The funding lapse occurred after Democrats refused to approve continued funding for DHS following the killings by federal agents of US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and demanded new restrictions on immigration enforcement. Among their conditions were requirements that federal agents wear body cameras and cease wearing masks, follow a code of conduct, and obtain arrest warrants for people in the country illegally. Absent bold and meaningful change, there is no credible path forward with respect to the Department of Homeland Security funding bill next week,” Jeffries said. On Monday, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, announced all federal agents in Minneapolis will immediately begin wearing body cameras, with plans to expand their usage nationwide. Trump largely avoided discussing Democrats’ demands when he signed the funding measure in the Oval Office, instead touting his efforts to prevent people from crossing the southern border.

The Palestine Action Group plans to march against the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog’s, visit to Sydney next week, despite the New South Wales police commissioner extending a restriction on protests. On Tuesday, the NSW police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, extended a restriction on protests for another 14 days, saying Herzog’s visit was a “factor” in that decision. Herzog, who was invited by Anthony Albanese in the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack, will visit Australia for four days. “I know that there is significant animosity about president Herzog’s visit,” Lanyon later said. On Tuesday, the premier, Chris Minns, said he had “a lot of meetings” with Lanyon in relation to Herzog’s visit, but denies he has sought to influence the decision.

Spain has proposed a ban on social media use by teenagers as attitudes hardened in Europe against the technology, drawing personal insults against the prime minister from Elon Musk. Sánchez said on Tuesday that urgent action was needed because social media was a “failed state where laws are ignored and crimes are tolerated”. Greece is also close to announcing a similar ban for children under 15, a senior government source said. Legislation to ban children under 15 from social media is passing through France’s parliament. But there was no unanimous agreement that social media harms adolescents, said Jose Cesar Perales, a professor in experimental psychology at the University of Granada.

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Instead, average electricity prices over the past year have risen by about 6.7%, while natural gas prices have increased by 10.8%. Energy use does not rise in proportion to income, meaning energy costs take up a far larger share of household budgets at the bottom than at the top. If the goal is lower energy bills, policy must focus on lowering system costs and reducing household exposure to price volatility. An administration that claims to stand with consumers cannot continue to write energy policy for fossil-fuel producers and expect a different outcome. Lower energy prices will not come from propping up high-cost power plants, dismantling clean energy, or exposing households to volatile global fuel markets.

Have Donald Trump’s hard talk and the arrival of a strike-ready flotilla finally made Tehran blink? It certainly seemed so by Monday evening, when Iran said it was willing to talk. The background to Trump’s war of words against Tehran was the huge protests that rocked Iran last month, until they were brutally repressed by the regime. Neil Willis, production editorOther highlights from the Guardian websiteAudio | Will China replace the US on the world stage? For anything else, it’s editorial.feedback@theguardian.comFollow usFacebookInstagramGet the Guardian Weekly magazine delivered to your home address

This year, Capitalize: Next Gen has been reimagined to spotlight emerging entrepreneurs and innovators across the Sacramento region. Emerging and early-stage innovators ages 18–30 who are actively developing their ventures through a wide range of learning and growth pathways are invited to apply. These include traditional education, alternative programs, community-based learning, workforce development initiatives, apprenticeships, or self-directed learning. The final four chosen on Pitch Day will create videos about their startup for fan voting starting around March 16. The winner will be announced in-game and will be awarded $10,000 for further development of their business.

Juventus forward Kenan Yildiz (10) celebrates after scoring his goal to make it 2-0 during the Serie A football match number 22, Juventus vs. Napoli, at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, on January 25, 2026. Just a few days later, Agresti has yet another update for us on the Yildiz extension front. According to Agresti on Tuesday, Juventus and Yildiz’s camp — namely his father Engin and super-agent Jorge Mendes — are close to finalizing the much-discussed contract extension that will tie the budding Turkish superstar to Juventus through 2030 and see him get a much-deserved pay raise. We’ve been hearing about Yildiz being signed to a new deal ever since the early days of the summer of 2025. Back then, it had the feeling of a quick process in which the other two contract extensions have come about.

