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‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis

100+by Oliver Milman / 2h

Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them Blood-sucking ticks that trigger a bizarre allergy to meat in the people they bite are exploding in number and spreading across the US, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half of the country and infect millions of people, experts have warned. Lone star ticks have

Don’t count on the Iran-Israel ceasefire lasting. What Netanyahu really wants is a forever war | Simon Tisdall

68by Simon Tisdall / 2h

Like Putin, Israel’s prime minister sees continuing destruction as an opportunity to boost support and outflank his enemies The war is over! Except it’s not, not by a long chalk. The verbally agreed Iran-Israel ceasefire could be ripped to shreds at any moment. An aggressive theocratic regime still holds power in Tehran. The same is true of Jerusalem. In Washington, a president whose stupidity is

How do we resist and rise? We have to believe the impossible is possible | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)

55by V (formerly Eve Ensler) / 2h

Every action matters now. Every effort small or large counts. And moving, movement is the essential key to dispelling despair In this authoritarian and suffocating climate where being an American feels like a curse, where just breathing here feels like complicity with genocide, psychotic imperialism, misogyny and endless racism, it is hard to move, let alone imagine what one can do to transform t

Today

A generation of ‘virgins’ is leading America’s next sexual revolution

by Carter Sherman / 20min

Although gen Z may be getting laid less than their elders, they’re resisting older definitions of sex and gender – in the face of the right’s bid for bodily control The journalist perched on a stool in a corner of the bedroom, pen in hand, ready to jot down the most intimate details of our sex lives. Her name was Peggy Orenstein, and she was writing a book about girls and sex. As a 20-year-old co

Who is in charge at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?

by Melody Schreiber / 2h

RFK Jr has direct control, but Senate testimony in May that someone else is running the agency has created confusion Who is in charge at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? The answer is more complicated than it may seem. With no confirmed or acting CDC director, Robert F Kennedy Jr has direct control over the agency, allowing him to sign off – or not – on vaccine recommendat

US Catholic school fires teacher after husband’s obituary reveals his marriage to a man

40by Ramon Antonio Vargas / 2h

Mark Richards says a parent complained to New Orleans’ St Francis Xavier school after reading his late husband’s obituary A longtime music teacher at a Catholic school in the New Orleans area recently lost his job when it was revealed to an evidently “disgruntled” parent that he was another man’s widower, igniting a scandal within an archdiocese that has otherwise largely been occupied with tryin

Fired federal workers lobby for help on Capitol Hill – is anyone listening?

by Chris Stein in Washington / 2h

Democrats have been receptive to the ‘Tuesday Group’ but the Republicans who control Congress are looking the other way The Tuesday Group was feeling something familiar as its members milled around a bank of elevators in the bustling basement of a Senate office building: rejection. They had often been told no over the past months – when the government moved to fire them with Donald Trump’s blessi

Lisa Murkowski’s new book details centrist senator’s clash with Trump, dismay at supreme court

by Lloyd Green / 2h

Pro-choice Alaskan was one of the few Republicans to vote to convict Trump at president’s second impeachment trial Lisa Murkowski is Alaska ’s four-term senator, first appointed in 2002 by Frank Murkowski, her father and the state’s governor. An avowed moderate Republican , she entertains the possibility of caucusing with the Democrats if the Senate emerges deadlocked from next year’s midterms. H

Lotus in urgent talks with business secretary but has ‘no plans’ to shut Norfolk factory

Lotus plans UK production closure

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by Julia Kollewe / 2h

Jonathan Reynolds contacted sportscar maker after it emerged it was considering moving production from UK to US The UK business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, is holding urgent talks with the management of Lotus, as the British sportscar maker insisted that it had no intention of shutting its Norfolk factory. The emergency meeting was understood to be under way on Sunday morning. Reynolds contacte

Yesterday

Trump news at a glance: president’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ clears first Senate hurdle

