Justice Department charges 28 green card holders over alleged voter fraud
The Guardian reported that the offices of more than three dozen members of the US Congress had been targeted with envelopes containing white powder. Federal agents were trying to identify who was behind the campaign, which The Guardian said came less than three weeks before the midterms.
The US Department of Justice separately charged 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote and casting illegal ballots. The arrests placed 11 of the defendants in custody and represented what The Guardian described as the latest escalation in federal efforts against alleged noncitizen voting. An accompanying photograph by Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images showed “I voted” stickers during California’s state primary election.
The arrests came days after the Justice Department sued California to block the state from tabulating certain ballots in November’s midterms. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber called the federal demands “outrageous” and said officials had spent months making “vague and unsubstantiated allegations.” The Guardian reported that Democrats and voting rights groups said the administration was laying the groundwork to sow doubt over November’s election results.
The Department of Homeland Security said more than 100,000 people from Ukraine could remain in the United States without immediate risk of deportation. Their right to stay was set to expire Monday, and the agency said a further announcement “will be made at the appropriate time.” The temporary reprieve also applied to about 1,800 Sudanese nationals.
Two other domestic reports concerned police and federal agents. The Mississippi attorney general announced that the police shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley while he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified,” four months after Wiley was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi. A photograph credited to Veronica Roberson/AP accompanied the report. In California, federal immigration agents broke the arm of a US citizen during a confrontation with protesters, according to The Guardian. A Democratic congressman called it a “brutal attack.”
Shawn Oliver, the Republican candidate for Massachusetts lieutenant governor, announced the suspension of his campaign. The move came hours after Oliver was arrested in a suspected drunk-driving crash. The US president, Donald Trump, also campaigned in Kansas for Sen. Roger Marshall, who faces what The Guardian described as an unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton. The Guardian’s David Smith went to Park City to report the mood on the ground, and a photograph of Marshall was credited to Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images.
Partial curfews were issued in several French cities, including parts of Paris, after the government admitted that police had “lost control” during violent weekend protests. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said intelligence had suggested 200,000 demonstrators around France; in the event, more than 500,000 attended. A photograph by Murat Karadag/Anadolu/Getty Images showed a street during a partial curfew in Lille.
The French protests followed weeks of demonstrations by high school students. Public buildings, including a town hall, were attacked and set ablaze, while authorities said an estimated 2,000 shops had been ransacked and looted. At a rally in Kansas, Donald Trump described France as a once-great nation that had been “conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists.” Earlier that day, Trump repeated what The Guardian called his baseless claim that migrants had “taken over” France and also claimed that “Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon.” Muslims make up 10% to 15% of the capital’s population, The Guardian reported.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United States was deliberately delaying deliveries of interceptor missiles to Ukraine, deepening a public dispute with Trump. Speaking to US senators on Monday, Zelenskyy claimed that “the Pentagon is delaying the delivery of missiles” already paid for by European countries. The shipment was awaiting the signature of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. A photograph by Oleksii Filippov/AFP/Getty Images showed people clearing debris at the site of an air attack in Kyiv.
Israeli police detained 10 people in what The Guardian described as a rare raid against settlers, following a weekend that The Guardian characterized as one of extreme violence in the occupied West Bank, including an attack on US photojournalist Heidi Levine, who described it as an “attempted lynching.” A photograph by Debbie Hill/UPI/Shutterstock showed Levine in a hospital. The Guardian also reported that Israeli militants armed with sticks and iron bars attacked a group of European diplomats and Palestinians harvesting olives.
Israeli police said the 10 detained people were connected with the attacks and the construction of an illegal outpost. The Guardian said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored extensive evidence as he questioned the accounts and referenced an “alleged attack” on Levine. His response drew international reactions, including from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Internationally, the national broadcaster CBC projected that voters in Alberta had overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to begin a process toward independence. Australian MP Helen Haines lost a leg after an alleged vehicle attack, and surgeons were said to be fighting to save the other. A man was charged over the incident.
A wildlife overpass completed 10 months earlier over the I-25 has since been used by elk, bears, frogs and other animals, The Guardian reported. The structure connects 39,000 acres of habitat, and a photograph credited to UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images showed the overpass on a Colorado highway. Separately, a bear entered the Mammoth Lakes branch of the Mono County free libraries just after 6 a.m. and reportedly raided the staff snack supply, browsed the new releases and left. A video from the Mono County Office of Education captured the bear entering the library. The Guardian cautioned that black bears are wild animals and should never be approached or fed, then added that they cannot read.
Eight years after the convenience store owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon last spoke on The Simpsons, Sunil Malhotra became the character’s new voice actor. Malhotra said, “Bringing Apu back feels like a reclamation.” Hank Azaria originally voiced Apu and, along with the show’s producers, was criticized for the portrayal. A composite credited to Fox via AP and Albert L Ortega via Getty Images accompanied the report.
In a separate feature, Phil Hoad profiled Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actor” set for a feature debut. The story also described a Val Kilmer doppelganger starring in a new western, while experts remained divided over whether mainstream adoption of AI actors was far away or near. A Reuters photograph showed Norwood.
Environmentalists behind a melting statue in Tallahassee described it as a fitting monument to Ron DeSantis’s eight years as Florida governor, during which he consistently opposed any legislation to curb planet-heating emissions. The statue was cast from solid gallium, which melts at 85.6 F (29.8 C), causing DeSantis’s image to give way to a skull. An accompanying photograph of DeSantis was credited to Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock.