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  • Donald Trump stands in front of an American flag backdrop.

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president expands ‘commanding’ lead in Iowa a month before caucus, poll shows

    Former president received 51% support despite facing 91 criminal charges and warnings of authoritarian threat he poses
    • A woman in a blazer and glasses looks ahead.

      Harvard University
      Professors defend president amid calls to resign after statements on antisemitism

    • Exclusive
      US?will ‘lose face before world’ if it abandons Kyiv, says ex-Ukraine president

    • Live
      Rudy Giuliani faces damages claim in 2020 election defamation case

    • Golden Globes 2024
      Barbie leads the pack with Oppenheimer hot on heels

    • Alexei Navalny
      Jailed Russian activist ‘not heard from for almost a week’

    • Grand Theft Auto 6
      ‘Florida’s Joker’ alleges game used his likeness

    • ‘A moment after death when the face is beautiful’
      Rare Raymond Chandler poem discovered by US editor

    • Fungi and flatworms?
      Scientists call for greater emoji biodiversity

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In focus

  • Illustration of a painting of a flower and two people sitting in chairs in a room, behind a window as two people walk past outside.

    Medication and egg sharing
    How?Black women trying to get pregnant create their own healthcare networks

  • A hand reaches up toward a clear IV drip bag suspended from a metal tower.

    ‘Don’t get sick. It’s too expensive’
    Medical debt is putting more Americans in financial crisis

    Although both leading presidential candidates have addressed healthcare costs, neither has tackled the biggest issue – its cost
  • From ‘America’s mayor’ to Trump election denials: Rudy Giuliani faces defamation case.

    Rudy Giuliani
    What price will he pay for smearing Georgia election workers?

    Trump’s 2020 lawyer will face mother and daughter at trial who claim he destroyed their lives and caused them emotional distress by maliciously accusing them of election fraud

Spotlight

  • Young Palestinians<br>Two young Palestinians look out over East Jerusalem, wearing kaffiyehs to mask their faces, like many stone throwers during the Intifada, in 1988. (Photo by Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

    From Yasser Arafat to Madonna
    How?the Palestinian keffiyeh became a global symbol

    The scarf has gone from a mark of solidarity to a hipster fashion piece – and back again
  • Untitled Artwork (11)

    Secondhand gifts and DIY decor
    Seven ways to make your holidays a little greener

  • Actually on Valium … Pryce as Sam Lowry in Brazil.

    ‘Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon’
    Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making Brazil

    De Niro agreed because he was a Python fan, Gilliam cast his daughter but she cut her hair off in protest – and Pryce needed a wig as he’d just been playing a friar with a tonsure
  • How to Have an American Baby still

    ‘A lot of these women had no idea what they got into’
    Inside the world of birth tourism

    A new documentary follows Chinese women who travel to the US to give birth so their children can have citizenship
    • Taylor Swift performs in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in May 2023

      The weird world of celebrity training
      How?Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Madonna get in shape for their shows

    • ‘With no gatekeepers and no formula, it’s chaos’ … clockwise from top left, Ryan Guldemond of Mother Mother, Helen Marnie of Ladytron, Miguel and Keane.

      ‘We’re on TikTok? What’s TikTok?’
      The?forgotten bands going supersonic thanks to gen Z

    • US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-MUSEUM-GALA<br>US director Ava DuVernay attends the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, December 3, 2022. (Photo by Michael TRAN / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

      Ava DuVernay
      ‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’

    • Purely human … Olivia Rodrigo.

      The 50 best albums of 2023
      No?10 – Olivia Rodrigo: Guts

Opinion

  • Representative Elise Stefanik

    The?Harvard and UPenn presidents walked into a trap in Congress

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The presidents were asked about non-existent calls for genocide on American campuses, while the potential dangers of genocide in Gaza were ignored
  • A young person in a hoodie leans their head against a cement wall, fists balled up to block their face.

    We?need to talk about the United States’ mental health crisis – and its larger causes

    Robert Reich
  • H&M show in Paris, 2018

    Preaching sustainability while hawking fast fashion – meet the greenwashing influencers

    Sarah Manavis
  • A very large, maybe six-story-high white yacht, in deeply blue water off a steep, rocky, forested coast that also has narrow, red-roofed buildings.

    ‘Megayachts’ are environmentally indefensible. The world must ban them

    Chris Armstrong
  • Guardian TikToks

    Is?TikTok brainwashing the kids about Gaza? No, this is just an old moral panic in a new form

    Nesrine Malik
  • The coronation of King Charles III.

    The?British national anthem is ponderous rubbish – if a university wants to ditch it, it’s doing us all a favour

    Tim Dowling

Sports

  • Joe Flacco after the Browns’ loss to the Rams earlier this month. On Sunday, he led his team to victory over the Indianapolis Colts

    NFL review
    Flacco was on his couch. Now the Super Bowl isn’t impossible

    In a season where even the best teams have flaws, the veteran quarterback only needs to be competent when he has a brilliant defense backing him up
  • Jean-Philippe Mateta goes down before a ridiculously slow VAR call; David Silva celebrates a return to winning ways; James Bond in Goldfinger (Alisson Becker's alter ego).

