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The GuardianImmigrationUSA
Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge

Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge

These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in the latest phase of Trump’s anti-immigration campaign Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever It was 7am on 13 July this year. A warm, sunny morning, as residents of Biddeford, Maine, left their homes, got into their cars and began their commute. Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero came out of the apartment he lived in with his partner and daughter and drove off in his white car. Minutes later, neighbors heard three pops. Durán Guerrero was dead. More than 1,200 miles (1,900km) away in Ocilla, Georgia, Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was shuffled on to a bus. Private sector guards and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were beginning the process of transferring him and several other immigrants from one detention center to another nearly two hours away. Ten minutes into the ride, he became unconscious. Doctors at a nearby hospital pronounced him dead.

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The GuardianHumanityBerlin
A leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von Redecker

A leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von Redecker

Die Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far right The German leftwing party Die Linke won the state elections in Berlin on 20 September. It’s unclear whether the party will be able to form a coalition, appoint its lead candidate Elif Eralp as mayor, and follow through on her core campaign promise: to socialise the housing stock of the city’s biggest real-estate companies. A barrage of accusations started to circulate immediately after the results came in. Even by the standards of present-day polarisation, the pitch was extreme. On the basis of one leaked chat and one rapper’s performance, the party was described as schmoozing with criminal clans and endangering the lives of Berlin Jews. Accusations of antisemitism prompted the Greens and the SPD – potential coalition partners – to question any potential cooperation, while “alt-right” opinion-makers suggested that “Hamas and Hezbollah” had won the elections, or that the German Democratic Republic (the old East Germany) was about to come back. Alice Weidel of the rightwing AfD alleged that Die Linke intended to “shoot the rich”.

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The GuardianScandalNorth West England
The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew

The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew

When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth The cache of leaked emails and documents that would eventually lead to the crisis in which Manchester City are now embroiled was published by Der Spiegel in 2018, and often it was the tone of the club’s communications that was as startling as their content. Of City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak, a trusted adviser to the royal family of the United Arab Emirates, it was said that he would “rather spend 30 million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue [Uefa] for the next 10 years” than accept a fine. In the same tranche of documents, City lawyer Simon Cliff asserts that “Uefa doesn’t respond to anything other than aggression”, and threatens the governing body of European football – who were pursuing City over alleged financial irregularities at the time – with “the destruction of their rules and organisation”.

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The GuardianFootballNorth West England
Scale of City’s punishment is the only story but Premier League must bear some responsibility | Barney Ronay

Scale of City’s punishment is the only story but Premier League must bear some responsibility | Barney Ronay

Khaldoon al-Mubarak has come out fighting yet the Premier League failed completely to regulate his club Nothing is over, nothing is done. Or at least not judging by the bravura, balls-out confidence of Manchester City’s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, who remains convinced the past three days of whiplash are simply the drumroll before the big reveal, prelude to some clinching piece of evidence that will swish away the initial finding of guilt on the Premier League’s 100-plus charges. This appears to be the official City position right now. Rope-a-dope litigation. Scooby-Doo justice. A verdict that is simply exposition, buildup to that moment where we finally get to rip off the zombie mask and reveal the cranky old amusement park owner underneath, with his bulging ring-binder full of irrefutable evidence of City’s innocence.

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The GuardianSportsNorth West England
Football Daily | Manchester City come out swinging haymakers after charges galore

Football Daily | Manchester City come out swinging haymakers after charges galore

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Football Daily wasn’t alone in spending the weekend wondering if we might have a legal case against Manchester City, while pondering what fiscal value we’d put on the mild disappointment of seeing our team lose the 2014 Fizzy (nee Credit Card) Cup final to a team since found guilty of cheating. Elsewhere, Tony Pulis has made it clear he wants the FA Cup his Stoke City sophisticates didn’t win in 2011. Romelu Lukaku used a Nations League match to accuse Gianluigi Donnarumma of owing him two Premier League titles and the Michael Sheen/Brian Clough “chuck all your medals in the biggest effing dustbin you can find” gif has been doing seriously big numbers on Social Media Disgrace. Well, this was a very disappointing article. I was hoping at the very least for some indication of the formations but the only information appears to be that it was basically three-a-side” – Tim Eveleigh. After missing out on a third World Cup in a row and making a divisive choice of new (old) manager, the Italy national team really needed a good start to the Nations League against Belgium. As it turned out, the Godts were against them. And when Belgium scored a second time, they didn’t Lukebakio” – Peter Oh. This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions.

