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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>US news | The Guardian</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news</link> <description>Latest US news, breaking news and current affairs coverage from theguardian.com</description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</copyright> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:20:20 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2024-12-22T06:20:20Z</dc:date> <dc:language>en-gb</dc:language> <dc:rights>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</dc:rights> <image> <title>The Guardian</title> <url>https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png</url> <link>https://www.theguardian.com</link> </image> <item> <title>Lara Trump withdraws bid to replace outgoing Florida senator Marco Rubio</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/lara-trump-withdraws-florida-senator</link> <description><p>Trump, who is married to Donald Trump’s son Eric, co-chaired Republican National Committee in 2024 election</p><p>Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, said on Saturday she had removed her name from consideration to replace the outgoing US senator Marco Rubio.</p><p>Rubio has been tapped by Trump to serve as secretary of state. The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, will pick a replacement for Rubio, who is expected to resign as senator when Trump takes office on 20 January.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/lara-trump-withdraws-florida-senator">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida">Florida</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-senate">US Senate</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/eric-trump">Eric Trump</category> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:06:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/lara-trump-withdraws-florida-senator</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5b7a4f70b7d30abe92948f46fa6617fcc72da95d/0_641_7054_4233/master/7054.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bdb0561eb350cb9503a2d3b8c7bfb8e2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5b7a4f70b7d30abe92948f46fa6617fcc72da95d/0_641_7054_4233/master/7054.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f40866020d82a9b20a1eefbd731f1c7e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Reuters</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-22T00:06:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Trump appoints The Apprentice producer as US special envoy to UK</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-appoints-mark-burnett-special-envoy-uk</link> <description><p>Mark Burnett, who also created Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice, lacks diplomatic and foreign policy experience</p><p>Donald Trump has appointed Mark Burnett, a British television producer who helped produce Trump’s show The Apprentice, as the US’s special envoy to the UK.</p><p>In an announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump hailed 64-year-old Burnett, saying: “With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-appoints-mark-burnett-special-envoy-uk">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:26:48 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-appoints-mark-burnett-special-envoy-uk</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/75ad31a96d008a825b0cfa47225b16cfce078b62/0_13_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6d2ad28c1eebd8b03a10f366d2bd020d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/75ad31a96d008a825b0cfa47225b16cfce078b62/0_13_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=23d525f859302fd1220c6f0f1e20a0a7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Maya Yang</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T22:26:48Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Blake Lively accuses It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-sexual-harassment</link> <description><p>According to complaint, Baldoni retaliated after crisis meeting attending by Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds</p><p>Actor Blake Lively has made accusations against her former It Ends with Us co-star/director Justin Baldoni, filing a legal complaint in California claiming sexual harassment and making allegations of a coordinated PR effort to damage her reputation.</p><p>According to Lively’s complaint, matters got so bad during the production of the film, which premiered in August this year, that a meeting was held to address her claims of a hostile work environment that was attended by husband, Ryan Reynolds.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-sexual-harassment">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/celebrity">Celebrity</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/sexual-harassment">Sexual harassment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/west-coast">West Coast</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:35:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-sexual-harassment</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/859d0fc1788f55877604ea2cd6ab4d10c7a5f081/0_32_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b3f58c4406d522eb23d6bb891dcbe07f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anthony Harvey/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/859d0fc1788f55877604ea2cd6ab4d10c7a5f081/0_32_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c20ba1e4befa3028c5959dfa3a800acc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anthony Harvey/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T18:35:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Egg prices soar as bird flu takes toll on US hen flock</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/us-egg-prices-bird-flu</link> <description><p>Average price of eggs rose nearly 30 cents since October, with egg production down 4% from prior year</p><p>The accelerating spread of bird flu through US poultry flocks is pushing the price of eggs to highs rivaling or exceeding the cost in December 2022 at the height of the post-pandemic inflation scare.</p><p>The average cost of a dozen Grade A large eggs was $3.65 in November, up from $3.37 in October, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, up from $2.50 at the start of the year, as farmers battle with a fatal strain of H5N1 that continues to disrupt the US egg supply.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/us-egg-prices-bird-flu">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/bird-flu">Bird flu</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/eggs">Eggs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/inflation">Inflation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:07:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/us-egg-prices-bird-flu</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4fc9cd20f286c70148f0ca4a8ea4b2db2a89ea2c/0_40_4276_2568/master/4276.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d47aceb76d7ffe93970ed323faa80751"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4fc9cd20f286c70148f0ca4a8ea4b2db2a89ea2c/0_40_4276_2568/master/4276.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=863ad079091fb79089f9cdd6724a3a8c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T17:07:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Media’s empathetic coverage of Luigi Mangione reveals an obsession with humanizing white male suspects</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media</link> <description><p>Interest in the United Healthcare CEO shooting suspect’s background underscores research that the media covers white and Black perpetrators differently</p><p>Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old who allegedly shot and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/brian-thompson-shooting">killed the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson</a>, has received an avalanche of media attention as people attempt to understand what may have driven him to commit such a violent crime.