Guardian USNowUS ramping up monkey pox vaccine distribution to slow down spreadverified_publisherGuardian US - ReutersThe US government is ramping up efforts to staunch the spread of monkeypox by sending hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses to states in the coming months, expanding access for those most at risk and increasing supply to areas with high case numbers. The plan, announced on Tuesday, involves rapidly …
Guardian US3 hours ago‘Things might get real, real bad’: key takeaways from latest January 6 hearingverified_publisherGuardian US - Martin PengellyThe sixth hearing into the attack on the Capitol on Tuesday heard from just one witness but presented a series of explosive revelations about Donald Trump and the events of January 6. Here are the key points from an extraordinary two hours on Capitol Hill. Key aides warned of violence The sole witness …
Guardian US2 hours agoEx-White House aide delivers explosive public testimony to January 6 panelverified_publisherGuardian US - Lauren Gambino and Hugo Lowell in WashingtonIn explosive public testimony, a former White House aide told the January 6 committee Donald Trump knowingly directed armed supporters to march to the US Capitol in a last-gasp effort to remain in power. Appearing at a hastily scheduled hearing, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s final …
Guardian US9 hours agoFifty-one migrants found dead inside abandoned Texas trailer truckverified_publisherGuardian US - Ashifa Kassam and Ramon Antonio VargasFifty-one people believed to be migrants were found dead and at least a dozen others were hospitalized after being found inside an abandoned tractor-trailer rig on Monday on a remote back road in south-west San Antonio, officials have said. The discovery in Texas may prove to be the deadliest …
Guardian US5 hours ago‘She ruined lives’: Ghislaine Maxwell’s victims tell of the impact of her abuseverified_publisherGuardian US - Victoria BekiempisShortly before Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in her New York sex trafficking case, several of the former British socialite’s victims provided impact statements in court. The victims who addressed Judge Alison Nathan described harrowing abuse at the hands of Maxwell and her …
Guardian US5 hours agoAngry, violent, reckless: testimony paints shocking portrait of Trumpverified_publisherGuardian US - David Smith in WashingtonHe lunged at a Secret Service agent’s throat. He threw dishes during temper tantrums. And he wanted metal detectors taken away so his fans could march with guns and knives. An astonishing portrait of Donald Trump as an unhinged and personally violent president emerged at Tuesday’s hearing of the …