Obama says Trump deepened US divide in rush to ‘identify enemy’ after Charlie Kirk shooting

17 septembre 2025 à 19:40

Ex-president says US in ‘dangerous moment’, after White House response to killings of Kirk and Melissa Hortman

Barack Obama addressed the recent killing of Charlie Kirk and told a crowd in Pennsylvania on Tuesday the country was “at an inflection point”, but that political violence “is not new” and “has happened at certain periods” in US history.

Obama added that despite history, political violence was “anathema to what it means to be a democratic country”.

This article was amended on 17 September 2025. A previous version misspelled the name of Melissa Hortman.

Barr tells House panel Jeffrey Epstein’s death was ‘undoubtedly suicide’

The Guardian

Par :Edward Helmore in New York

17 septembre 2025 à 15:51

Attorney general during Trump’s first term made comments to House oversight committee, transcript shows

The former US attorney general William Barr has repeated his finding that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death in prison was “undoubtedly suicide” to a panel of lawmakers looking into the disgraced financier’s crimes and connections.

Barr, the top prosecutor in Donald Trump’s first term when the justice department brought sex-trafficking charges against Epstein, made the comments to the House oversight committee late Monday, according to an interview transcript.

Suspect sought after car rammed into FBI gate in possible ‘act of terror’

The Guardian

Par :Edward Helmore

17 septembre 2025 à 14:10

Donald Henson allegedly drove at high speed toward main entrance gate of Pittsburgh field office

A search is under way for a man with a history of mental health issues who allegedly rammed his car into a metal gate at an FBI field office in Pittsburgh early Wednesday in what the agency said it is treating as “an act of terror against the FBI”.

Donald Henson, of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, allegedly drove at high speed toward the main entrance gate at about 2.40am, said the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, Christopher Giordano.

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