Michael Diehl allegedly forged magistrates’ signatures in North Carolina to allow enough time for ICE to take custody of prisoners
A former Guilford county detention officer in North Carolina faces forgery charges in connection to 20 alleged forged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment documents, according to a Guilford county sheriff’s office (GCSO) news release.
Guilford county’s sheriff, Danny H Rogers, reported that on Friday the Guilford county magistrate’s office notified the GCSO of a potentially forged court document submitted by GCSO detention officer Michael Diehl, 40.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/former-detention-officer-north-carolina-charged-felony-forgery", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:56:37 GMT" } }, { "id": "cac9d43a6595c91658ad5cc089f162f73eca8a6f", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Mississippi police say more arrests to come in death of woman found hanging from tree", "summary": "Officials still investigating death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman, a day after man’s arrest in relation to killingMississippi police said on Saturday they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing.Loved ones also painted a picture of Fortune as a mother, athlete and woman of faith who they hoped would not solely be remembered for her horrific death. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/mississippi-police-arrests-tasia-fortune-death-tree", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T17:16:41+00:00", "score": 91.62, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Mississippi police say more arrests to come in death of woman found hanging from tree", "summary": "Officials still investigating death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman, a day after man’s arrest in relation to killing
Mississippi police said on Saturday they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing.
Loved ones also painted a picture of Fortune as a mother, athlete and woman of faith who they hoped would not solely be remembered for her horrific death.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/mississippi-police-arrests-tasia-fortune-death-tree", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:16:41 GMT" } }, { "id": "52dad765c5ba7d499c1aeaa302ee1f0baf026948", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Trump says he would ‘love’ to see unified Ireland and ‘it may as well happen now’ as he visits Dublin – as it happened", "summary": "This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here:Full story: Donald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see united IrelandReuters has issued a series of alerts on Trump’s latest comments (he is currently meeting with Micheál Martin). Here is what the news agency has reported:On Iran: War will end very soon. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/12/donald-trump-ireland-golf-catherine-connolly-us-politics-latest-news-updates", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T14:42:40+00:00", "score": 90.37, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Trump says he would ‘love’ to see unified Ireland and ‘it may as well happen now’ as he visits Dublin – as it happened", "summary": "This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here:
Reuters has issued a series of alerts on Trump’s latest comments (he is currently meeting with Micheál Martin). Here is what the news agency has reported:
On Iran: War will end very soon.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/12/donald-trump-ireland-golf-catherine-connolly-us-politics-latest-news-updates", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:42:40 GMT" } }, { "id": "595bfb50f4172ab746807ec973a8b9a4fdf03aa2", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Taxes wouldn’t fund $5,000 Trump ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary", "summary": "Lutnick said $500bn of estimated $1tn needed to fund checks to all US adults could come from new visa programDonald Trump’s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 “dividend” to all US adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress in November’s elections would not be paid out from US tax revenues, according to the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.“It’s not tax money,” Lutnick said in an interview with NBC News, adding that the administration could “earn the money that Donald Trump wants to pay out, not from the deficit and not from taxpayers”. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/trump-midterm-dividend-funding", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T14:38:25+00:00", "score": 90.34, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Taxes wouldn’t fund $5,000 Trump ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary", "summary": "Lutnick said $500bn of estimated $1tn needed to fund checks to all US adults could come from new visa program
Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 “dividend” to all US adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress in November’s elections would not be paid out from US tax revenues, according to the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.
