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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...

Country is one of world's most repressive and corrupt, raising concerns over rights abuses of those deportedThe United States has sent $7.5m to the government of Equatorial Guinea, one of the world's most repressive and corrupt regimes, to accept noncitizen deportees from the US to the West African nation, according to a leading congressional Democrat, current and former state department officials and public government data.The money sent to Equatorial Guinea is the first taken from a fund apportioned by Congress to address international refugee crises - and sometimes to facilitate the resettlement of refugees in the US - that has instead been repurposed under the Trump administration to hasten their deportation. Continue reading...

Some lawmakers and progressive groups blame minority leader after eight senators defectDemocrats are seething after news emerged on Sunday that eight members of their Senate caucus had collaborated with Republicans on crafting a compromise to end the longest government shutdown in US history, without winning any healthcare concessions that they had sought.But one name is coming in for more opprobrium than any other: Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who had led the Democrats' weeks-long stand against reopening the government without an extension of tax credits that lower premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans. Continue reading...

Sami Hamdi's visa was revoked in what appeared to be retaliation for criticism of Israel while touring the USThe family of British political commentator Sami Hamdi, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in late October while on a speaking tour in the US, say he is set to be released and will be able to return home soon".The government has agreed to release Sami," the family said in a statement on Monday. He will be able to return home soon insha'Allah." Continue reading...

Aircraft headed to island on Hurricane Melissa aid mission crashed into a pond in a neighborhood in Coral SpringsA small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed into a pond in a gated residential neighborhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing two people shortly after takeoff and narrowly missing homes, authorities and a local resident said.The Coral Springs police department confirmed the deaths in a statement Monday afternoon. But police did not provide further details about the occupants of the plane and did not immediately return messages seeking more details. Continue reading...

Man accused of groping family's nanny, evading bridge tolls and swinging IV pole at nurse and threatening to kill herA convicted drug dealer who had been granted clemency by Donald Trump was sent back to federal prison on Monday for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.Jonathan Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars. Continue reading...

Stefany Shaheen omitted to mention that her mother, Jeanne Shaheen, was among party's rebel senators who voted to approve bill

Epstein associate is also receiving special treatment in prison, Democrats say, according to whistleblowerGhislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate and co-conspirator who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a commutation application" for the Trump administration to review, according to new allegations from a whistleblower shared with House Democrats.Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced on Monday that they had received information from a whistleblower that indicates that the British former socialite, 63, is working on filing a commutation application. They also said Maxwell had been receiving special treatment at federal prison camp Bryan in Texas-the minimum-security facility she was transferred to earlier this year. Continue reading...

The scandal has provided Trump another avenue to attack the media, and to relitigate his involvement in January 6The editing of Donald Trump's speech on 6 January 2021 has embroiled the BBC in controversy, led to the resignations of its top leaders and given fuel to claims of media bias at the storied British broadcaster.A dossier from a former external adviser to the BBC's editorial standards committee flagged the edit, among other instances of purported bias in the outlet's coverage, which was leaked to the Telegraph. As a public sector organization, the BBC is required to be impartial, though it often faces claims of bias, particularly from the right. Continue reading...

The mayor-elect's address pulled from Socialist titans, Astoria's uncles and his rival's father. Julian Gerson explains how the two collaborated on the love letter to New York'In his victory speech after winning the New York mayoral election last week, Zohran Mamdani came out swinging.The speech included, among other dramatic flourishes, a reference to the socialist titan Eugene Debs, shoutouts to the city's Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses", tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru and Fiorello La Guardia, sprinkles of Arabic - and it was all delivered with the cadence and command of a hip-hop emcee. Many who were listening could not help but wonder: how the hell did he pull that off? Continue reading...

The broadcaster didn't make a very good job of its untruth - possibly because it hasn't had as much practiceYou have to admire the chutzpah. The cheek of it. Donald Trump describing the BBC as corrupt" while threatening to take legal action. Karoline Leavitt, The Donald's White House mouthpiece, calling the BBC 100% fake news". The man has never been known for his self-awareness so it's safe to say the irony has almost certainly passed him by. If you're being charitable, let's just say that maybe it takes fake news to spot fake news.The US president is a master of the lie. Makes Boris Johnson look something of an amateur. Boris always followed a lie with a giveaway smirk. He couldn't help himself. It was an integral part of his self-destruction. As if, buried deep down in his subconscious, there was a part of him that wanted to be found out. Continue reading...

