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发现潜伏在排水管中的潜在下一任领导人并将其逮捕，突显了战术的演变 —— 以及对 cartel 内斗的担忧 US politics live – latest updates Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) 已故领导人 “El Mencho” 的金色灵柩刚入土，Mexican 军方本周就对该组织的最高层给予了第二次打击。 随着特种部队突袭 Nayarit 州的一处牧场，模糊的无人机画面显示 “El Mencho” 的可能继任者 Audias Flores（化名 “El Jardinero”）从他试图躲藏的排水管中被拉了出来，全过程未发一枪。 继续阅读...

• 一名嫌疑人于周一被指控企图暗杀 President Trump。此前，该嫌疑人于 2026 年 4 月携带多种武器闯入 White House Correspondents' Association 晚宴。 • 该事件加剧了关于政治修辞和暴力的党派争议，两党均指责对方的言论导致了事态升级。 • 这起涉嫌暗杀未遂的事件震惊了华盛顿，并引发了与历史上政治暴力事件的对比，促使人们对安保工作和当前的政治气候展开讨论。

• Sophie Corcoran挑战 10,000 Interns Foundation，该机构致力于服务代表性不足的群体 • 一名影响力者正将一家为黑人和少数族裔组织实习机会的慈善机构起诉至法院，原因是该机构没有为白人组织相关计划 • GB News评论员Sophie Corcoran申请了 10,000 Interns Foundation与Bar Council共同运行的一项计划。她表示，“震惊地发现该计划仅限于特定种族背景的申请者”。

• 律师援引包括自拍照片在内的新证据，提交了申请，要求在审判前拘留 Cole Tomas Allen。 • 联邦检察官在周三的一份文件中，详细描述了 Cole Tomas Allen 涉嫌计划数周杀害 Donald Trump 及其几位内阁成员的经过。当时，这些目标正与 2,500 多名华盛顿新闻界的成员一同参加一年一度的白宫记者晚宴。 • 这项旨在维持 Allen 拘留状态的动议由华盛顿特区美国检察官 Jeanine Pirro 提交。动议中包含两张涉嫌枪击者的自拍照片，照片中他身穿黑色西装站在酒店房间的镜子前，脸上带着一丝轻蔑的微笑。他的腰带上插着两把枪和多把小刀。检察官指称，这些武器正是袭击发生后从 Allen 身上没收的同一批武器。

在其国防部长在众议院委员会作证期间，Trump 发布了一张自己持有武器的 AI 生成图像，并配文称“不再是好人”。Pete Hegseth 否认美国与以色列针对伊朗的战争是“一个泥潭”，并声称此次行动的批评者对美国的威胁比伊朗本身更大。与此同时，他正面临阐明华盛顿针对该冲突策略的压力。在与参谋长联席会议主席 Gen Dan Caine 一同出席众议院军事服务委员会会议时，这位美国国防部长请求立法者批准 1.5 万亿美元的军事支出预算，随后将其中部分立法者描述为战争努力中“最大的挑战”。阅读更多...

• 在西区大获成功并赢得 Olivier 奖后，Tim Rice 和 Andrew Lloyd Webber 的音乐剧复排版将转至纽约。 • 经过数月的猜测，这部获奖的《Evita》复排版将于 2027 年春季正式转至百老汇。 • 西区演出由 Rachel Zegler 饰演女主角，并为其赢得了 Olivier 奖，她将随剧组一同前往纽约。

• 关键海峡面临封锁威胁以及 Trump 的立场推高原油价格，导致加油站价格达到 2022 年以来的最高水平。 • 根据汽车协会 AAA 的数据，美国平均汽油价格已触及 4.23 美元/加仑的新高，为 2022 年以来最高，也是与伊朗战争爆发以来的最高纪录。 • 作为影响美国汽油价格基准的 Brent crude 价格目前为每桶 114.60 美元，较 4 月中旬以来的近期低点上涨了近 25%。一年前的美国平均汽油价格为 3.16 美元。

• 该银行预计今年 GDP 增长的基础情况为 0.5%，低于 IMF 对英国 0.8% 的预测。 • Lloyds 警告称，在中东冲突导致失业率和通胀上升以及住房市场放缓的背景下，经济波及影响可能导致其损失 1.51 亿英镑。 • 这家 FTSE 100 集团（旗下品牌包括 Lloyds Bank、Halifax 和 Bank of Scotland）发布了一份不容乐观的经济预测，称其反映了英国及全球经济面临的滞胀后果——即通货膨胀上升与经济增长放缓的双重打击。

非政府组织表示，激增的油价和封锁导致数百万亟需帮助的人们无法获得食物、燃料和药品。美国与以色列在伊朗战争中引发的全球油价波动，通过减缓或阻碍食品和医疗援助的送达，使最弱势群体承受着沉重代价。在运输成本飙升之际，救援组织现呼吁在霍尔穆兹海峡开辟一条“人道主义走廊”。阅读更多...

