30 m. ago Why is LA protesting? Trump deploys National Guard after immigration raids spark major unrest

The ICE operations in Los Angeles resulted in the arrests of 118 immigrants this week

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43 m. ago LA riots: Shocking images as city burns over Donald Trump's migrant crackdown

Crowds have rampaged through the streets of LA following clashes with ICE immigration officials as Donald Trump called in the National Guard with cars burned in the streets and businesses looted

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44 m. ago Public employees in Iraq’s Kurdish region caught in the middle of Baghdad

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country’s north in a long-running dispute over the the sharing of oil revenues

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45 m. ago NHS urgent call for 1,000,000 blood donors as it faces first ever 'Red Alert'

Health officials have issued a call for donors to avoid a "red alert" and threat to public safety

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52 m. ago Los Angeles protests: Dozens arrested and cars burned by protesters after Trump sends in National Guard

Trump said the soldiers “need to make sure there’s law and order” as chaos erupts across LA

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81 m. ago Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi shot with rubber bullet while covering Los Angeles protests

British photographer also injured as police used crowd-control rounds during escalating demonstrations over ICE immigration raids

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82 m. ago Warning over new Covid variant as public told 'stay at home' if you're unwell

The variant, known as NB.1.8.1, was first identified in Ireland in May. It has since become the dominant strain in the country - accounting for around 30% of new Covid cases

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91 m. ago Los Angeles protests live: LAPD calls for protesters to disperse as Trump says ‘bring in the troops’

Police fire rubber bullets and teargas while protesters block a major freeway and set self-driving cars on fireFull report: Teargas and flash-bangs used on LA protesters as opposition to Trump intensifiesAround 300 Guard troops have been deployed to LA so far.President Donald Trump earlier said he would deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests, despite the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions | Sean Ingle

Organisation’s former president has no regrets over what was lowest grossing film in US history when released a decade agoThere are movies that bomb at the box office. And then there is the Fifa biopic United Passions, starring Tim Roth, Sam Neill and Gérard Depardieu, which was hit with the cinematic equivalent of a thermonuclear strike when it opened in the US 10 years ago this week.You might remember the fallout; the fact it took only $918 (£678) in its opening weekend, making it the lowest grossing film in US history at the time, and the stories detailing how two people bought tickets to see it in Philadelphia, and only one in Phoenix, before it was pulled by distributors. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Huge £25bn airport set to be largest in Europe with major city built around it

Poland will be taking the throne as the biggest - and busiest - airport in Europe with its expansion, the Solidarity Transport Hub, offering a smoother travel to major cities in the country and beyond

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2 h. ago Los Angeles protests live: LAPD calls for protestors to disperse as Trump says ‘bring in the troops’

Police fire rubber bullets and teargas while protesters block a major freeway and set self-driving cars on fireFull report: Teargas and flash-bangs used on LA protesters as opposition to Trump intensifiesAround 300 Guard troops have been deployed to LA so far.President Donald Trump earlier said he would deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests, despite the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Bellagio shooting UPDATES: Las Vegas casino evacuated amid 'active shooter' fears

Members of the public have raised the alarm via social media of a potential shooting as the police presence in the area massively increases outside the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas

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2 h. ago Art for Everybody review – the dark side of Thomas Kinkade, ‘painter of light’

The extraordinarily popular painter of kitsch American scenes struggled with addiction and depression, as this documentary with access to his previously unseen works showsYou won’t find the works of Thomas Kinkade lining the walls of the Museum of Modern Art, yet the painter, who died in 2012, is one of the best-selling artists in history and his paintings hang in tens of millions of American households. Kinkade’s typical subjects – rustic landscapes, sleepy cottages, quaint gazebos – bask in an idyllic calm, a luminous callback to a fabled simpler past. Turning to his unpublished archive, Miranda Yousef’s engrossing documentary portrait unveils the dark shadows that lurked within the self-titled “painter of light”.Through interviews with family members, close collaborators and critics, as well as Kinkade’s own words, the film traces his meteoric success in the 1980s and 90s. Shunned by the art world, he marketed his works through home-shopping television channels and a network of f...

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2 h. ago Los Angeles protests: Violence erupts as National Guard troops sent in by Trump clash with anti

Trump told reporters soldiers “need to make sure there’s law and order” on third day of unrest

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3 h. ago Visa scam that makes a mockery of PM's pledge on migration: Undercover Mail investigation exposes fixers who take cash to help unskilled workers fiddle the system

It comes amid concern skilled worker visa routes could be hiding an immigration scandal 'worse than the small boats crisis'.

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3 h. ago We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich

The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the resultsNow that Donald Trump’s tariffs have been halted, his big, beautiful bill has been stymied, and his multi-billionaire tech bro has turned on him, how does he demonstrate his power?On Friday morning, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted raids across Los Angeles – including at two Home Depots and a clothing wholesaler – in search of workers who they suspected of being undocumented immigrants.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump travel ban barring citizens from 12 countries goes into effect

Afghanistan, Haiti and Iran included in full 12-country ban and citizens from seven other countries partially restrictedDonald Trump’s new ban on travel to the US by citizens of a dozen countries, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, went into effect at 12am ET on Monday, more than eight years after Trump’s first travel ban sparked chaos, confusion, and months of legal battles.The new proclamation, which Trump signed last week, “fully” restricts the nationals of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the US. The entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Under Patel, FBI heightens focus on violent crime, illegal immigration. Other threats abound, too

The FBI under the leadership of Director Kash Patel has made fighting violent crime and illegal immigration top priorities

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5 h. ago ‘We’re not afraid of you’: LA protesters, enraged by Trump, flood the streets

Traffic stopped, signs were brandished, insults were hurled – and the size of the protest seemed to take police by surpriseUS politics live – latest updatesThousands of Angelenos enraged by Donald Trump’s decision to commandeer their state national guard swamped the downtown streets on Sunday, bringing a major freeway to a standstill. But the national guard, hemmed in by the protesters and by dozens of Los Angeles police cruisers, played almost no role in any of it.A vocal, boisterous but largely peaceful sea of protesters engulfed the north-eastern corner of downtown Los Angeles around city hall and the federal courthouse. They hurled insults at Trump and at the immigration enforcement teams who had conducted mass arrests of undocumented migrants in the area on Friday. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Los Angeles protests live: California governor and LA mayor urge Trump to remove national guard troops

Gavin Newsom attacks ‘serious breach of state sovereignty’ as troops deployed amid large protests against Ice raidsHere are a selection of photographs from protests in the early hours of Sunday morning.Immigration officers could be in California for a month, a Democrat congresswoman has been told. Continue reading...

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