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The broadcaster should not cave to Trump's demandsYou can't be in the news business and avoid mistakes. That's why responsible media organizations correct their errors and acknowledge them to the public. It's why newsroom leaders take steps, internally, to repair broken processes. It's why they sometimes go so far as to apologize or take stories down.Some mistakes, of course, are worse than others. A misspelled name is one thing. Sustained coverage that is misleading or false is quite another. And there are plenty of gradations between those two poles.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

Donald Trump said he had an 'obligation' to sue the BBC for misrepresenting his comments before the January 6 attacks on the US Capitol in 2021. The US president reiterated his threat of launching a $1bn legal action during an interview on Fox News, saying the British broadcaster had 'defrauded the public'. The BBC has been plunged into its biggest crisis in decades after its two most senior staff, the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of news, Deborah Turness, resigned after criticism over standards and accusations of bias at the BBC, including over how it edited a speech by Trump

Smallville actor, released from prison two years ago, tells how she helped coerce women for cult leader Keith RaniereThe Smallville actor Allison Mack says she was once riveted by the influence she wielded through her role in the Nxivm sex cult - though it eventually sent her to federal prison, and she now realizes it was abusive".I was excited by the power that I felt having these young, beautiful women look to me and listen to me," Mack, 43, maintains in a new podcast series titled Allison After Nxivm, which contains her first public remarks since her release from prison about two years ago. And - yes - the sexuality of it was exciting." Continue reading...

Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prisonMore than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump's mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday.The report, compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal - a group investigating violations in Central America - says conditions at El Salvador's sprawling terrorist continent center" (Cecot) breached the UN's standard minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners. It cites inhumane prison conditions, including prolonged incommunicado detention, inadequate food" and other shortcomings. Continue reading...

Schlossberg has drummed up a large following on social media with frequent posts weighing in on national issuesJohn F Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg has said he will run for the US House next year, announcing Tuesday that he was seeking a key New York seat set to be vacated by longtime Democrat Jerry Nadler.This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington," Schlossberg said in a campaign video posted on social media late Tuesday. Continue reading...

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President called the agreement that passed the Senate Monday a very big victory' amid the record-breaking government shutdown - key US politics stories from 11 November 2025Democrats' resolve cracked this week, when a splinter group in the Senate joined with the GOP to craft a compromise bill that reauthorizes government funding through January, without extending healthcare tax credits.Donald Trump called the agreement a very big victory" during remarks at Arlington National Cemetery. Continue reading...

More uncertainty after justices allow temporary block on full payments for Snap, relied upon by 42 million AmericansMillions of Americans grappling with food insecurity will face more uncertainty this week after the US supreme court enabled the Trump administration to continue withholding funds for food stamps.In an administrative stay issued on Tuesday, the highest court upheld the administration's request to extend a pause on a federal judge's ruling that would have required $4bn in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Snap, the food aid relied on by 42 million people, to be distributed. The funding freeze has been given two additional days, and will now remain in place until midnight on Thursday. Continue reading...

Fannie Mae officers were investigating whether Trump ally inappropriately accessed mortgage details of Letitia James, Adam Schiff and othersEthics officials at Fannie Mae were removed from their jobs as they investigated whether a top Trump ally improperly accessed mortgage documents of Letitia James, the New York attorney general, and other Democratic officials, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.William Pulte, a staunch Trump defender and the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has accused James, Adam Schiff, a California senator, and Lisa Cook, a federal reserve governor, of mortgage fraud. All three have denied the accusations and James was indicted on specious federal charges last month. Continue reading...

Report including responses from more than 500 museum directors finds median loss of $30,000 in grants or contractsOne-third of US museums have lost government grants or contracts since Donald Trump took office, according to a new survey.The findings, released by the American Alliance of Museums on Tuesday and based on responses from more than 500 museum directors across the US, shed new light on the challenges cultural institutions are facing under the Trump administration. Continue reading...

