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Kremlin says hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine was warning to the west
Ukraine war live  
Kremlin says hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine was warning to the west
Moscow says strike was sign it will respond to moves by UK and US to let Kyiv hit Russia with their missiles
Trump administration  
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pentagon pick, wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’
Abortion  
California prepares to fortify state’s abortion access: ‘Fight for what’s right’
France  
Armed gang steal jewels worth millions from French museum
Middle East crisis live  
Netanyahu thanks Orbán for invite after ICC warrant, saying Hungary on ‘side of justice and truth’
Trump transition
Former health secretary predicts Trump will bring in block grants for Medicaid
Tom Price  
Former health secretary predicts Trump will bring in block grants for Medicaid
Tom Price, who served under Trump, says he expects the administration to try to allow skinnier insurance plans
Profile  
Who is Pam Bondi, Trump’s new pick to lead the US justice department?
Trump administration  
Trump names Pam Bondi as attorney general pick after Gaetz steps aside
Elon Musk has cozied into Trump’s White House. How long will this bromance last?
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cop29
Call for $1.3tn in climate finance by 2035 in new draft text
Cop 29 live  
Call for $1.3tn in climate finance by 2035 in new draft text
Text ‘decides’ on $250bn for developing countries by 2035 and calls for nations to make additional contributions
Cop29  
‘It’s our future’: oil still looms large over Baku, despite Cop29
Cop29  
Cop29: $250bn climate finance offer from rich world an insult, critics say
Cop29  
UAE urges countries to honour fossil fuels vow amid Cop29 impasse
In focus
From the Women’s March to Occupy, the mass protests of the 2010s were a mixed bag. What lessons can we learn?
Protest  
From the Women’s March to Occupy, the mass protests of the 2010s were a mixed bag. What lessons can we learn?
Many features of recent protest movements also held them back – but years of study have made journalist Vincent Bevins believe solidarity and structure can effect change
Georgia  
Fani Willis’s prosecution of Trump looks shaky post-election
Analysis  
Putin’s Ukraine missile a warning to west before second age of Trump
Spotlight
‘We create gods because the world is chaos’: Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci on celebrity, sin and papal thriller Conclave
Film  
‘We create gods because the world is chaos’: Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci on celebrity, sin and papal thriller Conclave
Experience  
My dog went missing for nine years – then we were reunited
Film  
Can DC really pull off a Sgt Rock movie with Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on board?
This is climate breakdown  
I find hope in sticking together and keeping each other warm