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2024 was Earth’s warmest year on record
2024 was Earth’s warmest year on record. Will 2025 be of the same ilk?
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LA fires latest: wildfires become most destructive in city’s history
The LA fires still rage – catastrophic reality has rivalled fiction in the home of American disaster movies. As the fires spread the insurance losses mount. Estimates are that they’ve reached $13bn in just 24 hours.
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‘In hours 100 houses were gone’ – Hollywood director describes LA fires
We spoke to Malibu resident Jon Turteltaub. He’s also a film director and his credits include ‘Cool Runnings’, ‘National Treasure’ and ‘The Meg’.
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LA fires ‘like being in a blast furnace’, says journalist and author
We were joined by John Vaillant, journalist and author of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for his book Fire Weather, an account of the 2016 inferno that engulfed the oil town of Fort McMurray in Canada and an examination of our future in a more flammable world.
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How LA fires and climate change are fuelling US insurance crisis
With LA still under a red flag alert and new fires having to be dealt with, the impact on the ability of local people to insure their homes is under the spotlight.
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UK economy: slump in pound piles pressure on Labour
The cost of government borrowing rose again this morning and the pound fell – with financial markets still worried by the country’s faltering economy and weak public finances.
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‘Reeves has made UK more vulnerable’ says economist
We spoke to the economist Rupert Harrison who was chief of staff to former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
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Busiest year on record for NHS emergency services in England
NHS England figures today say it was the busiest year on record for emergency services.
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Farmers heckle Environment Secretary during speech
The Environment Secretary has been met by a barrage of tractor horns and heckling farmers as he gave a speech on reforming the agricultural sector.
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Bradford’s year as UK city of culture begins – what will it change?
First Londonderry, then there was Hull and Coventry. Now, it’s the turn of Bradford to take up the mantle of UK City of Culture.
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Jimmy Carter funeral: Presidents pay tribute in Washington DC
Five former and serving US presidents have come together for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter.
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Army veteran becomes first disabled person to ski solo to South Pole
An army veteran has become the first disabled person to ski solo to the South Pole.
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The US electoral college explained
One of the things that makes US elections so intriguing – and unpredictable – is the somewhat peculiar system of the electoral college.
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‘Trump’s an off-colour guy’, says Republican strategist
We spoke to Albert Eisenberg, a Republican political strategist and a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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US elections: Has Trump alienated swing voters after Madison Square Garden rally?
It’s the legendary venue he’s always wanted to play: Donald Trump’s first and likely only night at Madison Square Garden was meant to be his last big pitch to undecided voters.
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How Arsenal built a devoted Black fanbase at home and abroad
Arsenal Football Club have had a very unique relationship with their Black supporters – home and abroad – over the last 50 years.
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Trump New York rally: Speakers’ racist jokes risk alienating key voters
It’s the legendary venue he’s always wanted to play: Donald Trump’s first night at Madison Square Garden was meant to be his last big pitch to undecided voters. But much of the focus since has been on the support acts: speakers who told racist jokes about Latino and Black voters and now risk alienating the very voters he needs to win over.
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Harris v Trump latest: should the Democrats be panicking?
Matt Frei is joined by a Democratic politician and a pro-Trump strategist in Pennsylvania where the race for the White House is now so close that both sides are in the fight for their political lives.
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Wright, Henry, Saka: How Arsenal built devoted Black support
A recent book has set out to explore the North London club’s wider links with Black identity and culture.
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As US election heats up Harris targets women and Trump courts Muslim voters
Just over a week before America’s election day, the country is split down the middle… according to polls, there’s nothing to separate Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on northern Gaza, say officials
Officials in Gaza say at least 45 Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli attacks – many of them in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, which was hit by an airstrike. Israel said it had targeted militants.
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Reeves is ‘on the right track’ ahead of budget, says economics professor
Mariana Mazzucato is an economics professor at University College London.
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Tax rises won’t affect workers ‘payslips’, says minister
When people look at payslips they will not see higher taxes. That’s the pledge from Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson today – as she was pressed to explain the Government’s “tough choices” ahead of next week’s Budget.
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Georgia election: Voters decide on path towards EU or Russia
Georgia’s election commission says the ruling Georgian Dream party has won a majority in the country’s elections – with 70% of precincts counted – although the opposition insisted it had won.
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‘Ball is in Iranian court’, says former head of Israel’s military intelligence
Amos Yadlin spent five years as the head of Israel’s military intelligence he joined us from central Israel.
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‘No doubt’ Iran will strike back against Israel, says Iranian academic
We spoke to Iranian academic Mohammed Marandi from the University of Tehran, who is close to the Iranian leadership.
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Israel launches retaliatory airstrikes on Iran
The conflict across the Middle East escalated further overnight when Israeli jets launched dozens of air strikes against several locations in Iran.