Alyssa Wilson, a resident at a sober living home, stole a minivan and was chased for hours until crossing the borderA woman who had been staying at a women's sobriety home in California stole a minivan and was chased by police for hours until she crossed over to Mexico on Monday.A second woman, Nicolle Walters, 45, reported to authorities that her 2004 gray Toyota Sienna was missing, along with her car key, according to a statement by the Ventura county sheriff's office. Walters, owner and operator of two women's sober living homes, identified the suspect as Alyssa Wilson, one of the residents at Diana's House Sober Living in Thousand Oaks, which is about an hour's drive north-west of Los Angeles. Continue reading...

Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper's editorA rural county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3m and apologize over a raid by police on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked a national outcry over press freedom, the paper's editor said on Tuesday.Eric Meyer, the editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, told the Associated Press he is hoping the size of the payment is large enough to discourage similar actions against news organizations in the future. Continue reading...

Democrats are demanding an extension of tax credits for Affordable Care Act health plans set to expire at end of year

Lawsuit alleges doctor at Fort Hood was allowed to continue working despite complaints against him for yearsMilitary officials in Texas have suspended a US army gynecologist over allegations he inappropriately touched and secretly filmed dozens of women during appointments at an on-base medical center.A civil lawsuit filed in Bell county on Monday alleges that Blaine McGraw, a doctor and army major at Fort Hood, repeatedly groped a woman during a series of seven or eight consultations, and took intimate videos and photographs of her that were later found on his phone. Continue reading...

Government argues funding mechanism behind Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unlawfulThe Trump administration has launched its most direct attempt yet to shut down the top US consumer watchdog, arguing the current funding mechanism behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is unlawful.Attorneys for the administration claimed in a court filing that the agency anticipates exhausting its currently available funds in early 2026", setting the stage for it to be dismantled. Continue reading...

Aryasp Nejat says he was fired after enduring sexually assaultive touching' and making pro-union postsDelta Air Lines settled a lawsuit that alleged a flight attendant was fired in retaliation for supporting unionization and enduring sexually assaultive touching" during training.The flight attendant, Aryasp Nejat, said he was suspended without pay, then fired, for making two pro-union, anti-harassment posts on social media, and was told his sexual harassment allegation would be investigated, but that he never received a follow-up. Continue reading...

The president of world football's governing body should abandon geopolitical networking and address criticisms over World Cup ticketingTo general bemusement, Gianni Infantino, the president of world football's governing body, Fifa, waspictured congratulating Donald Trump last month at the Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, having been personally invited by the US president. MrInfantino did not hold back in lauding the president's peace-making prowess, commenting: Now we can really write some new pages. Pages of togetherness, of peace, in a region which really, reallyneeds it."News that Fifa is to launch its own annual peace prize, with the inaugural award to take place in Washington next month, would therefore seem to point to only one outcome. To use a metaphor from another sport, it surely looks like a slam dunk for the man Fifa's president describes as a winner" and closefriend". As Mr Infantino told an American business forum on the day he announced the prize: We should all support what [Mr Trump is] doing becauseIthink it's looking good." Continue reading...

Rescuers have been seeking unnamed man since pocket of water inundated Rolling Thunder mine on SaturdayEmergency responders have been trying to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coalmine since Saturday, according to authorities.A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water on Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the Rolling Thunder mine near Drennen, about 50 miles (80km) east of the state capital of Charleston, the Nicholas county commissioner, Garrett Cole, said in a Facebook post. Continue reading...

USS Gerald R Ford's arrival marks the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989The US navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world's newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.The deployment of the ship and the strike group it leads - which includes dozens of aircraft and destroyer ships - had been announced nearly three weeks ago, and its arrival marks an escalation in the military buildup between the US and Venezuela. Continue reading...

University student charged with disturbing peace after yelling and throwing coins towards Barstool Sports founderA Mississippi State University student has been arrested after yelling antisemitic comments at Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.The arrest of 20-year old Patrick McClintock, a mechanical engineering student at MSU, came after Starkville police were made aware of a video circulating online that depicted an individual yelling an antisemitic statement and throwing coins toward another person outside a local business", the police department said in a statement. Continue reading...

