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Johnny Depp's account of severing finger is inconsistent says surgeon – video
A surgeon who has testified in the defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard says Depp's claim that he lost the tip of his finger during a domestic fight with Heard could not have happened in the way he recounted.Speaking at the court in Fairfax county, Virginia, Richard Moore said Depp’s description was unlikely, in large part because his fingernail remained intact. Moore, who did not treat Depp, said the fingernail was exposed – as Depp described the palm-down placement of his hand – and would have been damaged
Capitol rioter who sprayed police with fire extinguisher sentenced to three years
Matthew Ryan Miller from Maryland draped himself in a far right-affiliated flag and used a barricade as a ladder to scale wallsA Maryland man who draped himself in a far right-affiliated flag and sprayed a fire extinguisher at police during the deadly Capitol attack on January 6 has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison, according to federal court records.Matthew Ryan Miller, 23, pleaded guilty in February to felony obstruction of an official proceeding – that day’s joint congressional session to certify Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election – as well as assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers. Continue reading...
Boston Celtics maul Miami Heat to level NBA Eastern Conference final
Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins was twice over alcohol limit when killed
New York subpoenas Trump’s longtime assistant in business dealings inquiry
Rhona Graff will be questioned about the former president’s involvement in the Trump Organization’s financial recordsThe New York attorney general’s office has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s longtime executive assistant and plans to question her under oath next week as part of its civil investigation into the former president’s business dealings.The subpoena for Rhona Graff was disclosed by a lawyer for the attorney general Letitia James’ office in court papers opposing Trump’s latest bid to rid himself of a contempt of court order for being slow to respond to a subpoena for documents and other evidence. Continue reading...
Surgeon casts doubt on Johnny Depp’s account of how he severed finger
Richard Moore says he is sceptical of claim that Depp injured finger during Amber Heard fight, as defamation trial enters final weekThe defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard entered its fifth and final week of testimony on Monday, with a witness for Heard testifying that Depp could not have lost the tip of his finger during a domestic fight in the way he had recounted.The serious injury to his middle finger, which occurred during a March 2015 row in Australia between Depp and Heard during their brief marriage, has been one of several key points of dispute in the civil case. Continue reading...
Military plane rushes baby formula to US health systems
Stores remain low on supplies but flight brings enough to fill half a million bottles for children with allergiesStore shelves across the US remain short of baby formula after a military plane carrying enough to fill half a million baby bottles arrived in the US on Sunday but its contents were rushed to health system outlets to feed babies with specific allergies.The first of several such flights from Europe, aimed at relieving a nationwide shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their infants, was packed with specialty hypoallergenic formula to be distributed through channels such as hospitals, doctors’ officers and pharmacies, for babies intolerant of the protein in cow’s milk. Continue reading...
Supreme court guts lifeline for prisoners who claim wrongful convictions
Decision bars federal courts from hearing new evidence not presented in a state court as a result of ineffective legal counselThe US supreme court on Monday gutted constitutional protections that for years have provided a federal lifeline to innocent prisoners facing prolonged incarceration or even execution following wrongful convictions stemming from poor legal counsel given to them by the states.In a 6 to 3 ruling, the newly-dominant rightwing majority of the nation’s highest court barred federal courts from hearing new evidence that was not previously presented in a state court as a result of the defendant’s ineffective legal representation. Continue reading...
Jittery New Yorkers call on mayor to act on subway safety after fatal shooting
Eric Adams under renewed pressure to reassure city after man was shot and killed as he rode Q train over Manhattan BridgeThe fledgling mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is facing renewed pressure to reassure jittery New Yorkers over the safety of the city’s subway service after an apparently random shooting on a train crossing over the Manhattan Bridge killed a rider.Daniel Enriquez, 48, a Goldman Sachs investment researcher, was shot once in the chest at about 11.42am on Sunday as he rode a Q-line train over the East River from his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, into Manhattan, to have brunch. Continue reading...
Joe Biden says US recession ‘is not inevitable’ despite rampant inflation – as it happened
President warns inflation is ‘going to be a haul’ as poll finds 77% of Americans ‘pessimistic’ about cost of goods and services in coming months• US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China, says Joe Biden• Capitol attack panel to hold six public hearings• Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailUS Senator Jeff Merkley has announced he has contracted the coronavirus. The Oregon Democrat attributed the mildness of his current symptoms to the fact that he is fully vaccinated and boosted.He urged everyone in the US to get similarly protected and warned, on Twitter: “Covid is still among us.” Continue reading...
Justin Thomas credits caddie ‘Bones’ Mackay for US PGA comeback win | Ewan Murray
The playoff winner at Southern Hills credits Phil Mickelson’s former caddie for motivating him to fight back on day fourIt remains unclear whether Phil Mickelson will emerge from exile when Greg Norman and his Saudi Arabian circus rumbles into Hertfordshire next month. Mickelson presumably has enough on his mind without contemplating the bitter irony of events at Southern Hills on Sunday. Nonetheless, to others it was striking that as Mickelson – the defending champion – sat at home in San Diego, a man once key to his success was instrumental in Justin Thomas claiming a second US PGA Championship.Relations between Mickelson and Jim “Bones” Mackay are understood to be non-existent despite 25 years of professional association. Mackay was on the bag as Mickelson won five of his six major championships. Having stepped back from bag‑carrying duties and while working in television, Mackay decided privately that the only player for whom he would return to the game was Thomas. The call arrived last September; eight months on, Thomas has doubled his tally of major victories. “I think he has more shots than anyone on tour,” Mackay says of his employer. Continue reading...
Biden’s Taiwan vow creates confusion not clarity – and raises China tensions
President’s blunt response appears to undercut US ‘strategic ambiguity’ on Taiwan as White House forced to walk back remarksThe somewhat routine press conference in Tokyo was winding down when the question came. “Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?”Many past American presidents would have deflected, demurred, declined to give a straight answer. Not Joe Biden. “Yes,” he replied bluntly, adding: “That’s the commitment we made.” Continue reading...
Several people injured at California rodeo as bull jumps fence into crowd
Bull at Redding rodeo in northern California runs through crowd of spectators and across parking lot before being capturedSeveral people were injured when a bull jumped a fence and escaped an arena during a popular northern California rodeo, authorities said.The escape occurred on Friday during the final section of the Redding Rodeo’s bull riding event, the Redding Rodeo Association said on Facebook. Continue reading...
Rudy Giuliani calls Democrat a 'jackass' during pro-Israel parade – video
Donald Trump’s one-time lawyer Rudy Giuliani hurled profanities at a person attending a parade in New York City, calling him a jackass and saying: 'You are probably as demented as Biden.'
Australia has shown how quickly the right can crumble. Boris Johnson, be warned | Gaby Hinsliff
The ousting of shameless culture warrior Scott Morrison, and his defeat in wealthy heartlands, should send a shiver down Tory spinesPopulists can be beaten. There was a time not long ago when few could type that sentence with confidence, so the outcome of Australia’s recent elections will leave many progressives battling with the still unfamiliar sensation of victory.Scott Morrison, the now ousted rightwing prime minister dubbed Australia’s first “post-truth” leader, was never quite a Trumpian. But he was a shameless culture warrior presiding over a bungled Covid response and ensuing recession, plus a clumsy response to high-profile sexual misconduct allegations against parliamentary colleagues. He dragged his feet on the climate crisis even as apocalyptic floods, fires and droughts were convincing Australians that something had to change, and holidayed in Hawaii as wildfires raged at home. His opponent, Labor’s Anthony Albanese, was not exactly overburdened with charisma and the progressive vote eventually split between Labor, the Greens and the so-called teal independents, an exasperated army of mainly female candidates pledging to clean up politics and tackle the climate. But the cautious Albanese and his mantra of “safe change” – nothing too big or scarily radical – still made it over the line, having seemingly learned from a previous Labor defeat blamed on an over-ambitious manifesto. If any of this sounds uncannily familiar to British readers, then it’s easy to see why Keir Starmer’s Labour party (and indeed the Greens) might suddenly have their tails up.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Man shot and killed on New York subway in latest ‘unprovoked’ attack
Police investigate death of Daniel Enriquez on busy train on Sunday morningAn unidentified man shot and killed a passenger on a subway train in New York in what police officials said appeared to be an unprovoked attack.The incident happened on a Q train travelling over the Manhattan Bridge at about 11.40am on Sunday, a time when the subway is often filled with families, tourists and people heading to brunch. Continue reading...
