Detroit, MI ‘It's techno-racism’: Detroit is quietly using facial recognition to make arrestsGuardian US - Tom Perkins in DetroitFor the last two years, Detroit police have been quietly utilizing controversial and unreliable facial recognition technology to make arrests in the city. The news, revealed in May in a Georgetown University
Play buttonPrince Andrew US briefing: recession denials, Prince Andrew and Iranian oil tankerGuardian US - Tim WalkerDonald Trump and his advisers have dismissed the threat of a coming recession, despite concerns from the markets and warning signs elsewhere in the world. “I don’t see a recession,” Trump told reporters
John Delaney John Delaney draws 11 people to 2020 event – does he truly think he can win?Guardian US - Adam Gabbattin IowaJohn Delaney has poured a staggering $24m of his own money into running for president. He has been campaigning for the White House for more than two years, and in that time has held more than 200 events
Jeffrey Epstein Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientistsGuardian US - Luke DarbyEpstein called himself a 'science philanthropist' and donated handsomely to prestigiuos organizations Jeffrey has the mind of a physicist. He has changed my life. Because of his support, I feel I can anything
Play buttonPortland, OR Portland rally: Proud Boys vow to march each month after biggest protest of Trump eraGuardian US - Jason Wilson in Portland, OregonPortland saw its largest far-right demonstration of the Trump era on Saturday, as 500 rightwingers traveled from around the country to march back and forth across the city’s bridges, and briefly occupy
Play buttonBeto O'Rourke O’Rourke: El Paso shooting makes clear the ‘real consequence’ of Trump racismGuardian US - Martin PengellyThe deaths of 22 people in the El Paso shooting earlier this month made clear “the real consequence and cost of Donald Trump”, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Sunday. “From the
Stacey Abrams 'Rigging the game': Stacey Abrams kicks off campaign to fight voter suppressionGuardian US - Martin Pengelly and agenciesThe ability to vote is how you tackle climate change. We can’t have climate change legislation simply by wishing it Stacey Abrams Stacey Abrams is a potential Democratic nominee for vice-president in She
Pete Buttigieg Buttigieg: opposition to gay marriage will 'wash away' among black AmericansGuardian US - Martin PengellyOpposition to gay marriage among African Americans will “start to wash away”, Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday, when such voters “struggling to get on to right side of history” see he will work in their The
Ghislaine Maxwell Revealed: how Ghislaine Maxwell fought those who accused her over Jeffrey EpsteinGuardian US - Jamie DowardThe lengths to which Ghislaine Maxwell went to contest allegations that she conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to groom underage girls for sex is laid bare in an analysis of hundreds of pages of legal documents
Arkansas A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black AmericansGuardian US - Teresa KrugThe lessons that we can learn from 100 years ago are relevant today as we navigate race relations in the 21st century. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson’s office Charlie McClain was surprised to learn he
Jeffrey Epstein Jean-Luc Brunel: three former models say they were sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein friendGuardian US - Jon Swaine in Miami, Jon Henley in Amsterdam and Lucy Osborne in LondonI remember trying to move, but not really being able to. Like almost being paralysed. I heard … my blouse … ripping Thysia Huisman If someone touched one of my daughters like that now, I would call it
White House Rose Garden Trump suspends CNN analyst's credentials in another shot at the pressGuardian US - Edward Helmore in New YorkThe Trump administration has fired another shot in its war with the US press, suspending the credentials of Brian Karem, White House correspondent for Playboy and an analyst for CNN. The 30-day revocation
El Paso, TX Thousands mourn El Paso victim Margie Reckard after partner's appealGuardian US - Associated Press in El Paso, TexasHe felt like he was going to kind of just be by himself with this whole thing, but it’s not so Harrison Johnson, pastor Thousands of strangers came to El Paso this weekend, to say goodbye to a victim the
Business Less boom, more bust? Economic fears threaten Trump's 2020 messageGuardian US - Sabrina Siddiquiin Washington DCDonald Trump has made the US economy a centerpiece of his re-election campaign, relishing reports of steady job growth and low rates of unemployment. But now, concerns of an economic downturn, buoyed the
