MPs to vote on whether to hold inquiry into Starmer over Mandelson

Commons speaker to grant application by Tories for vote on investigation into whether PM misled MPs, say sources

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Keir Starmer will face a vote on whether to launch a standards investigation into his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.

The speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, has granted a debate on Tuesday on potentially referring the prime minister to the privileges committee over claims he misled the Commons, sources have told the Guardian.

Middle East crisis live: Iran ‘offers to end chokehold on strait of Hormuz’

Sources say country wants US to end its blockade as part of proposal but has not addressed its nuclear programme

Iran is proposing that shipping companies should pay charges for specific services when they cross the strait of Hormuz, in a move that would enable it to raise money from shipping traffic without presenting the payment as a toll.

Iran’s framing is designed to maximise political and legal support for the plan it is developing with Oman. Iran has made a solution to its demands an essential precondition to winding down the conflict, including an end to its effective blockade of the Strait and the counter-blockade of Iranian ports being mounted by the US Navy.

My beloved grandfather is dying. I’m so grateful for the intergenerational joy we’ve shared | Hannah Bambra

Pa is a cheeky and playful person. He taught me how to joke, negotiate, heckle. His warmth is his immeasurable wealth

My grandfather, who I have always called Pa, is dying. He grew up working class in the north of England and went on to have a spectacular career, life and family.

Many of my friends have inherited tens of thousands of dollars when their grandparents have passed, often tied up in big suburban houses. This is part of the new phenomenon of intergenerational wealth. Rather than the “bank of mum and dad”, the “bank of grandma and grandpa” is how many young couples are now getting into housing. But many of the same friends seldom saw their grandparents or felt they couldn’t fully be themselves in front of them. And the spectacle of inheritance feels meaningless alongside real connection.

Sabalenka overcomes Osaka in gripping battle to reach Madrid Open quarter-finals

• World No 1 under pressure before 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-2 victory

• Winner will face Hailey Baptiste in next round

World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka overcame Naomi Osaka 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-2 in a gripping battle on Monday to reach the Madrid Open quarter-finals.

Sabalenka, who has claimed titles at Miami, Indian Wells and Brisbane this year, was tested by her Japanese opponent in the fourth-round clash but came back from a set down and a break down to triumph.

‘I was super horny when I made my early work’: Loie Hollowell’s abstract paintings of breasts and vaginas

Equally inspired by childbirth manuals, Georgia O’Keeffe and her own hormones, pregnancy and motherhood, Hollowell paints beautiful anatomical abstractions. She opens up about her cosmic birth and out-of-body experience

‘It’s magical,” says Loie Hollowell. “It’s such good timing!” The artist, speaking via Zoom from her studio in Queens, New York, is referring to the Artemis II moon mission. Little did she know, when she named her latest painting series Overview Effect, after the term used by astronauts to describe the experience of seeing Earth from space and the profound feelings of awe and interconnectedness it provokes, that she’d be coinciding with this space odyssey. But she is not surprised anyone would want to leave Earth for a while. “We’re having so many problems here,” she says.

Overview Effect, currently at London’s Pace Gallery, features large-scale canvases combining twin concave and convex sculpted circles. If you folded the canvasses in half vertically, the halves would fit perfectly together. The works, which radiate outwards in rings of glorious colour that are both vibrant and soothing, are a continuation of earlier works focusing on pregnancy and birth through abstraction. Her Split Orb paintings and Dilation Stage series of pastel drawings responded to the difficult birth of her son in a New York hospital. Overview Effect is a result of her daughter’s easier arrival: a “cosmic” home birth that she found far more empowering.

United Airlines CEO confirms he approached American Airlines about merger

United CEO Scott Kirby said American rejected the idea, "and without a willing partner, something this big simply can't get done."

Suspect in Correspondents' dinner shooting to appear in federal court today

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Saturday night that Cole Allen will face at least two charges and predicted there will be more.

Correspondents' dinner shooting suspect due in court as investigation continues

Cole Allen, the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, will appear in federal court for the first time Monday.

New details emerge on shooting at White House Correspondents' Dinner

President Trump was safely evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Saturday night after shots were fired outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel.