‘You are a jackass’: video of Rudy Giuliani rant at Israel parade goes viral
Former Trump lawyer hurls profanities at parade attender in New York City days after reportedly testifying with January 6 panelWith a reporter’s cellphone recording him, Donald Trump’s sometime lawyer Rudy Giuliani hurled profanities at a pro-Israel parade attender in New York City and said, “You are probably as demented as Biden.”The video of the former New York mayor’s verbal clash had racked up more than 440,000 views on Monday morning, just two days after he reportedly met for hours with the US House committee investigating the deadly Capitol riots on 6 January 2021. Continue reading...
Redrawn Arizona congressional map drains Native American voting power
Tribal areas have been swept into a new majority Republican district where GOP candidates ignore Native issuesFor Native Americans in Arizona, the recently redistricted US House map will mean a loss of political power once protected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, leaving the state’s solidly Democratic tribal areas with the prospect of a fringe-Republican congressional representative.Democrats supported by Indigenous voters won every election for the past ten years in a district drawn expressly to empower Native American voters by a redistricting commission that relied on input from the area’s various tribes in 2011. Continue reading...
Zelenskiy urges ‘maximum sanctions’ against Russia in Davos speech
Ukrainian president tells business leaders they need to decide whether ‘brute force’ should rule the world
Anderson hits three-run homer after Yankees fans’ ‘Jackie Robinson’ taunts
Warriors one win from NBA finals after Wiggins posterizes Mavericks’ Doncic
We must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis | Slavoj Žižek
A question like ‘Did US intelligence-sharing with Ukraine cross a line?’ forgets the fact that it was Russia that crossed the line – by invading UkraineIn recent weeks, the western public has been obsessed with the question “What goes on in Putin’s mind?” Western pundits wonder: do the people around him tell him the whole truth? Is he ill or going insane? Are we pushing him into a corner where he will see no other way out to save face than to accelerate the conflict into a total war?We should stop this obsession with the red line, this endless search for the right balance between support for Ukraine and avoiding total war. The “red line” is not an objective fact: Putin himself is redrawing it all the time, and we contribute to his redrawing with our reactions to Russia’s activities. A question like “Did US intelligence-sharing with Ukraine cross a line?” makes us obliterate the basic fact: it was Russia itself which crossed the line, by attacking Ukraine. So instead of perceiving ourselves as a group which just reacts to Putin as an impenetrable evil genius, we should turn the gaze back at ourselves: what do we – the “free west” – want in this affair?Slavoj Žižek is a cultural philosopher. He’s a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London Continue reading...
Don’t believe those who say ending Roe v Wade will leave society largely intact | Laurence H Tribe
If the high court adopts Alito’s draft opinion, it will be a legal tidal wave that sweeps away a swath of rights unlike anything America has ever seenNow that the dust has begun to settle after the initial explosive news that the US supreme court is poised to overrule the right to abortion and that Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization represents what a majority of the court initially voted to do, among the most revealing ways to understand the devastation the court appears ready to wreak on America’s long march toward “liberty and justice for all” is to examine the kinds of arguments being made in the opinion’s defense.The argument that such a ruling would simply return a divisive issue to the people had long since been widely dismantled. It certainly wouldn’t be returned to the people most profoundly affected once women were told they may have to remain pregnant despite whatever urgent reasons they might have for seeking a safe and legal abortion. It couldn’t be described as returning the abortion issue to the states, now that the possibility of a nationwide ban that the supreme court might uphold is on the horizon. And to the extent the issue is returned to the states, it would be returned to state legislatures so gerrymandered that they often represent the views of a distinct minority of the people anyway. Continue reading...
