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1Kby Sam Levin in Los Angeles / 10h
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’ Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers. In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly prosecuted
President announced increase from 10% using different authority from mechanism that supreme court struck down on Friday Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he would raise a temporary tariff rate on US imports from all countries from 10% to 15%, less than 24 hours after the US supreme court ruled against the legality of his flagship trade policy. Infuriated by the high court’s ruling on Friday
300+by Robert Tait in Washington / 12h
History shows that when called to testify about difficult things – Monica Lewinsky, Benghazi – Bill and Hillary excel For political connoisseurs of a certain vintage, it feels like deja vu all over again. To anyone who witnessed Bill Clinton ’s presidency in the 1990s, the once unimaginable spectacle of a sitting president testifying under oath over sexual misconduct allegations levelled on a wav
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American given rousing reception by crowd in Milan Alysa Liu and Mikhail Shaidorov among other performers Alysa Liu had the opportunity to cherish skating on the same Olympic ice where she won two gold medals one more time. Ilia Malinin had the chance to replace some disappointing memories with much better ones. The two Americans were among more than 40 Olympic figure skaters who took part in the
Colón’s music combined jazz, rock and salsa, incorporating rhythms from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Africa Willie Colón, the pioneering trombonist, vocalist and composer, died on Saturday aged 75, his family has said. With more than 30m albums sold, multiple platinum records and 11 combined Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations, Colón is among the most successful salsa artists of all time. Contin
New Jersey and other east coast areas brace for storm threatening more than 1ft of snow and 55mph wind gusts Blizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities along the east coast for a late-winter storm set to arrive on Sunday that could dump more than a foot of snow and bring wind gusts of more than 55mph. The blizzard warning for New York City is the
Agency statement comes one day after announcement of 6 March target for astronauts’ mission to circle the moon Nasa said in a blog post on Saturday it is taking steps to potentially roll back the Artemis II rocket launch after discovering an interrupted flow of helium. The agency said it is taking steps to roll the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the vehicle assembly building at th
38by José Olivares / 5h
Federal prosecutors have arraigned four people in New Jersey, with a fifth at large in Colombia Four people were arraigned on Saturday in New Jersey for allegedly posing as immigration attorneys and officials to scam immigrants, the justice department said. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, who announced the arrests on Friday, said the group pretended to run a law firm, and staged fake c
Millions of gallons of raw sewage have been pouring into the water through a ruptured pipe since last month Donald Trump approved a federal emergency declaration Saturday related to a sewer main break north of Washington DC that threatens to put a stink on the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations in the US capital this summer. “The president’s action authorizes Fema to coordinate all disaster reli
Infielder hit historic shot in 1960 World Series’ Game 7 Pirates pay tribute to ‘one of a kind’ Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89. Pirates owner Bob Nutting
by Bryan Armen Graham at the Milano Speed Skating Arena / 6h
Dutch skater claims his first gold since 2014 Jordan Stolz misses out on fourth medal of Games Jorrit Bergsma, the mullet-wearing 40-year-old speed skating legend from the Netherlands, won the men’s mass start on Saturday afternoon for his second medal of the Milano Cortina Games and his first Olympic gold since 2014. Bergsma crossed first in 7:55.50, ahead of Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark and An
LAUSD provides resources to diverse schools in an effort to combat segregation – Pam Bondi’s agency wants it to stop For decades, the Los Angeles Unified School District has classified its schools based on the proportion of enrolled students who aren’t white. In a city where more than two-thirds of residents identify as Hispanic, Black or Asian, that meant a vast majority were found to have extra
76by J Oliver Conroy / 7h
Parts of Maga view Israel with suspicion, but US ambassador continues to believe in its divine right to much of the Middle East Parts of the Maga right may be souring on Israel – but a hardline form of Christian Zionism seems to remain unofficial Trump administration policy, if a heated debate between Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, is any indication. On Friday, Car
Long-time rivals play for gold on Sunday at 2026 Games Tensions are high between two teams Status of Canada’s Sidney Crosby still uncertain The US and Canada are prepared for a stormy men’s ice hockey final on Sunday as the long-time rivals face off for Winter Olympic gold . This year’s Olympics mark the first time NHL players have competed at the Winter Games since 2014, meaning many of the best
by Cecilia Nowell / 8h
A picture is emerging of one of the worst avalanche disasters in US history, and the women among a tight-knit group of friends who died The ringing of a phone echoed through the Nevada county, California, sheriff’s office just before noon on 17 February. The 911 call brought devastating news: an avalanche had occurred on nearby Castle Peak – a 9,110ft (2,780-meter) mountain north of the Donner su
100+by Timothy Pratt / 9h
Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express ‘grave concern’ over detention of Georgia barber Rodney Taylor Representative Pramila Jayapal and 20 members of Congress are seeking the release of Rodney Taylor from Stewart detention center in Georgia , several weeks after the one-year anniversary of when agents seized the double amputee outside his suburban home in Loganville, about 40 miles nor
The US supreme court ruled against the president. Let’s hope the court removes its pro-Trump glasses on other issues and stands up for the rule of law There’s no denying that the US supreme court’s long-awaited ruling that overturned Donald Trump’s global tariffs is important, and if the ruling turns out to be a harbinger that the court is ready to abandon its startling sycophancy toward the US p
