11.55am EST 11:55 Martin Pengelly The Republican governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has come under fire for saying he needs the support of a far-right state senator who told a white nationalist event in Florida she fantasises about building gallows on which to hang her enemies. Doug Ducey. Photograph: Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports State progressive…Continue Reading

CJ McCollum scored 22 points, Jonas Valanciunas and Brandon Ingram added 19 apiece and the New Orleans Pelicans rolled to a 123-95 victory over the reeling Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night.Fans at crypto.com Arena voiced their displeasure with boos for most of the second half. Russell Westbrook was asked after the game if he…Continue Reading

The Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert was condemned for comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the clearing of a truckers’ protest in Ottawa, saying: “We also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated.”A former US ambassador to Canada called the comments “reckless” and “dangerous”.A protest in imitation of…Continue Reading

On 1 March 1872, the US president, Ulysses S Grant, enacted a federal protection for the Yellowstone landscape, creating America’s first national park and one of the first in the world. The decision affected thousands of people from at least 27 distinct Native American tribes. More than 10,000 years of history were erased from the…Continue Reading

What did Vladimir Putin say about Russian nuclear weapons?Russia’s president summoned the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and military chief of staff, Valery Gerasimov, to a public meeting on Sunday and ordered them to “transfer the deterrence forces” – a reference to nuclear weapons – “of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty”.Do…Continue Reading