</p><p>Since Mangione’s arrest, news reports have attempted to piece together his supposed motivations, with some suggesting that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/luigi-mangione-back-pain-healthcare-shooting/">a back injury</a> – and his resulting <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/10/us-news/luigi-mangiones-back-pain-was-so-intense-that-he-couldnt-be-physically-intimate-with-anyone-former-landlord-says/">inability to have intercourse</a> – fueled his alleged resentment against the healthcare industry. Other reports have painted Mangione <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/10/who-is-luigi-mangione-shooting-unitedhealthcare-ceo/">as a recluse</a> who rejected his affluent upbringing, openly speculating on the “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/nyregion/united-healthcare-ceo-shooting-luigi-mangione.html">baffling journey</a>” of a “star student”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/brian-thompson-shooting">Brian Thompson shooting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/healthcare">Healthcare industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/race">Race</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gun-crime">Gun crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:00:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/46f85d5c9e47f450b9b9b9a9b8b3e42d8acf5694/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=03be5d83c24b61d824b0d2a84dfcb4d8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design/Source photo by XNY/Star Max/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/46f85d5c9e47f450b9b9b9a9b8b3e42d8acf5694/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9ca663505f780244fa077f2ca89fb652"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design/Source photo by XNY/Star Max/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Gloria Oladipo</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T17:00:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Biden signs funding measure to keep US government running</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/republicans-trump-spending-bill</link> <description><p>Measure averting government shutdown did not include demand by Trump to raise debt ceiling</p><p>The US Senate has approved a stop-gap funding measure to avert a government shutdown shortly after a midnight deadline with a bill that defied Donald Trump’s demand for a debt-limit suspension. The legislation was signed by Joe Biden on Saturday morning, the White House confirmed.</p><p>The Senate passed the bill in an 85-11 vote, hours after an overwhelmingly bipartisan 366-34 vote in the House. It was passed 38 minutes after the deadline but the government did not invoke shutdown procedures in the interim.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/republicans-trump-spending-bill">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/house-of-representatives">House of Representatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mike-johnson">Mike Johnson</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress">US Congress</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk">Elon Musk</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:31:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/republicans-trump-spending-bill</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8397f5a260b3c1831ffc4ef45493c863188fca94/0_131_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b695d19264d6f76d872131bff570d87c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/UPI/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8397f5a260b3c1831ffc4ef45493c863188fca94/0_131_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c860d4502c53f08075366cbccee04fc6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/UPI/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Joseph Gedeon and Lauren Gambino in Washington and Sam Levin in Los Angeles</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T16:31:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Trump said to see Elon Musk as useful activist after spending deal showdown</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-elon-musk-spending-deal</link> <description><p>Musk’s role in government shutdown drama could be a preview of role he plays for incoming president next year</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s relationship with Elon Musk is showing no signs of fraying, even after at times he appeared to eclipse the president-elect’s influence as he bullied House Republicans into paring down their bipartisan spending deal <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/republicans-trump-spending-bill">to avert a government shutdown</a> with just hours to spare.</p><p>The move by Musk to detonate the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb – by demanding that Republicans sink the deal or face a primary challenge – was viewed as a test run of the kind of role Musk might play to pressure Congress once Trump takes office, people familiar with the matter said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-elon-musk-spending-deal">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk">Elon Musk</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress">US Congress</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:00:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-elon-musk-spending-deal</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c9daf267bc83288d5f43e7f0c19ebb6fdb024ca9/236_0_2640_1584/master/2640.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6c492f2b084cf8cea62a7b5d1df8b641"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c9daf267bc83288d5f43e7f0c19ebb6fdb024ca9/236_0_2640_1584/master/2640.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b25345d7f19fe46b7f87db6bc9ec3d58"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hugo Lowell in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T15:00:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/ethics-inquiry-supreme-court</link> <description><p>Investigation by Senate Democrats found that Thomas accepted gifts and travel worth more than $4.75m since 1991</p><p>A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of supreme court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.</p><p>Any movement on the issue appears unlikely as Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January, underscoring the hurdles in imposing restrictions on a separate branch of government even as public confidence in the court has fallen to record lows.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/ethics-inquiry-supreme-court">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/clarence-thomas">Clarence Thomas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ethics">Ethics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court">US supreme court</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-senate">US Senate</category> 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url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/431c345e6ccdcd8c8fbd482d6b5c78d0d3749a6f/295_0_1763_1058/master/1763.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dd3eab16bfa033829e135f327a627b3f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T14:18:07Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>US animal lab from which monkeys escaped accused of widespread abuse</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/animal-lab-monkeys-abuse-allegations</link> <description><p>AGI in South Carolina investigated by government after leaked files revealed traumatic injuries and animal deaths</p><p>The US Department of Agriculture is investigating <a href="https://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Alpha-Genesis_Complaint-w-Exhibits-from-PETA-to-USDA-Dec-10-2024.pdf">allegations</a> from an animal rights organisation concerning <a href="https://www.alphagenesisinc.com/">Alpha Genesis Incorporated</a> (AGI), the animal experimentation facility and breeder, from which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/south-carolina-escaped-monkeys">43 monkeys escaped</a> last month.</p><p>AGI is accused of “abuse and neglect”, and of violations of the Animal Welfare Act, as leaked documents show that between 2021 and 2023, multiple primates held at AGI centres endured preventable traumatic injuries and deaths.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/animal-lab-monkeys-abuse-allegations">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/south-carolina">South Carolina</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/animals">Animals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/medical-research">Medical research</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:00:19 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/animal-lab-monkeys-abuse-allegations</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0bed56342286f7c30bf01acdb2248138c14015a5/393_549_3173_1905/master/3173.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bcb6df68a6b525f9c18d7af31b865491"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0bed56342286f7c30bf01acdb2248138c14015a5/393_549_3173_1905/master/3173.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=311755a83f70d6de9ffaaa6030c69307"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Claire Colley</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T14:00:19Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Healthcare CEO killing reveals lack of trust and accountability in US insurance industry: ‘I get it’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/healthcare-trust-accountability</link> <description><p>Experts say they’re unsurprised by ‘expressions of anger’ at the healthcare system after the death of Brian Thompson</p><p>Americans are sharing stories of heartbreaking insurance denials – ones that led to worse illness and death – in the aftermath of the killing of Brian Thompson, CEO of the mega-insurer United Healthcare.