Attorney Dan Cogdell backs Paxton's Democratic opponent and says the Republican is too focused on appeasing TrumpA lawyer who represented Ken Paxton, Texas's attorney general, for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico - and not his former client - in one of the biggest US Senate races.Talarico on Monday drew attention to his campaign winning the endorsement of Houston attorney Dan Cogdell, who was part of Paxton's defense team during the Republican's historic impeachment trial in 2023 that ended in acquittal. Continue reading...
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The US men have scored 25 goals (we'll spare you the own-goals) in the World Cup since 1990. Ranking them requires some nuanceWhat makes a good goal? This was the question each of us pondered as we embarked upon the process of ranking every goal we've seen the US score at the men's World Cup - a worthwhile bit of nostalgia before the national team kicks off their 2026 World Cup campaign hoping to add more to this list.First, we had to narrow the field. The team have scored 40 goals at the men's World Cup, but scant video evidence exists of 12 of those - appropriate, given they were scored in 1930, 1934, and 1950. Piecing together reports and descriptions can give you an idea, but they were always going to be judged differently than those we've seen, felt and heard. And so, with apologies to Aldo Buff" Donelli and Joe Gaetjens, our pool is limited to US World Cup apearances from 1990 til the present. Continue reading...
Becoming the world's first trillionaire is only going to supercharge this sense of impunity and bring us one step closer to full-blown oligarchyWhoever said money can't buy happiness' really knew what they were talking about," Elon Musk wrote in February on Twitter/X, the social network he bought for $44bn. He capped the statement with a sad face emoji.Alas, Musk's information is outdated. A 2024 study found a substantial difference in happiness between the wealthy and people who are low income. A greater feeling of control over life can explain about 75% of the association between money and happiness," the study's author noted.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist and the author of Strong Female Lead Continue reading...
Partly inspired by the poem In This Place (An American Lyric) by Amanda Gorman, FotoFocus, a non-profit, has opened its inaugural exhibition at the new FotoFocus Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Titled Big Tent, the show is on view until 22 August 2026 and presents the work of more than 50 artists. The work created by each photographer reflects on the present state of US democracy and demonstrates the power of the image Continue reading...
The magazine writes: Resisting Gen-Z socialism is therefore an urgent task.' That urgency must outweigh any urgency of feeding hungry peopleA spectre is haunting Europe and America - the spectre of gen Z socialism.That's the urgent warning from the Economist in a new cover-story editorial, How to fight back against gen Z socialism. Alarmed by a youthful threat to the established order, the magazine is calling for heightened vigilance from defenders of private enterprise.Norman Solomon is the director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy Continue reading...
The tournament kicks off on Thursday in Mexico City. Here's what newcomers can expect from one of the world's largest and most watched eventsIt is! Every four years the best men's teams on the planet gather to see who will be crowned world champions. This year's tournament will be co-hosted by frenemies Canada, Mexico and the United States in 16 cities as different as Vancouver, Kansas City and Guadalajara. The 48 teams are initially divided into [does arithmetic] 12 four-team groups with each team playing the others in the group once. The top two from each group, along with the eight best third-placed teams - 32 in total - will advance to the knockout stages. Matches from that point on are single-elimination - lose and you're out. If scores are level at the end of extra-time, the match is decided by a penalty shootout. Continue reading...
Critics say president using well-worn playbook - with loyalists in key positions ready to amplify his messageDonald Trump is inventing fraud" in California's primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have warned.While the US president has used this playbook for years - from his loss at the Emmys as a reality TV star to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election - election integrity campaigners fear this time could be different. Continue reading...
Players and fans denied visas, the spectre of ICE raids on stadiums, Pete Hegseth's latest speech ... By the end of this contest, the nature of this US government will be even clearerWhenever my kids and I are stationary in the same room, within five minutes they will have started talking about football. Every now and then, a name will float out that I recognise - Jude Bellingham, say - but most of the time it lacks the dramatic texture to hold my attention. Everyone is either a genius or an irretrievable loser.There's a lot of counting. Would you watch a play in which everyone was either entirely wise or entirely stupid and the rest of it was mainly a body count?" I ask, trying to wedge myself back into the conversation. They reply: Hello? Romeo and Juliet?!" then go back to the shortcomings of La Liga, so I go back to looking at my phone. Continue reading...
