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We must lay up our supplies - of love, care, trust, community and resolve - so we may resist the stormHere we are in a crisis in which almost everything we love is going to be under siege in the US in ways that will affect the world in many ways. Most of all this will be because a Trump administration is going to go to war on climate action domestically and internationally - on nature itself and the ways we protect it and thereby protect the systems on which human life depends.I was asked to talk about hope. First of all, hope does not mean saying this is not bad, and it does not mean saying that we can defeat it. It just means saying we will keep showing up. That we will not give up. That we will assess our powers and weaknesses and recognise that the future we face looks grim, but we do not know how it will unfold, and neither do those we oppose. How it will unfold depends in no small part on what we do. People too often think hope is smiles and sunshine, when it's fury in the face of danger and oppression, and pressing on in the storm. Continue reading...

After some big roles in Donald Trump's last administration, here are those likely to feature this time roundDonald is not the only Trump back in the picture after his election win.On Tuesday night, members of the former and future president's family posed with him at his Florida estate in celebration of his re-election. Dad, we are so proud of you," wrote Tiffany, Trump's younger daughter, posting the photo on X. It was also shared by his 17-year-old granddaughter, Kai, captioned: The whole squad." Continue reading...

The right funding now can protect the frontlines of the climate crisis from the worst effects of extreme weather eventsAs we approach Cop29 in Baku, world leaders are due to set a new climate finance goal - a sum set aside to help poor countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the effects of the climate crisis. Their negotiations take place against a backdrop of increasingly severe weather events. This year alone, we have witnessed deadly heatwaves across north Africa, Mexico, India and Saudi Arabia; a historic drought across southern Africa; catastrophic wildfires in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands; record-breaking hurricanes in the Caribbean and the US; and plenty more. The climate emergency knows no borders and spares no one.These events serve as stark reminders of the pressing need for world leaders and all of us to protect vulnerable communities on the frontline of the climate crisis. For many developing countries, particularly in Africa, the cost of climate impacts is staggering. African nations are losing up to 5% of their GDP because of climate extremes, while some are diverting as much as 9% of their national budgets to overcome the fallout from them. The latest report by the World Meteorological Organization estimates that Africa south of the Sahara alone will need $30bn-$50bn annually over the next decade just to meet the costs of protecting communities facing unprecedented climate-related disasters. We will not be able to reduce poverty, eliminate hunger and build a prosperous and resilient global community without addressing the climate crisis.Ban Ki-moon is a former secretary general of the United Nations and co-chair, Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens Continue reading...

President-elect wants to end the wars in Ukraine and Middle East to focus on China. How he will try to get there is unclearIn the first Trump term Richard Moore, then the political director of the UK Foreign Office and now the head of MI6, admitted half of Britain's diplomats woke up each morning dreading what they might read on the president's Twitter feed.The sheer unpredictability of Trump's caprice, and his faith in his quixotic charisma, made it hard for diplomats to operate. It would often taken feverish consultations with Trump's senior aides, including some in the Pentagon, before a plan - such as a premature withdrawal of 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan - could be finessed. Continue reading...

Shifts in production' expected if baseline tariffs on imported goods are imposed to benefit US auto manufacturingIn 1964 the new US president was angry about European trade. Specifically about chickens. In response to Europe's poultry trade barriers, Lyndon B Johnson imposed a 25% tariff on light trucks.That chicken tax" is still in place 60 years later. The rules have contributed to the Ford's F-Series pickup truck's unbroken 42-year run as the bestselling vehicle in the US, and have locked European manufacturers out of a hugely profitable market for two generations. The chicken tax could also serve as a model for Donald Trump's second term in the White House. Continue reading...

Trump has promised to turn back migrants at the southern border, but US law generally prohibits active-duty troops from being deployed for law enforcement purposes

Five people wounded on Friday in stabbings in Chinatown and police suspect other stabbings on Thursday are linkedSeattle police have arrested a man following a two-day spate of random stabbings that injured 10 people, including five on Friday, authorities said.Police made an arrest following a series of attacks on Friday and said it is plausible they are connected" to several other stabbings that unfolded on Thursday, Eric Barden, the city's deputy police chief, told reporters at the scene. Continue reading...