My sister was killed for being an MP – still, violent threats are seen as ‘going with the job’ | Kim Leadbeater
Now an MP myself, I see politicians and their staff who every day are subjected to an avalanche of hatred and intimidationA year ago today the Labour party in Batley and Spen selected me to be its candidate in the byelection for my sister Jo Cox’s former constituency. Whether or not to stand was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. There was a lot of discussion with my family and those closest to me. My sister had been murdered so we had to ask ourselves the question – would I be safe?I decided to run because I wanted the best for the people who I live near, shop alongside, play sports with and whom I’ve worked with since Jo’s death to keep our community strong and united. I would never have asked for their trust at the ballot box if I thought that winning would cut me off behind a wall of security. Since I won I’ve managed to stay accessible while taking all the advice the police and parliamentary security team have offered me.Kim Leadbeater is the Labour MP for Batley and Spen. Dispatches: MPs Under Threat airs at 7.30pm on Monday 23 May on Channel 4Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 300 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at guardian.letters@theguardian.com
Up to 100 Ukrainians dying every day in east, Zelenskiy says | First Thing
Ukraine rules out any ceasefire deal that involves ceding territory to Russia as the conflict makes its mark in Davos. Plus, Putin’s gift to Londoners damaged
Millions of dollars are flowing into US cricket. But is there a market for the sport?
America is the largest sports market in the world. But can cricket really establish a foothold where others have failed?Whenever the subject of cricket in the United States comes up, the same old questions are asked.From the unlikely scenario of American kids swapping their NFL football for a cricket bat, to quizzical looks about the financial viability of the game in North America, skeptical eyebrows are usually raised. Continue reading...
Trader Joe’s workers push to unionize amid wave of organizing efforts
Branch in Hadley, Massachusetts, would be the first unionized store out of more than 530 locations in the USOrganizers have begun a unionization campaign at the upscale supermarket chain Trader Joe’s after workers at a branch in Hadley, Massachusetts, announced they were forming a union and intend to file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election.It would be the first unionized Trader Joe’s store out of more than 530 locations in the US. Workers are organizing independently, citing the similar framework of the Amazon Labor Union, which is not affiliated with traditional, established labor unions. Continue reading...
‘Dawn of a new creature’: after a vicious attack, a city ponders living with coyotes
Dallas is home to several packs of coyotes, which can become unusually comfortable with neighbors – and on 3 May, one dragged a toddler off a porchEven before a two-year-old was snatched from a Dallas porch by a hungry coyote, the parents in the neighborhood knew something terrible was bound to happen.The coyotes that usually stayed in wooded areas or a nearby creekbed had been coming closer and closer. One was spotted by a doorbell camera stealing a food delivery bag off a porch. Another was seen following children on their walk to school. Another stood on an elementary school playground with a squirrel in its mouth. Continue reading...
US economy is on a downhill slide. But Republicans can’t fix it, Biden warns
The president says frustrated Americans ‘have a choice between two paths’ but that the GOP is not focused on fighting inflationOn a recent visit to a family farm in rural Illinois, thousands of miles away from the front lines of the grinding war in Ukraine, Joe Biden lashed out at his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, blaming him for destabalizing global food supplies and driving up the cost of groceries at home.Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Biden explained after a tour of the farm’s fields and grain bins, has dramatically reduced food exports from the warring nations that together supply more than a quarter of the world’s wheat, causing food prices to spiral. Continue reading...
