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Under new rules, guests will no longer have to do tasks that cleaners would normally handle. Hosts can now only make "reasonable" requests, such as leaving dirty dishes in the sink and sorting trash from recycling.
Under new rules, guests will no longer have to do tasks that cleaners would normally handle. Hosts can now only make "reasonable" requests, such as leaving dirty dishes in the sink and sorting trash from recycling.
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<p>Will Donald Trump accept a ‘blue wave’ if it happens? Have young people turned away from centrist politics for ever? Will the US ever recover its image on the world stage? Jonathan Freedland is joined by the Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan to answer these questions and more</p><p>Buy your tickets to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events/2026/sep/23/us-midterms-trump-war-and-americas-future">the Guardian’s post-midterms live event</a>, hosted by Jonathan Freedland</p><p>Watch Jonathan Freedland on our new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@politicsweekly">Politics Weekly YouTube channel</a></p><p>Send your questions and feedback to <a href="mailto:podcasts@theguardian.com">politicsweeklyamerica@theguardian.com</a></p><p>Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aucsOM6X89U">Stateside’s episode</a> on attacks on voter rights in the US</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2026/oct/23/us-midterm-elections-donald-trump-your-questions-answered-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Economic fallout from war in Middle East adds to pressures on consumers and on chancellor before budget</p><p>Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen at the fastest rate outside the Covid pandemic since the 2016 Brexit vote as the escalating economic damage from the war in the Middle East hits Britain.</p><p>With less than a week before John Healey’s first budget, the latest barometer from the data company GfK indicated confidence plunged by 11 percentage points in October to -24 amid pressure on consumers from the rising cost of living.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/23/uk-consumer-confidence-falls-fastest-since-covid-cost-of-living">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Alois uses the first veto of his reign to quash parliament-approved bill backed by a national petition</p><p>The hereditary prince of Liechtenstein has used his veto for the first time in his reign to quash a bill aimed at bringing abortion laws in line with much of Europe.</p><p>The legislation was approved by Liechtenstein’s parliament <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dwedep38po">last month</a> after the presentation of a citizens’ initiative <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/liechtenstein-abortion-law-modernised-prince-alois">signed by roughly</a> a quarter of the nation’s voters.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/liechtenstein-princes-surreal-abortion-veto-dismays-campaigners">Continue reading...</a>
<p>People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll</p><p>Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/heat-related-urban-mortality-attributable-to-human-induced-climate-change-in-europe-in-summer-2026.php">research</a> suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths.</p><p>Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas, the researchers found. Hot days pushed vulnerable bodies into overdrive and warm nights prevented them from recovering.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/23/heat-killed-staggering-50000-people-european-cities-this-summer-experts">Continue reading...</a>