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    GeneralUnited States

    ‘Devastating’: bulldozers plough through Big Bend national park as Trump’s border work pushes ahead

    Heavy machinery seen operating in famous Santa Elena Canyon amid outcry over new wall infrastructure in beloved Texas park Bulldozers have begun plowing up ground at the mouth of Big Bend national park’s famed Santa Elena Canyon as part of the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar “smart wall” expansion on the US-Mexico border, according to new footage taken by activists who have been monitoring the site. Tensions have run high since the Trump administration announced plans to erect new…

    The Guardian

  2. 09
    GeneralUnited States

    Woman arrested after second world war memorial in DC vandalized

    Suspect faces two felony charges after memorial filled with bubbles and spray-paint reading ‘Clean hands Dirty $’ A woman was arrested on Friday morning in connection with the vandalization of the National World War Two Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC , the capital’s federal prosecutor announced. Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, announced mid-morning that a suspect was in custody and had been charged with federal crimes.

    The Guardian

  3. 15
    GeneralUnited States

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    Wildfires rage in Europe and the US, an earthquake rocks Colombia, Russian strikes in Ukraine and a solar eclipse – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

    The Guardian

  4. 16
    GeneralUnited StatesOpinion

    Trump’s spying on left-wing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro

    The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice It is bad enough that the Trump administration blocked a federal criminal investigation when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed Renee Good as she was turning her car away from him in Minneapolis the past January. Just before the shooting, Good and her partner had been observing and protesting against ICE officers. Instead, it turns…

    The Guardian

  5. 17

    Struggling Venus Williams suffers 14th straight defeat in Cincinnati rout

    Seven-time major champion beaten 6-2, 6-2 Williams, 46, loses 11th match of the season Tsitsipas advances as Dimitrov squanders lead Colombian Emilia Arango handed Venus Williams a 14th straight loss dating to July of last year, defeating the fading seven-time grand slam champion who is currently ranked 615th in 66 minutes by 6-2, 6-2 at the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters. The 46-year-old Williams was given a wild card entry at an event where she reached a semi-final a dozen years ago. She has…

    The Guardian

  6. 22

    How Americans deceive ourselves about slavery

    Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed explores how slavery is — and isn't — taught. And Above Ground includes poems to his children about what their ancestors endured and escaped. He spoke with Fresh Air in 2021 and 2023.

    NPR

  7. 24

    Why is Selena Gomez being sued?

    BBC journalist Ana Guerra-Moore looks at why investors who backed Wondermind Global are claiming the pop star failed to fulfil promises.

    BBC News

  8. 25
    GeneralUnited StatesOpinion

    Donald Trump can’t beat Iran and Nigel Farage can only beat a bin. When it counts, these populists are just losers

    The pattern in the US and Britain is clear. They serve up stunt after stunt to mask incompetence and the betrayal of all those who trusted them It’s a shame Nigel Farage ducked the announcement of his victory in the Clacton byelection, which confirmed his return as MP for the seat he had needlessly resigned from just a few weeks earlier. You’d have thought he would have loved it. It was the culmination of a stunt, an exercise in politics as performance. It was a display animated by – and…

    The Guardian

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