19 minutes ago Best Shark Black Friday deals we’re hoping to see in 2024, including upright and cordless vacuum cleaners

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44 minutes ago Middle East crisis live: Iran warns UN about Israel’s threats against its nuclear sites; Israel launches strikes across Lebanon

Israel launches attacks on buildings belonging to al-Qard al-Hassan; Israeli military making life ‘impossible’ for Palestinians, UN’s human rights office saysSee all our Middle East coverageIsraeli forces blew up homes and besieged schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday as they deepened their operations in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and medics said.They also rounded up men and ordered women to leave the camp, they said. Continue reading...

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44 minutes ago Major high street chain to close all 800 branches for three days over Christmas period

It made the announcement as it launched a recruitment drive to take on more than 1,000 extra staff for temporary seasonal roles in 2024

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46 minutes ago Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls

In critical battlegrounds, Maga allies mounting lawsuits to ‘lay the groundwork’ to challenge election if he losesKey rightwing legal groups with ties to Donald Trump and his allies have banked millions of dollars from conservative foundations and filed multiple lawsuits challenging voting rules in swing states that are already sowing distrust of election processes and pushing dangerous conspiracy theories, election watchdogs warn.They also warn that the groups appear to be laying the groundwork for a concerted challenge to the result of November’s presidential election if Trump is defeated by Kamala Harris. Continue reading...

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46 minutes ago The pet I’ll never forget: Jake the golden retriever, who offered us love during the worst time of our lives

He adored swimming and wild camping, and was my wife’s constant companion after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Later, he reminded me that life goes onIn 2000 my wife, Carolyn, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Then, in 2001, our much-loved labrador, Sam, had to be put to sleep on the cold floor of the vet’s treatment room. This was a miserable end for such a wonderful friend, as we only had five minutes with him after he left us.Seeing how terribly upset we were, the vet informed us of a family that were looking to rehome their year-old golden retriever, Jake. We immediately went to see them. As soon as we sat down, Jake came and sat in front of me, seeming to know what was about to happen. We’ve bonded, I thought. Thinking he loved his new family, we took him home with us. Whi...

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46 minutes ago Progressives must walk a fine line: end the war in Gaza and elect Harris | Judith Levine

It’s sounds like an impossible dilemma for activists and organizers, but it isn’t. Progressives can and must do bothThe war in Gaza is not high among most voters’ concerns. But for many Arab Americans and protesters of the war, it is. As election day nears and the margins tighten – and with the critical swing state of Michigan, home to the largest Arab American community in the nation, up for grabs – these people are among the small, scattered constituencies that could determine the results. This makes their political strategies crucial to the US’s – and, by extension, Palestine’s – future.Some activists working to end the genocide are putting that urgent cause ahead of the other urgent cause: electing a Democrat, if only to prevent a Trump presidency. “If I’m going to be a one-issue vo...

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46 minutes ago Bad buffet behaviour is out of control. So should we be fined for our food waste? | Emma Beddington

I have unbridled lust when faced with a buffet – as do many others. But penalties for overfilling our plates are only one possible answer ...Should you be penalised for having eyes bigger than your belly? A Cornish pub is trying it out: Mark Graham, the landlord of the Star Inn, now charges £2.40 a person for buffet “excess leftovers”. “A few spuds is obviously no problem,” Graham told a customer who complained, but said that buffet behaviour was out of control, citing a plate “piled so high you could put a ladder and a flag on top of it”.I can believe it. I lose my mind faced with a buffet, although I usually clean my plate (gravely regretting my choices in the hours that follow). Are we our best selves as we take up tongs in the glow of the heating lamps? That depends which side of th...

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46 minutes ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bread, sage and lemon frittata | A kitchen in Rome

A strong, penetrating flavour and lemon zest brightness ensures this visual masquerade from Sicily is a satisfyingly tasty treatThe Sicilian chef Corrado Assenza studied agronomy at the University of Bologna before returning to his home town of Noto and taking over his aunt’s patisserie shop and the land farmed by his grandparents. It turned out to be a productive collision: new knowledge meeting the empirical knowledge of a Sicilian pastry laboratory, and Corrado’s imaginative, wishful thinking. Like many people, we have visited his Caffè Sicilia and eaten almond granita and almond-and-sesame biscuits filled with bitter marmalade, and enjoyed bergamot cream, liquorice and wild fennel tea, as well as a ricotta-filled tube of cannoli decorated with a curl of candied orange.I also had the...

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46 minutes ago ‘I’m not voting for either’: fracking’s return stirs fury in Pennsylvania town whose water turned toxic

The small town of Dimock saw its water become brown, undrinkable, even flammable – and its residents are still feeling the effectsFracking has burst back on to the national stage in the US presidential election contest for the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania. But for one town in this state that saw its water become mud-brown, undrinkable and even flammable 15 years ago, the specter of fracking never went away.Residents in Dimock, a rural town of around 1,200 people in north-east Pennsylvania, have been locked in a lengthy battle to remediate their water supply that was ruined in 2009 after the drilling of dozens of wells to access a hotspot called the “Saudi Arabia of gas” found deep underneath their homes. Continue reading...

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47 minutes ago F1 news LIVE: Race results and standings as Lando Norris reacts angrily after penalty at US Grand Prix

F1 reaction after Norris was penalised for an overtake on Max Verstappen at the end of the race in Austin

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