shut down systems after the cyberattack governor Tim Walz said exceeded the city's response capacity'Minnesota has called in the national guard after the city of St Paul was slammed by what its mayor described as a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack" carried out by sophisticated hackers.Governor Tim Walz said in a statement that he was deploying the guard, which has a cyber protection component, because the attack had exceeded the city's response capacity". Continue reading...
Trump imposes 25% tariff on India plus ‘penalty’ over ties to Russia
US president calls Delhi a friend but criticises policies such as buying arms and energy from Russia amid Ukraine war
We are Israeli human rights activists. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak
My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to usThe question keeps gnawing at me: Could this really be it? Could we be living through a genocide?Outside Israel, millions already know the answer. But many of us here can't - or won't - say it aloud. Perhaps because the truth threatens to unmake everything we believed about who we are, and who we wanted to be. To name it is to admit that the future will require reckoning - not just with our leaders, but with ourselves. But the cost of refusing to see is even higher.Yuli Novak is the executive director of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Continue reading...
‘We got a lot of honks in solidarity’: anti-Musk protests ripple at LA’s Tesla Diner
Demonstrators say diner great for anti-Tesla protesters' - but Musk fans and curious tourists have also stopped byElon Musk's retro-futuristic" Tesla Diner in Hollywood has become a new flashpoint for the Tesla Takedown" movement, with dozens of protesters picketing the diner last weekend alongside inflatable tube figures of Musk performing a Nazi salute.The viral popularity of the new diner, which is surrounded by 80 Tesla charging stations and two giant movie screens, has sparked out-the-door lines, massive traffic jams, and two angry protests, all within its first week of operation. Continue reading...
We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich
From the Washington Post to CBS, companies are caving to Trump. This is how democracy diesThe latest casualty of Donald Trump's efforts to silence media criticism is Eduardo Porter, one of the most thoughtful and intelligent critics of his heinous regime.On Tuesday, Porter wrote his last column for the Washington Post. In a widely circulated email, he explained why he was leaving the Post:Jeff Bezos and his new head of Opinion are taking the paper down a path I cannot follow, directed toward the relentless promotion of free markets and personal liberties ... I have no idea to what extent this is driven by Mr Bezos' fear of what Donald Trump could do to his various business interests, most of which are more valuable to him than The Post."As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended. And I don't know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company ... I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's a big fat bribe. Because this all comes as Paramount's owners are trying to get the Trump administration to approve the sale of our network to a new owner, Skydance."Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His next book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, will be out on 5 August Continue reading...
Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral and a tsunami alert: photos of the day – Wednesday
The Guardian's picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
Trump’s ‘unconscionable cuts’ to Medicaid and Medicare were decades in the making
Republicans enacted the largest cuts to healthcare in US history, and fulfilled decades of conservative rhetoricThe US's largest public health insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid, turn 60 years old on Wednesday - a birthday that will be celebrated only weeks after Republicans enacted the largest cuts to healthcare in the nation's history.Passed in the civil rights era, the sister health insurance programs served as tools for the Democratic president Lyndon Johnson to desegregate American healthcare and fight poverty. Continue reading...
Tariffs and judicial chaos shake investor confidence in Mexico: ‘Everything has been put on hold’
Growing wave of uncertainty is freezing investment plans in Mexico, rattling business leaders in the US and abroadA growing wave of uncertainty is freezing investment plans in Mexico, the US's largest trading partner, rattling domestic and foreign business leaders alike.Investors are weighing Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on 1 August. The plan so far - levies on Mexican-made cars, steel, aluminum, metal parts and tomatoes. And they are pondering the push by the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to overhaul the country's judiciary in ways critics say undermine legal certainty and could roll back democratic gains. Continue reading...
There are no secrets on the internet. Just ask the women who entrusted their data to Tea | Arwa Mahdawi
An app designed to protect its users from dodgy men has been hacked by dodgy men. I wish I could say I'm surprisedHelp me out with a question I've been pondering, will you? I'm trying to figure out if there is a single adult on Earth whose personal information isn't for sale somewhere on the darker corners of the internet. Data breaches are a regular occurrence now. We give companies our information; they promise to keep it safe and then they sell it to dodgy third parties or lose it in hacking attacks. There is a website called haveibeenpwned.com where you can check if your email addresses have been part of adata breach. My personal email isin 15ofthem.The latest data breach to hit the headlines is particularly nasty. A popular women-only dating-safety app called Tea lets users compare notes about men to see if they are dating the same person or if anyone has red flags to share. It's a bit like an app version of the popular Are we dating the same guy?" Facebook groups. Last Friday, the company behind Tea confirmed it had been breached. Women have to submit a selfie (to prove" their gender) in order to use the app; an estimated 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and photos of government IDs, have been leaked online. More than 1m private messages have also been leaked.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...
