An employee for Immigration and Customs Enforcement was one of 16 men arrested in a sex-trafficking sting.

The New York attorney general who prosecuted Donald Trump makes her first court appearance in a case in which she is accused of mortgage fraud.

Firm warns changing sentiment towards US brands could prompt shoppers to choose European products Levi’s has warned that “rising anti-Americanism as a consequence of the Trump tariffs and governmental policies” could drive British shoppers away from its denim. The company, which distributes Levi’s and Dockers clothing brands, issued the warning in its UK accounts, where it reported sales had risen 8.8% to £96.8m and pre-tax profits were up 23% to £9.6m. It said the Levi’s brand had “retained its attractiveness despite a tense consumer climate and declining customer frequency in the retail sector”. Continue reading...

Robert Reich

Consumers could soon find themselves on the hook for billions of dollars in new fees.

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems “It felt really scary … like being in the middle of a burning city during a night raid.” Dr Arwyn Edwards is not describing urban warfare but a recent hot and foggy day on a Svalbard glacier, where record-breaking summer heat turned his workplace into a cascade of meltwater and falling rocks. Edwards is a leading researcher in glacier ecology – the study of life forms that live on, within and around glaciers and ice sheets. Over two decades of polar research, he has always felt “relaxed and at home” on ice. But the accelerating climate breakdown is beginning to erode that sense of security. Continue reading...

Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimates More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict. A Guardian investigation into the 72-hour attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on North Darfur’s Zamzam camp, the country’s largest for people displaced by the war, found repeated testimony of mass executions and large-scale abductions. Hundreds of civilians remain unaccounted for. Continue reading...

Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe a lot of these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing. Just remember: They were defeated once before.

It’s officially happening: the use of the machinery of justice to go on fishing expeditions about political predecessors. Absolute madness.

A video of Florida deputies punching and dragging a Black man from his car during a traffic stop has caused national outrage, with civil rights lawyers accusing authorities of fabricating their arrest report.

This isn’t the typical tug-of-war of federalism.