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The GuardianScandalEngland
Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and extreme comments

Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and extreme comments

Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views Reform UK has been rocked by a fresh crisis after councillors and election candidates for the party were caught on film making graphic threats of extreme violence and expressing racist and misogynistic views. Three councillors have already stood down from the party, which said it was conducting an investigation over the first revelations from an ITV undercover investigation that aired on Wednesday.

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The TelegraphHumanityLondon
Macklemore’s Wembley gig to raise money for group that defended Oct 7

Macklemore’s Wembley gig to raise money for group that defended Oct 7

Macklemore’s pro-Palestine concert at Wembley will raise money for an anti-Israel group that attempted to justify Hamas’s Oct 7 attack.Proceeds from the American rapper’s performance this month will go to the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), whose spokesman previously described the taking of hostages in the 2023 terror attack “legitimate”. Macklemore, whose real name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, announced the tour after he was dropped as a special guest on Ed Sheeran’s US tour last month.

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The TelegraphWellnessLondon
Our son was killed by a fellow patient, then the NHS covered it up

Our son was killed by a fellow patient, then the NHS covered it up

When Hugo Flint Cahan was sectioned under the Mental Health Act to the Newham Centre for Mental Health in London, his loved ones reacted how anyone would in a moment of intense family health crisis; they put their faith in the system to keep him safe. Indeed, for his brother, Dr Jolyon – an NHS anaesthetist – and stepmother Dr Sue, an experienced radiologist, it was a system they thought they understood perfectly well.

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The GuardianScandalD.C.
Judge orders Trump administration to halt work on historic DC golf course

Judge orders Trump administration to halt work on historic DC golf course

District judge Ana Reyes halts tree-cutting at the East Potomac golf course until 26 October, and now requires advance notice before making course changes US district judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday ordered a halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac golf course until 26 October, putting a further pause on work at the historic Washington DC course that has been part of Donald Trump’s plans to remake the country'’s capital city. Reyes issued the order one day after a tense three-hour hearing in which she harshly criticized the government for having deceived her with its actions over the holiday weekend.

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The GuardianGolfUSA
Judge halts tree removal at Washington golf course Trump eyes for expansion

Judge halts tree removal at Washington golf course Trump eyes for expansion

Ana Reyes demands Trump officials explain East Potomac tree cutting and says it will likely cause ‘irreparable harm’ US district judge Ana Reyes on Monday ordered a 24-hour halt to tree cutting at the historic East Potomac golf course while she decides on an emergency order from plaintiffs concerned that Donald Trump’s plans for the course are moving forward despite a pending court case challenging them. “Tree removal for routine maintenance is not exempt from this order,” Reyes’ wrote. “Plaintiffs are likely to suffer immediate and irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief.

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The GuardianAIUnited Kingdom
Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?

Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?

Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI has the potential to “change the stakes” on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we look at how AI might help in the development of bioweapons and the hurdles that remain.

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The GuardianScandalDelhi
‘Cockroach’ party leaders say India is ‘at war with its citizens’ as protests enter second day

‘Cockroach’ party leaders say India is ‘at war with its citizens’ as protests enter second day

CJP leaders say Modi’s government is creating ‘atmosphere of fear’ after they were among thousands detained on Saturday The leaders of India’s Cockroach movement accused the Narendra Modi government of declaring “war with its own citizens” and vowed to continue with their protest after being released from police detention, as anti-government unrest rocked Delhi for a second day. The three leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta party (CJP) were taken into custody on Saturday when thousands were detained by police as authorities went to extreme lengths to prevent young people taking to the streets to protest.

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The GuardianScandalLondon
Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot

Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot

Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer What a world we live in. Imagine: gangs dragging civil servants off commuter trains and beating them up because they handed government data jobs to the wrong contractor – and the government is changing its procurement decisions as a result. Well, OK, it might not have happened yet, but it’s only a matter of time. As the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson asks: “Do you want to let the rule of law lead procurement practice, or do you want mob rule to lead procurement practices?” No, I absolutely don’t want the latter, and it’s always good to get ahead of trouble. But then I remember there are two common meanings of mob rule. One is intimidation by crowds of thugs. The other is a pejorative term for democracy. And while I’ve yet to see government procurement practices in the UK determined by pitchforks and flaming torches, democratic transparency could be a genuine threat to certain contractors. One might have hoped that Watson, who once took on the Murdoch empire, would have recognised the distinction. But then again, one might have hoped that Watson would not have taken a job as a senior vice-president at Palantir.

