Electric and hybrid sales to rise to new global record in 2024
California
Prosecutors excluded Jewish and Black jurors, records suggest
Nancy Gonzalez
Designer sentenced to prison for smuggling crocodile and python handbags
Biden administration
US sues to block Tapestry-Capri $8.5bn merger, citing monopoly concerns
San Francisco
Relief as public toilet finally opens – and not for $1.7m after all
Tanzania
World Bank suspends tourism funding after claims of killings and evictions
Taiwan
Joy and presidential praise as Nymphia Wind wins RuPaul’s Drag Race
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Liz Truss
Trump fangirl channels Maga menace at US conservative thinktank
Technology
Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?
As one of the largest ‘training’ datasets has been found to contain child sexual abuse material, can bans on creating such imagery be feasible?
Visual explainer
Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank
International attention is on Gaza – but attacks by Israelis who live on Palestinian land have been increasing
Spotlight
The long read
Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?
In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence?
‘Rude not to offer three cups’
The lengthy, beloved coffee rituals binding Ethiopians together
‘Preplan your outfits like meals’
A screen stylist’s tips for looking perpetually polished
From alterations on the fly to banishing stains, costume designer and stylist Ntombi Moyo shares her professional hacks for always looking fresh
The Black Tax
Why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long?
In a new book, historian Andrew W Kahrl looks at the many systemic ways that prejudicial and harmful practices have affected financial stability
Well actually
Muting people on social media is fast and free and will change your life
Hilarious, defiant and unabashedly weird
Conan O’Brien hasn’t lost an iota of his underdog brilliance
‘We still haven’t cracked it!’
How much does a play change during previews?
Quick and easy
Kitty Coles’ recipe for cheese and corn quesadillas
Annina van Neel's life is forever changed after encountering a vast burial ground - one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world
Wilson’s messy Jets career to end with reported trade to Broncos
The New York Jets are reportedly trading former first-round pick Zach Wilson to Denver, ending a career with the team that ranged from satisfactory to disastrous
Erik ten Hag at Manchester United
Should he stay or should he go?
Jamie Jackson
'Diligently investigated'
Wada defends actions over Chinese swimmers’ doping allegations
The World Anti-Doping Agency has insisted it would ‘not do anything different’ in its handling of doping allegations against 23 Chinese swimmers
Serie A
Inter seal historic 20th title with derby victory over Milan
Goals from Acerbi and Thuram sealed a 20th Serie A title for Internazionale in a feisty derby clash at San Siro
Emma Raducanu
Briton in good state for Madrid as she finds her feet on clay
Exclusive
McIlroy set to make a surprise return to PGA Tour board
Formula One
McLaren can ‘reach Red Bull’ within 12 months, insists Stella
Gukesh Dommaraju
Teenager becomes youngest challenger for world chess title
Brutus the schnauzer, who arrived with my ex and hung around for far longer
I wasn’t a dog person until he came along, attached to a new boyfriend. But by the time the relationship ended, I couldn’t bear to be parted from this bearded tornado of black fur
It’s hot in the desert
Where next for festival fashion after Coachella?
A new start after 60
I gave up teaching, started doodling – and became a cartoonist
Travel
Autism makes travel a challenge. Here’s how I learned to cope
A kitchen in Rome
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for new potatoes, eggs, asparagus and green sauce
Nigel Slater’s one-pot dinners
Salmon pie, pork in cider, fig tart
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Ex-Uffizi chief vows to save Florence if elected mayor
Portugal
Far right’s rise could threaten ambitious climate action
Analysis
Israel still has no proof of Unrwa terrorist claims – but damage to aid agency is done
‘People like Connor are still left to die in squalor’
The truth, joy and tragedy behind Laughing Boy
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‘It’s very personal’
Could Abdullah Hammoud, a Michigan mayor, hold the key to the 2024 elections?
The mayor of Dearborn leads a community that registered unprecedented numbers of ‘uncommitted’ votes in the primary
‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’
Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage
An open marriage, dating sites, sex with strangers – now the writer’s fearsomely frank and funny memoir about the joys of polyamory has become an instant bestseller
Explainer
How might new US aid change the war in Ukraine?
Anti-abortion states are targeting an emergency healthcare law
Will the supreme court side with them?
Obituary
Daniel Dennett, philosopher who investigated science of the mind
My insomnia hell
Sleeplessness is a curse – but I think I finally have the answer
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