The Guardian · US newsThe US constitution should make it possible to remove a president who’s not fit for office. But we’re going to need another way out
For the past few months, I have been waging a cold war with a neighbour who constantly puts out their rubbish on the wrong day. And by “cold war” I mean complaining incessantly to my longsuffering wife while the neighbour goes about their business blissfully unaware that we are mortal enemies. But enough is enough. Last week I decided to end this situation via a strongly worded letter. “Tuesday will be Explosions Day in your house, neighbour!” I wrote. “There will be nothing like it!!! Put out your Fuckin’ Rubbish properly, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
I am sorry to drag Allah into this obviously imaginary exchange, but I’m just channelling the US president. I’m sure you’ve already seen Donald Trump’s profanity-laden Easter Sunday warning to Iran, where he threatened to carry out the mass bombing of civilian infrastructure – but if you haven’t, then go read it and weep. The days where Trump’s outbursts were amusing (remember “covfefe”?) are long gone. There is nothing funny about endless stream-of-consciousness screeds from a man who is not just destroying the US, but dragging the whole world down with it. If a civilian acted like the president routinely does, they’d find themselves fired very quickly.
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Arwa Mahdawi · Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 6:45 AM
The Guardian · US newsDerby striker was stretchered off after awkward landing
25-year-old had scored for US in friendly v Belgium
US national team striker Patrick Agyemang will miss this summer’s World Cup after suffering a “serious” achilles tendon injury during Derby County’s 2-0 win over Stoke City on Monday, the club said.
The 25-year-old, who is in his first season at Derby, rose to settle a ball in the 37th minute and landed awkwardly. Play stopped for five minutes before he was stretchered off by medical staff.
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Jeff Rueter and Guardian sport · Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 6:11 AM
The Guardian · US newsLawmakers led by Elizabeth Warren in scathing letter say system used to track detainees ‘increasingly unreliable’
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A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created “disappearances” on US soil, due to the “increasingly unreliable” online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian.
The lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, are urging that the DHS inspector general’s office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “online detainee locator system” (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system.
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José Olivares · Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 6:00 AM
The Guardian · US newsThe Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem
Last week, the Trump administration proudly published two pieces of news which, at first sight, could not be more different: one a dry 52-page legal opinion from the justice department declaring the 1978 Presidential Records Act unconstitutional; the other an AI-generated clip of Trump’s planned “presidential library”, a waterfront skyscraper in Miami. Both sent the same message, though: the legal opinion – authored by a jurist heavily involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 election – leaves Trump free to destroy evidence of wrongdoing; the building envisaged for Biscayne Bay appears to be less of a library than a hotel complex. As the president reassured anyone suspecting that he might fill a glitzy edifice with boring papers and books: “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.” These are clear signals about wanting to avoid accountability; it is not too early to devise strategies to counter politically motivated amnesia.
In what jurists widely saw as an opinion of breathtakingly bad faith, T Elliot Gaiser, the Ohio-based election denier and a former clerk of Samuel Alito, asserted that Congress had no right to ask the president to preserve records; the imperative to create and keep documents served “no legislative purpose” and could “impede” the day-to-day “performance” of the head of the executive. The act had been crafted in the wake of the misdeeds of Richard Nixon, who had wanted discretion over which of his tapes and papers to destroy; in response, Congress first passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act in 1974, making the government take custody of Nixon’s materials. Nixon sued; the supreme court rejected the view that the separation of powers had been violated; the justices also took the occasion to affirm the importance of “the American people’s ability to reconstruct and come to terms with their history”. Congress then passed the more general Presidential Records Act, which no one up until Trump appeared to have experienced as remotely burdensome.
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Jan-Werner Müller · Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 5:00 AM
The Guardian · US newsEighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite
This article is published as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now
The Iran war is also a climate war. Beyond its terrible human costs, the war’s disruptions of oil, gas, fertilizer and other shipments is another reminder of the risks inherent in basing the world economy on fossil fuels. The war’s jets, missiles and aircraft carriers, and the tankers, refineries and buildings they blow up, represent millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions that further imperil a climate system that is already “very close” to a point of no return, scientists say, after which runaway global warming could not be stopped. Nevertheless, petrostate leaders around the world continue doing their utmost to stave off a desperately needed course correction.
