Andrew Witherspoon

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Aliya Uteuova |Will Craft |Andrew Witherspoon

When reading a chart, an outlier is often the first thing you notice. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term has been full of them: immigration arrests spiking. Markets falling. Emission trends reversing. Hundreds of day one pardons to insurrectionists. Record-breaking use of executive powers. Let’s look at some of the outlying trends of the administration’s first 100 days. Tariffs caused markets to fallA line chart showing the S&P 500 decliningGuardian graphic. Source: Yahoo Finance.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rich Cousins |Marcus Peabody |Andrew Witherspoon

Law-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have shocked the United States and the world.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Witherspoon |Claire de Lune

Tom Thibodeau just became the fourth-winningest coach in New York Knicks history, passing Pat Riley on Saturday as his team notched their 49th win of the season. But as has often been the case with Thibodeau’s coaching milestones, the moment wasn’t met with pure celebration. Instead, familiar questions around a controversial overtone of his NBA coaching career loomed – namely, Thibs Minutes Syndrome.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Luke Barratt |Andrew Witherspoon |Aliya Uteuova

Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, the non-profit investigatory organisation SourceMaterial and the Guardian have found. With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, with a potentially huge impact on populations already living with water scarcity.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Gabrielle Canon |Andrew Witherspoon

Communities across the US that were once considered beyond the reach of wildfires are now vulnerable to disaster. As fires increasingly spread deep into neighborhoods, researchers estimate roughly 115 million people – more than a third of the US population – live in areas that could host the next fire catastrophe. The understanding that many more Americans are at risk of losing their homes to wildfires comes as the climate crisis turns up the dial on extreme weather, drought and heat.