From the rousing leader dismissed for leading a walkout to the activists handing out free burgers, pizza and weed, an inspiring new documentary charts the long, hard fight to create the delivery giant’s first union

As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House in January, US trades unions are among the many constituencies bracing themselves for impact. Cheered on by Elon Musk, Trump is expected to gut public regulators – including the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which enforces unions’ right to organise in America’s workplaces. Musk, who rejects unions as creating “a lords-and-peasants sort of thing”, had already joined a legal claim , alongside Amazon founder and fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos, arguing the NLRB is “unconstitutional” and should be scrapped.

It is against this bleak outlook for US labour activists that a new documentary, Union , opens in the UK this week. It follows the David and Goliath battle of a ragtag group of workers at Amazon’s huge JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, to create a union from scratch, and force Bezos’s retailing giant to the negotiating table.

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Settlers have been dreaming of a return to Gaza for nearly 20 years – and Trump’s presidency may only embolden them

Last week, Brig Gen Itzik Cohen, a senior IDF officer, quietly admitted what the international community has long been reluctant to acknowledge: that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, and deceiving the world about its true objectives in the besieged territory. He made the admission during a closed briefing to Israeli journalists last Tuesday regarding the army’s activities in the north of the strip. Israel’s forces, he boasted , were getting closer to the “complete evacuation” of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya – Gaza’s three northernmost cities, which have been under intense Israeli bombardment since early October. “There is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes,” Cohen continued , before adding that his “clear orders” were to “create a cleansed space”.

The army hastened to distance itself from Cohen’s comments after they garnered the attention of the international media: what may have sounded like war crimes, a spokesperson clarified, was merely a remark taken out of context. Yet what we see playing out on the ground in northern Gaza is exactly as Cohen described it: tens of thousands of civilians forced out of homes, shelters and hospitals , day after day, by airstrikes, artillery fire, quadcopter drones or armed battalions arriving at their door – who make sure to demolish or burn whatever is left behind.

Ben Reiff is a senior editor at +972 magazine

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Environmental Protection Agency rule seeks to curb ‘super pollutant’ more potent than carbon dioxide in short term

Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration .

The Environmental Protection Agency rule follows through on a directive from Congress included in the 2022 climate law. The new fee is intended to encourage industry to adopt best practices that reduce emissions of methane – the primary component of natural gas – and thereby avoid paying.

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Counter-terrorism police chief says 250 officers were sent to Salisbury to investigate poisoning of former Russian spy

A counter terrorism police chief has described how hundreds of investigators and scientists painstakingly worked to trace “ground zero” – the spot where the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent.

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met police’s counter terrorism command, told an inquiry into the novichok poisonings that a restaurant, pub and a car were suspected before the door handle of his home was pinpointed as the source of the poisoning almost two weeks after the Skripals fell ill.

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Her splashbacked, single-surfaced, cubbyholed, foldaway paradise revolutionised kitchen design. But Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky came to regret her world-conquering creation

On the sixth floor of a quiet residential street in central Vienna, a tiny kitchen offers a masterclass in stylish functionalism. Every inch has been designed for efficiency, yet the first impression is one of warmth and comfort. The kitchen’s deep orange splashback and the dark green cabinets with red interiors are all bathed in natural light, with sweeping views of the city rooftops beyond.

This is the work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , the architect, activist and resistance fighter who in 1926 designed the Frankfurt Kitchen – the prototype for the modern fitted version now standard in the west. It introduced many features we now take for granted: continuous countertops, built-in cabinets and drawers optimised for storage, a tiled splashback – all designed as a complementary whole.

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Faye Carruthers , Tom Garry , Marva Kreel and Chris Slegg to discuss the WSL games and look forward to the Women’s Nations League

On today’s pod, the panel asks if Arsenal are back as Renée Slegers’ side put on a five-star display to brush past Brighton and Hove Albion. How much did Arsenal need a performance like this?

The panel also questions whether Mark Skinner was unfairly booed after his side, Manchester United, remained undefeated in the WSL after a 0-0 draw with Aston Villa. Meanwhile, Manchester City had an emphatic win, with Bunny Shaw another record. The panel evaluated who is the least safe at the bottom of the WSL as West Ham got their first win of the season and Everton hit rock bottom.

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Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case where he was convicted on 34 felony counts

The judge in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal hush-money case has postponed deciding on whether to throw out the president-elect’s conviction on presidential immunity grounds.

The postponement followed numerous successful attempts to delay his case. Earlier this year, he was convicted on 34 felony counts falsifying business records in a scheme to influence the 2016 election.

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Police say 34-year-old man held on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place

A man has been arrested after reports of someone carrying knives outside the Houses of Parliament.

The Metropolitan police said officers were called at 2.01pm to reports of a man in possession of knives outside parliament.

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Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head Air Pollution Foundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests

Major oil companies, including Shell and precursors to energy giants Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP, were alerted about the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents show.

The warning , from the head of an industry-created group known as the Air Pollution Foundation, was revealed by Climate Investigations Center and published Tuesday by the climate website DeSmog. It represents what may be the earliest instance of big oil being informed of the potentially dire consequences of its products.

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