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All six members of the independent Commission of Fine Arts were reportedly dismissed TuesdayDonald Trump has fired all six members of an independent federal agency responsible for reviewing his controversial White House ballroom and planned ‘Arc de Trump’ in Washington DC, according to reports.The Washington Post reported that all members of the Commission of Fine Arts were dismissed on Tuesday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/trump-fires-arts-board-arc-ballroom Author : Adam Gabbatt Publish date : 2025-10-29 12:26:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Home secretary says her department is still not functioning properlyMatt Western, the committee chair, opens the questioning.Q: How should this prosecution have been handled differently? Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/29/shabana-mahmood-home-office-immigration-pmqs-labour-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-conservatives-uk-politics-live-news Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-10-29 09:57:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Reports of families trapped by floodwaters in Jamaica as hurricane hits CubaHurricane Melissa makes landfall in JamaicaVisual guide to Hurricane MelissaTell us if you’ve been affectedAs Cuba prepares for the storm to make landfall any minute, officials in Jamaica are preparing to assess the damage on Wednesday.A video shared by the Jamaican Constabulary Force shows officers surveying extensive destruction in Black River, close to where Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/29/hurricane-melissa-live-updates-strengthens-cuba-extensive-damage-parts-of-jamaica Author : Amy Sedghi (now) and Ima Caldwell (earlier) Publish date : 2025-10-29 07:21:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Children’s commission report reveals mandatory reporting in sector up 32% while total across all sectors increased by 18% compared with 2023-2024 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastReports of physical violence and neglect in Victorian childcare centres have surged, with mandatory reports up 32% in the last financial year.The Victorian Commission for Children and Young People’s annual report, tabled in state parliament on Wednesday, reveals that there were 705 notifications of reportable allegations in the childcare sector in the 2024-25 financial year, each of which can include multiple

President remains barred from deploying national guard as appeals court agrees to ‘en banc’ rehearing of caseThe Trump administration remains barred from deploying the national guard in Portland, Oregon, following a federal appeals court ruling.The ninth circuit court of appeals agreed on Tuesday that it would rehear a case over the president’s authority with a broader court of 11 judges. The appeals court also vacated a ruling from a three-judge panel last week that sided with the Trump administration. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/us-appeals-court-trump-portland-troops Author : Maanvi Singh Publish date : 2025-10-29 01:48:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Vote passes 52-48 with Republican support in rare bipartisan rebuke of US president’s trade policiesThe US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in a rare bipartisan show of opposition to the president’s trade war.The vote passed 52-48. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/us-senate-trump-tariffs-brazil Author : Lauren Gambino Publish date : 2025-10-28 23:13:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Environment minister tells bureau chief that revamp is ‘not meeting many users’ expectations’. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition is still in the middle of a fight over the future of its energy policy, with big fractures between members over whether the 2050 net zero target should be kept.The party is working towards something of a compromise, but there are a few moderates who don’t want that target to change – including shadow housing minister Andrew Bragg.Look, I think we’ll get there on net zero. I know there’s a lot of interest

State officials ask federal judge to force Washington to use emergency reserve funds so 42 million Americans on food stamps will not lose their benefits on 1 NovemberIn a letter this morning, James Comer, the House oversight chair, has asked the justice department to investigate whether Joe Biden’s aides improperly used an autopen to sign executive actions, claiming the former president’s inner circle concealed his cognitive decline while exercising presidential authority without authorization.“While President Biden’s deterioration was evident to the American people, and consequently, robust systems should have been put in place to document executive actions reflected the actual will

Teenager receives sponsor exemption for The AnnikaKai Trump is due to play college golf at MiamiDonald Trump’s granddaughter will be taking a detour on her way to playing college golf at the University of Miami – Kai Trump will make her LPGA Tour debut next month.The 18-year-old received a sponsor exemption on Tuesday to play in The Annika at Pelican Golf Club from 13 to 16 November, the penultimate event on the LPGA schedule. The tournament, which has a prize purse of $3.25m, is prestigious and typically has one of the strongest fields of the year outside the majors. Continue