His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society - and he may yet become presidentImmigration is falling in Britain. It's falling so fast and so hard - net migration to the UK nearly halved between 2024 and 2025 - that before long we could conceivably be a shrinking population, with more people leaving the country than coming here. (And no, that's not because of an exodus of bright young Britons fleeing overseas, though you wouldn't blame them given how hard they're finding it currently to get jobs: the rise, as the Institute for Government's Sam Freedman helpfully points out, is mainly in foreign students and foreign workers going home.) Even small-boat crossings are down on last year. We have, in short, finally made ourselves as unattractive to the rest of the world as leave voters always wanted - which means that, sooner or later, populists who built their careers on railing against supposedly uncontrolled immigration are going to be needing another scapegoat to explain why taking back control hasn't magically solved all the country's problems. And with a grim inevitability, they're finding it in turning on migrants who are already here.That's the background to two hand grenades lobbed aggressively into British politics from across the Atlantic last week, causing enough concern in Downing Street to prompt a rare public rebuke. The claim from the US vice-president, JD Vance, that righteous anger" was the only response" to the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak would have been provocative enough, given its pointed echo of Nigel Farage's now widely condemned call for pure, cold rage". Continue reading...
Track and field's youngest world champion on wanting to change the sport' and his admiration for NapoleonWe are in living in the era of teenage super talents. On Saturday, Mirra Andreeva won the French Open at 19. Spain's Lamine Yamal, at 18, is one of the favourites for the World Cup's golden ball. Then there is Cooper Lutkenhaus, the 17-year-old American already making the world's best athletes gasp for air and reach for superlatives, who may yet prove the best of the bunch.True, it is early days. But Lutkenhaus is already track and field's youngest world champion, having won 800m indoor gold in March. On Sunday, he added to his CV with victory against a top-class field in his first Diamond League race. But it was what his rivals said afterwards in Stockholm that left the deepest mark. Continue reading...
A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket's parking lot and later died of the injuriesGordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island.Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer in 1993 in the history category for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal social and political transformation as a desire to be rid of colonial masters.This story was amended on 8 June 2026 to correct the Pulitzer prize-winning book's title to The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Continue reading...
Group seeks emergency injunction to halt UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House before a single punch is thrown - key US politics stories from Monday 8 JuneDonald Trump is throwing himself quite the 80th birthday party at the White House on Sunday. All he needs now is for a federal judge, Dwayne The Rock" Johnson and a passing thunderstorm not to ruin it.The watchdog group Public Integrity Project filed a lawsuit on Saturday in DC federal court, seeking an emergency injunction to halt the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event before a single punch is thrown on 14 June - which is both Flag Day and the president's birthday. Continue reading...
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Progressive challenger to face incumbent mayor in November as former reality star Pratt trails behindNithya Raman, a progressive Los Angeles city council member, has advanced to the November runoff for LA mayor, edging out former reality TV villain Spencer Pratt for the chance to face incumbent mayor Karen Bass.Pratt, who decided to run for mayor after his Pacific Palisades home burned down in the 2025 wildfires, held a lead over Raman for days. But as ballot processing from last week's election continued, the city councillor pulled ahead. Continue reading...
As president and allies spread baseless conspiracy theories, here's what you need to know about the California countAs California continues to slowly count ballots, edging closer to determining who will advance in elections to run the state and its largest city, Donald Trump and other Republicans are spreading claims of election fraud that have become common after California elections.On Monday, Trump-backed Republican Steve Hilton was inching closer to securing the second runoff spot in the California governor's race, after Democrat Xavier Becerra secured the first spot on Friday. But the race has yet to be called for Hilton, with more than 2.5m ballots still left to be counted across the state. Continue reading...
