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Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sitesOn Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to remove its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-order-usda-websites-climate-crisis Author : Gabrielle Canon Publish date : 2025-01-31 22:06:00

Top bureau officials in five cities in line of fire with dozens of agents who worked on Trump investigations facing axeThe FBI launched a wide-ranging round of staff cuts Friday as Donald Trump’s administration moved to swiftly shake up the US’s leading law enforcement agency, three sources familiar with the matter told the Reuters new agency.At least five top FBI officials in major US cities – Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans and Las Vegas – were ordered to resign or be fired, one of the sources told Reuters. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/fbi-staff-cuts-trump-purge Author : Guardian staff and agencies

Dr Margaret Carpenter faces felony charges in state that has had near-total abortion ban since fall of Roe v WadeA New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the deep south state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.Grand jurors at the district court for the parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr Margaret Carpenter; her company, Nightingale Medical PC; and a third person. All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony. Continue reading...

Claim comes as investigators analyse voice and data recorders from plane crash in which 67 people diedWashington DC plane crash – latest updatesDonald Trump has said that the military Black Hawk helicopter that was in a catastrophic collision with an American Airlines jet in Washington DC was “flying too high, by a lot”, as investigators continued to piece together the reasons for the disaster.The claim from the president came amid questions about the angle the helicopter was flying at, as well as whether the air traffic control tower was understaffed. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/washington-dc-crash-initial-report-staffing-levels-not-normal Author : Oliver Milman,

Schools and universities must revert to Title IX guidance on sexual misconduct complaints from first Trump termSchools and universities responding to complaints of sexual misconduct must return to policies created during Donald Trump’s first term, with requirements for live hearings and more protections for those students accused, according to new guidance issued on Friday by the education department.In a memo to education institutions across the nation, the agency clarified that Title IX, a 1972 law barring discrimination based on sex, will be enforced according to a set of rules created by the former education secretary Betsy DeVos. The rules govern

Journalist and ex-host of Meet the Press played a key role in pushing back on prominent Republican hire last yearChuck Todd, the NBC journalist and former host of Meet the Press who was a key figure in pushing the network not to hire a prominent Republican operative last year, said on Friday he is leaving NBC News.“There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality,’” Todd said in

Helmet of Coțofenești, a Romanian national treasure, among items stolen while on loan to Drents MuseumHours before the sun rose over the Netherlands, the group crowded around the large external door, appearing to pry it open. Seconds later, the grainy security video appeared to show a powerful explosion, sending plumes of smoke and sparks into the air, and the thieves rush into the museum in the north-eastern city of Assen.Minutes later they were gone. But the mystery of what exactly took place during their few minutes in the Drents Museum – and what came afterwards – has left officials in

Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spywareNearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today.The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had “high confidence” that the users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware Author : Stephanie Kirchgaessner in

General secretary highlights ‘legacy of 14 years of falling living standards under the Tories’In an article for the Guardian, the Labour MP Clive Lewis said Rachel Reeves’ growth speech this week means the party has abandoned its pre-election green commitments.Here is an extract.A growing suspicion looms that our government lacks a coherent governing philosophy or ideological compass beyond the vague pursuit of “growth”. But if growth at any cost is the mantra, the costs will soon become painfully clear. Why pledge to be clean and green, only to undermine that commitment with a Heathrow expansion promise six months later? Burning

Yarden Bibas scheduled for release with Keith Siegel and Ofer Calderon on Saturday in latest handover of hostagesMiddle East crisis – live updatesHamas has announced it will release Yarden Bibas on Saturday, the Israeli father of a young family kidnapped to Gaza who have been one of the most enduring symbols of Israel’s hostages in the coastal strip.The Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida said on its Telegram channel that Bibas would be released with Keith Siegel, a joint US citizen, and Ofer Calderon, who also has French nationality. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/hamas-to-release-israeli-hostage-yarden-bibas-wife-children-family Author : Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem and

Scheme backed by €170m fund crucial to getting agreement from farmers, politicians and environmental groups“Plant-based foods are the future.” That is not a statement you would expect from a right-wing farming minister in a major meat-producing nation. Denmark produces more meat per capita than any other country in the world, with its 6 million people far outnumbered by its 30 million pigs, and it has a big dairy industry too. Yet this is how Jacob Jensen, from the Liberal party, introduced the nation’s world-first action plan for plant-based foods.“If we want to reduce the climate footprint within the agricultural sector,

Donald Trump says tariffs will start at 25% and ‘may or may not’ rise over timeHere’s more on those comments from President Trump threatening to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, two of the US’ largest trading partners.He said he was making the threat “for a number of reasons” but that he wants both countries to do more to secure their borders to reduce illegal migration and the flow of fentanyl into the US. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/31/donald-trump-latest-news-politics-live-canada-mexico-tariffs Author : Christy Cooney Publish date : 2025-01-31 11:20:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Bundestag set to review Influx Limitation Act, which looks to tighten rules in existing laws on residence as Friedrich Merz grapples with rise of far rightin BerlinThe Bundestag debate has been delayed for half an hour on request of the CDU, thought to be to do with misgivings within the party over the debate, not least due to large numbers of protesters outside the CDU headquarters in Berlin. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/31/europe-live-germany-parliament-migration-latest-updates-news Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-01-31 10:31:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Diana Johnson says Labour is ‘starting from a difficult position’, after Essex police say they could get rid of PCSOsPolice forces in England and Wales are facing “difficult and challenging” circumstances, the policing minister has accepted, as some have been forced to cut their number of officers.Diana Johnson said forces would need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, days after Essex police said they could get rid of all 99 police community support officer roles within the force, pending consultation, amid a £12.5m budget shortfall for 2025-26. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/31/policing-minister-police-forces-england-wales-challenging-cuts Author : Aletha

