One woman is dead and six others injured after powerful straight-line winds in Dallas, Texas caused a crane to topple over onto an apartment building.
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Trump budget chief wants delay in Huawei restrictions
- Russell Vought makes request in letter to Pence and Congress
- Mnuchin: trade progress with China could ease Huawei actions
The Trump administration’s acting budget chief is asking for a delay in restrictions against Huawei products, according to a letter to Vice-President Mike Pence and nine members of Congress.
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Continue reading...One dead and six injured in Dallas crane collapse amid severe thunderstorms
- Witness: crane ‘fell straight through’ apartment building
- Names of injured and woman who died not known
A woman has died and at least six people were injured when a crane collapsed on to an apartment building in Dallas amid severe thunderstorms early on Sunday afternoon.
Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans told reporters first responders searching the Elan City Lights building found a woman inside an apartment who was later pronounced dead.
Continue reading...Food porn meets Hitchcock horror as seagull spies Maine chance
Pepperdine professor photobombed by lobster mobster bird happy to see picture of roll reversal go viral
Alicia Jessop knew Friday was going to be memorable, but she didn’t realize it would be a day she would never forget.
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Continue reading...‘All I have done, no credit!’ Enraged Trump defends US-Mexico migrant deal
President tweets ire at New York Times and opponents as agreement to avoid tariffs comes under scrutiny
The Trump administration was forced to defend its immigration agreement with Mexico on Sunday, amid reports that key provisions in the deal, forged under the threat of trade tariffs, were mostly old commitments agreed to months ago.
Related: Mexican president leads 'celebration' rally after US tariffs dropped
Continue reading...Elizabeth Warren gains momentum in the 2020 race plan by plan
The senator’s ‘I have a plan’ mantra has become a rallying cry as she edges her way to the top – but is it enough to get past the roadblocks of Biden and Sanders?
Plan by plan, Elizabeth Warren is making inroads and gaining on her rivals in the 2020 Democratic race to take on Donald Trump.
The former Harvard law professor’s policy heavy approach made an impression among activists at the She the People forum in Texas last month and was well-received at the California state party convention earlier this month.
Continue reading...Mexican president leads ‘celebration’ rally after US tariffs dropped
Andrés Manuel López Obrador tells crowd in Tijuana he is raising an ‘open hand’, not a closed fist, to Donald Trump
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, travelled to the border city of Tijuana to rally the country in “defence of national dignity”, but to also reaffirm friendship with the US people – barely a day after the US cancelled the threat of tariffs.
López Obrador called the rally, which was convened prior to the tariffs being cancelled, a “celebration” of both countries brokering a deal.
Continue reading...Hillary Clinton announces death of younger brother Tony Rodham
- ‘We lost my brother Tony last night,’ former senator says
- Sibling was a sometimes unruly presence in politician’s life
Hillary Clinton’s youngest brother, Tony Rodham, died on Friday night, the former Democratic presidential candidate said on Twitter.
Rodham’s age was not immediately known but he was born in 1954, six years after Clinton, 71, and four years after the other Rodham sibling, Hugh, 69, in the Chicago suburbs.
Continue reading...Trump’s Mexico deal is victory for ‘hostage-taking’, ex-WTO head says
Pascal Lamy said Trump’s actions went against the spirit of diplomacy after Mexico agreed to expand asylum program
The immigration deal imposed on Mexico by Donald Trump under the threat of punitive tariffs is a victory for “hostage-taking” over international rules, a former head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Saturday.
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Continue reading...New York’s Four Seasons Restaurant to close less than a year after reopening
Restaurant, which opened in in 1959 in the Seagram Building, will close the week of 10 June
The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York is to close, less than a year after it reopened away from the Seagram Building, the masterpiece of modern architecture which was its home for almost 60 years and which it came to complement as a high point of 20th-century art, style and design.
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Continue reading...US ambassador: Israel has right to annex parts of West Bank
- David Friedman gives interview to New York Times
- ‘Israel has right to some, but unlikely all’ of disputed territory
The US ambassador to Israel did not rule out an Israeli move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, land the Palestinians seek for a state, in an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday.