“It’s not tax money,” Lutnick said in an interview with NBC News, adding that the administration could “earn the money that Donald Trump wants to pay out, not from the deficit and not from taxpayers”.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/trump-midterm-dividend-funding", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:38:25 GMT" } }, { "id": "c23e16a9b8b7d820a22088514d7194fc81a8fa20", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Six Nigerians extradited to US over $6M online romance scam", "summary": "Alleged members of Black Axe criminal network that swindled US women out of $6m flown from South AfricaSix Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of more than $6m through online romance scams were extradited to the United States on Friday.South African police confirmed they were to be extradited earlier on Friday, while local news in Africa confirmed that the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known as the Hawks, facilitated their handover to officials from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Secret Service at Cape Town international airport, in collaboration with Interpol South Africa. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/nigerians-extradited-online-romance-scams", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T14:05:45+00:00", "score": 90.08, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Six Nigerians extradited to US over $6M online romance scam", "summary": "Alleged members of Black Axe criminal network that swindled US women out of $6m flown from South Africa
Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of more than $6m through online romance scams were extradited to the United States on Friday.
South African police confirmed they were to be extradited earlier on Friday, while local news in Africa confirmed that the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known as the Hawks, facilitated their handover to officials from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Secret Service at Cape Town international airport, in collaboration with Interpol South Africa.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/nigerians-extradited-online-romance-scams", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:05:45 GMT" } }, { "id": "27cf69c2a455e803061ccc7c637c35ee5b8f08c6", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Nashville airport board unanimously approves name change to honor Dolly Parton", "summary": "The city’s mayor and Tennessee’s governor threw their support behind the name change last monthThe Nashville airport is to be renamed after Dolly Parton, a board of commissioners voted on Friday, in tribute to the Smoky Mountain singer who is estimated to bring $1.8bn each year to Tennessee through her Dollywood theme park.The decision ensures that Parton, who died last month at 80 years old, will be memorialized with her name on an airport, although the renaming process will take time to complete. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/nashville-airport-dolly-parton", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T13:40:06+00:00", "score": 89.87, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Nashville airport board unanimously approves name change to honor Dolly Parton", "summary": "The city’s mayor and Tennessee’s governor threw their support behind the name change last month
The Nashville airport is to be renamed after Dolly Parton, a board of commissioners voted on Friday, in tribute to the Smoky Mountain singer who is estimated to bring $1.8bn each year to Tennessee through her Dollywood theme park.
The decision ensures that Parton, who died last month at 80 years old, will be memorialized with her name on an airport, although the renaming process will take time to complete.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/nashville-airport-dolly-parton", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:40:06 GMT" } }, { "id": "c037169ec5d00460f8c4916b50d32e6beca8e8c9", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Calls for Democrats to be shot go unchallenged at Republican convention", "summary": "Crowd member repeatedly said some Democrats ‘should be shot’ during Ted Cruz’s speech, without senator respondingOn the night Republicans gathered to mourn the killing of Charlie Kirk and warn against the dangers of violent rhetoric, a crowd at the party’s irregular midterm convention in Dallas repeatedly called for a sitting Senate candidate to be shot, while the Republican senator at the podium never denounced or even noted the outbursts.The outbursts came repeatedly during Ted Cruz’s Thursday night address at the American Airlines center, when he named a Democrat he accused of holding radical views. After the senator mentioned the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, video footage depicts at least one audience member shouting: “He should be shot!” The same cry followed when Cruz named Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and again after he named Texas Senate candidate James Tala…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/democrats-republican-midterm-convention", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T12:36:55+00:00", "score": 89.36, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Calls for Democrats to be shot go unchallenged at Republican convention", "summary": "Crowd member repeatedly said some Democrats ‘should be shot’ during Ted Cruz’s speech, without senator responding
On the night Republicans gathered to mourn the killing of Charlie Kirk and warn against the dangers of violent rhetoric, a crowd at the party’s irregular midterm convention in Dallas repeatedly called for a sitting Senate candidate to be shot, while the Republican senator at the podium never denounced or even noted the outbursts.
