Play buttonEnvironment Brazilian minister booed at climate event as outcry grows over Amazon firesThe Guardian - Dom Phillips in Rio de JaneiroThe environment minister of Brazil, where wildfires have been sweeping the Amazon rainforest, was booed at a climate event on Wednesday as celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande joined
trump news update Sarah Sanders to join Fox News as contributor – live newsGuardian US - Lauren Gambino in Washington• Trump’s former press secretary will make her debut appearance next month on the president’s favorite show, Fox & Friends • Sign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective The Sunrise Movement, youth-led
Play buttonNews Macron tells Johnson Brexit backstop is indispensableThe Guardian - Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsEmmanuel Macron has described the Irish backstop as “indispensable” to a Brexit deal and urged Boris Johnson to set out his proposed alternatives as soon as possible, as he met the British prime minister
Guns California police arrest hotel worker allegedly planning mass shootingGuardian US - Ed PilkingtonPolice in Long Beach, California, appear to have thwarted a mass shooting by arresting a hotel cook who had amassed an astonishing cache of powerful firearms and had well-laid plans to carry out a gun
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein's will set up trust fund to shield $577m fortune days before deathGuardian US - Edward Helmore and agenciesThe will that disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein signed just two days before his jailhouse suicide puts more than $577m in assets into a trust fund that could make it more difficult his
Hairstyling 'I was shocked': mother of boy whose scalp was coloured by school speaks outGuardian US - Tom Dart in HoustonJuelz Trice came home from school earlier this year with permanent marker ink scribbled on his scalp, but it was not a prank played by one of his fellow seventh-graders. It was a punishment enacted by
Bernie Sanders Sanders to unveil $16tn climate plan, far more aggressive than rivals' proposalsGuardian US - Emily Holden and Lauren Gambino in WashingtonBernie Sanders has laid out an ambitious 10-year, $16.3tn national mobilization to avert climate catastrophe, warning that the US risks losing $34.5tn in economic productivity by the end of the century
Environment Global heating: ancient plants set to reproduce in UK after 60m yearsThe Guardian - Patrick BarkhamAn exotic plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in Britain for what is believed to be the first time in 60m years. Botanists say the event is a sign of global heating. Two cycads (Cycas revoluta),
Automotive Industry Automakers snub Trump to side with climate crisis, says Obama-era officialGuardian US - Emily Holden in WashingtonAutomakers pushing back against Donald Trump’s rollbacks to mileage standards want to avoid drawn-out court battles and be seen as on the right side of the climate crisis, according to one of the architects
Nursing High turnover, understaffing, low pay: US nurses fight to unionizeGuardian US - Michael SainatoThe American healthcare system is plagued by the most expensive costs in the world, as millions of citizens suffer from medical debt and 13.7% of adults have no insurance. In the midst of these issues,
Planned Parenthood Trump abortion ‘gag rule’ leaves poor patients ‘with nowhere to go’ in USThe Guardian - Miranda BryantLast year alone, 37,000 low-income patients in Utah received subsidized family planning under Title X, the federal program which distributes grants to clinics. But as of Monday, when Planned Parenthood
Guns California arms traffickers used Snapchat to market illegal weaponsGuardian US - Darwin BondGraham in OaklandOne post showed the man walking through a home brandishing a gun with a high-capacity magazine and tapping an unidentified woman on her buttocks with the barrel. In another, he waved a pistol loaded with
Play buttonMelanesia West Papua protests: Indonesia deploys 1,000 soldiers to quell unrest, cuts internetThe Guardian - Kate Lamb in Jakarta, and Ben DohertyIndonesia has deployed more than 1,000 security personnel to West Papua and cut internet access, amid days of violent demonstrations in what activists say are the largest protests to occur in the region
Schools School reopens inquiry into teens giving Nazi salute as new clips emerge, reports sayGuardian US - Guardian staff and agenciesSchool officials in southern California are reportedly reopening an investigation into a group of high school students seen giving Nazi salutes on video, after more racist video and images surfaced on
Jay Inslee Washington governor Jay Inslee drops out of 2020 presidential raceGuardian US - Sabrina Siddiqui in WashingtonJay Inslee, the governor of Washington and a 2020 Democratic hopeful, has dropped out of the presidential race. Inslee, who launched his campaign in March with a singular focus on fighting climate change,