Exclusive: Organisations warn using the barracks in Sussex and Inverness may be more expensive than hotelsUK politics live – latest updatesRefugee organisations have described plans to house thousands of asylum seekers in two disused military sites as fanciful and too expensive as local discontent grows.The Home Office has confirmed that two barracks: Cameron in Inverness and Crowborough training camp in East Sussex, will be used to house about 900 men temporarily. Officials are working to identify more sites. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/28/experts-decry-plans-to-house-uk-asylum-seekers-in-barracks-as-fanciful Author : Rajeev Syal and Libby Brooks Publish date : 2025-10-28 13:39:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Rachel Reeves faces bigger-than-expected hit in 26 November budget from revised OBR forecastBusiness live – latest updatesRachel Reeves will have to account for a bigger-than-expected £20bn hit to the UK public finances in next month’s budget, increasing the likelihood that the chancellor will breach a key Labour’s manifesto pledge not to raise income tax.The Treasury’s forecaster is preparing a steeper than anticipated cut to UK productivity for the next five years, the Guardian understands. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/28/rachel-reeves-uk-productivity-obr-tax-rises-budget Author : Kalyeena Makortoff, Phillip Inman and Richard Partington Publish date : 2025-10-28 10:58:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Barracks in Inverness and East Sussex will house about 900 men as government aims to end use of hotelsHundreds of people seeking asylum in the UK will be moved to military sites as the government aims to end the use of hotels to house them.The Home Office confirmed that two barracks – Cameron barracks in Inverness and Crowborough training camp in East Sussex – would be used to house about 900 men temporarily. Officials are working to identify more sites. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/28/asylum-seekers-to-be-moved-military-sites-inverness-east-sussex Author : Kevin Rawlinson Publish date : 2025-10-28 08:29:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routesParents who went from Liverpool to Amsterdam with their autistic children are among thousands who have had their child benefit wrongly stopped as part of a crackdown on benefit fraud, it has emerged.The error by HM Revenue and Customs emerged 48 hours after the Guardian and the Detail reported on hundreds of families in Northern Ireland who had child benefit stopped after they returned home from holiday via Dublin airport, leaving HMRC with the impression they had taken a one-way ticket out of the

An entire class has made an 11th-hour bid for special consideration due to ‘illness and misadventure’ after studying the wrong CaesarFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn entire class of high school students in Queensland has applied for special consideration due to “illness and misadventure” just days before their year 12 ancient history external exam.They have not been waylaid by vengeful deities nor bewitched by sirens, however – these young scholars have studied the wrong Caesar. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/28/brisbane-state-high-school-wrong-caesar-year-12-exam Author : Joe Hinchliffe Publish date

The board was found covered in barnacles and mussels in Raglan, nearly 18 months after it was lost during a boat trip near TasmaniaA surfboard lost off Australia’s coast nearly 18 months ago has washed up on one of New Zealand’s most famed surf beaches, thousands of kilometres from where it was last seen.New Zealand-based French surfer Alvaro Bon was kite surfing in Raglan on the North Island’s west coast on 15 October, when his kite caught in the water and he began drifting out to sea. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/28/surfboard-lost-off-australia-drifts-2400km-to-wash-up-in-new-zealand Author : Eva Corlett in Wellington Publish

Follow the latest updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Greens say the cost of not acting on climate change will be “far, far greater” than any cost associated with acting on it.On the Today show this morning, Senator Nick McKim says the government needs to stop approving new coal and gas mines (something his party has been saying for years).The costs of not acting on climate change are astronomical and they’re already being felt in our communities through things like floods and bushfires and they’re also being felt in household budgets through things like

That’s the highest number recorded by the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses since they began tracking deaths 10 years agoGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least 174 thoroughbred racehorses died at the track or as a result of injuries sustained while racing or training in the past 12 months – the highest number recorded by animal rights activists since they began tracking 10 years ago.The report from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) was released on Tuesday, one week ahead of Australia’s most important horse race, the Melbourne Cup. Continue reading... Source

Farage repeatedly refuses to call Sarah Pochin’s remarks racist, saying they were ‘ugly, clumsy’ and should be taken in context of ‘DEI madness’The Guardian would like to hear from parents who have had to live in temporary accommodation with children. There is more about the call-out here, including a form where you can submit a response.But the Commons home affairs committee’s report is also critical of some aspects of what the Home Office has been doing on asylum hotels since Labour took power. Here are some of the points it makes about Labour’s record on this issue.The committee expresses concerns

Protesters say selling building to local college could end a trade dating back to middle ages, if new premises not foundCampaigners protesting against the sale of Walsall Leather Museum have said the institution is the town’s “last remaining heritage asset”.The museum tells the story of the town’s leather industry and those who worked in it. The local council agreed plans in September to sell the museum building to a local college to provide support for students with special educational needs and disabilities (Send). Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/27/our-last-heritage-asset-fears-for-walsall-leather-museum-as-council-plans-to-sell Author : Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent Publish date : 2025-10-27 15:00:00

Lithuanian PM says ‘no hybrid attack will be tolerated’ and pledges to shoot down balloons after 66 objects spotted by radar overnightMeanwhile over in the Czech Republic, the country’s president Petr Pavel has tasked the populist billionaire Andrej Babiš with leading talks on forming the new government after recent parliamentary election.Babiš told the president – who defeated him in the 2023 presidential elections – that the coalition talks were already under way, and “promised to hand over the text of the coalition agreement and programme priorities” later this week, according to a readout issued by the presidential office. Continue reading...

RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement campFears are growing for hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said it had captured the city, which it has been besieging for more than a year in Sudan’s civil war.The group said on Sunday that it had seized control of the army’s main base in the city in Darfur, where famine was declared in a displacement camp last year. It then released a statement saying it had “extended control over the city of El Fasher

New legal duties follow case of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, who died after exposure to mould in his own homeThe first phase of Awaab’s law, which promises to protect tenants from dangerous social housing conditions, comes into force in England on Monday, in memory of a two-year-old boy who died after exposure to mould in his own home.The new legal duties compel landlords to fix “emergency health and safety hazards” within 24 hours of reporting, investigate significant damp and mould within 10 working days of being notified, make properties safe in five working days after inspection and write the findings to

Governor of one prefecture says he is considering asking the military for help to tackle increasing attacks amid thousands-strong bear populationKnowing what to do in the event of a close encounter with a bear was once a concern only for hikers and foragers in Japan. Now, however, people in populated areas are being urged to learn how to protect themselves following a spate of attacks, as the animals leave their natural habitats in search of food.Bear encounters are generating almost daily headlines. In the past week in Akita prefecture, the animals attacked a jogger and a walker in built-up areas,

The result falls short of giving Milei a congressional majority but has been widely described as surprising by Argentinian analystsThe party of Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, has won Sunday’s midterm elections after a campaign in which US president Donald Trump announced a $40bn bailout for the country and made continued aid conditional on the victory of his Argentinian counterpart.With more than 95% of ballots counted, Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, won 40.84% of the nationwide vote in an election widely seen as a de facto referendum on the self-styled anarcho-capitalist’s nearly two years in power. Continue reading... Source link

Nearly three-month strike includes 3,200 machinists at plants where military aircraft and weapons are developedBoeing workers at three midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed voted Sunday to reject the company’s latest contract offer and to continue a strike that started almost three months ago.The strike by about 3,200 machinists at the plants in Mascoutah, Illinois, and the Missouri cities of St Louis and St Charles is smaller in scale than a walkout last year by 33,000 Boeing workers who assemble commercial jetliners but threatens to complicate the aerospace company’s progress in regaining its financial footing. Continue reading...