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The GuardianSportsNorth West England
The Guardian view on Manchester City: a strange kind of glory | Editorial

The Guardian view on Manchester City: a strange kind of glory | Editorial

If a guilty verdict on multiple counts of financial misreporting is upheld against the club, its achievements in the modern era will be forever tainted In surveys ranking the Premier League’s greatest moments, football supporters regularly give pride of place to Sergio Agüero’s championship-winning goal for Manchester City in 2012. Scored in injury time on the last day of the season, Agüero’s strike against Queens Park Rangers delivered the first league title for City since the 1960s. Knocking their historic rivals Manchester United into second place, it also signalled a new era in which the club replaced United as the dominant force in the English game. “Aguerooooooo!” – the incredulous single-word response from the match commentator Martin Tyler – has entered football folklore. But an asterisk may now be needed at the end of all those Os. Reports that an independent panel has found Manchester City guilty of breaking Premier League rules between 2009 and 2023 cast a dark shadow over that day, and much else besides. During that period, the club won seven Premier League titles, six League Cups, three FA Cups and the Uefa Champions League, all while under the ownership of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family. The inescapable implication of the apparent ruling is that those trophies were won unfairly. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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The GuardianImmigrationNorthern Ireland - East
Blue Lights review – TV’s most thrilling cop show turns up the heat

Blue Lights review – TV’s most thrilling cop show turns up the heat

This Northern Ireland-set police drama has never felt like this before … Race riots, organised crime and institutional politics bring it bang up to date Blue Lights has always been a very modern cop drama. Its tales of everyday callouts, fractious office relationships and complex long-term efforts to smash organised crime have all played out against the backdrop of post-Troubles Belfast, where lingering sectarian resentments make enforcing the law even harder than it is in the rest of austerity-era UK. But it’s never been explicitly topical: it’s never felt as if it is reading today’s national news headlines with the same appalled gaze as the rest of us. Until now. Our fourth visit to Blackthorn station pitches us and the police into a race riot. A centre offering support and resources to refugees is hosting a fete, which is a positive contribution to the area for those open to it: station sergeant and amateur baker Stevie (Martin McCann) marvels at the texture of Syrian pastry at an event that has been allocated minimal police presence. Minutes later, the whole squad has rushed to the scene to hold a line against an angry mob who want immigrants out of Northern Ireland. Bricks fly. Lives are in danger.

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The GuardianEconomyNorth West England
‘Visible and engaged’: Burnham in listening mode with businesses at Labour party conference

‘Visible and engaged’: Burnham in listening mode with businesses at Labour party conference

PM reassures firms and chancellor vows help on costs – but unease remains over possible budget tax rises Business live – latest updates A year ago Andy Burnham had a tough business reception at Labour’s party conference. The then mayor of Greater Manchester, with clear ambitions to replace Keir Starmer, had rattled the City of London with his comment that Britain should be less “in hock” to bond markets. Returning to the annual gathering in Liverpool a year later as prime minister, the mood is different. Labour is pushing to repair relations with corporate Britain and reassure City bond traders against a jittery backdrop amid the Middle East war.

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The GuardianPoliticiansEngland
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham is expected to announce that he will push ahead with plans for electoral reform in his first conference speech as Labour leader, in the latest sign that he intends to radically transform the UK’s political system. The prime minister, a longtime advocate of reform, will kick off a process that could eventually lead to ditching the first-past-the-post system in favour of proportional representation.

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The GuardianElectionsNorth West England
‘Don’t squander it’: Can Labour hang on to the Burnham bounce?

‘Don’t squander it’: Can Labour hang on to the Burnham bounce?

