Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...

Legislative language moving through Congress is being opposed by a broad coalition, with the release today of a joint statement on this fundamental right.

America is brave because its people are. Why love, courage, and people power are essential to defeating corruption and defending democracy.

The real scandal isn’t locked up inside the Epstein Files. It was carefully built, normalized, and scaled by Donald Trump long before Epstein’s abuses landed him in the headlines. If you want to know ...

WASHINGTON – President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental...

As antisemitism and Islamophobia rise, a community centre brings people together over shared meals, offering an antidote to food poverty, social isolation and division * Donate to the Guardian Charity Appeal 2025 here * Communities are our defence against hatred. Now, more than ever, we must invest in hope It’s 2.30pm on a Wednesday afternoon and the Himmah Hub, a community centre in Nottingham, is abuzz with activity. Crates of leftover supermarket food are being carried inside, trestle tables assembled, and volunteers are arriving to prepare meals that will be served in a few hours’ time to anyone who needs one – a queue has already begun to form outside. This is the Salaam Shalom kitchen, known as SaSh, a joint Muslim-Jewish project set up in 2015, and based on one of the core tenets of both faith groups: bringing people together through food. It also draws on a north Indian tradition of community meals, with food prepared collectively and duties shared across the village, Sajid Mohammed, director of the Muslim-led social justice initiative Himmah, explains. Continue reading...

One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

Algerian parliament is set to vote on Wednesday on the draft law, which speaker calls a 'defining milestone'.

Maria Farmer, whose sister Annie was abused by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, says Epstein ‘stole’ nude images While Donald Trump’s justice department did not deliver on a legal requirement to disclose all Jeffrey Epstein-related files by Friday, one document in an otherwise underwhelming disclosure lifted the veil on authorities’ inaction – and its dire consequences for dozens of teen girls. That document is an FBI report from Maria Farmer, a painter who worked for Epstein around 1996. Continue reading...

Despite the redactions and doctoring in the (small) parts of the Epstein files dropped by the DOJ yesterday, one item that we are able to see shockingly confirms that Epstein victim Maria Farmer filed...

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