</p><p>A rise in practices such as prior authorizations and automated denials of coverage have made it more difficult for Americans to access healthcare, and changes are urgently needed to reform practices like these and restore trust in the health system, experts said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/healthcare-trust-accountability">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/brian-thompson-shooting">Brian Thompson shooting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/healthcare">US healthcare</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/insurance">Insurance industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:00:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/healthcare-trust-accountability</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b7ed9d49b113b5b5f86bae61170b5d096494c9d4/0_358_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2bc90bf8a059ed19c983ae0d8bc7abab"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eric Miller/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b7ed9d49b113b5b5f86bae61170b5d096494c9d4/0_358_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5a409c4f7bdecdfaca0f89be2c6287b3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eric Miller/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Melody Schreiber</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T13:00:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump</link> <description><p>Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who’s pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US</p><p>Curtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics. But the “neoreactionary” thinker and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/far-right--us-">far-right</a> blogger is emerging as a serious intellectual influence on key figures in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Donald Trump’s coming administration</a> in particular over potential threats to US democracy.</p><p>Yarvin, who considers liberal democracy as a decadent enemy to be dismantled, is intellectually influential on vice president-elect <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jd-vance">JD Vance</a> and close to several proposed Trump appointees. The aftermath of Trump’s election victory has seen actions and rhetoric from Trump and his lieutenants that closely resemble Yarvin’s public proposals for taking autocratic power in America.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/far-right--us-">Far right (US)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jd-vance">JD Vance</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:00:17 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e2009738742de02c33c632535a3b877fd8583aa5/0_511_2265_1358/master/2265.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=764eb6f5678e041e40f31c8487409be3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Davidmerfield</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e2009738742de02c33c632535a3b877fd8583aa5/0_511_2265_1358/master/2265.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f1ddbd413e7f70426bc47a010c352cd9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Davidmerfield</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jason Wilson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T12:00:17Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-team-cabinet</link> <description><p>Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory</p><p>They seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.</p><p>For the Bahamas, there is Herschel Walker, a former NFL star whose fledgling Senate campaign was undone by a string of personal embarrassments but who now is named to be the next US ambassador to the small island nation.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-team-cabinet">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:00:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-team-cabinet</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e70f2ca8ceb86b55bf10244d7131dcad4dcaf30/0_192_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e69402bf0f5b3ec76d19ec681d6e6d91"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dustin Chambers/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e70f2ca8ceb86b55bf10244d7131dcad4dcaf30/0_192_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=03015dd78568519fd4a079f72d913cc6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dustin Chambers/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Robert Tait in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T12:00:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>US House passes spending bill hours before deadline for government shutdown – as it happened</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/dec/20/trump-government-shutdown-us-politics-latest-updates</link> <description><p>The continuing resolution passed with 366 yea votes and 34 nays. This blog is now closed.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/republicans-trump-spending-bill">Trump demands again to suspend US debt ceiling after funding deal fails</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/federal-government-shutdown">The US government could shut down. Here’s what to know</a></li></ul><p></p><p><em>Besides bringing the federal government to the brink of a shutdown, Donald Trump has also lately been pressuring European countries to agree to buy more US-produced oil and gas, the Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jillian-ambrose">Jill Ambrose</a> reports:</em></p><p>The US president-elect, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>, has warned the EU that it will face trade tariffs on its exports to the US unless its member states buy more American oil and gas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/dec/20/trump-government-shutdown-us-politics-latest-updates">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress">US Congress</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democrats</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:22:58 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/dec/20/trump-government-shutdown-us-politics-latest-updates</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f2c4a3f11d4dc07e9dcb66c151cf7f49bd98744b/0_48_7632_4581/master/7632.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=76241212e779ee7983cb186f1de60b03"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f2c4a3f11d4dc07e9dcb66c151cf7f49bd98744b/0_48_7632_4581/master/7632.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a7d22b4d5340c4baec2783e89a9005c6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Abené Clayton (now); Chris Stein, Maya Yang and Fran Lawther (earlier)</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T00:22:58Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Could the spending bill fiasco spell the end of Trump’s hold on Republicans?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/spending-bill-trump-influence-republican-party</link> <description><p>President-elect, yet to take office, faces internal rebellion, with the specter of ‘President Musk’ looming large</p><p>Donald Trump is still a month away from returning to the White House and already his relationship with Republicans on Capitol Hill is fraying, signalling trouble ahead for both sides.</p><p>The president-elect’s inability to intimidate members of his own party in the House to back a spending resolution just to keep the government open ahead of a midnight shutdown surely has implications for his ability to drive through his ambitious agenda in the face of tiny majorities in both congressional chambers once he returns to office.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/spending-bill-trump-influence-republican-party">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/house-of-representatives">House of Representatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress">US Congress</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk">Elon Musk</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mike-johnson">Mike Johnson</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:02:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/spending-bill-trump-influence-republican-party</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1fe80884aa86aec504d7dadaab1e686446b9e999/0_254_7609_4566/master/7609.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ba94f2acceb5a30a61ac086c3a5bedc6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Richard Pierrin/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1fe80884aa86aec504d7dadaab1e686446b9e999/0_254_7609_4566/master/7609.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=70194ba34a8432363c9f5df701c6a506"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Richard Pierrin/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Robert Tait in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-20T22:02:40Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Only 35% of Americans trust the US judicial system. This is catastrophic | David Daley</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/americans-trust-supreme-court</link> <description><p>American confidence in the courts has hit a record low across party lines. This is worrying – if not surprising</p><p>The US supreme court has been hijacked by the extreme right and corrupted to its core.</p><p>American oligarchs bestow <a href="https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus">millions in gifts and largesse</a> on rightwing justices. The court’s conservative supermajority <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/509234/supreme-court-approval-holds-record-low.aspx">hands down</a> deeply unpopular decisions that <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf">take away long-settled rights</a>, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf">concentrate power</a> for themselves and their friends and grease the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-04/how-supreme-court-tilted-election-law-favor-gop">electoral rails</a> for their party.