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Trump appointee Stephen McGlynn rules that ban enacted in wake of deadly Highland Park attack is unconstitutionalA federal judge in Illinois who was appointed during Donald Trump's first presidency has struck down the state's assault weapons ban as unconstitutional.Judge Stephen McGlynn also issued an order barring the state from enforcing the ban, though Illinois has time to appeal the ruling after he stayed it for 30 days. Continue reading...

Two men had also planned to go to Texas and kill asylum seekers as well as border agents who would try to stop themTwo men who co-founded a militia group have been convicted of attempting to murder federal agents ahead of a trip to Texas where they intended to shoot people attempting to cross the US-Mexico border.Jonathan S O'Dell, 34, of Warsaw, Missouri, and Bryan C Perry, 39, of Clarksville, Tennessee, also planned to shoot any federal agents who tried to stop them as they targeted migrants, according to the prosecution. Continue reading...

Vice-president Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Walz says the 2024 US election outcome is 'hard to understand'. The governor of Minnesota vowed to 'keep fighting' Donald Trump's 'hateful agenda'. Walz appeared to choke up during the speech in his home state. Harris and Walz lost by a landslide to the Republicans in the election on 5 November

A network of organised disinformation sows doubt, kills policy reform and keep us at odds as we debate Trump-maniaHistorians will long scratch their heads that a Republican candidate who - despite an inability to string a coherent sentence together, being grossly underqualified and rife with extramarital affairs - would go on to not only win election but become one of the most popular presidents in US history.The first candidate to grasp how to use new media" in a presidential campaign effectively and who - rather than getting to work in Washington after the election, as expected, immediately took off on vacation to play golf. Continue reading...

Congress likely not to renew extended ACA coverage next year and Trump's concepts of a plan' for US healthcare are unknown

The gender gap among young people was predictably vast. But the numbers still defied expectations, as the political scientist Melissa Deckman explains

Wildfires in southern California have destroyed more than 130 structures in two days. Firefighters have been working to contain the flames fanned by fierce gusts of winds. About 100,000 people remain under evacuation orders as the fire threatens 3,500 structures in suburban neighbourhoods, ranches and agricultural areas around Camarillo, about 50 miles north-west of Los Angeles

FBI investigating after people report texts saying they were selected to pick cotton and go to nearest plantationJust hours after Donald Trump's election win on Tuesday, Black people across the US reported receiving racist text messages telling them that they had been selected" to pick cotton and needed to report to the nearest plantation". While the texts, some of which were signed a Trump supporter", varied in detail, they all conveyed the same essential message about being selected to pick cotton. Some of the messages refer to the recipients by name.A spokesperson for the president-elect told CNN that his campaign has absolutely nothing to do with these text messages". It is not yet clear who is behind the messages, nor is there a comprehensive list of the people to whom the messages were sent, but social media posts indicate that the messages are widespread. Continue reading...

Immigration advocates say ruling could separate families for years, while Mexico vows to continue measures to stop migrants from reaching US borderA federal judge has struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to US citizens.The program, lauded as one of the biggest presidential actions to help immigrant families in years, allowed undocumented spouses and stepchildren of US citizens to apply for a green card, the right to permanent legal residency, without first having to leave the country. Continue reading...

President-elect's plan to quash undocumented migration through mass deportations met with Democratic resistanceDonald Trump's vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants has no price tag", the president-elect has said, setting the scene for a confrontation between his incoming administration and Democratic officials across the US.As Democratic state governors and mayors signalled their determination to resist the most extreme elements of his agenda, Trump promised that his campaign pledge to expel an estimated 11 million people - though Trump himself has given a figure as high as 21 million - would be implemented come what may. Continue reading...

Clear links to president-elect and rightwing document emerge after his attempts to distance himself from project

Democrats remain hopeful of gaining razor-thin majority as more than two dozen races yet to be called

Rob Bonta vows to defend state from president-elect's policies threatening immigrants, abortion rights and moreCalifornia was considered a leader in fighting the most extreme policies of Donald Trump's first administration, and after the Republican's decisive win this week, officials in the Golden state say they are more prepared to resist Trump's expected agenda for his second term.Rob Bonta, California's attorney general, will be a crucial figure in that effort, tasked with spearheading litigation and defending vulnerable Californians' rights in the courtroom. It's a tall order as the president-elect has promised policies that could threaten the state's immigrant population, LGBTQ+ residents, climate initiatives, gun safety measures, healthcare programs and abortion rights. Continue reading...

