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The US president spoke about the war with Iran during the UN general assembly on Tuesday, threatening to 'annihilate' the country and 'drive them into hell' if the regime didn’t agree to a deal with the United States US politics live Middle East braces for more violence as Iran claims US is planning to renew bombing campaign Continue reading...
The US president remarked on CNN's presence at the UN general assembly on Tuesday, telling reporters he was 'surprised' the news network was covering him and that it 'shouldn't be here' after he banned the outlet along with MS Now and Politico from the White House last week US politics live US TV networks suspend White House pool coverage over Trump media ban Continue reading...
by Arwa Mahdawi / 1h
Jake and Logan Paul were invited to give a motivational speech. Just don’t let them get involved with military policy We’re now approaching month seven of a war against Iran that Donald Trump repeatedly assured us would be over in a matter of weeks . Prices are rising, troop morale is plummeting , and there is little evidence things will improve. The situation is so desperate that the decision ma
by Ariana Baio / 1h
‘I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it,’ the progressive US representative says US politics live – latest updates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , the progressive Democratic congresswoman, has refused to rule out a potential run against the party’s Senate leader Chuck Schumer amid mounting speculation around her political ambitions. When asked by the New York Times whether she would challenge Schumer
South Carolina medical examiner says ‘no signs of trauma’ and ‘the manner of death has been ruled accident’ Hayden Panettiere died from a fentanyl overdose, according to the Greenville county coroner’s office. Medical examiners in South Carolina confirmed the 36-year old actor’s cause of death on Tuesday, saying: “The cause of death has been ruled as toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam,
by Sophie Sullivan in Standing Rock / 1h
Tribal leaders and organizers return to reservation 10 years after demonstrations against Dakota Access pipeline Ten years after major demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline , tribal leaders and Native American organizers returned to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation this week to honor the movement and its lasting impacts. In the rural reservation area of Fort Yates, a four-day encam
Putin ally helped cover cost of renting private island in the Bahamas for wedding of Trump Jr and Bettina Anderson US politics live – latest updates A Republican senator has accused Donald Trump Jr of corruption and demanded a Senate investigation into revelations that a Russian oligarch bankrolled part of his recent wedding in the Bahamas. John Curtis, of Utah, wrote to the leaders of the US Sen
Jury report says ‘no credible evidence’ points to criminal conduct related to death of Mississippi teen after boat outing with friends on 4 July A grand jury made a unanimous decision late Monday night to not bring criminal charges against anyone in the mysterious death of Nolan Wells, a Mississippi teen who died after a boat outing with friends on 4 July. The Jackson county, Mississippi grand ju
by Leslie Vinjamuri / 2h
Mark Rutte has the right idea – go beyond Washington and make the case for the transatlantic alliance to the public. They may well have a willing ear At a moment when Europe is focused on persuading Donald Trump to remain committed to Nato, it needs to convince Americans, too. So the presence this evening of the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, in front of a public audience in Des Moines, Iowa
White House press coverage row continues while anchor-less channel of the administration’s ‘latest and greatest’ streams propaganda for the Maga faithful Donald Trump’s previous television career centred on his role on The Apprentice, but the US president’s latest media venture is a rather lower-budget affair: the launch of Trump TV in the wake of his ban on several outlets from covering the Whit
The Massachusetts case is the latest in a series of legal woes for the influencer whose real name is Braden Eric Peters The online influencer known as Clavicular – who helped fuel the rise of the extreme male appearance-improvement trend of “ looksmaxxing ” – has been charged with rape and drug offenses in Massachusetts . The 20-year-old, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, has been scheduled
by Mallory Carra / 3h
Independent outlets are leaning on social media, chat and other nontraditional methods to fight disinformation When Allan Marrero, an asylum-seeker from the Cayman Islands , was released after five months in immigration detention, there was only one journalist he invited to his celebration: Eileen Grench, a reporter with the independent, non-profit news outlet Documented. Grench had previously re
Son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber died at a rehabilitation facility The death on Sunday of Presley Gerber , the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber, is being investigated as a suspected overdose, according to police. Gerber died at a rehabilitation facility, Los Angeles county medical examiner records show. An autopsy was perform
Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super Bowl A Kansas school teacher’s fatal car wreck on Monday led to a vehicular homicide conviction for the motorist who crashed into her – a verdict delivered just four days after a Louisiana jury found a woman guilty of the drugging death of the educator’s widower w
President’s decision to ban three news organisations from White House prompts backlash. Plus, a new resource to help trace the history of enslaved people in the 19th century Good morning. The row over media access to the presidency has deepened, with major US television news outlets agreeing to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several o
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of disease The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday – but it’s still not counting four measles deaths in Pennsylvania, where the outbreak appears to be accelerating and cases are appearing in ways providers have ne
by Tom Ambrose / 5h
President also due to hold meetings with 11 world leaders Sign up for US Breaking News emails Federal immigration officials in Texas prevented US representative Veronica Escobar from fully conducting her congressional oversight duties at a controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) detention center, the lawmaker said in an interview with the Guardian. Escobar, a Democrat who repres
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner / 6h
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was for about a decade a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group when he was in his late teens and 20s that some former members compared to a “cult”, according to a Guardian
by Stephen Starr in Detroit / 6h
The Democratic Senate nominee’s views on Israel and comments after a synagogue attack prompted a public debate among Jewish voters When Jess Newman heard that Temple Israel in Detroit was attacked last March, her first thoughts went to her extended family. “I grew up going to services there,” she said. “The attack was awful. My Jewish identity is very important to me.” Continue reading...
