HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches investigation into alleged unauthorized child vaccination at school, vowing to protect parental rights.

German magazine Der Spiegel has reported the warning, quoting a leaked note from a recent call between the European leaders

But on a more serious note, we are hearing that German chancellor Friedrich Merz has postponed his planned visit to Norway scheduled for Friday and will travel to Brussels instead.

Merz will travel to Belgium for a private dinner with Belgian prime minister Bart De Wever and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, his spokesperson said in comments reported by Reuters.

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NYT accuses Pentagon of infringing on the constitutional rights of its journalists

A law has come into effect in Texas that will allow individuals in the state to sue abortion pill providers in other states. Proponents say it is a way to enforce abortion restrictions in Texas. Opponents worry about the methods complainants might use to find their evidence.

In this special episode of Politics Weekly America, the Guardian US reproductive health and justice reporter Carter Sherman speaks to people who are using, providing and protecting abortion pills and those fighting against them in Texas.

With the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, already in the hot seat over the 2 September boat strike and the inspector-general report on his use of the Signal messaging app in March, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hegseth had asked Admiral Alvin Holsey to step down after he had expressed concerns over the legality of the attacks in the Caribbean.

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• Reds goal ruled Sunderland own goal in blow to Wirtz

• Mohamed Salah ‘still important’ after being dropped

Florian Wirtz should ignore his Premier League numbers and not lose confidence in his world-class ability at Liverpool, believes Virgil van Dijk.

Liverpool’s £116m summer signing thought he had scored his first goal for the club against Sunderland on Wednesday only for the 81st-minute equaliser to be deemed an own goal by defender Nordi Mukiele. The decision means the 22-year-old is still without a goal or an assist in 13 league appearances for the champions. Van Dijk, however, is convinced Wirtz is on the right path at Liverpool and will prove he is an elite level player.

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Swiss bank says bequests made 91 people billionaires, while overall number jumped from 2,682 in 2024 to 9,919 this year

The super-rich are inheriting record levels of wealth as they pass down billions of dollars to their children, grandchildren and spouses, research by a Swiss bank favoured by billionaires shows.

Globally, there are 9,919 billionaires this year, up from 2,682 in 2024, UBS found.

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England fans were bracing themselves for a familiar and depressing few hours before the opener finally came good

Anthems over, Zak Crawley left the field and took the water handed to him by Matt Potts. If he was a little dry of mouth it would hardly be a surprise – even without the burden of the brace of ducks he took from the first Test, the situation he was about to walk into might have verged awkwardly close to terrifying. He downed half the bottle, donned his helmet and turned back around.

Mitchell Starc, the bowler who dismissed him in the opening over of each innings in Perth and is even more effective in these day-night games, dried his hands on the sun-baked turf as Crawley made his way to the middle, and picked up the new pink ball.

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Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk said she still strongly supports the Second Amendment, insisting the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk, was “not a gun problem.” The widow rejected the argument that gun violence was the root cause of her husband’s murder, instead blaming factors like mental health and divisive politics. Erika Kirk discussed...

Five families around the world share their struggles to keep their children away from UPFs

• Parents and young people: share your concerns about ultra-processed foods (UPFs)

The scourge of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is global. While their consumption is particularly high in the west, forming more than half the average diet in the UK and the US, for example, UPFs are replacing fresh food in diets on every continent.

This month, the world’s largest review on the health threats of UPFs was published in the Lancet. It warned that such foods are exposing millions of people to long-term harm, and called for urgent action. Earlier this year Unicef revealed that more children around the world were obese than underweight for the first time, as junk food overwhelms diets, with the steepest rises in low- and middle-income countries.

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Pentagon’s Law of War manual clearly prohibits attack, but justification for whole campaign also faces tough questions

Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously there was none – or at least relatively little.

A firestorm of controversy has greeted a recent Washington Post report which suggested that a deadly attack on a vessel carrying 11 people in the Caribbean was followed with a second assault after the initial strike failed to kill everybody onboard.

