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The GuardianScandalCanada
Man and police officer wounded in exchange of gunfire near Ontario synagogue

Man and police officer wounded in exchange of gunfire near Ontario synagogue

Officials say man was critically injured and officer was wounded in Yom Kippur incident near Belleville synagogue A police officer and a man were wounded in an exchange of gunfire on Sunday near a synagogue in Ontario as members of the Jewish community marked Yom Kippur, authorities said. The man was hospitalized in life-threatening condition. The Canadian province’s special investigations unit said the exchange of gunfire happened near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, about 110 miles (160km) east of Toronto. Belleville police said the officer encountered the man at about 7.10pm and that both were taken to a hospital.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump’s ICE crackdown

Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump’s ICE crackdown

Media workers are grappling with increasingly volatile press climate in US, with some detained and even deported Banished: Trump’s secret deportation deals What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy? As hundreds of masked and armed US federal agents besieged the streets of Minneapolis, turning the midwestern city into the frontline of the Trump administration’s unprecedented crackdown on immigration, the independent photographer John Abernathy was documenting one of the protests that had become a daily occurrence when Immigration and Customs Enforcement tackled him. A photograph of him on the ground, pepper spray running down his face, captured the violence with which ICE agents had for weeks treated immigrants and the thousands of US citizens who had come to their defence. It was also a stark reminder that journalists were not immune to the agency’s aggressive tactics.

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The GuardianInformationUSA
Trump bans CNN, MS Now and Politico from White House

Trump bans CNN, MS Now and Politico from White House

President has overseen an unprecedented restriction of access for major news media since start of second term US politics live – latest updates In his latest attack on the US constitution’s first amendment and the press, Donald Trump abruptly announced that he is banning outlets CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House over their coverage. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday, the US president said he was expelling the news outlets “effective immediately” over what he called their “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” and threatened that bans for others outlets could follow.

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The GuardianHumanityChina
‘People had naive expectations’: How MeToo has changed in China

‘People had naive expectations’: How MeToo has changed in China

On Friday, MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin was released from prison. She returns to a landscape changed by censorship, and a new generation of feminists When Jasmine, a once active member of China’s MeToo movement, organises feminist activities in Beijing, she often does so under the guise of an art or cultural event. She avoids publicising them on social media, instead sharing details privately in her personal circle. It’s very difficult to imagine what happened during the MeToo period, she says, “when one survivor could speak publicly about her experience and trigger a broader discussion about sexual harassment.”

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The TelegraphScandalNorth West England
Muslim police group ‘undermining impartiality’ with pro-Palestine views

Muslim police group ‘undermining impartiality’ with pro-Palestine views

A Muslim police association has been accused of undermining the service’s impartiality by espousing pro-Palestine views. The Right-of-centre think tank Policy Exchange says the convention that police operate “without fear or favour” is being threatened by staff organisations such as the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) by straying into contested political areas.

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The GuardianWellnessNorth West England
New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say

New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say

School leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmed Headteachers in England want Ofsted to stop grading their schools, saying its new inspection regime is harming their mental health and creating greater stress than the system it was designed to replace. The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said it has given the education secretary, Lucy Powell, “countless examples” of the damaging effects on its members since the new inspection framework was introduced a year ago.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
ICE agent shoots and wounds Venezuelan man at traffic stop in Austin, Texas

ICE agent shoots and wounds Venezuelan man at traffic stop in Austin, Texas

Anti-ICE protesters gather and demand transparency at site where 28-year-old was shot in torso A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man on Sunday afternoon in Texas’s capital city, Austin, prompting demonstrations at the scene against the Trump administration’s hardline anti-immigration campaign. The man, identified by relatives and his lawyer as 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, was taken to a hospital in Austin in a serious but stable condition, officials said, before being taken into custody. He was shot once in the torso on the city’s north side, Austin’s police chief, Lisa Davis, said at a news conference with the mayor and other city officials.

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The GuardianWellnessUSA
John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’

John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’

Ahead of Luigi Mangione’s sentencing, the Last Week Tonight host looked into the corporate healthcare behemoth that is UnitedHealth Group After a month hiatus, John Oliver returned to Last Week Tonight with a look at United Healthcare, the largest insurance company in the US, which served over 50 million people last year. The company, part of the widely reviled private, for-profit health insurance industry in the US, was again under the microscope ahead of the sentencing of Luigi Mangione, who in August pleaded guilty to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s in on 4 December 2024. The shooting, outside a conference of health insurance executives in Manhattan, was “notably not met with universal sympathy”, Oliver recalled. “But it’s not just that Luigi was handsome. One reason many found it hard to completely condemn the murder is that so many Americans are furious with UnitedHealthcare.” Oliver cited a poll conducted shortly after the shooting, in which 69% of respondents in some part blamed denials for healthcare coverage by insurance companies for the killing.