</p><p><a href="https://x.com/davedaley3">David Daley</a> is the author of the new book Antidemocratic: Inside the Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections as well as Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/americans-trust-supreme-court">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court">US supreme court</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law-us">Law (US)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/john-roberts">John Roberts</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/samuel-alito">Samuel Alito</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/clarence-thomas">Clarence Thomas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:00:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/americans-trust-supreme-court</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/31fb01ffecef8110c15052447026584432b53b33/0_332_5000_3001/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f852b5a311c9b9d07e714a0221c8535e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Graeme Sloan/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/31fb01ffecef8110c15052447026584432b53b33/0_332_5000_3001/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=051b3c038a434b4541c612242a84922b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Graeme Sloan/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>David Daley</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T11:00:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>AOC may have shifted to the center, but the Democrats aren’t ready for change | Arwa Mahdawi</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/aoc-centrist-politics-democrats-change</link> <description><p>Gerry Connolly, 74, beat AOC’s bid to become lead Democrat on the House oversight committee thanks to Nancy Pelosi, then 85</p><p>They may have lost the presidency, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/election-republicans-win-house-majority">House</a>, and the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/senate-elections-republicans-win">Senate</a>, but when it comes to avoiding introspection, the Democrats are completely undefeated. You’d have thought that after the disastrous presidential election, the Democrats might have taken some time to figure out what went wrong. You’d have thought they might have decided to try and refresh the party – make it more relevant to disenchanted voters. You’d have thought they might have realized that they needed to shake things up.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/aoc-centrist-politics-democrats-change">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/house-of-representatives">House of Representatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democrats</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gender">Gender</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/feminism">Feminism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gisele-pelicot-rape-trial">Gisèle Pelicot rape trial</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/alzheimers">Alzheimer's</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk">Elon Musk</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/texas">Texas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ivory-coast">Ivory Coast</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/greg-abbott">Greg Abbott</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usimmigration">US immigration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:00:19 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/aoc-centrist-politics-democrats-change</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d8d251d659f5860891793db2739cc7f46b95c1c4/0_0_5088_3053/master/5088.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a0237ec248357b6222e2ee8e2f13cb39"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d8d251d659f5860891793db2739cc7f46b95c1c4/0_0_5088_3053/master/5088.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=147fb24d5c7073424652f2b0c88ab673"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Arwa Mahdawi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T14:00:19Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025 | Timothy Garton Ash</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/russia-win-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe</link> <description><p>Instability is growing, Putin’s hybrid war in Europe is heating up and for fear of escalation we have encouraged global nuclear proliferation</p><p>There are human activities in which both sides can win. War is not one of them. Either Ukraine wins this war or Russia does. Ukraine’s former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba says bluntly that unless the current trajectory is changed, “we will lose this war”.</p><p>To be clear: this is still avoidable. Suppose the roughly four-fifths of Ukrainian territory still controlled by Kyiv gets military commitments from the west strong enough to deter any further Russian advances, secure large-scale investment in economic reconstruction, encourage Ukrainians to return from abroad to rebuild their country, and allow for stable, pro-European politics and reform. In five years, the country joins the EU, and then, under a new US administration, starts the process of entering Nato. Most of Ukraine becomes a sovereign, independent, free country, firmly anchored in the west.</p><p>Timothy Garton Ash is a Guardian columnist</p><p><em><strong>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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters"> letters</a> section, please <a href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">click here</a>.</strong></em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/russia-win-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:00:12 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/russia-win-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4d9901af7871fde90922f2f6183d2f2e3fb67ea1/0_113_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ef7b28cbc777d3785f71a0df01f4f548"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Pavel Dorogoy/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4d9901af7871fde90922f2f6183d2f2e3fb67ea1/0_113_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=80a3cc0c99bad0a776881e50c8b45ec3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Pavel Dorogoy/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Timothy Garton Ash</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T09:00:12Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Some cinematic turkeys are so bad they achieve a kind of trascendence. Last Christmas, for one | Kathryn Bromwich</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/true-cinematic-turkeys-achieve-a-kind-of-transcendence-think-of-cats-or-last-christmas</link> <description><p>You can’t simply set out to create a so-bad-it’s-good classic. But this year’s thinly veiled Taylor Swift biopic, Christmas in the Spotlight, could be a contender</p><p>As a lifelong enthusiast of the “so-bad-it’s-good” sub-strand of cinema, I approach every Christmas with a mix of excitement and trepidation. If at one end of the spectrum we have magical Christmas films (<em>It’s a Wonderful Life</em>, <em>Home Alone</em>, <em>Jingle All the Way</em>), passing through the slurry of mediocre, sentimental seasonal cash-ins, what I hope to find at the other extreme is something so truly awful it achieves a peculiar kind of transcendence.</p><p>Some recent contenders were<em> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/17/last-christmas-review-paul-feig-emma-thompson">Last Christmas</a></em> (a January resolution to eat more vegetables masquerading as a Christmas film; weird Brexit subplot; insufficient George Michael) and <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/21/cats-review-tom-hooper-taylor-swift-judi-dench-idris-elba-jennifer-hudson-ian-mckellen">Cats</a></em> (genuinely creepy, but giving way to a confusing, cumulative high as the film progresses, so that by the time Judi Dench says “a cat is not a dog” you have reached a sort of collective hysteria).</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/true-cinematic-turkeys-achieve-a-kind-of-transcendence-think-of-cats-or-last-christmas">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/christmas">Christmas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/oregon">Oregon</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:00:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/true-cinematic-turkeys-achieve-a-kind-of-transcendence-think-of-cats-or-last-christmas</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/934ddd6a39d293687ef24b02f3bc96c691730d71/0_108_2640_1584/master/2640.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0148f8f14d093815cc4daabadcee5960"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jonathan Prime/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/934ddd6a39d293687ef24b02f3bc96c691730d71/0_108_2640_1584/master/2640.