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Louisville’s Savannah DeMelo sues team doctors after cardiac arrest during game

Midfielder suffered cardiac arrest mid-game last year Louisville will drop UofL Health as medical partner Racing Louisville midfielder Savannah DeMelo has filed a lawsuit against UofL Health and two named physicians for negligence after they allegedly failed to properly diagnose a heart condition before she suffered cardiac arrest in the first half of an NWSL game on 14 September 2025. According to an screenshot of the complaint, the filing claims that UofL Health “failed to act as a reasonably prudent and competent medical practice … and such negligence was a substantial factor in causing [DeMelo] to suffer severe physical injuries, including, but not limited to, her cardiac arrest.” Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Jeff Rueter15 Sept

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit

Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’ The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China. Speaking at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday, the ideological adversaries were united in warning of the potential dangers of AI and demanding stringent guardrails against Silicon Valley’s “oligarchs”. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•David Smith in Washington15 Sept

British bosses to be forced to meet with employees who request flexible working

Employers will have to hold face-to-face meetings with staff who ask about shift changes under government reforms Company bosses will have to sit down with workers who request flexible working and justify their reasons for any refusals under new rights announced by Louise Haigh on Tuesday. The first secretary of state told the TUC conference that employers would have to “properly consider” requests for flexibility and offer a face-to-face meeting under new rights for workers. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Alexandra Topping, Political correspondent15 Sept

Man admits to bombing California courthouse in retaliation for seized guns

Nathaniel James McGuire faces maximum sentence of life in prison after guilty plea over September 2024 bombing A California man has pleaded guilty to charges that he detonated a bomb at a Santa Maria courthouse in 2024 in retaliation for law enforcement officers seizing his firearms earlier that year. In September 2024, Nathaniel James McGuire, 22, of Santa Barbara county threw a backpack containing an explosive device into the courthouse before exiting the building to retrieve two long guns and 10 molotov cocktails from his car. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Cecilia Nowell15 Sept

Arch Manning apologizes for ‘insensitive’ joke about AI video of ESPN’s Holly Rowe

Texas star called clip of coach slapping reporter ‘hilarious’ Manning: ‘Nothing funny about it … I need to do better’ Rowe posts that she accepts apology, will move forward Texas star quarterback Arch Manning has apologized after joking about an AI-generated video that depicted Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian slapping ESPN college football reporter Holly Rowe after last Saturday’s game. Manning had been asked at a press conference on Monday about the social media reaction to the Longhorns’ 24-23 upset win over No 1 Ohio State. Rowe had attempted to ask Sarkisian a question for the standard postgame interview, and the coach interrupted her and yelled a pair of Texas slogans before walking off. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Guardian sport15 Sept

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

Toronto film festival: There’s a surprisingly tame quality to the gorehound’s contribution to the rough and ready franchise and a general aimlessness that frustrates Abel Ferrera’s Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous coke-addled cop stumbling into crime scenes and contributing to the injustices, felt like it had us rooting around the mouldy and corroded interior of a back-alley dumpster, searching for a soul. A Takashi Miike adaptation seemed an appealingly foul idea. The maestro behind Audition and Ichi The Killer is known for punishing audiences with J-horror violence but with a formal elegance that we couldn’t look away from. His Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo should have been the perfect marriage of moral degradation and corporal desecrations. The movie lives up to its promise when those extremes are giddily on the same page. But more often than not Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo is a confounding and frustrating mess, a smorgasbord of good ideas (and some bad ones) at odds with each other, barely held together by Shun Oguri’s wily performance. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Radheyan Simonpillai in Toronto15 Sept

Ferocious fight among Brazil’s supreme court erupts on eve of presidential election

Scandal explodes as country’s election campaign peaks, with polls suggesting dead heat between candidates Brazil’s supreme court has been thrust into what experts consider the greatest crisis since the return of democracy in the 1980s, as two rival judges lock horns on the eve of the presidential election with unpredictable consequences for Latin America’s largest democracy. The politically charged dispute exploded into public view on Tuesday as judges traded insults and accusations during a heated supreme court hearing that was livestreamed into millions of Brazilian homes. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro15 Sept

Carney says Canada will pursue ‘unique economic alliance’ with EU amid US trade spat

Prime minister speaks of strengthening Canada’s economic and political ties to Europe at Canada Investment Summit Mark Carney said Canada will pursue a “unique security and economic alliance” with Europe as he positions his country as a base to build in the “new global economic order”. Speaking to investors, company executives and government ministers at the inaugural Canada Investment Summit on Tuesday, the prime minister pitched Canada as a “safe harbour” and lucrative home for foreign capital as his government looks to reduce its reliance on trade with the United States. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Leyland Cecco in Toronto and Jennifer Rankin in Strasbourg15 Sept

People from ethnic groups feel racial equality is worsening, UK study shows

Nearly half of ethnic minority respondents in a poll say they have faced prejudice over the past year Many Britons feel inequality is worsening and that discrimination has become more common, according to a thinktank study. The report by British Future has found that people across ethnic groups believe racial equality is worsening in Britain. One in six people are from ethnic minority backgrounds. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Geneva Abdul15 Sept

John Healey in talks with Canada about UK joining new global defence bank

Exclusive: Britain is understood to have been formally invited to become founding member of multilateral lender John Healey is in talks with the Canadian government about joining a new global defence bank intended to help allies rearm to counter mounting security threats, just weeks after Rachel Reeves rejected the move. The chancellor is understood to be actively considering a bid to join the proposed Canada-led defence, security and resilience bank (DSRB), which proponents say could help the UK fund defence projects at lower cost, before planned talks with his Canadian counterpart this week. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Pippa Crerar Political editor15 Sept