Microplastics Microplastics in water: no proof yet they are harmful, says WHOThe Guardian - Jonathan Watts Global environment editorMicroplastics are increasingly found in drinking water, but there is no evidence so far that this poses a risk to humans, according to a new assessment by the World Health Organization. However, the United
Play buttonAngela Merkel Merkel gives Johnson 30 days to find solution to avoid no-deal BrexitThe Guardian - Philip Oltermann in Berlin and Angelique Chrisafis in ParisAngela Merkel has challenged Boris Johnson to come up with a solution to avert a no-deal Brexit “in the next 30 days”, putting responsibility for stopping the UK crashing out of the EU firmly at the British
Hollywood Hills No Hollywood ending: Los Angeles property listed for $1bn sells at $100,000Guardian US - Andrew Gumbel in Los AngelesA billion dollars for an empty tract of land always sounded like a Hollywood fairytale. This week reality came crashing down on the investors, real estate agents and feuding litigants who – all too briefly
Deficits US federal deficit to reach $1tn next year, report saysThe Guardian - Dominic Rushe in New YorkUS federal debt will top $1tn next year even as Donald Trump explores tax cuts and other giveaways that are only likely to increase the deficit. According to figures released by the Congressional Budget
MIT Media Lab Prominent MIT professor resigns in protest over lab's links to EpsteinGuardian US - Miranda BryantA prominent professor at the MIT Media Lab has announced he is resigning from the prestigious research centre in protest after it was revealed its director took money from the disgraced financier Jeffrey
Play buttonJair Bolsonaro Jair Bolsonaro claims NGOs behind Amazon forest fire surge – but provides no evidenceThe Guardian - Jonathan WattsThe Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has accused environmental groups of setting fires in the Amazon as he tries to deflect growing international criticism of his failure to protect the world’s biggest
Dick's Sporting Goods Dick’s Sporting Goods is reportedly exploring ending gun salesGuardian US - Miranda BryantOne of America’s biggest gun retailers is reportedly exploring halting firearms sales and moving out of the business entirely. Earlier this year, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced it was pulling guns, ammunition
trump news update US to remove limit on how long immigrant children can be detainedGuardian US - Amanda Holpuch in New YorkThe Trump administration announced on Wednesday a plan to eliminate a federal court agreement and replace it with a regulation that would allow the government to indefinitely detain migrant children with
Cities Nearly 200 US cities are seeing more extremely hot days, analysis findsThe Guardian - Emily Holden in Washington198 had an increase in the average number of days each year that felt 90F or hotter and 106 cities had an increase in ‘danger’ days that felt 105F or hotter Nearly 200 US cities have seen an increase the
Play buttonEric Garner Eric Garner's family receives sliver of justice after firing of NYPD officerGuardian US - Oliver Laughland in New YorkOne thousand, eight hundred and sixty days after Eric Garner was killed on the streets of Staten Island, New York, his family finally received a sliver of justice. On Monday, the New York police department
Play buttonEnvironment Los Angeles to build world's largest wildlife bridge across 10-lane freewayThe Guardian - Katharine Gammon in Los AngelesEngineers in southern California are hard at work designing the biggest wildlife corridor in the world, to extend over US Highway 101 to the north-west of Los Angeles. The corridor will connect different
Area 51 Will 'Alienstock' at Area 51 be the new Burning Man – or the next Fyre Festival?Guardian US - J Oliver ConroyOn 27 June, Matty Roberts, a 20-year-old college student and video game enthusiast, created a Facebook page as a joke: Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us. He proposed the raid take place on 20 September,
trump news update Greenland row escalates as Trump attacks Danish prime minister – as it happenedGuardian US - Sam Levin in Los Angeles (now) and Adam Gabbatt in New York (earlier)• President said he cancelled trip to Denmark because Mette Frederiksen criticized his attempt to buy Greenland • Sign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective We’re ending our live coverage for
Play buttonJewish Culture Trump stands by antisemitic trope that sparked anger among Jewish AmericansGuardian US - Ed Pilkington and Edward Helmore in New YorkDonald Trump on Wednesday repeated an antisemitic trope that has prompted dismay among prominent American Jews, saying that voting Democratic was “disloyal to Jewish people and … very disloyal to Israel”.
Sean Spicer Sean Spicer set to join Dancing with the StarsThe Guardian - Guardian staffDonald Trump’s former press secretary Sean Spicer will join the cast of Dancing with the Stars this September. The US spin on Strictly Come Dancing will see the controversial ex-staffer paired with a dancer
