Category: The Guardian

The common perception is that Trump has largely moved on, leaving an emboldened Netanyahu to his own devices The Israeli plan to occupy and depopulate Gaza may not be identical to Donald Trump’s vision of a new riviera, but his inspiration and the US’s walkaway diplomacy have ushered Benjamin Netanyahu to the precipice of a […]

Daniel Lozano-Camargo, 20, was deported in March in violation of a legal settlement over his asylum application The identity of a second man illegally deported from the US by the Trump administration in defiance of a court order and now in detention in El Salvador has been revealed. Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan, was deported […]

Homeland security chief says people without new ID ‘may be diverted to a different line, have an extra step’ Kristi Noem, the head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said on Tuesday that travelers without a REAL ID will still be able to fly when the updated identity system comes into effect on […]

Mark Carney said country was ‘not for sale’ in much anticipated summit between leaders at White House US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump has said he “just want[s] to be friends with Canada” after his first post-election meeting with the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney – who used the gathering to shoot down […]

Same-sex couple says they were appalled after being being confronted and wrongfully accused in women’s restroom A couple visiting Boston says they were left confused and appalled after being forced out of the Liberty Hotel during a Kentucky Derby party on Saturday, following what they describe as being confronted and wrongfully accused in the women’s […]

Order to cancel 11 military aid flights – which were quickly reinstated – originated in defense head Pete Hegseth’s office US politics live – latest updates Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the US military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover air force base […]

White House cut grants even as college agreed to demands including ceding control of Middle East studies department New York’s Columbia University is slated to cut 180 staffers whose work was supported by federal grants that have now been revoked by the Trump administration, the college’s acting president, Claire Shipman, announced on Tuesday. “We have […]

Starring Kevin Costner as a young naval officer caught in a web of intrigue, this political potboiler hits almost too close to the bone today In 1987 – right before he became the biggest movie star in the world with a five-year hot streak that included Field of Dreams, Dances with Wolves and The Bodyguard […]

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Federal government restarted collecting on defaulted loans, ending a five-year pause that began during Covid The federal government resumed collecting on defaulted student loans on Monday, ending a five-year pause that began during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Department of Education says federal student loan borrowers who fail to pay on time could damage their credit […]

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began In 2021, JD Vance, then a candidate for Ohio senate, gave a provocative keynote address at the National Conservatism Conference. Vance’s lecture was an indictment of American higher education: a “hostile institution” that “gives credibility to some […]

The rise of a resurgent American white supremacism is reaching around the globe, often with deadly consequences By many accounts, Hilliard, a leafy suburb west of downtown Columbus, is a midwestern success story: its progressive school district gives a vacation day for all students to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr – the first […]

Advocacy groups say gutting EPA’s scientific research arm would turn it into a purely political agency Americans’ health is being put at risk after new cuts were announced by Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce staffing to 1980s levels and gut its scientific research arm, experts and advocacy groups warned. The EPA’s administrator, […]

Niosh has been protecting workers’ health and safety for 50 years, affecting everyone from coalminers to firefighters As Donald Trump announced his tariffs in the White House Rose Garden last month, he proclaimed: “We’re standing up for the American worker.” While it remains to be seen what impact these tariffs will have on American workers, […]

Republican Jefferson Griffin had sought to throw out votes for Democrat Allison Riggs in supreme court election Disputed ballots in the still unresolved 2024 race for a North Carolina supreme court seat must remain in the final count, a federal judge ruled late on Monday, a decision that if upheld would result in an electoral […]

Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity A number of Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism this week are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have reportedly threatened to […]

Amid outrage over ‘far-fetched’ plans to revive Alcatraz, Trump is pushing to expand Ice detention to other closed lockups marked by scandals Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison shuttered more than 60 years ago, sparked global headlines over the weekend. But it isn’t the only notorious closed-down jail or prison the administration […]

White House proposes giving out $5,000 checks to address falling birthrates amid growing ‘pronatalist’ movement One of Donald Trump’s priorities for his second term is getting Americans to have more babies – and the White House has a new proposal to encourage them to do so: a $5,000 “baby bonus”. The plan to give cash […]

The Trump administration’s funding cuts to the NIH could destroy a wave of approaching research breakthroughs Since Robert F Kennedy Jr assumed control of the US health department in February, with a mandate to “[lower] chronic disease rates and [end] childhood chronic disease”, he has moved quickly to remake the US’s federal health infrastructure. But […]

El Salvador’s populist leader extols a hardline approach to crime and an assault on civil society – drawing envy from many in the Trump administration “I have no doubt the government are watching,” said Ingrid Escobar, an activist lawyer who has proved a thorn in the side of El Salvador’s authorities. “There are cars that […]