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Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and Nato and urges US to ignore Geneva conventionsRevealed: Pete Hegseth writes scathingly of key institutions and says ‘If you love America, you should love Israel’
- LivePete Hegseth faces scrutiny over sexual assault claims and attacks on UN and Nato
- Trump administrationTrump keeps names of donors funding transition secret in break with practice
- Rand PaulRepublican senator opposes Trump’s plans to use US military for deportations
Pollution
PFAS and microplastics become more toxic when combined, research shows
Middle East crisis
Israeli cabinet to decide on ceasefire deal with Lebanon – reportsIDF would withdraw entirely from southern Lebanon and Hezbollah pull back its heavy weapons under agreement
- LebanonRevealed: Israel used US weapons in strike that killed journalists
- Middle EastHezbollah fires barrage of rockets into Israel after strikes on Beirut
Ukraine war
Germany draws up list of bunkers amid Russia tensionsLeonard Leo
Trump adviser who funded supreme court takeover wants to ‘crush liberal dominance’California
Judge to decide whether new evidence will set Menendez brothers free
Gisèle Pelicot rape trial
Prosecutors demand 20-year jail term for Dominique PelicotInternational trade
Trump tariff on China could lower global inflation, says UK economistCalifornia
Man previously cleared of role in 1979 killing of teen girl is now a suspectBird flu
Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreadingAsteroids
Earth’s ‘mini moon’ which may be chunk of actual moon set to disappear
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The featured essay
Democrats’ much-touted ‘ground game’ was a disaster. Here’s how to fix itEnvironment
Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the worldMexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment
Analysis
RFK Jr will cut prescription drugs and increase weed and psychedelics accessTrump’s health department pick has expressed distrust of pharmaceuticals and attacked ‘suppression of psychedelics’
Spotlight
Environment
‘I feel guilty and angry’: the captain turned campaigner trying to keep cruise ships at bayAfter spending most of his life on commercial vessels, Guillaume Picard is now fighting to keep these vast liners out of the French port of Marseille
My feelgood movie
‘Activates my lizard brain’: why Alita: Battle Angel is my feelgood movie
NFL
Did Austin Seibert just suffer the most agonizing few minutes in NFL history?In the dying moments of a crucial game against a hated rival, the Washington Commanders kicker was subjected to a brutal series of humiliations
How we made
‘Charles had just bought a mean-looking Chevrolet’: how War made Low Rider‘Our frontman walked into the studio, sat down with a bottle of tequila, salt and a lemon, listened to the track and started singing in a low voice’
Environment
Weather tracker: Swaths of Canada braced for heavy snowFilm
Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes: ‘I was called an English rose – it really pissed me off’Pass notes
Cinema singalongs: is it OK for Wicked fans to belt out all the tunes?The pet I'll never forget
Mr Wags, the bolshy, beautiful dog we rescued when he was 12
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I’m glad we got a deal at Cop29 – but western nations stood in the way of a much better one
Mukhtar Babayev
My negotiating team tried in vain to push up support for the global south. Lessons must be learned before the next summit in Brazil, says Mukhtar Babayev, president of Cop29
‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did
Nesrine Malik
We must defend elective abortions, not just the most politically palatable cases
Moira Donegan
After Dobbs, pro-choice advocates have emphasized women in medical crises. But those tragic cases are a limited picture
The UN has failed us on Gaza. We need to decolonize and radically reform it
Omar Barghouti
By decolonizing, I mean a transformative process that embeds the views of marginalized and most affected communities
Who is really escalating the war in Ukraine? It certainly isn’t the west
James Nixey
First Premier League weekend on Bluesky was nice and soft but X hard-edges remain
John Brewin
Multilateralism faces a toxic brew of debt, climate crisis and war. It’s time for a reboot
Mo Ibrahim
I’m still running at seven months pregnant. But it’s transformed how I think about exercise
Nell Frizzell
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Premier League
Ten talking points from the weekend’s actionAmad Diallo shows versatility, Ethan Nwaneri offers plenty of potential and Danny Welbeck’s role is key for Brighton
NFL review
Did Austin Seibert just suffer the most agonizing few minutes in football history?
