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Reignited quarrel centers around Musk's opposition to the president's signature tax bill as it moves through CongressDonald Trump and Elon Musk's feud reignited this week with the former political allies trading sharp public threats of retribution. The blowup, centered around Musk's opposition to Trump's signature tax bill as it moves through Congress, ends a period of rapprochement between two of the world's most powerful men.Musk posted escalating attacks against Trump's sweeping spending bill on his social media platform X, calling the legislation insane" and vowing to form a new political party if it passed late Monday. In response, Trump claimed he could look into" deporting the South Africa-born billionaire, while also suggesting he could cut government subsidies for Musk's companies or set the so-called department of government efficiency" (Doge) on its former leader. Continue reading...

Legislation goes to House but unclear if lower chamber will accept changes to tax and spending bill amid factional splitsSenate Republicans on Tuesday passed a major tax and spending bill demanded by Donald Trump, ending weeks of negotiations over the comprehensive legislation and putting it another step closer to enactment.But it remains unclear whether changes made by the chamber will be accepted by the House of Representatives, which approved an initial draft of the legislation last month by a single vote. While Republicans control both houses of Congress, factionalism in the lower chamber is particularly intense, with rightwing fiscal hardliners demanding deep spending cuts, moderates wary of dismantling safety-net programs and Republicans from Democratic-led states expected to make a stand on a contentious tax provision. Any one of these groups could potentially derail the bill's passage through a chamber where the GOP can lose no more than three votes. Continue reading...

Kristi Noem says we're working with [DoJ] to see if we can prosecute them' while president fumes over Iran reportingDonald Trump and administration officials have threatened CNN over what they said was its promotion of a new app that allows users to track and try to avoid Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.Speaking to reporters in Florida on a trip to visit a new Ice detention center in Everglades, dubbed Alligator Alcatraz", the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said her department and the Department of Justice were looking at prosecuting CNN over its reporting on the app, called IceBlock. Continue reading...

Trump's immigration crackdown has made many immigrant farmworkers scared to go to workLisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura county, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the US illegally.Tate knows the farms around her well. And she says she can see with her own eyes how raids carried out by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in the area's fields earlier this month, part of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, have frightened off workers. Continue reading...

President says immigration jail in Florida Everglades is a little controversial, but I couldn't care less'Donald Trump on Tuesday toured Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience.The president was chaperoned by Florida's hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, who hailed the tented camp on mosquito-infested land 50 miles west of Miami as an example for other states that supported Trump's mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...

New White House-approved painting was donated after Trump described the original as purposefully distorted'Months after Donald Trump expressed strong negative opinions about a presidential portrait of him in the Colorado state capitol that he described as purposefully distorted", a White House-approved replacement now hangs in its place.The new portrait, which Trump reportedly demanded be printed with a golden border so it would catch the light and glimmer", bears a close resemblance to Trump's official second-term photograph, which hangs in more than 1,600 federal buildings across the US and thousands more on a voluntary basis. Continue reading...

Jerome Powell says inflationary impact of the president's trade policies needs to be assessed before borrowing costs can be reducedThe chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has blamed Donald Trump's tariffs for preventing the immediate interest rate cuts the president has demanded.Trump has repeatedly urged Powell to reduce borrowing costs in the US economy. On Tuesday, he said: Anybody would be better than J Powell. He's costing us a fortune because he keeps the rate way up." Continue reading...

Upper chamber appears to be heading for conclusion after debating amendments for more than 24 hours

A new justice department directive may signal a sweeping crackdown on US citizens as part of Trump's deportation agendaA justice department memo directing the department's civil division to target the denaturalization of US citizens around the country has opened up an new avenue for Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, experts say.In the US, when a person is denaturalized, they return to the status they held before becoming a citizen. If someone was previously a permanent resident, for example, they will be classified as such again, which can open the door to deportation efforts. Continue reading...

Former presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush and singer Bono send emotional message to staff as organisation closesBarack Obama and George W Bush have criticised the closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), as a study warned it could result in a staggering number" of avoidable deaths - more than 14 million over five years.The former US presidents made rare public criticisms of the Trump administration as they took part in a video farewell for USAID staffers on Monday on its last day as an independent organisation. Continue reading...

