The president has signed orders to ban gender transitions for people under 19, end birthright citizenship and moreDonald Trump signed 140 executive orders in the first 100 days of his second term, including orders aimed at enacting steep tariffs, ending birthright citizenship, curbing DEI and gender radicalism" in the military and pardoning January 6 rioters.The US president promised in his inaugural speech that these orders would amount to a complete restoration of America". Continue reading...
US president Donald Trump quarrelled with a ABC News interviewer after he corrected him on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian man, who was deported and who Trump alleged had MS-13 tattoos. In a tense exchange, Trump claimed that Garcia had a MS-13 tattoo on his knuckles but Terry Moran pushed back, telling the president the photo was doctored
US homeland security secretary said Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador not under our control'Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, said that if Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent back to the US, the Donald Trump administration would immediately deport him again".Noem repeated White House assertions about Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian man who the Trump administration has admitted was mistakenly deported from Maryland last month, in a new interview with CBS. Continue reading...
Aomar Ait Khedache, 68, has admitted involvement in armed robbery of reality TV star but denies being ringleaderA retired restaurant owner alleged to have been the ringleader of an armed robbery of American reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris, has told a court he was in part driven by a taste for easy money.Aomar Ait Khedache, 68, known as Old Omar", has admitted to police that he took part in the robbery in which Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in her Paris hotel bedroom during Paris fashion week in 2016. But he has denied the prosecution's accusation that he was the organiser or ringleader of the jewel heist in the early hours of 3 October 2016, which was the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years. Continue reading...
Four ex-heads of US embassies in nations that swung from democracies to dictatorships say landscape eerily familiarThe US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, former ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.At a panel discussion held to mark Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, four ex-heads of American embassies in countries that had experienced swings away from democracy said the current domestic political landscape felt eerily familiar and was pervaded by a climate of fear" deliberately created to make opponents back off". Continue reading...
Drop comes amid a huge fall in consumer sentiment which in April dropped 32% to lowest level since 1990 recessionThe US economy shrank in the first three months of the year, according to official data, as Donald Trump returned to the White House promising to make America great again".The US president sought to blame Joe Biden for the reading. But economists said it was largely driven by an unprecedented surge in imports, as consumers and companies braced for Trump to impose his controversial wave of tariffs. Continue reading...
President holds campaign-style event in Michigan, attacks Democrats and communist' judges, and repeats 2020 election lieDonald Trump has celebrated his 100th day in office with a campaign-style rally in Michigan and an attack on communist radical-left judges" for trying to curb his power, warning: Nothing will stop me."The president also served up the chilling spectacle of a video of Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious prison in El Salvador, accompanied by Hollywood-style music and roars of approval from the crowd. Continue reading...
Mark Carney's win isn't as comforting as it should be, especially when we look at all the events leading up to itAfter a snap election, weeks of breathless campaigning and a surprisingly close race, Mark Carney has been elected prime minister of Canada. It's a win for Liberals, who were rightly nervous that former prime minister Justin Trudeau's poor performance and late-stage missteps might cost them this election. But Carney's win isn't as comforting as it should be, especially when we look at all the events leading up to it.It's no secret that over the last decade, Canada's image as a welcoming, pacifist, melting pot has completely unravelled, revealing a rightwing underbelly that has seen the rise of the manosphere" and a deepening of its influences on young people, as well as a sharp increase in anti-immigrant sentiment and hate crimes. When it came down to this election, it was Trudeau's forced resignation and people's ability to credibly accuse the Liberal party of spending a decade basically twiddling their thumbs while the cost of living soared, that pushed Canadians to the right and helped the Conservative party coast to a near win. Continue reading...
A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from overWhen 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detention center in northern Texas, he had no idea where he was being taken.He wondered if he was being transferred to another facility or maybe deported back to his native Venezuela. He and the other passengers, their hands and feet shackled, settled into a tense silence. Then a terrifying possibility crept into Salazar's mind. Continue reading...
