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PM will aim to centre talks with French president on key foreign policy issues such as Iran, smuggling gangs and EU relationsAndy Burnham will begin the process of courting European leaders when he welcomes Emmanuel Macron as the first foreign head of state to visit him in Downing Street.The prime minister will meet the French president at No 10 on Thursday as he looks to make inroads on a number ...
Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on $20bn in Canadian goods and Canada threatened retaliatory tariffs starting 8 SeptemberSign up for the US Breaking News emailAs tensions flare in the mideast with American military forces resuming strikes on Iran, Donald Trump has taken to social media to discuss his ballroom project.“We have hundreds of happy construction workers in D.C. busily doing their job buil...
Team circumvented salary cap rules to sign starOwner Steve Ballmer lands one-year banThe NBA has handed down one of the biggest punishments in the history of the league to the Los Angeles Clippers after finding that the franchise circumvented salary cap rules when it courted Kawhi Leonard as a free agent.The league has stripped the team of five first-round draft picks, giving the team no natural p...
President’s order strips nearly 3m acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, sacred tribal sites, of safeguardsPatagonia, the outdoor clothing and gear company, has joined a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision to significantly reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, removing protections from nearly 3m acres.In July, the president approved th...
President’s order strips nearly 3m acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, sacred tribal sites, of safeguardsPatagonia, the outdoor clothing and gear company, has joined a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision to significantly reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, removing protections from nearly 3m acres.In July, the president approved th...
Jury to return for more deliberations on Thursday in case of mother accused of murdering her three childrenSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial were dismissed for the evening on Wednesday without reaching a verdict, after nearly 30 hours of deliberations over five days.Addressing the 12-member jury – made up of nine women and three men – Judge Willi...
The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensationThe Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in a lawsuit against the New York Times, arguing in favor of the use of copyrighted writing to train artificial intelligence.The Times accuses OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, of using millions of newspaper articles wi...
Treasurer says he acknowledges concerns about inflation, cost of living and real wages were on voters’ minds. Follow the day’s news live.Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Nick Visser with the main action.Let’s begin. Continue reading...
Police officer who fatally shot unarmed 22-year-old Glenwood Pysher IV faces voluntary manslaughter chargeA Pennsylvania police officer was charged Tuesday with voluntary manslaughter for last week’s fatal shooting of a college student who was looking for his friends late at night and went to the wrong house.Police body camera video reviewed by investigators showed the officer yelled: “Drop to the...
New opinion issued by the DoJ says those who take federal money through TANF and SSI must report undocumented immigrants across their state governmentsThe US Department of Justice has ordered states to expand how they report undocumented immigrants to the federal government, according to a legal opinion from Tuesday that reverses a policy that has been in place for nearly 30 years.Under the new op...
President praises late queen and King Charles but says duke and duchess treated royal family ‘with great disrespect’Donald Trump has weighed in on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s move back to Britain, declaring: “I’m happy about it.”“I was not a fan,” the US president told reporters during a question-and-answer session following a press conference with travel executives on Wednesday. “I had a ver...
Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’JD Vance has said he is “doing as much of God’s work as possible” and that he is OK “if that leads to the end times”, which he says “are coming”.The US vice-president made the comments during a Monday podcast interview with Bryce Crawford, a 22-year old evangelical host with over a million ...
Harold Vanderford made national news earlier this year after he shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old Black baby, while responding to a shoplifting call at WalmartLate Tuesday, the city of Senatobia, Mississippi fired its police chief, Harold Vanderford, after it was reported that Vanderford regularly used racist slurs against Black people in his text messages. The town, which is about 40% B...
Tech company submits to controversial Trump order to rename body of water amid US trade spat with CanadaApple has renamed Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for US users of its Maps app, after an executive order from Donald Trump to change the name of the Great Lake amid his trade spat with Canada.The Apple Maps app now displays the controversial new name for the lake, which sits between New York stat...
Tech company submits to controversial Trump order to rename body of water amid US trade spat with CanadaApple has renamed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for US users of its Maps app, after an executive order from Donald Trump to change the name of the Great Lake amid his trade spat with Canada.The Apple Maps app now displays the controversial new name for the lake, which sits between the border of...