Al-Nassr are owned by the Public Investment Fund, which also backs the other members of the “Big Four”: Al-Nassr’s city rivals Al-Hilal and the Jeddah clubs Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahli. Al-Hilal splashed out on Mohamed Meïté from Rennes, the former Arsenal centre-back Pablo Marí, a couple of Saudi Arabia internationals and, most strikingly, Benzema. View image in fullscreen Karim Benzema moved to Al-Hilal after his relationship at Al-Ittihad soured. Despite the influx of megastars in recent years, fans could be forgiven for feeling nostalgic about the old days. Sami Al-Jaber, who made more than 150 appearances for Saudi Arabia and had a short loan spell at Wolves, has never seen anything like it.

The Democrats hold in their hands constitutional means yet unused to check the Trump regime’s ruthless attempt to impose a police state. In states with a Democratic trifecta (where Democrats control the governorship and both legislative chambers), there are 659 Republican state legislators. In Pennsylvania, the Democrats control the governorship and the state house of representatives, while the Republicans control the state senate by a narrow margin of 27 to 23 seats. Democrats need to flip three of those state senate seats in 2026 to gain control with the Democratic lieutenant governor casting a tie-breaking vote. To flip both chambers, Democrats are targeting seven state house and six state senate seats held by Republicans.

But if lower wholesale prices are sustained, it should begin to bring relief to consumers. Until recently, summer heatwaves put real strain on the power grid, as millions of people fired up their air conditioners at once. Until recently, grid batteries found more use stabilising the grid than powering it. Delays completing the new NSW-South Australia transmission line, EnergyConnect, also pushed back the planned closure of the Torrens Island gas power plant near Adelaide. The question is whether there’s enough time left to replace retiring coal plants with new offshore wind.

A message from Donald Trump celebrating the 19th-century US invasion of its southern neighbour – and the subsequent loss of more than half its territory – has touched a historical nerve in Mexico, with some seeing it as a veiled threat for future incursions. Reacting to the US president’s statement, which described the invasion as “a legendary victory”, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said during her morning news conference on Tuesday: “We must always defend our sovereignty.”Others were less subtle in their criticism. “He continues to view Mexico as a territory to be conquered, not as a partner,” wrote the columnist and political analyst Denise Dresser on X. Mexico is “a country that has done nothing but cooperate with US interests on all levels”, he said. “He wants to go down as a great president who expanded the American Empire,” he said.

Richard Branson, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, Mandelson, Andrew (obviously) – all of these men offer strategic advice, or media training, or chummy solidarity. Or, in the case of Chomsky, all of the above plus a drive-by on the notion of female victimhood. Here is Britain’s Best Loved Businessman TM in 2013, opening by saying to Epstein: “would love to see you. Then it’s on to helping Jeffrey downplay his sex crimes, three years after he’s finished doing time for them. All those men know the world doesn’t work like that – and didn’t in this case, with Epstein gifted an incredibly controversial secret plea deal.

A collection of writings by the imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti will be published in November, bringing together prison letters, interviews, personal material and documents from the last three decades of Barghouti’s political life and incarceration. Despite more than two decades in prison, successive opinion polls show Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian politician in Gaza and the West Bank. He is often cited by supporters as a potential unifying leader across factional divides, and has been described as “Palestine’s Mandela”. An introduction to the book has been written by Barghouti’s wife, Fadwa Barghouti, a prominent advocate for his release. “This book finally makes that possible – and I hope it helps people understand who Marwan Barghouti truly is, and how he embodies the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity.”

European publishing and legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices after the US artificial intelligence startup Anthropic revealed a tool for use by companies’ legal departments. Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude, said its tool could automate legal work such as contract reviewing, non-disclosure agreement triage, compliance workflows, legal briefings and templated responses. Shares in the UK publishing group Pearson fell by nearly 8% on the news, and shares in the information and analytics company Relx plunged 14%. The software company Sage lost 10% in London and the Dutch software company Wolters Kluwer lost 13% in Amsterdam. Shares in the London Stock Exchange Group fell by 13% and the credit reporting company Experian dropped by 7% in London, amid fears over the impact of AI on data companies.