The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and withoutThe BBC is under attack as never before. Donald Trump and his cronies have it squarely in their sights - and there are no prizes for guessing why. The BBC is the world's number one source of trusted news, so of course snake-oil salesmen such as Trump see it as their enemy. If your power is built on conspiracy theories and distortions of the truth, the last thing you want is respected, independent journalists exposing that and holding you to account.That's why rightwing populists have been attacking the BBC for years. Dominic Cummings (remember him?) once oversaw a report that called it the mortal enemy" of the Conservative party and set out a plan to undermine it with a new Fox News equivalent". In 2019, Nigel Farage called the BBC the enemy". In 2021, Boris Johnson appointed two Conservative cronies - Richard Sharp and Robbie Gibb - to the BBC board, as chair and non-executive director respectively.Ed Davey is the leader of the Liberal Democrats and MP for Kingston and SurbitonDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Atletico Ottawa secured a Canadian Premier League final victory unlike any other amid a swirling blizzard, with one of their goals dubbed an 'icicle kick' from the Mexican midfielder David Rodriguez.Hosts Ottawa beat Cavalry FC 2-1 in extra-time in Sunday's title decider in temperatures of -8C (17.6F) with snow so heavy that play was halted every 15 minutes to clear the lines on the pitch and goalkeepers using shovels to mark out their boxes.

Senate took a key procedural vote on proposal that would end the longest government shutdown in US historyThe Senate on Sunday evening took a key procedural vote on legislation that would end the longest government shutdown in US history. The bill resulted from days of talks between Democratic and Republican senators, and extends funding through next January, but does not include an extension of the subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans that Democrats put at the heart of their demands.The deal is controversial, with most Democrats, including the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, opposing it. Here is a breakdown of how every senator voted: Continue reading...

Cold and snow take hold in eastern two-thirds of the US, from the Great Lakes to Florida and TexasFloridians have been asked to keep their guard up against iguanas plummeting out of trees and possibly hurting them as temperatures plunge in their state and other parts of the US.The unusual warning came as one of the season's first blasts of wintry weather began to take hold in the eastern two-thirds of the US, from the Great Lakes to Florida and Texas. Continue reading...

The defending Premier League champions spent big over the summer, but it's hard to see how the new players fit

Seven Democrats and an independent face fury over support to advance funding bill amid 40-day shutdownAfter weeks of false starts and failed votes, the US Senate secured the 60 votes needed late Sunday night to pass a compromise continuing resolution that would reopen the federal government after seven Democrats and an independent sided with Republicans to support the measure to send it back to the House for another vote. The Democratic caucus has aimed anger at the defectors, who nonetheless branded their decision as being the best available option.They were Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and independent Angus King of Maine who caucuses with the Democrats. Republican senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was the sole member of his party to vote against the bill, which he has done for weeks. Continue reading...

The amended package will still have to be passed by the House and sent to Trump for his signature, a process that could take daysThe Senate on Sunday made significant progress towards ending the longest US government shutdown in history, narrowly advancing a compromise bill to reauthorize funding and undo the layoffs of some employees.But the measure, which resulted from days of talks between a handful of Democratic and Republican senators, leaves out the healthcare subsidies that Democrats had demanded for weeks. Most Democratic senators rejected it, as did many of the party's lawmakers in the House of Representatives, which will have to vote to approve it before the government can reopen. Continue reading...

Federal clemency towards president's close allies largely symbolic as some still face legal exposure at state levelRudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, both close former political allies of Donald Trump, are among scores of people pardoned by the president over the weekend for their roles in a plot to steal the 2020 election.The maneuver is in effect symbolic, given it only applies in the federal justice system and not in state courts where Giuliani, Meadows and the others continue facing legal peril. The acts of clemency were announced in a post late on Sunday to X by US pardon attorney Ed Martin, covers 77 people said to have been the architects and agents of the scheme to install fake Republican electors in several battleground states, which would have falsely declared Trump their winner instead of the actual victor: Joe Biden. Continue reading...

Leaked BBC report said film had completely misled' viewers by splicing two parts of January 6 speech togetherDonald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC and welcomed the resignations of two of its most senior figures after a campaign against the broadcaster that reached fever pitch over criticism that its flagship documentary programme in 2024 used a misleading edit of a Trump speech.Reacting to the resignations of the BBC director general, Tim Davie, and its News CEO, Deborah Turness, who stepped down on Sunday, the US president praised the rightwing Telegraph newspaper, which this month published a leaked internal report by a former BBC standards adviser alleging failings in the broadcaster's coverage, including on transgender issues, Gaza and the edit of a Trump speech from January 6 during the Capitol Hill insurrection. Continue reading...

With a ceasefire in place, rebuilding must begin, justice be delivered and healing seriously addressed by Palestinian and Israeli societies

US defense secretary says without providing evidence that dead from strikes in eastern Pacific were narco-terrorists'US forces struck two more alleged drug trafficking boats off the coast of South America, killing six people, the Trump administration's defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said.The US began carrying out such strikes - which some experts say amount to extrajudicial killings even if they target known traffickers - in early September, taking aim at vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. More than 70 people have been killed in the strikes so far. Continue reading...

