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Naya Rivera: looking back at the Glee actor’s memorable TV roles – video
Police have confirmed that a body recovered from a lake in California is that of missing Glee actor Naya Rivera. Authorities said last week that they had presumed Rivera had drowned after renting a boat on Lake Piru near Los Angeles with her four-year-old son, Josey, who was found unharmed.
Rivera began her career in television at the age of four, as Hillary Winston in the US sitcom The Royal Family, and was best known for playing Santana Lopez in the hit show Glee, which was nominated for 32 Emmys and nine Golden Globes during its run
Continue reading...USS Bonhomme Richard fire: US warship rocked by explosion in San Diego – video
More than 20 people suffered minor injuries on Sunday after an explosion and fire on board a ship at a naval base in San Diego, military officials said. The blaze was reported shortly before 9am on USS Bonhomme Richard, said Mike Raney, a spokesman for the navy’s Pacific fleet. Four civilians and 17 sailors were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Raney said.
Continue reading...Officials warn of health risks as heatwave may break records in the south of US
Many of the affected areas are also seeing a coronavirus surge and some experts are anxious heat could increase infections
More than 20 locations across the US were expected to either break or tie previous high temperature records on Sunday as the south of the country bakes in a heatwave.
The National Weather Service had numerous excessive heat warnings in place across a 2,000 mile swath stretching from southern California through to Mobile Bay in Alabama. Potentially record-breaking temperatures are expected in southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas.
Continue reading...Coronavirus report: India reports record spike as cases double in South Africa
Indian cases pass 800,000; Johannesburg struggles to find vital equipment; Texas warns ‘worst is yet to come’
India reported a record spike in coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the national total to more than 800,000 and pushing several states to bring back lockdowns, despite the punitive economic cost.
Now the world’s third-worst affected country by case load, it reported a spike of 27,114 cases on Saturday, although mortality rates have been lower than in other badly affected countries with confirmed death toll now 22,123.
Continue reading...Security video shows Naya Rivera and son renting boat in California – video
Authorities have released footage of the former Glee star renting a boat with her four-year-old son before she went missing on 7 July. The search for Rivera has switched from a rescue to a recovery mission, with the authorities saying they presume the 33-year-old drowned while boating on Lake Piru north of Los Angeles.
Rivera played the high school cheerleader Santana Lopez in the TV series until 2015
Continue reading...Naya Rivera: Glee star feared dead after son found alone in boat at lake
California sheriff’s department launches search after actor’s four-year-old son found alone on boat at Lake Piru
The former Glee actor Naya Rivera is missing and feared to have drowned at a lake in southern California.
A search operation at Lake Piru was suspended on Wednesday evening and was due to resume on Thursday.
Continue reading...Oakland moves to bar police from schools as bigger cities reject change
Movement to get officers out of schools sees progress even as Chicago and Los Angeles school boards vote to keep them in place
A growing movement to get police officers out of US schools saw a major victory this week when Oakland’s school board voted to eliminate the school district’s dedicated police department.
But in Chicago and Los Angeles, despite protests by youth activists, support from teachers’ unions, and an outpouring of public support, school boards voted to keep police in public schools, at least for now.
Continue reading...Paralympic rowing star Angela Madsen dies during solo crossing of Pacific
- 60-year-old was crossing from California to Hawaii
- Madsen was also a campaigner for disability and LBGT rights
Angela Madsen, whose remarkable life took in a spell in the Marines, a string of gold medals and record setting rowing journeys, has died while attempting a solo journey from California to Hawaii.
The 60-year-old’s death was confirmed by her wife, Deb Madsen, in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “With extreme sadness,” she wrote, “I must announce that Angela Madsen will not complete her solo row to Hawaii.”
Continue reading...Ron Jeremy: adult film star charged with rape and sexual assault of four women
- Charges could lead to sentence of 90 years in prison
- Los Angeles prosecutors will ask for bail of $6.6m
The adult film star Ron Jeremy was charged with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth, Los Angeles county prosecutors said Tuesday.
Jeremy, 67, whose real name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt, was charged with three counts each of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery.
Continue reading...Police officers shoot and kill Los Angeles security guard: ‘He ran because he was scared’
Sheriff’s deputies chased and shot dead Andres Guardado, 18, a security guard at an auto repairs shop
After sheriff’s deputies chased and shot dead a security guard at an auto repairs shop in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, family members have identified the dead man to local media as Andres Guardado, 18.
The killing came amid national protest and unrest over the deaths of African Americans, and other people of color, at the hands of law enforcement.
Continue reading...Danny Masterson: That ’70s Show actor charged with rapes of three women
Charges come after a three-year investigation of the actor, who is being held on $3.3m bail
Danny Masterson, the actor known for That ‘70s Show, has been charged with the rapes of three women in the early 2000s, Los Angeles prosecutors said Wednesday.
The three counts of rape by force or fear come after a three-year investigation of the 44-year-old Masterson. The charges were filed Tuesday and Masterson was arrested late Wednesday morning, jail records showed. He was released a few hours later after posting bond and is scheduled to be arraigned 18 September.
Continue reading...‘Golden State Killer’ suspect reportedly to plead guilty to avoid death penalty
Multiple sources tell Los Angeles Times former police officer is expected to plead guilty in Sacramento on 29 June
An ex-policeman in California charged in a series of murders and kidnappings attributed to the “Golden State Killer” is expected to plead guilty in a deal that will spare him the death penalty, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.