Fourth person dies of measles-associated illness in US

All deaths occurred in Pennsylvania, in worst year since 1992 for one of the most contagious diseases Pennsylvania health officials said a fourth person had died of measles-associated illness in the worst year for the disease since 1992 . All four US deaths have occurred in the state. Due to the Trump administration changing how it reports measles deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not count any of the deaths in its national tally. Three people died in 2025. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Jessica Glenza15 Sept

Thirlwall inquiry has left biggest questions around the Letby case unanswered

Decision not to pause proceedings means £18m report does not engage with concerns over former nurse’s conviction Just two months before Lady Justice Kathryn Thirlwall opened her inquiry into events at the Countess of Chester hospital and the crimes of Lucy Letby, a report by Chris Henley KC was published into the “atrocious” wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson for rape. Henley prefaced that report with a plea for the legal establishment to recognise that the criminal courts produce miscarriages of justice. Right up to top judges in the court of appeal, Henley wrote, the system has “a deep-seated … cultural reluctance” to accept it “will on occasion make mistakes” and that “entirely innocent defendants will sometimes be convicted”. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•David Conn15 Sept

UK paying £56,000 for each person returned to France under ‘one in one out’ scheme

Home secretary defends cost, saying it is about the same or cheaper than putting someone up in a hotel for a year The government’s “one in, one out” deal is costing about £56,000 for every person sent back to France, Shabana Mahmood has told MPs. The home secretary disclosed the figure as she was questioned by the home affairs select committee over whether the scheme was delivering value for taxpayers. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor15 Sept

Republicans criticize racist social media post by Texas member running for office

Karl Rove, a respected GOP consultant, further said he would vote for ‘bigot’ Bo French’s Democratic opponent after post A senior Republican has called a party colleague running for office in Texas “a bigot” over a racist social media post attacking college football fans – and said he is so outraged by the comments that he will vote for the candidate’s Democratic rival. Karl Rove, who was former president George W Bush’s longtime political adviser and is a respected Republican consultant in Texas, told a private event in Austin on Sunday that he could not support Bo French’s candidacy for a seat on the state’s railroad commission, the Texas Tribune reported . Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Richard Luscombe15 Sept

Republican Thomas Massie proposes impeaching Pete Hegseth over Iran war

Congressman says defense secretary repeatedly violated constitution through his handling of Iran war Republican congressman Thomas Massie on Tuesday proposed impeaching Pete Hegseth, saying the defense secretary had repeatedly violated the constitution through his handling of war with Iran and the deaths of civilians in conflicts worldwide. The proposal by Massie, an iconoclastic lawmaker who lost his primary earlier this year after Donald Trump and Hegseth urged voters to oppose him, may put House Republicans in a bind just weeks before the 3 November midterm elections, where they are defending their control of Congress. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Chris Stein in Washington15 Sept

The Guardian view on Lucy Letby: Thirlwall should have waited for the pending case review | Editorial

Important recommendations for neonatal care are shadowed by doubts about the nurse’s convictions When she rejected calls to pause the public inquiry into the Countess of Chester hospital, where Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more, Lady Justice Thirlwall said that questions surrounding Letby’s guilt lay outside her terms of reference. The inquiry, she said, would focus on the hospital and its staff, not the convictions. Eighteen months later, with the 822-page report in the public domain, her decision to press on while Letby’s guilt was in the process of being formally challenged looks like a mistake. The report’s recommendations , based on many months of hearings, include strengthened oversight of hospitals by the Care Quality Commission, more support for whistleblowers from the health ombudsman, and clearer monitoring and reporting on the deaths of children. As previous inquiries have also found, there are serious problems around accountability, openness and safeguarding in the NHS. Lady Thirlwall’s conclusions about service improvements should be added to the roster of outstanding actions. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Editorial15 Sept

The Guardian view on the Bank of England’s £120bn bill: power without accountability | Editorial

Quantitative tightening has blurred the line between monetary and fiscal policy, leaving ministers accountable for decisions they cannot directly control When Labour made the Bank of England independent in 1997, the idea was that the Bank set interest rates while the Treasury taxed and spent. Monetary policy was in Threadneedle Street, fiscal policy in Whitehall. But in August the Bank of England quietly slipped out that its key policy could cost the Treasury £120bn . That policy – quantitative tightening (QT) – clearly ought to be rethought and the policy of the Treasury indemnifying the Bank for its losses ended . Last year, ministers paid the Bank £17bn to cover these arguably notional losses – an amount considerably larger than the budget of the Ministry of Justice, which is dealing with a real prisons crisis. Bank independence was constructed for a world in which monetary policy decisions had predictable and indirect fiscal effects. The financial crisis, Covid, war and fractious trade disputes have contributed to ending that world. The Bank bought up government bonds to support the economy via its quantitative easing (QE) programme. But the constitutional settlement – of an independent central bank working out on its own what to do with those bonds – has not caught up. The game is surely up when a former Bank deputy governor, Charlie Bean , acknowledges that independence cannot justify effectively giving power to an unelected monetary policy committee (MPC) over decisions with great consequences for public spending. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Editorial15 Sept

Georgia city removes 23-year-old mayor after sexting and municipal funds scandal

Jayden Williams of Stockbridge alleged to have made inappropriate texts to teen and using city funds improperly US politics live – latest updates City leaders in a suburb outside Atlanta have voted to remove the youngest mayor in their community’s history amid allegations of questionable spending of municipal funds and inappropriate communications with an 18-year-old high school student. Over the weekend, the Stockbridge, Georgia , city council voted to remove Jayden Williams, 23, from office after an hours-long hearing into allegations that included inappropriate exchanges with an 18-year-old in high school, improper purchases on a municipal government-issued credit card and mistreatment of employees. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Maya Yang15 Sept