March 22, 2018

Steve Bannon tried to distance himself from the Cambridge Analytica scandal on Thursday, claiming: “I didn’t even know anything about the Facebook mining.”

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March 11, 2018

The artist Nan Goldin and around 100 fellow demonstrators threw pill bottles into the moat surrounding an ancient Egyptian temple at the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Saturday, to protest sponsorship by the family that owns one of the largest makers of opioids.

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February 23, 2018

Lindsey Davis Stover has made sexual violence prevention a focus of her campaign for Congress from Northern Virginia because she was assaulted as a young woman.

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January 20, 2018

A California man’s daily sushi habit ended in a trip to hospital with a stomach-churning item to show doctors: a 5ft tapeworm that “wiggled” out of his body.

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December 12, 2017

A powerful court ruled on Tuesday that an Obama-era ban on new uranium mines around the Grand Canyon should stay in place, though celebration on the environment side was tempered by expectations the government itself will now side with mining interests to end the ban. 

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November 1, 2017 The police officer being hailed a hero for shooting the suspect in the deadly terror attack in New York on Tuesday “thought this was all in a day’s work”, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday.

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October 31, 2017 Eight people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a man drove a truck nearly a mile down a bike path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, striking pedestrians, cyclists and a school bus.

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October 25, 2017 

The trips to resorts in the sun traps of Florida, Arizona and California were a great chance for medics to network, take a break from patients and learn about new treatments. There were even freebies – fishing hats, cuddly toys to take back for the kids, music CDs. And the visits were all expenses paid.

But such events laid the groundwork for a national crisis.

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October 23, 2017 With an estimated 142 Americans now dying every day from drug overdoses, the Trump administration is poised to declare the opioid crisis a national emergency.

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The Trump administration announced last week that it planned to scrap Daca, the program that gives temporary protection to undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children.

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September 11, 2017 Small Caribbean islands smashed by Hurricane Irma are in a state of chaos and rising panic, with unknown numbers of dead and injured and many still missing or stranded almost a week after the storm ripped through the region.

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September 11, 2017

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused “architect” of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, will spend the 16th anniversary of the atrocity sitting in Guantánamo Bay, preparing for his 25th pre-trial hearing.

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September 1, 2017

Even before Hurricane Harvey began to form, out in the north Atlantic, federal climate experts signalled that 2017 was going to be a bad year for weather and climate catastrophes in America. 

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September 1, 2017

Before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas last week, there had been nine weather and climate disasters costing $1bn or more in the US since the start of 2017. Such events cost an estimated $16.4bn in total and caused 57 deaths.

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August 15, 2017

With their loaded assault rifles and pistols, camouflage, combat boots and helmets, it looked like the US army had descended on the pretty college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, as a white supremacy rally turned violent last weekend.

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August 15, 2017

George Curbelo, state commander of the New York Light Foot militia, described himself as second in command of the militia members who attended the far right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend. He detailed for the Guardian the unofficial uniforms and gear used by the militia.

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August 4, 2017

Martin Shkreli, the hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical entrepreneur once dubbed “the most hated man in America”, has been found guilty on three of eight federal charges that he deceived investors in a pair of failed hedge funds.

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June 5, 2017

A coalition of influential officials in Arizona and Utah is urging the Trump administration to consider rolling back Obama-era environmental protections that ban new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.

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May 21, 2017

President Donald Trump’s apparent suggestion that the FBI should “consider putting reporters in prison” has been decried as a dangerous new assault on press freedom and prompted a call to action by American journalists who have been jailed in the US for their work.

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May 1, 2017 The jeers and boos that rang in the ears of Ivanka Trump in Berlin last week made it clear that her high-profile presence at her father’s side comes at a cost.

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March 23, 2017

The case took seven years and went before seven judges but in the end, Detroit native Alphonse Maddin celebrated victory against the delivery firm that had fired him for seeking warmth after his truck broke down on a dangerously cold winter night.

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March 23, 2017

When Boston public schools introduced a new standard map of the world this week, some young students’ felt their jaws drop. In an instant, their view of the world had changed.

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March 14, 2017

Two former Marine Corps colonels are calling for a radical change of culture to root out the kind of “reprehensible” sexual harassment exposed in the scandal over a secret Facebook page featuring nude pictures of female marines and violent language that has ignited a congressional showdown this week.

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March 8, 2017

Amy Johnson loved the physical challenges and camaraderie of boot camp and had dreamed of spending her whole career in the Marine Corps, serving her country and fighting abroad wherever necessary.

