15 h. ago The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances

Organisations that pumped money into overturning Roe v Wade are making inroads in Europe. Women’s rights are truly at riskWith Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nationalism driving the US political agenda. From draconian abortion policies to ending birthright citizenship, some of Trump’s first executive orders sound startlingly like something out of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian novel turned TV show set in Gilead, a fundamentalist, fascist version of the US where women have no rights. But it is urgent we understand that what is happening in the US could happen here. This road to Atwood’s Gilead is charting a course straight through the UK and Europe, and we may well be sleepwalking on to it.In November 2024 I debated with the American conservative lawyer Erin Hawley at the Oxford Union. The motion was “This house regrets the overturning of Roe v Wade”, the US supreme court’s landmark decision that once protected the right to h...

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59 h. ago Crisis counsellors brought in to air traffic control tower after fight, near

Air traffic controllers at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport are being offered crisis counselling following a fight in the control tower and a near-miss incident, just two months after a fatal midair collision.

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1 week ago Violence engulfs Nations League as fans brawl and invade pitch in brutal scenes

Georgia thrashed Armenia 6-1 in their Nations League play-off match, but the result was overshadowed by ugly scenes after the full-time whistle, with supporters clashing on the pitch and in the stands

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2 w. ago Greece vs Scotland LIVE score and goal updates from Nations League playoff in Athens

International football is back as Scotland fight for their Nations League division A survival

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2 w. ago Greece 0 Scotland 0 LIVE score and goal updates from the Nations League playoff in Athens

International football is back as Scotland fight for their Nations League division A survival

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2 w. ago Greece 0 Scotland 1 LIVE as Scott McTominay opens scoring from the spot

International football is back as Scotland fight for their Nations League division A survival

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2 w. ago Greece 0 Scotland 1 LIVE as 4 George Hirst makes debut off bench and Kieran Tierney introduced

International football is back as Scotland fight for their Nations League division A survival

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3 w. ago Nørgaard wins it for Brentford to dent Bournemouth’s European hopes

A time when the clubs were old Third Division mainstays may be a distant, chintzy memory now both are upwardly mobile, model organisations but Bournemouth have still not beaten Brentford in the Premier League. For a club with now very different horizons, this was a most costly defeat.If Thomas Frank’s hopes of taking his team into Europe rely on a collision of coefficients, coincidences and collapses then Bournemouth’s fade is coming at a bad time. Andoni Iraola’s team lost their early flow to be sunk by the set-piece expertise that brought goals for Yoane Wissa and Christian Nørgaard. And a fourth defeat in six. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Six Nations: England must throw down the gauntlet to France with title hopes alive on Super Saturday

England have taken the Six Nations title fight into final weekend

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3 w. ago ‘They shouldn’t have to fight alone’: the families on the frontline of the Navajo Nation missing people crisis – photo essay

The disproportionate violence against Indigenous people is deeply felt on and around the reservation, where families must become their own investigators. Words and photography by Wayan BarreOn a cold January evening in 2021, Joey Apachee, a Navajo father of two, set out to meet a friend near the water tower in Steamboat, Arizona. Hours later, he was found beaten to death. However, despite a confession from a suspect, no trial has taken place. Joey’s father Jesse Apachee, a retired police officer, says the family feels abandoned by the Navajo Nation’s justice system.Indigenous people experience violence at alarmingly high rates. According to the Urban Indian Health Institute, in some parts of the US, Indigenous women are murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average. Additionally, 10,123 Native American people were recorded as missing in 2022, though the real tally is probably higher due to inconsistencies in reporting and data collection. In recent years the crisis ha...

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