Now, a little noticed ray of hope may be peeking over the horizon.
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are co-founders of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now
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Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope · Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 3:00 AM
The Guardian · US newsThe astronauts of Artemis II flew further from Earth than any human beings before them, breaking Apollo 13’s distance record at 1.57pm ET on Monday.
Across a six-hour flyby, on the sixth day of a lunar mission that has reinvigorated Nasa’s space exploration programme, the crew of the Orion spacecraft captured views of the moon’s far side that have never been seen before
Blackouts, broken records and a message from the past: five key moments from Artemis II’s lunar flyby
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The Guardian · US news · Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 2:55 AM
The Guardian · US newsHungary’s prime minister has conducted a systematic attack on independent media. The parallels with the US are chilling
During his state of the nation address earlier this year, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, outlined a chilling vision of the country’s future. Signalling a new level of aggression in his campaign against the truth if he is returned to power in elections on 12 April, Orbán vowed to purge the country of “bought journalists” and “fake civil society organisations”.
Media repression isn’t just a Hungarian problem. According to the V-Dem Institute in Sweden, a leading democracy monitor, it is the most commonly used weapon in the authoritarian arsenal. Strikingly, its latest report finds that US democracy is now at its worst level since the 1960s, marked by a sharp decline in media freedom.
Amrit Singh is professor of practice and founding faculty director of the Rule of Law Lab at NYU School of Law
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Amrit Singh · Mon, Apr 6, 2026, 9:00 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaRapper ‘very thankful’ to be given chance to enter mental health diversion program after arrest in LA last year
A judge has allowed Lil Nas X to enter a mental health diversion program intended to lead to the dismissal of charges of attacking Los Angeles police officers.
Judge Alan Schneider told the rapper and singer on Monday that if he sticks to his treatment program and obeys all laws for two years, his four felony counts will be dismissed.
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Associated Press · Mon, Apr 6, 2026, 6:10 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaEducation department will no longer enforce schools from California to Delaware to comply with US civil rights law
The US education department said on Monday it had terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender students.
The decision means the department will no longer play a role in enforcing those agreements, which called for schools to take steps to comply with federal civil rights law. The districts affected are Cape Henlopen school district in Delaware, Fife school district in Washington; Delaware Valley school district in Pennsylvania; and La Mesa-Spring Valley school district, Sacramento City Unified and Taft College in California.
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Guardian staff and agencies · Mon, Apr 6, 2026, 3:25 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaTwo fatalities reported in southern California so far, with warmer spring bringing reptiles out on trails earlier
A sixth person has been bitten by a rattlesnake in southern California’s Ventura county in just under a month, two-thirds of the number of people bitten in all of 2025.
Andrew Dowd, a Ventura county fire department spokesperson, said paramedics responded to a call on Sunday for a man who had been bitten by a rattlesnake. The victim said he had been bitten near California State University Channel Islands.
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Cecilia Nowell · Mon, Apr 6, 2026, 2:24 PM
The Guardian · US newsAt a press conference, the US president, Donald Trump, addressed his latest deadline for Tehran to reach a deal (8pm ET on Tuesday), adding: “The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.” Trump also threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by Iran on Friday in an effort to identify their source. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for specifics about the media company Trump was referring to. A White House official later said an investigation was under way.
Middle East crisis live: Trump says Iran ‘can be taken out in one night, and that might be tomorrow night’
Trump threatens to jail journalist to find source of second missing airman report
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The Guardian · US news · Mon, Apr 6, 2026, 2:14 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaJackie and Shadow’s eaglets emerged from eggs on Easter weekend in Big Bear Valley as watched by thousands online
Over Easter weekend, thousands of people tuned in to celebrate something spectacular unfolding 145 feet up a pine tree in southern California’s San Bernardino national forest – the hatchings of two bald eagle chicks.
Two eaglets were born to Jackie and Shadow, the southern California pair that have become avian celebrities thanks to the webcam that has livestreamed their activities since 2018.
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Dani Anguiano · Mon, Apr 6, 2026, 1:53 PM
