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Woman in alleged Cornell gang-rape case was ‘failed’ by system, New York governor says
Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, said on Friday that she would “ensure” that all the facts of the alleged gang-rape at a fraternity house at Cornell University “are brought into the light”, while harshly criticizing the elite institution for how it...
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Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors
By the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to advisory roles in a Pentagon project about the future of warfare, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, bestowed extraordinary influence on two of Maga’s most significant campaign donors - and both...
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Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has confirmed plans to cut 20% of generals and admirals and declared “no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps” would be tolerated inside the country’s military. Delivering his latest extraordinary attack on diversity,...
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US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
The Trump administration can resume quickly deporting immigrants to a “third countries”, or countries other than those immigrants’ homeland, without giving them any opportunity to contest their removals, the supreme court ruled on Tuesday. The...
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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
Concerns are mounting about an ocean phenomenon known as a Kelvin wave that could raise sea levels along the California coastline by up to a foot, as scientists say El Niño is supercharging the threat of storm surges and flooding in the coming...
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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
Donald Trump offered to sell weapons to China while hosting its leader, Xi Jinping, last week, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday. David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: “President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around...
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Supreme court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map from use in midterms
The supreme court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by Donald Trump, putting an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is under way in the midterm elections. The justices halted a federal...
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Man shot and wounded during Trump assassination attempt in Butler dies
James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then candidate Donald Trump, has died in Pittsburgh, his lawyer said Thursday. He was 76. Copenhaver was in the bleachers during the event in...
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Judge seems inclined to side with media outlets who were banned from White House in lawsuit
A US district judge on Wednesday heard arguments in the extraordinary showdown between Donald Trump and CNN, MS Now and Politico, suggesting in comments that he was more inclined to side with the media plaintiffs who sued the president on...
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Another Florida Republican distances himself from Donald Trump before midterms
Another prominent Republican has publicly distanced himself from Donald Trump, days after María Elvira Salazar called out the US president’s immigration-enforcement policy targeting law-abiding undocumented immigrants. Byron Donalds, the Republican...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. Of the nine “planetary boundaries”...
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Trump reportedly to form health funding board that could veto ‘woke’ initiatives
latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda. The executive order, reported...
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Trump bans CNN, MS Now and Politico from White House
In his latest attack on the US constitution’s first amendment and the press, Donald Trump abruptly announced that he is banning outlets CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House over their coverage. In a post on his Truth Social platform on...
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Ilhan Omar brings bill to make ICE ‘pay the price’ for terrorizing communities
The US congresswoman Omar is set to introduce a bill that would make federal immigration agencies “pay the price” for terrorising vulnerable communities, blocking nearly $140bn in funding and redirecting it to local recovery efforts, the Guardian has...
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House speaker calls early recess before midterms amid AI regulation frenzy
The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, announced on Wednesday that he would again cancel votes scheduled for Thursday, sending lawmakers home one day early ahead of the recess. The latest change to the legislative schedule means House...
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US set to deliver 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of vast arms deal
The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal, weapons that prompted such concerns about the possibility of mass casualties in Gaza that the Biden administration paused their delivery...
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Supreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections
The supreme court on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting in the midterm elections already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots...
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Satellite images show extent of damage to major Saudi pipeline, amid global oil supply fears
Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for export if it doesn’t restart a drone-damaged major pipeline to the Red Sea within days, leading to the loss of up to 4% of global supply, Saudi oil buyers and traders said. Satellite photos released on...
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Man arrested over death of Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house last month. The state medical examiner on Thursday ruled Fortune’s death a homicide. Jackson...
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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks judge to find her not guilty after mistrial
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer on Thursday asked the judge who oversaw the Massachusetts woman’s murder trial to declare her not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, saying prosecutors had failed to prove that, despite being mentally ill, she knew killing...
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Sinkhole at Malibu home reportedly owned by Nicolas Cage prompts evacuation
The city of Malibu, California, has ordered the evacuation of more than 30 properties after a large sinkhole opened on Tuesday. Malibu officials declared a local emergency on Tuesday evening after a “large sinkhole” emerged near 31630 Sea Level Drive....