Twenty-year-old man had once aspired to be a firefighter and had only minor contacts with area policeA 20-year-old man's life appeared to have begun to unravel in the months before authorities say he fatally shot two firefighters and severely wounded a third as they responded to a wildfire near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.Wess Roley was living out of his vehicle and his former roommate, TJ Franks Jr, said he shaved off his long hair and started to kind of go downhill". The two lived together for about six months in Sandpoint, Idaho, until Roley moved out in January, Franks said on Monday. Continue reading...

Homeland security secretary was paid by group listed as American Resolve Police Fund, according to PoliticoThe US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, failed to disclose $80,000 that she accepted while serving as South Dakota's governor, according to a report published on Monday.The investigative news website ProPublica said that tax records from 2023 show Noem was paid the sum by a group listed as American Resolve Policy Fund - but it has never made it on to her public ethics disclosures. Continue reading...

The Trump administration has made repeated cuts targeting the organization's clinics. Now the US supreme court has struck another blowPlanned Parenthood, the massive, 108-year-old network of women's and reproductive health clinics that operates almost 600 health centers across the United States, may not survive the Trump administration. Long a hated symbol on the right, and unable to summon enthusiastic support from the left, the medical network has nevertheless remained a symbolic and material cornerstone of women's equality, serving millions of patients - many of them indigent or low-income - each year, and housing one of the biggest feminist and pro-choice lobbying and litigation shops in America, in addition to being one of the nation's largest healthcare providers.Since returning to power in January, the Trump administration has made repeated cuts targeting Planned Parenthood's clinics, excluding the group from the vast Title X family planning program, on the pretext of scurrilous claims that they have violated federal anti-discrimination law by adopting resolutions stressing their commitment to Black communities" and by providing medical treatment to undocumented immigrants.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Former marine Arturo Flores condemns a level of psychological warfare I've only seen in theaters of war'As a United States marine, Arturo Flores served in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he worked as a military police officer and trained dogs to find roadside bombs.It's his experience in the military that has made what he's seen on the streets of southern California in recent weeks all the more disturbing to him, Flores said. Continue reading...

Fight between two groups occurred near Stonewall Inn while six people bear-sprayed in Washington Square ParkOne teenage girl shot another before being shot herself, and six other people were bear-sprayed at the tail end of New York City's Pride march on Sunday, bringing a violent end to the month-long LGBTQ+ celebrations.New York police said the shooting occurred near the historic Stonewall Inn in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, where the gay rights movement kicked off with an anti-police demonstration in June 1969. Continue reading...

Justice department charges 324 defendants in largest healthcare fraud initiative in its historyThe US justice department said on Monday that it halted a series of healthcare fraud schemes that sought to bilk the federal government out of $14.6bn.The operation, which the department called the largest healthcare fraud initiative in its history, led to criminal charges against 324 defendants and the seizure of more than $245m in cash, luxury cars and other assets. The actual loss to the US government totaled about $2.9bn, officials said.Guardian staff contributed Continue reading...

From the Maga crowd to Nato's secretary general, everyone is addressing the president of the US as if he was their actual father. Make it stop!Is your name Barron, Donald Jr, Eric, Ivanka or Tiffany Trump? No? Then I regret to inform you that President Donald John Trump is almost certainly not your daddy. I say almost certainly" because narcissistic billionaires do have a nasty habit of spawning willy-nilly. Just look at Elon Musk and Pavel Durov - the latter is the Telegram founder, who has more than 100 children in 12 countries via sperm donation.Still, unless you are a very high-IQ individual, with an orange glow, an insatiable appetite for money-making schemes, and a weird belief that you invented the word caravan", I think it's safe to say that you're probably not Trump's offspring. Continue reading...

Senators extend vote-a-rama', in which bill faces series of amendments, into second day

Spending may seem scattergun but new weapons, from Liam Delap to Joao Pedro, will help Chelsea tackle low blocksWhen Enzo Maresca became Chelsea's head coach last summer, those who had studied the Italian's tactics at Leicester predicted his appointment would accelerate the end of Ben Chilwell's time at Stamford Bridge. Enzo doesn't play with a left-back," a source said. Chilwell won't be able to do what Enzo wants. He just won't play him."The prediction was spot-on, with Chilwell quickly discounted from selection. It was nothing personal, though. The logic was merely that Maresca does not play with a conventional back four in possession but wants one full-back inverting and the other shifting inside to play as an extra centre-back in a 3-2-4-1 system. Continue reading...