The office of the Sacramento county district attorney, Anne Marie Schubert, one of six prosecutors involved in the case against Joseph James DeAngelo, declined to confirm the report when reached by Reuters on Monday.
Continue reading...Man accused of ambushing officers killed in California police shootout
- Authorities say Mason James Lira killed after manhunt
- Incident follows another ambush attack on police farther north
A man suspected of ambushing and shooting a California sheriff’s deputy was killed on Thursday after a shootout with police, authorities said.
Three officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries on Thursday afternoon, a day after the alleged ambush in Paso Robles.
Continue reading...Sean Monterrosa: Vallejo police under investigation after killing of unarmed man
California justice department launches ‘review and reform agreement’ days after officer shot 22-year-old
The California department of justice has launched an investigation and reform initiative for the Vallejo police department, which is facing national scrutiny after an officer killed an unarmed 22-year-old amid protests this week.
The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, announced a “review and reform agreement” with the troubled police agency on Friday, three days after an officer fatally shot Sean Monterrosa, who police say was on his knees with his hands up when he was killed.
Continue reading...‘We will not be silent’: protests head into second weekend after George Floyd’s killing – live
- NFL admits it was wrong not to let players protest police brutality
- Trump’s comment ‘this is a great day’ for George Floyd draws outrage
- Biden: Trump’s remark was ‘despicable’
- Minneapolis to ban police chokeholds
- UN experts condemn modern-day ‘racial terror’ lynchings in US
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After a day of protests across Australia, Guardian staff have compiled some of the most striking images.
Tens of thousands rallied in state capital cities and towns to march against Indigenous deaths in custody and the killing of George Floyd.
The nationwide anti-police brutality protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the US have been marked by widespread incidents of police violence, including punching, kicking, gassing, pepper-spraying and driving vehicles at often peaceful protesters in states across the country.
The actions have left thousands of protesters in jail and injured many others, leaving some with life-threatening injuries.
Related: Protests about police brutality are met with wave of police brutality across US
Continue reading...California: rise in Covid-19 cases raises fears over reopening and protests
Some of the rise expected as counties accelerate plans to reopen and warm weather draws people to beaches and parks, expert says
The number of coronavirus cases in California is on the rise after weeks of optimism that infections had slowed, raising fears that plans to reopen counties, along with mass protests against police brutality, could accelerate transmission of the virus.
According to numbers from Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking coronavirus cases and deaths, California is one of 20 states that have seen an uptick in cases in the past five days.
Continue reading...George Floyd: fires burn near White House as US-wide protests rage – live
- Fires light up Washington DC on third night of protests
- Trump fled to bunker as protests over raged outside White House
- ‘He is a destroyer’: how the protests left Donald Trump exposed
- Rage and anguish: how the US papers have covered the protests
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A striking detail from tonight’s coverage has been reports that as protesters surged towards the White House on Friday night, US president Donald Trump, his wife Melania and son Barron briefly retreated to the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre – a fortified bunker-like structure beneath the residence.
The last time a US head of state was publicly known to have used the bunker was on 11 September, 2001, where senior members of the George W Bush administration spent that day after their west wing offices were evacuated. There are no other public reports of presidents needing to use the area since - the New York Times, which first reported this detail, says “it has not been used much, if at all” since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But it notes the area has since been strengthened to withstand the impact of a passenger jet.
Related: Trump fled to bunker as protests over George Floyd raged outside White House
My colleague Julian Borger in Washington DC has just filed this update on a tense evening the capital.
Multiple fires broke out near the White House late on Sunday evening, as angry protesters gathered in Washington DC for the third night in a row following the death of George Floyd.
Sunday evening’s protests in front of the White House started relatively cheerfully, with a crowd of a few thousand in Lafayette park. Earlier in the day, demonstrators had marched through the city’s downtown, chanting “George Floyd! Say his name!” and “No Justice! No Peace!”
Related: Fires light up Washington DC on third night of George Floyd protests
Continue reading...George Floyd: protesters and police clash in cities across US – live
- Protests rock US cities as anger over killing spreads
- Unrest comes to the White House
- Trump threatens protesters with ‘vicious dogs’
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The Guardian’s Ankita Rao, reporting from New York, on the mayor’s controversial late-night statements:
Mayor Bill de Blasio took to the podium on Saturday night to tell protestors across the city that they were “heard, loud and clear”.
I’m in Brooklyn to talk about tonight’s protests. https://t.co/oBVXGh7JWo
US prosecutors have filed federal charges against three people in New York, accusing them of using “molotov cocktails” on New York police vehicles during the Friday protests:
BREAKING: Three people charged with federal crimes in connection with Molotov cocktail attacks on the NYPD during #GeorgeFloyd protests in NYC Friday night. pic.twitter.com/dyaDJByMit
Continue reading...Californians pack beaches on Memorial Day weekend, defying social distancing rules – video
Americans across the country appeared to abandon social distancing guidelines as they sunbathed on beaches and gathered for pool parties on Memorial Day weekend. The long weekend traditionally signals the start of the US summer, and despite the country’s Covid-19 death toll approaching 100,000, many revellers dismissed any safety concerns to celebrate.
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