A conservative law firm has challenged Wisconsin's congressional map lawsuits, arguing that new drawing districts now would violate federal law ahead of the midterm elections.

The Biden Department of Justice would not have notified Judge Boasberg that its subpoenas of phone records pertained to Congress members, a court official said.

The White House debuted its “Media Bias Offender Tip Line" on Tuesday, aiming to expose misleading news coverage through its recently launched “Media Bias Portal."

The man arrested for allegedly attacking a New York University college student had 16 prior arrests, many of which were in relation to sex attacks.

NHL players have faced bizarre off-ice injuries this season as Alexey Toropchenko joined Jack Hughes and Eetu Luostarinen on the sidelines with unusual accidents.

Morgan Wallen dominates 2025 Spotify Wrapped with 'I'm the Problem' topping U.S. albums chart and ranking third among top artists globally this year.

The wealthy California doctor executed alongside his wife in their $1.3 million home was executed by his son — who fled just to set fire to his car and fatally shoot himself with the same gun, police have revealed. Eric Cordes, 63, and Vicki Cordes, 66, died after being shot multiple times in the garage of their...

Markle stared at him with her mouth wide open in shock before noting, "What?! Oh my God!"

The hip-hop/jazz dancer battled cancer for nearly a decade.

As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name

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Hello and welcome to the Long Wave. This week, I had the huge pleasure of an audience with Peepal Tree Press, which has been home to authors such as Bernardine Evaristo and Roger Robinson. Peepal Tree publishes books from the Caribbean and its diaspora, and has just celebrated its 40th anniversary. I spoke to its founder, Jeremy Poynting, and fiction editor Jacob Ross, and what ensued was a masterclass not only in publishing, but in diasporic art.

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© Illustration: Peepal/Getty/Joe Plimmer/The Guardian

Contentious proposal to fund Ukraine would mark watershed moment for EU

Vincent Chan, 45, pleads guilty to 26 offences from 2022 to 2024 including attacks on four young girls

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A man passed vetting to get a job at a London nursery where he sexually assaulted toddlers, some during their nap time, while they were in his care.

Vincent Chan, 45, who worked at a north London branch of the Bright Horizons nursery group, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 26 offences from 2022 to 2024, including attacks on four young girls whom he sexually assaulted and offences relating to more than 25,000 indecent images of children.

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Gerry McGovern reportedly removed from role of chief creative officer after 20 years with business

The Jaguar Land Rover design boss behind the Range Rover and the polarising Jaguar relaunch has abruptly departed the business just four months after its new chief executive took charge.

Gerry McGovern left the role of chief creative officer on Monday after 20 years at the business in which he oversaw the design of some of the company’s most successful cars as well as the launch of a new-look, pink electric Jaguar that drew the ire of Donald Trump.

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The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that New Orleans will be the next city swept for criminal illegal immigrants — following similar crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and Charlotte. The announcement of “Operation Catahoula Crunch” comes one day after the New York Times reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will launch a separate...

The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste

I like year-end list season. I like an opportunity to remember and reflect on the records that stuck with me over the course of a year – especially when there is a chance to recommend something that others may have overlooked. I like looking through friends’ favourites for albums that I missed completely, and making a big listening queue. I like following along as critics attempt to determine the year’s “best”, even when I end up yelling into a group chat about how wrong they all are. I like it because it all requires looking back, racking your brain and processing your year in listening. It requires thinking.

This year, as Spotify Wrapped takes over social media feeds again, I am struck by how the whole concept seems to discourage that critical practice for something more passive. It nudges listeners away from deep consideration and towards accepting a corporate-branded scorecard reflecting a very specific perspective on musical value. It encourages music fans to believe that the records they streamed the most must be the ones they liked the most, which is surely not always the case.

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Women in Ireland and the UK linked to Free Birth Society among scores around world to have suffered loss or serious harm after births

• Full story: How the FBS is linked to baby deaths around the world

Over a weekend in late June 2024, Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the Free Birth Society, hosted a festival on her 21-hectare (53-acre) property in North Carolina. It was a celebratory gathering for FBS, a multimillion-dollar business that promotes a radical approach to giving birth without medical support.

Promotional footage from the Matriarch Rising festival shows Saldaya dancing beside her private lake, wearing a crown. That same weekend, more than 3,000 miles away, in Dundalk, a town on the east coast of Ireland, Naomi James, bled to death after freebirthing her son.

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© Illustration: Laurie Avon/The Guardian

© Illustration: Laurie Avon/The Guardian

The Republican party is far from moving beyond Trump – but signals of his waning influence are everywhere

The sharks can smell blood in the water. After a decade in eerie command of the Republican party, with primary voters in his cult-like thrall and down-ballot elected officials feeling they have no choice – and often no inclination – to diverge from him, Donald Trump suddenly seems not quite in control of his own political machine.

Fractures have emerged in the Maga coalition; Trump’s approval is sinking; the Democrats, long anemic and risk-averse in the opposition, showed signs of life in elections last month; and the cumulative effect of a series of long-running scandals, most particularly the Epstein affair, seem to have alienated core components of the Trump faithful. Trump has faced some rebukes from a once largely compliant federal judiciary: his personal attorney, Alina Habba, was recently declared ineligible to serve in the US attorney role Trump had appointed her to, and his signature tariffs seem likely to be struck down by a conservative supreme court majority.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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Amid concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, the Trump administration has abolished climate-friendly farming incentives

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For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90m acres – about the size of Montana – and goes into everything from livestock feed and processed foods to the ethanol blended into most of the nation’s gasoline.

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Love ice-cream, don’t love Christmas pudding? This make-ahead semifreddo, jewelled with dried fruits, might just fit the bill …

Last Christmas we visited my in-laws in Cape Town, where, at over 30C, a traditional Christmas pudding just didn’t feel quite right. But my mother-in-law and her friend created the most delicious feast: a South African braai (barbecue) followed by an incredible ice-cream Christmas pudding made by mashing vanilla ice-cream with a mix of tutti frutti, candied peel, raisins and cherries. This semifreddo is a take on that dessert: a light frozen custard that still carries all the festive flavours.Tutti frutti semifreddo Christmas pudding

We stopped using clingfilm in our kitchen 15 years ago now, because it’s not easily recycled and because of health concerns about the possible transfer of microplastics into our food. Most semifreddo recipes tell you to line the freezer container with clingfilm, but I suggest using no liner at all, or silicone-free, unbleached baking paper instead.

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© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian. Fod and props: Tom Hunt.

© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian. Fod and props: Tom Hunt.

"It looked very much like [I had] a pair of women's breasts,” one gynecomastia patient told The Post.

"There's only one other Christmas movie I can think of that has a lesbian character in it," Moretz told Decider.

Kremlin says Putin did not reject peace plan but found some parts of the deal ‘unacceptable’

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is now briefing the media after the commission’s weekly meeting, presenting the bloc’s plan to help fund Ukraine’s continuing fight against Russia.

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ReSourceEU project aims to de-risk and diversify supply chains for critical rare-earth metals and elements

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The EU is to unveil a €3bn (£2.63bn) strategy to reduce its dependency on China for critical raw materials amid a global scramble triggered by Beijing’s “weaponisation” of supplies of everything from chips to rare earths.

The ReSourceEU programme will seek to de-risk and diversify the bloc’s supply chains for key commodities with a funding initiative to support 25-30 strategic projects in the sector.

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Experiencing joy, even if fleeting, is the point of being a fan — not misery.