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Amid a blackout of data due to the government shutdown, the $5tn chipmaker's report took on wider significanceMarkets expectations around Wednesday's quarterly earnings report by the most valuable publicly traded company in the world had risen to a fever pitch. Anxiety over billions in investment in artificial intelligence pervaded, in part because the US has been starved of reliable economic data by the recent government shutdown.Investors hoped that both questions would be in part answered by Nvidia's earnings and by a jobs report due on Thursday morning. Continue reading...

Brown University researchers run joint-and-drink study to find alcohol consumption falls after smoking cannabisIt turns out that going California sober" may actually help you stay away from alcohol, according to new research published in the the American Journal of Psychiatry.A team of Brown University researchers conducted a study in which participants were given marijuana joints to smoke and then sent out to a controlled bar lab", in which they then were given the choice to have up to eight mini alcoholic beverages. The experiment was conducted three separate times: once with 7.2% THC cannabis, once with 3.1% THC cannabis and once with 0.03% THC cannabis, which was considered a placebo. Continue reading...

Critics warn move could have devastating impact on lives and wellbeing of those affectedNew Zealand has announced it is banning new prescriptions of puberty-blocking drugs for young transgender people, in a move that critics warned could worsen the mental health of those affected.The step comes amid growing global debate about the number of adolescents seeking to change gender, dividing those concerned about hastiness in prescribing such medications and those worried about access to remedies they deem lifesaving. Continue reading...

As president Lula tries to find common ground between negotiating countries, planetary scientists say emissions must be urgently cutMother Earth is watching over Cop30. I am taking care to watch over all the decisions taken here about me," she told the Guardian. The blessing card she presented said: Knowing the powerful impact my thoughts can have on others and the environment, I choose to create a positive mindset."This beautiful vision is in everyday life Nazare Oliveira, an indigenous woman from Belem, and a descendant of the Potyguar people. She is part of the international spiritual organisation Brahma Kumaris, led by women and which uses meditation to emphasise the concept of identity as souls rather than bodies and the idea that humanity and nature are one.This is my fifth COP. I've been around since COP26 in Glasgow and this has been the most militarised COP I've attended. We had really high expectations because I'm from Latin America, and this is also the Latin American COP - apart from the Amazonian and the Brazilian Cop.So we had really high expectations of also being able to demonstrate, protest and exercise our right to the civic space. But we have encountered heavy militarisation and a heavy crackdown on civil society protesting outside the venue.I think it's very disconcerting. Like it was definitely a very racist letter where the UN seems to want to inflict power over the autonomous territory of Brazilian authorities.I think this is a confrontation that is needed. What's happening in between civil society, the military and the UN, it's a reflection of the tension that exists within this space. So I hope for this COP that the United Nations authorities and the Brazilian authorities open their eyes and they realise that what they are doing, what they are inflicting with the militarisation of COP is completely opposite of what they have been preaching in the last three years.Brazil knew that they wanted to host this COP since three years ago, probably even earlier. So the way that they are responding to it does not show that they were ready to receive all this flow of international civil society. So my hope is that they can release, relax the heavy militarization that they're putting in the space and allow us to use the civic space to demonstrate. Continue reading...

James Boasberg demands sworn testimony to determine whether US officials defied March court orderA federal judge on Wednesday said he was resuming his long-stalled court proceeding to determine whether Trump administration officials willfully violated a court order by deporting hundreds of men to El Salvador in March.US district judge James Boasberg said he would demand sworn testimony from administration officials to determine whether they defied his March court order to turn around aircraft that were removing the men from US territory. Continue reading...

Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australia may lead negotiations

The clip of the US president on Air Force One last Friday has taken off without much help from the media itselfIt's one outrage in days full of outrageous material.Quiet, piggy," Donald Trump told a female reporter in a press gaggle, pointing his finger at her angrily. Continue reading...

CCRC says new evidence undermines narrative Durrell Goodall, Reano Walters and Trey Wilson were in a gangThe convictions of three young black men for murder after a controversial 2017 prosecution under the joint enterprise" legal doctrine have been referred back to the court of appeal.The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) said on Wednesday that new evidence submitted on behalf of Durrell Goodall, Reano Walters and Trey Wilson, who were 20, 19 and 19 respectively when they were convicted, undermines a core of the prosecution's case that they were members of a gang. Continue reading...

