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Michael Anton, national security official in first Trump term, reportedly removed name from contention over feudA frontrunner to be deputy national security adviser in Donald Trump's administration reportedly withdrew from the running after learning that he would have to work with Sebastian Gorka, the president-elect's choice as counter-terrorism adviser.Michael Anton, a conservative speech writer and national security official in Trump's first presidency, removed his name from contention over Gorka's appointment against a backdrop of acrimonious past relations between the pair, the Washington Post reported. Continue reading...

Winds and rain could disrupt Macy's parade and affect holiday travel - but also provide relief to drought conditionsA Thanksgiving Day storm is forecast to bring rain and potentially snow across the eastern half of the US, including to parts of New York.The storm, which is predicted to bring snow to California's Sierra Nevada early this week, is set to make its way to the north-east. As it travels further east, it is likely to strengthen after gathering more moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and eventually the Atlantic, according to AccuWeather. Continue reading...

Body of Ryan Kobayashi, who flew to LA to find daughter, found after police respond to reports of apparent suicideRyan Kobayashi, who flew to Los Angeles from Hawaii in search of his missing daughter, has been found dead near the Los Angeles international airport. Ryan Kobayashi had been searching for his 31-year-old daughter, Hannah Kobayashi, who was last seen at the airport on 8 November en route to New York City.After tirelessly searching throughout Los Angeles for 13 days, Hannah's father, Ryan Kobayashi, tragically took his own life," the family wrote in a statement shared by the Rad Movement, a missing persons non-profit. This loss has compounded the family's suffering immeasurably." Continue reading...

Congressman Dan Goldman says decision by Jack Smith establishes that Donald Trump is above the law'Responding to news that the special counsel Jack Smith had dropped all charges against Donald Trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and retention of classified information, Dan Goldman, a prosecutor turned New York Democrat and member of the House oversight committee, lamented a shame for justice in this country".It establishes that Donald Trump is above the law," Goldman told CNN. The supreme court put him above the law [by ruling that he had absolute immunity' for official acts] but now he appears to escape full accountability for what were crimes charged by a grand jury." Continue reading...

Founder of Dallas-based The Potter's House was speaking to churchgoers when he sat down and began tremblingThe founder of the Dallas-based megachurch The Potter's House, Bishop TD Jakes, suffered what the church called a slight health incident" while delivering his sermon at the church.Jakes, 67, was speaking to churchgoers on Sunday when he sat down and began trembling as several people gathered around him, with one person asking for prayers. Continue reading...

Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don't cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for changeSince campaign season began, experts have assured us that Donald Trump had no ground game", a phrase that generally refers to a campaign's effort to mobilize voters through local outreach offices, phone calls, text messages, and door knocks. Pundits, politicos, and partisan observers repeated this charge and scoffed at his ramshackle, amateur, and fraud-riddled efforts, with some seasoned Republican operatives even sounding the alarm.A slew of articles and commentary unfavorably compared Trump's paltry" get-out-the-vote operation to the Democrats' supposedly well-oiled and professionally managed machine. Alex Floyd, the Democratic national committee's rapid response director, issued a confident statement in April: Donald Trump's Maga takeover of the [Republican national committee] has left the Republican party in shambles, lacking the ground game and infrastructure to compete this November." Continue reading...

The shock first-round victory of a far-right nationalist candidate has far-reaching and alarming implicationsIn a region shadowed by Vladimir Putin's revanchist ambitions, Romania has been a pillar of prowestern stability. Possessing a long border with Ukraine, the country has been a staunch ally to its neighbour under the outgoing president, Klaus Iohannis. As well as providing military aid, more than half a million refugees have been accommodated, and Ukrainian grain exports have been facilitated through the Black Sea port of Constanta. During the summer, President Iohannis at one point threw his hat into the ring to become Nato's new secretary general, a post eventually filled by the Netherlands' former prime minister, Mark Rutte.Disturbingly, this bulwark status is now in extreme jeopardy after one of the most remarkable election results in Romania's post-1989 history. The littleknown far-right independent Clin Georgescu, who topped the poll and now goes into a second-round runoff in December, is a virulent critic of Nato and aid to Ukraine, a vocal admirer of Donald Trump and has suggested Romanian foreign policy should take note of Russian wisdom". Mr Georgescu's brand of insular Christian nationalism shares similarities with Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban. Ahead of a crucial period after Mr Trump's re-election, his rise from nowhere risks undermining the fragile consensus underpinning European solidarity with Kyiv. Continue reading...

