Columnist apologizes after awkward interaction with Caitlin Clark
Botched executions
Black death row inmates suffer at twice rate of whites in US
PEN America
Writers withdraw from literary awards in support of Gaza
Environment
US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights
Mike Gallagher
House Republican cites threats and swatting of family as reasons for quitting
Google
Company fires 28 staff after protest against contract with Israeli government
T-Mobile
US man returns home from Europe to $143,000 bill for using phone overseas
Frank Sinatra biopic
Martin Scorsese to revive film with Leonardo DiCaprio
In focus
Death by Diabetes
She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?
Are your kids being spied on?
The rise of anti-cheating software in US schools
Remote proctoring tools have faced pushback at colleges over privacy and discrimination concerns, but their use in K-12 schools has attracted less scrutiny
Explainer
What is the US speaker’s plan for Ukraine and Israel, and will it pass Congress?
House speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled his plans to pass foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, with a vote likely on Saturday
Spotlight
Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’?
How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience
Therapist Lindsay Gibson’s 2015 book has sold over a million copies and its message has soared on social media. What does it mean?
A US Premier League game would be wildly popular – and demean everyone
Aaron Timms
Attention home cooks
How to store half a lemon – and 17 other ways to keep leftover food fresh
What should you do with opened tins, cut avocados and egg yolks that weren’t required in your recipe? Chefs and food experts tell all
‘I’m practicing photographic justice’
Corky Lee’s portraits of Asian American life
A new documentary looks back on the life and career of a photographer who documented an overlooked community
Kimmel hits back at Trump
‘The only person still talking about this joke is him’
Leading questions
My close friend is a therapist but all she does is complain. Should I exit this relationship?
Shock of the old
11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders
A life without my dogs seems imponderable. Yet we do keep going after losing the animals we adore
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
We can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years
Influenced by Korn and moving beyond their native Ireland, the band are ready to be one of the biggest in the world. They explain how panic attacks and parenthood came to bear on a bold new LP
‘Like a stray Bee Gee!’
Does Andrew Scott’s Ripley have the worst wig in TV history?
‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples ...’
Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more
Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine
Her 20 best films – ranked!
‘David Lynch had to personally approve the screening’
The film clubs driving the celluloid revival
The Movie Critic
Quentin Tarantino scraps plans for his final film – reports
It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time
Steve, 65, and Lisa, 67, met in the mid-90s on an early online messaging system while on opposite sides of the Atlantic. They now live together near Cambridge
Happy eater
Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie
Jay Rayner
Dining across the divide
‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’
'There’s so much tension it’s like a romantic comedy’
My first time at an archery class
Science
Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds
The longevity vacation
Why bar-hopping holidays are out and extreme wellness breaks are in
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From our global editions
Love nest
How a musk lorikeet fell for a red-tailed black cockatoo
‘We can’t hunt or fish’
The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
TikTok Notes
What is this app that aims to rival Instagram and how does it work?
The disinformation hurricane surrounding the Sydney stabbing marks the end of Twitter as a breaking news destination
Van Badham
In case you missed it
War, grief and hope
The stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners
‘People are begging us to feed their children'
Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help
With no centralised relief effort in Egypt, Palestinians are relying on grassroots charities for food, rent and clothing
Goodbye cod, hello herring
Why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet
In the first of a new series, we look at why people reject so much of the bountiful catches from our seas in favour of the same few species, mostly imported – and how to change that
From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker
Are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?
Low-carb diets work
Why does the American Diabetes Association push insulin instead?
Arizona reinstated a near-total ban on abortions
Providers are surprisingly optimistic
‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’
The inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history
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Oriol Maspons’s humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era
Photos of the day
Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers
‘Women are not usually seen to be resting’
Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of repose
Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra
Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph
All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
A wild ride through Hong Kong
‘We’d wait all day for a train’
America by rail
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