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The GuardianLifeSaudi Arabia
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports

Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ On her first day as an expert author on the world’s most important climate reports, Prof Julia Steinberger knew nobody else, so she sat down at a stranger’s table for breakfast. “Hi, I’m Julia. I’m from the University of Lausanne,” she said. The man across the table replied: “I’m Mustafa Babiker. I work with Saudi Aramco.”

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The GuardianPoliticiansUSA
From the ridicule of Trump to the rise of Jack Welch: how the 1980s shaped and changed America

From the ridicule of Trump to the rise of Jack Welch: how the 1980s shaped and changed America

In When America Roared, Pulitzer-winning reporter Jonathan Kaufman looks back to a decade of greed and excess, and uses it to explore where we are today Donald Trump is “so much a creature of the 80s but even in the 80s, everyone made fun of him,” Jonathan Kaufman said. General Electric CEO Jack Welch, “the most prominent business figure in the country, maybe in the world, mocked him. No one took him seriously. “Even today, if you look at the [White House] ballroom, you look at all the things he’s doing, it’s this 1980s aesthetic, right? You can just see the way he looks at the world: the glitz, the cheapness, the gold brocade everywhere. That screams 1980s. All he needs is big hair and leg warmers and listening to, I don’t know, synthetic pop, and he’d be right back in 1985.”

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The GuardianImmigration
What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and who does it target?

What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and who does it target?

Key questions answered about scheme that has sent more than 25,000 people to countries that are not their own Banished: Trump’s secret deportation deals Freedom oppressed: journalists caught up in Trump crackdown Since returning to office in 2025, Donald Trump’s administration has deported more than 25,000 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to countries that are not their own. Human rights lawyers describe these so-called third-country national arrangements as a “show of force”, intended to make people fear the consequences of entering the US without permission.

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Daily PostElectionsNigeria
IPOB slams Mbah over disruption of opposition rallies in Enugu, insists on election boycott

IPOB slams Mbah over disruption of opposition rallies in Enugu, insists on election boycott

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has slammed Enugu State governor, Peter Mbah, over the disruption of rallies held by opposition parties by suspected political thugs in the state. IPOB condemned the development in the weekly address by Mazi Chris Nwaọgụ, Head, Fourth Administrationof the Directorate of State, DOS. On September 12, 2026, suspected political […] IPOB slams Mbah over disruption of opposition rallies in Enugu, insists on election boycott

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The TelegraphDiplomacy
Israel FA accuses Ireland manager of ‘ignorance and hypocrisy’ after genocide comment

Israel FA accuses Ireland manager of ‘ignorance and hypocrisy’ after genocide comment

The Israel Football Association has accused Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson of “stupidity, ignorance and hypocrisy” after he said: “We’re playing against genocide.” Sunday’s Nations League game between the two countries is fast becoming a grudge match in the wake of comments made by Hallgrimsson upon naming his squad for the fixture last week. “We are not playing with genocide; we are playing against genocide,” the former Iceland manager said.

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The GuardianPoliticiansUSA
Trump says he’ll probably lose lawsuit brought by news outlets he banned from White House, blaming judge appointed by ‘TRUMP’ – live

Trump says he’ll probably lose lawsuit brought by news outlets he banned from White House, blaming judge appointed by ‘TRUMP’ – live

President repeats frequent ‘fake news’ attacks as four other networks that make up White House TV pool decided they would cease coverage in solidarity with banned CNN Sign up for US Breaking News emails The three news outlets President Trump banned from the White House last Friday have filed their anticipated lawsuit against his administration to restore their access. In the new complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday, CNN, MS Now and Politico alleged that Trump had violated the First Amendment and due process by stripping the outlets of their White House access in a blatant act of retaliation for coverage he disliked.

