The year 2020 exposed the risks and weaknesses of the market-driven global system like never before. It’s hard to avoid the sense that a turning point has been reachedIf one word could sum up the experience of 2020, it would be disbelief. Between Xi Ji…
Biden condemns Texas abortion law that ‘blatantly violates’ constitution – live
Supreme court fails to act to block restrictive abortion law‘It is unbelievable that Texas politicians have gotten away with this’Capitol attack inquiry to investigate Trump White House’s role 12.21am BST Firefighters battling a ferocious wildfire in t…
Capitol attack committee to reportedly seek phone records of Trump and inner circle – live
Committee to make third round of requests for records, reports saySchools reopen as Delta variant threatens more disruptionUS intercepts rockets targeting Kabul airport as diplomats fly out 7.25pm BST White House press secretary Jen Psaki said US attor…
A majority of tech workers support antitrust legislation enforcement
The survey asked professionals: Do you believe antitrust legislation should be used to break up Big Tech companies like Amazon and Google?
Biden meets remains of 13 troops killed in Kabul as US promises more strikes
Secretary of state to bereaved father: ‘I’m deeply sorry’Adviser: US will help people leave after deadlineAfghanistan – live coverageThe White House on Sunday reasserted its promise to capture or kill the perpetrators of the deadly attacks on Kabul air…
I watched the bombs fall to unleash the 9/11 wars. Two decades later, they grind on | Jason Burke
Listening to Joe Biden’s words as the US left Afghanistan was to hear echoes of George W Bush from 2001. Is this a crisis destined to repeat itself?Many who heard President Biden’s pledge to exact revenge for the killing of 13 US Marines in an Islamic …
Kabul is only the start: US allies feel the draught as Biden turns his back
Retreat from Afghanistan gives a clear signal of a US shift on counter-terrorism that leaves the rest of the world to fend for itselfIt is, perhaps, dreadfully apt that an invasion which began 20 years ago as a counter-terrorism operation has ended in …
The Observer view on the resurgence of the Taliban | Observer editorial
Afghanistan has humbled the US and empowered its enemies. Now the west must engage with its new rulers to avert an even bigger threatAfghanistan is a tragedy, a parable and a cautionary tale for our age. As the last, desperate evacuees scramble aboard …
Washington’s armchair generals urge Biden to continue war on terror – live
• Former CIA director Leon Panetta unmoved by Afghanistan defeat• Mitch McConnell rails against ‘barbarian enemies’• Biden warns Kabul bombing masterminds: ‘We will make you pay’ 2.51pm BST Flags at the White House, the US Capitol and all other public …
Biden warns masterminds of deadly Kabul bombings: ‘We will make you pay’
Biden addresses nation on darkest day of his presidencySays US troops who died were ‘heroes’ of ‘selfless mission’Joe Biden has warned the masterminds of a double suicide-bomb attack in Kabul that killed 13 US troops and 60 Afghan civilians: “We will h…