The outbursts came repeatedly during Ted Cruz’s Thursday night address at the American Airlines center, when he named a Democrat he accused of holding radical views. After the senator mentioned the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, video footage depicts at least one audience member shouting: “He should be shot!” The same cry followed when Cruz named Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and again after he named Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. Cruz did not pause or respond to the shouting, and it remains unclear whether he heard it from the stage. Cruz did not respond to a request for comment.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/democrats-republican-midterm-convention", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:36:55 GMT" } }, { "id": "d642655674dc3c3e2c96096534ba26b4a551ccc0", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Calls for investigation after video shows ICE officers using batons on protesters", "summary": "Residents in Frederick, Maryland, shaken after clashes as activists decry violence from officers as ‘unconscionable’Political leaders in Maryland are calling for investigations into the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they clashed with protesters during a federal operation in a local community.Residents of Frederick, a city about 50 miles north-west of Baltimore, are still shaken more than a week after ICE officers arrived in numerous vehicles and could be seen on video footage using batons on members of the public and driving their cars on to the sidewalk towards people. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/maryland-ice-protesters", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T12:00:34+00:00", "score": 89.06, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Calls for investigation after video shows ICE officers using batons on protesters", "summary": "Residents in Frederick, Maryland, shaken after clashes as activists decry violence from officers as ‘unconscionable’
Political leaders in Maryland are calling for investigations into the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they clashed with protesters during a federal operation in a local community.
Residents of Frederick, a city about 50 miles north-west of Baltimore, are still shaken more than a week after ICE officers arrived in numerous vehicles and could be seen on video footage using batons on members of the public and driving their cars on to the sidewalk towards people.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/maryland-ice-protesters", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:34 GMT" } }, { "id": "9a5007f0f504490c064f47540a14c71afa0f3660", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Why is Trump’s $5,000 offer to voters ‘like a woman’? Ask Fox News | Arwa Mahdawi", "summary": "Host Jesse Watters says Trump’s offer to Americans if Republicans retain Congress is ‘an enticement’, not a bribeI think I finally understand why Fox News pays Jesse Watters the big bucks. The network star, famous for hot takes like men shouldn’t “eat soup in public”, has an incredible talent for inserting misogyny into absolutely any news story.Take, for example, Donald Trump’s ludicrous announcement on Wednesday night that he will give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November’s midterm election. That’s a story about apparent bribery, right? A story about fiscal recklessness and empty promises. A story about how the president, whose popularity is plummeting, is so out of ideas that he’s resorted (yet again) to dangling cash in front of voters.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/12/trump-voters-woman", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T12:00:33+00:00", "score": 89.06, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Why is Trump’s $5,000 offer to voters ‘like a woman’? Ask Fox News | Arwa Mahdawi", "summary": "Host Jesse Watters says Trump’s offer to Americans if Republicans retain Congress is ‘an enticement’, not a bribe
I think I finally understand why Fox News pays Jesse Watters the big bucks. The network star, famous for hot takes like men shouldn’t “eat soup in public”, has an incredible talent for inserting misogyny into absolutely any news story.
Take, for example, Donald Trump’s ludicrous announcement on Wednesday night that he will give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November’s midterm election. That’s a story about apparent bribery, right? A story about fiscal recklessness and empty promises. A story about how the president, whose popularity is plummeting, is so out of ideas that he’s resorted (yet again) to dangling cash in front of voters.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/12/trump-voters-woman", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:33 GMT" } }, { "id": "17616a415f452c63a045413b6ffe17cfe04a04fd", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘The president doesn’t want you here any more’: Anthony Scaramucci on what really happened during the 11 days he worked in the White House", "summary": "Sacked after less than two weeks as Donald Trump’s communications director, the financier and podcaster reflects on the mistakes he made in an exclusive extract from his new book• Plus: What it’s like to be fired by Trump, by four people who know19 July 2017. My phone rings. White House operator: “Please hold for the president.”I do. Of course. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/anthony-scaramucci-11-days-white-house-fired-donald-trump-book", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T11:00:35+00:00", "score": 88.57, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "‘The president doesn’t want you here any more’: Anthony Scaramucci on what really happened during the 11 days he worked in the White House", "summary": "Sacked after less than two weeks as Donald Trump’s communications director, the financier and podcaster reflects on the mistakes he made in an exclusive extract from his new book
