5+ hour, 42+ min ago   (324+ words) A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of Washington The bloated White House ballroom is the most emblematic project of Trump’s…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (350+ words) The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal Recently, I overheard a conversation in a cafe where someone described their toast as “awesome”. I felt myself…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1909+ words) What’s it like to be shown the door by the US president? A former national security adviser, an Apprentice contestant and more share their stories Gene Folkes, 62, based in Manhattan, was a contestant on season 10 of The Apprentice, which aired…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1783+ words) Canadians ‘angry’ at Trump for suggesting Canada should become 51st state, says mayor, as US businesses see sales fall amid trade war Like many Canadians, Tom Reid isn’t crossing the US-Canada border as often these days. But he needed a haircut....

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (478+ words) Atlantic Industrial Coatings was given $14.7m no-bid contract and its findings contradict president’s claims of vandalism The company hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has acknowledged that “human oversight” and flaws in the repair plan caused the newly installed…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (15+ words) Continue reading... Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and the 25th anniversary of 9/11 – cartoon...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (667+ words) Annualized inflation rate was 3.4%, same as July, and core inflation, which omits energy and food prices, rose to 2.4% US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as the end of the ceasefire between the US and Iran pushed energy prices…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (186+ words) The Guardian Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln had it a lot easier than Nelson’s crews American sailors who were at sea for 286 days really have nothing to complain about, insists Chris Hardy You report (4 September) that sailors from the…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (547+ words) Interview will air on YouTube instead of late-night talkshow after FCC ‘threatened’ show and ABC Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel has saidan upcoming interview with the Democratic Senate candidate from Texas James Talarico will not air on ABC, the US…...

4+ day, 40+ min ago   (339+ words) Boss Richard Walker is ‘proud to be backing Britain’ with a store in the capital, Stanley The supermarket chain Iceland has said it will open a shop on the Falkland Islands in early December. The shop, to be launched in…...