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Mamdani releases 170,000 pages of records regarding impact on air quality of 9/11 attacks
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has released more than 170,000 pages of municipal records involving the impact of the September 11 attacks on air quality health, as well as the city’s response. Mamdani announced the documents and...
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Canada’s retaliatory US tariffs take effect as trade dispute grows
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of American imports have come into effect, escalating a trade fight that has been marked by intensifying tensions between US president Donald Trump and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney. The...
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At least five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami international airport in Florida on Sunday afternoon after the flight, which was arriving from Puerto Rico, overshot the runway, striking several vehicles and resulting in at least five deaths. The plane erupted...
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‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike
Seven aid workers killed in an airstrike in Gaza were marked as targets under an Israeli military practice of establishing guilt by association, a Guardian investigation shows. A top Israeli military prosecutor announced last month that he would not...
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ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man in Minneapolis charged with lying to investigators
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer has been indicted on charges of lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown earlier this year, according to...
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After the flood: human suffering on an unfathomable scale in Nepal’s worst-hit districts
Searching for the body of his wife in the mud, Dil Bahadur Shrestha lamented that he did not even have a shovel left. For now, he has been using his hands to try to find her as he picks through the ruins of his house. On Wednesday morning last week,...
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Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump
Milo Yiannopoulos, the British farright commentator who was arrested last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Louisiana and deported to the United Kingdom, has broken his silence about the experience, saying that “for the...
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Duane Keith Davis found guilty of 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur
A Las Vegas jury has found former South Side Compton Crips gang leader Duane Keith Davis guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur, bringing the case to a close nearly 30 years after the famous rapper was gunned down. The jury took about three hours to...
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At least 15 people may be missing after flash flood in Arizona’s Grand Canyon
At least 15 people may be missing or unaccounted for after a major flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon national park in Arizona on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Park Service. The flash-flood event occurred in the area of Bright...
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Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city
Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come to act as one in the creation of North America’s auto industry. News this week of Donald...
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Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report
A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, following reporting by the Guardian that indicated he lied during Senate confirmation hearings last year. Ron Wyden of Oregon said:...
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Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn
agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit on Wednesday. Dozens of US states had accused the tech giant of addicting and harming children with dangerous products. The agreement...
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Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if $250m renovation not done
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could be demolished if repairs are not carried out, the Trump administration warned in a court filing on Monday. Lawyers for the US president said the national arts complex in Washington DC must undergo a...
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Trump administration plans to revoke 200,000 visas of asylum seekers
Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the US, marking its latest step in a sweeping immigration crackdown. A state...
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Fast-moving wildfire in Reno, Nevada, forces tens of thousands to evacuate homes
A fast-moving exploded to more than 15,000 acres (6,000 hectares) on Sunday, pushing from the Sierra foothills toward the center of Reno and urging nearly 90,000 residents to evacuate as flames threatened neighborhoods and reached the edge of the...
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DHS confirms just 185 non-citizens on Nevada voter rolls after claiming there were thousands more
About a month after alleging Nevada had as many as 16,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials admitted they had confirmed that only 185 were actually non-citizens, according to records obtained by the...
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US aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East to relieve troubled USS Lincoln
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, where it is expected to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln from its record deployment amid concerns about poor living conditions and morale. US Central Command announced on...
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US gross national debt tops $40tn for first time
US debt reached $40tn for the first time on Wednesday, the US treasury department said, after the government deficit doubled over the last decade. The treasury’s latest debt balance showed $40.047tn on Tuesday afternoon, the highest in US...
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Democratic socialist Angie Nixon clinches surprise primary win in Florida US Senate race
In an upset for the Democratic establishment, progressive Angie Nixon won the party’s US Senate primary in Florida, beating former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman. Nixon, a state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of...
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Trump dismisses USS Lincoln criticism and snaps at CNN reporter to ‘be quiet’
claimed he had third-hand reports that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is “beautifully maintained” despite extensive accounts of deteriorating living conditions during its lengthy deployment in the strait of Hormuz. At the White House on...
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Trump orders cuts to South Korea joint drills despite warnings of North’s growing battlefield experience
Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jongun’s regime was learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine...
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‘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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