The Trump administration argued that providing closed captioning was enough of an accommodation, but the judge noted that Ford and deaf NAD members “use ASL as their primary language and have limited proficiency in English.” 

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Financiers extend olive branch to the city’s new leader after earlier scepticism

The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this

Reports of the death of the Democratic party seem to have been greatly exaggerated. On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old political novice who won New Yorkers over with an affable demeanor that seemed to take infectious joy in the people of the city and a relentlessly focused message of affordability, swept to the mayoralty of the US’s largest city with a commanding lead.

In so doing, Mamdani defeated what has been, since 2010’s Citizen’s United decision unleashing unlimited money into American political campaigns, one of the most indefatigable forces in electoral politics: the preferences of billionaires. And it wasn’t close – Mamdani trounced his billionaire-backed opponent by nearly nine points.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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Republicans defeated in New Jersey and Virginia as voters rebuke president’s party

Indigenous leaders, environmental activists and forest defenders are determined to make this a summit like no other

A day into a river voyage between Santarém and Belém, a dozen or so passengers on the Karolina do Norte move excitedly to the port side of the boat to see the cafe au lait-coloured waters of the Amazon river mix with the darker, clearer currents of the Xingu.

“That confluence is like the people on this boat,” said Thais Santi. “All from different river basins, but coming together for this journey.”

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Clients with less than £500,000 in assets will be charged £100 a month from June

Gilts investors have long suspected that Labour would abandon its manifesto promises

Executives discussing options including shorting basket of artificial intelligence stocks or using derivatives to transfer risk

Blikk, a tabloid with about 3 million online monthly readers, bought by pro-Orbán media group Indamedia

Journalists at Hungary’s most-read newspaper have expressed shock after a media group seen as close to nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán’s party, Fidesz, bought the tabloid from its previous Swiss owners.

The purchase, which comes as Hungary gears up for crucial elections next year in which Orbán faces an unprecedented opposition challenge, is widely seen as another attempt to increase government influence on the media.

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Geert Wilders is out of power but his rhetoric is entrenched. Even Dutch liberals show little interest in the contribution of migrants

The neighbourhood where I live in west Amsterdam is one of the most vibrantly diverse in the city, inhabited by people from every corner of the globe. Some are new arrivals, others are descended from parents and grandparents who came here 30 or more years ago. In the shopping mall I hear Arabic and Turkish along with Dutch, English and a smattering of other languages that I cannot readily identify. The market square is crowded with stalls selling all manner of vegetables, fish and spices, along with hijabs and abayas. The vendors call out in a mixture of Dutch and Arabic. My butcher addresses me as Abi – Turkish for “older brother” – even though he knows I am not from Turkey.

There is a sense that we are all in this together, and it is up to us to make the most of it. I see patrols of concerned neighbours who take it upon themselves to gather up rubbish that has been dropped on the streets by careless kids. Although this mix feels quite natural, this is the kind of place that Geert Wilders would describe as a multicultural hell.

Jamal Mahjoub is a writer of British and Sudanese heritage who lives in the Netherlands. His books include A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory

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She came to prominence as a model, before starring as Xenia Onatopp opposite Pierce Brosnan’s 007. Then, instead of pursuing glamorous roles, she got gritty. She discusses sexism, success and why she won’t be stripping off on social media

Famke Janssen is dressed for her photoshoot at the Covent Garden hotel exactly as her character, Betty, would dress in the new Netflix crime drama Amsterdam Empire – lacy and floral but tailored and mini, with long school socks. Is the look sexy in a sardonic way, or irony expressed through fashion? We spend a lot of time, one way or another, talking about objectification, the beauty myths of the patriarchy, the collateral damage of the self – sexism, basically. Janssen has been in more than 60 films across a 30-year career, and before that, she was a model. There’s a lot to talk about.

So it hardly seems the time to mention how smoking she looks; her face as flawless and cheekboney at 60 as it was nearly 30 years ago, in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. It’s almost unnerving – if she were a man, I would mention it without hesitation. She puts it down to clean living: “I get judged very quickly, that I must have had work, which I haven’t. We shame women into it, and then we shame women when they do it. I support everyone’s decision to do whatever they want, it’s just not my cup of tea.”

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Russian glide bombs are now capable of hitting Ukrainian targets up to 200km away

Bieber will make $16 million in 2026, the final year of a two-year, $26 million contract that he originally inked with the Guardians last winter. 

Like father, like son.

Our panelists discuss what Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral race means for New York and beyond

Set aside for a moment the interminable back and forth over whether Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party. This much is beyond dispute: Mamdani represents the immediate future of New York City, America’s largest town and the financial capital of the world.

Osita Nwanevu is a columnist at Guardian US and the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding

Judith Levine is Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism

Malaika Jabali is a columnist at Guardian US

Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, the founding editor of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme Inequalities

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For a team having a hard time scoring goals, especially at home, the Rangers power-play failure has been even more damaging. 

After finishing a four-game western road trip with their first three-game win streak in nearly a year, the “swagger” head coach Mike Sullivan felt his players earned back through their own “sweat equity” seemingly didn’t accompany them home for Tuesday night’s low-scoring affair.

Perez’s 2026 club option had been worth $13.5 million, which included a $2 million buyout. 

Cuomo, running on an independent line, carved out an impressive 41.6% of the vote, trailing Mamdani by 9 points.

Biden, 82, was flanked by Secret Service agents as he slowly made his way through the outdoor patio of Carbonara, an Italian restaurant in deep-blue Arlington, Va., video showed. 

Blakeman had 50.6% support to Koslow's 43.1% with 76% of the vote counted late Tuesday night, the county's board of elections results showed.

Tuesday's tit-for-tat special election has been highly publicized and criticized for its cost, as it’s estimated to cost taxpayers over $200 million.

Zohran Mamdani has no mandate to ram through a radical agenda — and Gov. Kathy Hochul and fellow Democrats must see that he doesn't.