Former Chelsea manager is back in London for friendly with Lionesses and targeting World Cup glory with USWNTSitting in a makeshift press conference room on the dance floor of Camden's Underworld music venue, beneath the World's End pub, Emma Hayes breaks into a big grin. Thankfully it still smells of fart and feet," she says. It was a big indie place for me back in the day. I've definitely not seen this place in the daylight, so that's refreshing." Hayes is home in London and with another grin declares: I've got my mojo back."The head coach of the US women's national team is back where it all began for her in preparation for the showpiece friendly on Saturday between her Olympic champions and the European champions, England, at Wembley. This week her cultures are colliding, as she brings her team from the US, where she spent a number of formative years coaching, to London, where she grew up, played and became one of the world's best. Thanksgiving will be celebrated at the training ground of the team she supported as a child, Tottenham. This will be a special week. Continue reading...

Special counsel Jack Smith dismisses the two federal criminal cases before president-elect's inauguration

Porsha Ngumezi, 35, is the fifth pregnant woman ProPublica reports to have died in connection to the fall of Roe v WadeA Texas woman has died after receiving inadequate medical treatment for a miscarriage, according to a new report from ProPublica - the fifth pregnant woman the publication has found to have died since the fall of Roe v Wade after receiving inadequate care or being denied a legal abortion.Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old mother of two, died in June 2023 after experiencing a miscarriage in Texas, where nearly all abortions are banned, ProPublica reported on Monday. Ten weeks into her pregnancy, Ngumezi started to bleed and went to Houston Methodist Sugar Land, which is part of the Houston Methodist hospital chain and located in the Houston metropolitan area. While at the hospital, Ngumezi continued to bleed for several hours. She underwent multiple blood transfusions. Continue reading...

Governor Gavin Newsom plans on creating new version of state rebate program as president-elect threatens EV creditsCalifornia could offer state tax rebates for electric vehicle (EV) purchases if the incoming Trump administration eliminates the federal EV tax credit, the state's governor said on Monday.Gavin Newsom will propose creating a new version of the state's successful Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which was phased out in 2023 after funding 594,000 cars and saving 456m gallons of fuel, the governor's office said in a statement. Continue reading...

The climate crisis will cause dramatic, life-threatening events, but also a general, broad-brush worsening of everythingThe concept of enshittification" was invented by the Canadian-British sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, only last year, to describe online platforms and the process of their decay. A tech policy expert, Rose Payne, explained the concept to me; you'll recognise it immediately from pretty much any online service you've signed up to: You enter into it, and at the beginning, it's good, but once they have network effects, they degrade the quality of their offering. So you're trapped in a space that's no longer useful to you."Pretty soon, in fact amazingly quickly, people were using the word to describe everything - to the extent that Doctorow wondered this year whether we'd entered the enshittocene". Repurposed to describe the effects of the climate crisis, it means something different, but just as evocative: say we sail beyond 1.5C of warming but do manage to stick at 2C, there will be dramatic, life-threatening events, there will be mass migration, but there will also be a general, broad-brush worsening of everything. Continue reading...

Largest US department store chain delays release of quarterly earnings report to investigate erroneous accounting entries'Macy's revealed on Monday that a single employee was responsible for hiding up to $154m in expenses over the course of nearly three years, prompting the company to delay the release of its quarterly earnings report.The US's largest department store chain, which owns other brands such as Bloomingdale's and Bluemercury, found so many internal accounting irregularities that they were forced to conduct an independent forensic accounting investigation. Their full quarterly earnings report, originally planned for release on Tuesday, will now not roll out until 11 December. Continue reading...

Olympic gold medalist argues in video that podcaster's remarks about war in Ukraine is result of Putin-led plotThe podcaster Joe Rogan is repeating Russian propaganda" about the war in Ukraine, the former world heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko charged in remarks on social media, adding that Rogan should invite him on his podcast to discuss the issue like free men".I listen to your latest podcast," said Klitschko, whose brother Vitali Klitschko was also a world champion boxer and is now mayor of Kyiv. Continue reading...

District attorney's office confident they've identified Esther Gonzalez's killer nearly five decades after violent deathA man who was cleared in the 1979 rape and murder of a teenage girl after passing a polygraph test has now been identified as her suspected killer due to DNA evidence, California authorities announced.The body of Esther Gonzalez was found in a snowpack off a highway near Banning, California, on 10 February 1979. Gonzalez had been walking from her parents' home to her sister's house the previous night when she was attacked, raped and bludgeoned to death, according to authorities. She was 17 years old. Continue reading...