Families allege camp leaders ignored known flood risks in entirely preventable' tragedy that killed multiple peopleThe families of several campers and two counselors who died in July's catastrophic Hill Country floods in Texas have filed multiple lawsuits against Camp Mystic and its owners, accusing them of gross negligence".The 4 July floods, which claimed more than 130 lives across the region and was described as some of the US's deadliest floods in decades, devastated the 99-year-old Christian all-girls camp, located on the banks of the Guadalupe river in Kerr county. Continue reading...

Shares in chipmaker Nvidia fall after announcement by Japanese investor, with other tech shares also slipping

Public life is a minefield and the best and brightest just don't want to know. How convenient for foes of the most trusted news organisation in the worldListen, I hate to ruin a yarn wall but I don't think it's at all helpful to start framing the current crisis at the BBC as a giant conspiracy or coup by dark rightwing forces, and get stuck in the weeds of that. The fact is, the three mistakes that form the bulk of Michael Prescott's explosive leaked memo about impartiality - the Panorama edit, issues with coverage of the transgender issue and bias in the BBC Arabic service - happened and are bad. Given their spectacular fallout and the highest-level scalps that have been claimed, the opportunity to now deal with them might as well be taken by what is, let's not forget, the most trusted news organisation in the world.There is no news organisation in the United States that reaches more than 25% of people in a week. BBC News reaches 74% of UK adults in a week. There is vastly more distrust of news brands in the US. We in Britain live in a country with a far less polarised news market than almost anywhere else, in a world where 70% of countries don't even have a free press. This is great, whatever you might be told by Nigel Farage - a political leader who's gunning to be the next PM but still presents a nightly current affairs show on GB News like that isn't a massive conflict of interest and we live in Russia or something. Thanks for dialling in, Mr Ethics! Continue reading...

Decision breathes new life into Democrats' attempts to reclaim the House in the 2026 midterm electionsA Utah judge has handed Democrats a win in the continuing national fight over voting districts by ordering a new map that creates a House seat in a Democratic-leaning area, in a state where Republicans currently control all four positions.The judge, Dianna Gibson, ruled just before a midnight deadline on Monday that a revised map submitted by the Republican-controlled state legislature unduly favors Republicans and disfavors Democrats", throwing out lawmakers' second attempt to draw fair districts. Continue reading...

Video shows Rafael Veraza holding his face after he and his family were allegedly sprayed through open car windowAn Illinois man said his US citizen family - including his one-year-old daughter - were pepper-sprayed in their car by federal immigration agents during a shopping trip in a Chicago suburb.Video of the encounter outside a Sam's Club in Cicero shows Rafael Veraza clutching at his face after he was allegedly sprayed through his open window by a cloudy substance fired by a masked agent from a pick-up truck traveling in the opposite direction. Continue reading...

I'm one of 41 million people who need Snap to make ends meet. For weeks, the administration has turned our survival into a game: will they eat, or won't they?It is 10 November, and my refrigerator is almost empty.I am, in fact, hungry as I write this. It is not that I do not have food at all; it is that I do not have the inclination to eat a can of tuna for breakfast, nor do I have the time to cook the winter squash my neighbor gave me. Continue reading...

The document describes Israel's case against Mohammed Ibrahim but omits key details about his treatmentThe Israeli embassy in Washington has been circulating a letter on Capitol Hill defending its nine-month detention of a 16-year-old US citizen in military prison as pressure mounts from senators and civil society groups who have called for his release.The document, obtained by the Guardian, describes Israel's allegations against Mohammed Ibrahim and the medical treatment he has allegedly received in prison. It does not mention his dramatic weight loss or the fact that his family has had virtually no contact with him since his arrest in February. Continue reading...