Related: Jared Kushner casts doubt on Palestinian ability to self-govern
Continue reading...Trump officials snub strongman Khalifa Haftar as US shifts course on Libya
Administration gives Libyan National Army chief cold shoulder less than two months after Trump showed support in surprise call
The Trump administration has given the cold shoulder to Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, less than two months after Trump appeared to show support for him in a surprise phone call, and is now rethinking its policy towards the country’s civil war, according to multiple sources in the US and the region.
Encouraged by the 15 April call, Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) hired lobbyists in Washington in the hope of arranging an official visit by the field marshal, who is a dual Libyan-US national, or one of his top aides, to reinforce the impression that he had US backing in his offensive against the UN-backed government in Tripoli.
Continue reading...‘Straight pride’ parade organizer has held and attended far-right events
Rallies and protests organized by Mark Sahady have often been small, with attendees vastly outnumbered by opposing groups
Far-right figures associated with a “straight pride” parade in Boston have celebrated the story going “viral” in news media, but with no fixed date and no city permit granted the likely size of the event and chances of it going ahead remain unclear.
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Continue reading...Police excavate Brisbane property in search for US woman missing since July
Partner assisting with inquiries as cold case disappearance of Priscilla Brooten becomes a homicide investigation
Queensland police are excavating the front yard of a home in Brisbane’s north where a missing American woman lived with her partner.
Priscilla Brooten was formally reported missing in December last year but the 46-year-old was last seen in July, in Bracken Ridge.
Continue reading...Trump wants to sell more weapons to Saudi Arabia. Congress must stop him | Mohamad Bazzi
The administration wants to sell $8bn of weapons to Saudi Arabia and UAE – and prop up a morally indefensible war
On the Friday before Memorial Day, when few Americans were paying attention, the Trump administration announced that it would circumvent Congress and sell $8bn in new weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It was Donald Trump’s latest attempt to give a blank check to two US allies leading a disastrous war in Yemen.
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Continue reading...US imposes sanctions on Iran’s largest petrochemical group
PGPIC hit with economic penalties because of its ties to Revolutionary Guards, US treasury says
The United States has hit Iran’s Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC) with economic sanctions due to its ties with the country’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the Treasury department has said.
The move aims to choke off financing to the country’s largest and most profitable petrochemical group and extends to its 39 subsidiaries and “foreign-based sales agents,” Treasury said in a statement.
Continue reading...Trump calls off tariffs as US and Mexico reach deal on immigration
Mexico agrees to host more migrants seeking asylum in US and increase enforcement on southern border
The US and Mexico have reached an agreement to stave off import tariffs on Mexican goods, officials confirmed on Friday evening.
President Trump had threatened to impose 5% import tariffs on all Mexican goods if the country did not agree to new measures to stem migration across the US-Mexico border. The tariffs were set to go in effect on Monday, but the president tweeted late on Friday that both governments had reached a deal and the tariffs had been “indefinitely suspended”.
Continue reading...Trump attacks Nasa and claims the moon is ‘a part’ of Mars
President tweeted Nasa should focus on ‘Mars (of which the Moon is a part)’ over going to the moon, a reversal of previous remarks
Followers of astronomy were in for a surprise on Friday, when Donald Trump announced that the moon is part of Mars.
In a tweet, apparently commenting on his own administration’s space policy, the president said: “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago.”
Continue reading...Selective memory and the D-day anniversary | Letters
Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’ plea for an end to endless war remembrance. Plus thoughts on the roles of Donald Trump and Theresa May in the commemorations in Normandy
Simon Jenkins (It’s past time to move on from endless war remembrance, 7 June) writes that “too much remembering is a dangerous business”; to which the only answer is: “Try the alternative.” All will agree that the sacrifice of those who fought to defeat the Nazis should be properly commemorated. Many will also agree that, within that context, the terrible price paid by the Russians in defeating Hitler has not been properly acknowledged.
But that is where the “remembering” comes in, and the “butcher’s bill”, as Churchill put it, should not be the only mark by which a nation’s contribution is judged.
Continue reading...Russian and US warships almost collide in East China Sea – video
Washington and Moscow blame each other for a near-collision between warships in East China Sea on Friday morning. A US guided missile cruiser, the USS Chancellorsville, and a Russian destroyer came within 50 metres of each other while on patrol
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