Sixteen submerged canoes discovered along Lake Mendota's shore at a kind of prehistoric parking lotArchaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.The Wisconsin Historical Society announced Wednesday that archaeologists have mapped the location of 16 canoes submerged in the lake bed of Lake Mendota in Madison. Tamara Thomsen, the state's maritime archaeologist, said the site lies near a network of what were once Indigenous trails, suggesting ancient people left the canoes there for anyone to use as they traveled, much like a modern-day e-bike rack. Continue reading...

Parliament suspends Laura Anne Jones, Reform's only Senedd member, for two weeks in further blow after party lost Caerphilly byelectionReform UK's only member of the Welsh parliament has been suspended for two weeks over a racial slur she posted in an office WhatsApp group.Laura Anne Jones used an offensive Chinese slur in a discussion about the threat of the Chinese government utilising TikTok for espionage. Continue reading...

Samantha Niblett highlighted government's multi-billion-pound deals with Microsoft and getting locked in'Microsoft has ripped off the NHS", it was alleged in parliament on Wednesday, as MPs called on ministers to divert more of the government's multibillion-pound computing budget away from US technology companies and towards British alternatives.The Seattle-based firm's UK government contracts include a five-year deal with the NHS to provide productivity tools reportedly worth over 700m, while the wider government spent 1.9bn on Microsoft software licences in the 2024-25 financial year alone. Continue reading...

Officials are reportedly taking their time on US president's long-promised chips plan to avoid a rupture with ChinaUS officials are privately saying that they might not levy long-promised semiconductor tariffs soon, potentially delaying a centerpiece of Donald Trump's economic agenda.Officials relayed these messages over the last several days to stakeholders in the government and private industry, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter and a third person briefed on the conversations. A fourth person following the matter also said the administration was taking a more cautious approach to avoid provoking China. The discussions have not been previously reported. Continue reading...

David Maltinsky, a 16-year veteran, says in lawsuit agency retaliated against him for engaging in protected speechA longtime FBI employee has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was fired for displaying a Pride flag at his desk, naming FBI director Kash Patel, the justice department and attorney general Pam Bondi as defendants.According to David Maltinsky, an intelligence specialist who had served with the bureau for 16 years, his wrongful termination earlier this year was unconstitutional and politically motivated". Continue reading...

More than 300 people most at risk are move to shelters as tallest peak on Java island unleashes clouds of hot ashIndonesia's Mount Semeru, the highest peak on Java island, has erupted, blanketing several villages with falling ash, prompting evacuations and leading authorities to raise the alert to the highest level.The volcano in East Java province unleashed searing clouds of hot ash and a mixture of rock, lava and gas that travelled up to 7km (4 miles) down its slopes several times from midday to dusk, while a thick column of hot clouds rose 2km into the air, Indonesia's Geology Agency said in a statement. Continue reading...

Health secretary says he is not comfortable with some elements, but that it is the right thing to do for the countryWes Streeting has admitted he is not comfortable with forcibly deporting families under the home secretary's migration plans, while maintaining it is still the right thing to do.The health secretary said he thought the number of forced removals would be low under the proposed model, which is similar to Denmark's, because there would be an increased financial incentive for people entering the UK illegally to return to their country of origin. Continue reading...

Ukraine to raise the overnight attack on Ternopil, in which more than 70 people were injured, at the security council tomorrowThe Dutch economy minister said he had moved to take effective control of Nexperia to ensure Europe was not locked out of chip production in an emergency".He said the decision to lift the legal move to prevent Nexperia from moving intellectual property and physical assets from its European factory in Hamburg and its corporate headquarters in Nijmegen was the right step" after consultation with the European Commission and others.The Netherlands has considered it the right moment to take a constructive step by suspending the order under the Goods Availability Act, in close consultation with European and international partners. The Netherlands will continue to engage in constructive dialogue with the Chinese authorities in the period ahead." Continue reading...

Lords say culture department has mishandled process and suggest Cabinet Office or CMA oversee new auctionThe government has been urged to take control of the sale of the Telegraph through an auction run by a body such as the UK competition regulator or the Cabinet Office.Peers called on the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, to wrest the sale process from RedBird IMI, which is majority funded by the United Arab Emirates, in questions put to Labour minister Fiona Twycross in the House of Lords on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Unsealed indictment says Ryan Wedding tracked down witness who was then murdered before he could testifyUS authorities have charged a fugitive former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin with the murder of a witness who was prepared to testify against him.The attorney general, Pam Bondi, said on Wednesday that Ryan Wedding was accused in a newly unsealed indictment of tracking down a witness in Colombia who was then murdered before he could give evidence. Continue reading...