Senate Republicans propose tax reform changes

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by Guardian staff / 9h

The key procedural hurdle was cleared hours after the debate opened – key US politics stories from 28 June After a scramble in the Senate, Republicans voted on Saturday to advance Trump’s signature “big, beautiful” bill, with a 51-49 vote. Republicans had been divided over the controversial bill, with some rejecting the proposal to cut welfare programmes in order to cover tax breaks, and others d

Senate Republicans scrambling to pass tax-and-spend bill by Trump deadline

Healthcare cuts stall legislative progress

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95by Robert Mackey and agencies / 15h

Clearing an important procedural hurdle, the Senate voted 51 to 49 to open debate on the legislation The Republican-controlled US Senate advanced president Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill in a key procedural vote late on Saturday, raising the odds that lawmakers will be able to pass his “big, beautiful bill” in the coming days. The measure, Trump’s top legislative goal, passed i

US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers

Impersonators of ICE officers increase

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400+by José Olivares / 16h

Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases risk Police in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of such arrests, as masked, plainclothes immigration agents are deployed nationwide to meet the Trump administration ’s mass deportation targets. The man, Fernando Diaz

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris attend funeral of slain Minnesota lawmaker

Biden Harris attend Minnesota lawmaker funeral

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100+by Associated Press / 17h

Governor Tim Walz eulogizes Melissa Hortman, killed with husband, as ‘most consequential speaker’ in state’s history Killed ex-Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman lies in state alongside husband and dog Democratic former Minnesota state house speaker Melissa Hortman was honored for her legislative accomplishments and her humanity during a funeral on Saturday that was attended by Joe Biden and Kama

Woman likely bitten by shark at New York’s popular Jones Beach

Shark attacks girl in South Carolina

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by Associated Press and Guardian staff / 17h

Woman’s injuries were not life-threatening, and officials were unable to find the likely young sand tiger shark A 20-year-old woman was likely bitten by a juvenile shark while waist-deep in the surf at a suburban New York beach, according to state officials. The unidentified woman suffered minor lacerations to her left leg and foot after being bitten Wednesday at Jones Beach state park on Long Is

Mark Zuckerberg’s secret list of top AI talent to poach has tech world atwitter

Meta hires OpenAI researchers

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24by Lauren Aratani / 17h

Meta CEO reportedly to offer pay packages worth up to $100m, a gambit OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls ‘crazy’ Mark Zuckerberg reportedly spent months putting together a list of the top AI engineers and researchers across the globe, preparing to offer potential recruits lucrative compensation packages in Meta ’s attempt to poach AI talent from key competitors. Silicon Valley has been talking for weeks a

Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’

500+by José Olivares / 18h

As Trump urges more deportations, veterans are seeing their parents, children and even themselves detained The son of an American citizen and military veteran – but who has no citizenship to any country – was deported from the US to Jamaica in late May. Jermaine Thomas’s deportation, recently reported on by the Austin Chronicle , is one of a growing number of immigration cases involving military

Two men found guilty in deaths of 53 migrants in Texas sentenced to life in prison

Smugglers sentenced for deadly tragedy

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49by Lauren Aratani / 22h

Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Garcia abandoned locked truckload of people in summer heat with no AC in 2022 Two men face spending the rest of their lives in prison after a federal judge sentenced them on Friday for their roles in the deaths of 53 people – including six children – who were found dead in an abandoned tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022. A federal jury in Texas had found th

Anti-Trump conservative Don Bacon will not seek re-election to Nebraska congressional seat eyed by Dems

Don Bacon to retire 2026

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55by Ramon Antonio Vargas / 22h

Trump critic represents swing district that includes Omaha, prompting optimism that Democrats could take vacated seat Republican congressman and vocal Donald Trump critic Don Bacon is reportedly not going to seek re-election during the midterm races in 2026. The conservative politician represents a swing district in Nebraska that includes Omaha, and word of his plans prompted Democratic figures t