Anthony Joshua to face Tyson Fury later this year for biggest fight in British boxing history

• ‘Signed, sealed, delivered,’ says promoter Eddie Hearn

• Joshua takes on Prenga in Riyadh warm-up in July

Anthony Joshua is to face Tyson Fury later this year after promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed a deal to stage the biggest fight in British boxing history has been signed.

Joshua will face Albanian heavyweight Kristian Prenga in Riyadh on 25 July as a warm-up for his long-awaited showdown with Fury, which is expected to take place in November and be shown on Netflix.

Mali’s militant attacks expose limits of Putin’s power in Africa

Russian backing for the ruling junta has not stopped rebel fighters striking significant blows in recent days

When Assimi Goïta, the leader of Mali’s military junta, sat down with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in the Kremlin last summer, it symbolised Moscow’s commanding sway over Mali at the expense of the west.

As the two men spoke, roughly 3,500 miles to the south, about 2,000 Russian troops were propping up the regime in the landlocked desert country, as part of Moscow’s broader push for influence across the Sahel region.

China blocks $2bn Meta takeover of AI agent developer Manus

Beijing says domestic tech companies must seek explicit government approval for accepting US investment

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China has blocked Meta’s $2bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of an AI startup as it cracks down on US investments in domestic tech companies.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced the acquisition of Manus, a developer of autonomous AI agents, in December.

The Primitives: ‘A reviewer said that Crash would finish the band. Then it was in Dumb and Dumber’

‘The label added ukulele and steel guitar without bothering to tell us. We couldn’t complain – it made the song a worldwide hit’

The Primitives formed in the summer of 1984 with a singer called Keiron, who brought me in to write songs. When he left, we pinned up an advert in Coventry library and Tracy, who I’d actually met before on a Youth Opportunity Programme, answered. At that point, we sounded more like the Birthday Party or the Gun Club, so I wrote three new songs – Through the Flowers, Across My Shoulder and Crash – to test a more pop direction. Crash was simple and noisy, with a basic guitar line that became the “Na na na” hook.

Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’

At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female writers like Helen Garner

“I don’t know when I read men any more”, the writer Zadie Smith told a literary festival audience on Sunday.

“It does happen sometimes, but it’s completely flipped compared to the reading I did when I was young,” she continued.

MAHA at odds with Trump over Supreme Court's glyphosate case, farm bill

Supreme Court arguments Monday and the farm bill put MAHA squarely at odds with President Donald Trump and the majority of Republicans in Congress.

California billionaire tax proposal garners enough signatures to head to ballot

Proposal for a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in the state is opposed by Silicon Valley tech titans and Gavin Newsom

Proponents of a proposal to levy a one-time tax on California billionaires say they’ve gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot in November.

The campaign says it has collected more than 1.5m signatures, according to a statement.

United Airlines CEO says he approached American Airlines about merger

Kirby argued that a merger would create jobs, offer more affordable flying options and allow the airline to compete with foreign carriers.

Doomjobbing: how the modern job hunt became a vicious loop

The search for work has become crushing for many, scrolling through limitless unsuitable job ads. Is there a way out of this cycle?

Name: Doomjobbing.

Age: Old, but increasing in frequency.

The ‘wizards’ behind the online version of Magic: the Gathering are unionizing

Developers at the studio Wizards of the Coast cited AI and layoff protections as some issues driving unionization effort

Magic: the Gathering is casting lots for a union. Game developers at the popular digital and tabletop studio Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro that develops online versions of the popular card game and Dungeons & Dragons, are seeking to join the Communications Workers of America.

The workers announced their intent to unionize Monday to join the CWA, which has organized thousands of workers in the tech and video game industry in recent years, including the largest certified union in the US video game industry in 2024 representing 600 quality assurance workers at Activision.

The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper

Jackman plays the farmer in this Babe-style feelgood family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder

Here is a murder mystery that’s like a cross between Babe and The Thursday Murder Club, in which instead of plucky underdog retirees solving crimes, it’s … sheep? With a touch of Watership Down somewhere in the mix, this film, for some, may be off-putting. Actually, it makes for a sweet-natured family comedy, and a spiky and amusing cameo from Emma Thompson certainly doesn’t hurt.