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The GuardianHumanityUnited Kingdom
Championship roundup: Swansea’s win at Millwall marred by alleged racist abuse of Eom Ji-sung

Championship roundup: Swansea’s win at Millwall marred by alleged racist abuse of Eom Ji-sung

Match at the Den held up for seven minutes Middlesbrough edge Stoke in thriller; more Watford gloom Swansea’s last-gasp 1-0 win at Millwall was held up for almost seven minutes after an allegation of racist abuse from the crowd towards Eom Ji-sung was reported by Swansea to officials. The referee, Edward Duckworth, halted the match in the 65th minute and walked to the dugouts to speak with Alex Neil, the Millwall’s manager, Swansea’s manager, Vítor Matos, and the fourth official, Ruebyn Ricardo. A security guard was also on the scene, with Duckworth seeming to point to an area in the stands behind the Swansea dugout.

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The GuardianHealth HabitsUSA
‘Try to eat really well, 80% of the time’: nutrition expert says healthy eating is easier than you think

‘Try to eat really well, 80% of the time’: nutrition expert says healthy eating is easier than you think

Christopher Gardner, the author of Food Sense and director of nutrition studies at Stanford, says we have overcomplicated the question of what to eat Finally, some good news: eating well is more straightforward than you think. “There’s a lot of good science out there, and it mostly agrees,” says Stanford University’s director of nutrition studies and professor of medicine Christopher Gardner from his office in Palo Alto – beaming, bronzed and the picture of health. In the age of social media and wellness grift, we’ve overcomplicated the question of what to eat, he says.

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The GuardianCompaniesSub-Saharan Africa
How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state

How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state

Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers across two continents, a Guardian investigation reveals the murderous cost of our insatiable appetite for cocaine As abductions go, few have been more brazen. Alan Jalloh was with two friends outside Goodies supermarket, frantic as usual with late afternoon shoppers. Rush hour in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, was under way with familiar gusto. A black Toyota Rav4 forced its way through the Peninsula highway traffic. Witnesses describe burly white men leaping out, yanking on balaclavas. Jalloh, 40, seemed to freeze. As did his two friends, one a famous Freetown footballer. All three were dragged into the waiting SUV. None of them have been seen since.

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The GuardianScandalKolkata
‘How do you explain the deletion of 130 million names?’: why Indian voters are on the streets

‘How do you explain the deletion of 130 million names?’: why Indian voters are on the streets

Anger at electoral roll changes has boiled over, sparking a crisis for Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government Leaders of India’s Cockroach party jailed Born into a small village in West Bengal, Shahida Fakir had always taken her vote for granted. That was, until it was suddenly taken away. She presented officials with her Indian birth certificate and family land documents from the village going back to 1962. Both her parents had been on the electoral roll going back decades, so she showed proof of that too. But when the final revised voter list came out in April, Fakir was not on it.

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The GuardianHumanityAustin
Removing political speech from MLS fans is untenable – just ask Austin FC

Removing political speech from MLS fans is untenable – just ask Austin FC

The protests around an anti-ICE T-shirt show that politics can never be separated from sports, especially now On 26 September, Daniela Silva was expelled from Austin FC’s match with San Diego FC for wearing a T-shirt reading “Abolish ICE”. She says she was banned from Q2 Stadium for a year (Austin FC said that the ban was issued by the Austin Police Department, not the club, and that they offered to rescind it but that Silva declined). This happened, really, truly, and you cannot make this up, during Austin FC’s Hispanic Heritage Night. It also happened six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot a Venezuelan delivery driver, 28-year-old Wilber Garcés Pérez, in the torso in Austin, sparking protests in the city. Leander Schaerlaeckens is the author of The Long Game: US Men’s Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts, which is out now. He teaches at Marist University. This article was amended on 14 October to reflect MLS’s clarification that, though the wordings of the league’s fan code of conduct and the Q2 Stadium fan code of conduct are identical, the league’s does not govern articles of clothing while a stadium’s may.

