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Genesis White Bull had decorated her cap with traditional Lakota decorations including a feather plume, which school staff cut off A high school in New Mexico has apologized after a video went...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/graduation-cap-feather

Ex-president’s former lawyer due for fourth and likely last day of questioning today as it remains unclear if Trump will testify in criminal trial Sign up to our free Trump on Trial newsletter ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/20/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-michael-cohen-testimony-live

Jury selection to begin as Nima Momeni accused of murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in April last year Proceedings begin Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old tech entrepreneur a...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/san-francisco-bob-lee-death-trial

Sensing election-year traction, coalition of 20 environmental groups also demand entrenchment of pause in gas-export licences Joe Biden’s administration is coming under renewed pressure to es...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/20/environment-biden-deepwater-oil-exports

US seafood restaurant chain has been struggling with lease and labor costs, and promotions such as its all-you-can-eat shrimp deal Red Lobster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection day...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/red-lobster-bankruptcy

Dali remained at collapse site since it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s supporting columns in March, killing six people The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/baltimore-bridge-collapse-ship-moves

Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have reacted differently to the January 6 2021 ins...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/20/joe-biden-delivers-scathing-attack-on-donald-trump-video

The trailblazing musician was a powerful force for change and unity, and his legacy continues to inspire millions. He deserves his homeland’s highest honour He is a 20th-century global icon b...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/20/bob-marley-national-hero-what-are-jamaican-politicians-waiting-for

Bird Key, a nesting sanctuary bought for a song in mid-1980s, is for sale for $31.5m as ‘a golden opportunity for a developer’ Environmental advocates in Florida say they are heartbroken th...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/florida-bird-island-sanctuary-

Iran declares five days of mourning after president killed in a crash in fog-covered mountains. Plus, the film enfant terrible Harmony Korine on mowing lawns after burning out Don’t already get...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/first-thing-iran-president-and-foreign-minister-dead-in-helicopter-crash

Biden will be remembered as a president who could have restrained Israel but instead made the US complicit in this war With great fanfare, Joe Biden confirmed on 8 May that his administration ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/biden-weapons-israel-gaza-war

The prospect of a high school or college reunion elicits shame, dread and regret. What if going could actually be good for your mental health? Both of us have 25th college reunions fast approac...

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/high-school-class-reunions-nostalgia

Abe Dane once had doubts about voting security. His work as an elections administrator changed his view: ‘These are people just like me’ Abe Dane would be the first to admit he had concerns...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/election-denial-2020-michigan-voting-2024

Hyping conspiracy theory that Democrats are bringing people into US to vote for Biden, extremists try to tie immigration to elections Dozens of Donald Trump’s allies and election denialists, ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/trump-non-citizen-election-fraud-

You wouldn’t believe how fast these things can move until you try to lock them up. How long until the next jailbreak? We have entered the season marked in our household by the battle of wits ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/human-v-tortoise-beddington-household-tortoises-winning

Indiana’s rookie star has been thrown into the WNBA cauldron 38 days after her final college game. How much is too much? The Caitlin Clark Experience did not disappoint when it came through B...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/20/caitlin-clark-burnout-indana-fever-wnba-rookie

Being left out of family events, sending gifts that went unacknowledged – I took it all so personally, until I realised it wasn’t my problem I was older when I married – 38. Well, it seem...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/family-events-why-i-quit-step-children-accept-me

The US president Joe Biden asks at civil rights event: ‘what do you think he would have done … if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?’ Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/joe-biden-donald-trump-january-6-capitol-riots-black-americans-naacp-dinner-speech-detroit

Hastily established racial equality schemes are being shuttered. What survives is a movement that’s achieving real change If 2020 was the year that Black Lives Matter went mainstream, 2024 wa...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/black-lives-matter-diversity-racial-equality

Minnesota Timberwolves 98-90 Denver Nuggets T-Wolves roar back from 20-point deficit against Denver Timberwolves will face Mavericks in Conference finals The Timberwolves roared back from a 20...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/timberwolves-stage-biggest-game-7-comeback-in-history-to-down-champion-nuggets

Xander Schauffele wins maiden major at Valhalla Californian holds off Bryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland Official leaderboard LOOKING BACK, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT SCOTTIE S...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2024/may/19/us-pga-championship-2024-final-round-live

American makes a birdie at final hole to claim a first major Bryson DeChambeau second on -20; Victor Hovland third It seemed appropriate that this staging of the US PGA Championship played out...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/20/xander-schauffele-pips-dechambeau-by-one-shot-to-win-us-pga-championship

