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The GuardianHumanityBoston
White supremacist Nick Fuentes linked to college Republican group, records show

White supremacist Nick Fuentes linked to college Republican group, records show

Computer records reveal College Republican Patriot Coalition’s web domain in account registered to Fuentes-managed company A college Republican coalition claiming 31 affiliated student groups in 14 states that attacked the Trump administration from the right routed its email through the same Microsoft 365 account as a company controlled by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Until Monday morning, Microsoft’s public sign-in records put the College Republican Patriot Coalition (CRPC)’s web domain in an account registered to NJF LLC, a Fuentes-managed company that also runs his personal website and online store.

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The GuardianScandal
Trump-era lawlessness must be prosecuted. Our new group is working to end the impunity | Kenneth Roth

Trump-era lawlessness must be prosecuted. Our new group is working to end the impunity | Kenneth Roth

Congressional investigations are only part of the solution. A civic project will do needed legal legwork The Democrats’ midterm victory was resounding, but it will not be enough to re-establish the rule of law in the United States. The basic principle that even the president and his officials and cronies are subject to the law has been profoundly undermined by Donald Trump through unchecked ICE violence, apparently large-scale official corruption, and frequent defiance of the law.

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The GuardianScandalFrance
France’s response to protests is making Islamophobia worse. But ministers won’t even utter the word | Kamélia Ouaissa

France’s response to protests is making Islamophobia worse. But ministers won’t even utter the word | Kamélia Ouaissa

French people like me live in fear because far-right hate speech goes unchecked. The consequences can be deadly Anger at the dilapidated state of schools may have been the starting point for the unrest that has rocked France for over a month, but the protest movement has grown into something much bigger. It has widened to take in a far broader segment of society whose grievances, including institutional racism and Islamophobia, are now connecting. I have no doubt that one of direct causes of this snowball effect is the repressive nature of the response to the initial protests, which were treated entirely as a matter of law and order – criminalised, not listened to. Kamélia Ouaissa is a French journalist based in Paris Do 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.

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Perspectives • Uni of WarwickElectionsFrance
Chaos across the country: is France about to Implode?

Chaos across the country: is France about to Implode?

By Leo Kuper On 17 October 2026, about 800,000 people marched in the streets of France. Some were students wishing for better conditions in schools; others were a group of struggling workers, pensioners and unemployed people, known as the “Gilets Jaunes” (Yellow Vests), protesting against the rise in the cost of living. This was a mostly peaceful protest. However, those who stole the headlines were the individuals (who can hardly be considered protesters) who took advantage of the situation...

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EstadãoScandalBrasília
Prosecutor General’s Office calls for closure of fake news investigation, which remained under Moraes’s leadership for seven years

Prosecutor General’s Office calls for closure of fake news investigation, which remained under Moraes’s leadership for seven years

Opened on the court’s own initiative in 2019, the investigation looks into alleged attacks and threats against Supreme Court justices and is considered by legal scholars one of the judiciary’s most controversial probes. In its submission, the Prosecutor General’s Office argues that the investigation has served its purpose and cites the principle of a reasonable duration for legal proceedings.

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The GuardianPoliticiansWashington D.C.
Obama granted me clemency after 23 years in prison. What will it take for Trump to do similar? | Letter

Obama granted me clemency after 23 years in prison. What will it take for Trump to do similar? | Letter

Danielle Metz wonders whether the president will extend the forgiveness he has shown the 6 January insurrectionists to other prisoners, in response to an article by James Rosen I was granted clemency by President Barack Obama after serving 23 years behind bars (The US founders made a grave error in granting presidents pardon power, 1 November). When I think of clemency, I think about what it was designed to do. How it’s a way to show mercy when those who issued the verdict showed none. Incarcerated people sit in prison for years waiting for someone to show up and correct an obvious wrong. The president and the governor have the power to right that wrong. I can’t imagine it being taken away. I think back to 6 January 2021, when the Capitol was stormed, and I witnessed the violence and chaos that erupted that day. I remember how frightening it was to watch. This was not scripted. This was horror in real time.

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The GuardianPublic PolicyAustin
A Trump proposal would punish single parents. Other wealthy countries have a different approach

A Trump proposal would punish single parents. Other wealthy countries have a different approach

Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden offer extra support to solo-parent households. In its latest pronatalist push, the Trump administration aims to shift funds away from them When news broke that the Trump administration planned to pay married couples to have one parent stay home with their kids, everyone from policy wonks to Redditors bemoaned what they saw as a new front in the mommy wars. The proposal would shift funds that subsidize childcare for low-income working parents – the majority of them single parents who rely on childcare providers – to low-income married couples with one earner. Given that most single parents and stay-at-home parents are women, and both groups would be applying for the same limited funds, it seemed almost designed to pit moms against each other.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictSouth East England
Russian naval aggression prompts new defensive initiative with ‘beer-drinking nations’

Russian naval aggression prompts new defensive initiative with ‘beer-drinking nations’

New alliance with the Netherlands and Baltic and Nordic countries comes in response to 41% increase in Russian naval activity around UK Russian naval activity around the UK has increased by 41% in the first nine months of the year, a British defence minister has said, as the Royal Navy announced plans to step up a 10-country maritime defensive effort in response. Luke Pollard, the minister for defence readiness, described the figure as “a huge increase”, justifying a new drone and warship initiative from “the alliance of beer-drinking nations” – the UK, the Netherlands and the Baltic and Nordic countries.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict
Russia-Ukraine talks ‘very productive,’ says US’s Rubio – as it happened

Russia-Ukraine talks ‘very productive,’ says US’s Rubio – as it happened

US-led talks in Abu Dhabi break up after four hours but are expected to resume tomorrow as Zelenskyy says humanitarian issues were discussed US officials seek ‘final end’ to Russia-Ukraine war as talks begin The EU has said it stands ready “to come with a swift and united response” after France blamed Iran for a spate of cyber-attacks on supermarket freezers and chillers that caused millions of euros of damage. Speaking to journalists on Monday, French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said “Europe-wide sanctions” would be imposed against those responsible as he announced France believed that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were “responsible for this attack”. We acknowledge that France has attributed these (cyber-attacks) to Iran. Pending discussions with member states, we as (the) European Union, we stand ready to come with a swift and united response. We as the EU, we have consistently called on all states to refrain from malicious behaviour in the cyberspace. And we will continue to address such malicious behavior, making use of all the tools that we have also under the EU cyber diplomacy toolbox, including sanctions.

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The GuardianDiplomacySouth West England
UK counter-terrorism police arrest member of US army with alleged links to Russia

UK counter-terrorism police arrest member of US army with alleged links to Russia

Man, 41, arrested as part of an investigation by British police working with US authorities, US military and FBI A member of the US army has been arrested by British counter-terrorism police. The man, 41, was arrested as part of an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing, working closely with US authorities, the US military and the FBI, Counter Terrorism Policing London said.

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BBCSex & IdentityLondon
Anti-homosexuality laws in Trinidad and Tobago overturned

Anti-homosexuality laws in Trinidad and Tobago overturned

A UK court has overturned laws criminalising same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago. London's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), the Caribbean island's final court of appeal, ruled the laws were not in keeping with the "fundamental individual right to respect for private and family life." The judgement is the result of an 11-year legal battle brought by dual-citizen Jason Jones, 62, who said he hoped it would "accelerate the fight for full equality." Jones had successfully challenged the laws in 2018 in Trinidad's High Court, however the ruling was overturned on appeal by the Trinidadian government.

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The GuardianSex & IdentityLondon
Activist wins 10-year fight against homophobic Trinidad and Tobago laws

Activist wins 10-year fight against homophobic Trinidad and Tobago laws

Jason Jones welcomes decision by privy council in London to overturn 2025 ruling that outlawed anal sex A gay man has won a historic 10-year battle against Trinidad and Tobago’s homophobic laws with a landmark UK appeals court ruling that could help overturn similar anti-gay laws in other Caribbean countries. The privy council, based in London, overturned a 2025 decision by Trinidad and Tobago’s court of appeal that recriminalised consensual anal sex, seven years after the Trinidadian activist Jason Jones secured a high court judgment declaring the country’s colonial-era “buggery” laws unconstitutional.

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The GuardianElectionsKolkata
Disgraced former leader Sheikh Hasina plans return to Bangladesh from exile

Disgraced former leader Sheikh Hasina plans return to Bangladesh from exile

Former prime minister faces death penalty upon return after being sentenced in absentia over deaths in 2024 uprising Sheikh Hasina is “confident” she will return to Bangladesh in December, according to exiled members of her party, after the disgraced former prime minister applied for a new passport this week. Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile since August 2024 when she was toppled from power by a mass uprising against her authoritarian rule. She crossed the border to India, where she has since been allowed to live freely in Delhi.

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The GuardianHealth AlertsUSA
The vaccine limbo in the US is worsening the measles outbreak

The vaccine limbo in the US is worsening the measles outbreak

Earlier doses for children, a focus on unvaccinated adults, a risk strategy based on geography – here’s how a functioning ACIP would address the measles outbreak The US has announced three deaths associated with measles last week, among them a seven-month-old baby in New York and a postpartum woman in Pennsylvania, underscoring the need for a more aggressive vaccination approach – but US recommendations haven’t changed. Dismantling the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) made it harder for the US to respond to the measles outbreak, with vaccine recommendations staying the same during a historic rise in cases and deaths, four former advisers say.

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The GuardianCombat SportsCanberra
Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’

Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’

Government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can’t argue in future ‘that someone didn’t know the computer was loaded’ OpenAI won’t face criminal penalties over the Medicare hack but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies. Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations of a “rapid review” into the June breach but not the findings or the report itself. maintaining security controls across all stages of development and deployment; identify and manage serious risks associated with their models; provide mandatory notification of incidents to the Australian government rapidly; allow independent evaluation of their models; maintain and publish safety and security frameworks to ensure good governance, risk management, and transparency; and respond to updated standards and rules as technologies change.

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The GuardianDiplomacyNew York
Chris Bowen faces a titanic task at Cop31. What will it take for the world to make the climate crisis its top priority? | Adam Morton

Chris Bowen faces a titanic task at Cop31. What will it take for the world to make the climate crisis its top priority? | Adam Morton

Whether the global community can bring itself to name fossil fuels as the cause of the climate emergency will be at the centre of debate in Antalya Australian politics could have looked markedly different this week if the Albanese government had succeeded in its longstanding bid to host a major UN climate summit in Adelaide. Tens of thousands of people, including ministers and diplomats representing 200 countries, would have descended on the city of the toxic algal bloom to meet, lobby and negotiate over how to tackle the climate crisis, and wander the halls of a massive green trade fair that runs alongside the formal talks.

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The GuardianDiplomacy
UN chief urges Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia to turn fossil fuel promises into action

UN chief urges Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia to turn fossil fuel promises into action

António Guterres calls for ‘clear next steps’ as countries face pressure to agree concrete measures Turkey and Australia, the co-hosts of crucial climate talks, must urgently move from discussing the end of fossil fuels to delivering it, the UN chief has said. “It is long past time to stop treating the transition away from fossil fuels as taboo or intractable,” António Guterres said, in a dramatic intervention on the second day of the conference on Tuesday.

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The GuardianDiplomacy
High fossil fuel prices spread inflation ‘like a cancer’, UN climate chief tells Cop31

High fossil fuel prices spread inflation ‘like a cancer’, UN climate chief tells Cop31

Simon Stiell makes opening address at summit in Turkey, where talks are under way about speeding up shift to electrification A global fossil fuel price crisis is “spreading inflation like a cancer” around the planet, the UN’s climate chief, Simon Stiell, told the opening plenary of critical UN climate talks in Turkey. Stiell joined Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia, which is leading the negotiations, in promoting renewable energy and a new electrification goal as an optimistic alternative to a planet still tied to oil, coal and gas.

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The GuardianEconomy
Nvidia shaken by scandal amid wider political new order for big tech

Nvidia shaken by scandal amid wider political new order for big tech

A scandal tests Nvidia’s dominance as tech billionaires seek to mend ties with Democrats after the midterm elections This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it here Today in tech, we’re talking about Nvidia’s salacious scandal, tech tycoons trying to reconcile with Democrats, and what billionaires should spend their money on if not elections.