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Daily PostInformationUSA
Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, Politico from White House, warns others

Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, Politico from White House, warns others

United States President Donald Trump has barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, alleging propaganda by the major news networks and website. Trump accused the outlets of reporting “fake news” about his administration, stating they “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report fiction or lies” when covering the President. In a statement […] Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, Politico from White House, warns others

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The GuardianScandalUnited Kingdom
The Guardian view on rape courts: ministers know that victims deserve better | Editorial

The Guardian view on rape courts: ministers know that victims deserve better | Editorial

New facilities for witnesses who have been sexually assaulted are a step towards halving violence against girls and women The creation of specialist courts to try rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales is a welcome recognition from the government that the status quo is unacceptable. Victims, the vast majority of whom are women and girls, are being failed by a system that too often appears blind to the obstacles in the way of anyone who wants to see a perpetrator brought to justice. In 2025, rape cases took an average of 424 days after they had reached the crown court. Added to pre‑trial delays, this means thousands of lives being placed on hold for years. Long waits are simply unendurable in many cases; a rape review ordered by Conservative ministers in 2021 found that the proportion of complainants dropping out of cases had risen from 25% to 43% in five years. As well as the harm caused to individuals, there is an obvious impact on public safety when perpetrators go unpunished, and chances to rehabilitate them are missed. 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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The GuardianScandalLondon
Specialist courtrooms to prioritise rape cases in England and Wales

Specialist courtrooms to prioritise rape cases in England and Wales

Funding boost for facilities and fixed dates for trials designed to encourage more survivors to come forward Specialist courtrooms prioritising cases of rape and other serious sex offences are to be introduced across England and Wales, with campaigners welcoming the move as potentially transformative. The changes, designed to encourage more survivors to come forward, will include the provision of private entrances and waiting rooms, and facilities equipped for recording evidence in advance and observing sentencing remotely.

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The GuardianHumanityLondon
‘Our culture is rich and we need our own space’: the fight to build a permanent centre for Deaf people

‘Our culture is rich and we need our own space’: the fight to build a permanent centre for Deaf people

In the UK, 18 million people are hard of hearing – yet there is no dedicated centre for the Deaf community. Now urban planner and activist Amanprit Arnold has made it her mission Meeting outdoors became second nature for most of us over this long, hot summer, but Amanprit Arnold doesn’t get the luxury of choice. She’s sitting at a terrace table when we meet at a cafe because she’s a member of the Deaf community (Deaf with a capital D denotes membership of a unique cultural and linguistic minority). “Nowhere in London is specifically designed for me,” says Arnold, who was born deaf and used hearing aids before getting cochlear implants at 21. “Inside a cafe, the acoustics can be so bad. It’s much easier for me to hear out here.”

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The GuardianRelationships
Get tested and talk to your partner: how to have safer sex after age 50

Get tested and talk to your partner: how to have safer sex after age 50

At 51, I want many more years of a healthy, happy sex life. So I decided to compile my own guide When I got divorced after 28 years of monogamy, I was excited to be having sex again, but had concerns. I was 48, and the last time I’d been single was in the 90s; terrified of pregnancy and hyperconscious of HIV/Aids, I hadn’t considered condomless intercourse an option back then. Now, at 51, I’ve been wondering how important barrier protection is for me. Though I haven’t hit menopause, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) says that “by 45 getting pregnant naturally is unlikely”, and HIV/Aids prevention and treatment have improved significantly in the last three decades.

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The GuardianDiplomacyWorld
Trump set to press Zelenskyy at UN to agree energy ceasefire with Russia

Trump set to press Zelenskyy at UN to agree energy ceasefire with Russia

President to meet Ukrainian counterpart in New York as Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian energy sector Donald Trump is expected to press Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on an energy ceasefire during a face-to-face meeting this week during United Nations high-level week, as world diesel prices have soared due to the war in Iran, as well as Russia’s war in Ukraine. Ukraine stepped up its attacks on Russia’s energy sector over the weekend, launching its largest reported strike yet on the Moscow region in a barrage that struck a major Moscow oil refinery and killed three people.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell review – wide of the mark

The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell review – wide of the mark

Gladwell’s highly readable investigation into US gun culture fails to engage with the bigger questions Once, while having a steak dinner with Republicans in a small town in Indiana, the man sitting opposite me asked: “How do you cope in London, when Muslims elected that mayor and you have all that gun control?” I’d been in enough such situations to know that there was no “winning” a conversation that starts like this and so did my best to playfully bat the question away. “Well, the Muslims didn’t elect a mayor – Londoners elected a Muslim mayor,” I said. “And we don’t talk much about gun control for the same reason we don’t talk about polar bear control: we don’t have many polar bears and we don’t have many guns.”

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