San Diego FC are setting risky new records in an eye-catching MLS debut
No team in the world relies on buildup quite like the newly-formed group of 30 strangers' with teenagers in key positionsFor a goalkeeper under pressure, there's one safe way out: turn away from the opponent, shield the ball with your body and boot it long.A few minutes into the second half against Nashville last weekend, Pablo Sisniega did the exact opposite. Continue reading...
Delta Air Lines sued over man’s use of lost iPad to record explicit videos
A South Carolina family had forgotten the device on a trip and later found the clips uploaded to their cloud accountA Delta Air Lines employee stole a computer tablet left behind on a plane by a South Carolina child, then used it to record sexually explicit videos of himself - which saved to cloud storage and were discovered by the minor's parents, a recent federal lawsuit alleges.The child's parents, Tory and Brooke Brewer, sued Delta in US district court in Charleston on 16 July, saying their family is owed damages for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and harassment, among other causes. Continue reading...
The New York gunman blamed CTE. I’ve seen that pain and I know silence is deadly | RK Russell
As a former NFL player, I've seen up close what brain trauma can do. Shane Tamura's final note echoed a familiar pain while showing how silence, access and neglect can killFour people lost their lives this week in a Manhattan office building, gunned down in a place I know well, by a man with a rifle and a three-page note blaming football and the brain diseases it allegedly left him with. One of the victims was an off-duty NYPD officer. Another was a Blackstone executive. All were innocent. All were just trying to make it home, and thanks to 27-year-old Shane Tamura, they never did.I've walked through those NFL offices. I've sat in those rooms. I have friends who still work there, people I care about deeply. And on the other side, I've known people and lost people who have suffered with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), not always to death, but to the isolation that comes with it and the slow unraveling of mind, body, and spirit. And I've lost people to gun violence. Too many of us have. Continue reading...
‘Why are you so damn gay?’: the public policing of Karl-Anthony Towns’ joy
As a boy, dancing felt like freedom. Then came a question that changed everything. From childhood shame to Karl-Anthony Towns memes, this is how softness gets punishedThe first time I danced was with my father. I plucked my bare feet onto his work boots, to my mother's distress, and let his rubber soles guide me into a groove. Hand in hand, we spun through the kitchen as Al Green's Love and Happiness christened my rhythm's baptism.The second time I danced was with myself - and it would be my last. I wrapped my arms around the fleshy part of my waist as Seal's Kiss from a Rose played from the Batman Forever CD in my stereo. Alone in my room, I was OK with the mirror seeing every part of me. I danced like Shirley Temple with Buddy Ebsen. Like my father guided me. The only thing that could have broken my rhythm did. My stepmother filled the doorway, barefoot except for a roach she had stepped on. Continue reading...
Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west's help | Owen Jones
The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all alongWhat have we done? As the UN-backed monitor declares that the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip", this should have been the question ricocheting between the walls as Keir Starmer met Donald Trump this week. Israel's deliberate starvation of Gaza is, after all, a crime confessed to, designed and implemented in plain sight. Starmer has said the UK will recognise Palestinian statehood if Israel doesn't agree to a ceasefire and a two-state solution, but don't be beguiled: Palestinian national self-determination is an inalienable right, not a bargaining chip, and it's the most symbolic action he could take rather than, say, imposing sweeping sanctions and ending all arms sales. The hand-wringing of western politicians and media outlets will not feed Gaza's emaciated children, any more than it will absolve them of guilt.Israel's leaders have said, explicitly, repeatedly, from the very beginning, that they are deliberately starving Gaza's people. Man-made famine is not something that I've seen in my lifetime," Martin Griffiths, the UN's former humanitarian chief, tells me. On 9 October 2023, Israel's then defence minister, Yoav Gallant, announced a complete siege on [Gaza]: no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel", justified on the grounds: We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly". The next day, the Israeli general charged with humanitarian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank - Ghassan Alian - declared that the citizens of Gaza" were human beasts" who would suffer a total blockade on Gaza, no electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell."Owen Jones 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...
US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump
International non-profit Civicus says sustained attacks on civic freedoms' put US on par with El Salvador and KenyaA group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.On Wednesday, a new report released by the non-profit Civicus placed the US on its watchlist following sustained attacks on civic freedoms" across the country, according to the group. Continue reading...
Trump suggests Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre among young female staff he hired away from Mar-a-Lago – as it happened
This blog is now closed. Read our latest story hereThe Trump administration must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in an escalating legal war between the reproductive health giant and the White House over Republican efforts to defund" Planned Parenthood.Days after Donald Trump signed his sweeping tax bill, Planned Parenthood sued over a provision in the bill that ended Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, such as Planned Parenthood. Continue reading...