US president for years has repeatedly suggested - and said outright - that he would not take the country to warDonald Trump has forcefully denied he ever promised not to draw the US into war, having spent years pledging to avoid doing just that.The US president's own biography on the White House website credits him with putting a stop to endless wars" - raising questions about the US-Israel war on Iran, which he launched, with no end currently in sight. Continue reading...
President dramatically raised cost of visa for highly skilled workers in executive order last yearA US judge has invalidated Donald Trump's $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, ruling it an unlawful tax that violated federal administrative law and the constitution.US district judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the 42-page ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas.. The ruling vacated the sweeping fee, which was a 20-to-50 fold increase on existing rates, and the Trump administration is widely expected to appeal. Continue reading...
Department of Agriculture says new cases in Texas and New Mexico as officials move to combat parasite's spreadThe US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday confirmed three additional cases of New World screwworm - two more in Texas and the other in New Mexico, according to the agency's animal health arm.The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said the two Texas cases affected a calf in La Salle county and a goat in Gillespie county. Continue reading...
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Recent exchange of missiles between Iran and Israel highlights diverging views between US president and Israeli PMThe latest eruption of hostilities between Iran and Israel appears to have been contained for now after Donald Trump insisted he called all the shots" in the Middle East, but in a dangerously fragile region Benjamin Netanyahu has again shown he is ready to take shots of his own.The exchange of missiles on Sunday and Monday was ample demonstration of the inherent instability of the current limbo between war and peace, but it also shone a bright light on the complex and conflicted relationship between the US president and the Israeli prime minister, frenemies who could determine the fate of the current ceasefire. Continue reading...
Performing arts venue takes down references to a Trump Kennedy Center' in compliance with judge's rulingThe Kennedy Center has removed Trump's name from its website after a US district judge's order last month to remove the US president's name from the performing arts venue.The removal of Trump's name from the website on Monday came just days before a deadline instructed by the center's general counsel to remove all references to the president by 12 June. Continue reading...
Case argues Trump administration broke federal laws to accomodate deeply corrupt' commercial sporting eventDonald Trump is throwing himself quite the 80th birthday party at the White House on Sunday. All he needs now is for a federal judge, Dwayne The Rock" Johnson and a passing thunderstorm not to ruin it.The watchdog group Public Integrity Project filed a lawsuit on Saturday in DC federal court, seeking an emergency injunction to halt the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event before a single punch is thrown on 14 June - which so happens both Flag Day and the president's birthday. Continue reading...
From high-altitude training to made to measure kits, teams have resorted to all manner of things to adapt to conditions at the tournament Predict the winner | Daily podcast | Download our appThe heat and the altitude worried everybody. The 1970 World Cup in Mexico would not be a normal one. So the Bulgarian authorities sent their squad south of Sofia to get used to playing several thousand feet above sea level. Which seemed a great idea until somebody noticed that the temperature in the Pirin mountains was not in the mid-20s as it is in Mexico but somewhere near freezing. How then could they replicate the effect of playing in intense heat? By restricting water intake so that the players got used to performing while dehydrated.The plan was not a great success. Bulgaria lost their first two World Cup games in 1970 and had already been eliminated by the time they drew with Morocco. It's safe to assume that preparations for this World Cup will be rather more sophisticated than they were 56 years ago. Most countries back then seemed to take the view that training at altitude was the logical way to prepare for games in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara. Israel went to Ethiopia and Colorado. Uruguay played in Quito and Bogota. Mexico held a fivemonth training camp that featured 13 friendly internationals in four months before two games against Dundee United. Continue reading...
Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it did not echo Trump's view of the shootingThe fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at CBS of interfering with a broadcast segment on the killing of the Minneapolis protester Renee Good by an immigration officer in January.The veteran broadcaster, who was recently dismissed from the show, said CBS News's editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, had sent an email to his supervisor requesting changes shortly before the airing of the segment in question. Continue reading...
