The Guardian · US newsQuarterback has two years added to his deal
Contract will last until Mahomes is 38
The Kansas City Chiefs and their starting quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, have agreed to a restructured contract that adds two years to his deal and pushes his total compensation past a half-billion dollars, according to sources.
Mahomes signed a 10-year, $450m contract in 2020 that set a benchmark not only for the quarterback position but for any NFL player. The latest extension ties the two-time MVP to the Chiefs through the 2033 season, when Mahomes will be 38, and it comes in at $504.75m, with incentives and escalators that could push the value beyond $520m.
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Associated Press · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 2:32 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaShasta county passes measure requiring elections to be held in person on one day and limiting absentee ballots
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Northern California’s Shasta county, best known for its radical conservative politics and thriving election-skeptic movement, appears on track for another clash with the state over a newly approved ballot measure that would transform local elections.
In last Tuesday’s election, the majority of voters in the rural county backed Measure B, which requires elections to be held in person on a single day and limits who can cast an absentee ballot – effectively putting an end to vote by mail – while also requiring photo ID and a hand count.
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Dani Anguiano · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 2:10 PM
The Guardian · US newsTrial of former New York City comptroller is ‘another example of the Trump administration’s suppression of political dissent’, lawyer argues
The trial against senior New York City Democrat Brad Lander, stemming from his arrest during an attempt to inspect rooms holding detained immigrants, involved six hours of litigating elevator logistics in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday.
Lander, the former city comptroller now vying for Democratic incumbent Dan Goldman’s congressional district, which encompasses lower Manhattan and north-west Brooklyn, was taken into custody on 18 September last year at 26 Federal Plaza.
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Victoria Bekiempis in New York · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 2:02 PM
The Guardian · US newsCooper Lutkenhaus, 17, wins 800m by 0.01sec
Gout Gout sixth; Tebogo says: ‘He has a long way to go’
There are few venues more deeply embedded into track and field’s soul than the Bislett Stadion. An extraordinary 70 world records have been set here. Plenty of reputations have been made. Plenty more left frayed, too.
And so it proved again as the brilliant 17-year-old American Cooper Lutkenhaus added to his staggering résumé by taking down the Olympic 800m champion, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, with a race for the ages in Oslo. But another, the Australian star Gout Gout, learned what it is like in the big leagues.
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Sean Ingle at the Bislett Stadion · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:54 PM
The Guardian · US newsFederal prosecutors unsealed indictment against activists trying to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel
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Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Wednesday against eight pro-Palestinian activists who are accused of conspiring to run a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials while trying to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel.
The indictment also describes vandalism against some companies that operate in Michigan and against the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
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Guardian staff and agency · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:46 PM
The Guardian · US newsMisty Roberts, 44, who faced up to 17 years in prison, convicted of two felonies including statutory rape
Misty Roberts, a former mayor in Louisiana, has been sentenced to 90 days for raping a 16-year-old boy.
On Tuesday, 44-year-old Roberts was sentenced following her conviction earlier this year of two felonies including carnal knowledge of a juvenile – or statutory rape – and indecent behavior with a juvenile.
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Maya Yang · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 12:43 PM
The Guardian · CaliforniaChemical tank overheated in May and forced evacuation of 50,000 nearby residents due to danger of explosion
The FBI is searching a southern California aerospace facility where an overheated chemical tank forced 50,000 residents to evacuate last month, after federal authorities served a search warrant there on Wednesday.
Signed by a federal judge last week, the warrant approved the seizure of records related to the “storage, use or disposal” of methyl methacrylate, the chemical stored inside the tank that authorities feared could explode.
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Cecilia Nowell and agencies · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 12:29 PM
The Guardian · US newsThe men’s head coach discusses his ‘American dream’ at the World Cup and tempering the host nation’s ‘arrogant’ expectations
This American dream begins in small-town Murphy, Santa Fe. That’s Santa Fe, Argentina, at a little club where the old folk played bochas, a kind of boules, and they had one of the few colour television sets. It was 1978, Mauricio Pochettino was six years old and he can see it perfectly, still feel the meaning of it all.
“I lived in a prefab with my grandmother and my older brother because my parents were off working the land, then at the weekend we would go to the club,” he says. “There were three courts and I remember standing there, hanging on to my dad’s pocket, watching the World Cup. The ticker-tape at River [Plate], that image engraved. Passarella, Ardiles, Luque, Bertoni, Kempes, Fillol, Tarantini … my heroes.”
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Sid Lowe · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 12:00 PM
The Guardian · US newsLawmakers warn appointment of presidential loyalist will scuttle bipartisan agreement to renew Fisa surveillance law
Donald Trump stood firm on his decision to install the controversial loyalist Bill Pulte as the country’s top intelligence official, demanding Congress pass a short-term extension of a surveillance law set to expire amid intense criticism of the appointment.
Pulte has been asked “to execute the immediate and needed downsizing” of the office of the director of national intelligence, the US president declared on Wednesday, after lining him up to serve as acting director on a temporary basis.
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Robert Mackey and Joseph Gedeon in Washington · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 11:42 AM
