Donald Trump issued an executive order rescinding two orders that Biden signed on his first day in office four years ago, one advancing racial equity for under-served communities and another combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. One executive order, called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the…
The Senate has confirmed one of its members, Republican Marco Rubio of Florida, as the next US secretary of state on Monday, giving Donald Trump the first permanent member of his cabinet just hours after the new president was sworn in for the second time. Rubio, 53, received overwhelming support from his former colleagues, with…
A childcare centre in Sydney’s south-east has been targeted with antisemitic graffiti and set alight overnight. Just before 1am on Tuesday, emergency services were called to the centre in Maroubra where firefighters extinguished the blaze, but the building sustained extensive damage, NSW police said in a statement. Antisemitic graffiti was found spray-painted on an external…
Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. “I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” the owner of SpaceX, Twitter/X and Tesla, the richest person on earth and a major Trump donor and adviser, told Trump supporters…
In his inaugural speech, Donald Trump repeated his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The ocean basin – bounded by the US Gulf coast, Mexico’s eastern states and the island of Cuba – is an an important centre of economic activity, including fishing, maritime transport, and oil and gas…
Thirty-two people are set to give evidence in support of the Guardian’s defence of legal action brought against it by the actor and producer Noel Clarke. The details were set out on Monday at the high court in London in a pre-trial review hearing ahead of a defamation and data protection trial, which is scheduled…
Colombia’s security forces are struggling to contain a surge in leftwing guerrilla violence that has now killed more than 100 people in five days and threatens to derail the country’s troubled peace process. Even as thousands of soldiers rushed to quell violence near the north-eastern border with Venezuela – where more than 80 people have…
A “weather bomb” is forecast to hit parts of the UK later this week, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and snow. The first half of the week will be “benign” with cloudy weather and outbreaks of rain for much of the country before the arrival of more unsettled conditions, the Met Office said. Gusts of…
Fierce and gusty winds and a heightened risk of wildfire outbreaks are set to return to southern California, and especially the devastated city of Los Angeles, as the region continues to deal with deadly blazes that have already killed at least 27 people and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes. Windy weather and single-digit humidity…
Santander has rushed out a note to senior managers after it emerged that the Spanish-owned lender is reviewing the future of its UK business amid mounting frustrations over regulation. The chief executive of Santander’s UK corporate and commercial bank, John Baldwin, sent out a memo outlining how to respond to clients and its 21,000 UK…
