Category: The Guardian

Democracy is simply a precondition for essential change in these key areas, from healthcare to taxation A recent dinner was peaceable until it was just about over, when a friend’s son spoke up in praise of a middle-of-the-road columnist and how his opposition to Donald Trump’s attack on democracy revealed that we were all on […]

Previous negative remarks by Pope Leo XIV about ‘homosexual lifestyle’ at odds with papacy of Pope Francis After years of sympathetic and inclusive comments from Pope Francis, LGBTQ+ Catholics expressed concern on Thursday about hostile remarks made more than a decade ago by Father Robert Prevost, the new Pope Leo XIV, in which he condemned […]

Jonathan Freedland and the senior Washington editor of Semafor, Elana Schor, discuss what the US president is choosing to make a priority, and what he’s neglecting in return On Thursday, the White House announced a framework for a US-UK trade deal. Earlier in the week, when asked for his take on India’s missile attack on […]

Buoyed by supreme court ruling, Pentagon will remove as many as 1,000 service members. Key US politics stories from Thursday 8 May at a glance “No More Trans @ DoD,” Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, posted after the supreme court allowed the Trump administration’s ousting of transgender troops to go forward. As of Thursday, […]

Pentagon will give other service members 30 days to self-identify as trans while it enforces recently cleared ban The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 service members who identify as transgender out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify, under a new directive issued on Thursday. Buoyed by Tuesday’s […]

US agency will no longer update major weather database in latest showing of Trump’s influence on climate resources The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) will no longer track the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the […]

Sycophancy stops Trump from dozing off as PM and co hail victory – or at least getting what they could get Three days ago, Donald Trump promised an announcement that would be very possibly the greatest announcement in the whole history of announcements. Come Thursday morning, he said the US and the UK had reached […]

Move comes after GOP senator Thom Tillis said he would not vote for loyalist who supports January 6 pardons Donald Trump on Thursday said he would look for a new candidate for the role of top federal prosecutor in Washington DC, after a key Republican senator said he would not support the loyalist initially selected […]

Measure passes nearly along party lines, with all Democrats opposed and almost every Republican voting in favor Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation to codify Donald Trump’s policy of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”. The measure was sponsored by rightwing Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and […]

Graham Parsons criticizes military institution in NYT essay for ‘ailing to provide an adequate education’ A West Point philosophy professor has announced his resignation after 13 years on the faculty, citing the academy’s rapid shift away from its core educational principles under the Trump administration in an essay for the New York Times. Graham Parsons, […]

Lawyers say they’re ‘still in dark’ about government’s efforts to free the man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador The Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege ” in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge’s questions about its erroneous deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador. US district judge Paula […]

Vermont senator’s joint initiative aims to recruit and train those seeking public office, especially young people Bernie Sanders is partnering with the group Run for Something to help support a new generation of progressive candidates interested in seeking public office. Questions about the future of Sanders’ leftwing movement have followed his cross-country Fighting Oligarchy tour, […]

Exclusive: Prosecutors have impaneled federal grand jury in Virginia to hear evidence after Trump official’s referral against Letitia James US politics live – latest updates Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into a criminal referral made by the Trump administration against New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, that alleged she may have falsified paperwork for […]

At least 10 of musical’s cast members will not participate in June performance the president is scheduled to attend At least 10 cast members from the current North American touring production of Les Misérables are choosing not to participate in an upcoming performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, in order to boycott the […]

Number of child deaths is highest in 15 years and cumulative hospitalization rate was highest since 2010-2011 At least 216 children have died of influenza in the US during the last flu season in what the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said was classified as the first high severity season overall and […]

Microsoft co-founder accuses Trump ally of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ by slashing funding to USAID Bill Gates announced plans on Thursday to shutter the Gates Foundation in 2045 and also strongly criticized Elon Musk for slashing funding to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), accusing the Tesla CEO of “killing the world’s poorest […]

Jerce Barrios told his family he might be transferred from a California detention center – no one’s heard from him since The last time Joregelis Barrios heard from her brother Jerce, the call had lasted just one minute. Immigration officials had moved Jerce from the detention center in southern California where he had been for […]

Mohsen Mahdawi was detained after leading protests at Columbia against Israel’s war in Gaza and later freed A Palestinian student arrested during an interview about finalizing his US citizenship is helping launch an initiative to assist other immigrants facing deportation in Vermont on Thursday, a week after a federal judge freed him from custody. Mohsen […]

Move follows run of downbeat economic data and looks to cushion UK from Trump’s trade war fallout Explainer: what does it mean for mortgages and savings? Business live – latest updates Bank of England policymakers have cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25% to cushion the UK economy against the impact of Donald […]

City comptroller Brad Lander, also a mayoral candidate, calls for state and local action to take up oversight work of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau New York City’s financial watchdog is raising the alarm about the Trump administration’s cull of a key federal agency that oversees consumer financial protection laws, warning it will usher in an […]