• Plus: What it’s like to be fired by Trump, by four people who know
19 July 2017. My phone rings. White House operator: “Please hold for the president.”
I do. Of course.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/anthony-scaramucci-11-days-white-house-fired-donald-trump-book", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:00:35 GMT" } }, { "id": "a916f150b165c1de02bb7eca661799bf4702e7aa", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Trump personality cult alive and well in Dallas – will it power Republican midterm success?", "summary": "President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party’s plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risks“We’re going to have a good time listening to music,” Donald Trump told thousands of supporters in downtown Dallas before handing the mic to an opera singer, “because I’m getting a little bit tired of politics now.”Millions of Americans seem tired of politics after a decade dominated by Trump. So the US president’s decision to close out this week’s first ever Republican midterm convention with a plea – treat November’s congressional elections as a referendum on Trump himself – was received by his Democratic opponents with glee. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/trump-dallas-midterms-convention-republicans", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T10:00:32+00:00", "score": 88.09, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Trump personality cult alive and well in Dallas – will it power Republican midterm success?", "summary": "President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party’s plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risks
“We’re going to have a good time listening to music,” Donald Trump told thousands of supporters in downtown Dallas before handing the mic to an opera singer, “because I’m getting a little bit tired of politics now.”
Millions of Americans seem tired of politics after a decade dominated by Trump. So the US president’s decision to close out this week’s first ever Republican midterm convention with a plea – treat November’s congressional elections as a referendum on Trump himself – was received by his Democratic opponents with glee.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/trump-dallas-midterms-convention-republicans", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:32 GMT" } }, { "id": "fa26107e8e5bec00e834387b4366d49b34613e2e", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "What can halt Fifa’s authoritarian turn under Infantino? Change from the outside | Jules Boykoff", "summary": "The World Cup and its aftermath made clear that Fifa needs independent oversight by governments and NGOs dedicated to preserving the people’s gameThe 2026 World Cup was a whirling swirl of scintillating soccer that prompted much-needed conversations about the vitality of diaspora, the fortitude of the underdog, the power of sport. In a world fractured along myriad cultural axes floating in an entertainment system dominated by on-demand content, the tournament provided a moment, perhaps unlike any other event, that brought together people from different backgrounds to simultaneously experience something meaningful.After the tournament concluded, Fifa president Gianni Infantino dropped a political pipebomb into the after-party, proposing to privatize the World Cup by injecting $20bn in private capital, with an assist from JP Morgan and Thrive Capital, the investment vehicle orchestrated b…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/12/fifa-gianni-infantino-donald-trump-change", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-12T09:00:30+00:00", "score": 87.6, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "What can halt Fifa’s authoritarian turn under Infantino? Change from the outside | Jules Boykoff", "summary": "The World Cup and its aftermath made clear that Fifa needs independent oversight by governments and NGOs dedicated to preserving the people’s game
The 2026 World Cup was a whirling swirl of scintillating soccer that prompted much-needed conversations about the vitality of diaspora, the fortitude of the underdog, the power of sport. In a world fractured along myriad cultural axes floating in an entertainment system dominated by on-demand content, the tournament provided a moment, perhaps unlike any other event, that brought together people from different backgrounds to simultaneously experience something meaningful.
After the tournament concluded, Fifa president Gianni Infantino dropped a political pipebomb into the after-party, proposing to privatize the World Cup by injecting $20bn in private capital, with an assist from JP Morgan and Thrive Capital, the investment vehicle orchestrated by Joshua Kushner, brother to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/12/fifa-gianni-infantino-donald-trump-change", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:30 GMT" } }, { "id": "c8993b35ea4a3fae53893704648e51bc935437f5", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Republican senator fires aide who used Nazi soldiers as Facebook profile picture", "summary": "Washington Post report also reveals Jon Husted staffer Stephen Woytek created pro-Rhodesia playlist on Spotify The Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo.Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted’s political director last month in the senator’s knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post, Husted had decided to “part ways” with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/republican-senator-aide-nazi-ss-picture", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-11T23:21:19+00:00", "score": 82.91, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Republican senator fires aide who used Nazi soldiers as Facebook profile picture", "summary": "Washington Post report also reveals Jon Husted staffer Stephen Woytek created pro-Rhodesia playlist on Spotify
The Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo.
Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted’s political director last month in the senator’s knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post, Husted had decided to “part ways” with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/republican-senator-aide-nazi-ss-picture", "image": "", "published": "Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:21:19 GMT" } }, { "id": "c67d2832d881f7fb96fc1dd530a85bbf43be58f1", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Trump ally resigns from post leading inquiry into alleged conspiracy against president", "summary": "Joe diGenova led investigation focused on intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in 2016 electionA longtime ally of Donald Trump resigned from his post leading a Department of Justice investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president.“Sometimes people want things done faster and that’s all you can do,” Joe diGenova told the Guardian on Thursday. He appeared to be referring to concerns among other Trump loyalists that the president’s retribution cases were not moving quickly enough. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/trump-ally-resigns-president-conspiracy-inquiry", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-11T20:30:25+00:00", "score": 81.52, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Trump ally resigns from post leading inquiry into alleged conspiracy against president", "summary": "Joe diGenova led investigation focused on intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in 2016 election
A longtime ally of Donald Trump resigned from his post leading a Department of Justice investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president.
“Sometimes people want things done faster and that’s all you can do,” Joe diGenova told the Guardian on Thursday. He appeared to be referring to concerns among other Trump loyalists that the president’s retribution cases were not moving quickly enough.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/trump-ally-resigns-president-conspiracy-inquiry", "image": "", "published": "Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:30:25 GMT" } }, { "id": "1fb9abe124a526245e874340fe8ebfe39ce37418", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Republican seeking to implicate Abdul El-Sayed over 9/11 voted twice against benefits for first responders", "summary": "Mike Rogers has also helped kill other bills that would have provided healthcare to responders and survivorsMike Rogers, a Michigan Republican US Senate candidate, has sought in recent weeks to create controversy over old tweets his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed posted about 9/11. He has for example, falsely suggested El-Sayed, who is Muslim, said the US deserved the attack.But, as critics have noted, Rogers has twice voted against healthcare and other benefits for 9/11 first responders and survivors, congressional records show. He has also helped kill other bills that would have provided benefits and healthcare to first responders nationwide. Rogers, a former member of Congress, is vying for Michigan’s open US Senate seat in a tight race that could decide control of Congress during the next session. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/mike-rogers-911-first-responders-votes-abdul-el-sayed", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-11T19:58:03+00:00", "score": 81.26, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Republican seeking to implicate Abdul El-Sayed over 9/11 voted twice against benefits for first responders", "summary": "Mike Rogers has also helped kill other bills that would have provided healthcare to responders and survivors
Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican US Senate candidate, has sought in recent weeks to create controversy over old tweets his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed posted about 9/11. He has for example, falsely suggested El-Sayed, who is Muslim, said the US deserved the attack.
But, as critics have noted, Rogers has twice voted against healthcare and other benefits for 9/11 first responders and survivors, congressional records show. He has also helped kill other bills that would have provided benefits and healthcare to first responders nationwide. Rogers, a former member of Congress, is vying for Michigan’s open US Senate seat in a tight race that could decide control of Congress during the next session.
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If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it. Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case. The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic, the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot. The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real. Countries need not agree on democracy or trade policy to accept this.
The US and China will hold, reportedly, their first bilateral AI-safety talks before a planned White House summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Despite their tech rivalry, neither Washington nor Beijing can make the most advanced AI safe on their own. A US-China settlement won’t be able to say how AI works everywhere. Countries deploying AI must help write the global rulebook. The odds on an extinction event are shortening. This week Anthropic said that it identified five cases in which attempts were made using its models to support biological weapons development. It banned the accounts. In one case, a platform sent requests rejected by Claude to a rival with weaker safeguards. AI safety, clearly, cannot be that of the least responsible model.