Democrats have attacked bill for its $1.2tn in cuts, largely to Medicaid and food stamps. Plus, Israel ratchets up bombing of Gaza as scores of people killed on MondayGood morning.The US Senate is still holding a marathon vote on a sprawling budget that is vital to Donald Trump's agenda and would see sweeping tax breaks and cuts to healthcare and food programs if passed.What's in the bill? Among other things, $1.2tn in cuts, largely to Medicaid and food stamps, by imposing stricter work requirements; $4.5tn in tax cuts; rolling back billions of dollars in green energy tax credits; and a $350bn infusion for border and national security.What have opponents said? The rift with Trump deepened as Elon Musk vowed on X to unseat lawmakers who support the bill: Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth."This is a developing story. Follow our live coverage here.What is the current aid situation? More Palestinians were killed on Monday as they sought aid: Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said it had received the bodies of 11 people who were shot while returning from an aid site associated with the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund, and 10 others were killed at a UN aid warehouse, according to the health ministry.Is a ceasefire edging closer? It could be. Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, on Monday added his voice to those in Israel calling for an end to the war. There is no longer any benefit for the state of Israel from continuing the war in Gaza. Only damage on the security, political and economic level," Lapid told a meeting of parliamentarians. Continue reading...

The lessons of Zohran's victory are hopeful for the left and the Democrats - if the party takes them to heartIn a lifetime of activism, I have canvassed and phone-banked, raised money, and twisted arms for dozens of political candidates. Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Indian-Ugandan democratic socialist and presumptive winner of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, is the only one I've both supported without reservation and believed could win.Volunteering for a campaign always teaches you something. Often, it's discouraging - like the moment my partner and I saw Hillary Clinton's team selling lawn signs for $25 instead of blanketing Philadelphia by distributing them free, and predicted she'd lose. But the lessons of Zohran's victory are hopeful for the left and the Democrats - if the party takes them to heart.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books Continue reading...

Experts say the push to cut federal funding for programs that provide health coverage to children speaks to the lack of youth protections in the USEvery school year, midwife Lisa Isman meets dozens of eighth graders for an annual tour of the clinic where she works. Students gather first in the office's waiting room, where neon green couches, young adult romance novels and pamphlets on loneliness and sexual wellness greet them. On the tour of the Ungdomsmottagning - Swedish for youth clinic" - the students in this suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, will take a peek at the different exam rooms, meet clinic counselors, and pay a visit to the clinic's kondomeria", a cupboard decorated with condoms posed like action figures and stocked with a variety of brands.The required school tour is an opportunity for Isman and her colleagues to explain to students that, from ages 12 to 22, this is their clinic. And they can decide for themselves" whether to book an appointment, with or without their parents' involvement, Isman says. Continue reading...

Residents of Leavenworth are organizing against CoreCivic's efforts to reopen a problematic prisonIt was a lovely May evening in Leavenworth, Kansas, but instead of strolling along the Missouri River or gardening, a group of locals sat on squeaky folding chairs at the public library to discuss their mission: how to stop a private prison behemoth from warehousing immigrants down the road.This was happening in a famously pro-prison town, home to one of the oldest federal penitentiaries, and where Donald Trump won more than 60% of the vote in 2024. Besides the military and the Veterans Affairs medical center, prisons are the largest employer in this community, 30 miles north-west of Kansas City. With federal immigration detention facilities around the country packed due to the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts, the private prison industry is experiencing a boom. Stock prices of companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic soared as they gained scores of contracts. Continue reading...

Lead of Chrisley Knows Best said he doesn't have an apology to give' in interview after release from prisonA reality TV star who was imprisoned for defrauding banks of tens of millions of dollars before being pardoned in May by Donald Trump says there is nothing for him to be sorry about.I don't have an apology to give you or anyone else over the money that I've made," Todd Chrisley said in an interview with ABC News that was posted online Monday. Continue reading...

Using clever tactics and Messi clickbait, Egyptian creators racked up 14m views with highlights posted before kickoff. YouTube didn't catch on until it was too lateThis story was reported by Indicator, a publication that investigates digital deception, and co-published with the Guardian.It was Thursday morning in America and something didn't look right in the highlights of the Club World Cup match between Manchester City and Juventus.Suzi Ragheb provided research support and translation of one of the videos in Arabic. Continue reading...