‘It’s very concerning’: conservatives react to Zohran Mamdani’s New York primary showing

100+by David Smith in Washington / 23h

Road to Majority conference attendees expressed skepticism and begrudging respect for the Muslim democratic socialist He is the democratic socialist who has been described as a gift to the Republican party . Zohran Mamdani’s stunning showing in the Democratic primary election for mayor of New York this week was seen by some as perfect fodder to whip up a new “red scare”. Donald Trump called him “

New Orleans jailbreak fugitive captured peacefully by police

Fugitive from New Orleans jail captured

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by Associated Press / 23h

Antoine Massey was one of 10 inmates who broke out of jail six weeks ago; only one still remains at large Louisiana authorities on Friday captured one of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail six weeks earlier – and who police say released videos on social media while still on the run. Antoine Massey, 33, was taken into custody at a residence in New Orleans about 2 miles (3km) from the j

America’s dive bars are disappearing. Montana didn’t get the memo

100+by Janie Osborne / 1d

The state boasts cozy venues featuring buffalo mounts, barbecue and bras on the wall – but the mark of a great bar is always the people It’s been over two decades now, but as I remember it: the floor was sticky with peanut shells and beer. I could feel a crunch underfoot amid the din of garbled conversation as my young, righteous girlfriends and I made our way to a wobbly table at the Haufbrau in

Will I get deported for sharing this meme of JD Vance? | Arwa Mahdawi

Norwegian tourist denied US entry

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300+by Arwa Mahdawi / 1d

True or not, people find it all too easy to believe that a humorous picture of the vice-president could get you barred from the US I have a very important public service announcement to make. Do not, under any circumstances whatsoever, make fun of Vice-President JD Vance by sharing one of the millions of unflattering memes dedicated to him. Don’t you dare chuckle at the images of him looking like

NHL draft: Islanders select Matthew Schaefer with No 1 overall pick during emotional ceremony

Schaefer honors late mother positively

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by Associated Press / 1d

Defenseman’s endured several deaths in recent years Islanders picked three times in opening round The New York Islanders selected defenseman Matthew Schaefer with the No 1 pick in the NHL draft on Friday night. High-scoring forward Michael Misa went second overall to the San Jose Sharks, and the Chicago Blackhawks took Swedish forward Anton Frondell third at the ceremony in Los Angeles’ Peacock T

Arizona’s Marte says fan reduced him to tears after saying he had texted player’s late mother

Fan ejected for taunting Marte

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by Guardian sport and agencies / 1d

22-year-old was given indefinite MLB ban after comments Infielder’s mother died in car accident in 2017 The Arizona Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte has given details about the comments that reduced him to tears during a game earlier this week. A 22-year-old fan was given an indefinite ban from every MLB stadium after he made comments about the second baseman’s late mother during a Diamondbacks game at

Zohran Mamdani has the Palestinian protest movement to thank for his win | Heba Gowayed

Colbert questions Mamdani on Israel

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59by Heba Gowayed / 1d

The Democratic socialist’s victory in the New York City primary elections shows support for Palestine is not a liability In a tremendous upset of politics as usual, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old brown, Muslim, Democratic socialist who had little name recognition in February beat the poster boy of the Democratic party establishment, Andrew Cuomo, by a plurality of votes in the first round of the D

Struggling in politics? Consider a war – the media will help | Margaret Sullivan

100+by Margaret Sullivan / 1d

Trump’s Iran strike knocked everything else out of the news, including the Minnesota shootings – and it was little surprise “You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war,” was the storied response of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to Frederic Remington after the illustrator was sent to Cuba to cover an insurrection and cabled back to the boss that there was little going on. Much