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January 21, 2017

The Women’s March on Washington was believed to be on track to exceed a million participants on Saturday, as organizers said the huge rally in the capital and US marches from coast to coast had been peaceful. 

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January 14, 2017

It began as a spontaneous feminist rallying cry via social media. It has morphed into what is expected to be one of the largest demonstrations in American history. 

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January 2nd, 2017

Victoria Oliver has been a police officer for 20 years, the last 10 as a detective, but it didn’t take a Sherlock Holmes instinct for her to deduce that it was time for her to run for political office.

“The election was so divisive. You can take the easy option and sit on the sidelines and criticize, or you can get involved and try to change things,” she said.

The surprise victory of Donald Trump in November was the clincher.

“They’ve picked a petulant boy to run our nation, instead of this incredible woman who was such a force and won the popular vote,” she said.

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December 25th, 2016

One man wrote a check for $10,000 to an organization that helps women get elected to office, saying he was “embarrassed” that Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Someone else walked into the office of an organization advocating for immigrant rights and handed over a bag of cash he had just collected from members of his local community civics group.

From smaller local organizations to household names such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, nonprofit organizations across the US reported fundraising tallies many magnitudes higher than in previous years as they approached their end-of-year donation drives.

“This is always our big time of year, but this year it’s huge,” said Loretta Prescott, development director for the Immigration Legal Advocacy Project in Maine. “Instead of giving gifts, people are making donations to causes they believe in.”

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December 23rd, 2016

The famous dance troupe the Rockettes will perform at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration celebrations on 20 January, as the highlight of a ticket so far devoid of showbiz A-listers. Some dancers, however, may be reluctant to take part.

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December 23rd, 2016

Prospects for North Carolina repealing its divisive “bathroom bill” in the near future are fading rapidly as the year draws to a close, amid a fresh outbreak of anger and recrimination reflecting anything but a seasonal spirit of peace and reconciliation in the state.

An attempt to repeal the hot-button law, which restricts bathroom options for transgender people in a way opponents have called “inhuman”, ended in tatters after a special session of the legislature on Wednesday.

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December 23rd, 2016

hen John Tereska’s Trump-voting family members open their gifts from him on Christmas Day, they will get a shock.

Inside pretty boxes they’ll find notes thanking them for making donations to organizations like Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club that support causes expected to come under attack from the new administration.
 
“With my oldest brother, who I know voted for Trump, I’m going right for the jugular. I’m donating to the Democratic National Committee on his behalf,” Tereska said.

Tereska, an avid Hillary Clinton supporter, is so mad at the relatives who voted for Donald Trump in November that he’s giving money to progressive not-for-profit organizations in their names, in lieu of Christmas presents this year.

“It’s revenge giving,” he added, with relish.

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December 11th, 2016

Gloria Steinem pledges to be at forefront of “full-on revolt” against Trump; no plans to retire – interview

The women’s rights activist plans to keep fighting against injustice beyond age 82 and uplift the ‘new burst of feminist energy’ ready to take on Trump’s presidency

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December 6th, 2016

Woman sues authorities in Missouri for jailing her because she was too poor to pay traffic fines; part of pattern, say lawyers.

Nicole Bolden’s suit, which alleges the targeting of black motorists, follows like-minded class actions against over a dozen places nearby

She got into a car accident that was not her fault, but Nicole Bolden ended up being arrested in front of her toddlers and jailed in foul conditions for two weeks because she could not afford to pay $1,758 in outstanding traffic fines, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday.

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November 19th, 2016

Trump demands apology from cast of Hamilton musical after VP-elect Mike Pence is booed, lectured at Broadway theater.

The US vice-president elect, Mike Pence, was booed by a theater audience when he attended the hit hip-hop musical Hamilton in New York on Friday night – and then had a message about protecting diversity delivered to him from the stage after the curtain call.

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November 10th, 2016

Former secretary of state tells Guardian she hopes a ‘better informed’ President Trump would alter his stances on military alliances and cultural progress in US.

Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright has warned Donald Trump against American isolationism, telling him after his stunning presidential election victory that national security “cannot be a zero-sum activity” and the US must play its part in the Nato alliance.

“Nato is obviously key. We are responsible for each other, a two-way street,” Albright told the Guardian in an interview on Wednesday.

