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South Park targets Paramount after signing $1.5bn deal and skewers Trump: ‘He can do anything to anyone’

1Kby Jenna Amatulli / 9h

Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network. The premiere episode, Sermon on the Mount, sees the

Chuck Mangione, Grammy-winning jazz musician and composer, dies aged 84

Rochester jazz legend Chuck Mangione dies

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300+by Anna Betts / 4h

Celebrated flugelhorn and trumpet player released over 30 albums and sold millions of records throughout his career The Grammy-winning jazz musician and composer Chuck Mangione died on Tuesday, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. “The family of Chuck Mangione is deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York on July 22,

Trump order pushes local officials to clear unhoused people from streets

100+by Dani Anguiano and Sam Levin / 3h

Order removes restrictions from municipalities and redirects funds toward rehabilitation and treatment The federal government is seeking to crack down on homelessness in the US, with Donald Trump issuing an executive order to push local governments to remove unhoused people from the streets. The order the US president signed on Thursday will seek the “reversal of federal or state judicial precede

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US regulators approve $8.4bn Paramount-Skydance merger

FCC pleased with Skydance concessions

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20by Cecilia Nowell and agencies / 2h

FCC approval of deal comes after Paramount paid $16m to settle Trump lawsuit over 60 Minutes interview The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media on Thursday, clearing the way for an $8.4bn sale of some of the most prominent names in entertainment, including the CBS broadcast television network, Paramount Pictures and the Nickelodeon cabl

Trump tussles with Jerome Powell on rare visit to Federal Reserve

Trump's Powell dismissal fears unsettle markets

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by Dominic Rushe in New York / 2h

Fed chair pushes back on Trump criticism of renovation costs as president presses central bank to cut interest rates US politics – live updates Donald Trump sparred with the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, on Thursday during a rare presidential visit to the central bank’s headquarters. Trump was continuing his campaign to pressure the Fed to cut interest rates and was visiting its Washingto

Trump and Fed chair Powell clash over Federal Reserve renovation cost – video

Trump's Powell dismissal fears unsettle markets

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Donald Trump appeared to ambush Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, during his site visit to inspect the renovation of the central bank’s historic headquarters in Washington. The president claimed the total cost of the renovations was $3.1bn, higher than previously reported. As Trump made this claim, Powell shook his head and said: 'I’m not aware of that. I haven’t heard that from anybody a

A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report

by Cy Neff / 2h

New figures show that the Golden state’s rate of investor-owned homes is 19%, with mountain regions up to 83% One in five homes in California is owned by investors, new data reveals, in the latest sign of an affordability crisis that shows no end in sight. The figures, which come from the data tracker BatchData and were analyzed by the Orange County Register , show that California’s overall perce

Outcry as US agriculture department to cut salaries and relocate staff

USDA relocates staff closer farmers

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by Nina Lakhani and Gabrielle Canon / 3h

Experts warn ‘half-baked’ restructuring will further erode support for US farmers and hamper wildfire response Thousands of employees at the US Department of Agriculture will be forced to take salary cuts and relocate out of the Washington DC area, as part of a major restructuring that experts warn will further weaken support for American farmers and complicate wildfire response. In a memorandum

Trump signs executive order to rein in ‘chaotic’ influence of money on college sports

Trump executive order aims to regulate college

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21by Bryan Armen Graham / 3h

Order targets booster-funded NIL recruiting payments Colleges told to protect non-revenue sports programs States blamed for fueling money imbalance in sports Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order prohibiting “third-party, pay-for-play” payments to college athletes, a move the White House says is intended to curb the booster-funded bidding wars that have upended the landscape of colle

Wear flowers in your hair … and take the bus: San Francisco fetes Grateful Dead concerts with tie-dye

SF Muni celebrates Grateful Dead

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by Cecilia Nowell / 3h

Transit will transport concertgoers at a three-day concert series celebrating 60th anniversary of the band’s formation The summer of love is pulling back in to San Francisco – aboard three tie-dye and paisley-wrapped trains and buses. Designed to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s formation, the city’s Muni transit vehicles will double as transport for concertgoers attending a

Hulk Hogan, wrestling star and actor, dies aged 71 – video obituary

Hulk Hogan dies at 71

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Hulk Hogan, the wrestling star and vocal supporter of Donald Trump, has died at the age of 71, his manager confirmed. Chris Volo told NBC Los Angeles that Hogan, given name Terry Gene Bollea, suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida, and died surrounded by his family. Instantly recognisable from his blond horseshoe moustache and bandannas, Hogan was one of the most popular wre

What are the Jeffrey Epstein files and will they be released?