Eric Trump suggests he could run for president when his father’s term ends

Eric Trump considers political future

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6Kby Daniel Lavelle / 1d

Forty-one-year-old has stayed away from politics, but says ‘political path would be an easy one’ if he chose to pursue it Eric Trump has hinted that he or another of the Trump family could run for president when his father’s second term in the White House comes to an end. Eric, who is co-executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, said, the road to the White House “would be an easy one” i

Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success

Wall Street fears Zohran Mamdani

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300+by Edward Helmore in New York / 1d

New York’s financial elite compare the city to crime-riddled Gotham after democratic socialist bests Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary When Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described socialist, won New York’s mayoral Democratic nomination last week over a seasoned but scandal-scarred veteran, the city’s financial elite had a meltdown. This was the start of “hot commie summer” in the city, New

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’

Satellite data loss hampers hurricane forecasting

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500+by Eric Holthaus / 1d

Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent this week. Scientists that the Guardian spoke with say the change could set hurricane forecasting back “decades”, just as this year’s se

‘You open the fridge – nothing’: renewed threat of US hunger as Trump seeks to cut food aid

100+by Ed Pilkington in Germantown, Maryland / 1d

Critics warn cuts to Snap program would throw millions of Americans – such as Jade and her daughter Janai – back into food insecurity Jade Johnson has a word to describe the experience of going hungry in one of the world’s richest countries. “Humbling.” The last time she endured the misery of skipping meals was about 18 months ago. She was working two jobs as a home health aide and in childcare,

‘There’s a significant lack of knowledge’: Iranian American legislator on countries’ tangled history amid conflict

21by Joseph Gedeon in Washington / 1d

Yassamin Ansari, an Arizona representative, explains how her background shapes her perspective on US foreign policy Arizona congresswoman Yassamin Ansari brings an unusually personal perspective to the US’s fraught relationship with Iran . The daughter of two Iranian parents who fled their homeland – her father as a student in the 1970s who couldn’t return after the 1979 revolution, her mother as

‘His blood is in the soil’: the Kentucky group honoring victims of lynchings

58by Gloria Oladipo / 1d

Since 2021, the Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project have planted markers memorializing Black residents killed by racist violence On 26 October 1924, Fred Shannon, a Black man, was lynched at age 28 by a mob of nearly 200 masked residents in Wayland, Kentucky. Shannon, a local musician, was falsely accused of killing a white man over a financial dispute. While was he being held at a local jail, t

Home discomforts send Trump rushing to project image of global patriarch

Trump advocates military economic actions

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400+by David Smith in Washington / 1d

The tortured progress of the president’s tax-and-spend bill is likely to bring his supporters a big, ugly surprise – little wonder he was so keen to turn the focus to Iran and Nato “Daddy’s home.” So said a social media post from the White House, accompanied by a video featuring the song Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) by Usher and images of Donald Trump at the Nato summit in The Hague. The US president

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Trump dropped an F-bomb this week – and just for a moment, I warmed to him | Gary Nunn

Trump drops f-bomb on camera

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34by Gary Nunn / 1d

That outburst of exasperation at the White House felt very human. Perhaps other politicians should cautiously take note Gary Nunn is a freelance journalist and author I did not get out of bed this morning expecting to praise the public use of an expletive, but such is 2025. If any president was going to break this presidential norm, as NPR put it , it was always going to be Donald Trump. “We basi

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot

500+by George Monbiot / 1d

This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers Power hides by setting us against each other. This is never more true than in the countryside, where the impacts of an extreme concentration of ownership and control are blamed on those who have nothing to do with it. Rural people are endlessly instructed that they’re oppressed not by the

US charges 11 people in Russia-based scheme to bilk Medicare of $10bn

Massive Medicare fraud scheme uncovered

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95by Agence France Presse / 1d

Prosecutors allege more than a million Medicare recipients had their information stolen and used by the defendants for fraudulent claims US federal prosecutors charged 11 people on Friday in a Russia-based scheme to bilk Medicare – the American health insurance program for the elderly and disabled – out of $10.6bn through fraudulent billing for expensive medical equipment. The “transnational crim