Trump news at a glance: president wades back into Epstein debate with comments about Virginia Giuffre
Trump suggests Epstein stole' Virginia Giuffre from his Florida club; DoJ asks California to give details of non-citizens on voter rolls. Key US politics stories from Tuesday 29 July at a glanceDonald Trump has spoken about Jeffrey Epstein and his links to the president's Mar-a-Lago club, saying that the late sex offender stole" Virginia Giuffre and other young female staffers when he hired them while they were working at the Florida country club.Trump, who has faced an outcry over his administration's refusal to release more records about Epstein after promises of transparency, made the comments on Air Force One while returning from a trip to Scotland. Trump has attempted to tamp down questions about the case, expressing annoyance that people are still talking about it six years after Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial, even though some of his own allies have promoted conspiracy theories about it. Continue reading...
Ex-Trump lawyer Emil Bove confirmed to federal appeals court by US Senate
Top justice department official confirmed 50-49 despite claims that he advocated for ignoring court's ordersThe Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove, a top justice department official and former defense attorney for Donald Trump, to a lifetime seat on a federal appeals court, despite claims by whistleblowers that he advocated for ignoring court orders.The vote broke nearly along party lines, with 50 Republican senators voting for his confirmation to a seat on the third circuit court of appeals overseeing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the US Virgin Islands. Continue reading...
UCLA agrees to $6.5m settlement with Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests
Lawsuit alleges protesters made antisemitic threats with the knowledge and acquiescence' of university officialsThe University of California, Los Angeles, will pay nearly $6.5m to settle a lawsuit by Jewish students and a professor who said the university allowed antisemitic discrimination to take place on campus during last year's pro-Palestinian protests.The lawsuit alleged that with the knowledge and acquiescence" of university officials, protesters prevented Jewish students from accessing parts of campus, and made antisemitic threats. Under the settlement agreement announced on Tuesday, the university admitted it had fallen short" and agreed to pay $2.33m to eight groups that support UCLA's Jewish community, $320,000 to a campus initiative to fight antisemitism, and $50,000 to each plaintiff. Continue reading...
Search under way for US sailor missing from USS George Washington in sea north of Australia
US navy and Australian authorities are conducting search and rescue operations in the Timor Sea after reports of possible sailor overboard'A search-and-rescue mission is under way in the Timor Sea for a US sailor believed to have gone overboard from the USS George Washington on Monday.The aircraft carrier and its carrier strike group are conducting search-and-rescue operations in the sea, after reports of a possible sailor overboard" on Monday afternoon, the US navy said in a statement. Continue reading...
New Orleans announces municipal ID card amid nationwide Ice crackdown
Crescent City ID program will help immigrants and those who are homeless obtain ID proof and access servicesThe city of New Orleans has announced a municipal identification program to provide ID cards to residents who may not be able to access such cards otherwise in a move seen as a positive step for the city's migrant communities as the Trump administration continues targeting undocumented people.The municipal government of New Orleans launched the Crescent City ID program on Monday, which is designed to promote inclusion" in the city. Continue reading...
Las Vegas reportedly set to host 2026 World Cup draw on 5 December
Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role
President says pair fell out because Epstein poached staffers, including Epstein accuser who died in AprilDonald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender he socialized with for more than a decade, stole" Virginia Giuffre and other young female staffers whom he hired away from the president's Mar-a-Lago country club.Speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Scotland, Trump was asked to elaborate on his earlier comments about falling out with Epstein because he took employees from his business. The president said on Monday that he had kicked Epstein out of his club because he did something that was inappropriate" - specifically, that he stole people that worked for me". Continue reading...
US states sue over Trump demand to collect details of food assistance recipients
Attorneys general challenge request for data of people enrolled in federally funded food assistance programA coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration's demand that their states turn over personal data of people enrolled in a federally funded food assistance program, fearing the information will be used to aid mass deportations.The data demand comes as the Trump administration has sought to collect private information on mostly lower-income people who may be in the country illegally. It has already ordered the Internal Revenue Service and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to share private information with the Department of Homeland Security to aid in deportation efforts. Continue reading...
Brain injuries and legal battles: the NFL’s persistent problem with CTE
The league first publicly accepted there was a link between the sport and the incurable brain disease in 2016 - but still outright denied claimsOn Monday evening, a man brandishing an AR-15-style rifle walked into the east midtown Manhattan office tower where the NFL is headquartered and killed four people before turning the gun on himself.Authorities say the man, 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura of Las Vegas, traveled to New York days before the incident, and surveillance footage from the Park Avenue address showed him arriving in a suit and tie that concealed body armor. Continue reading...
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