Florida air force base orders residents to take down Christmas decor 12. November 2025 (14:48) Families say the housing contractor’s strict timing rules dampen holiday spirit on the baseMilitary families living on an air force base in Florida have been ordered to dismantle their Christmas decorations under a strictly enforced regulation that tells them when and where they are allowed to celebrate.Residents of Tyndall air force base received a tersely-worded memo from their landlords, private housing contractor Balfour Beatty Communities, informing them that a de facto patrol of the installation had uncovered infractions of their lease agreements in the form of early holiday inflatables, lights and other festive adornments. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Cop30 live: US looms over talks despite absence as protests at venue continue 12. November 2025 (14:46) Day three at the Belem summit is expected to see more protests as crucial climate negotiations begin in earnestA fluvial adrenalin rush flooded into the COP30 host city of Belém on Wednesday morning with the arrival of a flotilla of dozens of boats, carrying indigenous activists, forest defenders and other civil society campaigners.Singing, chanting and waving flags and banners declaring “Fight for the Right to Life” and “No to Soy!”, the demonstrators made their presence evident on the river as they are expected to do on the streets in the coming days. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
House set to vote on deal to end shutdown amid Democratic splits – US politics live 12. November 2025 (14:35) Democrats have vowed to vote against the proposal after a faction of senators broke with party to pass a compromiseFull report – House to vote on bill that could end government shutdownA last-minute provision in the federal spending bill heavily restricting hemp-derived products such as CBD and THC drinks could lead some Republicans to vote against the spending bill which, if passed, could end the government shutdown as early as today. Kentucky is one of the largest producers of hemp in the country, and Republicans in the state have shown strong support for the hemp industry. Jonathan Miller, an advocate for the hemp industry and former Kentucky state treasurer, said that “Kentucky is really ground zero for the rebirth of hemp” – a niche industry until the 2018 farm bill allowed a much wider variety of legal products. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s name to be hyphenated, as decreed by late queen 12. November 2025 (14:29) Palace announcement of ex-prince’s new name missed out hyphen used by other descendants of Elizabeth IIEver since the former Prince Andrew was demoted to plain Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, royal observers and historians have scratched their heads over his missing hyphen.Buckingham Palace’s official statement announcing his new commoner status was clear, in black and white, that aside from losing his HRH and princely title and dukedom, he was also to be deprived of a punctuation mark that had been officially decreed by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