A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour

Organisers claimed proposed ban on reselling tickets for more than face value would dent investment in facilities

Agriculture minister calls for investigation over marketing of carbonara sauce containing wrong type of cured meatItaly's agriculture minister, Francesco Lollobrigida, has called for an immediate investigation after coming across what he claimed were jars of Italian-sounding" pasta sauce on the shelves of the European parliament's supermarket.Lollobrigida, of Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, was particularly vexed by a carbonara sauce made with Italiaanse pancetta" - the classic Roman pasta dish is made with a different cured meat, guanciale - and a tomato sauce containing oignons de Calabria", or onions from Calabria. Continue reading...

Government has officially announced ban on reselling for profit, described by minister as no-brainer'Last May, in a dimly lit basement beneath London's South Bank, the UK's most prolific ticket touts gathered to discuss Labour's plan to effectively put them out of business.One seasoned ticket trader" pleaded with colleagues to help fund a war chest to lobby against the party's election manifesto pledge to ban reselling tickets for profit. Continue reading...

Tom Pickup confirms he was member of group in which one participant allegedly called for mass Islam genocide'A Reform UK councillor has been suspended for participating in a WhatsApp group where members allegedly called for a mass Islam genocide".Tom Pickup, who was elected to Lancashire county council in May, confirmed to the Guardian he was a member of the group set up by a rightwing activist. Continue reading...

Proposed legal case understood to allege that app has breached data protection law varying driver pay ratesUber has been hit with legal demands to stop using its artificial intelligence driven pay systems, which have been blamed for significantly reducing the incomes of the ride hailing app's drivers.A letter before action - sent to the US company by the non-profit foundation, Worker Info Exchange (WIE), on Wednesday - is understood to allege that the ride hailing app has breached European data protection law by varying driver pay rates through its controversial algorithm. Continue reading...

Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida and has pleaded not guilty to the crimes, authorities sayA man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and was pardoned by Donald Trump earlier this year has been arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges in Florida, according to local authorities.The man, identified as 44-year-old Andrew Paul Johnson, was taken into custody in August in Tennessee and extradited to Florida where, according to arrest records, he faces charges of lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child under 12, lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child between 12 and 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor. Continue reading...

Health secretary still maintains that forced removals are right thing to do for the country'Healey is now taking questions.Q: How close are are we to war?It is Labour that is the party of defence. Continue reading...

Former Met officer convicted of offences in pattern of horrific' offending dating back 35 yearsEx-police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner in a pattern of horrific" offending dating back 35 years.Carrick, 50, who served as an armed officer in the Metropolitan police, sexually assaulted the child in the late 1980s. More than 20 years later, he repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to degrading and humiliating" abuse during the course of a toxic relationship. Continue reading...

PM raises Guardian reporting of allegations from more than a dozen school contemporaries of Farage

Move welcomed by critics, who have been calling for end to morally unacceptable' deals since 2016The British Museum has ended a controversial sponsorship deal with a Japanese tobacco firm after reports that the government had raised questions about the deal, which some critics said was deeply troubling".The Guardian understands that the museum's board chose to not renew the 15-year partnership with Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which ended in September. Continue reading...

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Home affairs minister's comments come as NSW moves to ban white supremacist chants after neo-Nazi protest

Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator's death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascismMingorrubio municipal cemetery, which sits where the suburbs of north-west Madrid fade out into the countryside, must have been something of a comedown for a man who was originally laid to rest with a 150-metre-high cross for a headstone and four enormous bronze archangels to watch over him.But six years after his remains were disinterred from the grotesque splendour of the Valley of the Fallen and flown by helicopter to Mingorrubio for reburial, Francisco Franco is at least in good company. Continue reading...

Trains between Oxford and Milton Keynes put back to 2026 partly due to dispute, Chiltern Railways saysThe start of passenger services on the new East West Rail line will be delayed until at least 2026 with no start date confirmed, the operator has said, partly due to a row over guards on the trains.Passenger trains were supposed to come into service between Oxford and Milton Keynes this autumn, the first stage on the new railway along the Oxford-Cambridge arc where the government hopes for rapid economic growth. Continue reading...