Progressive v anti-abortion Democrat: Texas faces pivotal primary runoff
The race between Henry Cuellar and Jessica Cisneros for Congress will answer a key question: is the ‘Democratic machine’ still strong or can progressives win?Two nearly identical text boxes appear on the respective campaign websites for Henry Cuellar and Jessica Cisneros, the Democrats locked in a heated primary runoff to represent south Texas in Congress.Cuellar’s text box warns voters that Cisneros “would defund the police and border patrol”, which “would make us less safe and wreck our local economy”. Cisneros, in turn, blasts Cuellar for opposing “women’s right to choose” amid a nationwide crackdown on reproductive care. Continue reading...
Capitol attack panel to hold six public hearings as it aims to show how Trump broke law
Panel aims to publicly outline the potentially unlawful schemes that tried to keep the former president in office despite his defeatThe House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to stage six public hearings in June on how Donald Trump and some allies broke the law as they sought to overturn the 2020 election results, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.The hearings are set to be a pivotal political moment for the country as the panel aims to publicly outline the potentially unlawful schemes that tried to keep the former president in office despite his defeat at the hands of Joe Biden. Continue reading...
$28 for a beer? New York airports crack down on ‘exorbitant’ food and drink
City acts after egregious price-gouging emerged – such as $27.85 for a glass of Sam Adams beer at LaGuardiaWe all expect to pay a bit extra for a beer or a sandwich at the airport. But when a glass of Samuel Adams Summer Ale costs nearly $30, things really have gotten out of control.That’s why New York officials have announced a crackdown on food and drink prices at the region’s airports, where vendors can’t charge more than “street prices” – what you’d pay locally outside the airport – plus 10%. Continue reading...
Justin Thomas wins 2022 US PGA Championship – as it happened
Justin Thomas wins US PGA title in playoff after Pereira’s late implosion
Shapiro: ‘Dangerous’ Republican rival Mastriano could override will of voters
Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania governor says if Mastriano wins he could wield power to choose his own slate of electors and overturn presidential election resultsJosh Shapiro, who was nominated this week as the Democrats’ candidate for governor in the electorally critical state of Pennsylvania, has accused his Republican rival of intending to override the democratic will of voters and pick his own winners in future elections.Shapiro launched his attack on Doug Mastriano in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. He called Mastriano, a far-right state senator, “dangerous and divisive” and warned that were he to become Pennsylvania’s governor he could wield power to choose his own slate of presidential electors as a means of overturning the results of the 2024 presidential election. Continue reading...
Couple say they killed bear who charged through window and attacked them
Wisconsin couple say they stabbed bear with a kitchen knife and then killed animal with a firearm after it attacked them at homeA Wisconsin couple say they killed a bear who attacked them inside their home after they spotted it eating from their bird feeder.The Taylor county sheriff’s office said the attack happened at about 11pm Friday at a home near Medford in north-central Wisconsin. The couple told authorities that the bear charged through a window after they yelled at it to go away. Continue reading...
Arkansas Republican admits abortion trigger law would cause ‘heartbreak’ if Roe is reversed
Governor Asa Hutchinson signed near-total abortion ban bill, even though he disagreed with the lack of exceptions for incest and rapeThe Republican governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, has admitted that an anti-abortion trigger law that he signed on to the books would lead to “heartbreaking circumstances” if Roe v Wade is overturned, in which girls as young as 11 who became pregnant through rape or incest would be forced to give birth.Hutchinson’s remarks give a revealing insight into the twisted human and political quandaries that are certain to arise should the US supreme court, as expected, destroy the constitutional right to an abortion enshrined in Roe v Wade when it issues its ruling next month. The governor told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that in 2019 he had signed the Arkansas trigger law, Senate Bill 6, which would ban almost all abortions the instant Roe were reversed, even though he disagreed with its lack of exceptions for incest and rape. Continue reading...
Baby formula shipment arrives from Europe, providing ‘some relief’ for US families
Biden economic adviser says US to see more baby formula on shelves as 70,000lb of product lands in Indianapolis on SundayA top White House economic adviser on Sunday said he was hopeful there would be more baby formula on American store shelves this upcoming week, especially after a plane full of the product arrived from an airbase in Germany.