Enzo Maresca intent on resisting interest in Chelsea defender Josh Acheampong

Chelsea defender Acheampong targeted by clubs

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by Jacob Steinberg in Charlotte / 1d

Clubs in England and Europe are tracking the 19-year-old Fernandez impresses boss ahead of facing Benfica at Club World Cup Enzo Maresca has said that Chelsea have no intention of selling Josh Acheampong this summer. Several clubs in England and Europe are tracking the 19-year-old defender but it is understood that there is no plan for him to leave Stamford Bridge at the moment. Sources close to

Federal agents blast way into California home of woman and small children

Federal agents raid Huntington Park

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1Kby Dara Kerr / 1d

Security footage shows agents setting off explosive device and shattering window of family home in Huntington Park Federal agents blasted their way into a residential home in Huntington Park, California, on Friday. Security-camera video obtained by the local NBC station showed border patrol agents setting up an explosive device near the door of the house and then detonating it – causing a window

US Senate votes down resolution to restrict Trump from escalating Iran war

Debate over Iran war powers

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100+by Dara Kerr / 1d

Democratic effort fails in mostly partisan vote, hours after US president says he would consider more bombing Senate Democrats failed on Friday to get a war-powers resolution passed to limit Donald Trump ’s ability to single-handedly escalate the war with Iran. The resolution, “to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran”, was voted do

Trump news at a glance: president boasts of ‘monumental’ win after supreme court curtails power of federal judges

Supreme Court limits judicial injunctions

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53by Guardian staff / 1d

Justices’ decision set to impact Trump move to limit birthright citizenship – key US politics stories from Friday 27 June at a glance Donald Trump has hailed a supreme court decision to limit federal judges’ powers to block his orders on a nationwide basis as a “monumental victory” and vowed to “promptly file to proceed” with key policies – including banning birthright citizenship. The supreme co

California legislature acts to keep film and TV production at home

California awards tax credits to 48 films

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by Guardian staff and agencies / 1d

Legislation will more than double current tax incentives under larger bill slated to be signed by Gavin Newsom Hollywood’s home state of California will more than double annual tax incentives for film and television production to $750m under a measure passed by the Democratic-led legislature on Friday. The increase from the current $330m was approved as part of a broader tax bill that is expected

The US supreme court has dramatically expanded the powers of the president | Moira Donegan

Trump advances policies after Supreme Court

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300+by Moira Donegan / 1d

Donald Trump, personally, will now have the presumptive power to persecute you, and nullify your rights in defiance of the constitution, at his discretion Those of us who cover the US supreme court are faced, every June, with a peculiar challenge: whether to describe what the supreme court is doing, or what is claims that it is doing. What the supreme court says it was doing in Friday’s 6-3 decis

Anna Wintour has spent decades dictating a certain look for the super-rich. Then along came Lauren | Marina Hyde

400+by Marina Hyde / 1d

The Bezos-Sánchez wedding is rewriting the fashion rules. And there’s nothing the outgoing Vogue editor can do about it How neat that Anna Wintour’s resignation as editor-in-chief of American Vogue should occur bang in the middle of Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos’s wedding extravaganza in Venice. Top takeout? Anna’s revolution is over. She lost. Not personally, of course – she accrued significant

Killed ex-Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman lies in state alongside husband and dog

Melissa Hortman and husband assassinated

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200+by Rachel Leingang in St Paul, Minnesota / 1d

Minnesotans lined up outside the state capitol to pay their respects to the house speaker assassinated in her home Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, lay in state in the Minnesota state capitol rotunda on Friday. Their wooden caskets, and Gilbert’s golden urn with pawprints on it, were surrounded by trees and ferns, a nod to the greenery Melissa, an avid gardener and advocate for th

California leaders approve budget to close $12bn deficit in blow to progressive causes

