The 2023 raid triggered a national debate about press freedom focused on Marion, a town of about 1,900 people. TOPEKA, Kansas — A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry … Read more
The high court extended through Thursday a stay on a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to pay full food stamp benefits this month. The Supreme Court extended through Thursday its order allowing the Trump administration to withhold full food stamp benefits as lawmakers inch closer to ending the record-setting government shutdown. The move … Read more
The accusations contradict the Trump administration’s insistence that deportees were not being mistreated in El Salvador. Prison guards at a notorious Salvador prison tortured Venezuelan nationals the United States deported to the Central American country, according to a report from advocacy group Human Rights Watch released Wednesday. The accusations are based on interviews with 40 … Read more
Britain is officially responsible for the Sudan portfolio at the U.N. Security Council. LONDON — U.K. MPs are urging the government to step up efforts toward a breakthrough in Sudan, warning that “global attention has drifted away” from the deadly civil war that has been raging since 2023. The country is now facing escalating violence … Read more
From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are introducing their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures Wooden stakes bearing pictures of young men were driven into the yellow sands of Copacabana beach this week, opposite Rio de Janeiro’s swanky hotels on Avenida Atlântica where 300 mayors and their entourages were staying during … Read more
A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools US government investigations into universities over antisemitism allegations surged following the 7 October 2023 attacks and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, with more investigations open in the last two months of … Read more
Experts say pupils should spend less time in exam halls and more time on activities like life skills, sport and work experience A review of England’s curriculum has recommended reducing the amount of content and emphasis on exams and instead focusing more on life skills and “enrichment”. The review, led by Prof Becky Francis, wants … Read more
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted UK academics whose research is critical of China say they have been targeted and their universities subjected to “extremely heavy” pressure from Beijing, prompting calls for a fresh look at the sector’s dependence on tuition fee income from Chinese … Read more
It may be a midlife crisis, says the man behind seven-metre installations of the Earth, moon and Sun who has planted 365 trees in a 100-year project in Somerset Luke Jerram, whose art installations have travelled the world, is philosophical about his latest project bearing fruit beyond his time on Earth. Known for his Play … Read more
After nine weeks of inquiry evidence, a picture has emerged of systemic breakdown and poor information sharing Of all the professionals who studied Axel Rudakubana before his murderous attack in Southport last summer, the notes of a rookie police officer in 2019 may be the most prescient. The actions of Rudakubana, then aged 13, showed … Read more