Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
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How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
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EU countries must mutually recognise same-sex marriages, European Court of Justice rules
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As the war in Ukraine rages on, many Finns are getting reacquainted with the country's remarkable network of väestönsuoja, or civil defense shelters
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As US-based company Lyten prepares to restart battery production, Northvolt's downfall has cast a chill over Sweden's ambitions to reindustrialize around clean technology
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Donald Trump pushing Paramount to make Rush Hour 4
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Russians confront wartime internet cuts with public shrug, private fury
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Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
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Keira is one of many Greenlandic families living on the Danish mainland who are fighting to get their children returned to them after they were removed by social services
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Denmark's climate minister, Lars Aagaard, announced that his government would submit a binding target to cut emissions by 82% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels
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US Federal Communications Commission chairman reposts Donald Trump's call for NBC to fire Seth Meyers
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New York City Council pushes to legalize bodega cats, giving them ‘purr-fect’ legal status
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Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean?
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Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
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Denmark's drive to conscript teenage girls – as the threat from Russia increases, it is no longer only young men who are being called to serve
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100 years of menus shows how food and diplomacy are linked
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How Norway jeopardised its integrity overnight – Oslo abruptly changed the ethics rules for the world's largest sovereign wealth fund
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Britain gives go-ahead to smaller nuclear reactor in Wales
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US Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to revisit same-sex marriage ruling
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Libertarianism is dead
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Swedish parliament votes to allow uranium mining – now classed as a concession mineral, especially useful for society
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How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
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CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins reviews news scenes in movies and TV
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How nuclear power ambitions aim to wean Finland off Russian energy – nuclear share in electricity production went from 28% in 2022 to 39% in 2025
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Denmark is facing one of the largest legal bills in English legal history, running into hundreds of millions of pounds, after the country lost a high-stakes tax fraud case in London
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Iceland's glaciers and the disappearance of a frozen world – ‘last chance tourism’ brings economic benefits but puts pressure on local communities in an increasingly fragile landscape
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Danish government has reached an agreement to implement a minimum age requirement of fifteen years old on certain social media platforms
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EU country grouping cleared to build sovereign digital infrastructure
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US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown
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The cost of borrowing divides rich towns from poor ones
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Pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability in Sweden
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Denmark eyes new law to protect citizens from AI deepfakes – if enacted, Danes would get the copyright over their own likeness
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Anthropic to bring its AI to hundreds of teachers in Iceland with pilot scheme – aim of helping them with lesson planning, classroom materials, and administrative work
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Donald Trump AI advisor David Sacks says ‘no federal bailout for AI’ after OpenAI CFO’s suggestion of US federal government backstop
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As the US and the West races to break China's stranglehold over rare earths production, some firms are betting that Greenland will become a new mining frontier
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Inside David Ellison’s dramatic first 100 days at Paramount: courting Tom Cruise blockbusters, forging ties with Donald Trump and daring anyone else to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
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Why Disney ditched ‘Doctor Who’
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Could invisible fences be the future of livestock farming – Sweden and Denmark will soon legalise virtual fencing. What is it and is it safe?
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The Icelandic women's strike fifty years on – despite closing the gender pay gap by 90%, the nation is ‘still no paradise’ for women, say campaigners
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European Court of Human Rights has cleared Norway of violating its citizens' constitutional rights in a case dating back to the award of oil and gas exploration licences in 2016
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Josef Průša awarded Medal for Merit by president of Czech Republic
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Hamlet rages in Stockholm against political closure of a cultural institution – government funding freezes have resulted in a real terms decrease of £4M per year since 2017 for theatre Dramaten
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In the early 1990s, Sweden faced one of the worst economic crises in its modern history – the lessons for other countries, especially France, deep in its own budget crisis, are simple, if not easy
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Europe's animal welfare overhaul is on life support – Denmark's farm minister thinks he can still revive it, one compromise at a time
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How industrial slaughter became the blueprint for modern capitalism
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South Korea officially recognises same-sex couples in national census
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund set to undergo review as heightened geopolitical tensions lay bare the challenges of weighing national interest and ethics in steering the massive investor
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Ireland makes a program offering basic income for artists permanent
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Planned film festival dedicated to new Jewish films has been cancelled in Malmö after organisers said they were unable to secure a venue following safety concerns
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Spit on, sworn at, and undeterred: what it’s like to own a Cybertruck
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