California budget deal hinges housing reform

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by Associated Press / 1d

Newsom expected to sign plan that avoids key safety net cuts as state forced to slash funding for third straight year California lawmakers on Friday approved a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities, including a landmark healthcare expansion for low-income adult immigrants without legal status, to close a $12bn deficit. It is the third year in a row the nation’s most populous s

Mother arrested at LA court alongside six-year-old son with cancer sues Ice

ICE detains families and children San Francisco

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200+by Dani Anguiano / 1d

Lawsuit says Honduran woman fears son is not receiving necessary medical care at detention facility in Texas A Honduran woman who sought asylum in the US is suing the Trump administration after immigration agents arrested her and her children, including her six-year-old son who was diagnosed with leukemia, at a Los Angeles immigration court. The woman, identified as “Ms Z” in the lawsuit, and her

Trump basks in triumph as supreme court kicks away another guard rail

Supreme Court decisions impact Trump agenda

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98by David Smith in Washington / 1d

The decision to limit judicial power to curb the president caps a week of – in Trump’s telling – endless winning, from the Middle East to Nato to Africa He strode into the White House briefing room feeling invincible. In his own telling, he had fixed the Middle East. He had made Nato pay up. He had pacified the heart of Africa. And now Napoleon Trump had once again just been crowned emperor by th

Liberal supreme court justices’ dissents reveal concerns that the US faces a crisis

Supreme Court rulings spark controversy

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400+by George Chidi / 1d

As the supreme court upends precedent again and again, the liberal justices reveal the divisions within the legal body On Friday the conservative-dominated US supreme court handed down a series of important judgments on issues ranging from the power of the judiciary to religious rights in schools. Media attention generally focused on the wording of the rulings and their impact. But the court’s li

Trump says he is ending Canada trade talks amid tech tax dispute

Trump ends Canada trade talks

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86by Dominic Rushe in New York / 1d

President assails ‘direct and blatant attack on our country’, accusing Canada of imposing unfair technology taxes on US Sign up to This week in Trumpland Donald Trump has announced he is ending trade talks with Canada, one of its largest trading partners, accusing it of imposing unfair taxes on US technology companies in a “direct and blatant attack on our country”. The news came hours after the

US supreme court ruling sets stage for more politicized science under RFK Jr

100+by Jessica Glenza / 1d

Experts call decision that found health secretary has power to convene key panel ‘classic good news, bad news’ A US supreme court decision affirming the constitutionality of Obamacare sets the stage for more politicized science in the future, health law experts said about the court’s decision. The court’s majority opinion in Kennedy v Braidwood Management found that an expert panel – the preventi

Hegseth announces new name of US navy ship that honored gay rights icon Harvey Milk

USNS Harvey Milk renamed Oscar Peterson

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200+by Edward Helmore / 1d

Defense secretary said the vessel will be renamed after Oscar V Peterson to take ‘politics out of ship naming’ The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has formally announced that the US navy supply vessel named in honor of the gay rights activist Harvey Milk is to be renamed after Oscar V Peterson, a chief petty officer who received the congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle o

University of Virginia president resigns under pressure from White House over DEI programs

UVA president resigns over DOJ DEI

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500+by Guardian staff and agency / 1d

Justice department had been pressuring James Ryan to step down as part of agreement to settle civil rights inquiry US politics live – latest updates The president of the University of Virginia (UVA) has resigned from his position after coming under pressure from the Trump administration over diversity efforts. James Ryan was facing political pressure from Washington to step aside in order to reso

US attacks on Iran redraw calculus of use of force for allies and rivals around globe

Trump escalates Iran Taiwan tensions

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by Andrew Roth in Washington / 1d

Perceived readiness of US to employ force instead of negotiations could have knock-on effects around the world US politics live – latest updates For US allies and rivals around the world, Donald Trump ’s strikes on Iran have redrawn the calculus of the White House’s readiness to use force in the kind of direct interventions that the president said he would make a thing of the past under his isola