Senators vote on potentially long list of amendments; White House confirms negotiations will restart after tech tax scrapped.This blog is now closed - please follow the latest in our new live blog hereNearly 300 current and recently terminated employees of the US Environmental Protection Agency published a declaration of dissent today, outlining five major concerns about how the Trump administration's politicization of science and severe job cuts were undermining the agency's mission.The declaration to administrator Lee Zeldin was sent as another expected round of staff reductions looms and as the agency undergoes a major reorganization, including the dissolution of its office of research and cancelling of billions of dollars in grants.Your decisions and actions will reverberate for generations to come. EPA under your leadership will not protect communities from hazardous chemicals and unsafe drinking water, but instead will increase risks to public health and safety. Continue reading...

Asset manager Aberdeen's surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good works reelingThe axe fell with shocking suddenness. On Thursday Aberdeen Group plc terminated its Financial Fairness Trust without notice and sacked the CEO, Mubin Haq, the chair and all the trustees, leaving eight staff dangling. The company tells me it plans to move in a different direction. That dreaded phrase marks the end of 16 remarkable years, during which the trust sponsored some of the most influential research into inequality and its financial causes.Aberdeen is a wealth management and investment company. I admired its willingness to fund research not in its own immediate interest, but for the sake of social improvement, as a sign that decent capitalism was possible. Now that's over. The mood has changed. Wildfires started by President Trump are engulfing global companies as his administration attempts to bar asset and retirement plan managers from considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions and targets private sector diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives with executive orders. Companies doing good are at risk. I ask Aberdeen if that's why it has shut down the trust. It denies it strongly, saying it is just a natural evolution".Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg's movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

Bryan Kohberger to be spared death penalty but will be given four consecutive life sentences, ABC News reportsBryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four Idaho college students in 2022, has agreed to plead guilty to all counts, a move that would spare him from the death penalty, ABC News reported on Monday, citing a letter sent to victims' family members.Kohberger, who previously pleaded not guilty on charges of murder in the fatal stabbings, will be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences and waives all right to appeal, according to ABC News. Continue reading...

Voting continued as lawmakers proposed amendments that could prove tricky for Republicans. Key US politics stories from Monday 30 JuneSenate Republicans are racing to meet Donald Trump's self-imposed 4 July deadline to pass the president's massive tax-and-spending one big, beautiful bill". In a marathon session, senators convened at the Capitol to propose amendments to the legislation over many hours.Democrats, who universally oppose the bill, are expected to use the process to force their opponents into politically tricky votes that they will seek to wield against them in elections to come. Continue reading...

Advocates say the move could turn the tide for other British overseas territories battling for LGBTQ+ rightsA court in London has upheld a Cayman Islands law legalising same-sex civil partnerships, in a move that campaigners say could turn the tide for other British overseas territories battling for LGBTQ+ rights.On Monday, the privy council, the final court of appeal for the British overseas territory, rejected an appeal that had argued the Caribbean island's governor had no right to enact the bill, after lawmakers had rejected similar legislation. Continue reading...

Suspect set a wildfire then killed two firefighters and seriously wounded another in hours-long incidentAs a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed to put out the blaze instead found themselves in an unexpected shootout.A man shot the firefighters who were battling a blaze in northern Idaho after they asked him to move his vehicle, killing two of them and wounding a third, a sheriff said on Monday. Continue reading...

The university has lost millions of dollars in federal grants and faces further hardship from a proposed endowment taxStanford University will cut $140m from its budget in the coming academic year, citing consequences from federal policy changes" including reductions in federal research support and an increase in the endowment tax". The news came in a letter Jon Levin, the university president, and Jenny Martinez, the provost, sent to faculty and staff last week.The budget cuts will likely necessitate staff layoffs, deepening the impact of a staff hiring freeze the university announced in February. The university will continue hiring faculty, although the pace may be somewhat slowed", Levin and Martinez wrote. The cuts exclude the School of Medicine, which will make its own budget reductions. Continue reading...

A great day for Britain, with seven winners as the champion was run close by Italian veteran Fabio FogniniAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing.1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

White House says move will help stabilise country after ousting of Assad and could lead to broader sanctions reliefDonald Trump has signed an executive order to lift some financial sanctions on Syria in a move that the White House says will help stabilise the country after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.The order was designed to terminate the United States' sanctions programme on Syria", a White House spokesperson said, cancelling a 2004 declaration that froze Syrian government property and limited exports to Syria over Damascus's chemical weapons programme. Continue reading...

