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At least four people were killed and eight others injured after a gunman opened fire at a Mormon church in Michigan and then set the building ablaze, authorities said.
Two of the shooting victims died and eight others were hospitalised, officials said initially, while the gunman was shot dead by police. Several hours after the shooting, police reported finding at least two more bodies in the charred remains of the church, which had not yet been cleared and may contain other victims.
The police chief of Grand Blanc Township, William Renye, said a 40-year-old male suspect drove a vehicle through the front door of the church yesterday morning, got out and began firing an assault rifle at hundreds of church attenders.
Was it the only mass shooting this weekend? No, the shooting happened during a particularly violent weekend in the US and marked the 324th mass shooting in the US in 2025, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Multiple mass shootings – cases in which four or more people are shot or killed – were reported in the US in public places including in North Carolina, Texas and New Orleans.
Children left short of clean water and sleep amid ‘prolonged’ detention by Ice, watchdog groups allege
Children, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.
Legal experts able to witness conditions made a barrage of allegations about deprivations, violations of legally agreed basic detention standards and humanitarian concerns at the only known Ice center currently holding families.
At the facility in Dilley, a small town an hour south-west of San Antonio, children and their parents described a “prison-like environment” and said they lived in “cell-like trailers”.
What did the facility say? The facility, which is run by the private corrections and detention company CoreCivic, directed the Guardian to Ice for comment, which in turn directed the Guardian to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the parent agency, though a report from Ice’s juvenile coordinator said the agency was complying with legal requirements. Comment was requested from DHS but a response was not received prior to publication.
Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race
The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced yesterday that he is abandoning his faltering bid to win re-election, just over a month before election day, delivering the message in a social media video set to the strains of My Way.
Adams, who was trailing in the polls, was elected as a Democrat but ran for re-election as an independent after he was indicted on federal corruption charges, which were then dropped by the Trump administration in exchange for his cooperation on immigration raids.
What did he say about his decision to drop out? In his video statement, Adams said that it had been impossible for him to mount a winning campaign, blaming “constant media speculation about my future” and a decision by the city’s campaign finance board to withhold millions of dollars in matching funds over suspicious donations.
In other news …
Israel has pressed on with its offensive in Gaza as Donald Trump claimed again to be on the brink of a breakthrough in ceasefire negotiations for the devastated territory. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is visiting the White House on Monday, after telling Fox News Sunday that Israel was working on a new ceasefire plan with the US.
The indictment of the former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former senior White House lawyer claimed yesterday.
The Taliban yesterday freed a US citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with US envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to normalise relations.
Stat of the day: More than 100,000 federal workers to quit on Tuesday in largest ever mass resignation
More than 100,000 federal workers are to formally resign tomorrow, the largest such mass event in US history, as part of a Trump administration program designed to make sweeping cuts to the federal workforce. Workers have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.
Don’t miss this: A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
Louisiana v Callais is a major challenge to what remains of the Voting Rights of Act of 1965, and could radically rework the structure of political representation in the United States. A successful challenge to the VRA would allow the Republican party to further cheat democracy by engaging in even more partisan gerrymandering.
… or this: Why I gave the world wide web away for free
In 1993, Tim Berners-Lee convinced his managers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. He writes: “We gave the web away to everyone. Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? On many platforms, we are no longer the customers, but instead have become the product.”
Climate check: Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels. And yet the vast majority of media coverage of the climate crisis overlooks this critical sector, according to a new data analysis from Sentient Media.
Last Thing: Sexless, snug and still here – the secrets of Birkenstock’s enduring success
When two brothers called Johannes and Johann Adam Birkenstock began making shoes in a tiny hamlet near Frankfurt in the 1770s, they could never have imagined what they were starting. Birkenstock now sells tens of millions of pairs of shoes every year. How did a brand described even by some of its fans as the world’s ugliest shoe become one of the world’s most popular?
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