British tourists reportedly discovered Luger pistol that is latest in long line of potential leads in mystery of al-Hilli deathsExperts are examining a gun found by tourists to determine whether it might have been used to kill a British family in the French Alps 14 years ago.In what remains an unsolved murder case, Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife, Ikbal, 47, and her mother Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, were s...
Jury sent back for more deliberations in case of mother accused of murdering her three childrenSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Wednesday told the judge for a second time that it can’t agree on a verdict in the controversial case of the mother accused of murdering her three children.The jury were then sent back for more deliberations b...
Jury sent back for more deliberations in case of mother accused of murdering her three childrenSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Wednesday told the judge for a second time that it can’t agree on a verdict in the controversial case of the mother accused of murdering her three children.The jury were then sent back for more deliberations b...
Monarch tells Emmanuel Macron at the British Museum in London that the two nations will share a future ‘woven together’ by history and shared valuesThe loan of the Bayeux tapestry was the “the best possible symbol” of the “entente amicale” between France and the UK, King Charles said as he visited the famous embroidered masterpiece at the British Museum in London.Though the tapestry recounts a con...
Defence minister says he believes US backing could tip regional balance in favour of forced resettlementIsrael’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime.Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration” during ...
Experts have expressed deep concerns that the practice runs afoul of the fourth amendment’s right to privacyFederal prosecutors have declined to say whether they secretly obtained phone records for the journalist Don Lemon using an unusual administrative summons, his lawyers said in a Monday court filing, highlighting concern about a controversial legal authority the government has claimed to gath...
Party leader in England and Wales seen as favourite to contest Holborn and St Pancras after Starmer’s resignationZack Polanski moved a step closer in his quest to become an MP on Wednesday, with local Green party members supporting him to become the party’s candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection.The party leader in England and Wales started campaigning alongside his fellow Green, Hanna...
Over 40% of films in LFF programme are female-made, but only two of 21 gala films are directed by womenFemale film-makers are still being squeezed out of the industry as they progress beyond their debut films, the director of the London film festival has said, adding that “the dial does not seem to be moving”.Kristy Matheson’s comments came as LFF announced its full programme for this year’s event...
Paul Miller, a racist and self-professed antisemite, derided Ben Azoulay, convicted for sexually assaulting a minorDemocrats in Florida have condemned a professional mixed martial arts event in Orlando at which an openly racist fighter derided his beaten opponent as “a short little fucking Jew prick”, and a spectator was ejected for waving a giant swastika flag.Anna Eskamani, a Democratic state re...
Yorgen Fenech cleared on both charges he faced over 2017 killing of journalist that prompted global outrageOne of Malta’s richest men has been found not guilty of involvement in the murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The verdict, which is expected to be appealed against by the prosecution, will come as a blow not only to the victim’s family, but to the politicians and ...
Jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have resumed for a fifth daySign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailJury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial resumed for a fifth day on Wednesday after the judge questioned jurors one by one following the arrest of a woman accused of filming them as they left the courthouse the previous day.A former labor and delivery nurs...
Fair to say the current sell-off is international, but the PM has said little yet to make investors rethink the UK’s statusIt’s too soon to say the bond markets have turned on Andy Burnham. Tuesday’s spike in gilt yields, taking the UK’s 30-year borrowing costs to their highest level since 1998, was part of an international sell-off of government debt.The main contributors are well-known. The Iran...
The government’s tougher stance towards the Kremlin is drawing attacks from both the far right and far left Even before the German government laid the blame this week on Russia for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport, the topic of German ties to Moscow was high on the political agenda.But the timing of the unsurprising yet explosive Leipzig announcement – days before a key regional vote –...
The government’s increasingly hostile stance towards the Kremlin has drawn criticism from the far right – and the far leftEven before the German government laid the blame this week on Russia for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport, the topic of German ties to Moscow was high on the political agenda.But the timing of the unsurprising yet explosive Leipzig announcement – days before a key r...
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declinedReform UK has banned at least three journalists from its annual conference who have reported critically on the party and Nigel Farage.The Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, the investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and the broadcaster and biographer Michael Crick were told this week that their credentials to c...
