US judge extends block on Trump order to restrict mail-in voting
World news | The Guardianby Dara Kerr and agencies·4 Sept 2026
A federal judge on Friday again blocked Donald Trump’s executive order to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting, the latest in a legal back-and-forth playing out less than two months...
Ex-safety manager given 19 months’ prison over five-year-old’s hyperbaric chamber fire death
World news | The Guardianby Marina Dunbar·4 Sept 2026
A former safety manager has been sentenced to one year and seven months in prison in connection with the death of a five-year-old Michigan boy who was killed in a fiery January 2025 explosion...
Democrats demand that DHS comply with inquiry into death of Rohingya refugee abandoned by border agents
World news | The Guardianby Lok Darjee·4 Sept 2026
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security turn over records and fully cooperate with an investigation into the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind...
Six-week-old child in Pennsylvania dies from measles, coroner says
World news | The Guardianby Marina Dunbar·4 Sept 2026
A six-week-old child in Pennsylvania died from measles, the Lancaster County coroner has determined, following two measles-related deaths in the county last week.
Trump to take gifted Qatar jet to Ireland despite questions about its security
World news | The Guardianby Joseph Gedeon in Washington·4 Sept 2026
Donald Trump intends to use the Boeing jet gifted by Qatar for his trip to Ireland next week, marking the first time the aircraft will leave the US since concerns were raised over whether it can...
Lindsay Clancy judge declares mistrial – what happens next?
World news | The Guardianby Staff and agencies·4 Sept 2026
A Massachusetts jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother accused of murdering her three children, and a mistrial has been declared by Judge William...
Maria Bartiromo’s lawyer denies she was fired from Fox News anchor role
World news | The Guardianby Gaya Gupta in New York·4 Sept 2026
Maria Bartiromo’s lawyer sharply denied that she was fired from her job at Fox News on Friday, after reports that she was dismissed after divulging the network’s editorial guidance to the White...
Cambridge University examines conduct of academic suspended by Reform UK
World news | The Guardianby Anna Isaac and Rowena Mason·4 Sept 2026
Cambridge University has said it is examining the conduct of James Orr, its associate professor and a top Reform UK aide, after he was filmed appearing to try to circumvent electoral laws on...
Farage seeks to shore up damaged leadership as scandal engulfs Reform conference
World news | The Guardianby Rowena Mason, Ben Quinn and Pippa Crerar·4 Sept 2026
Nigel Farage sought to shore up his damaged leadership on Friday as he attempted to distance himself from two of his most senior officials reported to the police for apparently plotting to evade...
Trump’s ex-labor secretary drank on job and created ‘toxic’ work environment, report alleges
World news | The Guardianby Michael Sainato·4 Sept 2026
Donald Trump’s former secretary of labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, drank during working hours, kept alcohol on federal property and made a staffer attend a strip club while on a personal trip...
Investigations launched into polling firm at centre of Reform UK allegations
World news | The Guardianby Geraldine McKelvie·4 Sept 2026
A polling firm at the centre of allegations that Reform UK breached electoral law is being investigated by two industry bodies.
Judge set to declare mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocked again
World news | The Guardianby Edward Helmore·4 Sept 2026
The judge in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children, plans to declare a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict and...
Canary staff not paid amid fears for news website’s future
World news | The Guardianby Ben Quinn Political correspondent·4 Sept 2026
Workers at the leftwing news outlet the Canary fear it will not survive beyond this year amid access to funds being blocked and allegations of financial mismanagement and internal turmoil.
Germany urges EU to cut Russians’ holiday visas after sabotage attacks
World news | The Guardianby Kate Connolly in Berlin, Lorenzo Tondo and Pjotr Sauer·4 Sept 2026
Germany is urging its European partners to introduce tighter limitations on Russian citizens entering the EU on tourist visas, after recent sabotage attacks which Berlin has blamed on Moscow.
Deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy trial resumes deliberations after dispute
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·4 Sept 2026
The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial started a seventh day of deliberations Friday, a day after the jury’s foreperson told the judge a single juror won’t follow the court’s instructions...
Has Reform UK donations exposé caused a split in Nigel Farage’s party?
World news | The Guardianby Peter Walker Senior political correspndent·4 Sept 2026
Midway through an event at Reform’s annual conference on Friday there was question for the audience: who was worried about a Channel 4 News exposé of potential wrongdoing by party officials over...
North Carolina becomes first state to send out mail-in ballots for US midterms
World news | The Guardianby Joseph Gedeon in Washington·4 Sept 2026
North Carolina became the first state to start sending out mail-in ballots for November’s US midterm elections on Friday, as Donald Trump’s administration fights to impose sweeping restrictions on...
Deadly escalation in Black Sea attacks prompts fears of even higher food prices
World news | The Guardianby Joanna Partridge·4 Sept 2026
A summer of hostilities in the Black Sea proved deadly for seafarers, as Russia and Ukraine attacked each other’s ships and port infrastructure, preventing vital grain exports and prompting...
Woman, 45, killed in Florence in seventh alleged femicide in Italy since mid-August
World news | The Guardianby Angela Giuffrida in Rome·4 Sept 2026
A 45-year-old woman abducted and thrown off a motorway bridge near Florence has become the seventh alleged femicide in Italy since mid-August.
Colombian president posts video purporting to show 23 ‘neutralised’ guerrillas in body bags
World news | The Guardianby Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro·4 Sept 2026
Colombia’s hardline president, Abelardo De La Espriella, has provoked outrage after posting a social media video in which he strides through rows of white body bags that he said contained the...
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