Wednesday
16
November
2016
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Transition team in disarray after key adviser 'purged'National security adviser Mike Rogers leaves in ‘Stalinesque purge’ as talks at Trump Tower continue amid uncertainty over role of president-elect’s children
headlines
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Airstrikes continue in rebel-held eastAmbulance driver and at least two children among the dead after a night of attacks on rebel-held sections of Syrian city
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Operator goes to court after government delays constructionEnergy Transfer Partners accused the Obama administration of being motivated purely by politics and said it would pursue rights to build controversial oil line
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British second world war ships in Java Sea destroyed by illegal scavengingExclusive: 3D mapping report of sea off Indonesia, seen by the Guardian, shows large holes in the seabed where ships used to be
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Mose Allison, influential jazz and blues musician, dies aged 89Pianist and singer who blended Delta blues influences with a country style dies of natural causes
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spotlight
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How Trump took middle AmericaThe Long Read: After a month in a midwestern town, writes Gary Younge in the last of his 10-part series, the story of this election is clear: when people feel the system is broken, they vote for whoever promises to smash it
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We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevailRising inequality is largely to blame for this electoral upset. Continuing with business as usual is not an option
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USA humiliated 4-0 by Costa Rica as pressure builds on KlinsmannHumiliating defeat in San Jose represents USA’s worst World Cup qualifying defeat since 1957 and leaves them bottom of the Hex after two games
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Jackson's 'posse' comment explain exactly why the Knicks are strugglingThe Knicks president wasn’t being racist with his comments about LeBron James but they showed a man badly out of touch with the modern NBA
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Four in five of you put perceived injustices and immediate gain ahead of a greater good more in line with Christianity’s teachingsFellow white evangelicals: your votes for Trump shook my faith
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Feminists misunderstood the presidential election from day oneBy banking on the idea that women would support Hillary Clinton just because she was a female candidate, the movement made a terrible mistake
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New York’s Trump Place to be renamedResidents at some of the Manhattan apartment buildings named after the US president-elect have successfully petitioned to change their address
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US architects furious after professional body vows to work with TrumpAIA chief executive apologises for saying members were committed to working with president-elect
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Indigenous disadvantage getting worse in mental health and incarcerationDespite efforts to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, Productivity Commission says some areas are getting worse
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Judge hints legal hitch could delay triggering article 50Lady Hale raises possibility of PM having to replace 1972 act before triggering article 50, incurring wrath of anti-EU Tories
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explore
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Everything to know about Breitbart NewsStephen Bannon, newly appointed chief strategist in the Trump administration, spent four years as executive chairman of Breitbart, a ‘platform for the alt-right’
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A misunderstood ethical art form or the next hipster fad?A new breed of taxidermists are rebooting the practice with classes and books that show you how. But can the act of stuffing a dead animal ever be ethical?
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Canadians fight pipeline that threatens killer whales on the brinkConservationists say the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion project poses the greatest risk yet to a killer whale population on the edge of extinction
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Nocturnal Animals caps off Hollywood's year of toxic masculinityTom Ford’s vicious thriller, box office hit The Girl on the Train and Paul Verhoeven’s Elle align with 2016’s rise of misogyny and sexual aggression
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Ivanka Trump and the art of co-opting feminismFor some women on the right, Ivanka has been more than a symbol of conservative femininity – she was permission to vote for a monster
in pictures
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Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize 2016Won this year by Claudio Rasano, the Taylor Wessing prize highlights the year’s best portrait photography. Here is his winning entry, alongside other highlights from the prize exhibition
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Athens protests and a clever cockatooThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including a Goffin’s cockatoo and a demonstration in Greece
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Remembering Sydney's lost buildingsPhotographs from Demolished Sydney, a new exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
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Arcaid's architecture photograph of the year shortlistIn capturing vast skyscrapers, stadiums, museums and more, these prize-nominated pictures reflect the buildings’ ingenuity and strangeness
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SupermoonSkygazers are heading to high-rise buildings, ancient forts and beaches to witness the largest supermoon since 1948
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people
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Actor set to star in Minecraft filmThe actor, most recently seen in Café Society, is in talks to play the lead in Warner Bros’s adaptation of the hugely popular video game
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Val Kilmer: Michael Douglas apologised after throat cancer scareThe actor has posted on Facebook that Douglas is ‘a classy guy’ after he sent a note to say sorry for alleging Kilmer was ill with cancer
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Reboot in works after underwhelming Seth Rogen comedyThe crime-fighting character, originally debuted on 1930s radio, will be brought to the screen yet again from the Accountant director Gavin O’Connor
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No posers, no preppies – annual gala dress code goes 80sLast year, the American designer suggested guests arrive to his annual bash by horse – this year, he’s in the mood for Gloria von Thurn und Taxis and the Paradise Garage
the big picture
The US will no longer feel like a haven for Jews under Trump
Japan Shinzo Abe to be first foreign leader to meet Trump