Niesr says even under best-case scenario, economy would grow at slower pace in 2026 and 2027 because of conflictBritain is facing a £35bn economic hit and the risk of a recession this year as the fallout from the Iran war adds to the pressure on Keir Starmer’s government, a leading thinktank has warned.The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr) said that even under a best-case scenario the UK economy would grow at a much slower pace this year and next because of the Middle East conflict. Continue reading...

Motorists are forced to queue up to six hours for fuel or pay more on the black market, while farmers lack fuel to operate machinery and harvest crops.

A tidal wave of conspiracy theories hit social media as soon as news broke that shots were fired at the Washington Hilton hotel during the White House Correspondents' dinner Saturday. That was to be expected, but some say the dynamics are shifting, with theories coming from liberals and progressives as well as right-wing accounts that are critical of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Israeli military began carrying out strikes in eastern Lebanon on Monday, expanding the scope of its bombing campaign during a ceasefire that has failed to fully halt hostilities with Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

The chief of the ​District of Columbia police department said investigators believe the suspect was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel, where the annual dinner was ​taking place, but that no motive had been determined.

• White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took questions from reporters as Cole Allen, the suspect accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, prepared for his first court appearance on Monday. • Allen is accused of opening fire at the annual dinner while politicians, journalists, and celebrities were in attendance, with Leavitt and other Trump Cabinet members present in the room. • The incident represents a serious security breach at a high-profile event attended by senior government officials and media figures.

Protester says he migrated from Malaysia as a child and describes home secretary’s immigration policies as cruelUK politics live – latest updatesA protester who heckled Shabana Mahmood said he came to the UK as a child from Malaysia, describing the home secretary’s claim that he was a white liberal as “laughable”.Joe, 32, who did not wish to give his last name, migrated from Malaysia at the age of four with his family. He said the home secretary’s proposed immigration reforms would have left him, and thousands of children like him, in limbo. Continue reading...

Alleged shooter, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, faces potential life sentence. Plus: the Americans renouncing their citizenshipGood morning.The suspect accused of trying to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner was charged on Monday with three federal crimes, including attempting to assassinate the president – a charge that carries a potential sentence of up to life in prison.What was his motive? Investigators have yet to release one. However, to establish the charge of attempted assassination, the affidavit quotes from a part of a manifesto Allen allegedly sent to family members that states: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”Was lax security to blame? While many have praised the actions of law enforcement officers in swiftly stopping the attack, Allen’s alleged manifesto mocked an “insane” lack of security at the Washington dinner.What is the Trump administration saying about the attack? Several officials, including the president, have seized on the incident to advance their case for the completion of Trump’s $40m White House ballroom project, with the justice department pressuring a preservation group to drop a lawsuit seeking to halt the construction.Will there be an Oval Office meeting? Sources told the Guardian that Charles will pose for the cameras at the start of his centerpiece bilateral meeting on Tuesday, but that British officials have pushed for the Oval Office meeting to be held off camera, for fear of a repeat of the scenes when Trump berated the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in front of the world’s press.What challenges does the king face with this visit? Relations between the UK and the US are already tense following Trump’s public criticism of Britain’s refusal to back military action against Iran, but Charles is also meeting Trump under the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein. Charles’s brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his connection with Epstein. Continue reading...

Bank’s chief executive points to rising fraud as it sets aside a further £105m for motor finance compensationBusiness live – latest updatesBarclays is pulling back from lending to risky borrowers, as its chief executive warned of increasing numbers of fraud cases and the bank took a £228m hit from the failure of a mortgage lender.The mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) collapsed in February amid allegations of fraud and the UK’s financial regulator has since launched an investigation into the scandal. Continue reading...

Lawyers for Avara Foods and Freemans of Newent say legal claim backed by 1,300 people is ‘entirely inferential’Lawyers for one of the country’s biggest producers of industrially farmed chicken have attacked a claim that they are responsible for pollution in the River Wye and River Usk.More than 1,300 people have signed up to sue Avara Foods, its subsidiary Freemans of Newent and the local sewage company Welsh Water for extensive and widespread pollution in the rivers and their catchment areas. Continue reading...

Severe storms put nearly 50 million at risk and follow a deadly weekend after tornado killed two people in TexasSevere storms are expected to sweep across the mid-Mississippi valley and midwest regions of the US on Monday, putting nearly 50 million people at risk.The storm prediction center has issued a level 4 out of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms across south-west Illinois and south-east Missouri, including major cities such as St Louis. Forecasters warned of “multiple strong to intense tornadoes, widespread severe/damaging wind gusts and scattered large to very large hail”, with some hail potentially reaching baseball size. Continue reading...