by José Olivares / 6h
Veronica Escobar tells Guardian she was prevented from speaking to detainees at much-criticized Texas facility Federal immigration officials in Texas prevented US representative Veronica Escobar from fully conducting her congressional oversight duties at a controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) detention center, the lawmaker said in an interview with the Guardian. Escobar, a De
by Robert Reich / 6h
It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chin Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both spoke before a Washington group demanding a stop to AI and its datacenters. Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs behind AI. Continue reading...
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by Hossein Hamdieh / 7h
If anything, the ongoing war is uniting a divided country against the foreign invaders. Washington seems a long way from grasping this point The US president, Donald Trump, asked recently on one of his Truth Social rants : “When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?” So frenetic and all-over-the-place are Trump’s statements that one does not know which are actual policies and which a
by Andy Cochrane / 7h
Jenn Lichter’s childhood followed a difficult path. The resilience she gained helped her achieve an unbreakable ultrarunning feat this summer On 27 June, Jenn Lichter lined up for her first 100-mile race, the Western States 100. The oldest and most prestigious 100-miler in the world, Western States attracts a highly competitive field from around the globe – the athletes run across the Sierra Neva
by Kathryn Sikkink / 8h
The rights of overseas voters are protected by US federal law. It’s not hard – but Americans should start planning now The UK hosts the second largest population of voting-age US citizens outside the United States, but Americans living in the UK vote at very low levels in US elections. The US government’s Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) estimated that there were 298,268 voting-age US cit
Trump’s announcement on Russia ally comes as he steps up his trade war with Canada, a long-term US ally and top supplier of potash President Donald Trump has said he is working on a “massive” deal to buy fertiliser from Belarus, pivoting away from main supplier Canada amid an escalating trade dispute, and moving instead toward an ally of Russia. “The United States is working on a massive deal wit
New York Giants 6-28 Los Angeles Rams Aaron Donald celebrates return to NFL with victory Davante Adams has eight catches for 195 yards Davante Adams made eight catches for 195 yards and hauled in two of Matthew Stafford’s four touchdown passes, and the Los Angeles Rams welcomed Aaron Donald back to the NFL with a 28-6 victory over the New York Giants on Monday night. Stafford passed for 327 yards
Third baseman was standing near on-deck circle 32-year-old hopes to return for postseason Chicago Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman suffered facial fractures when he was hit in the head by a foul ball on Sunday, according to ESPN . Bregman was standing in the on-deck circle preparing for his at-bat when his teammate Michael Busch checked his swing and fouled off a pitch from the Cincinnati Reds’ Lu
Republican president said he hoped the democratic socialist would be a ‘great mayor’ for New York City Donald Trump said on Monday that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a “great mayor” for New York, an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader whom the president and his Republican allies have spent months holding up as a symbol of the Democratic party’s alleged embrace of “comm
Environmental groups vow to continue opposition to deal that would expand site for Elon Musk rocket company A federal judge on Monday refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas, while environmental groups vowed to continue their legal challenge. US district judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr declined the plaintiffs’
Supreme court, which has twice blocked maps from being used in November, likely to have final say in legal fight A long-running legal fight over Missouri’s congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by Donald Trump, even though the US supreme court has blocked those districts from being used in the November election. A three-judg