CDC says it will not continue wild to mild' campaign despite second worst child influenza season on US record last yearAs flu season begins in the US, following the deadliest flu outbreak in children outside of a pandemic since record-keeping began in 2004, pediatricians are taking the lead on vaccine messaging.The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not plan to resume its wild to mild" flu vaccination campaign, which was halted in the midst of the record-breaking flu season. Continue reading...

As of Tuesday, more than 1,100 flights had been canceled, and more than 540 had been delayedAir travelers should expect worsening cancellations and delays this week even if the US government shutdown ends, as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rolled out deeper cuts to flights at 40 of the nation's major airports Tuesday, officials said.The FAA ordered domestic airlines last week to drop 4% of their flights at the airports in question, saying absences and signs of stress among traffic controllers made it imperative to act in the name of public safety. After already canceling more than 7,900 since Friday, the goal for cutting flights is set to rise to 6% on Tuesday - and again to 10% on Friday. Continue reading...

Two senior BBC figures have resigned. Plus, China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months

Supporting my mother as she grew older meant facing pride, minimization and resistance. The key to a healthier relationship was empathyOne evening as I was using my key to let myself into my mother's apartment for a visit, I glanced toward the kitchen table where she usually sat reading the newspaper and saw her rolling walker standing alone. Surprised, I said loudly: Where are you, Mom?"Here," I heard her respond from her bedroom down the hall. I'm fine." Continue reading...

Weston McKennie remains at Juventus due to a manager change, and the US remain vulnerable to outside elementsWhen Weston McKennie signed for Juventus in 2020, it had only been 30 days since Andrea Pirlo was made the Italian club's manager. A few weeks ago, Luciano Spalletti was appointed as Juve's fifth manager since McKennie joined - or his seventh, if you count the interim head coaches. It's not a new situation for the American. But according to US men's national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino, it's why McKennie isn't with the US during their upcoming friendlies with Paraguay on Saturday and Uruguay on Tuesday.Pochettino could have selected McKennie, trusting that Spalletti is the first Juventus manager in years to be instantly convinced of the multifunctional Texan's value. Rather than the usual routine of a manager trying to push McKennie out of the club, only to realize that there's a reason only three players in the squad have been at the club longer, Spalletti has given McKennie starts in all three matches he's overseen. The 27-year-old has played all but five available minutes in that span. Continue reading...

Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends'Donald Trump's unprecedented pardoning spree for political and business friends since returning to the White House has prompted warnings from ex-prosecutors and legal scholars of corrupt" pay-to-play schemes, conflicts of interest and blatant partisanship.It has included hundreds of Maga allies, a cryptocurrency mogul with ties to a Trump family crypto firm, disgraced politicians, and others who could yield political and financial benefits. Continue reading...

Woman requests help to support mental leave' after incident in which Darren Lucas, 59, was struck and killedA social media creator who allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian as she hosted a livestream and simultaneously drove through a Chicago suburb has been met with backlash after apparently soliciting donationsshe said were designed to support mental leave".You know I don't like asking y'all for shit, but if y'all ... find it in y'all's heart and y'all wanna support, my CashApp [account] is right there," the woman said, according to a recording of the plea made to a restricted TikTok audience three days from the traffic crash that killed 59-year-old Darren Lucas. Continue reading...

We may be in a golden age for the super-rich - but it doesn't feel that way for the 42 million Americans who use SnapIt seems like an understatement to call this the New Gilded Age. Perhaps we should instead call it the Obscenely Over-the-Top Gilded Age, considering that Tesla shareholders just approved a $1tn pay package for Elon Musk and the market value of chipmaker Nvidia has rocketed above $5tn.Not only that, the 10 richest billionaires in the US saw their collective wealth soar by $698bn over the past year, while Google's former CEO, Eric Schmidt, reportedly paid $110m for a 123-room mansion in Los Angeles to host events. And then there's our billionaire president, who - when his family isn't raking in tens of millions of dollars through crypto - is obsessed with building a $300m, gilded-to-the-hilt ballroom, funded by fellow billionaires.Steven Greenhouse is a journalist and author, focusing on labor and the workplace, as well as economic and legal issues Continue reading...