We would like to hear from US Social Security benefit recipients and agency workers about their experiences under the Trump administrationThe Social Security Administration (SSA) plans to cut 7000 jobs, about 12% of its workforce as part of the Department of Government Efficiency review of the federal work force.Nearly 69 million Americans on average per month are set to receive Social Security benefits in 2025, consisting of retired workers, disabled workers, survivors and dependents. These benefits represent 31 percent of income for people over the age of 65 in the US. Continue reading...
Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang tiesDetainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: SOS.With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday. Continue reading...
On Monday, the US president took another swing at cities that protect immigrants and limit Ice cooperationSince his first day in office, Donald Trump has zeroed in on so-called sanctuary cities", pledging to withhold federal funding and ensure they are eliminated as part of his administration's massive crackdown on immigrants.On Monday, he took yet another swing, directing his administration to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws". The order also calls on the government to identify federal funds that can be terminated as a consequence for cities that identify as sanctuary jurisdictions. Continue reading...
Although the resistance at the start of Trump's second term was wobbly, ordinary people' are pushing the movement forwardThose opposed to Donald Trump's agenda started his second term on a worse footing than the beginning of his first term.This time, the social media platform owners who previously tried to tamp down on false claims stood with him at his inauguration. Some major media outlets attempted to stay in Trump's good graces. Democrats were wrecked by a popular vote loss, believing they lacked the backing to lead an opposition. The courts were stacked in Trump's favor and had ruled the president had absolute immunity from criminal punishment for official acts". Continue reading...
Aide alludes to president running again in 2028 . Plus, border pick accused of cover-up over death of man beaten by US agentsGood morning.President Donald Trump has said that nothing will stop" him, speaking at a rally in Michigan to celebrate his 100th day in office where an aide alluded to him running again in 2028 - even though US presidents are constitutionally barred from serving a third term.What was said about a third term? Margo Martin, a White House aide, joined Trump on stage and asked: Trump 2028, anybody?" to roars from the crowd.When did the US campaign begin? It began to strike Houthi targets on 15 March, and the US military's central command says it has hit 800 targets and killed hundreds of Houthi fighters. Continue reading...
The president's approach: tackle problems that don't exist via policies that won't workIn the 2024 election, Donald Trump eked out a narrow victory, by 1.5 percentage points nationally, the lowest popular vote margin in 56 years, since Richard Nixon's wafer-thin win by 0.7 points in 1968. Trump claimed he had won an enormous historic mandate to impose a counterrevolution. The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible," Trump boasted on 6 March in his address to the Congress.His election rested on two principal issues, immigration and inflation. He demonized immigrants (poisoning the blood" of the country), raised the bogeyman of transgender people, and racialized the Democratic candidate, Vice-President Kamala Harris, whom he claimed had decided herself she was Black. In the minds of the marginal voters who swung to him, however, immigration and inflation were conflated, factors impinging on their standard of living and economic security. Trump stigmatized migrants as the source of crime and cultural impurity, but swing voters mainly (and falsely) regarded them as economic competitors for jobs and government resources. Continue reading...
Even a summer holiday isn't straightforward any more - and all across the US, millions of people are having to make calculations like mineLet me start with a message to my wife. SORRY!!! I apologise in advance for everything you are about to read.My more sensible half, you see, is a US citizen, who keeps telling me (a green card holder) that I should stop making jokes about getting sent to a detention centre or deported.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The president promised an extraordinary' first 100 days in office but for many that has been true in all the wrong waysThe first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term have polarized the United States and the world.Public opinion polls show the president's approval rating is around 40% - having flipped from positive to negative since his inauguration. A vast majority of Americans are worried about a recession and how his trade war will affect the economy. Continue reading...
A conservative movement seeking to harness female fandoms and pop culture gossip is the new front in the hard right's endless culture warFun news from the Guardian's Everything is Awful" desk this week: the womanosphere" cometh. The article heralds the arrival of a crop of conservative personalities ... convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview".What does such essentialism entail? The woman holding a sign reading Make him a sandwich" is a strong clue. Be thin, fertile and Republican" is the Guardian's conclusion. Continue reading...
