ICE detained teenaged US citizen during school lunch break, family says 23. November 2025 (21:00) Christian Jimenez, Oregon high school senior, faces possible obstruction charges after traffic stop by immigration agentsImmigration officers detained a student at a high school in Oregon during his lunch break on Friday, according to the student’s family.Seventeen-year-old Christian Jimenez, a US citizen and senior at McMinnville high school, was driving his father’s vehicle around 12.30pm during lunch when agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stopped him, his older brother, Cesar Jimenez, told Oregon Live. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Hospitals must get smaller to stop NHS ‘permacrisis’, thinktank urges 23. November 2025 (19:22) Re:State report says role hospitals play needs ‘fundamental reinvention’ to deliver better care for patientsHospitals need to become smaller, with fewer beds, to help save the NHS from its “permacrisis”, a thinktank has said.The role hospitals play needs to undergo “a fundamental reinvention” to help them escape the overcrowding that has become widespread over the last decade, according to the thinktank Re:State. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals 23. November 2025 (19:17) Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency featureMany of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India, a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.The new tool, called “about this account,” became available on Friday to users of the Elon Musk-owned platform. It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed, and how the X app was downloaded. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
BBC to expand standards panel and add deputy director general after bias row 23. November 2025 (19:00) Planned overhaul of editorial guidelines committee would dilute influence of Tory board appointment Robbie GibbThe BBC is planning to overhaul the way it investigates editorial concerns, in a move that will dilute the influence of a Conservative figure accused of trying to sway its political impartiality.A new deputy director general post is also expected to be created to aid Tim Davie’s successor as director general, after concerns that the task of overseeing the corporation has become too big for one person. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Jair Bolsonaro claims ‘psychotic attack’ made him tamper with ankle monitor 23. November 2025 (18:56) Brazil’s former president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he was hallucinating that it was buggedBrazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he took a soldering iron to his electronic ankle monitor after having a substance-induced “psychotic attack” that caused him to hallucinate that the device was bugged.Bolsonaro made the claim during a custody hearing on Sunday, 24 hours after he was arrested at his home in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was planning to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid being sent to jail to serve a 27-year sentence for masterminding a failed coup. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight 23. November 2025 (18:46) Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chiefThe world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