I’m glad we have rules. I just don’t expect people to follow them | Dave Schilling

by Dave Schilling / 1d

On traffic safety or foreign policy, I get through life by assuming the worst – and occasionally being pleasantly surprised Rules are great. I think most of us over the age of five will agree that having them is preferable to not. Perhaps there are a few stragglers out there reading this who would love to cosplay a lesser sequel of The Purge, swinging baseball bats at strangers and urinating in t

US supreme court backs age checks for pornography sites to exclude children

Supreme Court upholds age verification

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24by Blake Montgomery / 1d

Court’s conservative justices said Texas law requiring online age verification didn’t violate free expression. PornHub had gone dark in Texas in protest of the law The US supreme court ruled that a Texas law requiring that pornography websites verify the ages of their visitors was constitutional on Friday, the latest development in a global debate over how to prevent minors from accessing adult m

Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for defamation and demands $787m

Gavin Newsom sues Fox News

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500+by Marina Dunbar / 1d

California governor accuses network of falsely claiming he lied about a phone call with Donald Trump The governor of California, Gavin Newsom , has sued Fox News for defamation and demanded $787m, almost exactly the same amount Fox paid in a previous defamation case over election misinformation. In the new lawsuit, filed on Friday, Newsom accuses the Fox host Jesse Watters of falsely claiming New

Catholic religious order must pay $2.4m to New Orleans clergy abuse survivor

55by Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans / 1d

Federal jury awards historic damages to man who says he was sexually abused at a school run by Holy Cross order In a historic verdict, a federal jury in New Orleans has ordered a Catholic religious order to pay nearly $2.4m in damages to a man who reported being sexually abused by one of its members in the late 1960s. John Lousteau, 68, asserted that he was sexually abused while attending an over

Barclays and Jes Staley face fresh lawsuit in US over Epstein link

Jes Staley's ban over Epstein

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by Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent / 1d

Judge rejects former CEO’s request to dismiss case, paving way for class action also against chair Nigel Higgins Business live – latest updates Barclays and its former chief executive Jes Staley are facing a class action lawsuit in the US over claims they defrauded and misled investors over Staley’s relationship with the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A judge in a Los Angeles court denied St

‘Orchestrated grovel’: critics react to Europe’s attempts to tame Donald Trump

Trump advocates military economic actions

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100+by Esther Addley / 1d

Nato chief Mark Rutte derided for calling US president ‘daddy’ and showering him with praise over Iran History may record this week as the one in which Donald Trump came to Europe to discuss defence spending. Diplomats may remember it as the week in which the art of obsequiousness reached new highs and the sycophants plunged new lows. Continue reading...

US supreme court rules key provision of Obamacare constitutional

Supreme Court upholds preventive coverage

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66by Jessica Glenza / 1d

Case challenged how members of an obscure but vital healthcare committee are appointed US politics live – latest updates The US supreme court has ruled that a key provision of “Obamacare”, formally known as the Affordable Care Act , is constitutional. The case challenged how members of an obscure but vital healthcare committee are appointed. The committee, the US Preventive Services Task Force (U

US supreme court limits federal judges’ power to block Trump orders

Supreme Court limits judicial power

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1Kby Joseph Gedeon in Washington / 1d

Ruling to limit nationwide injunctions could see partial implementation of US president’s order to ban birthright citizenship US politics live – latest updates The US supreme court has supported Donald Trump’s attempt to limit federal judges’ power to block his orders on a nationwide basis, in a controversial ruling on an emergency appeal related to the birthright citizenship case that has wide i

Ex-Doge employee ‘Big Balls’ gets new Trump administration position

Big Balls resigns from DOGE

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100+by Chris Michael and agencies / 1d

Edward Coristine, 19, has been given a job at Social Security Administration after quitting Elon Musk’s ‘department’ US politics live – latest updates Edward Coristine – the 19-year-old who quit Elon