Formula One
‘In that club’: Verstappen joins greats after fourth titleRed Bull’s Christian Horner says his driver is in same class as Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton
No empire lasts forever. Guardiola’s struggle against entropy will be fascinating
Jonathan Wilson
Manchester City’s struggles could be a blip or the start of terminal decline. We will see how one of the all-time great managers handles the conundrum
Soccer
Salah disappointed at lack of Liverpool contract offer and feels ‘more out than in’World Chess Championship
Ding ends losing streak to overcome Gukesh in opening gameNFL roundup
Chiefs and Cowboys win at death in day of wild finishesMLS playoffs
LA Galaxy run riot as Orlando also make conference finals
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Global climate talks
China was willing to offer more in climate finance, says Cop29 presidentClimate finance
Cop29 climate finance deal criticised as ‘travesty of justice’ and ‘stage-managed’Analysis
Cop29 climate finance deal likely to be followed by equally bitter battlesCop29
Cop29 agrees to $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’
US weather
More rain and snow in US could affect Thanksgiving travel, forecasters warnOne person found dead in submerged vehicle in California as storm warning issued for Sierra Nevada through Tuesday
Trump picks
Republican senator: ‘We’ll have lots of questions’ for Trump’s controversial picks
Sarah McBride
Congresswoman says GOP attack on trans rights is ‘attempt to misdirect’ votersFilm
Rebel Wilson to appeal after US court rejects bid to have defamation case thrown outPentagon pick
Hegseth’s views on women in combat ‘flat-out wrong’, Senator Duckworth saysNew Hampshire
Dartmouth sorority and two fraternity members charged over death of studentMinnesota
Couple accused of stealing nearly $1m of Lululemon products from storesPolitics
Biden must Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’Listeria
Nine people hospitalized in outbreak linked to South Carolina food processorEducation
Texas approves new Bible-based curriculum for elementary schools
Lithuania
DHL cargo plane crashes near Lithuania airportOne crew member dead and three injured after plane crashed into house on approach to landing at Vilnius
Denmark
Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother
Turkey
Turkish woman convicted under anti-terror laws for sharing Guardian articlePakistan
Pakistani capital under lockdown to block rally by Imran Khan supportersSociety
One-third of women across EU have experienced violence, survey findsFrance
Marine Le Pen renews threat to back censure motion that could topple Barnier as PMRomania
Shock as pro-Russia independent wins first round of Romanian electionBlack Friday
Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black FridayPoland
Deeply polarised Poland gears up for make-or-break electionUkraine
Briton reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine
Podcasts
Podcasts
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One man on his grief for GazaPolitics Weekly UK
‘No alternative’: is Rachel Reeves channelling Thatcher? – Politics Weekly WestminsterFootball Weekly
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A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair – podcastToday in Focus
A mystery in Finnish Lapland, and what it means for the climate crisis – podcastWeekend
Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV; Marina Hyde on Musk vs Trump Jr; inheritance inequity; and teenage love – podcast
Algiers
Rushdie, Ernaux and Soyinka among authors calling for release of Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem SansalSansal was reportedly arrested on arrival in Algiers on 16 November, with French President Macron demanding information about his whereabouts
Books
Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford dies aged 91- BooksBarbara Taylor Bradford: she wrote books about sexy, scrappy, hard-working women like her
Film
The Silent Hour review – intriguing cat-and-mouse thriller with deaf protagonistsBooks
Where to start with: Hanif KureishiArt
The surreal deal: the exhibitions celebrating the revolutionary, illogical art of the absurdGaza
Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival’
Food
The nut of the future! 17 delicious ways with pistachios, from cakes to salads to cocktailsA new start after 60
I became a ‘hummingbird’ for people with dementiaWhen Ann Thomas-Carter retired, she lost her sense of purpose. Then she began volunteering in a care home and found six hours could fly past in six minutes
A kitchen in Rome
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for polenta with buttery garlic mushroomsYou can’t beat polenta with buttery mushrooms: it’s a hug in a bowl
Well actually
How do I stay healthy in my 50s?All about breasts
‘My scars aren’t a finish line’: three trans and non-binary people on how top surgery changed their livesThe Filter
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Wellness influencers love bovine colostrum – but what is it?
We Did Not Consent
Three women, disguising their identities with theatrical masks, revisit memories of the undercover "spy cops" who infiltrated their lives and forged false relationships
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‘Best in the class’: Greek man in his 80s starts night school after life of toilGhana
Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boomTea
Mo matcha mo problem? How to get your green tea fix in a global matcha shortage
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Former president grapples with his past in memoir – too much, too little, too late‘We live in a climate of fear’
Graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisherDarryl Cunningham blames fear of ‘legal consequences’ for reluctance to take on book, now only available in French
Immigration
US refugee groups are staffing up as Trump’s return sows uncertainty- Second Trump presidencyWomen and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’
This is climate breakdown
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Who is Pam Bondi, Trump’s new pick to lead the US justice department?Analysis
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