    Premier League weekend awards
    Is?Bernardo Silva the best player in the league?

  • Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, left, and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes greet each other after Sunday’s game

    NFL roundup
    Kelce trick play ruled out as Bills beat Chiefs

    The Buffalo Bills held on to beat the Kansas City Chiefs thanks to a crucial penalty on wide receiver Kadarius Toney
  • The Los Angeles Lakers lifted the NBA Cup after beating the Indiana Pacers in the final

    The?NBA Cup made a quiet stretch of the season exciting

    Claire de Lune in Las Vegas
    After an unequivocally successful first rodeo, it’s a solid Las Vegas bet that the in-season tournament is here to stay
    • Martin Odegaard, Emiliano Martínez and Pep Guardiola

      Villa have upended the Premier League’s paradigm

      Jonathan Wilson
    • (From left) Harry Kane, Rapha?l Guerreiro, Kingsley Coman and Joshua Kimmich go to the Bayern fans in disbelief

      Bewildered Bayern’s repeat 5-1 nightmare blows title race open

      Andy Brassell
    • Jon Rahm at the 2022 Scottish Open

      Rahm has joined Saudis’ Guillotine Squad – and tarnished his legacy for ever

      Sean Ingle
    • Jadon Sancho and Erik ten Hag after last season's Carabao Cup final

      Soccer
      Man?Utd open to offers for players including Casemiro and Sancho

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Climate crisis

  • A giant catfish on a fishing boat.

    Fish
    Quarter of world’s freshwater population at risk of extinction, study finds

  • Aerial view of a burnt area of the Amazon rainforest in Labrea, southern Amazonas state, Brazil

    Fossil fuels
    Phase-out will ‘not avert climate breakdown without protections for nature’

  • At-Wasl dome

    Cop28
    ‘Magical’ tech innovations a distraction from real solutions, experts warn

  • Chris Bowen, Australia’s climate change and energy minister, speaks at the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai

    Australia
    Climate minister tells Cop28 to end use of fossil fuels as talks try to break deadlock

Across the country

  • Spongebob Squarepants balloon in Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

    惭补肠测’蝉
    $5.8bn buyout offer could take US department store chain off stock market

    US department store chain that also owns Bloomingdale’s reportedly received approach from two existing investors
  • FILE PHOTO: Turning Point Action Conference in Florida<br>FILE PHOTO: Former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson speaks during the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. July 15, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

    Tucker Carlson
    Ex-Fox News host to launch his own $72-a-year subscription streaming service

  • Senator JD Vance at the Capitol.

    Ukraine
    Republican senator says Kyiv may have to cede land to Russia to end war

  • Close-up of hands clinking champagne glasses

    Want to skip that Christmas party?
    The?host probably won’t mind, study shows

    • CrownRock
      Occidental Petroleum to buy energy producer in $12bn deal

    • US elections 2024
      Mitt Romney says his endorsement in race would be ‘kiss of death’

    • Donald Trump
      Ex-president says he won’t return to witness stand in $250m New York fraud trial

    • US
      Biden under scrutiny after bypassing Congress to supply tank shells to Israel

    • ‘He was a coward’
      Trump tests federal gag order with attack on Bill Barr

    • Nebraska
      Catholic priest killed by attack in church residence

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Around the world

  • Donald Tusk speaking during a meeting with women during his election campaign on 10 October.

    Live
    Donald Tusk nominated to serve as Polish prime minister after Mateusz Morawiecki loses confidence vote

    Donald Tusk could take office this week, putting an end to eight years of rule by Law and Justice (PiS) party
  • A view of Tijuana, which has the most homicides of any city in Mexico.

    Mexico
    Drug lords hunt corrupt police officers who stole shipment in Tijuana

  • The Book of Deer.

    Cambridge University
    Library asked to return Book of Deer to Scotland

  • A still from Triangle of Sadness showing a topless man and a woman in a bikini lying in sun loungers.

    'Lowest common denominator'
    EU?plan to ban geoblocking will lead to dull content, warn film-makers

    • India
      Supreme court upholds move to strip Kashmir of special status

    • European Union
      Hungary defiant over threat to block Ukraine EU accession talks

    • Stonehenge
      Campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel

    • 'Turning point'
      World economy on brink of ‘cold war two’, IMF official warns

    • Beyoncé and Neil Young
      Song fund Hipgnosis sells 20,000 songs for $23m

    • Uganda
      Activists finalize appeal to overturn draconian anti-gay law

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Culture

  • This combination of images shows Margot Robbie in a scene from "Barbie," left, and Cillian Murphy in a scene from "Oppenheimer." (Warner Bros Pictures/Universal Pictures via AP)

    It’s Barbenheimer mark two at the Golden Globes as the two blockbusters face off once again