The last time was awful, but now that seems a mere dress rehearsal. From a public health crisis to the end of Nato, the threats are clearAre you ready for Trump unbound? You may have thought the former and future president was already pretty unrestrained, not least because Donald Trump has never shown anything but brazen disrespect for boundaries or limits of any kind. And you would be right. But, as an earlier entertainer turned president - and Trump combines the two roles - liked to say: You ain't seen nothing yet.That's because the 47th president will enter the Oval Office free of almost all constraints. He will be able to do all that he promised and all that he threatened, with almost nothing and no one to stand in his way.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

In an exclusive interview the first American woman to sailboat alone and nonstop around the globe discusses her mission to break down barriersAt only 30 years old she has already conquered the world. Petite, upbeat and outspoken, Cole Brauer recently sailed alone non-stop around the globe in just 130 days, closely documenting her trip on social media. As the only woman to take part in the Global Solo Challenge and the youngest participant, she came second out of 16, behind Frenchman Philippe Delamare.After a lot of chasing, the Guardian caught up with her for an exclusive interview at the Annapolis Sailboat Show on the Eastern Shore. Continue reading...

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had an opportunity to win a demographic that swung toward Trump - but they didn't fight for it, says the authorIn the months leading up to election day, pollsters were fixated on one demographic: young men. This group, often elusive in political data, was showing signs of a notable swing toward Donald Trump and away from the progressive viewpoints of young women.Traditionally a policy wonk, Richard Reeves became an unlikely media mainstay this election cycle, sought after by those trying to decode the concerns and motivations of these gen Z male voters. Reeves is president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, which he started in 2023 to create research-based approaches to bettering the education, mental health, and work and family life of men. Many of the institute's policy proposals were outlined in Reeves's 2022 book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It. Continue reading...

Project 2025 and other far-right groups have outlined a blueprint for Trump's second termAs Donald Trump prepares to move back into the White House, he'll have a host of rightwing groups trying to influence his staffing choices and policy proposals, including the group behind Project 2025, despite Trump's insistence they won't be involved.Democrats repeatedly ran attacks on Trump over Project 2025, the conservative manifesto that its writers want to guide a second Trump administration. Trump tried to distance himself from it and from the group behind it, the Heritage Foundation, one of DC's biggest thinktanks. Continue reading...

Also this week, Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg change their mailing address to Donald Trump's RectumLooking back to Monday, the world seemed a quaint place - but by the end of the week it had become a lot darker. On Tuesday night, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, having served as the 45th (Grover Cleveland set the precedent for serving two non-consecutive terms in the White House), and in the first 48 hours there were new norms and proprieties to straighten out. For example: was it productive in the aftermath of the election to call the 72 million Americans who voted for Trump a bunch of idiots? Continue reading...

Russian leader expresses admiration for Trump as race for control of the House intensifies. Plus, why a movement calling for celibacy among straight women is going viral after Trump's winGood morning.Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory and said Moscow was ready for dialogue, in a development that will deeply concern Kyiv and dial up unease across Europe.What has Trump said on Ukraine? He has claimed, with little substantiation, that he could bring peace to Ukraine within 24 hours" - leading to fears within Nato that his plan may just be to order Ukraine to surrender.Where are we up to in the House? The Democrats have 199 seats, while the Republicans are ahead at 211. There are still 25 races to call at the time of writing - but either side only needs 218 for a majority. Continue reading...

