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  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Gun control
    Beto O’Rourke interrupts press conference on Texas school massacre

    Democratic candidate ejected after accusing governor Greg Abbott of inaction on guns

    2 hours ago
  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    George Floyd
    Two years since George Floyd’s murder, healing remains elusive for Minneapolis

    Talk of systemic racism still dominates local politics, yet efforts to address it have been frustrated

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    US gun violence
    Biden pleads for gun control after 19 children killed in Texas shooting

    Two adults also among victims of 18-year-old shooter who died in elementary school massacre

  • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
    US immigration
    Ruling on US pandemic border restrictions leaves thousands in limbo

    Biden administration had sought to revoke Trump-era Title 42 despite fears of further surge in Mexico border crossings

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    US race relations
    Buffalo shooting shines light on racist ‘great replacement’ theory

    Idea that minorities are conspiring with Democrats to displace white Americans gains traction on far right

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    US race relations
    Biden condemns ‘poison’ of white supremacy behind Buffalo shooting

    President calls on Americans to reject racist ‘replacement theory’ during visit to city

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    News in-depthUS race relations
    ‘It’s like the devil came to town’: Buffalo grieves after America’s latest racist attack

    Tragedy fits longstanding pattern of rightwing extremism, say experts

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    InterviewEric Adams
    New York mayor urges Jamie Dimon to ride subway to work

    Eric Adams calls on city’s business leaders to lead ‘from the front’ in back-to-office push

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Cuba
    US eases Cuba policy to allow more travel and remittances

    Biden administration softens aspects of Trump’s hardline approach to island’s communist government

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    US gun violence
    Buffalo shooting suspect planned to continue ‘rampage’, police say

    Teen accused of ‘racially motivated’ attack at supermarket killed 10 people, eight of them black

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Fund management
    The trillions of dollars bypassing black-run funds 

    Lack of allocations poses ‘huge problem’ of inequality for the industry, warns investor John Rogers

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    US gun violence
    Police say racist extremism was motive for US shooting that killed 10

    President Joe Biden condemns ‘stain on soul of America’ as attack on Buffalo store is treated as hate crime

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    US gun violence
    Police say shooting that killed 10 in US grocery store was ‘hate crime’

    FBI is investigating attack in Buffalo as ‘racially motivated violent extremism’

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Roe vs Wade
    Black women face brunt of harm if Roe vs Wade abortion rights are repealed, warn experts

    African-Americans in conservative US states will be unduly hit if 1973 case is overturned, say healthcare providers

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    OutlookJoshua Chaffin
    The best and worst of times: New York regenerates even as it frays

    Despite rising crime and fears of a post-pandemic property slump, the city’s cultural scene is adapting to new realities

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Edward Luce
    The US church and state divide is now dangerously blurry

    The right’s latest hallelujah upswing is far better organised than anything the Democrats can offer

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Roe vs Wade
    How would the repeal of Roe vs Wade shape abortion access in the US?

    Restrictions imposed in some states show the impact on individuals and local resources, research findings show

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    FT WealthRhymer Rigby
    The rich have always craved status symbols, from peerages to spaceships

    Burnishing your credentials is much harder today, with deference all but gone and the glare of social media omnipresent

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Mary Ziegler
    Conflict over dismantling US abortion rights poses a political challenge

    The majority of Americans oppose the Supreme Court’s plan to overturn Roe — but can progressives turn this into votes?

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    InterviewTheatre
    Claudia Rankine: ‘We are inside a culture that’s dedicated to whiteness’

    The award-winning writer’s 2019 play ‘The White Card’ — new to the UK — deals with art, race and America

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Repeal of Roe risks exacerbating the US’s most shameful statistic

    Abortion ban would increase the country’s dreadful maternal mortality rate and fall hardest on the most vulnerable

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Reproductive rights
    Corporate America reacts with near silence to draft abortion ruling

    Executives are reluctant to engage in one of the most divisive debates in US

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Reproductive rights
    US Supreme Court set to upend abortion rights, leaked document suggests

    Democrats outraged after highly unusual leak reveals draft decision to overturn Roe vs Wade

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Emotion alone is not enough in welcoming refugees

    The US sponsorship programme for Ukrainians — and Afghans — demands cash, stamina and a commitment to the long haul

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Person in the News
    JD Vance, foe turned fan of Donald Trump

    The author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is aligned with the Republican hard right as he seeks a US Senate seat

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