Callum Jones
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🗞️ US news + politics
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Ella Brockway
28 days ago
This was such a good story idea beautifully done by Bryan and Lauren. Gems throughout but my favorite line may be: “This is why I roll with the Liberty. I like the little elephant they got.”
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‘The whole of New York is stressed right now’: how Knicks finals fever reached Rikers Island
Inside New York’s notorious jail complex, nearly 2,000 incarcerated people watched Game 1 together, arguing calls, roasting celebrity fans and sharing in a rare citywide moment
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jun/05/rikers-island-nba-finals-new-york-knicks-photos
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Donald Trump's wrath has kept congressional Republicans in line for much of his second term. But as November's midterms draw closer, the president’s allies in the Senate and House appear increasingly willing to defy him. Chris Stein reports
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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More Republicans are breaking with Trump. Is it conscience or politics?
Congressional Democrats say GOP majority is unraveling, but moves may in fact be aimed at retaining power
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/06/republicans-trump-midterms
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Where next for the Democrats? Nineteen months after Trump’s victory over Harris, and less than five before the next set of crucial US elections,
@rachelleingang.bsky.social
spoke to candidates, lawmakers and operatives across the party
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Bruised Democrats weigh how to win back voters, and regain power: ‘We’ve got to fight’
The party may reclaim the US House and even Senate, but primary candidates are far from united on how to move forward
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/06/democrats-win-back-voters
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Bracketology! Who will win the World Cup?
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Zohran Mamdani plays the Guardian's Bracketology to predict World Cup winner – video
See how New York's mayor maps out the world’s biggest tournament
https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2026/jun/06/zohran-mamdani-the-guardian-bracketology-predict-world-cup-winner-video
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Alexander Abnos
7 months ago
David Smith, unsurprisingly, cooked with this scene piece. "To the surprise of no one, Donald Trump won the inaugural Fifa peace prize on Friday at a cheesy, gaudy and gauche World Cup draw expertly designed to flatter the world’s most precious ego."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump wins his peace prize from Fifa – any chance of a VAR review?
At a gaudy and gauche World Cup draw, Gianni Infantino went all out to flatter the world’s most precious ego
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/trump-peace-prize-fifa-world-cup
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My colleague
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has spent the past few years covering the union drive inside Starbucks stores. With thousands of baristas now on strike across the US, he filed this big read on how the world's largest coffee chain got here — and what might happen next. Read on
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‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike
Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/starbucks-union-strike
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over 1 year ago
"The Chiefs entered the game chasing history. They left with their heads spinning, having been outplayed, outcoached and, most surprising of all, outclassed at quarterback," writes Guardian sports writer Oliver Connolly.
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Patrick Mahomes was chasing Super Bowl history. He left humbled and harassed
The Chiefs may well contend for the championship again next season. But Sunday’s loss to the Eagles exposed problems that had been there all year
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/10/super-bowl-eagles-chiefs-patrick-mahomes?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=us_bsky
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Heather Stewart
over 1 year ago
Just been at a Davos business lunch. Chatham House rules so can't reveal much, but one business speaker signalled agreement with the previous one by saying, "let me just double click that". Is this a thing?
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100 Foot Wave Surfed at Maverick’s? Potentially.
Alessandro “Alo” Slebir has possibly broken the Guinness World Record for largest wave ever surfed with a 108-footer.
https://www.surfer.com/news/100-foot-wave-possibly-surfed-mavericks-alo-slebir
over 1 year ago
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Rob Davies
over 1 year ago
Excl: The Great Guinness Heist - as Britain reeled from a shortage of the black stuff, thieves pounced on a truckload of Guinness and made good their escape.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Great Guinness heist: thieves stole truck carrying 20,000 pints
Revealed: lorry with 400 kegs of the Irish stout onboard disappeared from Northamptonshire depot, sources say
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/31/great-guinness-heist-thieves-stole-truck-carrying-20000-pints?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Great piece by
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on how Labour's “bonus MPs”, who won non-target seats this year, are adjusting to Westminster after their unexpected victories
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘You’ve got nothing to lose’: Labour’s ‘bonus MPs’ aim to make their mark after surprise wins
Some of the 33 MPs elected in non-target seats have already made a big impression as they settle into unexpected roles
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/31/labour-bonus-mps-surprise-wins-election
over 1 year ago
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This is great: Meet the Parkrunners heading out on Christmas Day in the UK (and Diana, who is putting the rest of us to shame)
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over 1 year ago
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Eye-opening read by
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, who spoke to grocery store workers hit by surging grocery prices:
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Noah Lyles on racing YouTuber IShowSpeed, and people who think it 'degrades the sport': “I just put track and field on the map – and I didn’t even have to try. If we’re always gonna keep this idea that everything is beneath us, then we’re not gonna get anywhere” 👀 interview by
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Noah Lyles: ‘America has a winner’s mentality. That’s the good and the bad’
The Olympic 100m champion plays a starring role in the second season of Netflix documentary Sprint. And he is still as outspoken as ever
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/27/noah-lyles-america-has-a-winners-mentality-thats-the-good-and-the-bad
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This is encouraging...
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🗞️ Latest for
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: Tariff is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”, according to President-elect Trump. Many US firms are unconvinced
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Trump’s tariff plan will send prices ‘through the roof’, warn US firms
US manufacturers are bracing for disruption and sounding the alarm that customers will be hit by price increases
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/27/trump-tariffs-policies-prices
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Trump's tariffs set stage for new trade war – for
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Trump’s tariff threat sets stage for bitter global trade war
Trade experts hail ‘new era of protectionism’ with targeted countries retaliating with their own tariffs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-tariff-threat-worldwide-response
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Damian Carrington
over 1 year ago
Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official
#COP29
negotiating text - Exclusive: News of changes to usually non-editable Presidency document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy', says one expert Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Katy Perry vs Katie Perry: popstar wins appeal amid long-running legal battle with fashion label
@caitkelly.bsky.social
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Katy Perry wins appeal in trademark legal case against Sydney fashion label Katie Perry
Australian designer says she is devastated and heartbroken by US singer’s successful appeal, adding ‘trademark isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on’
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/22/katy-perry-appeal-legal-case-sydney-fashion-label-katie-perry
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