100+by Margaret Sullivan / 11h
Recent incidents involving Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert suggest things are not well at the network after the acquisition financed by Trump supporter Larry Ellison Anderson Cooper decides to walk away from broadcast TV’s most prestigious news show, 60 Minutes. Stephen Colbert takes his interview with a rising Democratic politician to YouTube instead of his own late-night show . The CBS Even
31by Ramon Antonio Vargas / 11h
Doug Ruch died in New Zealand in December after article called him a ‘conman’ but cause of death remains unknown A US man who spoke to various media outlets about having terminal cancer and raising money to travel for community service projects died shortly before Christmas in New Zealand – the day after an article by a journalist there accused him of actually being “an alleged serial conman”. Au
The civil rights trailblazer imagined a future for America in which the marginalized became the center of US politics Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died on 17 February, imagined a version of America where the marginalized became the center. His was a much more progressive vision than what the Democratic party thought possible after the civil rights movement,
Banner at justice department just the latest example of how president has imposed himself on daily US life You wouldn’t be alone if you feel that the US more closely resembles North Korea these days – with giant images of the dear leader scowling down on the citizenry, and his name inscribed everywhere from public buildings to street signs, transportation hubs and self-aggrandizing monuments. Thu
200+by Victoria Bekiempis / 12h
Files show accuser in 2011 provided extensive account of abuse as questions mount over why action was not taken The Department of Justice’s release of millions of Jeffrey Epstein files has not only prompted questions about his crimes – but renewed attention on authorities’ failure to stop him after an accuser reported him in 1996. This new cache of Epstein files has provided more insight into aut
100+by Stephen Starr in Dearborn, Michigan / 12h
Arab Americans in Dearborn and beyond are being swept up by ICE at places of worship and work, with devastating consequences Lorenda Lewis is so tired she can barely keep her head straight. Surrounded by her six young children at a cafe in Dearborn, Michigan, she recounts the nightmare of the past four months that saw her husband, Abdelouahid Aouchiche, an Algerian national, taken away. It was st
The conservative-heavy court had largely given Trump everything he desired – until now, when two of his three nominees turned their back on him After an agonising year in which the US supreme court has stood aside and watched while Donald Trump has run roughshod over the constitutional separation of powers, the highest judicial panel has finally stirred itself to set boundaries on the president’s
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by Tanya Aldred / 14h
• Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing • Follow us over on Bluesky | And you can email Tanya Men’s four-man bobsleigh In the workshop, a man carefully waxes down a sleigh. Another Canadian team next, under Dearborn, but they can’t improve on their countrymen. Men’s four-man bobsleigh: The French have a cracking silver sled, but it all goes wrong at the start when one of the
14Kby Jenny Kleeman / 17h
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’ When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. “I was aware,” she nods.
500+by Simon Tisdall / 17h
As the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost Viewed from Europe, the US’s failure to defend the people of Ukraine against Russian aggression is the greatest and most consequential of a host of recent American betrayals. It’s not just the sickening subservience shown to Vladimir Putin, an indicted war criminal and mas
200+by Lauren Gambino at Stamford / 19h
After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have “not a clue” about the scale and speed of the coming AI revolution, pressing for urgent policy action to “slow this thing down” as tech companies race to build ever-more powerful systems. Spea
Trump called justices ‘fools’ and ‘disgrace to the nation’ after their rebuke of his aggressive trade tactic – key US politics stories from 20 February 2026 at a glance Donald Trump experienced a rare moment in his second term as president Friday: a loss from the nation’s highest court. The US supreme court declared many of Donald Trump ’s tariffs illegal in a sharp rebuke that topples a key pill
Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148 The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-traff
500+by Associated Press / 22h
Shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Texas was not publicly disclosed by Department of Homeland Security Newly released records show a US citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security. The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of a
Nevada county sheriff said investigation includes learning why the ski trip was not cancelled by the guide company Authorities are investigating whether any criminal negligence was involved in the deadly avalanche that swept California’s Lake Tahoe this week, which killed at least eight skiers and their guides while returning from a three-day backcountry skiing trip. The Nevada county sheriff’s o
A man, 23, drove a car full of weapons through gate of power facility before shooting himself in the head, officials said A 23-year-old man drove from New York to a Las Vegas suburb and crashed a rented Nissan Sentra through a gate and into a pile of heavy wire reels at a power substation before shooting himself in the head, local police said on Friday, describing the incident as a suspected act
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42by Bryan Armen Graham at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena / 1d
Hughes and Eichel spark US rout of Slovakia MacKinnon scores late to send Canada through Border rivals to meet for men’s hockey gold The United States and Canada men’s ice hockey teams will play for the gold medal on Sunday’s final day of the Milano Cortina Games after both teams came through semi-final contests of varying difficulty on Friday evening, setting up a blockbuster final in the first
Philanthropist and mother of Elisabeth, James and Lachlan Murdoch died at home in Palm Beach, Florida The author and philanthropist Anna Murdoch-Mann, the ex-wife of the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday. She was 81. Murdoch-Mann’s death was reported Friday by the New York Post , one of her ex-husband’s media properties. Continue reading..