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8cddadfb8a8b383d47124177a4b4eec6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jonathan Prime/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kathryn Bromwich</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T16:00:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>I’m one of millions working in retail. This Christmas, don’t ask how we are – or we may tell you | Andrew Herrick</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/22/im-one-of-millions-working-in-retail-this-christmas-dont-ask-how-we-are-or-we-may-tell-you</link> <description><p>So far today I have dealt with 200 customers. I have smiled 200 times, but that’s getting harder. Consider me a checkout robot</p><ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>You decided to do it differently this year. You usually buy online, with high-minded principle, from a company owned by the least-loathsome billionaire you can find. Instead, this Christmas you gritted your teeth and drove in a hot car to a local business where you (finally) found a park. Then you steadfastly hunted down the gifts that your family members simply must have, worked your way up the cattle race to the counter, upon which you triumphantly spread your purchases. With luck you’ll be out of here and home before the roads get too busy. That man behind the counter doesn’t look happy; who cares: as long as he’s efficient.</p><p>That’d be me. I’ve been standing in one spot for the last six hours (OK, one toilet break) and have another three to go. I’ve worked in retail for 14 years, and so far today I’ve dealt with 200 customers. I’ve smiled 200 times, but that’s getting harder. I’m so tired it probably looks more like a grimace. Sorry, but consider me a checkout robot, carefully rationing my battery charge by using muscle memory to hit the right keys and move the mouse cursor to make sure each of today’s 500 or so products (so far) is correctly entered and paid for.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/22/im-one-of-millions-working-in-retail-this-christmas-dont-ask-how-we-are-or-we-may-tell-you">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/retail">Retail industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/christmas">Christmas</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:00:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/22/im-one-of-millions-working-in-retail-this-christmas-dont-ask-how-we-are-or-we-may-tell-you</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbb0215cf9fa16b869c8c7b54227a353b7625d80/0_76_5405_3244/master/5405.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9ebb1d51f6f98a8f18ffbe0d6acebeaa"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbb0215cf9fa16b869c8c7b54227a353b7625d80/0_76_5405_3244/master/5405.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=37dbb2e3472046ff1b8557719072d529"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Andrew Herrick</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T19:00:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>I bought a farm, hated the cows, and sold it. Then somehow, I bought another | John Humphrys</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/farm-bought-sold-home-new-york</link> <description><p>As a foreign correspondent, home was never a fixed location. I’ve finally learned it’s about who you share it with</p><ul><li>In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home</li></ul><p>The first time it happened I wrote it off as inexperience. By “it” I mean lying on a concrete floor covered in cow shit and wondering how many bones had been broken by the cow I’d been trying to milk. Great skill is needed for the apparently simple task of attaching suction cups to a cow’s teats – especially if she has painful warts.</p><p>The cows hated me (rightly so) and I hated them. Maybe I mean feared rather than hated, but it amounts to the same thing. And the more experienced I became, the more I was forced to admit that my idea of a farm in Wales becoming the home I had always longed for was ill advised if not utterly stupid.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/farm-bought-sold-home-new-york">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/homes">Homes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/christmas">Christmas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/john-humphrys">John Humphrys</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/bbc">BBC</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:00:12 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/farm-bought-sold-home-new-york</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/111afb321e1d5d9ecdaa88b522bb50ec166ab751/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ef8330e728b15c887ec1dd31002c70d1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/111afb321e1d5d9ecdaa88b522bb50ec166ab751/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=75ea9041c1e0426511b8caf9583012e1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>John Humphrys</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T08:00:12Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Why no one ever actually gets to watch a movie: the Edith Pritchett cartoon</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2024/dec/21/why-no-one-ever-actually-gets-to-watch-a-movie-the-edith-pritchett-cartoon</link> <description><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2024/dec/21/why-no-one-ever-actually-gets-to-watch-a-movie-the-edith-pritchett-cartoon">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:00:10 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2024/dec/21/why-no-one-ever-actually-gets-to-watch-a-movie-the-edith-pritchett-cartoon</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6543ac154c7625a2c2de4e535c7b7ef7d14048c0/0_43_1111_666/master/1111.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a52c2ff5dcebf5e07cbae55c7809372a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Edith Pritchett/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6543ac154c7625a2c2de4e535c7b7ef7d14048c0/0_43_1111_666/master/1111.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=02ffd2d3235214abf9babd8ed17f47c9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Edith Pritchett/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edith Pritchett</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T06:00:10Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>As a media columnist, even I found myself turning away from the news in 2024. But we can do things differently | Jane Martinson</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/news-2024-switch-off-democracy-social-media</link> <description><p>More people are avoiding ‘boring’ or ‘depressing’ news for scrolling social media, but accurate reporting has never been more vital</p><p>The other night I broke a long-cherished habit. At home in time for the BBC News at 10, I could only manage a couple of headlines before I turned it off, flicking through the channels instead for something that would make me smile, a comedy or anything about dogs.</p><p>News of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/17/sara-sharif-father-and-stepmother-jailed-for-her-murder">torture and murder</a> of a little girl, followed by reports from yet another seemingly intractable conflict, had turned me into one of the biggest threats to my own profession, if not democracy – I had become a news avoider.</p><p>Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/news-2024-switch-off-democracy-social-media">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-news">The news on TV</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/digital-media">Digital media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media">Social media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:00:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/news-2024-switch-off-democracy-social-media</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/26dbc204d1263c70d0aa6175108d79c190d0f58c/0_194_4917_2951/master/4917.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=90fe817f1e2e591dd675b6c1705dc9b5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kathy deWitt/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/26dbc204d1263c70d0aa6175108d79c190d0f58c/0_194_4917_2951/master/4917.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7e37b689cae8efaebf32ab289f5a0f79"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kathy deWitt/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jane Martinson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T10:00:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>JuJu Watkins scores 25 as USC women hold off Paige Bueckers and UConn</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/southern-cal-uconn-game-watkins-bueckers</link> <description><ul><li>Watkins’ Trojans win 72-70 over Bueckers’ Huskies</li><li>No 7 USC get best of No 4 Connecticut in Hartford</li></ul><p>JuJu Watkins scored 25 points and No 7 USC recovered from blowing a 18-point lead in the second half to beat Paige Bueckers and fourth-ranked UConn 72-70 on Saturday night.</p><p>The game was a rematch of last season’s Elite Eight contest that the Huskies won and featured two of the best players in women’s college basketball with All-Americans Bueckers and Watkins. The pair guarded each other for most of the game.