Columnist apologizes after awkward interaction with Caitlin Clark
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 quitting
Maine
Legislature passes sweeping gun safety laws in all-night session
Google
Company fires 28 staff after protest against contract with Israeli government
Russia
Husband of jailed blogger signs up for Ukraine war to secure her release
Kanye West
Artist suspected of attacking man who allegedly sexually assaulted his wife
T-Mobile
US man returns home from Europe to $143,000 bill for using phone overseas
In focus
Can you wash pesticides off?
A guide to eating fewer toxic chemicals
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
‘Really important to learn from what happened’
How the US failed people in prisons during Covid
Data reveals at peak of pandemic in 2020, people in prisons died almost three and a half times more frequently than those outside
Spotlight
Death by Diabetes
She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?
Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor
Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’?
How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience
Ranked
Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films
Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles
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
‘The house was small, the life was big’
How Amy Winehouse’s homes were recreated for Back to Black
War, grief and hope
The stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners
Partying with an 8ft pink panther
Ibiza in the 70s and 80s
‘Like a stray Bee Gee!’
Does Andrew Scott’s Ripley have the worst wig in TV history?
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
‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples ...’
Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more
The Latin music legend – back, at 66, with her first salsa album – answers your questions on her star collaborations, screen chemistry, and what she and Stevie Wonder still can’t agree on
‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’
Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer
Music in Time of War: Debussy and Komitas album review
Fascinating collection of composer’s final works
‘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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People in the US
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Film
Post your questions for Bryce Dallas Howard
Parents in the US
Are you happy with your child’s school lunch?
Wedding photography
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From our global editions
2024: Year of elections
Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained
‘We can’t hunt or fish’
The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
The disinformation hurricane surrounding the Sydney stabbing marks the end of Twitter as a breaking news destination
Van Badham
TikTok Notes
What is this app that aims to rival Instagram and how does it work?
In case you missed it
‘People are begging us to feed their children'
Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help
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?
When I heard that a boy from my primary school had been convicted of trafficking, I had to find out what had happened to make him fall so far
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
A moment that changed me
I was paralysed on a climb. Then I made the 100-mile journey back to myself
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