A shooting of two National Guard troops just blocks from the White House rocked Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, and new details have surfaced about the suspected gunman. The shooting occurred at the intersection of 17th St. and I St. Authorities believe the gunman acted alone. Both troops were in cri...

List detailed times and costs for ‘proper pure bags’ and specified cash payment A Northern Ireland football club has removed a coach who posted an apparent menu of cocaine prices in a group chat for a youth league. The list of prices for “proper pure bags” detailed times and meeting locations and specified cash payment. Continue reading...

Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”. Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...

PM says: ‘We kept to our manifesto in terms of what we’ve promised. But I accept the challenge that we’ve asked everybody to contribute’ * Ask the Guardian your budget questions * Share your views on the new ‘mansion tax’ * Budget calculator: find out if you are better or worse off The Conservative party is attacking the budget on the grounds that Rachel Reeves is putting up taxes supposedly to fund more spending on benefit claimants. Even though the rationale for this claim is questionable, the Tories were making it before the budget was announced, and Kemi Badenoch firmed it up last night, claiming it was a “Benefits Street budget”. On LBC this morning, asked if the budget meant “alarm clock Britain paying for Benefits Street”, Reeves said she did not accept that. She said 60% of the families that would benefit from the removal of the two-child benefit cap (the most expensive welfare announcement in the budget) were in work. I don’t think children should be punished by this pernicious policy any longer. And the cost to society of this is huge, the cost for councils of temporary accommodation, when people can no longer afford the rent, putting families in B&Bs, kids having to move to school all the time because parents have moved from B&B to another lot of temporary accommodation, and there’s costs for years to come, because all the evidence shows that kids that are growing up poor are less likely to get into work and more reliant on the welfare state in the future for them. So this is a good investment in those kids, to give them the chances that I want for my kids, and everyone wants for their kids. It also saves money for taxpayers on that accommodation, on those additional health costs, and ensuring that those kids grow up to be productive adults. Continue reading...

NK360° Helpful Handouts: Guidance on Common Questions provide a brief introduction to teachers about important topics regarding Native American life, cultures, and communities. Native Life and Food: F...

A Russian national has been arrested in Kraków for allegedly hacking into Polish companies' IT systems, resulting in unauthorized data access.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) introduced a symbolic measure to put House members on the record opposing a pardon for Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice.

For the holiday, I wanted to re-up one of this newsletter's very first posts—a reflection on the significance of Thanksgiving in my family growing up, and the surfeit of lawyers to whom I'm related.

Today Hopium is endorsing Eileen Higgins for Mayor of Miami - the run off is December 9

Political analysts and observers skewered a GOP congressman on Wednesday for what they called a "disgusting" take on the shooting that left two National Guard troops critically injured. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) made a post on X that conflated Rep. Elissa Slotkin's (D-MI) comments about military member...

Donald Trump is planning an 'enlarged and rebuilt' Alcatraz prison. But Indigenous activists fear for their ceremonies.

State officials have walked back an initial announcement that two National Guard troops deployed from West Virginia died after being shot near the White House on Wednesday.West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey initially announced their deaths in a statement on X."It is with great sorrow that we can co...

Karl Rove — the longtime Republican strategist behind George W. Bush's presidency — is lamenting that politics has become cheapened by constant attention-seeking. And he's pinning the blame primarily on President Donald Trump.In a Wednesday op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Rove bemoaned the curren...

A new feature on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter allows users to see the location of other accounts. It has resulted in a firestorm of recriminations

Dry conditions reduce lake levels—unleashing powerful forces