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/southern-cal-uconn-game-watkins-bueckers">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/college-basketball">College basketball</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/college-sports">College sports</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/us-sport">US sports</category> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:24:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/southern-cal-uconn-game-watkins-bueckers</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e72f862a30acad11349bca93ab0c2d892db8244d/0_134_7366_4420/master/7366.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f64f41973cbdb6e04e038f26d5204e45"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e72f862a30acad11349bca93ab0c2d892db8244d/0_134_7366_4420/master/7366.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e3bc5d4a27010b693999e373341e415e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-22T04:24:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>NFL round-up: Ravens clinch playoff berth as Chiefs close in on No 1 seed</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/nfl-scores-ravens-steelers-chiefs-texans</link> <description><ul><li>Ravens beats Steelers 34-17 to clinch playoff berth</li><li>Chiefs top Texans 27-19 to inch toward No 1 seed</li></ul><p>Lamar Jackson threw three touchdown passes and Marlon Humphrey scored on a fourth-quarter interception return to help the Baltimore Ravens pull even with Pittsburgh atop the AFC North with a 34-17 victory over the Steelers on Saturday.</p><p>Pittsburgh (10-5) would have clinched the division with a victory, but now the teams are deadlocked after the Ravens (10-5) won for just the second time in the last 10 games in this series. Baltimore clinched a playoff berth. The Steelers had already done so.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/nfl-scores-ravens-steelers-chiefs-texans">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/nfl">NFL</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/baltimore-ravens">Baltimore Ravens</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/pittsburgh-steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/kansas-city-chiefs">Kansas City Chiefs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/houston-texans">Houston Texans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/us-sport">US sports</category> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:08:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/nfl-scores-ravens-steelers-chiefs-texans</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad5aad7ac04dff5d8113c6bb11ba4b3a9b12f4b3/0_234_6466_3880/master/6466.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4a7f8fbc72e79fc83c9a5def21b53d80"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mitch Stringer/USA Today Sports</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad5aad7ac04dff5d8113c6bb11ba4b3a9b12f4b3/0_234_6466_3880/master/6466.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7ac0736bb936f5f6af9f5df99b44d44f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mitch Stringer/USA Today Sports</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-22T01:08:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rickey Henderson, baseball’s greatest leadoff hitter and ‘Man of Steal’, dies aged 65</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/rickey-henderson-death-baseball-stolen-base-king</link> <description><ul><li>A’s icon played 24 years for nine teams from 1979 to 2003</li><li>Henderson holds MLB records for stolen bases and runs</li></ul><p>Rickey Henderson, baseball’s greatest leadoff hitter and the all-time stolen base king, died Friday in Oakland at the age of 65 after battling pneumonia, multiple sources confirmed on Saturday.</p><p>Henderson’s career was a testament to speed, power and charisma. Over 24 seasons, he racked up a record-breaking 1,406 stolen bases, 2,295 runs scored, and 81 leadoff home runs. A 10-time All-Star, two-time World Series champion, and 1990 American League MVP, Henderson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 2009.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/rickey-henderson-death-baseball-stolen-base-king">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/mlb">MLB</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/oakland-athletics">Oakland Athletics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/baseball">Baseball</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/us-sport">US sports</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:44:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/rickey-henderson-death-baseball-stolen-base-king</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/198c998c7587d108304b8293789063751daee9ec/0_95_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=03a6d0ad5449491d607acd3937472566"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/198c998c7587d108304b8293789063751daee9ec/0_95_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a14fd6c07710b8d6269d90780716551a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian sport</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T20:44:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>American BMX star Hannah Roberts wins fifth straight freestyle world title</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/hannah-roberts-bmx-world-championships</link> <description><ul><li>Roberts rebounds from Paris heartbreak with world title</li><li>Tokyo Olympic champion Martin wins third world gold</li></ul><p>American Hannah Roberts roared back from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/31/world-champion-hannah-robertss-olympic-bmx-dream-ends-with-crushing-familiarity">her Paris Olympic heartbreak</a> on Saturday by claiming her fifth consecutive BMX freestyle world title at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Abu Dhabi.</p><p>Roberts, 22, set the bar with a 95.70-point first run, a score no competitor could beat. Her second run scored 94.58, a mark that would have been high enough to win the event.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/hannah-roberts-bmx-world-championships">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/cycling">Cycling</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/usa-olympic-team">USA Olympic team</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/us-sport">US sports</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:13:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/21/hannah-roberts-bmx-world-championships</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c646213111f8f74dca9bf46631e06021d750e01a/0_44_2048_1229/master/2048.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=17fbd73fe3269629b2d74856c702be41"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: UCI</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c646213111f8f74dca9bf46631e06021d750e01a/0_44_2048_1229/master/2048.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=127bf0813bcef41159fb65c721cc88a4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: UCI</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian sport</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T19:13:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Biden beats Trump’s record of judicial confirmations with 235th appointee</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/biden-judicial-confirmations</link> <description><p>Democrats had put emphasis on federal courts following Trump’s first term, when he filled three supreme court seats</p><p>Joe Biden secured the 235th judicial confirmation of his presidency Friday, an accomplishment that exceeds his predecessor’s total by one after Democrats put extra emphasis on the federal courts following Donald Trump’s far-reaching first term, when he filled three seats on the supreme court.</p><p>Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, teed up votes on two California district judges, which were likely to be the last judicial confirmations this year before Congress adjourns and makes way for a new, Republican-led Senate.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/biden-judicial-confirmations">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden">Joe Biden</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law-us">Law (US)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democrats</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/biden-administration">Biden administration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:55:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/biden-judicial-confirmations</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a8d28baa196659cc5a01394e740c601ec402deff/144_0_5199_3120/master/5199.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8f535c558013b36650a6e429c8b42d9f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a8d28baa196659cc5a01394e740c601ec402deff/144_0_5199_3120/master/5199.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5ed651c4a44bbeac1b3018f03fa93090"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-21T00:55:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Far-right activist Nick Fuentes says armed triple homicide suspect came to his door</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/nick-fuentes</link> <description><p>Commentator claims he was target of man holding a gun and crossbow who was later fatally shot by Illinois police</p><p>The far-right American political activist Nick Fuentes said he was a possible target of a man later fatally shot by Illinois police after the man apparently appeared at his door armed with a gun and a crossbow.