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Study reveals US earmarked billions to stockpile critical minerals for military use, including precision-guided weaponry and AI-driven warfare

The accelerating global arms race is hindering climate action as critical minerals that are key to a sustainable future are being diverted to make the latest military hardware, according to a report

The study from the Transition Security Project – a joint US and UK venture – reveals how the Pentagon is stockpiling huge stores of critical minerals that are needed for a range of climate technologies including solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and battery storage.

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Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech data centers

Driving down the interstate through the dry Nevada desert, there are few signs that a vast expanse of new construction is hiding behind the sagebrush-covered hills. But, just beyond a massive power plant and transmission towers that march up into the dusty brown mountains, lies one of the world’s biggest buildouts of data centers – miles of new concrete buildings that house millions of computer servers.

This business park, called the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, has a sprawling landmass greater than the city of Denver. It is home to the largest data center in the US, built by the company Switch, and tech giants like Google and Microsoft have also bought land here and are constructing enormous facilities. A separate Apple data center complex is just down the road. Tesla’s gigafactory, which builds electric vehicle batteries, is a resident too.

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Innocent people were caught up in an assassination attempt on a former Russian spy in Salisbury in March 2018. How did this happen?

The novichok attack on Salisbury in south-west England in March 2018 was an extraordinary event, sending shock waves across the world. The targeted man, the former Russian agent Sergei Skripal, recovered from an audacious assassination attempt, but an innocent British citizen, Dawn Sturgess, died. An inquiry was heard in Salisbury and London last year investigating the attack on the Skripals, the response of the emergency services and other public bodies, and how Sturgess was tragically caught up in an international incident. Here are some of the key questions it examined.

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The Full Cold Moon, the last full moon of 2025, rises on December 4th in the vocal vapors of Gemini.

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The Navy admiral who directed strikes against a suspected drug-running boat in the Caribbean Sea Sept. 2 will tell House and Senate lawmakers later Thursday he believed survivors of the initial US attack were trying to complete their deadly mission when he ordered follow-up strikes.

• Second Test, day one: England 325-9

• Starc takes six but Root and Archer add 61 for final wicket

It was one of the most intense opening days to a Test match in recent memory. The Gabba was like a cauldron, the air as thick as soup, and with the pink ball zipping around for Mitchell Starc as he continued his bulldozing start to the series, the pressure on England felt relentless.

And yet at 8.38pm local time this all melted away as Joe Root tickled Scott Boland for four to seal his 40th Test century and – far more notably – his first on Australian soil. Root insisted this tour was never about addressing the gap in his otherwise stellar CV but, even for the most self-effacing of masters, the sense of relief out in the middle was palpable.

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Of the three prospects in the game, Eiserman will likely join the Islanders soonest.

The singer congratulated his daughter with three cute pics.

In Part 6 of The Post's unprecedented access into the world of the Giants’ scouting department, we meet Dennis Hickey.

The potential for a Giannis Antetokounmpo sweepstakes takes precedence over everything before the trade deadline. Still, they have been exploring the possibilities.

A stupid habit that much of the western news media has adopted in reporting on the Trump administration’s various intrigues and contrivances related to Vladimir Putin’s savage war on Ukraine is the extravagant employment of the term “peace plan.” Read More

Canada now stands at a strategic crossroads. The war in Ukraine, once framed as a defining test of Western resolve, is entering what appears to be its final and least favourable phase. Ukraine’s battlefield position has weakened. Territorial losses in the east and south are mounting. American officials now concede privately that Kyiv’s position is unlikely to improve. As Washington signals that a negotiated settlement is necessary, the war’s outcome will be shaped chiefly by the United States and Russia. Canada and Europe will have little influence over the final terms. Read More

On Friday, the Costco Wholesale Corp. filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) seeking an immediate refund of the Trump administration’s unconstitutional tariffs on imports imposed officially in August under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). It’s an interesting political wrinkle in the historic tale of the tariffs. The president’s contrived, random claim of multiple “emergencies” that allow him to rewrite the American tariff schedule according to whim went before the U.S. Supreme Court a month ago. Read More