Rightwing Trump ally tells Tucker Carlson Israel has biblical right to land from ‘wadi of Egypt to the great river’ The US’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee , has contended to the podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire Middle East – or at least the lion’s share of it. “It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee said to Carlson during an intervie
Claims against Wesley Dingus came from teen who had been staying at his residence and hid camera in bedroom A Republican mayor in Ohio is facing criminal allegations after authorities say he was recorded on a concealed camera smelling an underage girl’s underwear. An incident report from the Richland county sheriff’s Office details the accusations against Wesley Dingus, 48, who serves as mayor of
The decision adds to economic uncertainty, as deals Donald Trump struck with other countries are upended It is refreshing to witness the US supreme court recover its spine and stand up to Donald Trump ’s most extreme caprices. The 6-3 decision on Friday to strike down his barrage of tariffs on imports from virtually everywhere based on the preposterous argument that they addressed national emerge
Legislation responds to concerns that immigration officers could interfere with voting during November midterms A bill introduced this week by California lawmakers would ban federal immigration agents from being stationed outside polling places, responding to concerns that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers could interfere with voting during the November midterm elections. The leg
Karl Jacobson, city’s police chief for three years, is accused of pilfering money from fund meant to pay informants An official who recently resigned as police chief of one of Connecticut ’s largest cities was arrested on Friday on larceny charges after allegations that he stole more than $85,000 from two department accounts – money that was meant to pay for certain informants as well as a youth
31-year-old adds to his 2018 silver and 2022 bronze Estonia’s Sildaru, Canada’s Mackay round out podium American freeskier Alex Ferreira won the men’s halfpipe final at the Milano Cortina Winter Games on Friday to complete his collection of Olympic medals. The 31-year-old Ferreira won with a third and final run worth 93.75 points, adding the gold medal to his silver from Pyeongchang in 2018 and b
The US president says he will impose a 10% global tariff after the supreme court found his current use of tariffs illegal blocked it. Trump called the decision a disgrace Continue reading...
Authorities suspect Carl Grillmair was shot by man arrested for carjacking, as friends mourn him as ‘irreplaceable’ A renowned California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientist who studied distant planets and other areas of astronomy for decades was recently shot to death at his home in a rural community outside Los Angeles , authorities said. Carl Grillmair, 67, died from a bullet wound to
President calls decision a ‘disgrace to the nation’ while praising three justices who dissented US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling the decision a “disgrace to the nation”, and later signed documents imposing a 10% tariff on all countries. Trump said he would immediately sign an order increasing
First lady is first in more than 100 years to have two inaugural gowns in museum’s popular collection Her husband has described it as “OUT OF CONTROL”, a place where “everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been”. But Melania Trump , the wife of US president Donald Trump , declared a temporary ceasefire in hostilities w
30by Jim Powell / 1d
The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ramadan in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Odesa and flooding in France – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading...
The department is reportedly considering buying a Boeing plane for deportation flights and for use by Trump officials A $70m aircraft the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering for deportation flights has a luxurious interior and will be used to transport Trump administration officials to engagements in comfort, according to a report published Friday. NBC News obtained images of the
British Chambers of Commerce official says US supreme court decision ‘does little to clear the murky waters’ US politics – live updates The US supreme court just declared Donald Trump’s boldest tariffs illegal , but international businesses and governments are still uncertain over what’s to come. After the court said the president cannot enact tariffs in peacetime using the International Emergenc
6-3 ruling against unilateral imposition of tariffs without congressional approval labelled a ‘disgrace’ by Trump Trump illegally used executive power to impose global tariffs, supreme court rules
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