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The GuardianDiplomacyLondon
The Guardian view on Trump’s deal with Putin: grim and grubby, but not gamechanging | Editorial

The Guardian view on Trump’s deal with Putin: grim and grubby, but not gamechanging | Editorial

President Zelenskyy’s allies must show the Russian president that American perfidy won’t alter the course of a war the Kremlin is losing When Donald Trump pledged to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of re-entering the White House last year, no one with any depth of insight into the conflict believed him. But Mr Trump took his own words seriously enough to feel the lack of a ceasefire as an affront to his self-image as a master dealmaker. After a period when it seemed that Kyiv’s European allies had steered the US president away from pro‑Kremlin partisanship, he has reverted to the grotesque view that Ukrainian capitulation is a necessary precondition for peace. These are the perilous circumstances in which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Andy Burnham on Wednesday in Downing Street. In recent days, the US president has called for a change of government in Ukraine. He claimed that a partial ceasefire had been agreed, while Russia escalated its bombardments. According to Mr Zelenskyy, the latest missile strikes have come without the intelligence warnings from the US that have, in the past, facilitated self-defence. There have been reports of Ukrainian soldiers losing access to the Starlink satellite network, controlled by Elon Musk, the US tech oligarch. This raises suspicion of coordinated pressure to tip the scales in Russia’s favour after many months when Mr Putin’s forces have failed to deliver significant advances and his country’s economy has been suffering from the effect of Ukrainian missile and drone counterstrikes.

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The GuardianSex & IdentityNew York City
Finding Renée Richards: the complicated past and present of a trans sports pioneer

Finding Renée Richards: the complicated past and present of a trans sports pioneer

In 1977, Richards sued to play in the US Open after transitioning. Now she supports bans on trans athletes in women’s sports. A new biography explores a complex legacy It was a story that dominated tennis headlines back in 1977: Dr Renée Richards, an ophthalmologist who excelled as a male amateur player before a sex-change operation, was suing for the right to play in the women’s draw of the US Open. Where did Richards go for legal assistance? None other than Roy Cohn. Better known for prosecuting suspected communists during the red scare and mentoring Donald Trump, Cohn turned his attention to fighting for Richards’s inclusion. His firm successfully argued the case – part of the narrative of a new biography, Finding Renée Richards: The Groundbreaking Story of Tennis’s Trans Pioneer by Julie Kliegman.

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The GuardianHealth AlertsUSA
Pennsylvania announces sixth death in measles outbreak as case numbers rise

Pennsylvania announces sixth death in measles outbreak as case numbers rise

Latest fatality is unvaccinated woman, 39, with ‘underlying conditions’ but CDC still lists only two deaths nationwide A sixth death has been announced in Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak, as new figures show cases in the state have risen above 1,100. The most recent fatality was reported in Franklin county on Monday in a statement posted to Facebook by its coroner. The victim was identified as a 39-year-old female who “had several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles with treatment”.

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The GuardianHealth AlertsUSA
Anti-vaxxers target Texas measles doctors to cast doubt on deaths amid outbreak

Anti-vaxxers target Texas measles doctors to cast doubt on deaths amid outbreak

Children’s Health Defense and RFK Jr publicly dispute recent measles deaths to ‘distract’ from damage caused and question vaccines, experts say The six-year-old girl at the children’s hospital in Lubbock, Texas, burned with fever and struggled to breathe. Doctors soon put her on a ventilator, snaking a thick tube down the child’s throat so a machine could breathe for her; they placed IVs to rehydrate her tiny body and they prescribed antibiotics for any bacterial infections that may have taken hold in the weeks she had spent at home battling measles. But it was too late. Within a day of being ventilated, the child went into shock, her blood pressure crashed and she went into cardiac arrest. She could not be resuscitated. Her family, and the nation, mourned: she was the first child to die of measles in the US in a decade.

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The GuardianSustainabilitySydney
Is it really ‘madness’ to account for emissions from fossil fuels burned overseas? The Coalition sure thinks so | Temperature Check

Is it really ‘madness’ to account for emissions from fossil fuels burned overseas? The Coalition sure thinks so | Temperature Check

The emissions might occur elsewhere, but they generate global harm that scientists can now quantify Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The Coalition has come up with the perfect solution to deal with the climate pollution from when Australian fossil fuels are burned overseas. We should either just pretend they don’t exist, or ignore the reason why people are concerned about them, even if those people include a majority of high court judges or the international court of justice. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter

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The GuardianWar & ConflictUnited Kingdom
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say Ministers are preparing to slash the amount of money available to subsidise heat pumps as they look for ways to fund higher defence spending, sources have told the Guardian. Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, has been tasked with finding more than £2bn in savings from her budget to help pay for defence investment under a plan drawn up by the previous government.

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