Fluminense hit Inter early via German Cano and the Brazilians never looked back7 min: Darmian comes through the back of Cano, and is fortunate not to go into the book. Inter have already committed a couple of fouls, so their next miscreant might not be so fortunate.5 min: Inter try to reply immediately, Darmian making good down the right. But his cross is no use. What a start by Flu, though; the Brazilians, well, flew out of the traps and got right up in Inter's collective grille. They got their reward. Continue reading...

Officials file lawsuit over sanctuary city policies that limit cooperation with federal agenciesDonald Trump's administration has sued the city of Los Angeles over its immigration policies, claiming that city law discriminates against federal law enforcement and is obstructing the enforcement of immigration laws with sanctuary policies that bar local police from sharing information on people without legal status.Filed in the central district of California, the lawsuit says Donald Trump campaigned and won the presidential election on a platform of deporting the millions of illegal immigrants the previous administration permitted, through its open borders policy, to enter the country unlawfully". It is the latest in a string of lawsuits against so-called sanctuary jurisdictions - including New York,New Jersey and Colorado - that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Continue reading...

Homeland security and Doge merge immigration data with social security to create index it claims will stop voter fraudThe US Department of Homeland Security has for the first time built a national citizenship database that combines information from immigration agencies and the social security administration.The database was created in collaboration with the department of government efficiency" (Doge) in an effort to bridge the gaps between disparate information sources to make it easier to determine whether someone is a citizen, according to NPR, which first reported the details of the database. Continue reading...

Cuban person, 75, reportedly died in immigration detention last week, marking 13th migrant death in Ice jails in 2025The Trump administration is on track to oversee one of the deadliest years for immigrant detention as of late after the recent deaths of two men - one from Cuba and another from Canada - while in federal custody.A 75-year-old Cuban man died last week while being held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), CBS News reported, citing a notification sent to Congress. This would mark the 13th death in its facilities during the 2025 fiscal year, which began in October. Continue reading...

Suspect charged with 12 hate-crime counts over attack as officials say Karen Diamond died from severe injuries'An 82-year-old Colorado woman who was injured in a molotov cocktail attack on demonstrators in support of Israeli hostages this month has died, according to court documents filed on Monday.Karen Diamond died as a result of the severe injuries that she suffered in the attack", Boulder county district attorney's office said in a statement. Continue reading...

Currency sold off due to concerns economic policies threaten safe-haven role of US dollar-denominated assetsThe US dollar has had its worst first half-year in more than 50 years, as the financial markets over the last six months were dominated by geopolitical crises and Donald Trump's trade war.The dollar has fallen by more than 10% against a basket of currencies since the start of 2025. That is its worst performance over the first six months of any year since 1973, and the worst half-year since the second half of 1991. Continue reading...

Thom Tillis also announces he won't seek re-election after opposing Medicaid cuts in proposed budget billIt is inescapable this bill will betray the promise Donald Trump made," Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican senator, said on Sunday night, sandblasting the Senate version of the big, beautiful bill" that is meant to codify the president's agenda.Tillis made his speech on the Senate floor on Sunday night, a few hours after announcing he would not seek re-election in politically competitive North Carolina. Observers described it as fiery" and savage". But Tillis carefully avoided direct criticism of the president as he denounced proposed cuts to Medicaid, a lack of rigor in the legislative process and the Senate's headlong drive to an artificial deadline. Continue reading...

Letter reportedly threatens loss of all federal financial resources' over treatment of Jewish and Israeli studentsThe Trump administration has concluded that Harvard University violated federal civil rights law in its handling of Jewish and Israeli students, and it threatened the school with a potential loss of all federal financial resources" as a result, according to the Wall Street Journal.In a Monday letter addressed to the Harvard president, Alan Garber, administration attorneys stated that the university was aware Jewish and Israeli students felt unsafe on campus but failed to take meaningful action. The letter, obtained by the Journal, accused Harvard of deliberate indifference" toward those concerns. Continue reading...

Case filed when JD Vance was senatorial candidate claims that restrictions impede first amendment rightsThe US supreme court agreed on Monday to hear a case that could further erode restrictions on money in politics, in a challenge that comes in part from Vice-President JD Vance.The National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Vance and Steve Chabot, a former Republican congressman from Ohio, are challenging limits set on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates. The case was filed when Vance was a senatorial candidate, in 2022. Continue reading...