Marvel actor Chris Pratt draws ire for demolishing architecturally significant 1950 LA home
US-China tensions
Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations
US elections
Melania Trump to hit campaign trail for husband after early absence
Epidemics
Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn
Fisa
US Senate votes to renew surveillance program
Unions
UAW secures historic election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant
Chess
Nigerian chess champion breaks record after playing nonstop for 58 hours
USC
University cancels Jon M Chu keynote speech in wake of valedictorian controversy
In focus
The fight for democracy
Women run 80% of US elections – but are targets of misogyny-laced threats
‘Media firestorm’
Israel protest at professor’s home sparks heated free-speech debate
Pro-Palestinian students interrupted a dinner held by a top free speech defender at Berkeley. A polarized and very public controversy has followed
‘ICU on wheels’
24 hours with Ukraine’s combat medics in Donbas
Moas staff evacuate 80% of critically wounded soldiers from region’s battlefield, where medics say morale is falling
Spotlight
‘I Gullah Geechee, too’
The educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive
Sunn m’Cheaux and Akua Page teach Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard
Daring, audacious – but who did it?
LA $30m cash heist has it all except clues
This is how we do it
‘I’ve had more sex in the past two years than in the rest of my life’
Violet and Oliver met in their 70s – and are both revelling in their uninhibited, experimental sex life
The inside story of an open marriage
My husband is my co-parent, friend and lover – but he isn’t the only person I have sex with
I used to think open relationships were a recipe for heartbreak – or just a bit tacky. Then we began to experiment. Could seeing other people be the secret to a happy home life?
A whole lotta love gone bad
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review
What even is mulch?
27 of the most basic gardening questions answered
Literary love affair
Why Germany fell for a windswept corner of Ireland
Experts on gen Z’s ageing fixation
‘Kardashian children are sharing skincare routines’
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
The debonair duo have remixed U2 and Britney, and angered Kanye West. Still on each other’s wavelengths after almost a decade away, they’re resuming their quest to make ‘the most dramatic music possible’
Artificial intelligence
Where do we draw the line on using AI in TV and film?
Stage
Stereophonic review – dazzling 70s-set music saga is a Broadway triumph
Film
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel in works with original cast, director confirms
‘Why the silence? Why the inaction? It breaks my heart’
Malala and Jennifer Lawrence take on the Taliban
Shakespeare
Questions over authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims