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• Players’ relationship has been under intense scrutiny

• Paul George scores 36 points in 123-101 victory

• Tatum appears to ignore former teammate before game

Jayson Tatum scored 21 points and outplayed his former Boston teammate, Jaylen Brown, and Paul George scored 36 points in his return to Philadelphia, leading the Celtics past the 76ers 123-101 on Tuesday night.

Brown ran into early foul trouble and scored only 13 points in his first game against Boston since the 2024 NBA Finals MVP was traded over the summer to the Sixers. He also had four turnovers. His head-to-head showdown with Tatum was one of the more anticipated early-season matchups with both players refusing to say much about their frosty relationship.

Voters in Providence, Rhode Island, chose to pull foreign investments from countries that profit from genocide

The tectonic blue wave that washed over the country in last week’s midterms also brought about a historic night for the pro-Palestine movement.

Up and down the ballot, candidates who demanded an end to Israel’s war in Gaza resoundingly defeated opponents funded by the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac).

Richard Trahant says accusers have been vindicated after Catholic church officially classifies Paul Hart as sex abuser

An attorney who was fined more than $400,000 after getting an abusive Roman Catholic priest removed as a New Orleans high school’s chaplain says it was “worth it” now that the church has officially classified the cleric as a clergy molester.

That remark from Richard Trahant came days after the archdiocese of New Orleans, having waited years, added Paul Hart on 6 November to a list of Catholic priests and deacons faced with credible claims of clergy abuse while serving in the area.

But, says one expert, it would be misleading to say that gerrymandering did not work at all in this election

If there was one obvious conclusion from Democrats’ sweeping victories in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, it seemed to be that the Republican effort to redraw congressional districts in their favor backfired.

Starting last summer, Trump and Republican allies undertook an aggressive effort to redraw congressional districts, reconfiguring the lines to give Republican candidates an advantage. Ahead of the midterms, Republicans redrew 15 seats to their advantage. After Tuesday’s election, they appear poised to lose all but two of them. “It was definitely the wrong move,” an unnamed House Republican told Fox News. “One of the truisms in politics is never to overreach. We did and that was part of the reason for the backlash.”

House Republicans block impeachment resolution that cited US military actions in Iran, Yemen and Venezuela. Plus, SS United States to be sunk to create artificial reef

Good morning. House Republicans have blocked an effort to impeach Pete Hegseth. The defense secretary dismissed the impeachment resolution from a Republican lawmaker as “political spectacle”, saying it was an attempt to set up a “show trial”. Top Democrats announced their support for the resolution, but Republicans moved to kill it by referring it to the judiciary committee.

Thomas Massie’s 34-page resolution, which he read aloud on the House floor, centered on the Iran war. Hegseth said the articles targeted not just him but the troops who carried out his orders. He insisted that every operation the articles cite – including strikes on Iran and Yemen, attacks on alleged drug boats and the capture of Venezuela’s now former leader Nicolás Maduro – was lawful, ordered by Donald Trump and notified to Congress.

Why has the US Treasury chief reportedly moved? Scott Bessent has relocated from his home in the Washington area to a military base after an Iranian threat against his life, the New York Times reported. Bessent has led ‌the US sanctions and economic pressure campaign against Iran, called Operation Economic Outcast, since August.

Trump hails ‘exoneration of a Great American Patriot’ as moves against his defense secretary fail for now

• House Republicans block effort to impeach Hegseth

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Nancy Pelosi was one of 11 Democratic politicians to miss the Pete Hegseth impeachment vote.

If just eight of them had turned up to vote with their colleagues, the motion would have passed and the articles for impeachment would have moved forward.

‘The post-election wish list is about to run into harsh fiscal reality: there is no money’

Is this an opportunity for a new America? As the Reagan revolution four decades ago launched US society down the path to low taxes and meager solidarity, perhaps the Republican bloodbath last week could turn US politics toward building a new social contract anchored on an aspiration to equitable prosperity.

One can sense the ambition of the bumper new crop of Democrats ushered to power last week, calling for support for programs for children and their parents; emphatically endorsing the long-held dream of Medicare for All. The project includes rolling back Donald Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, and restoring subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act that Republicans allowed to expire. And that’s just the start.

Hundreds of datasets and websites that contradict government’s ideology have been altered or wiped – a tactic taken straight from Heritage Foundation’s policy blueprint

Even amid Donald Trump’s failures – the Iran war, soaring prices and a sharp rebuke in the midterm elections last week – there’s still at least one area his administration continues to carry out adeptly: its mass public information censorship campaign.

In less than two years, the Trump administration has done staggering damage to US data and information infrastructure. Hundreds of federal datasets have been terminated or altered, and thousands of government webpages that address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the climate crisis and other issues have been quietly revised or completely wiped.

The former Tottenham manager is always going to be a subject of interest, but United’s job carries a rare power

As Mauricio Pochettino left the podium to close his final press conference of the last international window, he offered an ambiguous farewell.

“See you next …” Pochettino began as he headed to the tunnels of Allianz Field in Saint Paul, before cutting his sentence short. Then, a bit of a sing-song: “See you next, see you next.”