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as US president said he would impose first tariffs of new administration on 1 FebruaryEuropean stock markets have moved in lockstep at the opening bell on Friday morning.Here are the opening snaps via Reuters:EUROPE’S STOXX 600 UP 0.2%BRITAIN’S FTSE 100 UP 0.2%; GERMANY’S DAX UP 0.1%FRANCE’S CAC 40 UP 0.2%; SPAIN’S IBEX UP 0.2%EURO STOXX INDEX UP 0.2%; EURO ZONE BLUE CHIPS UP 0.2%We’ll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons. Number one is the people that have poured into our country so horribly and

Public sector union criticises opposition leader’s ‘lack of understanding of modern workplaces’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has foreshadowed the axing of diversity and inclusion positions in the public service as part of wider cuts to the commonwealth bureaucracy if he wins the federal election.The main public sector union said the idea was straight out of the playbook of US president Donald Trump, who has declared war on so-called DEI measures (diversity, equity and inclusion) since returning to the White House. Continue reading...

Exclusive: More Danish people regard US as a threat than see North Korea or Iran as danger Almost half of Danish people now consider the US to be a considerable threat to their country and the overwhelming majority oppose Greenland leaving to become part of the US, new polling has found.The research by YouGov, shared exclusively with the Guardian, comes after weeks of tension between Denmark, Greenland and the US over Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that he plans to take control of the autonomous territory, which is part of the Danish kingdom. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/nearly-half-of-danes-see-us-as-threat-and-78-oppose-greenland-sale-poll-shows Author :

Sovereign citizens, conspiracy theorists and keyboard warriors ‘want to stir the pot’ with federal election coming, says AEC Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“Sovereign citizens, conspiracy theorists and keyboard warriors” are among the domestic threats being monitored ahead of the upcoming federal election, the electoral authority has warned.The Australian Electoral Commission, deep into its preparations for the yet-to-be announced polling day, said the mis- and disinformation threats to the 2025 federal election were coming from within the country, rather than from overseas actors.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s

National Transportation Safety Board announces recorders are now at a lab for evaluation; operation to recover bodies continuesFull report: cockpit voice and flight data recorders recoveredVictims: world champion Russian pair and US skaters were onboard crashed planeVisual guide – how did the DC plane crash unfold?What caused this tragic aviation disaster is not yet known, but the National Transportation Safety Board investigators has said it will have a preliminary report within 30 days.Despite the lack of clarity, newly inaugurated US president Donald Trump has accused his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden of lowering hiring standards and suggested the Federal Aviation Administration’s

An American Airlines passenger jet with 64 onboard was coming in to land at Ronald Reagan National airport when it collided with a military helicopterWashington DC plane crash – latest updatesWashington plane crash: officials say no survivors expected Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/american-airlines-plane-crash-washington-death-toll-details Author : Helen Livingstone, Martin Belam and Archie Bland Publish date : 2025-01-31 01:57:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Conservative New Orleans court ruling for people between 18 and 21 comes amid major shifts in firearm legal landscapeA conservative US appeals court on Thursday ruled that a ban on handgun sales to people between the ages of 18 and 21 violates the second amendment.The ruling, handed down by a panel of three judges on the fifth US circuit court of appeals in New Orleans, comes amid major shifts in the national firearm legal landscape following a landmark US supreme court decision that expanded gun rights in 2022. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/guns-sales-second-amendment-ruling Author : Associated Press Publish date

National Audit Office says government attempts to tackle misogynistic violence are hampered by poor coordinationAn “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse despite years of government promises and strategies, a highly critical report from Whitehall’s spending watchdog has said.The National Audit Office report comes four years after a major government response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) was launched after the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard.The Home Office did not have “centrally coordinated funding” for VAWG, unlike that for the 2021 illegal drugs strategy, and had underspent on its own VAWG

Vessel commissioned by previous Tory government to house asylum seekers was decommissioned in NovemberEighteen months after it arrived at Portland Port in Dorset, the empty asylum seeker barge Bibby Stockholm has been towed away from its mooring.The barge, which only ever provided accommodation for about 400 single male asylum seekers a night, at maximum occupancy, has cost the taxpayer at least £34.8m, according to the National Audit Office.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email [email protected] or [email protected]. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988,

Bodies of 28 people have been retrieved from Potomac River after collision of passenger jet and military helicopterWashington DC plane crash – latest updatesFirst confirmed victims include figure skating championsA collision on Wednesday between an American Airlines jet and a US military helicopter near Washington DC killed all 67 people onboard both aircraft and sparked questions over whether understaffing in an air traffic control tower played a role in the United State’s worst aviation disaster in years.As it approached Reagan National airport around 9pm, American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a US army Black Hawk helicopter, plunging wreckage of the

Former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, a close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quitWashington DC plane crash – latest updatesFirst confirmed victims include figure skating championsQuestions swirled in Washington on Thursday as the Federal Aviation Administration began its investigation of the Reagan airport crash without a permanent leader – its former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO and close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quit.Michael Whitaker, a 30-year aviation industry veteran, was unanimously confirmed as FAA administrator by the Senate in October 2023. He resigned last