Harmonie Perrone, 28, is suing Advocate Good Shepherd in Illinois, where reproductive rights are enshrined in lawHarmonie Perrone, 28, knew she was probably having an ectopic pregnancy, and she knew exactly what she needed to do: seek medical care immediately, before life-threatening complications set in.But she was denied that care twice as she feared for her life - and, after the delay in care, she lost her fertility, she says in a new lawsuit filed Monday. Continue reading...
Though the federal government's prosecution fell apart, the Broadview Six of Illinois say their lives have been upendedMichael Rabbitt was 4,000 miles (6,400km) away from home last October, celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary in Portugal, when a pair of messages from the FBI brought news that would upend his life. He was under federal indictment, and was ordered to surrender by the next day.The month before, Rabbitt, 62, had been protesting at an ICE detention facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, during a period of tense daily demonstrations. Now, the federal government was accusing him and five others of felony conspiracy, saying they had illegally blocked an ICE vehicle. Continue reading...
All eyes on US Senate race as Graham Platner, embroiled in controversy, is set to advance as Democratic nomineeVoters in Maine head to the polls on Tuesday for one of the most closely watched primary elections in the country. The US Senate race has become a national fixation as Democrats try to unseat a longtime Republican with a political newcomer who has spent months under fire.Graham Platner, 41, is set to advance as the Democratic nominee for the Senate, after his primary rival - the state's two-term governor, Janet Mills - suspended her campaign in April. The primary result will likely set up a months-long run-up between Platner, an oysterman and marine veteran with a groundswell of popularity and a mounting list of scandals, and Susan Collins, a 73-year-old Republican senator who has held the seat for nearly three decades. Continue reading...
It was once an article of faith that even those who speak words we disagree with deserve protection. As regards Palestine, that's now not trueRemember the Satanic Verses controversy? Remember Je suis Charlie"? Remember the constant invocations of Voltaire and Orwell? The great irony of our age is that many of the cadre of politicians who spent years anointing themselves as champions of free speech have become its most enthusiastic enemies when the subject turns to one issue: Palestine.For decades, western governments lectured the world about liberal values. They declared freedom of expression the hallmark of a liberal democratic society. Protest was deemed patriotic while the right to offend was considered sacred. Then came Gaza. Suddenly, the principles that we were once told were non-negotiable became highly negotiable indeed.Mehdi Hasan is the editor-in-chief and CEO of ZeteoThe assault on freedom with Mehdi Hasan and Arwa Mahdawi
Donald Trump said: I'm about to call Bibi right now and tell him not to respond', as conflict risks spiralling - key US politics stories from 7 June at a glanceDonald Trump's appeal to Benjamin Netanyahu to not to strike back" after Iran launched missiles at Israel appears to have been unsuccessful after the Israeli military said it struck targets inside Iran.The US president made the plea after Iran responded to Israeli strikes on southern Beirut in Lebanon earlier on Sunday, as the conflict again threatened to spiral into a broader regional war. Continue reading...
Rose Byrne, Sarah Paulson, Daniel Radcliffe, Adrien Brody and others gather to celebrate Broadway's biggest awards night. The 79th annual Tony awards are hosted by Pink at Radio City Music Hall in New York
David Rush, who was arrested in May, stole millions from US government through special access program', officials sayA former executive intelligence agent who is accused of stealing more than $40m in gold bars from the CIA reportedly created a fake spy program to siphon money, the latest on his fraudulent activity, the Washington Post first reported.David Rush, who was a senior-level employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for 17 years, was arrested in May after FBI agents discovered Rush had taken 303 bullion bars, each about 2.2lbs, dozens of luxury watches, and more than $2m in foreign currency from his government office. Continue reading...