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The GuardianImmigration
We have a new shadow president – and he can play Trump like a fiddle | Arwa Mahdawi

We have a new shadow president – and he can play Trump like a fiddle | Arwa Mahdawi

Stephen Miller is an ideologue on a mission to reshape the world. But his appointment has a silver lining for Democrats Has the midterms bloodbath made Donald Trump go all woke? Has his party’s historic rebuke finally made him reflect on his actions and forced a road to Damascus moment? Of course not; this is the world’s least introspective man we are talking about. However, for about 30 seconds on Sunday, the usually incoherent president managed the amazing feat of speaking a little bit of sense.

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The GuardianImmigrationMinneapolis
Stephen Miller, immigration hardliner, in his own words

Stephen Miller, immigration hardliner, in his own words

Trump’s most controversial aide begins his first day as White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, the influential architect of Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, is due to start as White House chief of staff today. His promotion has horrified many, handing even more power to the president’s most controversial aide. The 41-year-old has been with Trump since the beginning of the US president’s political career – serving as a speechwriter during his 2016 presidential campaign – and has long been seen as a hardliner on the right, serving as the driving force behind first-term Trump policies such as family separation at the US-Mexico border and the travel ban on people from many Muslim-majority countries.

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The GuardianPublic Policy
US supreme court clears way for Trump’s border wall in Texas’s Big Bend

US supreme court clears way for Trump’s border wall in Texas’s Big Bend

Ruling said law enacted by Congress reflects preference for border control over environmental and recreational harm The US supreme court has allowed Donald Trump to continue his administration’s construction of a border wall in Texas’s Big Bend region, including parts of Big Bend national park. In an unsigned, five-page ruling, the nation’s highest court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to suspend a lower court order that had temporarily stopped the project last month.

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The GuardianHumanitySouth West England
Grenades, grief and a deepening political divide: five takeaways from Sonia Gandhi’s new memoir

Grenades, grief and a deepening political divide: five takeaways from Sonia Gandhi’s new memoir

From the assassinations of her husband and mother-in-law to press stonewalling under Modi, Belonging offers an insider’s account of India’s political evolution Few love stories have been as closely entwined with a nation’s history as that of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi. The former’s much-awaited political memoir, Belonging, offers a strikingly candid account of her journey from a small town in Italy to the highest echelons of power in India – all for love, she says. The veteran Congress party leader has been fiercely protective of her personal world. In Belonging, she opens up for the first time about the extraordinary twists and turns of a life that has largely unfolded in full public view. (The Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen has a rare in-person interview with Gandhi, and you can read an excerpt from the book here.)

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The GuardianElectionsAustin
‘The many v the money’ should frame the next US Congress

‘The many v the money’ should frame the next US Congress

If Democrats want to keep the blue wave going into 2028, they have to take on the billionaire class Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Judd Legum shined a spotlight on the role of dark money in US elections. Today’s edition was written by Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and author of End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, co-written with Astra Taylor. To see the battle lines of the post-midterm era in sharp relief, look to Texas. The oligarchs in this battle seem to have no loyalty to the nations, states and cities that helped them grow their enormous wealth.

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The GuardianHumanity
‘We said no, no, no, but they kept insisting’: the Paraguayan people battling a eucalyptus empire

‘We said no, no, no, but they kept insisting’: the Paraguayan people battling a eucalyptus empire

It is Paraguay’s largest private investment but local people accuse a forestry giant of ignoring their contamination concerns over its vast plantation When Paracel arrived in Tacuarita, an Indigenous community of homes made from planks and plastic sheeting in Paraguay’s poorest region, six years ago, it was a welcome sight. The company improved the dirt roads and dug an electric-powered well, saving villagers a two-mile journey to fetch water from a cattle pond that often made them sick. It also gave dozens of local people forestry jobs. “They fulfilled all their promises,” says Florencio Garcete, 55, chief of the Mbya Guaraní community of 211 people.

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