    Peter Bradshaw
    There is also room for two really outstanding films in the shape of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things
  • old books in the flea market<br>EP5058 old books in the flea market

    ‘Freedom begins with a book’
    Incarcerated people to judge new US literary award

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    John Oliver on the state of America’s freight train industry

  • An inevitable question … Anatomy of a Fall

    Best movies of 2023 in the US
    No?10 – Anatomy of a Fall

  • Frankly, the Smiths

    ‘I feel more like myself when I’m Morrissey’
    The?bizarre lives of tribute acts

  • Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron

    Film
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From Guardian Labs

  • Illustrated composite image of a person on a bicycle, a person in a car, a couple with their child, two people using a public drinking fountain, a basket of fresh foods, and a no-smoking sign.

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Lifestyle

  • kleine scheidegg skifahren kinder eiger moench winter

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    A?Swiss ski resort that doesn’t cost the earth? Welcome to Interlaken

    Switzerland is not the most affordable place to ski, but the Jungfrau area – with super-fast pistes and long toboggan runs – is a happy exception
  • Halima Aden, who has returned to fashion after three years, saying she’s witnessing change in the industry when it comes to modest fashion.

    When is modest fashion desirable?
    When it’s called ‘quiet luxury’

  • Peeled potatoes on a cutting board

    The poor rejected spud
    Why?potatoes don’t belong with the other vegetables

  • Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake Nigel Slater Observer Food Monthly OFM December 2023

    Pork terrine, apricot stollen, chocolate mousse
    Nigel Slater recipes to give as Christmas gifts

  • Freddie Johnson in front of his tour bus at North Queensferry by the Forth bridge

    A new start after 60
    After 30 years teaching computing, I became a tour guide. Now I show people the most beautiful places in the world

  • A brown duck

    The pet I'll never forget
    Mr?Kite, the duck who slept in our kitchen

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From our global editions

  • A middle-aged black man wearing a mask stands knee-deep in the sea as someone rows out to fishing boats in the distance

    In the eye of the climate storm
    Hurricane-hit Dominica bets on a resilient eco-future

  • Two men standing in a snowy landscape

    ‘Too much sadness'
    Asylum seekers in Finland caught in geopolitical drama

  • A July wheat harvest in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region.

    ‘Forged documents’
    How?Ukrainian grain may be enriching Putin’s circle

  • Three portrait images by Martin Bond

    Cambridge
    Photographer ends daily challenge after 13 years and 5,000 images

In case you missed it

  • Annette Bening in a black pinstripe suit and a mustard blouse

    ‘They told me: you’re too loud and you put on 10lb’
    Annette Bening on success, surgery and surviving Hollywood

  • Low-slung building with large letters spelling 'Tesla' with rugged hills beyond and trees in the foreground.

    Tesla
    UAW?wants to unionize Tesla. It faces a tough and high-profile battle with Musk

    Pro-union workers are hopeful but realistic, but they fear Musk’s previous ruthlessness towards workers trying to unionize
  • Man and Boy, Hunky Version (2023) Dean Kelland. Installed at HMP Grendon. Image courtesy James Latunji-Cockbill

    ‘It felt like being stripped naked’
    The?prisoners confronting their crimes with art

    Dean Kelland has spent almost five years making art with inmates at Europe’s only fully therapeutic jail – with a little help from Elvis and David Bowie
  • ‘I feel like the sleep deprivation is intentional’ … Alex Hobern on The Circle.

    ‘I was in tears, angry, emotional’
    Do?reality TV shows use sleep deprivation to trigger meltdowns and showdowns?

  • Apple 14in MacBook Pro M3 Max review in space black on a table.

    Apple MacBook Pro M3 review
    Beloved laptop is back in black

  • Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive at a tent camp.

    ‘People will die in the streets’
    Gaza dreads onset of winter as disease rises

  • Manuel Rocha

    ‘Ego and resentment’
    What led former US diplomat to spy for Cuba?

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  • London, UK: Alicia Keys performs on a piano at St Pancras international station

    Beach tribute and Alicia Keys at a train station
    Photos of the day – Monday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Water flows over the Caban Coch Dam in the Elan Valley, Rhayader, Wales

    The weekend in pictures
    Surfing and SantaCon

  • Paris, 1989, by Elliott Erwitt.THE BIG PICTURE SUNDAY 10th DEC 2023 leave FRANCE. Paris. 1989 by Elliott Erwitt

    The big picture
    Elliott Erwitt’s lifelong love of dogs

  • Oliver Bonas Blue Striped Cosy Heavyweight Scarf ?38 (2)

    Wrap it up
    15?of the best cozy scarves – in pictures

  • Some of the tarot reimagined by Natasha Khan AKA Bat For Lashes.

    Art and design
    Two?suns: tarot reimagined by Bat for Lashes

  • Fisher checking his bunsod for a catchGuay

    ‘I’m sure this fisher had success the next day’
    Philip Am Guay’s best phone picture

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