Conference delegates grateful ousting Starmer has paid off, but relief tempered by fiscal headwinds ahead UK politics live – latest updates Even Andy Burnham’s closest allies accept that deposing Keir Starmer to install their man as leader was a huge political gamble. But if the mood at the Labour party conference in Liverpool is anything to go by, it is one that – so far – has paid off. The contrast with last year, when Starmer retained his grip on the party and Burnham slunk away from Liverpool early, could not be more stark. Their relief at their turn of fortune is tempered only by the fiscal headwinds ahead.

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The GuardianWellnessUSA
RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event

RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event

Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’ Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out an expansive vision for collecting, sharing and analyzing US health information at a Maha event hosted by a close ally and outspoken anti-vaccine activist. Medical and lifestyle data, from doctor’s visits to exercise, should be connected and shared with the government and independent researchers, where it can be searched by AI – including potential links between vaccines and health outcomes including autism and mortality, suggested Kennedy, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a longtime vaccine skeptic.

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The TelegraphHumanityLondon
Palestinian refugee scheme could fuel anti-Semitism, Mahmood warned

Palestinian refugee scheme could fuel anti-Semitism, Mahmood warned

A new resettlement scheme for Palestinian refugees could fuel anti-Semitism in Britain, Jewish leaders have told Shabana Mahmood. During her Labour conference speech on Monday, the Home Secretary announced that the resettlement scheme – which was frozen two years ago – would be targeted at the most vulnerable refugees, with about a quarter of the places expected to be taken up by Palestinians and women and girls from Afghanistan.

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The GuardianImmigrationUnited Kingdom
UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians

UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians

Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings UK politics live – latest updates Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, unfreezing a scheme that will put the most vulnerable refugees on a faster path to permanent status. The change marks a shift in Mahmood’s approach to asylum seekers after the abrupt closure of the Afghan resettlement scheme last year and changes that will keep refugee status under constant review for two decades.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyTennessee
Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency

Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency

Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. Pike and her boyfriend were convicted in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps. Prosecutors said Pike feared Slemmer was a romantic rival and lured her to a secluded area where she and her boyfriend tortured and killed Slemmer.

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The GuardianSustainabilitySouth America
How gold surpassed cocaine as Peru’s most profitable criminal industry

How gold surpassed cocaine as Peru’s most profitable criminal industry

As gold prices surge, illegal mining has laid waste to swathes of Tambopata National Reserve’s rainforest “Halt, stop right there,” shouts a Peruvian Navy Seal, firing warning shots into the air. But the fleeing man pays no attention, scrambling up to the rim of a football pitch-sized crater and disappearing into the dense rainforest as the commandos give chase, swearing and shooting. Meanwhile, other marines set dynamite charges on a makeshift wooden raft that floats in the crater, which is essentially an enormous pit of opaque, stagnant water. The raft has a diesel-fuelled suction pump motor with thick plastic tubing used to suck up and sift through river sediment for tiny particles of gold.

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The GuardianHumanitySouth East England
‘Intimidatory’ far-right marches should not be allowed, says Angela Rayner

‘Intimidatory’ far-right marches should not be allowed, says Angela Rayner

The UK communities secretary decried protests by ‘men in black wearing face masks’ and those ‘whipping up hatred’ towards lifeboat volunteers Far-right marches led by the self-styled “Danny Tommo” should not be treated like normal protests, the communities secretary, Angela Rayner, has said, calling the marches “intimidation” that should not be permitted. Rayner said the behaviour of some masked marchers – who have blocked roads and transport hubs – was not an acceptable form of protest.

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The GuardianScandalEngland
‘Just like that, I lost my girls’: the mother who feels betrayed by the family courts

‘Just like that, I lost my girls’: the mother who feels betrayed by the family courts

The theory of parental alienation is a ‘harmful pseudo-science’, according to recent official guidance in England and Wales. Yet it led to Sarah’s two daughters being taken away six years ago – and never returned On the afternoon that Sarah’s daughters were taken away from her, they had been due to go to a paddling-pool party. It was July 2020 and, with the easing of lockdown restrictions in England, the girls – then nine and six – were excited about seeing their friends again after months apart. Sarah had just bought them matching swimsuits: blue with sequin unicorns. But the girls never made it to the party. Three days before, Sarah had received a call from her solicitor. “I could not comprehend what I was hearing,” she says. “My legs started shaking.” Her solicitor explained that she had been called a “narcissist” in evidence presented to the family court, which claimed she was an immediate danger to herself and her children. Both of her girls could be removed from her with immediate effect.