As part of the price for peace, Moscow would like sanctions on Russian airlines lifted. That's no surprise: they're vital to the Kremlin's war machineOn Monday, the Kremlin offered a three-day pause in hostilities against Ukraine in May, to coincide with Moscow's celebrations of the end of the second world war. In a context where Ukraine is calling for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, and the US a permanent one, Russia wants concessions before a lasting pause or permanent peace can even be discussed. Central to the Kremlin's demands is the removal of sanctions - especially those restricting its aviation sector.We must be cautious not to make concessions prematurely, under the guise of quick progress. The short pause offered would not make a meaningful difference to the war, and accepting it would enable a regime that has repeatedly shown intent to prolong its war of aggression and undermine this chance for a just, fair and lasting peace.Andriy Yermak is head of the Ukrainian presidential office Continue reading...
During a rally in Michigan to mark his first 100 days in office, Trump mad the false claim that, 'for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction'. In the latest nationwide poll, conducted from 17-21 April for the Associated Press by National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, the overwhelming majority of Americans said that the country is headed in the wrong direction (62% vs 37%).
Donal Trump celebrates 100 days in office with Michigan event, saying nothing will stop me' - key US politics stories from Tuesday 29 April at a glanceDonald Trump has celebrated his 100th day in office with a campaign-style rally in Michigan and an attack on communist radical left judges" for trying to seize his power, warning: Nothing will stop me."The president also served up the chilling spectacle of a video of Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious prison in El Salvador, accompanied by Hollywood-style music and roars of approval from the crowd. Continue reading...
At least 28 people charged in federal court as civil liberties groups condemn enhanced militarization' of border landsThe US Department of Justice has begun the first criminal prosecutions of migrants for entering a newly declared military buffer zone created along the border with Mexico, according to court filings, Reuters reports.At least 28 migrants were charged were charged in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Monday for crossing into the 170-mile-long, 60ft-wide militarized buffer zone patrolled by active-duty US troops. Continue reading...
Felix Rojas, 44, arraigned after video showed him performing sexual acts on unresponsive passengerAuthorities in New York have charged a man with attempted rape after surveillance video taken showed him performing sexual acts on an unresponsive passenger who was later determined to have died.Police have been looking for suspects in the case for weeks, after footage captured two different people robbing the corpse of a man on a train traveling from Brooklyn to Manhattan, one of whom allegedly sexually violated him. Continue reading...
Former top official calls for Rodney Scott to be blocked from CBP role over handling of investigation into Anastasio Hernandez Rojas's deathRodney Scott, Donald Trump's nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has been accused by a former top official of orchestrating a cover-up" over the death of a man detained while trying to enter the country from Mexico, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian.Scott is a former US border patrol chief who has supported the president's vow to build a wall along the border with Mexico and criticized Joe Biden's handling of immigration policy. As commissioner of CBP, Scott would lead one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies, which encompasses the border patrol and staffs ports of entry across the United States. Continue reading...
Narrative that US listings outperform European ones has been popular for years, but analysis shows a different storyDonald Trump is doing an excellent job of demonstrating that US stock markets don't always outperform European ones.On-off tariff wars, threats to fire the head of the Federal Reserve and general unpredictability have prompted a reappraisal of boring old Europe. The S&P 500 is down 6% this year, versus a gain of 2.5% for FTSE 100 index and a 3% improvement in the pan-European Stoxx Europe 600. The differences aren't enormous but they mark a reversal from recent years. Continue reading...
Texas officials say 87 patients hospitalized as researchers say country at tipping point for return of endemic measlesMeasles cases in Texas rose to 663 on Tuesday, according to the state's health department, an increase of 17 cases since 25 April, as the US battles one of its worst outbreaks of the previously eradicated childhood disease.Cases in Gaines county, the center of the outbreak, rose to 396, three more from its last update on Friday, the Texas department of state health services said. Continue reading...
Marsupial spotted hopping along side of interstate before police surrounded area and owner used dart to tranquilize itA runaway kangaroo named Sheila shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday before state troopers and the animal's owner wrangled the wayward marsupial.The Alabama law enforcement agency said the kangaroo was spotted on Tuesday hopping along the side of Interstate 85 in Macon county, which is between Montgomery and Auburn. Continue reading...