Details about the shooting at the White House correspondents gala have started to surface as the alleged shooter is set to be charged.The suspect was able to get close to where Donald Trump and many other senior officials were gathered, before law enforcement stopped him. It happened less than two years since Trump was the target of an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a subsequent attempt at a golf course in Florida.Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief David Smith, who was in attendance. Continue reading...

Manifesto reportedly written by suspect had Trump administration officials at top of list. Plus, the world’s first marathon run in under two hoursGood morning.The suspected gunman in the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance, California, is due to appear in court later today.What will he be charged with? He faces charges of assault of a federal officer, discharging a firearm and attempting to kill a federal officer, but Blanche said depending on how the investigation went, he might also be charged with the attempted assassination of Trump.What’s the mood like in Washington? A stunned Washington is soul-searching about political violence, while questions are also being asked about security.Follow the latest updates in our liveblog here.What has Donald Trump said about it? Trump has said Iran can telephone if it wants to negotiate an end to the war and that it must agree never to have a nuclear weapon, while Pakistan’s leaders have sought to revive the stalled peace talks between Washington and Tehran. Continue reading...

Former prime minister says policies will lose support without continued lower prices, while Malcolm Turnbull points to some progress in USGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKevin Rudd has described Donald Trump’s cuts to support for green industries as “unfortunate”, warning that Australians would conclude the clean transition was “bullshit” if it did not offer tangible benefits to their lives.But – in some of his first comments since finishing his term as Australia’s ambassador to the US – the former prime minister said climate policies would have staying power if they delivered affordable prices, a reliable energy supply and new job opportunities. Continue reading...

Secret Service director says security succeeded in stopping shooter before he could do further harm but others disagreeThe shooting in the White House correspondents’ gala has prompted questions over security with some asking how a shooter was able to get close to where Donald Trump and many other senior administration officials were gathered and many others praising the actions of law enforcement that swiftly stopped the attack.As details about the shooting at the Washington Hilton continued to surface, the alleged shooter Cole Tomas Allen, 31, mocked an “insane” lack of security at the Washington dinner in a manifesto reportedly send to his family 10 minutes before his assault started. Continue reading...

Alleged shooter expected to appear in federal court and could be charged with trying to assassinate TrumpThe suspected gunman who tried to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner was expected to appear in federal court to face criminal charges on Monday.The alleged shooter, identified by law enforcement agencies as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrance in southern California, faces charges including assault of a federal officer, discharging a firearm and attempting to kill a federal officer. Continue reading...

Suspect in Saturday evening’s shooting – Cole Tomas Allen – expected to be formally charged in court todayGood morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics.The suspected gunman in the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance, California, is due to appear in court later today.He is expected to be formally charged with using a firearm during a violent crime and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Continue reading...

In today’s newsletter: After the dramatic events of Saturday night, White House security arrangements are under scrutiny and political violence is once again in the spotlightGood morning. On Saturday night the annual Washington ritual of the White House correspondents’ dinner descended into chaos as the US president and first lady were evacuated after the event was interrupted by gunfire.Journalists ducked under tables as authorities rushed Donald Trump and members of his cabinet out of the room. The president and his wife were unharmed, and a suspect is in custody – identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from southern California. In today’s newsletter, I will bring you the latest updates on what we know about the incident. First, the headlines.UK politics | Labour figures from across rival factions have begun circulating informal proposals for an “orderly transition” of power away from Keir Starmer, the Guardian understands, shifting their discussions from whether the prime minister could be removed to how.Europe news | Private jets laden with the spoils of those whose wealth swelled during Viktor Orbán’s years in power have been taking off from Vienna, while other individuals are racing to invest their assets abroad.Trade | UK business leaders have called on the government to build an EU-style “trade bazooka” to protect Britain’s economic interests in response to the latest tariff threats from Donald Trump.Middle East | Hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations between Iran and the US faded further on Sunday, amid a deepening sense of a deadlock in the nearly two-month-long conflict.Science | Simultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely contributes to the broad global drop in fertility. Continue reading...

• Following an incident at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner where shots were fired, President Trump called for national unity and extended overtures to the press corps he had previously criticized as enemies of the people. • The shooting occurred at the Washington Hilton, a venue that has hosted the black-tie event for over 50 years, with suspect Cole Thomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, taken into custody. • Trump appeared calm following his evacuation and held a press briefing expressing dismay at the violent disruption, signaling a temporary thaw in his combative relationship with the mainstream media.