A look at the realities the mayor-elect will face to pay for his progressive policies - and whose support he needs

It's great the taboo is fading. But as TikTok influencers tout them, it's a slippery slope to the memeification of disordersAntidepressants are all the rage now, so much so that influencers are promoting them on TikTok, where mostly millennial and gen Z women have built micro-communities around hashtags like #lexaprotok, #zoloftgang and #livelaughlexapro.According to data analyzed by the Wall Street Journal, content related to antidepressants has recently exploded. The hashtag #antidepressants has surpassed 1.3bn views, according to the data, and searches for #lexapro have more than tripled since 2022. The data also showed that user shares per video tagged #ssri nearly quadrupled from 2022 to 2025.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Amended package must be passed by the house and signed by the president. Plus, Volodymyr Zelenskyy on why he's not afraid of Donald Trump

Employees providing assistance to recipients expressed fears on how lack of aid will affect those who need it mostWhen Stacy Smith, a government worker, showed up to work last Monday - the first working day after food benefits lapsed, amid the ongoing federal shutdown - she found a long line outside her office door. Elderly and disabled individuals desperately wanted answers.Some had gone to buy groceries, not realizing that their usual benefits were unavailable. Continue reading...

The NFL is built on parity. But this season the NFC only has a few contenders while even the best teams in the AFC have worrying flawsNo league sells parity like the NFL: it's the entire brand. But through 10 weeks of this season, this isn't a league that is equally balanced between the good, the bad and the mediocre. It's one where most of the league is simply fine.In the NFC, at least, there is some clarity. The Rams and Seahawks (both 7-2) look like the most complete teams in football, and secured blowout wins on Sunday. The 6-2 Eagles, despite their struggles, still have one of the most talented rosters in the league, likewise with the Packers (5-2-1). Even the Lions (6-3), who have been inconsistent along both lines of scrimmage and have been dealing with tension on their coaching staff, have proven they can hammer good teams. For all five, you can still easily put together a Super Bowl path. Continue reading...

As Democrats bask in electoral success the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary offer a cautionary taleIn the afterglow of electoral triumph, hope springs renewed for Democrats confined to the frustrating impotence of political opposition.Boosted by last week's electoral wins in New York City, Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere, as well as California's affirmation of Proposition 50 allowing for congressional redistricting, party members suddenly feel able to dream that future elections may herald an escape route from the Donald Trump era. Continue reading...

Donald Trump is using US power to insert himself into other countries' affairs, treating them as vassalsFor decades, president after president has sought to rid the US of its image as a bullying, imperialistic nation. But with his blustering, often brutish behavior toward other countries, Donald Trump has rapidly revived that notion. Under Trump, the Ugly American is back.Trump has done this by using US power in aggressive and arrogant ways - by attacking other countries' policies and then threatening to punish them if they don't bow to his demands. Trump is doing exactly what international law says national leaders shouldn't be doing. He has repeatedly inserted himself into other countries' affairs, browbeating their leaders, berating their policies and disrespecting their sovereignty. Too often, Trump treats other countries as vassals of the US (and of his ego). Continue reading...

Trial's findings go against common beliefs that people with atrial fibrillation should avoid caffeinated coffeeDrinking coffee may protect people against irregular heartbeats, despite the conventional wisdom to the contrary, according to a new study.The Does Eliminating Coffee Avoid Fibrillation (Decaf) clinical trial found 200 patients with persistent irregular heartbeats had a significantly" lower risk of the condition recurring if they belonged to the study group that was allocated coffee consumption rather than the one abstaining from it - 47% to 64%. Continue reading...

Donald Trump became the first sitting US president in nearly 50 years to attend a regular-season NFL game when he dropped in on the Detroit Lions' win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.There were boos from large sections of fans, as well as scattered cheers, at the Commanders' Northwest Stadium when Trump was shown on the screens late in the first half - and again when the president was introduced by the stadium announcer at half-time. The Washington DC area has strong Democratic support, while Trump's cuts to the government have affected many workers in the vicinity of the Commanders' stadium. Sunday was not the first time Trump has received a hostile reception from a Washington sports crowd: he was greeted with lock him up' chants at the Washington Nationals' home stadium during the 2019 World Series.

New York's newly elected mayor rooted his campaign in the personal while, ironically, exemplifying the tradition of the American melting pot'It is inevitable that too much will be laid on Zohran Mamdani's head. So large is the vacuum on the left of politics that his victory will occupy an outsized space for progressives beyond New York City. And so, before I lay too much on his head myself, some caveats. New York is a specific place. It has a specific demographic and economic profile. And Mamdani is a man of a specific background, racial, political and religious. But with that out of the way, I think the successful practice of identity politics" during his campaign offers some universal lessons.I put identity politics in quote marks because the term now means little that is universally agreed upon. Broadly, it has come to mean something derogatory, kind of in the same way that wokeness" has. It increasingly has negative connotations: a political appeal to race or other markers of identity that is shallow, rooted in perpetual victimhood, focused only on representation and disconnected from material reality. Seen this way, identity politics is not about universal goals, such as lifting people out of poverty and so mobilising broad coalitions of voters, but simply about visibility.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...