California town proposes ban on Pride, Black and women’s history celebrations (www.theguardian.com)
Far-right council members in Huntington Beach introduce agenda item to switch focus to US wars and America’s independence...
Police fatally shoot Black woman who called 911 for domestic violence (www.theguardian.com)
A Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who had called 911 to report that she was under attack by a former boyfriend, police officials and lawyers for the victim’s family said on Thursday. Records show the deputy had killed another person in similar circumstances three years ago....
The plight of Gaza’s ‘WCNSFs’ – wounded child, no surviving family: A chilling acronym used by aid workers reflects the reality of a conflict in which 40% of casualties are believed to be minors (www.theguardian.com)
"We had a 14-year-old girl just walk out of some war zone of Gaza City, stunned, mute, bloodied, and she absolutely had no one,” says James Elder, Unicef’s chief spokesperson, who spent weeks in Gaza under bombardment. “How many other children are like that right now? We simply don’t know.”
‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humans (www.theguardian.com)
Anti-democracy playbook has new threats in store for the US in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
‘Busiest Christmas I have seen’: families turn to food banks in Australia’s cost-of-living crisis (www.theguardian.com)
British teenager behind GTA 6 hack receives indefinite hospital order (www.theguardian.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, claims Human Rights Watch. (www.theguardian.com)
The last days of Little Eddie: life and death in a New Jersey prison (www.theguardian.com)
[Kory] McClary is a writer for the Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit news organization that provides incarcerated writers with tools and training. From a cell directly below the man’s cell, McClary overheard his decline over several weeks and described it in a harrowing article that was shared with MindSite News, a...
Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider called for public hanging of Joe Biden (www.theguardian.com)
French city of Montpellier makes public transport free for all residents (www.theguardian.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Shock to the cistern: the riotous, revealing world of graffiti in public bathrooms (www.theguardian.com)
Poland’s new government sacks state TV, radio and news bosses (www.theguardian.com)
The new Polish government has gutted the top management of public television, making good on a campaign promise to reform a broadcaster that functioned as a mouthpiece of its rightwing populist predecessor, but also prompting criticism of their methods from some quarters....
Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
More than 100 container ships rerouted from Suez canal to avoid Houthi attacks (www.theguardian.com)
Cape of Good Hope diversion adds 6,000 nautical miles and three or four weeks to delivery times and has driven up oil prices...
‘I feared for my life’: three women in mental distress say they were further traumatised by NSW police (www.theguardian.com)
White South Carolina couple ‘harassed Black neighbors with burning cross’ (www.theguardian.com)
The Choice of Life: Dr Johnson’s Christmas message (www.theguardian.com)
Taters the cat stars in Nasa’s first video streamed from deep space (www.theguardian.com)
Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28 (www.theguardian.com)
Greece to legalise papers for thousands of migrants to counter labour shortage (www.theguardian.com)
‘Never thought I’d be in this situation’: US readers on their housing realities (www.theguardian.com)
EU reaches asylum deal that rights groups say will create ‘cruel system’ (www.theguardian.com)
Modern slavery ‘a feature’ of care sector in England since Brexit (www.theguardian.com)
End of free movement of workers from EU has significantly increased possibilities of exploitation, care watchdog tells MPs...
