The Guardianadded this to US News In Los Angeles, only people of color are sentenced to deathGuardian US - The GuardianLos Angeles has sentenced more people to death than any other county in the US, and only people of color have received the death penalty under the region’s current prosecutor, a new report shows. LA county’s
The Guardianadded this to Donald TrumpDeportation Trump to launch 2020 campaign amid confusion over mass deportation threat – liveGuardian US - Joanna Walters in New YorkGood Tuesday morning and welcome to the Guardian’s American politics live blog. It’s going to be a lively day and I’ll be taking you up to 5pm east coast time with all the events and analysis. Then Guardian
The Guardianadded this to US SportDavid Ortiz Police identify man they claim paid hit men to shoot Red Sox star David OrtizThe GuardianDominican authorities on Monday identified the man they believe paid hit men to try to kill David Ortiz. They added that they were closing in on the motive behind the shooting of the three-time World champion,
The Guardianadded this to BusinessNeil Woodford Fidelity blocks investors from buying Woodford Income Focus FundThe Guardian - Julia KolleweFidelity has banned its customers from putting new money into a second Woodford fund, dealing another blow to the star fund manager whose reputation has been tarnished by an investor exodus. The investment
The Guardianadded this to FilmFilm (UK) Don't look now: in defence of trigger warnings at the moviesThe GuardianRocketman, the Elton John biopic, has been applauded for its raw portrayal of the singer’s heavy drug use and its surreal rendering of his suicide attempt conveying the dream-like state of John’s reality.
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesHuman Resources Foreign Office staffing down by 1,000 in 30 years, say diplomatsThe GuardianBritish Foreign Office staffing overseas has fallen by more than 1,000 since 1989 due to a succession of cuts that have left core diplomatic funding at its lowest for 20 years, according to a report backed
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeBoris Johnson What does Europe think of Boris Johnson being next prime minister – with all his baggage?The Guardian - Mujtaba RahmanThe question in European minds is whether Johnson can inject enough realism into his fellow Brexiteers to clinch a deal Viewed from Europe, the race for the Tory leadership has taken on a surreal quality
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPatisserie Valerie Butterless puff pastry is bad enough. But other food hacks can be fatalThe Guardian - Felicity CloakeThe revelation that struggling bakery chain Patisserie Valerie was so strapped for cash under its previous management that it took the butter out of its puff pastry may have shocked its new owners, but
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesScooters Welcome, watch or ban: how should cities deal with electric scooters?The GuardianJust four days after dockless electric scooters hit the streets of Omaha, Nebraska, last month, police started to threaten users with tickets for riding on the sidewalk. Instead of zipping along, riders
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesSajid Javid Senior Tories rally in support of pregnant Stella CreasyThe Guardian - Peter Walker and Jessica ElgotThe Walthamstow MP has had to ‘beg’ for help as there’s no maternity leave in parliament Theresa May has urged the parliamentary standards authority to review its policies towards expectant mothers after
The Guardianadded this to BooksBooks Carnegie medal goes to first writer of colour in its 83-year historyThe Guardian - Alison FloodDominican-American slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo has become the first ever writer of colour to win the UK’s most prestigious children’s books award, the Carnegie medal, which has a history stretching back
The Guardianadded this to TV & RadioTeens Ackley Bridge: the raucous school drama that's a surprise hit with teensThe GuardianWhen Ackley Bridge began in 2017 there was a slight tendency to be sniffy about the raucous school drama. Who was it for? What did it offer an audience supposedly getting most of their TV viewing from
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeAmazon Amazon’s attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is corporate gaslightingThe GuardianFor the love of cheap consumer goods and next-day delivery, can we all just give Amazon a break? I don’t mean a tax break; it has had enough of those already. I mean can we please stop bullying the trillion-dollar
The Guardianadded this to FashionFashion (UK) Laura Linney: ‘I started to glow in the dark like an exotic cheetah’The Guardian - As told to Leah HarperDerek Lam custom-made this dress for me to wear to the 2017 Tony awards, where I was nominated for my role in Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes. We started with just a swatch of the sequinned fabric,
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPrince Harry Teenager who called Prince Harry a 'race traitor' sentencedThe Guardian - Press AssociationA teenager who described Prince Harry as a “race traitor” in an online post has been sentenced to four years and three months in a young offender institution. Michal Szewczuk, a university student, created
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeSudan In Sudan and Hong Kong, protest is changing – and hope is risingThe Guardian - Antoine BuyseThe massive demonstrations of recent weeks in Hong Kong and Sudan may seem to be totally disparate events. But they have more in common than meets the eye. The attempts by the authorities to disperse with
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesMichel Barnier Barnier rebuffs appeal over citizens' rights in event of no-deal BrexitThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in BrusselsThe EU’s chief negotiator has rejected an appeal by the UK’s Brexit secretary for the full gamut of citizens’ rights in the withdrawal agreement to be protected in the event of a no-deal exit. In a clear
The Guardianadded this to MusicMusic (UK) Robot rhythms: the startups using AI to shake up the music businessThe Guardian - Hazel DavisMention the words “AI” and “music” in the same sentence and you may attract some tuts and eye rolls, as people wax lyrical about the good old days. If robots are making our call centre jobs redundant,
The Guardianadded this to MusicMusic (UK) Hansel and Gretel review – ENO take fairytale opera and fly with itThe Guardian - Andrew ClementsIt’s more than 20 years since English National Opera last staged Hansel and Gretel. Certainly that previous production, a revival of David Pountney’s magical show that was first seen in 1987, cast a long
The Guardianadded this to PoliticsLondon, UK Michel de Dadelsen obituaryThe Guardian - Ann KutekMy friend Michel de Dadelsen, who has died aged 69 after suffering a bleed on the brain, was a civil servant and linguist. He was born in Paris to an Irish actor, Ann Heffernan, and a French avant-garde
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPlay buttonNigel Farage Nigel Farage milkshake attacker ordered to pay Brexiter's suit-cleaning billThe Guardian - Josh Halliday North of England correspondent, and agencyA man who doused Nigel Farage with a milkshake has been ordered to pay the Brexit party leader’s suit-cleaning bill after what a judge described as an “act of crass stupidity”. Paul Crowther, 32, hurled
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesOpinion (UK) Fast fashion is eating up the planet – and this feeble government enables itThe Guardian - Gaby HinsliffHow long would you expect to keep a bikini that cost only a quid? It’s always possible that women will treasure forever something costing less than a bus fare, I suppose. But let’s just say few of us likely
The Guardianadded this to US SportPlay buttonSports Travis Pastrana: 'Jumping from a plane without a parachute is not the scary bit'The Guardian - Tom BryantYou’re bringing the first Nitro World Games to be staged outside the USA to Cardiff in June 2020 – er, what is it? Basically, the World Games is the big air of action sports. We’ll be bringing the best
The Guardianadded this to PoliticsBoris Johnson Ex-chief scientist fears for UK climate plan if Boris Johnson is PMThe Guardian - Matthew WeaverProf David King, the former chief scientist, has expressed alarm at the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming prime minister because the Tory MP oversaw “devastating” cuts in efforts to tackle the climate
The Guardianadded this to BooksNicholas Sparks Nicholas Sparks sorry for 'appearing intolerant' of LGBT pupils at his schoolThe Guardian - Alison FloodRomance novelist Nicholas Sparks has apologised for “potentially hurt[ing] young people and members of the LGBTQ community”, after leaked emails showed him banning students from forming an LGBT club at
The Guardianadded this to StageThe Theatre Strange Fruit review – Caryl Phillips’ immigrant family feel the heatThe Guardian - Michael BillingtonAs part of its policy of reviving neglected plays by writers of colour, the Bush brings us a rare sighting of this piece by Caryl Phillips from 1981. It turns out, as you would expect from a writer of
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesWorld News Madrid’s new rightwing council suspends low-emissions zoneThe Guardian - Sam Jones in MadridMadrid’s new rightwing city council has begun rolling back one of the flagship initiatives of the last mayor three days after taking office by in effect shutting down the Spanish capital’s low-emissions
The Guardianadded this to MusicMusic (UK) Megadeth's Dave Mustaine diagnosed with throat cancerThe Guardian - Laura SnapesMegadeth’s Dave Mustaine is undergoing treatment for throat cancer, he has told fans. The 57-year-old frontman said that his doctors had “mapped out a treatment plan they feel has a 90% success rate”,
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesEnvironment UK climate plan unclear, says European commissionThe Guardian - Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsA British government climate action plan is “unclear” and lacks key details about how the UK will reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 12 years, the European commission has said. In a report UK
The Guardianadded this to UK NewsCommuting Latest South Western rail strike causes travel chaos for commutersThe Guardian - Amy WalkerCommuters have described the disruption caused by the latest South Western Railway strike over the role of guards on trains as “chaos”. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union began the action