</p><p>The man, 24-year-old John Lyons, who was also wanted in an earlier triple homicide, was shot and killed by police in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn after a Wednesday night foot chase, according to authorities. The pursuit started on the block where Fuentes, 26, lives.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/nick-fuentes">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/illinois">Illinois</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/far-right--us-">Far right (US)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:27:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/nick-fuentes</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5352783c3c5ed1f2c242130d1c0eb12647dc8fc7/0_549_1870_1122/master/1870.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=673584f5409b345d5025472189affe13"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nicole Hester/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5352783c3c5ed1f2c242130d1c0eb12647dc8fc7/0_549_1870_1122/master/1870.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=75b286b09004014ac33558c98d73a266"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nicole Hester/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-20T14:27:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/uline-mexican-workers-trump</link> <description><p>Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers</p><p>A company owned by two of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s top mega-donors has routinely brought dozens of its workers from Mexico to staff its warehouses in Wisconsin and other locations even though they do not appear to have permission to work in the US, according to a Guardian investigation.</p><p>Uline – a giant Wisconsin-based office and shipping supply company controlled by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – shuttles in its own workers from Mexico, who are using tourist visas and visas meant for employees who are entering the US temporarily to receive professional training, known as B1 visas. But instead of being part of a dedicated training program, the Mexican employees stay for one to six months and – sources with direct knowledge of the matter allege – perform normal work in Uline’s US warehouses.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/uline-mexican-workers-trump">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/wisconsin">Wisconsin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usimmigration">US immigration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico">Mexico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:52 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/uline-mexican-workers-trump</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dafa69a273e5a33ac004ec41791cd7c04157a85e/0_282_5255_3154/master/5255.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e7f1ff41bca89eef28c311842a0b7abc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dafa69a273e5a33ac004ec41791cd7c04157a85e/0_282_5255_3154/master/5255.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=24cce006da7a24c2b42bda5c42ddd9a5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Alice Herman in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-20T14:00:52Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Party City shutters after nearly 40 years, firing workers without severance pay</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/party-city-closes</link> <description><p>Company went into bankruptcy in January 2023 under $1.7bn in debt, but remaining $800m too much to overcome</p><p>The party is over at Party City, once the largest supplier of balloons and other fun-time supplies in the US, as the company announced Friday it was closing down all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business.</p><p>Barry Litwin, the Party City CEO, told employees that the chain was “winding down” operations immediately and that today would be their last day of employment.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/party-city-closes">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/bankruptcy-iva-insolvency">Bankruptcy and IVAs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/unemployment">Unemployment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/money">Money</category> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:37:00 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/party-city-closes</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c75c0803ca2067436e5e17ae500080e2f40be465/0_454_4952_2970/master/4952.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5443d2c167e1c444d6252e42806b2503"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rabbitti/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c75c0803ca2067436e5e17ae500080e2f40be465/0_454_4952_2970/master/4952.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=28a25bf5c311a621db15effe4e878f36"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rabbitti/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-20T19:37:00Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Starbucks workers’ strike could reach hundreds of stores by Christmas Eve</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/starbucks-strike-hundreds-stores-christmas-eve</link> <description><p>Walkouts will start in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle, after union said it was making little progress with chain’s owners over pay and conditions</p><p>Workers at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/starbucks">Starbucks</a> stores in three cities plan to go on strike on Friday after a union representing more than 11,000 baristas in the US said it was making little progress with the giant coffee chain’s owners over pay and conditions.</p><p>The walkouts will start in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle, with strike action set to spread each day and, subject to a deal, reach hundreds of stores by Christmas Eve.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/starbucks-strike-hundreds-stores-christmas-eve">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/starbucks">Starbucks</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-unions">US unions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/fooddrinks">Food & drink industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:13:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/starbucks-strike-hundreds-stores-christmas-eve</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f220c1c33f0ef3303a767fc9d4313df035fcb4fe/0_0_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0286f805b3256c258ac191b99ee4303b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f220c1c33f0ef3303a767fc9d4313df035fcb4fe/0_0_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3c9a78a1578cc21d753dad3923c4ea85"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-20T13:13:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Wall Street falls sharply as Fed indicates fewer rate cuts in 2025 to fight inflation</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/18/fed-cuts-interest-rates</link> <description><p>Central bank lowers benchmark federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 4.25% to 4.5%</p><p>The US Federal Reserve cut<strong> </strong>interest rates on Wednesday, but suggested it would make fewer rate cuts than expected in 2025 amid questions over its fight to bring down inflation across the world’s largest economy.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/jerome-powell">Jerome Powell</a>, the Fed chair, said inflation had been “stubborn”, but insisted the central bank believed its rate hikes would continue to erode the pace of price rises.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/18/fed-cuts-interest-rates">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/federal-reserve">Federal Reserve</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/useconomy">US economy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics">Economics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/inflation">Inflation</category> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:31:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/18/fed-cuts-interest-rates</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9ecbee23ccbc93608fdc070c8cfd04552c17b6bc/0_315_5003_3003/master/5003.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aa9c75358a928675afeac19a74d76a9b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9ecbee23ccbc93608fdc070c8cfd04552c17b6bc/0_315_5003_3003/master/5003.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=46fc220756039567df7f23ddc691d195"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Callum Jones in New York</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-18T21:31:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘A huge regression’: Walmart’s DEI rollback incites new racial equity push</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/15/walmart-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-rollback</link> <description><p>Largest private employer in US pledged to tackle inequities after George Floyd murder but has now dropped initiatives</p><p>A year after the murder of George Floyd, Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart had a <a href="https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2021/05/25/the-murder-of-george-floyd-one-year-later">warning for corporate America</a>. The death of Floyd triggered a wave of protest over systemic racism and was “not an isolated event. We have a long history of racism, and we see unacceptable events continue.”