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Saturday Night Live: Druski hosts and James Talarico cameos, but where’s the post-election comedy?
SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’
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Politics
Climate always comes second: are green issues slipping down Burnham’s agenda?
Prime minister says he’s committed to meeting climate targets, but some believe his actions suggest otherwise Labour expected to cut EV targets for car industry despite MPs’ climate concerns Andy Burnham insists he is committed to the green transition, but his MPs worry that in decision after decision, he is showing that other priorities come first. “Our changing climate is a major concern for many Britons, not least because we have just emerged from our hottest summer on record,” the prime minister wrote in the Guardian in September. Continue reading...
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Trump set to lurch further right, claiming US took ‘giant step back’ in elections
Trump poised to double down on immigration crackdown and refuse concessions to new Democratic majority in Congress
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Gadi Eisenkot reaches out to Netanyahu allies as he strives to form government
Former military chief says prime minister brought Israel to historic crisis and it is approaching ‘point of no return’
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S.Africa's ANC slumps to worst-ever election result
The African National Congress, which has dominated South African politics since the end of apartheid, took 30.76 percent of votes in municipal elections, its worst-ever electoral performance, the electoral…
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Challenging the politics that brought Donald Trump to power
Letters: Readers respond to an editorial commenting on the Republicans’ rout in the US midterm elections
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Israelis and Palestinians react as Eisenkot given mandate to form government – video
Israelis gathered in the streets of Tel Aviv as Israel’s president gave Gadi Eisenkot – prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest rival – the mandate try to form a new government
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It is time the government treated hunger and obesity as two interlinked problems
Letter: The cabinet committee the MPs want should become the delivery arm of a statutory right to adequate food, writes Prof Kent Buse of the World Obesity Federation
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Abdul El-Sayed’s Oxford years: PhD, political influences and sporting distinction
Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwiches
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The political playbook that unraveled US transgender rights in the past decade
From the military to healthcare, Trump systematically dismantled Obama-era protections for transgender rights
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Eisenkot warns of Israel crisis as he starts to form government to replace Netanyahu
Israel's former military chief Gadi Eisenkot started the tough task Sunday of forming a government, reaching out to Benjamin Netanyahu's allies as he warned the veteran prime minister had brought the…
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Israel’s president picks Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot to form government
Knesset has been deadlocked since the election last month when Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition lost its majority
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