Democratic congressman issues qualified defense of Maine candidate in his bid to unseat Republican Susan CollinsProgressive Democratic congressman Ro Khanna issued a qualified defense of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on Sunday, saying his actions were misogynistic, they were shameful, they were wrong, but they didn't come as a surprise to a lot of the folks in Maine."The former Marine-turned-oyster farmer, who is campaigning to unseat the state's Republican senator Susan Collins in November, has been hit with successive waves of accusation about his past actions, including sending sexually explicit messages he sent to women while married and being stenciled with a Nazi-themed tattoo. Continue reading...
Potential proposal would secure control of Diego Garcia base amid stalled UK plans to cede sovereignty of territoryDonald Trump is reportedly weighing a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius amid stalled plans from the UK to cede sovereignty of the territory, the Telegraph first reported.The White House did not respond to the Guardian's request for comment on the report about the potential plan. Continue reading...
The moderate Republican, an advocate of abortion rights, resigned in 1995 amid accusations of sexual harassmentFormer US senator Bob Packwood, a moderate Oregon Republican whose reputation as a champion of abortion and women's rights was spoiled at the end of his career by allegations of sexual harassment, has died. He was 93.Packwood's death on Saturday was announced in an obituary sent to media outlets by his family. Continue reading...
From Christian Pulisic to Weston McKennie, many of the team's biggest stars have been open about their faith, creating a new dynamic for a home World Cup World Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Get the appIn the third episode of the interminable, nine-part Pulisic docuseries, its subject, Christian Pulisic, sits down at a dining table, pink orchids blooming behind him.It is what time?" a friend asks him, holding a camera in Pulisic's face. Continue reading...
US president says I'd pay the kind of money they deserve' amid questions over his administration establishing fundDonald Trump declined on Sunday to definitively rule out compensating individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers when his supporters attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 toward the end of his first presidency.Trump did that in an interview on NBC News's Meet the Press, where he spoke in support of what his administration calls an anti-weaponization" fund, arguing that people who entered the Capitol while Congress was preparing to certify Joe Biden's victory over him in the 2020 presidential election had been treated unfairly by prosecutors and should receive compensation. Continue reading...
The Socceroos playing on football's biggest stage in my adopted country would normally have me racing to book tickets. Not this yearIs USA! USA! USA!" a more fundamentally obnoxious chant than Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!"? As an Australian who has spent most of the last 15 years living in the United States and is now a permanent resident, the Socceroos' World Cup group match against the USA raises some questions. Has my adopted nation dethroned my homeland as the world's foremost exponent of being unconscionably terrible to immigrants? And on a more personal level ... who do I support here?Well, look, OK, there's really only one answer to that second question. I'm not an especially patriotic type, but if anything does bring out my Australian-ness, it's the World Cup - perhaps because it's one of the few events at which we can still claim to be underdogs. And now, two decades after I rose at dawn to watch Australia's dreams dashed by the intersection of Lucas Neill's leg and Fabio Grosso's general vicinity, I find myself living in a country hosting the tournament. Continue reading...
Search enters second day after Saturday shooting that wounded 12, two reported in critical condition, police sayOrganizers of a festival in the historic center of Toledo, Ohio, have cancelled planned events on Sunday as police continue the search for at least two shooters who wounded 12 people a day earlier.The Toledo police deputy chief, Joseph Heffernan, said the shooters were probably shooting at each other" when gunfire erupted just after 5.30pm near the Old West End festival, an annual gathering of live music and architectural home tours. Continue reading...
New film revives story of Taylor Parker, convicted in 2022 of cutting unborn daughter from womb of friend she killedIn an America so often saturated with brutal crime stories, it takes special circumstances to truly register shock.But the story of Taylor Parker, now sitting on a Texas death row after being convicted of murdering her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock in 2020 and cutting her unborn daughter Braxlynn from her womb, is horrific in part because it appears almost against nature itself. Continue reading...
At least 12 people were wounded in a shooting near the Old West End festival in Toledo, Ohio, on Satuday. Toledo's deputy police chief, Joe Heffernan, said two people were in a critical condition. No arrests have been made and the search for the suspects is continuing Continue reading...
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