President-elect alarms ethics experts by neglecting to sign agreement that requires disclosure of donor identitiesThe identities of private donors funding Donald Trump's presidential transition are being kept secret in a break with precedent that is obscuring which groups, businesses or wealthy individuals are helping to launch his second presidency.The president-elect has been able to maintain secrecy over his financial backers by neglecting to sign an agreement with the outgoing Biden administration that would put strict limits on private funding in exchange for up to $7.2m in federal funding for his transition effort. Continue reading...

Bank of England's Swati Dhingra says threatened 60% tariff could lead exporters to cut prices elsewhereDonald Trump imposing massive US tariffs on Chinese imports could drag down global inflation by lowering the price of goods in other countries, a senior Bank of England policymaker has said.Swati Dhingra, an external member of the Bank's rate-setting monetary policy committee, said Trump imposing a threatened 60% tariff on goods from China sold in the US could lead Chinese exporters to cut their prices elsewhere to ensure they maintained current trade volumes. Continue reading...

Manchester City's struggles could be a blip or the start of terminal decline. We will see how one of the all-time great managers handles the conundrum

Rand Paul of Kentucky argues president-elect should instead use law enforcement to expel immigrants from USRand Paul, a Republican senator of Kentucky, has criticized Donald Trump's proposed use of the US military to conduct mass deportations of immigrants when he returns to the White House.While Paul still supports Trump's plans to expel millions of immigrants from the US, the lawmaker has opposed using the US military to do so, arguing that law enforcement would be better suited. Continue reading...

Judge will address abuse evidence in 1989 murder convictions, with immediate freedom as one possible resultA judge will decide Monday whether new evidence warrants a re-examination of the convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez in the murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home more than 30 years ago.The brothers were found guilty of murdering Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. While their defense attorneys argued at trial that they had been sexually abused by their father, prosecutors denied that and accused them of killing their parents for money. In the years that followed, they repeatedly appealed their convictions without success. Continue reading...

Discourse on social media platform lacked toxicity of the old place but there were signs it will eventually go that wayHello, I'm new here, though you might know me from the other place. The sun is shining in the sky, there ain't a cloud in sight, I'm here for good humour and polite social media intercourse. Thanks for the starter pack. Welcome, then, to Bluesky, where the algorithm isn't jammed hard-right, the self-policing not too strong-arm, though there was that strange chap who listed the schools everyone attended.After the Twitterectomy (to use Nick Cave's indelicate term for this liberal migration) to a promised land where Elon Musk doesn't quote-tweet articles on the Great Replacement Theory as being interesting". Now, how would this new Xanadu shape up when placed into the hottest kiln of public debate known to humankind? Forget geopolitics and burning social issues, forget even Donald Trump, the truest test is a Premier League weekend. Continue reading...

Organizers demand better workers' rights and climate action. Plus, Israeli killing of journalists in Lebanon could be war crime, experts say

Revealed: Pete Hegseth writes scathingly of key institutions and says If you love America, you should love Israel'Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, has attacked several key US alliances such as Nato, allied countries such as Turkey and international institutions such as the United Nations in two recent books, as well as saying US troops should not be bound by the Geneva conventions.At the same time, the man who would head America's gigantic military has tied US foreign policy almost entirely to the priority of Israel, a country of which he says: If you love America, you should love Israel." Continue reading...

Trump's health department pick has expressed distrust of pharmaceuticals and attacked suppression of psychedelics'Public health experts are concerned that, if confirmed, Donald Trump's choice for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - Robert F Kennedy Jr - could upend access to pharmaceutical drugs in favor of more experimental treatments.Kennedy, who the president-elect picked earlier this month, has repeatedly expressed distrust for pharmaceuticals, and criticized the FDA for its aggressive suppression of psychedelics". On his podcast, he called the US the sickest country in the world", blaming its healthcare system for devoting billions to the pills and the potions and the powders rather than on actually getting people healthy, building their immune systems". Continue reading...

After Dobbs, pro-choice advocates have emphasized women in medical crises. But those tragic cases are a limited pictureA Kentucky woman known by the pseudonym Mary Poe recently filed a lawsuit against her state, seeking an abortion for what was once a banal reason: because she wanted one.Poe, who was about seven weeks pregnant at the time of the lawsuit's filing, has since had an abortion out of state. But her attorneys argue that she still has standing to sue to overturn Kentucky's two abortion bans - a six-week ban and a separate total ban - arguing that the laws violate the state constitution. This much, at least, is typical: lawsuits challenging abortion bans have sprung up across the country since Dobbs, with women and their families seeking to overturn bans, expand exceptions, or get some compensation from the state for the graphic, distressing, disabling or deadly outcomes that the bans have made them suffer.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

All too often, staying fit is about vanity and status. The slower and wheezier I become, the more I realise it's also about survivalHave you recently seen a sweating woman with a watermelon stuffed up her fleece, wheezing her way behind a bush mere metres from a towpath to have a pee? If you have, please say hello next time - for that woman, I suspect, is me.At seven months pregnant, I am still running three times a week. By running", I mean hurling my lumpen body through various woods, fields and city parks at a speed slower than walking, while wearing a pair of gently disintegrating trainers. Do I have to stop every 10 minutes to empty my bladder? You bet I do. Am I running half my usual distance in twice the usual time? Yes, ma'am. Continue reading...

By decolonizing, I mean a transformative process that embeds the views of marginalized and most affected communitiesWell before US president-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in January 2025, the UN has been atrophying in power, credibility, and even relevance. The international organization has faced many challenges since its establishment in 1945 in the shadow of the most horrific chapter in modern human history. Yet few chapters of the UN have been darker than its meek looking on as Israel livestreams the genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza with total impunity".The fact that Israel's ongoing genocide is armed, funded and shielded from accountability by powerful western states, led by the US, has made this impunity more blatant than ever. Western hypocrisy in slapping Russia with the most severe regime of sanctions ever following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, while fully enabling Israel's genocide and underlying, decades-old system of settler-colonialism, apartheid and illegal military occupation has also reached unprecedented levels, making a mockery of the west's claim of even caring about universal human rights. Indonesia's foreign minister at a recent UN debate on Gaza called on states to not bury the Principles of the UN Charter and international law under the rubble of double standards, trust deficit and zero-sum game". Continue reading...

In the dying moments of a crucial game against a hated rival, the Washington Commanders kicker was subjected to a brutal series of humiliationsIf you're under the impression that NFL special teams this season have been especially wonky, you are completely and utterly correct.Still, as weird as it special teams had been through the first 11 weeks of the season, nothing could quite compare to what happened on Sunday. Kicker misses and miscues have been legion, but Sunday saw far more blunders than usual. Continue reading...

The policy of the US and Europe remains the same: drip-feeding resources while never giving Ukraine the chance to push Russia out

For decades, Swedish politics has promoted individual success. Now an official booklet urges us to unite in case of crisis or war'Swedes are generally not known to panic or overreact. But many of us are feeling a little shaken after a booklet with a soldier in camouflage holding a machine gun, with a fighter jet tearing through the sky in the background, landed on our door mats recently.The government booklet, titled In case of crisis or war", was sent to every Swedish household as the threat of attack from Russia escalates. It signals the beginning of a new era in our country, with a bleak message about threats from war, natural disasters and pandemics. Continue reading...

Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural changeThe day that wokeness died. That has been one of the primary analyses of Donald Trump's resounding election victory: that it was a resounding rejection of the woke" left and the casting off of the shackles of political correctness. According to sections of the media and political establishment, people are tired of being harangued and scolded for not using the right language, annoyed by a constant focus on race and identity, and alarmed by a new orthodoxy of radical politics eager to please individual groups at the expense of common sense. The era," summarised one British journalist, of Black Lives Matter, Latinx, critical race theory, pronouns and defunding the police is over." It's a neat conclusion - it's hard not to see this result as a rejection of something. But was that something woke" values in particular?As a starting point, it is worth looking at Kamala Harris's campaign rather than the assumptions about it. In reality, she seemed to avoid any focus on identity and wokeness". She didn't make much of her race, or even her gender, choosing instead to ground her identity in her background as a middle-class person raised in a rental household by a hardworking mother. Her position on race softened from when she was running in 2019: she previously backed some form" of reparations but did not stake out a position as part of her bid. Trump wanted Harris to say something to turn off white voters. She was wise not to take the bait," wrote the author Keith Boykin. She was hardline on immigration, keen to show that she is a gun owner (memorably telling Oprah Winfrey: If someone breaks into my house they're getting shot"). And she was evasive on gender-affirming care for transgender Americans.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnistDo 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...

Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisisThousands of Amazon workers are expected to protest or strike in more than 20 countries during Black Friday to press for better workers' rights and climate action from the US retailer..Workers and representatives from unions and workers' groups intend to join protests against the Seattle-based company's practices between Black Friday and Cyber Monday (29 November and 2 December), one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year. Continue reading...

First openly transgender person elected to Congress also hits back against bathroom restrictions for trans peopleSarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, on Sunday condemned Republicans' latest attack on trans rights as an attempt to misdirect" voters away from more central issues in communities, such as healthcare costs and economic inequality.Delaware's incoming Democratic member of the House of Representatives, who will join Donald Trump's new administration in January, also hit back against bathroom restrictions for trans people announced by the GOP on Capitol Hill last week. Continue reading...

