2025.12.27
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lsandersonBari Weiss defends decision to pull 60 Minutes episode on El Salvador prison
CBS News editor-in-chief argues in memo that network’s priority was ‘comprehensive and fair’ coverage
Lauren Gambino
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/bari-weiss-60-minutes-el-salvador-prison
Republican behind Epstein files act responds to Trump ‘lowlife’ taunt
Kentucky’s Thomas Massie used the president’s insult to raise funds to run against a Trump-endorsed candidate
Ramon Antonio Vargas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/27/kentucky-republican-thomas-massie-trump-epstein-files
FBI to move out of brutalist J Edgar Hoover building in Washington DC
Iconic building, called ‘greatest monstrosity ever constructed’ by Hoover himself, to be closed down
Guardian staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/27/fbi-j-edgar-hoover-building
Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing
David Smith in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/27/trump-republicans-midterm-elections-approval-rating
No gels, no foams: Catalonia turns to grannies to teach traditional cooking
Region famed for molecular gastronomy begins video project to collect and share rustic recipes
Stephen Burgen in Santa Margarida i els Monjos
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/27/grannies-catalan-chefs-preserving-traditional-cuisine
Which Gascon brandy is France’s oldest? The Saturday quiz
From Benefits Supervisor Sleeping and Hideous Kinky to the “modern Prometheus”, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz (Not automagical)
Thomas Eaton
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/27/which-gascon-brandy-is-frances-oldest-the-saturday-quiz
The week around the world in 20 pictures
Christmas in Kyiv, destruction in the West Bank, the funeral of Mani and the winter solstice at Stonehenge: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Jim Powell
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/dec/26/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures
CBS News editor-in-chief argues in memo that network’s priority was ‘comprehensive and fair’ coverage
Lauren Gambino
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/bari-weiss-60-minutes-el-salvador-prison
Republican behind Epstein files act responds to Trump ‘lowlife’ taunt
Kentucky’s Thomas Massie used the president’s insult to raise funds to run against a Trump-endorsed candidate
Ramon Antonio Vargas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/27/kentucky-republican-thomas-massie-trump-epstein-files
FBI to move out of brutalist J Edgar Hoover building in Washington DC
Iconic building, called ‘greatest monstrosity ever constructed’ by Hoover himself, to be closed down
Guardian staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/27/fbi-j-edgar-hoover-building
Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing
David Smith in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/27/trump-republicans-midterm-elections-approval-rating
No gels, no foams: Catalonia turns to grannies to teach traditional cooking
Region famed for molecular gastronomy begins video project to collect and share rustic recipes
Stephen Burgen in Santa Margarida i els Monjos
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/27/grannies-catalan-chefs-preserving-traditional-cuisine
Which Gascon brandy is France’s oldest? The Saturday quiz
From Benefits Supervisor Sleeping and Hideous Kinky to the “modern Prometheus”, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz (Not automagical)
Thomas Eaton
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/27/which-gascon-brandy-is-frances-oldest-the-saturday-quiz
The week around the world in 20 pictures
Christmas in Kyiv, destruction in the West Bank, the funeral of Mani and the winter solstice at Stonehenge: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Jim Powell
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/dec/26/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures