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Congress ratified the first amendment in 1791 but the supreme court didn’t breathe life into it until after the first world war, when prosecutions of antiwar protesters led the justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis – and then, fortunately, other justices as well – to realize that US democracy would be undermined, not strengthened, by allowing the government to suppress disfavored political opinions.
Repression during the cold war led the court to better protect the freedom of association, and government efforts to cover up official ineptitude and criminality during the Vietnam war spurred the court to better protect the freedom of the press. It took time, but in each of these instances the court responded to wartime repression by developing new legal doctrine that more robustly protected first amendment freedoms.
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If George W Bush’s abusive response to the September 11 attacks had been prosecuted rather than swept under the rug, Donald Trump would be less able to pursue his lawless policies. We can’t rewind history, but we can learn from our historic failure.
Twenty-five years ago, on a clear and crisp morning, I was sitting in the Human Rights Watch office in the Empire State Building with an unobstructed view of the World Trade Center towers as al-Qaida operatives flew two commercial jets into them. The horror of the attack required a response, but Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, chose to react by throwing out the rulebook. They deployed torture and endless detention without trial in Guantánamo.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/11/george-w-bush-torture-9-11-trump", "image": "", "published": "Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:00:05 GMT" } }, { "id": "97634d1b390cda88f0e9914b8c2b39bf23c47fdd", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "The Smithsonian chief’s exit is a blow to democracy | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley", "summary": "The Trump administration wants a feel-good version of American history. That is not a feature of a democratic systemOn Tuesday, Lonnie G Bunch III announced he would step down as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian.Bunch was the first historian to lead the august institution, as well as the first African American. His retirement comes as the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to adopt its agenda of “patriotic” education. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/11/smithsonian-chief-exit-trump", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-11T12:00:05+00:00", "score": 77.39, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "The Smithsonian chief’s exit is a blow to democracy | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley", "summary": "The Trump administration wants a feel-good version of American history. That is not a feature of a democratic system
On Tuesday, Lonnie G Bunch III announced he would step down as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian.
Bunch was the first historian to lead the august institution, as well as the first African American. His retirement comes as the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to adopt its agenda of “patriotic” education.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/11/smithsonian-chief-exit-trump", "image": "", "published": "Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:05 GMT" } }, { "id": "847ccdedb9d3ef3d06d8cc536832a1853ff36cf7", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Wake up, Britain: Donald Trump’s US is no friend of ours. We must secure our own place in the world | Simon Jenkins", "summary": "The US president is ever more wayward – and has little interest in defending Europe. The constitution may hold him to account, but we can’t waitIf Americans vote for a Republican majority in both houses of Congress in November, “I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.” But they must not spend it in Canada or China or anywhere else outside the US. So said Donald Trump in Texas on Wednesday in advance of the forthcoming midterm elections. He further told voters to “Pretend that I’m on the ballot”. It was a climactic moment in an almost two-hour rant.Trump does not have the required trillion dollars in his pocket, and it would be illegal to disperse such a sum without congressional approval. In any case, JD Vance now appears to have rowed back on the promise.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/11/britain-donald-trump-us-president-secure-defence-europe", "image": "", "published": "2026-09-11T11:00:04+00:00", "score": 76.9, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Wake up, Britain: Donald Trump’s US is no friend of ours. We must secure our own place in the world | Simon Jenkins", "summary": "The US president is ever more wayward – and has little interest in defending Europe. The constitution may hold him to account, but we can’t wait
If Americans vote for a Republican majority in both houses of Congress in November, “I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.” But they must not spend it in Canada or China or anywhere else outside the US. So said Donald Trump in Texas on Wednesday in advance of the forthcoming midterm elections. He further told voters to “Pretend that I’m on the ballot”. It was a climactic moment in an almost two-hour rant.
Trump does not have the required trillion dollars in his pocket, and it would be illegal to disperse such a sum without congressional approval. In any case, JD Vance now appears to have rowed back on the promise.
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
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