</p><p>Walmart and other large US corporations made pledges to address inequities within their business, ones many feared would be dropped once the focus on Floyd’s killing and its aftermath faded. “We can’t let that be the case,” he wrote, outlining how the company was releasing its “diversity metrics twice a year” and calling on companies to “continue to address systemic racism and the structural inequities that are rooted in this nation’s history of slavery and that persist today”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/15/walmart-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-rollback">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/wal-mart">Walmart</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/race">Race</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/retail">Retail industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:00:44 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/15/walmart-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-rollback</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c78c9deff0ca2819242c2abc00874f71e918a12c/0_204_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9860caf6903ebe1898235e63bd219cc6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c78c9deff0ca2819242c2abc00874f71e918a12c/0_204_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=099ca57320fcdc4a3cb5dd0a439548d2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Michael Sainato</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-15T12:00:44Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Trump eyes privatizing United States Postal Service during second term</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/14/trump-united-states-postal-service-privatization</link> <description><p>The USPS was a target during his first administration, and it might now be on the chopping block due to financial losses</p><p>Donald Trump in recent weeks has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the US Postal Service (USPS) because of its financial losses, the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan/">reported</a> on Saturday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Trump</a>, who begins his second US presidency on 20 January, has discussed his desire to privatize the USPS with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary, at his Mar-a-Lago home, the report said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/14/trump-united-states-postal-service-privatization">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/us-postal-service">US Postal Service</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:12:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/14/trump-united-states-postal-service-privatization</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6aa5a3e3d6a06530b4d5196d682e334a95d3ba38/141_0_4163_2500/master/4163.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7478d42cb559bca30333b9abd410db03"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6aa5a3e3d6a06530b4d5196d682e334a95d3ba38/141_0_4163_2500/master/4163.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f79f72e6d1624bf50c418f98b65639dd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-12-14T16:12:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Putin says Russia is ready for a missile 'duel' with the US – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/dec/19/vladimir-putin-says-russia-ready-for-missile-duel-with-the-us-video</link> <description><p>During his annual end-of-year press conference, the Russian president said his Oreshnik ballistic missile could defeat any US missile defence system. Russia first fired an Oreshnik at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on 21 November after Ukraine's first use of US Atacms ballistic missiles and British Storm Shadows on Russian territory</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/19/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelenskyy-french-troop-plan-macron-russia">Russia-Ukraine war – latest updates</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/dec/19/vladimir-putin-says-russia-ready-for-missile-duel-with-the-us-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:15:50 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/dec/19/vladimir-putin-says-russia-ready-for-missile-duel-with-the-us-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b59e99c563145be6827a5aa781baa260b524a41/0_25_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8eb1ee4975561773f2f7a6ea1dddc466"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b59e99c563145be6827a5aa781baa260b524a41/0_25_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0d445e16413de6d1565441667c0bb87a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator /> <dc:date>2024-12-19T15:15:50Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect charged with first-degree murder – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/dec/17/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-charged-with-first-degree-video</link> <description><p>Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg announced that Luigi Mangione was charged with one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree, including one count of murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism. Mangione, who is accused of killing Brian Thompson on 4 December in New York City, remains in custody in Pennsylvania</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/17/luigi-mangione-indicted-murder-brian-thompson">UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect charged with first-degree murder</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/dec/17/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-charged-with-first-degree-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/brian-thompson-shooting">Brian Thompson shooting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gun-crime">Gun crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:08:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/dec/17/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-charged-with-first-degree-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e0724dbf1d539e1f1a657b19123bae1e3fc48d9d/0_0_3481_2089/master/3481.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dbede83ec7c5ae54a33c08d43e0aa7b2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e0724dbf1d539e1f1a657b19123bae1e3fc48d9d/0_0_3481_2089/master/3481.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=08e17d8308e5f6b66cb54190241849ff"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator /> <dc:date>2024-12-17T22:08:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Madison police investigate manifesto posted online after Wisconsin school shooting – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2024/dec/17/madison-police-investigate-manifesto-posted-online-after-wisconsin-school-shooting-video</link> <description><p>Madison police chief, Shon Barnes, said the manifesto, which has been shared on social media, had not yet been verified by police. He urged anyone with information relating to the shooter, Natalie Rupnow – who also went by the name Samantha – to come forward. Police said a teacher and a student were killed in the attack, while six others were wounded.</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/17/madison-school-shooting-natalie-rupnow">Police investigate manifesto reportedly left by girl who killed two in school shooting</a></p></li></ul><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/16/wisconsin-school-shooting-madison">Three dead in Wisconsin school shooting, including 15-year-old girl suspect</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2024/dec/17/madison-police-investigate-manifesto-posted-online-after-wisconsin-school-shooting-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-school-shootings">US school shootings</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/wisconsin">Wisconsin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gun-crime">Gun crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:33:00 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2024/dec/17/madison-police-investigate-manifesto-posted-online-after-wisconsin-school-shooting-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b4bee1436caead607b8e914664e25079ad356f68/51_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e99548b0f55911c4a02235286e693db1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WKOW</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b4bee1436caead607b8e914664e25079ad356f68/51_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0e96d67f1e743025bee1f6644687025d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WKOW</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator /> <dc:date>2024-12-17T20:33:00Z</dc:date> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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