MAGA's Epstein obsession signals post-Trump

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33by Rachel Leingang / 4h

Trump’s reluctance to call for documents’ release rankles supporters who claim he has broken campaign promise A trove of documents related to the child sexual abuse offender Jeffrey Epstein are at the center of a splinter between Donald Trump and his rightwing allies. While campaigning, Trump said he would release the so-called “Epstein files”, the documents about criminal investigations into his

California can’t require background checks to buy ammunition, appeals court rules

California ammunition background checks blocked

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72by Staff and agencies / 6h

‘Background check regime infringes on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms,’ a judge wrote in the decision A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that California’s first-of-its-kind law requiring firearm owners to undergo background checks to buy ammunition is unconstitutional. In a 2-1 vote, the ninth US circuit court of appeals in Pasadena, California, upheld a lower court judge’s per

Venezuelans deported by Trump to El Salvador describe ‘horror movie’ mega-prison

74by Marina Dunbar and agency / 6h

Men recently reunited with loved ones in their home country detail months of abuse at the facility Venezuelan men who were deported by the US to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process are speaking out about treatment they described as “hell” and like a “horror movie”, after arriving back home. A total of 252 Venezuelan nationals were repatriated in the last week in a deal between t

New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields carted off with toe injury at camp

Jets quarterback Justin Fields injured

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by Agencies / 6h

Fields suffers toe injury during team drill Coach Glenn unsure of injury severity Tyrod Taylor takes over first-team reps New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields was carted from the practice field Thursday morning with a toe injury. Fields threw an incomplete pass to Jeremy Ruckert on his fifth play of team drills when he went down. The quarterback, in his first season with the Jets, sat on the g

Under-fire DoJ forms ‘strike force’ to investigate Obama amid Epstein scandal

US investigates Obama Russiagate role

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200+by Robert Tait in Washington / 7h

Announcement comes as administration tries to pivot from questions about Trump’s ties to the disgraced financier The US justice department has formed a “strike force” to investigate claims that the Obama administration carried out a “treasonous conspiracy” by using false intelligence to suggest Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump . Pam Bondi , the US attorney

US justice department officials meet Ghislaine Maxwell

U S seeks Maxwell Epstein files

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100+by Anna Betts in New York, and Maya Yang / 7h

Meeting comes amid growing pressure on Trump administration to release Jeffrey Epstein documents The Jeffrey Epstein files scandal swirling around Donald Trump and his administration continued to escalate on Thursday as officials from the Department of Justice met with the late sex offender’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell , whose lawyer said she “answered every question … honestly and to t

NWSL investigation finds San Diego Wave ‘could have done more’ to address assault allegation

by Matthew Hall / 8h

A summary of the report obtained by the Guardian found no specific issue with how the club handled a report of abuse but improvements could have been made An investigation commissioned by the National Women’s Soccer League found that the San Diego Wave front office “could have done more” to address a sexual assault allegation from a member of the club’s staff, but ultimately found no specific iss

National Science Foundation staff decry Trump’s ‘politically motivated’ cuts

NSF staff oppose Trump policies

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27by Nina Lakhani / 9h

Workers allege illegal terminations, censorship and collapse of scientific review standards Almost 150 workers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) have lambasted Donald Trump ’s cuts to the agency as “politically motivated and legally questionable”, joining colleagues at three other federal research agencies in warning that the administration is destroying innovation and sacrificing the US

EU fails to reduce 50% steel tariff in outline trade deal with US

by Lisa O’Carroll / 9h

Bloc’s steel exporters face ‘catastrophic’ Trump levy, says industry body – potentially twice the rate for the UK The latest proposal for a trade agreement between the EU and the US does not include a removal or reduction of the punitive 50% tariff Donald Trump imposed on steel imports, it has emerged. It is a big setback for the industry in the EU which last month warned it faced being wiped out

LA’s main utility to pay wildfire victims although cause of blaze undetermined

by Cecilia Nowell / 9h

Southern California Edison announces program amid concerns state’s wildfire fund will not be able to cover losses Los Angeles’s main utility company will compensate victims of January’s deadly Eaton wildfire – even though investigators have yet to determine whether the company’s equipment sparked the blaze. In a statement released Wednesday, Southern California Edison announced the establishment

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666 times more than his workers in 2024

CEO pay outpaces workers

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100+by Michael Sainato / 9h

CEO pay climbs ahead of Trump tax windfall for wealthy, says report Starbucks ’ CEO, Brian Niccol, made 6,666 times more than his average worker last year, according to a report on the growing gap between top executives and their workers. The inequality gap between CEOs’ pay and that of their median workers rose in 2024 to 285 to 1 from 268 to 1 in 2023, according to a report released this week b

Jeff Daniels chastises Trump voters: ‘I hope you’re losing tons of money’

