"Plantation"

Racist and anti-LGBTQ+ texts target Americans across US, including teens

FBI investigating anti-migrant and anti-gay texts that follow messages sent to Black people after Trump election win

Léonie Chao-Fong

15, Nov, 2024 @11:18 PM

Thousands protest in New York and Washington – as it happened

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Helen Sullivan (now); with Cecilia Nowell, Maya Yang, Amy Sedghi and Hamish Mackay (earlier)

10, Nov, 2024 @1:34 AM

US election briefing: military officials reportedly discuss how to handle illegal orders from Trump

Trump has promised to turn back migrants at the southern border, but US law generally prohibits active-duty troops from being deployed for law enforcement purposes

Helen Sullivan

09, Nov, 2024 @3:12 AM

Military officials reportedly discuss how to handle illegal orders from Trump – as it happened

Pentagon officials discuss what to do if Trump were to attempt to deploy the military domestically, CNN reports

Helen Sullivan (now); Lois Beckett ,Maya Yang, Chris Stein, Léonie Chao-Fong, Fran Lawther, Hamish Mackay and Martin Belam (earlier)

09, Nov, 2024 @2:26 AM

Black people across US receive racist text messages after Trump’s win

FBI investigating after people report texts saying they were selected to pick cotton and go to nearest plantation

Adria R Walker

08, Nov, 2024 @5:19 PM

Putin commends Trump victory – as it happened

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Helen Sullivan (now and earlier); Sam Levin, Chris Stein and Amy Sedghi

08, Nov, 2024 @3:05 AM

First Thing: people killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrike near Beirut hospital

Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv for talks. Plus, Liz Cheney backs Kamala Harris on abortion

Jem Bartholomew

22, Oct, 2024 @10:58 AM

The huge US toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: ‘I taste oil in my mouth’

Louisianans say a major accident at a sprawling Marathon refinery caused health issues. The company insists there were ‘no offsite impacts’

Oliver Laughland in Garyville, Louisiana, Sara Sneath and Will Craft, with a visual investigation by Forensic Architecture

09, Sep, 2024 @11:00 AM

Firefighters contain wildfire threatening 200 homes on Hawaiian island of Kauai

Authorities asked residents of small, rural community to leave, nearly a year after deadliest US wildfire struck in Maui

Dani Anguiano

16, Jul, 2024 @4:54 PM

A newly discovered letter by Thomas Jefferson shows ‘a regular guy with financial burdens’

The note, valued at $40,000, is for sale in honor of Fourth of July, also the 198th anniversary of Jefferson’s death

Richard Luscombe

04, Jul, 2024 @12:00 PM

Baseball-sized hailstones fall in Texas as southern US hit by severe storms

More than 300,000 people lose power as 5in hailstones strike central Texas and tornado warnings issued

Gloria Oladipo

10, May, 2024 @2:42 PM

‘Sugar is brown!’: there’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version

Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that

Kiki Aranita

09, May, 2024 @6:00 PM

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