‘I’m not afraid’: after Buffalo racist attack, Black residents remain unbowed by terror
If the alleged mass murderer’s goal was to inflict terror, then the man responsible for this trauma failed miserablyLess than an hour after the city of Buffalo, New York, took a 123-second pause on Saturday to memorialize the victims of the terrorist attack that shook the city a week ago, June Bloomfield held her own moment of silence.Standing outside the Tops Market, the only grocery store in the area, where white supremacy stole the lives of 10 people, Bloomfield’s tears were obscured by sunglasses, a mask and her quiet resolve. “It’s not fear”, she said, trying to summon the words that described her feelings. “It’s … All I can say is, I’m not afraid.” Continue reading...
Russia bans 963 Americans from entering country
List includes Biden and other senior officials, but not Trump, as country says it is retaliating against what it calls hostile US actionsRussia on Saturday released a list of 963 Americans it said were banned from entering the country, a punctuation of previously announced moves against president Joe Biden and other senior US officials.The country, which has received global condemnation for its 24 February invasion of Ukraine, said it would continue to retaliate against what it called hostile US actions, Reuters reported. Continue reading...
Biden says ‘everybody’ should be concerned about spread of monkeypox
National security adviser assures public that the US has a ‘vaccine that is relevant to treating’ virusJoe Biden said Sunday that “everybody” should be worried about the spread of monkeypox recently, and his national security adviser assured the public that the US has a “vaccine that is relevant to treating” the virus.During an official visit to South Korea, Biden told reporters, “They haven’t told me the level of exposure yet but it is something that everybody should be concerned about.” The president, who was speaking at Osan airbase, also added: “It is a concern in that if it were to spread it would be consequential.” Continue reading...
Why giving your employees a piece of the pie could boost your business
Employee Stock Ownership Plans hold over $1.6tn in assets and can make a more profitable company and a better place to workWant to attract and retain more employees? Maybe giving up a piece of the pie is the answer.The number of businesses that are giving employees a share in ownership is growing. According to the National Center of Employee Ownership in 2019 (the most recent year for which data is available), 239 new Employee Stock Ownership Plans, or ESOPs, were created, covering 46,537 participants. In total, there are approximately 6,482 ESOPs in the United States, holding total assets of more than $1.6tn, and that number is growing. Continue reading...
The alleged Buffalo shooter was also inspired by Islamophobia. That’s telling | Moustafa Bayoumi
The alleged shooter copied the manifesto of the New Zealand mosque attacker – showing how easy it is to replace Muslim with Black or Jewish in the logic of the extreme rightOn 14 May, an 18-year-old white supremacist shot and killed 10 Black people in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, about 200 miles away from his home, according to police. The alleged shooter scrawled a racial epithet on the barrel of his gun and live-streamed his killing spree. He (I prefer not to name him) was clearly participating in a long and horrible American tradition of murderous hatred toward Black people, and media coverage and commentary have rightly emphasized the long reach of anti-Black racism that motivated this killer.But the alleged shooter’s motivations were not only anti-Black racism. He uploaded a 180-page document shortly before carrying out his attack, and even a quick perusal will show the disgusting antisemitism that he also wallows in. Pages and pages of anti-Jewish slurs – including an excerpt from Der Giftpilz, a Nazi-era children’s book published by Julius Streicher of Der Stürmer infamy – fill the document. At one point, the killer writes, “If the Jews did not have connections to Judaism, then I believe that they would be able to live in White countries such as the USA. But because of the irreversible rabbinic teachings they must be removed from all European and White countries.”Why did you carry out the attack?To most of all show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands, our homelands are our own and that, as long as a white man still lives, they will NEVER conquer our lands and they will never replace our people.Why did you decide to carry out the attack?To show to the replacers that as long as the White man lives, our land will never be theirs and they will never be safe from us.Did/do you personally hate muslims?A muslim man or woman living in their homelands? No.Did, or do you personally hate blacks?A black man or woman living in their homelands? No.Do you consider it a terrorist attack?By the definition, then yes. It is a terrorist attack. But I believe it is a partisan action against an occupying force.Do you consider the attack an act of terrorism?By definition yes. But I believe it is a partisan action against an occupying force.Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the award-winning books How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. He is professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is a contributing opinion writer at Guardian US Continue reading...
‘We’re still here’: past and present collide at a Native American boarding school
Sherman Indian high school is among the last remnants of a brutal history that students and government are reckoning withWith other students’ eyes on her, Wicahpi Medicine’s heart raced, but as she started dancing, she felt proud to embody her Lakota heritage. The beads on her jingle dress swished and her long braids bounced as she moved quickly and lightly in her moccasins.“People think that we’re extinct – they think we don’t really exist anymore,” said the 17-year-old student, who goes by Kimmi. Dancing at Sherman Indian high school cultural week, she said she was showing “we are still here”. Continue reading...
Herschel Walker: the ex-football star running for Senate in Trump’s shadow
The Georgia candidate represents a relatively rare political being: a Black, Trump-supporting Republican – and his base seems to be entirely white conservativesA sign on the town square in the Johnson county seat of Wrightsville pays homage to the county’s namesake, Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Georgia’s 41st governor. A relative rarity for his time, Johnson was one of 89 men who voted against secession in 1861 against more than 200 of their peers.But Herschel Johnson is a historical footnote here. Now, the only Herschel that most people know around here is Herschel Walker, a former football star and political novice running for US Senate. Like Johnson, Walker represents a relatively rare political being: he is a Black Republican who supports Donald Trump. Continue reading...
‘America could be truly free’: John Legend on his fight to overhaul the criminal justice system
The Grammy-winning singer speaks to the Guardian about mass incarceration and his campaign to elect progressive prosecutorsJohn Legend, the singer-songwriter and longtime racial justice activist, has thrown his weight behind political campaigns that rarely get celebrity endorsements: progressive candidates running for district attorney.The Grammy, Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner has long been a vocal supporter of the movement to reduce mass incarceration in the US, and has backed several chief prosecutors and candidates who seek to right the wrongs of America’s racially biased criminal justice system. Continue reading...
‘Replacement theory’ still Republican orthodoxy despite Buffalo shooting
GOP leaders seem unlikely to abandon nods to the conspiracy theory even though it was cited by the alleged perpetrator of a racist mass murderWhen a white man used a semi-automatic assault-style rifle to kill 10 people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, last weekend, attention quickly turned to the likely motive.The “great replacement” theory describes a supposed elite conspiracy to change the demographics of America, replacing and disempowering white people – and their influence – with people of color, immigrants and Muslims. In recent years the lie has gone from far-right fringe to Republican party mainstream. Continue reading...
Bam Adebayo explodes as Heat hold off Celtics rally to inch closer to NBA finals
#MeToo is over if we don’t listen to ‘imperfect victims’ like Amber Heard | Martha Gill
When even young women join the actor’s male tormentors, ideas of justice soon begin to unravelThe backlash to the #MeToo movement was always coming. We know this because a backlash has followed every single step forward feminists have ever made. This backlash was always going to be big, too. Not only did #MeToo threaten a status quo that props up powerful men, it threatened these men personally, and – as it seemed to some – with reckless caprice.“If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this,” a White House lawyer said shortly after Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were made public, “then you, me, every man certainly should be worried.” Continue reading...
The town at the center of California’s climate refugee crisis
When the Camp fire raged through the Sierra Nevada foothills, it turned an existing housing crisis into a growing emergencyAfter Julia Cheek lost all of her belongings in the Camp fire, she longed for a safe place to lay her head at night. When she finally received a check from the California utility that had caused the fire, Cheek used it to buy the only home she could afford: a 2010 Nissan Xterra.Cheek didn’t have insurance and has struggled to secure permanent housing since the fire, remaining among the growing population of unhoused residents in this northern California outpost. Continue reading...
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