Jeff Daniels criticizes Trump and Republicans

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200+by Catherine Shoard / 9h

Speaking on a podcast, the actor compared the US president to a ‘snake-oil salesman’ and said ‘he’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but with being a human being’ The actor Jeff Daniels has said he hopes those who voted for Donald Trump’s second term in the White House lose money as a consequence. Speaking to MSNBC’s The Best People With Nicolle Wallace podcast, Daniels addressed the

Trump effort to ditch greenhouse gas finding ignores ‘clearcut’ science, expert says

EPA plans to revoke climate authority

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100+by Oliver Milman / 10h

Architect of landmark EPA ‘endangerment finding’ says repealing it will lead to more extreme weather in US One of the architects of a landmark 16-year-old finding on pollution’s impact on health that the Trump administration now wants to eliminate says that doing so would ignore “clear cut” science that has only become clearer today because of extreme weather. The Trump administration plans would

As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys | Arwa Mahdawi

Netanyahu faces criticism on Nelk

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200+by Arwa Mahdawi / 11h

The Israeli PM went on Full Send Podcast ‘to reach young people’. After his appearance, its YouTube channel lost more than 10,000 subscribers in less than a day Gaza is starving. Nearly 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and a third of Gaza’s population is going days without eating, according to an expert from the UN World Food Programme . Tons of food sits r

I don’t identify with my country’s values anymore. Is this ‘citizenship insecurity’?

73by Alissa Quart / 11h

Since Trump’s immigration crackdown, global perceptions of America have plummeted. Citizens and non-citizens alike are rethinking whether we still want US passports It starts with a quiz from a law firm: did your grandparents leave before or after 1951? Do you have their passports or marriage certificate? If I answer correctly, I will get another email from a lawyer who specializes in citizenship

‘Extortion’: Columbia University’s deal with White House met with mixed reactions

Columbia punishes students to restore funding

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93by Alice Speri / 11h

Some slammed the agreement with the Trump administration to reinstate $400m in federal funds while others praised it as an ‘excellent outcome’ Columbia University’s long anticipated deal with the Trump administration after months of negotiations has drawn both condemnation and praise from faculty, students, and alumni – a sign that the end of negotiations will hardly restore harmony on a campus p

Why Trump’s political playbook is failing in the Epstein case | Jan-Werner Müller

Bernie Sanders demands Epstein files release

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82by Jan-Werner Müller / 12h

The president’s long-effective tactics are finally facing a test – especially when it comes to time management The problem with a successful playbook is that you eventually keep doing the same thing mechanically. Fresh from intimidating ABC and CBS with meritless lawsuits , Donald Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal reporters who broke the story of a lewd birthday message fo

Ghislaine Maxwell to meet with justice department official about Jeffrey Epstein case – live

Majority support abortion rights

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100+by Lucy Campbell (now); Shannon Ho (earlier) / 12h

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s close associate, is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking in Tallahassee, Florida Columbia University ’s long anticipated deal with the Trump administration after months of negotiations has drawn both condemnation and praise from faculty, students, and alumni – a sign that the end of negotiations will hardly restore harmony on a campus profound

First Thing: Late Jesuit global leader allegedly let known child molester become a priest

by Clea Skopeliti / 13h

Court records show Pedro Arrupe, a candidate for sainthood, failed to stop Donald Dickerson being ordained. Plus, deadly clashes on Thai-Cambodian border Good morning. The former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order Pedro Arrupe acknowledged he was warned that one of his aspiring priests had been accused of sexually molesting two children and had admitted making sexual advances on a thi

Colorado clerks voice alarm at murky ‘official’ push to access voting machines

Impersonator seeks voting machine access

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82by Sam Levine / 13h

At least 10 clerks received queries as DoJ ramps up requests to states about how they keep ineligible voters off the rolls Steve Schleiker, the Republican county clerk in El Paso county, Colorado, got home from work on 16 July when he got a text message from a number he didn’t recognize with a pressing request. The person sending the message introduced himself to Schleiker as Jeff Small, a politi

White House rescinds $20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California

300+by Tom Perkins / 13h

EPA said grant to provide clean water was a ‘wasteful DEI program’ as pesticide leaches into residents’ wells For decades, thousands of residents in California ’s agricultural heartland couldn’t use their wells because the water was too contaminated with pesticides . In December, the Biden administration stepped in with a long-awaited $20m grant to provide clean water, improve municipal sources a

Donald Trump will add to pressure on Jerome Powell with visit to Federal Reserve

Trump's Powell dismissal fears unsettle markets

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by Phillip Inman / 14h

The US president and the central bank have clashed over a $2.5bn renovation and its ongoing refusal to cut interest rates Business live – latest updates Donald Trump will heap further pressure on the chief of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, on Thursday when the