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October 21st, 2016

#GrabYourWallet takes off

Shannon Coulter’s campaign encourages women to ‘grab their wallets’ from the fashion line until Ivanka Trump stands against her father’s sexual assault remarks.

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September 25th, 2016

When a bomb exploded on West 23rd, Helena Ayeh suffered a frightening injury. Since then she has lost a job, watched the river and wondered what comes next.

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September 19th, 2016

New York on full alert after bomb attacks injure several, rock city. Feds investigating terrorism. 

New York has been placed on full alert after 29 people were injured in an explosion in the Chelsea area of Manhattan on Saturday evening, with at least one other device being investigated by police in the city.

The cause of the first blast, which one witness said was “like a volcano”, was believed to have been an explosive device placed in a trash can on 23rd Street, a bustling area of the city on the lower west side a few blocks from the Empire State Building.

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September 10th, 2016

Interview.

Christine Todd Whitman, who as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W Bush at the time of the 9/11 attacks told the public the air around Ground Zero in New York was safe to breathe, has admitted for the first time she was wrong.

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August 3rd, 2016

St George’s School had been under fire for months over allegations from up to 30 former students that rapes and molestations occurred over decades.

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July 10th, 2016

Ex-altar boy who was abused by Catholic priest kills himself, is mourned by friends who warn of many more who suffer.

Brian Gergely, who died at 46, battled alcoholism from the age of 10, amid what a grand jury concluded was widespread rape and abuse in Pennsylvania.

Brian Gergely’s body lay at his funeral mass just feet from where, in the same church, his revered priest had shattered his innocence and trust by molesting him when he was 10 years old.

“The root of all his problems was what happened to him as a kid,” said John Luther, a friend and former schoolmate of Gergely’s at a Catholic elementary school in the small Pennsylvania town of Ebensburg.

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June 9th, 2016

Judge in Stanford University sexual assault case stirred up controversy long before light sentence of student.

The judge in the Stanford sexual assault case allowed defendants accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old high school student to show the jury photographs of her wearing a revealing outfit when he presided over another controversial case involving college athletes.

Judge Aaron Persky, who is under fire for his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault, made several controversial rulings in a 2011 civil trial stemming from the alleged gang rape by members of the baseball team at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, California.

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June 5th, 2016

“I maxed out my credit card, still in debt” Ordinary people who were duped by “Trump University” smooth-talkers speak out.

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May 27th, 2016

Surgeon employs anti-choking technique that bears his name to dislodge hamburger from woman’s airway in retirement home - interview.

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May 19th, 2016

Military rape survivors talk of detriment to their careers after they were forced out for reporting abuse.

Amy Quinn loved serving in the US navy but after she reported a series of sexual assaults, she was forced out of the military at 22 with claims she had a personality disorder.

The mental health ruling by her superiors, which her current psychiatrist says is unfounded, ruined her hope of a second career in the police and has haunted her ever since.

“The military career I was passionate about was over and I was suddenly labeled a bad apple,” she said.

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May 7th, 2016

In defiance of North Carolina’s ‘absurd’ new bathroom law, trans actress Shakina Nayfack is staging a piece of renegade performance art in men’s toilets.

Apparently it’s really quite difficult to use a urinal – if you’re a woman. But actress Shakina Nayfack is sure going to try.

All over North Carolina (and Facebook), in fact. So if the men doing their business up against the wall there are suddenly joined by a busty blonde in a frock, don’t be too shocked – remember, it’s the law.

Nayfack is happily and successfully living her womanly life in New York but her birth certificate says “male”, so according to the new laws in North Carolina she is effectively banned from female public restrooms in that state.

She’s so peeved, she’s mounting a rebel tour. And from the Capitol in Raleigh to the gas stations of Greensboro and cafes of Charlotte, she plans to tinkle in men’s toilets galore, tweeting and taking selfies as she goes.

“Hovering over a urinal is actually very tricky. I’m going to need a lot of Purell,” she said.

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January 31st, 2016

A task force set up by the D.C. Council to improve services for young rape victims in the city will recommend that 12- to 17-year-olds be provided with a new, confidential hotline and, in some ­cases, independent advocacy experts to accompany them during police interviews.

The council is expected this week to receive the task force’s report urging it to approve and fund the measures, which emerged out of concerns over mishandled cases­ and a fear that many juveniles don’t come forward to report sexual assaults, according to members of the task force.

One girl’s case that was highlighted by The Washington Post helped influence the task force as it drew up its recommendations — even though that case is far from resolved.

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