The whole horror show seems so predictable now, doesn't it? Just like it did the last time ...My husband knows masses more about US politics than me, so do imagine how much he enjoyed me spending the best part of the past two years telling him Trump's going to win", simply because I felt it in my vibes. However, earlier this year, he started to agree with me, which I had to concede meant a lot because he was basing it on actual information, and had the first clue what he was talking about. Scrolling back through my text messages to him, I am reading things such as: Sorry, Harris is selling joy'???? Please tell me the election anywhere in history that was won on joy because I would LOVE to hear about it." (Sidenote: I can see from reviewing the data that I've really over-leaned into the sassy question mark this year.)Anyway, there's plenty more in this vein. I don't believe all this polling, I just think it's all some massive cope?" Yet when I was asked on the afternoon of election day who I predicted would win it, I promptly said Kamala Harris?" Later that night, on the phone, my husband wondered mildly why I had abandoned the conviction of long months of kitchen rants and annoyingly punctuated text messages. I don't know," I replied. I guess I just ... forgot?"Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

The Democrats must learn to speak to voters who don't believe in the politics of old and aren't interested in returning to itThe ever-splenetic HL Mencken once wrote that democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard". He was no liberal, but it's a line many Democrats today would be taken with. On Tuesday, the first wave of election postmortems have lamented, the American people took the full measure of Donald Trump - oaf, cheat, bigot and fascist - and re-elected him under no illusions, in full cognizance of what another Trump term would mean for the country.One can quibble with this just a bit: there's a lot that emerged over the course of this campaign that most voters probably didn't know much about, from a plan to invade Mexico that Trump may well have forgotten himself to late breaking news on the depth of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Still, frustrated Democrats are directionally correct here on the whole. Trump won this election fairly, squarely and soundly as a well-known quantity - a former president and the most widely discussed man in the world, who will return to the White House in his 10th year at the center of American life.Osita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Move follows church's 2020 bankruptcy filing, hundreds of allegations and a standoff with survivorsIn a gesture of reconciliation to victims of its decades-old clergy molestation scandal, the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans has tentatively agreed to publicly release the confidential personnel files of priests and deacons faced with substantial allegations of child sexual abuse.Church officials on Thursday announced the plan to disclose clergy files as one of several non-monetary commitments in the US's second-oldest Catholic archdiocese efforts to settle a costly federal bankruptcy reorganization first filed in 2020. Continue reading...

The party, increasingly divorced from workers, leaned too much on an activist base instead of a voting baseI turned on MSNBC after the election results came in and this, verbatim, was the commentary I heard: This really was a historic, flawlessly run campaign. She had Queen Latifah [who] never endorses anyone! She had every prominent celebrity voice, she had the Taylor Swifties, she had the Beyhive. You could not run a better campaign in that short period of time." Democrats, it seems, are already blaming their defeat this week on a host of contingent factors and not on their own shortcomings.It's, of course, true that inflation has hurt incumbents across the world. But that doesn't mean that there was nothing that Joe Biden could have done to address the problem. He could have rolled out anti-price-gouging measures early, pushed taxes on corporate super profits and more. Through well-designed legislation and the right messaging, inflation could have been both mitigated and explained. That's what president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered his supporters in Mexico and his governing coalition enjoyed commanding support. Continue reading...

Revealed: new book by far-right Kevin Roberts calls for conservatives to burn away the rot' of US institutionsA new book by the chief architect of Project 2025, a hugely controversial policy plan for a second Trump term, repeatedly employs imagery of fire and burning, including calling for rightwingers to burn away the rot" of American institutions and organizations deemed opposed to conservative aims.The news comes after a White House address on Thursday, two days after Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, when Joe Biden called on Americans to bring down the temperature" after months of heated political battle. Continue reading...

Four teams dominated the regular season but the playoffs are notoriously fickle. Our writers make their picks for the upcoming battle for the titleThe elites. Orlando, Washington, Gotham and Kansas City were the best teams in the regular season. And there was a 16-point gap between fourth-placed Kansas City and North Carolina, who finished fifth in the table. Collectively, the top four were responsible for 46% of the wins and 40% of the goals scored in the 14-team league. The players, owners and off-field developments associated with these squads formed most (but not all) of the league's most fascinating storylines. It will be exciting to see which of them, if any, survive the playoffs. AA Continue reading...

Former Tottenham and France captain discusses ups and downs at Spurs, Ange Postecoglou and his new life in LA

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Scottish actor went viral for his disdain of president-elect during TV appearance alongside Boris JohnsonArtists need to keep the flag of truth flying" after Donald Trump's election victory, the legendary Scottish actor Brian Cox has said.Cox, who played Logan Roy in the hit HBO series Succession, also said the world has never been in a more dangerous place than it is at the moment" as he reflected on the US election campaign and a second impending Trump presidency. Continue reading...

