Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday I look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. This week headlines in Switzerland were dominated by the killing in Minneapolis on Saturday of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse, by US Border Patrol agents. Swiss newspapers were horrified – “it simply does not stop. It keeps getting worse,” wrote the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich. The second fatal shooting of a US citizen this month in Minneapolis by federal agents has triggered a national political crisis, putting US President Donald Trump under “unprecedented pressure”, according to the Tribune de Genève. “The Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Republican politicians and the NRA [National Rifle Association] are distancing themselves from the White House,” the paper wrote on Monday. On Saturday Alex Pretti was shot dead by federal ...