The Senate voted on Monday night to pass a budget bill that will bring the government shutdown to an end if, as expected, it passes a vote in the House of Representatives. Find out how every senator voted, and which Democrats broke ranksLink to data don't remove Continue reading...

The businessman shaped Dallas into an NBA force after years in the wilderness. But problems with the team only worsened when he sold upThe year 2000 cracked open like a glow stick, flooding Dallas with new money - and a new Mavericks owner, who had made his money selling his streaming site just before the dot-com crash. Like the 1990s Mavs, Mark Cuban wasn't polished - and he sure as hell wasn't subtle. He was brash and argumentative, clashed with refs, and clapped too hard whenever Dirk Nowitzki buried a three. The internet age, in the form of Cuban, crashed courtside when he bought the team for $285m. Gone was the era of distant owners watching occasional games from the executive boxes: the fan was in control of the team now. Cuban had hacked reality.Cuban's thesis was simple: never play by their rules. The Mavs were his start-up. He improved nutrition, upgraded hotels for road games, bought a team plane, filled lockers with PlayStations, and fought the NBA's lawyers with the defiance of a rapper clapping off hundos in a strip club. This went against the NBA's old boys' club. For all his dot-com cache, Cuban was punk in practice. Continue reading...

People shout Fascists out of Berkeley' as Turning Point USA brings message to college with history of leftwing activismTurning Point USA, the influential rightwing college group founded by Charlie Kirk, has brought Kirk's message to a campus with a long history of leftwing activism two months after his death.An event at the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday evening marked the chaotic last stop of the American Comeback tour, which Kirk had just begun at the time of his death at Utah Valley University. In the aftermath of Kirk's fatal shooting, the events have come to serve as memorials, with prominent conservative speakers, including JD Vance, highlighting the staggering impact the controversial rightwing influencer's death has had on American politics. Continue reading...

Writer and author had testified, and won, at trial that the president had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990sDonald Trump asked the US supreme court on Monday to throw out a jury's finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.Trump's lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court that allegations leading to the $5m verdict were propped up" by a series of indefensible evidentiary rulings" that allowed Carroll's lawyers to present highly inflammatory propensity evidence" against him. Continue reading...

Trump said he would abide by the deal" struck by US lawmakers - key US politics stories from 10 November 2025After weeks of false starts and failed votes, a procedural vote passed in the US Senate with a 60-40 tally, as seven Democrats and one independent joining all Republicans to advance a compromise deal that would fund most federal agencies through January.The bill now passes to the House, which is expected to vote on the measure on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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President put forth his version of Trump Care' and insisted we have the greatest economy we ever had'Donald Trump chastised overwhelmed air traffic controllers, cast blame and doubt in response to poor economic indicators and claimed that increased access to food stamps had put the country in jeopardy", in an exclusive interview on Fox News Monday evening.Speaking with Laura Ingraham, the president shared his thoughts on a wide range of topics from housing mortgages to foreign policy, interspersed with insults flung at his political opponents that were teed up by Ingraham's questions, including Gavin Newsom, the California governor and Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader. Continue reading...

Bill, which passed 60-40 but does not include key health concession demanded by Democrats, now heads to HouseThe Senate on Monday approved a funding package that is expected to bring to a close the longest government shutdown in US history, after a coalition of Democrats broke from their party and voted with Republicans, in a move that has enraged many in their caucus.The vote passed in a 60-40 tally, with seven Democrats and one independent joining all Republicans to approve a compromise deal that would fund most federal agencies through January. The agreement, which next goes to the House of Representatives, does not directly address the expiring tax credits for healthcare premiums, the issue at the center of the 40-day stalemate between Democrats and Republicans, though the Senate majority leader John Thune has promised a Senate vote later this year on the subsidies. Continue reading...