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The GuardianScandalNorth West England
Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson

Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson

How can Manchester City be trusted under its current owners? There is a good argument for Premier League expulsion How bad could it be, really? How serious can a breach of arcane financial regulations be, really? Just how damning can accountancy be? Even after Friday’s revelation that Manchester City had been found guilty of all but one of the charges brought against them by the Premier League, it was perhaps difficult to grasp the scale of what that meant. After the publication of the independent commission’s findings, there can be no doubt: the commission found that Manchester City cheated, that they did so deliberately, and that they have sought to cover that up with a campaign of calculated misinformation. City continue to maintain their innocence and issued a statement insisting that “the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe”. It referred, once again, to “a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence that exists in support of all of its positions”, and, again, insisted that “the club has diligently respected due process for eight years on the basis that the Premier League Board and Executive would behave as an independent, impartial and fair-minded regulator, free from partisan influence”.

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The GuardianInformationLos Angeles
‘Dangerous precedent’: authors sue LA library over cancelled Palestine event

‘Dangerous precedent’: authors sue LA library over cancelled Palestine event

City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks Two authors have sued the city of Los Angeles over the Los Angeles public library’s (LAPL) cancellation of a Read Palestine Week event where the writers were scheduled to discuss their books featuring Palestinian stories. Jenan Matari, a Palestinian-American author, and Nora Lester Murad, a Jewish-American writer, were invited to speak virtually at a 6 December 2025 event organized as part of the LAPL’s Teen’Scape program, which works with youth.

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Irish IndependentAIUSA
Anthropic’s IPO filing warns AI may pose “existential risks to humanity”

Anthropic’s IPO filing warns AI may pose “existential risks to humanity”

Anthropic plans to caution potentialinvestors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose “catastrophicor existential risks to humanity,” an extraordinary warning by acompany ​seeking to profit ​from the same technology. The company's IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters,highlights risks associated with its AI models, which it saidcould exhibit “self-preserving behaviours,” including attempts to"resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate information” andbehaviour “resembling blackmail.” “Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, andapplications and expansion of use cases could further increasethe risk that our models cause harm,” Anthropic said in thefiling.

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The GuardianImmigrationUSA
Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – live

Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – live

More than 25,000 people have been deported to 29 countries under ⁠the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups Sign up to the US Breaking News email For some context, it’s worth remembering that Smith had a two-volume report of his findings as a result of his criminal investigations – that resulted in two indictments against the president after his first term. The first focused on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, while the second on the president’s retention of classified documents. However, in February, a Trump-appointed federal judge permanently barred the justice department from releasing the second volume of Smith’s report.

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BBCWar & ConflictIslamic World
Israeli settlers attack West Bank village and block Palestinian family's return home

Israeli settlers attack West Bank village and block Palestinian family's return home

More than 100 Israeli settlers have carried out attacks in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, stopping a family escorted by the Israeli military from returning to their homes, which had been seized weeks ago by settlers. Two houses belonging to the al-Tubasi family in Jalud, south of Nablus, were set on fire in the raid on Monday night and Israeli security forces were also targeted by settlers.

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The GuardianAIUSA
Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely

Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely

The industry is engaged in a perverse quest to replace humans. We cannot cede the best tools available to the other side I don’t need to tell you that people hate AI. The list of grievances is long: slop, cheating, bias, enfeeblement, electricity bills, environmental destruction, exploitation, theft, cybercrime, doom. But resistance to the technology has often taken the form of shaming people for personally using it, with precious little organizing against the companies building the machines. This is perplexing, given that those companies are attempting to render us obsolete. The executives may contest this framing, offering some bromides about how AI will augment human work or how we’ll simply find new jobs to do. But their clear goals are to create systems that so clearly surpass our abilities that we will have little hope of competing.

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