by Tobi Thomas health and inequalities correspondent / 18h
Accra Reset’s report states countries in the region and global south should take greater control of their health development after USAID debacle The United States’ withdrawal from key aid programs has put has put healthcare in Africa and the Global South “under growing strain” a new report warns. The report says the Trump administration’s cuts to programs such as US Agency for International Devel
Holdout juror in Clancy’s case, Michael Desronvil, sided with the prosecutors, arguing that Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three young children Lawyers for Lindsay Clancy have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three children. In a motion filed Friday but made public Mond
by Akbar Shahid Ahmed / 19h
Voters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid Ahmed The last time she gathered with fellow Democrats for a pre-election national convention, Georgia state representative Ruwa Romman got an unspoken message from the party establishment: on their biggest stage, she said, “There’s room for an anti-choice Republican bu
A helicopter assisting in fighting the Dome fire in Yosemite national park crashed on Sunday afternoon Two helicopter pilots died while fighting a fire in Yosemite national park on Sunday afternoon. The pilots were conducting water drops over the Dome fire, which had burned more than 3,000 acres since it ignited last week, when their helicopter crashed around 3pm, according to the Federal Aviatio
James Eaton, 51, faces life in prison after jury rejects insanity defense rooted in claims he was acting on orders from US and Israeli intelligence A jury has convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense rooted in his claims that he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad. Jaso
California man charged with misdemeanor battery in Burbank over incident sending three patrons to hospital A 34-year-old man from California has been arrested after allegedly pepper-spraying a person at a movie theater who was using his cellphone during the film, according to authorities. Police arrested Matthew Ware on 15 September after purportedly pepper spraying a patron at the AMC Burbank 16
White House promoted its own ‘Trump TV’ feed online after ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC decline to participate The major US television news outlets agreed to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds. The collective decision came after the barred outlets – CNN, MS Now and Politico – sued the adm
Immigration agency’s move makes it harder for lawyers and family to find detainees, in line with stringent Trump policy US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them, according to curr
Super El-Niño has already broken temperature records and is predicted to bring an extremely wet winter to the state ‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak California is bracing for a record breaking El Niño that is expected to bring severe winter storms and flooding across the state, with the state’s governor declaring a state of emergency in anticipation of e
Shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez comes months after increased federal immigration enforcement in Austin The Venezuelan man who was shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas on Sunday spoke out from detention on Monday afternoon when he was able to call his lawyer, in the middle of a press conference, and plead for better medical care. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, was taken from a ho
Thousands of flights were delayed or canceled after a primary line failed and a backup fiber-optic cable was severed Airport operations across the US north-east resumed Monday evening after a communications line failure snarled flights at some of the country’s busiest airports, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and delays. Flights were halted at several airports after a primary communi
Quarterback sustained injury in loss on Sunday Tyson Bagent lined up to replace Williams Bears quarterback Caleb Williams’s hamstring injury is going to be a “week-to-week thing,” Chicago coach Ben Johnson said Monday in a radio interview on ESPN 1000. Johnson did not put a definitive timeline on Williams’s recovery. Continue reading...