Jeffrey Epstein Rats and raw sewage: Jeffrey Epstein jail blighted by 'horrible' conditionsGuardian US - Lauren Aratani in New YorkThe New York Metropolitan correctional center sits on a corner in downtown Manhattan, eerily quiet given its location between the financial district and Chinatown. At the junction of Pearl Street and Row,
Native Hawaiians 'A new Hawaiian Renaissance': how a telescope protest became a movementGuardian US - Michelle Broder Van Dyke in Mauna Kea and Honolulu, HawaiiOn Hawaii’s Big Island, a protest against a $1.4bn observatory on Mauna Kea, a mountain considered sacred by many Native Hawaiians, is entering a second month. In that time, the protest site has swelled
Robert E. Lee Lincoln's spies: Elizabeth Van Lew, southern sexism and the winning of a secret warGuardian US - David Smith in WashingtonShe was a liberal in Richmond even after the war. She was very upset that the old power structure basically came in Douglas Waller on Elizabeth van Drew Douglas Waller had a confession to make. “I’m a
Jeffrey Epstein Medical examiner says Jeffrey Epstein's death was a suicideGuardian US - Sam LevinJeffrey Epstein’s death in prison was a suicide, the medical examiner said on Friday. Epstein was arrested in July on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges relating to the alleged abuse of hundreds
Rashida Tlaib Rashida Tlaib rejects Israel's offer for 'humanitarian' visit to West BankGuardian US - Oliver Holmes in JerusalemUS congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has rejected an offer from Israel to visit family in the occupied West Bank on the condition she does not express certain political views. “I have decided that visiting grandmother
Ted Wheeler How Portland's liberal utopia became the center of a rightwing war in the USGuardian US - Jason WilsonDuring the Obama years, Portland was widely seen as a redoubt of crunchy, progressive, west coast liberalism. Much of the world saw the city through the lens of Portlandia, a TV sketch show that lampooned
Abortion Inside the 'fake clinics' where women are persuaded to carry pregnancies to termGuardian US - Khushbu Shah in Milledgeville, GeorgiaIn her office at the Crossroads Pregnancy Center in Milledgeville, Georgia, Pam Alford hung a picture of a grave-filled cemetery in memory of the thousands of the abortions taking place every day in America.
Ghislaine Maxwell Ghislaine Maxwell seen in public for first time since Epstein deathGuardian US - Nadeem BadshahGhislaine Maxwell has been photographed at a restaurant in Los Angeles, the first time she has been seen in public since the death of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The British socialite and
New Mexico Court order allows Trump asylum rules to take effect at parts of borderGuardian US - Associated PressA federal appeals court’s ruling Friday will allow the Trump administration to begin rejecting asylum at some parts of the US-Mexico border for migrants who arrived after transiting through a third country.
Mormonism 'Always ask if there’s coffee in it': Mormon church stands by rule with new adviceGuardian US - Edward HelmoreThe Mormon church has renewed warnings to its younger members that there’s no grey area when it comes to the temptations of coffee – don’t drink it. “The word coffee isn’t always in the name of coffee
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein: two unidentified women sue estate and alleged ‘recruiter’Guardian US - Edward Helmore in New YorkTwo unidentified women have filed a sexual abuse lawsuit in a Manhattan district court against the estate of wealthy financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein apparently killed himself
Ken Cuccinelli Rumors of Trump green card rule impact benefits for immigrant familiesGuardian US - Amanda Holpuch in New YorkWhen rumors that the Trump administration would block immigrants using public benefits from getting green cards began in late 2017, an HIV positive woman visited the African Services Committee in Harlem.
San Francisco, CA A body in a fish tank: the unsolved murder haunting San FranciscoGuardian US - Erin McCormick in San FranciscoAnd a year after the dismembered body of the San Francisco man was found stuffed into a chemical-filled fish tank in his home, his killer remains at large. On the anniversary of the discovery of one of
Greenland Donald Trump reportedly wants to purchase Greenland from DenmarkGuardian US - Ed Pilkington in New YorkDonald Trump is fond of bragging about his conspicuous wealth and buying power, plastering his name over buildings and gilding the elevators of Trump Tower. But his latest reported aspiration is on the
FDA Group to tout bleach-based ‘miracle cure’ at upstate New York 'seminar'Guardian US - Ed Pilkington in New YorkAdvocates of a “medicine” called MMS will gather in a hotel in upstate New York on Saturday to promote what they claim to be a miracle cure for cancer that is in fact a powerful bleach that can cause harm