Australian Men's Health Forum says it is not affiliated with Dads4Kids group espousing anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQI+ views

New series in Lancet medical journal finds UPFs, which make up nearly half the average Australian diet, driving escalating' burden of many chronic diseases

Victim was hospitalized in critical condition and suspect taken into custody following incident on city's train systemA woman is currently hospitalized after being set on fire on the Chicago train system, according to police.At around 9.25pm on Monday, a 26-year-old woman was riding the Chicago Transit Authority system's Blue Line near the Clark/Lake station when she got into an argument with an approximately 45-year-old man. Continue reading...

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Survivors were joined by lawmakers including Marjorie Taylor Greene before House vote on releasing Epstein files

Lords look undemocratic and firmly against interest of working people', say senior trade union and Labour figuresDozens of hereditary peers - including the Duke of Wellington, landed aristocrats and millionaire business leaders - have been criticised for battling to unpick Labour's plans to boost workers' rights.The Lords voted to support a string of Conservative-backed amendments to the employment rights bill late on Monday for the third time running. Continue reading...

Eliyahu Eli' Weinstein, pardoned by Trump in 2021, was sentenced to 37 years for defrauding investors out of $35mA New Jersey man whose lengthy prison sentence for fraud convictions was commuted by Donald Trump in 2021 is now headed back to federal prison for another fraud conviction.The US district judge Michael Shipp, sitting in Trenton, handed down a 37-year sentence on Friday to Eliyahu Eli" Weinstein, 51, of Lakewood, who is also known as Mike Konig. Shipp also ruled that Weinstein must pay $44,294,803 in restitution, which is due immediately, according to court documents. Continue reading...

Police officer suffered fractured spine during operation at factory near Bristol last year, Woolwich crown court hearsSix pro-Palestinian activists armed with sledgehammers attacked an Israeli-linked defence firm, with one striking a female police officer twice with his weapon, a court has heard.Opening the trial at Woolwich crown court on Tuesday, the prosecutor, Deanna Heer KC, said the defendants were involved in a meticulously organised" operation by Palestine Action at the Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August last year. Continue reading...

Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at a few hundred' peopleShabana Mahmood is facing demands for compassion and clarity after it emerged that only a few hundred" asylum seekers would initially be permitted to come to the UK under three new schemes for refugees.The home secretary had justified a series of hardline policies - such as the deportation of families and the confiscation of assets from claimants - by saying she would also open the safe and legal" routes for genuine" claimants. Continue reading...

Regarding music played in UK nightclubs, more than 5.7m each year is allegedly allocated by performing rights societies to the wrong artistsElectronic music artists, producers and songwriters are missing out on millions of pounds of lost revenue in the UK, after their music appears in DJ sets but the subsequent royalties are not properly distributed, according to new research.The Berlin-based Fair Play initiative has found that only 28% of the fees paid by the average UK nightclub are being distributed correctly to artists. More than 5.7m a year is allegedly being misallocated by performing rights organisations, and paid out to the wrong people. Continue reading...

Journalist rebuts accusation of obtaining sexual images by deceit in documents submitted to high courtThe journalist Dan Wootton has denied he catfished a man who claims to be a former colleague in documents submitted to the high court, it has been reported.It is alleged that Wootton exchanged sexual messages in 2010 with the claimant - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - while pretending to be Maria Joseph" and encouraging him to send explicit photographs and a video. Continue reading...

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Early investigations suggest device was using software incompatible with emergency calls on TPG network

Suppliers would not have previously been obliged to test the products at any point in the supply chain, ABF confirmed

The hazy UN resolution dictates that Trump's board of peace' will supervise an International Stabilisation Force, whose membership is as yet undeterminedThe resolution passed by the UN security council on Tuesday evening, aimed at turning the precarious Gaza ceasefire into a real peace plan, is one of the oddest in United Nations history.It puts Donald Trump in supreme control of Gaza, perhaps with Tony Blair as his immediate subordinate in a board of peace", which will oversee multinational peacekeeping troops, a committee of Palestinian technocrats and a local police force, for a period of two years. Continue reading...

The Victorian Liberals' first female leader will focus on the budget, health and housing, relegating crime to a second priority