Tag: The Guardian
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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus US representative Melanie Stansbury before Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on 4 March 2025. Photograph: Win McNamee/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil…
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US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips
The president, who derided Barack Obama for golfing while in office, even makes money off his Mar-a-Lago weekends https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/trump-golf-trips Donald Trump from Palm Beach international airport in Florida after landing in Air Force One, on 14 February 2025. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images It has become a familiar routine for the Palm Beach county sheriff, Ric…
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Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’
US president says he finds Russia easier to deal with than Ukraine after cutting off intelligence and weapons to Kyiv https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-says-it-is-easier-to-deal-with-russia-and-putin-wants-to-end-the-war Donald Trump has said Vladimir Putin was “doing what anybody would do” after Russia launched a massive missile and drone strike on Ukraine days after the US cut off vital intelligence and military aid…
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns…