✓'Grasping at straws': Judge dismisses Trump suit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein letter
Saying the president was "grasping at straws," a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert…
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Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign reports record fundraising day as Haley Stevens faces backlash for endorsing his opponent – live
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Federal judge dismisses case against ex-FBI officials accused of lying about Biden laptop probe
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Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history
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Award‑winning Australian children’s author Craig Silvey jailed over child exploitation material
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✓'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack
Dozens of supermarkets in seven European countries dumped huge quantities of food after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack
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✓Crypto giant Binance attempting to recover $6.3bn stolen in hack linked to North Korea
The cyber-attack, which the company describes as complex, is believed to be the largest ever of its kind
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✓Israel has ‘historic’ opportunity to change direction, says leader of Arab coalition
Yousef Jabareen says he is ready to join forces with opposition bloc to oust Benjamin Netanyahu after winning record number of seats in Knesset. The leader of Israel’s main…
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✓Haley Stevens backs Mike Rogers. And, Gulf states brace for potential attack on Iran
Democrats in Michigan are considering their options after Haley Stevens endorsed GOP candidate Mike Rogers for Senate. And the Gulf states are bracing for a possible U.S. attack…
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✓Technology
Yorkshire Water boss resigns after company given lowest environmental rating
Yorkshire Water has announced its chief executive is stepping down - a day after the company was given the lowest environmental rating by regulators
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✓Judge orders Trump administration to stop threatening US election officials
The order comes after election officials received letters demanding they set aside the ballots of possible non-citizen voters
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✓German unions launch wave of strikes over cost-of-living pressures
The expanded industrial action comes amid a wave of strikes and protests that have sparked unrest across Europe
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✓Russian bombing kills 24 people at Ukraine aid centre, Kyiv says
Local officials say 27 people had been missing after at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a village in southern Ukraine
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Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher
Australian workers expect the government to act to protect them from AI harms. There is a clear reform solution at hand. Get our new political email , free app or daily news…
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The measure slipped into UK budget that could protect spending on children, youth and rough sleeping | Heather Stewart
PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition. John Healey’s debut budget was far from a blockbuster, but it may…
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Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’
‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. And when she goes to Peru, we threw in a T rex!’. I joined Core Design in the summer of 1994 and met Toby Gard,…
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Do not be distracted by global crises. Nature cannot wait for a better year – we must act now | Steven Guilbeault
In 2022, I helped push through the international agreement to protect biodiversity. I know there is always a reason to stall, but ministers at Cop17 must honour that pledge. When…
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It’s closer to Beijing than Washington – and residents of this Alaskan outpost are reeling from Trump’s policies
On the Bering Sea, Unalaska is the US’s most productive seafood port, employing thousands of workers. But Trump’s cuts, and his disastrous war with Iran, have caused chaos – and…
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I struggled to come to terms with my mum’s death. Then I swam in the sea and suddenly felt connected to her
My mother was a keen swimmer, and she lived with depression. I wonder if she found the same respite in the water that has helped heal me since she passed away. It was early…
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums
While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success. Shortly…
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Prediction market bettors are the new political pundits. Why are we listening to them? | Judith Levine
Sites like Kalshi and Polymarket offer faux populism as elites reap the benefits – and voters risk being misled. Online betting is a bit like Donald Trump. The prediction markets…
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A lackluster response to North Carolina flooding disasters is eroding Republican support in one county
At more than $52m, the race has become the most expensive in US history, but residents are fed up with flooding. Aida Havel mulled her fate over coffee after working the early…
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‘They have schedules to follow’: how fast ferries can threaten endangered whales in the Mediterranean
A Guardian investigation has found that despite a recommendation to slow down, leading shipping companies continue to travel above advised speeds in a key habitat for cetaceans.…
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Charities condemn proposal to make some refugees wait up to 30 years for settlement – as it happened
Executive director of external affairs at the Refugee Council called the proposals ‘unfair and unworkable’. Downing Street has declined to say how much it cost for the plane…
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I tested Apple's $2,000 iPhone Duo. It's a fascinating experiment, but the price is hard to justify.
I've spent the past week trying to figure out whether Apple's $2,000 iPhone Duo is the future of smartphones or just an expensive way to do things I could already do on my regular…
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Newcastle hospital told woman whose unborn baby had died to go home and ‘book a slot to give birth’
Trust admits Danielle Brown’s baby would have survived had she not been sent home from RVI days earlier. A woman whose unborn baby had died was sent home from hospital with a…
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‘They assume the man next to me is the owner’: four women doing business in Africa in their own way
From feeding schoolchildren to recycling tyres, these entrepreneurs are challenging stereotypes while solving social and environmental problems. Africa is thought to have a higher…
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Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian village as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals
Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the world’s fastest-warming places. Residents of a remote village in…
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Guardian Essential poll: record number of Australians are turning their backs on the Melbourne Cup
Growing disdain for gambling and animal cruelty concerns drive sliding interest in race that once ‘stopped the nation’. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news…
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Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure
The problems run deep in South Africa’s largest city. Will voters punish the ANC in next week’s local elections?. One week before the local elections in South Africa, the…
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‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targets
Cop17, focused on protecting nature and restoring ecosystems, concludes on Saturday with critics saying system allows ‘one idiot’ to stall progress. Calls are growing for major…
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Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile
Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago. A few years ago, I was struck by…
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This Norwegian village is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. How can its people save it?
As glaciers melt and permafrost thaws, Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, faces climate-induced problems from tap water to housebuilding to landslides. •…
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The Trump administration wants to give married parents money to stay at home. Will it be enough?
Experts say the proposed program prioritizes parents in ‘traditional families’, ignoring the flexibility needed that all families need to support themselves. Erica Hall and her…
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China expels a record number from Communist party amid Xi’s intensified purges of top officials
The unprecedented number of empty seats at the fifth plenum – a symbol of expulsions – serve as a symbol for the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping. China expelled a record…
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Two economists studied California's billionaire tax. They reached wildly different conclusions
What happens in California could shape how America taxes the superrich. But will its billionaire tax fill state coffers — or drain them?
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‘Sharper, longer slowdown’ predicted for Australian economy as fifth interest rate hike looms
Australia’s central bank expected to hit mortgage holders again on Tuesday, as war in Middle East combines with collapsing house prices. Get our breaking news email , free app or…
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Trump promised a steel mill in this rural Iowa region. But is it all a midterm election ploy?
Residents would welcome the development, but the president’s past false promises cast doubt on the proposal. On a Monday afternoon in late September, Donald Trump gathered Iowa…
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Chinese cigarettes and Bolivian beer: the Amazonian town transformed by a rampant mining boom
Mayaya, once-remote, has become a hub for Chinese companies. But critics accuse them of exploitation and illegal exports. The pork belly hits the oil with a sizzle, and a rich…
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Country diary: As winter approaches, all eyes here are on heating oil prices | Nicola Chester
Inkpen and Combe, Berkshire: If the price goes down, the village WhatsApp group lights up. Beyond the reach of the gas mains, there is tension about the coming winter. Many rural…
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