The president has begun his second term at a whirlwind pace, slashing the government, upending international alliances, challenging the rule of law and ordering mass deportationsLaw-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored.The first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term have shocked the United States and the world. On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history", and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US's role in the world. Continue reading...
Husband of Kamala Harris calls move political and decries turning historical atrocity into a wedge issue'The Trump administration has fired several members of the US Holocaust Memorial Council appointed by Joe Biden, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris.Emhoff described the move as a political decision that turned one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue". Continue reading...
Deal represents largest aggregate settlement in US history as officials issue apology for reprehensible acts'Los Angeles county officials on Tuesday approved a $4bn payout to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.The agreement reached on April 4 far surpasses a $2.6bn settlement reached in 2022 with the Boy Scouts of America that was the largest aggregate sexual abuse settlement in US history at the time. Continue reading...
Miriam Haley testifies as ex-producer faces charges involving two women from original trialThe first of three accusers expected to testify at Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial took the witness stand on Tuesday, reprising her testimony from his first #MeToo trial five years ago.Miriam Haley, a former TV and movie production assistant, alleges that the former movie mogul forcibly performed oral sex on her at his New York City apartment in 2006. Continue reading...
The US president's territorial and economic threats have prompted voters to unite against his bellicosityCanada's astounding election comeback by the Liberals will hearten many outside its borders as well as within. The governing party's Lazarus moment was sparked by a man who was not on the ballot - though he took the chance to reiterate that the country should become the 51st US state, implying that voters could then elect him.By then it was already clear that Donald Trump's threats had backfired. Monday's result was a clear repudiation of his agenda. For two years, the Conservatives' Pierre Poilievre looked like a dead cert as the next prime minister, assailing Justin Trudeau's government on issues including the cost of living, housing and immigration. His party built a 25-point lead. But within four months, Mr Trudeau's resignation, his warning that Mr Trump's 51st state" remarks were no joke, and the imposition of swingeing US tariffs, transformed the contest. Mr Poilievre lost his seat. The Liberals are embarking on a fourth term, though this time perhaps as a minority, under MrTrudeau's replacement Mark Carney.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...
Two-day walkout begins after contract negotiations fail amid unprecedented stresses' on county budgetMore than 50,000 Los Angeles county workers were on strike again on Tuesday, closing libraries and disrupting administrative operations across the nation's most populous county.The two-day walkout that began on Monday followed failed negotiations with the county for a new contract after the last one expired in March, according to the Service Employees International Union Local 721. Continue reading...
Defense secretary dismissed it as a woke ... Biden initiative' despite it being a Trump achievement from his first termPete Hegseth, the defense secretary, has abruptly banished the Pentagon's Women, Peace and Security program as part of his crusade against diversity and equity - dismissing it as woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative" despite it being a signature Donald Trump achievement from his first term.In a post on X, Hegseth wrote: This morning, I proudly ENDED the Women, Peace & Security' (WPS) program inside the [Department of Defense]. WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops - distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING." Continue reading...
Yunice Abbas claims he acted as lookout in Paris hotel lobby while US celebrity's jewellery was taken at gunpointA 71-year-old man who has said he played a bit part in a jewellery heist in which Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in 2016 has said he totally regretted" having participated.Yunice Abbas is one of 10 people on trial in Paris for having taken part in the robbery on the night of 2-3 October. Continue reading...
From deportations to human rights to the economy, the president's actions have resulted in mayhem. Here's a samplingSome Democrats fear they're playing into Donald Trump's hands by fighting his mass deportations rather than focusing on his failures on bread-and-butter issues like the cost of living.But it's not either-or. The theme that unites Trump's inept handling of deportations, his trampling on human and civil rights, his rejection of the rule of law, his dictatorial centralization of power, and his utterly inept handling of the economy is the ineptness itself.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 Continue reading...
Actor makes major dramatic bid as UFC fighter Mark Kerr in biopic also starring his Jungle Cruise co-star Emily BluntDwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt aim for awards glory with the first trailer for fact-based sports drama The Smashing Machine.The wrestler-turned-actor plays the MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the film inspired by the 2002 documentary with the same name. Kerr won multiple awards and medals in his career and also struggled with substance abuse. Continue reading...
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