by Alice Speri / 23h
Students faced prison terms and thousands of dollars in restitution over campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza Five Stanford University students who faced prison sentences and thousands of dollars in restitution in connection to a campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza had all charges dropped on Monday. The students also had their restitution severely reduced, ending a two-year legal s
Republican congresswoman rejects ethics complaint and says allegations part of ‘politically motivated’ hit campaign Lauren Boebert, the firebrand Republican subject of a House ethics complaint that she had sex with three staff members, and paid one to keep quiet, has said the allegations are untrue – and part of a “politically motivated” campaign against her. Boebert’s denials came through a form
President to meet Ukrainian counterpart in New York as Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian energy sector Donald Trump is expected to press Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on an energy ceasefire during a face-to-face meeting this week during United Nations high-level week, as world diesel prices have soared due to the war in Iran, as well as Russia’s war in Ukraine. Ukraine stepped up its att
States including California and New York sued over concerns of ‘extinguishing competition’ with $81bn merger Paramount has reached a settlement with California and several other states that sued over a proposed $81bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery ( WBD ), the California attorney general announced Monday, clearing the way to consolidate some of Hollywood’s most recognizable TV networks and stu
Iowa senator Chuck Grassley calls for embargo on diesel exports as tariffs and Iran war drive up costs for sector Donald Trump is facing growing calls, including from within his own party, to boost support for US farmers as his administration faces mounting anger over its treatment of the agricultural sector. Republican senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa called on the US president to place an embargo
Gilbert’s family says he died ‘peacefully in his sleep’ months after My Friends Over You musician shared stage four cancer diagnosis Guitarist Chad Gilbert – a founding member of the US rock band New Found Glory that doled out the early 2000s anthem My Friends Over You – has died aged 45. Gilbert’s family announced his death on Sunday, saying that he “passed away peacefully in his sleep” and “lef
by Ted Widmer / 1d
The Canadian prime minister’s remarks before the European parliament outlined a vision of the west without its most powerful member The speeches keep coming, each building on the previous one, as the Canadian prime minister builds a case for a new world order that has strikingly little to do with the United States of America, the country that has led the west since the second world war. On 20 Jan
Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025 A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean “constituted crimes against humanity”. The boat strikes, carried out since Sep
CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately call last week’s sudden lockout ‘a direct assault on the first amendment’. That’s right On Monday, the three news organizations that had been kicked out of the White House because of Donald Trump ’s latest fit of pique sued the president and three top advisers. An accompanying statement by CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately calls last week’s sudden lockout “a
by David Moscrop / 1d
As the White House doles out threats and insults, it would be easy to hold out for better times. Mark Carney is right to court the EU instead The absurdities of the Trump administration and its hangers-on could be written off as a distraction if the stakes weren’t so high. People might be used to banal trolling on social media platforms, but the global hegemon has forced this petulance onto hundr
Doula stopped to assist couple with birth while first responders were also stuck in traffic and arrived on foot A woman stuck in heavy traffic in San Francisco went into labor and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, local authorities have said. The San Francisco fire department said in a statement that a couple had been snarled in heavy congestion near the city’s Golden Gate Park when they were fo
Walter Moorhead, 74, jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after allegedly shooting a woman while hunting in Delaware A Maryland hunter was recently jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after he allegedly fatally shot a woman whom he mistook for a deer, according to authorities in Delaware . Walter Moorhead, 74, was hunting from a ground blind in a field near Ellendale, Delaware, at about 7.40pm on
Police responded to altercation and found injured man and another person who identified himself as a federal agent Authorities in Illinois are investigating a case on Sunday in which a US citizen was detained by federal immigration agents before ending up at a hospital with injuries. It came the same day that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and seriously wounded a man in Austin, Te
by Claire Finkelstein / 1d
The court’s decision was based entirely on the timing of proposed new mail-in ballot rules. The larger question could re-emerge Last week’s supreme court decision upholding the district court’s restraining order on USPS’s mail-in ballot restrictions is being hailed as a victory for electoral integrity by politicians, political commentators and voting rights advocates alike. The senator Chuck Schu
Sneaker company removes social media ad after backlash from critics who said it resembled KKK imagery The sneaker company Converse has removed a social media ad that sparked outrage among critics who viewed it as evoking the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. The Instagram ad photo showed K-pop singer Karina wearing a skirt and holding a pair of Chuck 70 X sneakers. Critics lashed out online, saying that
Three news outlets will file lawsuit in attempt to regain access to the White House after having badges disabled In what will be one of the largest battles yet between the press and Donald Trump’s administration , three news organizations – CNN, MS Now (formerly MSNBC) and Politico – that have been denied access to the White House are suing to regain their ability to enter the building, accusing
Legislation proposed by House Democrats aims to address survivors’ financial and medical burdens Danielle Bensky wants a typical life. “I would just love to own a house one day and have a dog,” said Bensky, who is among the Jeffrey Epstein survivors advocating for accountability . “I think that’s the dream – literally just to have a normal existence where we’re not trying to fight the government
by Casey Michel / 1d
Today’s wealth gap is much bigger, and the country’s richest have much more power than they once did. It’s an Age of Oligarchy For many, the era of US history that most resembles contemporary America is easy to identify: the Gilded Age. It is, in certain ways, an apt comparison. Like modern America, the Gilded Age saw a small number of men tower over US politics and industry alike. Rising atop a
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