With Germany's government collapsing and Europeans so divided in their response to Trump, unity is essential yet elusiveThe first victim of Donald Trump's second term as US president is likely to be Ukraine. The only people who can avert that disaster are us Europeans, yet our continent is in disarray. Germany's coalition government chose the day we woke up to news of Trump's triumph, of all days, to fall apart in bitter rancour. Unless Europe can somehow rise to the challenge, not just Ukraine but the whole continent will be left weak, divided and angry as we enter a new and dangerous period of European history.In Ukraine itself, people have been trying to find a silver lining in that orange cloud rapidly approaching Washington. After all, they were increasingly frustrated with the self-deterrence of Joe Biden's administration. This slender new hope was perfectly captured in a text message sent to me by a frontline Ukrainian commander. Trump, he wrote, is a surprise-man, maybe things will get better".Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Close races in states where counting is still underway called in to question as claims of fraud in presidential vote quietenActivists are using Donald Trump's decisive victory to further question the 2020 election results and sow doubts about close US senate races where ballots are still being counted.While they've been quiet about fraud in the presidential election this year, activists pointed to the unofficial total number of votes cast, noting that 20m more ballots had been cast in 2020. Ignoring the reality that there are millions of votes still being counted in states like California, Arizona and Nevada, they suggested the incomplete number was somehow evidence there were fake ballots in 2020. Continue reading...

Guardian analysis suggests Harris underperformed compared with 2020 - but in the states that mattered most it was Trump's gains that won him the White HouseNationwide, the US election was primarily a story of Democratic underperformance rather than huge Republican gains compared to 2020 - but in the swing states that ultimately decided the victor, it was the opposite story, with Trump's gains far outstripping Harris's losses.Across the US, Democrats lost more total votes overall compared with 2020 than Republicans gained: Harris attracted 1.4m fewer votes than her Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, did, while Trump attracted 1.1m more than he did in the previous election. Continue reading...

Kamala Harris did not escape blame for the decisive loss to Donald Trump, but a failure to distance herself from Joe Biden was held up as a cause by some

The Biden administration has confirmed that the US will keep sending aid to Ukraine before Donald Trump becomes president in January. 'That's not going to change. We're going to surge and get that out there to Ukraine. We understand how important it is to make sure they have what they need', said White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre. President-elect Donald Trump, who won the US election this week, has been critical of Joe Biden's assistance for Ukraine in its fight against Russia

Mountain fire in Ventura county has destroyed 132 homes and damaged 88, and fire is 5% contained, officials sayA wind-driven wildfire roared through rural and residential communities north-west of Los Angeles, charring more than 20,500 acres and leveling scores of homes.The Mountain fire in Ventura county, California, continued to burn on Thursday morning, as footage showed dozens of structures turned to smoldering ruins now lining the streets where neighborhoods once stood. Continue reading...

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Wiles, 67, who stressed discipline as Trump re-election chief, to become first ever female presidential chief of staffSusie Wiles, who was named Donald Trump's new White House chief of staff, will be the first woman in US history to serve in the role as gatekeeper to the president, a position that typically wields great influence.The chief of staff position is usually the first appointee that a president-elect names, and may oversee the transition from one administration. Once Trump is sworn in as president, Wiles will also be in charge of all White House policy, serving as a confidante and adviser and managing day-to-day affairs. Continue reading...

McCormick ousts incumbent Democratic Bob Casey after contentious and expensive race, widening party's majorityThe Republican Dave McCormick won the Senate race in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday, denying the Democratic incumbent, Bob Casey, a fourth term and expanding his party's majority in the upper chamber. Despite the call from the Associated Press, Casey has refused to concede the race, as the top state election official reported that tens of thousands of ballots remained uncounted.When the AP called the race at 4.09pm ET on Thursday, two days after polls closed in Pennsylvania, McCormick led by 0.5 points. The narrow margin raised the possibility of a recount, although Casey faces an uphill climb in overcoming McCormick's lead of roughly 30,000 votes.Trump wins the presidency - how did it happen?Full presidential election results and mapAbortion ballot measure results by stateRepublicans retake control of the SenateSenate, House and governor results Continue reading...

I know we must fight to protect the rights we have in Australia but which the US is on the cusp of losing (or has already lost)