The Guardian · US newsFiling by attorney general Raúl Torrez comes after DoJ appears to have ignored deadline for key Epstein ranch files
New Mexico filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Wednesday for “stonewalling” its criminal investigation into the activities of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at a remote ranch in the state.
Raúl Torrez, the New Mexico attorney general, had said he was mulling the possibility of legal action if the justice department did not share with him by 31 July information about the alleged historical abuse of girls and young women at Epstein’s Zorro ranch about 30 miles south of Santa Fe.
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Richard Luscombe · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 9:48 AM
The Guardian · US newsVariety of prescriptions were found in blood of mother accused of strangling her three kids, according to testimony
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The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three children in January 2023, continued on Wednesday with a forensic toxicologist testifying to the variety and concentration of medications found in the defendant’s blood.
Justin Brower, a forensic toxicologist with NMS Laboratories, testified that his lab examined the levels of four psychiatric medications detected in Clancy’s blood after she allegedly strangled her kids and attempted to take her own life.
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Edward Helmore · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 9:30 AM
The Guardian · US newsThe candidate has crafted a progressive nationalism and shown his party how to turn Republicans’ financial advantage against them
Every now and then, a Senate race sets the direction for an entire party. In 1991, a state official named Harris Wofford – advised by a foul-mouthed Cajun named James Carville – upset his far better-known Republican opponent to win a special election in Pennsylvania. He did it by promising to expand access to healthcare – and thus created a template for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign the following year.
If Abdul El-Sayed can follow up his victory in last night’s Democratic Senate primary by winning the general election in Michigan this fall, he will have created a template of his own. Despite his closer-than-expected margin of victory, his campaign offers a model for how Democrats across the country can answer the political challenge posed by Donald Trump.
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Peter Beinart · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 9:15 AM
The Guardian · US newsElections underscored that momentum of progressive candidates remains strong but not unstoppable
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary
Tuesday’s primary elections in five states will be looked back on as a marquee moment ahead of November’s midterm elections, as voters in Michigan, Washington, Virginia, Kansas and Missouri selected candidates for races that could decide which party wins control of Congress.
Here’s a rundown of what we learned from the results:
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Chris Stein · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 8:41 AM
The Guardian · US newsActivist who rallied around a datacenter moratorium will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November
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William Lawrence, a prominent environmental organizer who foregrounded his support for a datacenter moratorium, has won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s seventh congressional district in a victory for progressives.
Lawrence was a co-founder of the youth-led climate justice organization the Sunrise Movement, the group that in 2018 mainstreamed calls for a Green New Deal to battle economic injustice while rapidly phasing out planet-warming fossil fuels. The 36-year-old defeated Bridget Brink, a former US ambassador to Ukraine and Slovakia, and Matt Maasdam, a former US Navy Seal and military aide to Barack Obama.
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Dharna Noor · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 8:31 AM
The Guardian · US newsSix additional states caught up in investigation after Michigan reported first two US deaths linked to disease
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reportedly expanded the scope of the largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to more states, including Arkansas and Missouri.
A spokesperson from Arkansas’s health department confirmed the outbreak expansion to their state in a statement to the Guardian: “Arkansas is one of the states the CDC is adding to the multi-state outbreak for cyclosporiasis.”
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Maya Yang · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 8:11 AM
The Guardian · US newsProgressive candidate will face Republican Mike Rogers in race to represent midwestern purple state in the Senate
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Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, becoming the latest leftwing candidate to capture the party’s nomination ahead of November’s midterm elections.
El-Sayed, a progressive, beat Haley Stevens, a moderate US representative backed by the party’s establishment. He will now face Republican Mike Rogers in the race to represent the midwestern purple state in the Senate. The Associated Press called the race on Wednesday morning, moments after Stevens’s campaign said she had called El-Sayed to concede.
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Rachel Leingang and Joseph Gedeon in Detroit, Michigan · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 7:01 AM
The Guardian · US newsFederal lawsuit alleges kids are being repatriated despite many of them qualifying to remain in the US legally
The Trump administration is deliberately targeting children who came to the US unaccompanied by a parent or guardian as it pushes to quickly return them to the countries they fled – amid “drastic policy changes” in immigration courts, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit shared with the Guardian.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are trying to prevent imminent deportation to the places from where they escaped danger or harm.
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Alexandra Villarreal in New York · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 7:00 AM
The Guardian · US newsMuch of the criticism of Ken Martin is deserved. But his actions are symptomatic of a party that fails to listen to the grassroots
Ken Martin is now a convenient scapegoat. As chair of the Democratic National Committee, he has stumbled into disrepute as a dubious fundraiser and bad-tempered boss who bungled an autopsy report on the 2024 election disaster. Much of the criticism is justified. But Martin is just a symptom of what deeply ails a party that does not live up to its name.
As the Democratic party’s governing body, the Democratic National Committee has long operated as a fortress for party elites who expect to get their way. Martin seemed to offer a bit of a departure when, as Minnesota party chair, he won the committee leadership election last year in part because of his close ties with other state party chairs. They remain among his strongest supporters. That’s one reason why Martin is very well-positioned to fend off any challenge to his hold on power when the full committee meets next week in Austin.
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Norman Solomon · Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 7:00 AM
