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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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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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