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White House security failure prompts calls for resignations

Democratic national committee chair Ken Martin calls on defense secretary to resign; House speaker Mike Johnson signals support for Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz

Bernie Sanders
‘The Democratic party has no grassroots’: Bernie Sanders on how to fight the Trump blitzkrieg

Middle East crisis live
Five killed by Israeli shelling in southern Syria, officials say; US appears to confirm fresh Yemen strikes

Columbia University
Columbia student protester sues Trump administration for trying to deport her

Environment
US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

Trump presidency

Science
The European universities giving ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

Art
‘This is injustice’: inside Trump’s attack on funding for LGBTQ+ arts

US
US postmaster general resigns with immediate effect

Trump news at a glance
Anger as White House texts secret Yemen war plans to journalist

Black Panthers

The long read
What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther cubs know

The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride and burning lessons for today

Spotlight

Writing
‘Something to believe in, even if it’s deeply silly’: why 15,000 people signed up to a letter-writing project

In a new book Rachel Syme extols the simple pleasure of connecting with friends and strangers through the mail

The White Lotus
‘Uncomfortable to watch with my family’: how the show broke the ultimate taboo

Cosmetic surgery
The sudden, surprising rise of beard transplants: ‘This industry is a wild west’

Technology
Opt out: what to do with your 23andMe account after company filed bankruptcy

Environment
From foul to fuel: how a seaweed problem could power the Caribbean

Environment
I’m a vet for bees – I think I might be the only one in the US

Opinion

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?

Rashid Khalidi

The North Dakota ruling against Greenpeace is a threat to free speech

Sushma Raman and Anthony Romero

Sports

NBA
The supposedly too old Warriors are setting up a title challenge

JuJu Watkins
USC star in tears as apparent torn ACL ends her NCAA Tournament

Culture

Film
Rita review – sensitive portrait of domestic abuse seen through the eyes of a child

Rita review – sensitive portrait of domestic abuse seen through the eyes of a child

Books
Novelist Anne Enright wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize

In case you missed it

Childcare
Here’s how much I pay for childcare – and what I’d do instead if it were free

Parents explain the financial burden childcare places on them and how it hampers their families’ futures

Mexico
Secret ovens and human remains: grisly Mexico killing site spotlights forced disappearances

Unequal beginnings
How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?

US
‘The goal is to disassemble public health’: experts warn against US turn to vaccine skepticism

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