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      The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians | Editorial

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      A campaign of ethnic cleansing and ‘tectonic’ new legal measures are killing the two-state solution to which other governments pay lip serviceProtecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of new administrative and enforcement measures for the illegally occupied West Bank, Israel’s defence minister spelt it out: “We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state,” Israel Katz said in a joint statement with the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.While the world’s attention was fixed upon the annihilation in Gaza, settlers in the West Bank intensified their campaign of ethnic cleansing. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed there since October 2023; a fifth of them were children. Many more have been driven from their homes by relentless harassment and the destruction of infrastructure, with entire Palestinian communities erased across vast swathes of land.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading… More

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      US officials announce end of immigration crackdown in Minnesota – video

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      The White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Thursday that a significant drawdown of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota was under way and he had proposed that the surge there should conclude. Tim Walz, the state’s Democratic governor, told reporters he was ‘cautiously optimistic’Trump’s border czar says immigration crackdown in Minnesota will ‘conclude’ Continue reading… More

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      Jimmy Kimmel on the US justice department’s handling of the Epstein files: ‘A brazen cover-up’

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      Late-night hosts discussed Pam Bondi’s heated hearing and an embarrassing post-race Winter Olympics interviewLate-night hosts recapped US attorney general Pam Bondi’s contentious congressional hearing as she faced tough questions over the justice department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Continue reading… More

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      Mahmoud Khalil is still fighting for others as he fights his own deportation: ‘It’s about raising the alarm’

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      The case of the Palestinian activist, the face of 2024’s US campus protests, could have repercussions for thousandsDespite his grim circumstances, Mahmoud Khalil can’t help but laugh.Walking through Congress’s hallowed halls, the Palestinian student activist, who may be inching toward deportation, has a lightness to him. He is quick with a smile – and not yet ready to waver. He admits he’s in “the scary part” of his ordeal, but he has a new reason to like his odds. Continue reading… More

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      ‘Deeply illogical’: this man’s life work could end homelessness – and Trump is doing all he can to stop it

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      After four decades of research and over a decade of federal support, Housing First’s Sam Tsemberis is ‘back to being an outlaw’ in the USNow in his fourth decade of spreading the word across most of the world’s continents about “Housing First”, an approach to helping homeless people that has convinced governments and non-profits alike to see housing as a human right, Sam Tsemberis experienced a first.He was censored by the US government. Continue reading… More

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      Trump news at a glance: House Republicans make rare, albeit symbolic, rebuke of Trump over Canada tariffs

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      Actually undoing Trump’s tariff policy would ultimately require his approval, which was unlikely – key US politics stories from Wednesday 11 February at a glanceDonald Trump had a warning for congressional Republicans Wednesday: any of them who joined an effort to rescind his tariffs on Canada would “seriously suffer the consequences come Election time”.Despite that threat, six members of the president’s party sided with Democrats in a largely symbolic resolution to disapprove of the national emergency Trump declared to impose tariffs on Canada. Continue reading… More

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      Border patrol chief praised federal agent who shot US citizen in Chicago

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      New evidence shows Gregory Bovino hailed agent who fired at Marimar Martinez five times in her carNewly released evidence has shown that Gregory Bovino, a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts until last month, praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an immigration crackdown last year.
      Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, was shot five times by a border patrol agent in October while in her vehicle. She was charged with a felony after officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused her of trying to ram agents with her vehicle. But the case was abruptly dismissed after video evidence emerged showing that an agent had steered his vehicle into Martinez’s car.Lawyers for Martinez have pushed to make evidence in the dismissed criminal case public, saying they were especially motivated to do so after a federal agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis under similar circumstances. Continue reading… More

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      Trump’s racist post about the Obamas was a wake-up call for some. Why did it take so long? | Jamil Smith

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      The racism was not new. What was new was the inability to look past it. For a moment, at least, the blinders were offJohn from New Mexico, a self-professed lifelong Republican, called into C-Span’s Washington Journal earlier this month with penitence on his mind.“I voted for the president and supported him,” he began. “But I really want to apologize.”Jamil Smith is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading… More