Alejandro Mayorkas vows investigation of horseback roundups‘They treated us like animals’: deported Haitians despairThe US homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s decision to send thousands of Hait…
Pelosi: Biden spending plan, infrastructure deal and funding ‘must pass’ next week
Speaker sends letter to party at mercy of warring factionsOne reporter observes: ‘Well, this is raising the stakes’In a letter to Democrats on Saturday the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, set her sights high, saying Joe Biden’s $3.5tn spending package, a …
US House panel to hold hearing on ‘surge in air rage’ and effects on airlines – live
Hearing comes as airlines report major rise in violence among passengersNearly one in five flight attendants have had a ‘physical incident’Members will hear from a flight attendant and several airline executivesSign up to receive First Thing – our dail…
US envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ decision to deport migrants
Daniel Foote excoriates Washington in letter addressed to Antony Blinken for deporting hundreds from a border campThe US envoy to Haiti dramatically resigned on Thursday in a letter that excoriated Washington for deporting hundreds of migrants to the v…
Men on horses chasing Black asylum-seekers? Sadly, America has a precedent | Moustafa Bayoumi
The Biden administration has condemned abuses at the border – while maintaining the policies underlying these abuses. That’s beyond cynicalYou’ve probably seen a photograph haunting the internet this week: a white-presenting man on horseback – uniforme…
Is China stepping up its ambition to supplant US as top superpower?
Analysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…
The Guardian view on Biden’s UN speech: cooperation not competition | Editorial
The US president is right to say he does not want a cold war with China“We’re not seeking – say it again, we are not seeking – a new cold war or a world divided into rigid blocs,” President Joe Biden told the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday….
Can Boris Johnson expect UK-US trade deal to go ahead?
His closeness to Trump has not helped and if agreement were struck by 2024 it would be considered rapid progressThree reasons. First, Britain exports more to the US than to any other country. When added together, the countries of the European Union cou…
Aukus pact: France to send ambassador back to US after Macron-Biden call
US and Australia not going back on cancelled €56bn submarine contract despite talk with French leaderFrance has agreed to return its ambassador to the US and Joe Biden has vowed not to cut Paris out of key future defence decisions in the Indo-Pacific a…
Biden announces US will donate another 500m vaccine doses at Covid summit – live
US to donate 500m Pfizer doses to low- and lower-middle-income countriesDoses are in addition to the over 600m the US has committed to sendingHouse Democrats pass spending bill in party-line vote of 220 to 211McConnell pledges to oppose any effort to r…