The Guardian (USA)
‘Devastating’: bulldozers plough through Big Bend national park as Trump’s border work pushes ahead
Bulldozers have begun plowing up ground at the mouth of Big Bend national park’s famed Santa Elena Canyon as part of the Trump administration’s multibilliondollar “smart wall” expansion on the US-Mexico border, according to new footage taken by...
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US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
Newly disclosed records reveal the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year. Internal investigative...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment - reports
Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran. Two...
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ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
ICE plans to spend up to $20m (£15m) to purchase thousands of gloves for officers and agents that can deliver painful electric shocks by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security. The devices, called Glove...
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Trump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shots
has signed an executive order with plans for sweeping changes to the childhood vaccination schedule that attempts to override the authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is an attempt to undergird the changes made...
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Canadian government steps in as ‘out of control’ wildfires force thousands to flee
Canada’s federal government has announced it will provide urgent assistance to British Columbia after an onslaught of unprecedented fast-moving wildfires forced about 22,000 people to flee their homes in frantic evacuations. A total of 102 wildfires...
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Mitch McConnell announces discharge from rehabilitation center
The Republican US senator Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation center following the fall that left him hospitalized, he announced on Thursday. McConnell, 84, whose weekslong absence from Capitol Hill fueled mounting speculation...
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Top Democrats set aside qualms and embrace progressive Abdul El-Sayed
Leading Democrats quickly papered over whatever qualms they had about progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed after his win in the Michigan Senate primary was confirmed on Wednesday, instead welcoming the former public health official as their champion...
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Israel and Hezbollah renew ceasefire after deadly flareup disrupts opening of Iran talks
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to renew a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon on Friday after 24 hours of intense violence that posed an early challenge to the new agreement between the US and Iran to end their conflict. A meeting that was scheduled to take...
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Andy Burnham wins huge majority in Makerfield byelection, paving way for Starmer leadership challenge
Andy Burnham has won the crucial Makerfield byelection by a huge majority, paving the way for a challenge to Keir Starmer’s premiership. The Greater Manchester mayor beat the Reform UK candidate, Robert Kenyon, by 9,231 votes, and the new hardline...
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Federal judge rules Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas unlawful
A US judge has invalidated Donald Trump’s $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, ruling it an unlawful tax that violated federal administrative law and the constitution. US district judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the 42-page ruling in a...
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Search for suspects continues after 12 people shot near festival in Toledo, Ohio
Organizers of a festival in the historic center of Toledo, Ohio, have cancelled planned events on Sunday as police continue the search for at least two shooters who wounded 12 people a day earlier. The Toledo police deputy chief, Joseph Heffernan,...
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Trump urges pick for top intelligence official to fire ‘a lot of people’
Donald Trump has urged a controversial loyalist he installed as the country’s top intelligence official to fire “a lot of people” overseeing intelligence for the US federal government. The US president said Bill Pulte, who has no previous experience...
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Pam Bondi claims Todd Blanche was ‘in charge’ of ‘entire release’ of Epstein files
Former attorney general Bondi told lawmakers that Todd Blanche, the man Donald Trump has lined up to replace her, was “in charge” of the US Department of Justice’s controversial handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Appearing before the House...
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Senate Republicans drop plans for $1bn to fund security at Trump’s ballroom
Senate Republicans on Wednesday formally dropped their attempt to spend $1bn on security improvements for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, as it became clear the president’s demand for the money could jeopardize long-term funding for immigration...
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Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district
Alabama can use a redrawn congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts in this year’s midterm elections, the US supreme court ruled in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, another major blow to Black voters and a win for...
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Trump reportedly mulling retreat from $1.8bn ‘antiweaponization’ fund
Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said on Monday, as the justice department paused the program to comply with a court order. Trump’s...
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Lead prosecutor withdraws from criminal case against James Comey
The lead prosecutor in former FBI director James Comey’s case over a social media post has withdrawn from the case, according to a new court filing. The justice department filed notice with the court on Friday evening that Matthew Petracca, a...
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US judge orders removal of Trump's name from Kennedy Center
A judge on Friday ordered the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ruling that the prestigious Washington DC venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress. US district judge Christopher Cooper in...
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Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal
Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has given orders to the Israeli army to seize control of 70% of the Gaza Strip in a move that threatens to torpedo an already fragile ceasefire and create catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the already devastated...
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US launches new strikes on Iran military site as Israel intensifies attacks on southern Lebanon
The US has carried out new strikes inside Iran , targeting a military facility and downing Iranian attack drones, US officials said. US Central Command forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that posed a threat around the strait of...
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South Carolina Republicans defy Trump again to reject rapid redistricting drive
Republican lawmakers in South Carolina have defied Donald Trump and rejected a breakneck bid to redraw the state’s congressional districts ahead of November’s US midterm elections. In a 26-18 vote, state senators rejected mid-decade redistricting in a...
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Israel escalates strikes in Lebanon as Netanyahu vows to ‘crush’ Hezbollah
The Israeli army has intensified strikes in southern Lebanon, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to escalate its offensive in an effort to “crush” Hezbollah in a further erosion of an already fragmented ceasefire. In...
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Former prosecutor pursued by Trump calls for crackdown on election lies: ‘Lying can be held to account’
Politicians must be held accountable if their lies damage democracy, according to a former US federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel who was pursued by Donald Trump. The US must be “as creative as possible” and introduce sweeping structural...
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US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard leaving post after rocky tenure
Tulsi Gabbard is leaving her post as US director of national intelligence following a tumultuous stint in which she was largely sidelined as Donald Trump launched attacks on Venezuela and Iran. In a letter to the US president, she said she would...
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Democrats belatedly publish 2024 election autopsy report: ‘It won’t meet your standards’
The Democratic party has belatedly published a postmortem on its disastrous 2024 election defeat, after an initial decision to withhold the document triggered an angry backlash. Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), released...
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US indicts former Cuban president Raúl Castro as it seeks to oust regime
The United States issued a federal criminal indictment against Raúl Castro, Cuba’s former president, and five others on Wednesday in a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign to oust the country’s six-decadesold communist...
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US Senate votes to advance resolution to curb Trump’s Iran war powers
The Senate voted on Tuesday to advance a war powers resolution aimed at forcing Donald Trump to end the war in Iran unless he receives congressional authorization to continue it. Tuesday’s 50-47 vote marks the first time the chamber has advanced the...
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Five people, including two suspects, killed in shooting at San Diego’s largest mosque
Three people were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, in what authorities said was being investigated as a hate crime. Two suspects, aged 17 and 18, were also dead from apparent selfinflicted gunshot wounds, officials...
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Thousands gather in Washington DC for daylong America-themed prayer rally
Thousands of people streamed on to the National Mall for a daylong prayer rally on Sunday billed as a “rededication of our country as One Nation Under God”. Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage that made...
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