Republican senator’s comments come as he is considered among Trump’s top candidates for vice-president The Republican Florida senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he would not commit to accep...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/marco-rubio-2024-election

Gaza protesters wore keffiyehs as Biden tried to assure the crowd: ‘Your voices should be heard, I promise you I hear them’ It was, in the end, an artful compromise. Joe Biden got to spea...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/biden-morehouse-graduation-black-college-voters

Speech warmly received at historically Black college despite backlash from students in weeks leading to address over war Joe Biden told graduating students of Morehouse College that American de...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/biden-morehouse-graduation-speech

A school district in Houston has voted to redact chapters on vaccines and climate change, and parents and educators are worried The wave of book bans sweeping the US, typically reserved for wor...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-public-schools-texas-book-bans

Irish rugby international who went on to become one of his country’s most charismatic businessmen As Ireland’s best known and most flamboyant businessman, Sir Tony O’Reilly, who has died ...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/may/19/sir-tony-o-reilly-obituary

During a bombastic speech in Dallas, GOP frontrunner asks: ‘Are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?’ Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms –...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/trump-nra-convention-dallas

Protectionism in the form of tariffs is justified but the focus will be on whether Beijing retaliates The global economy is fragmenting and a new era of protectionism has dawned. Dreams by free...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/america-approach-china-rapid-growth-lessons-for-us-all

Our desires are an essential part of who we are – as I discovered when I lost my appetite for six months Mostly, walking down New York streets in spring sunshine is the cinematic, euphoric id...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/i-havent-tried-ozempic-but-i-know-how-it-feels

Pundits say rising negative feelings to other parties threatens democracy. Apart from in America, new research tells a different story The frontrunner to be the next US president is spending hi...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/us-voters-are-increasingly-polarised-over-politics-but-brits-are-far-less-stubborn

Humanitarian assistance has begun to arrive in Gaza along a US-made pier , but the US aid chief said the new sea corridor could not be a substitute for land crossings, and warned that deliveries ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/may/17/humanitarian-aid-reaches-gaza-via-new-us-pier-video

The oversight and accountability committee hearing descended into chaos, with several members shouting and hurling insults at each other as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez objected fiercely to an attack...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/17/marjorie-taylor-greene-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-clash-us-house-hearing-video

Search for new chief executive for troubled planemaker continues amid safety crisis and slumping share price Boeing’s departing CEO, Dave Calhoun, was re-elected to stay on the troubled compa...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/17/boeing-ceo-board

Thursday’s trial was all about Michael Cohen – and attempts by Trump’s lawyers to make him out to be a big fat liar SIGN UP TO OUR FREE TRUMP ON TRIAL NEWSLETTER Thursday’s trial, like...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/trump-hush-money-trial-michael-cohen-testimony-summary

Trump’s former fixer was questioned by defense team in historic criminal trial Sign up to our free Trump on Trial newsletter Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/09/trump-indictment-hush-money-case-trial-updates

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche yelled at the former fixer as he attempted to paint him as a serial fabricator Sign up to our free Trump on Trial newsletter Donald Trump, flanked by his son Eric and...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/trump-trial-key-takeaways-cohen-testimony

Index has more than doubled since spring 2020 as investors hope for interest rate cuts following Federal Reserve inflation figures The Dow Jones industrial average briefly passed 40,000 points ...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/16/dow-jones-record-high

A Guardian US investigation is reporting allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour by illusionist David Copperfield. Testimonies from two women, both of whom are portrayed by a...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/16/david-copperfield-was-in-my-nightmares-the-women-alleging-sexual-misconduct-video

Some allege harassment, one claims she was sexually assaulted. His lawyers deny the allegations Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women ‘I honest to...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/david-copperfield-allegations

The Guardian US investigated claims that the famed entertainer selected girls and women from his audiences and subjected them to sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior. Copperfield’s lawy...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/may/15/david-copperfield-allegations

A total of 16 women have accused Copperfield of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior spanning decades. More than half said they were teenagers at the time. Copperfield’s lawyers say the...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/15/david-copperfield-investigation

Todd Blanche seemed to be looking for a ‘gotcha’ – instead there was laughter in the viewing room and one irked judge Key takeaways from day two of Cohen testimony Sign up to our free Trum...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/14/cohen-cross-examination-trump-lawyer-todd