A demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon. The man, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, had apparently been shot by a man who had been part of the event’s peacekeeping team. “Our victim was not the intended target,” Brian Redd, the…
MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, is to be led by a woman for the first time, Keir Starmer has announced. Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer who joined the service in 1999, will take over from Sir Richard Moore in the autumn, becoming its 18th chief. Metreweli, 47, is currently the director general of…
With summer right around the corner, it’s time to get outside and enjoy the Great Outdoors. The US National Parks service will be offering no-cost admission to all of its parks, including the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite on Juneteenth as part of its 2025 “Fee Free Days.” Though most National Parks are free to…
The government’s welfare plans have to be pushed through, Keir Starmer has said, indicating that there will be no further concessions in the face of a potentially significant Labour rebellion over cuts to disability benefits. Speaking to reporters on his way to the G7 summit in Canada, the prime minister set out his determination to…
Jay Chaudhry’s career has seen a myriad successes. The 66-year-old co-founded his first company, SecureIT, in 1996 with his wife. That sold in 1998 for $70 million in an all-stock deal. He then founded three other companies, all of which were acquired: AirDefense, CipherTrust and CoreHarbor. He is now CEO of Zscaler, a cybersecurity…
The son of Belinda Taylor, who died in a skydiving incident on Friday, has paid tribute to a “selfless woman who wanted only the best for others”, as her partner said he wanted answers over what went wrong. Taylor, 48, from Totnes, had been taking part in a tandem skydive at Dunkeswell airfield near Honiton…
Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, speaks during a news conference following Senate Democrat policy luncheons at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sen. Amy Klobuchar remembered fellow Minnesota Democrat Mellissa Hortman, who was fatally shot in her home early Saturday…
Guardian writer Frances Ryan has been named one of Vogue magazine’s 25 women “defining Britain”, stating her work covering the rights of disabled people had become “essential reading”. The publication said Ryan’s efforts to spotlight the lives of disabled people were “needed more than ever”, with official statistics suggesting that a quarter of people in…
The 2025 James Beard Foundation Media Awards took place on June 14 in Chicago, and Eater Chicago’s Ashok Selvam won the Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award. The award recognizes, according to the Beards, “the work of an individual who engages readers through enterprising food and dining coverage, and whose work displays versatility in form, such…
Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it. “I don’t think that’s what allies do,” Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory…