James Lankford of Oklahoma predicts lawmakers will have tough questions for president-elect's nomineesA prominent Republican US senator pledged on Sunday that Congress would not give blanket approval to Donald Trump's controversial cabinet picks ahead of the congressional confirmation process, as a leading Democrat challenged the qualifications of some of them to serve.Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma predicted lawmakers in the upper chamber will have tough questions in particular for the former Democratic congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, who was chosen by the president-elect as director of national security for his second administration. Continue reading...

One person found dead in submerged vehicle in California as storm warning issued for Sierra Nevada through TuesdayForecasters through the US issued warnings that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm. Continue reading...

Democratic combat veteran says Trump's pick for defense secretary is inordinately unqualified' for the jobDemocratic US Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs after the army Black Hawk attack helicopter she was piloting was shot down during the US war in Iraq, on Sunday ramped up criticism of Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary who argues women shouldn't be on the front line.Pete Hegseth is the former Fox News host and soldier tapped by the president-elect to lead the Pentagon and oversee the largest military force in the world, but he is steeped in controversy. Continue reading...

President-elect has become particularly reliant on Donald Jr for advice, sources tell ReutersDonald Trump Jr has emerged as the family's most influential adviser of the moment as his father builds the most controversial cabinet in modern US history, sources close to Donald Trump's eldest son say.Trump Jr has in some cases promoted inexperienced loyalists over more qualified candidates for top positions in president-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration. Continue reading...

The ex-WWE CEO and likely incoming education secretary doesn't seem like a threat. That's what makes her oneDespite her background in professional wrestling, Linda McMahon is not known for bombast. Indeed, she's terrible at it: in the many years during which the former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO would make occasional appearances in her company's programming as a version of herself, she was always derided by fans for her lack of charisma and wobbly speaking voice.The most notable thing she did in any of the storylines was pretend to be comatose in a wheelchair while her husband, the vastly more explosive Vince McMahon, sexually harassed one of his female wrestlers in a skit. Linda won't be winning an Emmy anytime soon. Continue reading...

Trump grew his support in nearly all of Philadelphia's wards - what went wrong for Harris in a key Democratic city?When Kamala Harris stopped at the west Philadelphia barber shop Philly Cuts just days before the election, its manager, James Browne, said the vice-president came off almost like a favorite aunt".Harris seemed genuine, kind, nice, very comforting" during the half-hour she spent in the shop while campaigning in the largest city in battleground state Pennsylvania, Browne said. Meeting her in person was very different than seeing her on TV." Continue reading...

After sticking with the Orlando Pride through nearly a decade's worth of mediocrity, the Brazilian was rewarded for her loyalty with her first win in a final at club level in 13 yearsFor so long, on so many occasions, it felt like Marta's time. On Saturday, it finally was.The Orlando Pride, captained by the 38-year-old Brazilian playmaker and spearheaded by incandescent striker Barbra Banda, completed one of the most dominant seasons in NWSL history on Saturday with a 1-0 win over the Washington Spirit in the league's championship game. The title is the team's first ever, and Marta's first win in a final at club level since the 2011 WPS championship with the Western New York Flash. Continue reading...

I'm moving house, which means coming face to face with a lifetime of mementos. I feel a burden lifting with each item I bin, donate or recycleThere is a particular sort of box that lurks in every home, full of memorabilia" or mementos". Baby teeth, divorce certificates, spare keys for locks unknown, your granny's old Padre Pio fridge magnet, the tenancy agreement for your last flat: the whole thing is rank with association, emotion, nostalgia and pain. That box is my nemesis. That box is doom.Because I decided that turning 40, being pregnant and training for a second career wasn't enough to be getting on with in a single month, I am also in the lucky position of moving house. Which means opening various drawers, boxes, cupboards and ring binders, only to discover a pit of painful sentimentality or logistical confusion at every turn. But listen to me: you can get rid of these things. Your child's reception maths book? Put it in the recycling, my friends, and feel that burden lift. A photograph of you, aged 16, at your first festival, wearing a pair of jeans you had turned into flares by stitching two triangles of denim into the ankles? Put it in the bin and never miss it. That second cheese grater given to you by a well-meaning uncle? Take it to the charity shop and delight in the feeling of relief. Continue reading...

As the far right celebrates a win for their gender, a raft of people accused of misconduct is named for the cabinetDonald Trump was found civilly liable last year for the defamation and sexual abuse of the writer E Jean Carroll - just one of the more than 27 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. In January 2025, he will again be president of the United States - the first to take office with a court-adjudicated history of sex crimes.And it seems he's eager to pack the White House with people just like him. Continue reading...