The Guardian · CaliforniaThe woman, 31, suffered some injuries but was found alert and in good spirits on Mount Shasta, officials said
A novice climber was rescued after surviving a 1,500ft fall down California’s Mount Shasta on Sunday, officials said.
The woman, 31, was attempting to ascend the mountain along the Left of Heart variation of the popular Avalanche Gulch route alongside two other novice climbers at an elevation of about 13,000ft when she fell.
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Lucy Campbell · Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 8:33 AM
The Guardian · US newsThe country’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.2% as US job growth also slowed for the month
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US job growth slowed in June as employers added 57,000 new jobs – just about half of what economists had predicted – and the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised its figures from the past two months down by a total of 74,000.
The country’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.2%, but the number of unemployed people changed little, according to the latest data, as 720,000 people left the labor force. The bureau revised the unexpectedly high May figures from 172,000 new jobs to 129,000, and revised the April figures from 179,000 to 148,000.
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Gaya Gupta in Washington · Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:21 AM
The Guardian · US newsAs GLP-1s drive the current protein craze, a supplement once only taken by powerlifters is now so popular US producers are struggling to keep up
For generations, the Meives family made cheese. Tony Meives’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant, and his father both ran small cheese factories in Wisconsin, in the heart of America’s dairyland. “I worked in the cheese factory my whole life,” Meives says. “I have four world-class cheesemakers in my family.” But when it came time to inherit the family business, Meives found there was more money in the industrial runoff that his grandfather would have once thrown away. Today, the 39-year-old bodybuilder and gym owner runs a company that sells whey protein powder, the watery byproduct of cheesemaking that was once considered waste. “Twenty years ago, the only people who took whey were bodybuilders,” he says. “Over the past five years, the market has really opened up to each and every type of person you can probably think of.”
When Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, declared late last month, that “the war on protein is over”, he sounded a bit like one of those Japanese soldiers of second world war lore, who spent years hunkering in the jungles of south-east Asia, oblivious to the fact that hostilities had long ceased. Perhaps there was a time when advice leaned more towards a diet based around fruit, vegetables and carbohydrates – but by May 2026, the war on protein was surely over. Protein had won.
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John Semley · Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 4:00 AM
The Guardian · CaliforniaMauricio Pochettino’s side overcame a stubborn Bosnia and Herzegovina to book a place in the last 16. We look at the best action from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium
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Guardian sport · Wed, Jul 1, 2026, 5:39 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaProsecutors said members of the a gang targeted about 51 underage girls and women along LA’s Figueroa corridor
Ten people accused of facilitating a sex-trafficking operation that targeted about 51 underage girls and women have been arrested as California authorities conducted their latest operation to curb trafficking along the Figueroa corridor in Los Angeles, according to a Wednesday news release.
Prosecutors said on Wednesday that members and associates of the south Los Angeles-based gang the Hoovers acted as pimps, recruiting minors and women, some of whom were runaways or foster kids, with the “false promise” of a better life or with violence into sex work between February 2021 and June 2026.
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Uwa Ede-Osifo · Wed, Jul 1, 2026, 3:07 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaMany seabirds are starving to death as a marine heat wave lingers off California and fish seek deeper, cooler waters
Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses – one after another.
Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks.
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Associated Press · Wed, Jul 1, 2026, 12:37 PM
The Guardian · US newsEconomic squeeze and anti-immigration raids have hit Hispanic communities, prompting people to shop online and reuse oil
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The US cooking oil market is shrinking and unlikely to improve soon because of economic and immigration enforcement pressures on Latino households, the owner of the Mazola brand has said.
George Weston, the chief executive of Associated British Foods (ABF), told City analysts that cooking oil sales had suffered as “our heavy use consumer is that Hispanic population who are under financial pressure, who are under pressure from Ice [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and are feeling a bit miserable”.
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Sarah Butler · Wed, Jul 1, 2026, 5:52 AM
The Guardian · US newsA housing shortfall, record home costs and cuts to subsidies are intensifying the US affordability crunch
Of the various dimensions of the affordability crisis weighing on US families, housing probably weighs heaviest. The typical home price has risen above five times the annual income of the typical family. The monthly cost of owning a home has hit record highs.
The US faces a housing shortfall of millions of homes. But builders are not rushing to meet the shortfall. The supply of new homes declined over 14% in May, compared to May of 2025. Moody’s Analytics expects single-family and multifamily residential investment to contract every year between now and 2030.
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Eduardo Porter · Wed, Jul 1, 2026, 4:00 AM
The Guardian · CaliforniaCalifornia jury sides with Maria Avila over 2020 attack that left her requiring skin grafts
R&B star Chris Brown has been ordered to pay $12.9m in damages to a housekeeper who was mauled by a dog at one of his properties.
Maria Avila was working at Brown’s house in Tarzana, California, in 2020 when she was attacked by Hades, a Caucasian shepherd used as a guard dog. At the trial in Van Nuys, California, Avila said she was left with serious injuries to her arm and face, requiring dozens of sutures and skin grafts from her abdomen to her arm. She said was also left with post-traumatic stress disorder, and nerve damage which made it difficult to work.
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Ben Beaumont-Thomas · Wed, Jul 1, 2026, 3:12 AM
The Guardian · CaliforniaJustices upheld laws in West Virginia and Idaho, boosting similar restrictions in 25 other states
Transgender youth athletes have vowed to keep playing sports and fighting for equal access to teams after the US supreme court ruled in favor of laws banning their participation.
The court’s conservative supermajority on Tuesday upheld laws in West Virginia and Idaho prohibiting trans girls from participating in women’s teams, finding the laws were constitutional.
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Sam Levin in Los Angeles and Lex McMenamin in New York · Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 1:24 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaThe 2023 verdict found Trump liable for sexually abusing writer and then defaming her – key US politics stories from Monday 29 June at a glance
The US supreme court on Monday declined Donald Trump’s request to review a New York jury’s 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll, and then defaming her.
The justices did not provide an explanation or reasoning, and no public dissents were noted. The decision leaves intact the $5m civil judgment against Trump that was returned by the jury after the two-week trial in 2023.
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Guardian staff · Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 6:03 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaSettlement requires archbishop to write apology letter to each survivor and implement child protection reforms
The San Francisco Catholic archdiocese has agreed to pay $395m to settle more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials, plaintiffs’ attorneys said on Monday.
Salvatore Cordileone, the San Francisco archbishop, will have to write an apology letter to each survivor as part of the settlement.
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Associated Press · Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 3:30 PM
