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Better late than never! 18 characters whose late arrival lifted TV shows
NEWS | 19 November 2025
We’ve selected 18 characters whose gamechanging arrival in later seasons lifted the whole show and added to its legacy. “Shalom, Ar-fur!”Leon Black – Curb Your EnthusiasmView image in fullscreen Partners-in-crime … Larry David and Leon Black (JB Smoove). Amy Farrah Fowler – The Big Bang TheoryView image in fullscreen Nerds’ eye view … Amy (Mayim Bialik) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons). Arriving in the fantasy saga’s second season, she became a firm fan favourite by being a hard-as-nails warrior, honourable knight and one of the few characters in the Seven Kingdoms who was unambiguously good. Breaking Bad’s second season finale was supposed to feature sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman but actor Bob Odenkirk was busy filming a guest role in How I Met Your Mother.

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Trump shrugs off Khashoggi murder during Saudi prince’s White House visit
NEWS | 19 November 2025
The US president made the remarks at the White House on Tuesday while welcoming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the first time since Khashoggi’s murder and dismemberment in Istanbul by Saudi state operatives. Trump’s offer to sell Saudi Arabia F-35s has triggered anxiety in Israel, which is currently the only country in the Middle East with the advanced plane. “We want to be part of the Abraham Accords, but we also want to be sure that we secure a clear path of two-state solution,” Prince Mohammed said on Tuesday. They’ve done very little with Saudi Arabia, actually. During his second term, the Trump family business has entered extensive negotiations over multibillion-dollar investments in Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi entourage for US visit may include official implicated in Twitter spy plot
NEWS | 19 November 2025
Prince Mohammed has been recognised by the US legal system as having sovereign immunity protection since he was named prime minister of Saudi Arabia in 2022. A US intelligence assessment, which was published by the Biden administration in 2021, concluded that Prince Mohammed had ordered the hit. after newsletter promotionThe Saudi embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment. Aljabri has accused Prince Mohammed of plotting to kill him, according to a US lawsuit, including a plot that was thwarted by Canadian officials in 2018. Aljabri’s lawyers said in a recent filing that neither Saudi defendants had cooperated with the discovery process.

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Trump and Mr Bone Saw stage love-in as Saudi’s $1tn wipes the bloody slate clean
NEWS | 19 November 2025
In a gruesome coda, it later emerged, the Saudi agents dismembered his body with a bone saw in order to dispose of the evidence. “Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen, but [Prince Mohammed] knew nothing about it. “You keep increasing Mr President,” said the crown prince, who smiled eagerly through much of the meeting, as he let Trump dominate the talking. “I have nothing to do with the family business,” Trump said when asked about the deal on Tuesday. “It is very painful, very heavy,” she said of Prince Mohammed’s arrival in the United States.

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Senate agrees to automatically pass bill to release Epstein files as Trump claims to not care – US politics live
NEWS | 19 November 2025
From 2h ago 17.35 EST Senate agrees to automatically pass House bill requiring release of the Epstein files The Senate just agreed to a unanimous consent request from the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer, to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act as soon as the legislation arrives from the House. The legislation, which requires the justice department to release files from the federal investigation into Epstein’s crimes, will automatically pass the Senate when it arrives there from the House, likely on Wednesday. We are thankful that Reps. Massie and Khanna have pushed this measure forward and have continued to advocate for the release of the Epstein files once and for all. Share1h ago 18.53 EST House delays walking Epstein files bill to Senate - report Jamie Dupree, a veteran congressional correspondent, reported on social media on Tuesday evening that “the House may not walk the Epstein Files bill over to the Senate until Wednesday.” A short time later, Dupree noted that the Senate had adjourned until Wednesday morning. “That means no final action tonight on the Epstein Files bill,” he wrote.

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US perpetrators must face ‘same consequences’ as Epstein’s UK associates, congressman says
NEWS | 19 November 2025
The “same kind of consequences” faced by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein must be inflicted on “perpetrators of heinous crimes” linked to the disgraced financier in the United States, a congressman has said. “We’ve seen tens of thousands of pages released by the oversight committee. Speaking after Massie, Khanna renewed calls for Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before the committee. “I do think that Prince Andrew does need to come and testify at our oversight committee, and that can be bipartisan,” Khanna said. His renewed call comes a day after Suhas Subramanyam, a congressman who is among the Democratic members of the oversight committee, accused Mountbatten-Windsor of hiding.

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What to know about the US House vote on releasing the Epstein files
NEWS | 19 November 2025
The intensively discussed files into the disgraced former financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein passed a significant milestone on Tuesday when representatives on Capitol Hill voted overwhelmingly in favor of releasing them. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a close Trump ally, was the sole member of the House to vote against the measure; five representatives did not vote. Will the passage of the bill in the House mean the files finally see the light of day? But the overwhelming House vote may force the Senate’s hand – and Thune suggested on Tuesday that the Senate was unlikely to amend the House’s version of the bill. The investigation could enable the justice department to withhold certain documents on the argument that releasing them would be prejudicial.

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New York Times cuts ties with Larry Summers over Epstein emails
NEWS | 19 November 2025
The New York Times is cutting ties with Larry Summers following the publication of a series of email exchanges the Harvard professor and economist had with Jeffrey Epstein. The revelations prompted lawmakers to urge companies and institutions to cut ties with Summers, who stepped down from his position as Harvard president in 2006. On Tuesday, Charlie Stadtlander, the New York Times’ executive director for media relations and communications, said: “Lawrence Summers was a contributing writer for New York Times Opinion on a one-year contract beginning in January 2025. The files showed that Summers maintained a years-long relationship with Epstein. In a email to Epstein on 16 March 2019, Summers discussed interactions he had with a woman, writing: “I said what are you up to.

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Sheinbaum again dismisses Trump’s threat of sending troops to Mexico: ‘We do not want intervention’
NEWS | 19 November 2025
“Would I want strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? OK with me, whatever we have to do to stop drugs,” Trump said on Monday, adding that he’s “not happy with Mexico” and that the US government has drug corridors from Mexico “under major surveillance”. “We are not going to ask for it because we do not want intervention from any foreign government,” she said. Earlier this month, she denied reports that Washington planned to send troops into Mexico, noting that she had repeatedly rejected such offers from Trump. “I have great respect for the president, a woman that I think is a tremendous woman,” Trump said of Sheinbaum in October.

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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
NEWS | 19 November 2025
“I’d never experienced antisemitism growing up, so the first time that this vicious verbal abuse came out of Farage’s mouth was deeply shocking. Walking from the upper school, via the middle school, past different amenities, through a gap into the lower school playground, right? I mean, he will never be forgotten.”View image in fullscreen Dulwich college, where there was disagreement about whether Farage should be made a prefect. Crick had obtained a letter from an English teacher at Dulwich college, Chloe Deakin. I saw considerable potential in this chap and I was proved right.”The Rev Neil Fairlamb, a teacher for 21 years at Dulwich college, agrees.

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More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out
NEWS | 19 November 2025
More than 80 countries have joined a call for a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels, in a dramatic intervention into stuck negotiations at the UN Cop30 climate summit. This was a strong signal coming from global south and global north countries on the need to phase out fossil fuels. This year, the Brazilian hosts refused to put any mention of the “transition away from fossil fuels” on to the official agenda for the conference. They believe there can be no response to the NDCs and no hope of maintaining the 1.5C goal without ending dependency on fossil fuels. Brazil’s government has internal conflicts over the transition away from fossil fuels, the Guardian understands.

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More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds
NEWS | 19 November 2025
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. “More than 300 agribusiness lobbyists occupy the space at Cop30 that should belong to the forest peoples. JBS, the world’s largest meat company which alone accounts for a quarter (24%) of the emissions, has eight lobbyists at Cop30 including its CEO, Gilberto Tomazoni. “These food lobbyists are purchasing access and legitimacy through politicians willing to accept their checks while the planet burns, added Patel, research professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. The Brazilian Cop30 presidency and UNFCCC also did not respond to requests for comment.

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Meta wins major US antitrust case and won’t have to break off WhatsApp or Instagram
NEWS | 19 November 2025
Meta defeated a major challenge to its business on Tuesday when a US judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking. The tech giant bought WhatsApp for $19bn in 2014. The US district judge James Boasberg issued his ruling on Tuesday after the historic antitrust trial wrapped up in late May. Boasberg also chided the FTC, which brought the case against the tech giant, for failing to account for the YouTube video platform as meaningful competition. “Whether or not Meta enjoyed monopoly power in the past, though, the agency must show that it continues to hold such power now.

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UN plan just ‘first step’ toward peace in Gaza, says Palestinian foreign minister
NEWS | 19 November 2025
The Palestinian foreign minister has described the UN security council resolution endorsing Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza as a necessary first step on a long road towards peace, even as Hamas rejected it as a form of international guardianship with which it will not cooperate. Membership of the board of peace, the body that is to oversee the ISF and a Palestinian civilian police force also remains unknown. Many Palestinians are unhappy that the UN resolution only set out the most conditional path to a Palestinian state that brings together Gaza and the West Bank. But Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, the Palestinian foreign minister, said: “The UN resolution is the first step in a long road towards peace. The security council text gives a role to the Palestinian police and to the ISF in the process of disarmament.