Screenwriter Craig Mazin has adapted the bestselling book Three Bags Full by German crime author Leonie Swann, and the Despicable Me veteran Kyle Balda directs, shepherding a boisterous herd of live-action stars and digitally created woolly performers. The setting is the English village of Denbrook, swathed in what looks like digitally enhanced Californian sunshine, where Hugh Jackman plays George Hardy, a shepherd who lives in an American-looking stainless steel trailer on his field. George controls his flock without recourse to the traditional dog, but rather with his instinctive relationship with them all. And he is dedicated only to raising sheep for their wool, not their meat – which is not exactly the attitude of the local agribusiness types who have designs on his land.

‘I can run 1:58’: Sabastian Sawe sets new target after historic London Marathon win

• Berlin on agenda in September for new record holder

• Athlete wants more drugs testing to show ‘we are clean’

Sabastian Sawe believes it is only a matter of time before he runs a marathon in one hour and 58 minutes after his superhuman sub-two hour performance in London on Sunday.

Speaking the day after he ran 1hr 59 mins and 30 seconds to break the world record by 65 seconds, the 31-year-old Kenyan confirmed that he planned to race again in the autumn – although he hasn’t decided where yet.

Supreme Court turns away another parental rights dispute

The Supreme Court turned away an appeal from a Florida couple who alleged their parental rights were violated by a now-revised school board policy on students' gender identity.

What we know about the suspect in shooting at White House Correspondents' Dinner

The suspect was identified to CBS News by law enforcement sources as 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, California.

China blocks Meta's $2 billion takeover of AI startup Manus

China said Monday it has decided to block Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots.

Qualcomm up 7% on report it’s partnering with OpenAI on smartphone AI chip

Qualcomm will be working alongside MediaTek to develop a smartphone chip for OpenAI, with manufacturer Luxshare co-designing the device, an analyst said.

With ‘incompetence at every level’, Nantes are staring down the barrel at relegation

With 23 managerial appointments since Waldemar Kita bought Nantes in 2007, relegation beckons for Les Canaris

By Get French Football News

Back in the 1990s, Nantes were defined by their distinctive playing style, le jeu à la Nantaise, characterised by flair and attacking thrust. There was substance in addition to the style, with the Loire club winning a league title and reaching the Champions League semi-finals. The modern-day incarnation are not distinguished by anything that happens on the pitch, but more by the way they have been managed. La gestion à la Nantaise has consisted of the implementation of a revolving-door policy when it comes to managers and, in the words of their current head coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, “improvisation and incompetence at every level”. It means the eight-time Ligue 1 champions are staring down the barrel of relegation to Ligue 2.

Those comments from Halilhodzic came back in 2021, two years after leaving Nantes which, incidentally, was his last gig in club management prior to his return in March. At 73, he became the oldest person to lead a Ligue 1 side. “I’m done with football,” he said recently after a draw against Brest, and given that he had been out of work since 2022, many thought that he already was prior to his unexpected return.

What's known about the suspect in the Correspondents' Dinner shooting and his movements

The suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting is set to be arraigned in court on Monday. Investigators say Cole Allen was armed with guns and knives, and sent an email to family members just prior to the attack. Nancy Cordes reports.

How sport can spread the word about the climate emergency

Athletes are helping to promote a new film about the crisis, reaching people ‘in a way that scientific reports never will’

It wasn’t so long ago that UK government briefings from Downing Street were essential viewing. Professors Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were household names in Britain and there was a roaring trade in “next slide please” mugs. Four years after the final Covid lectern was put away comes an attempt to alert the public to another emergency – the climate and nature emergency. And sport could be the secret weapon in spreading the word.

The National Emergency Briefing was held in London last November, in front of over 1,000 guests including MPs. It brought together experts from the fields of nature, climate, tipping points, weather extremes, food security, health, national security, economics and energy transition to sum up the scale of the challenge ahead and what could be done about it. A condensed version of the day was made into a 45-minute film, The People’s Emergency Briefing, which was released earlier this month, with backers including the British Ecological Society and the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

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Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract

Exclusive: Mayor raises concerns about using public money to support firms ‘who act contrary to London’s values’

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Sadiq Khan may oppose Scotland Yard using Palantir’s AI systems to process criminal intelligence because of his “concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values”.

The mayor of London’s office made the statement after the Guardian revealed last week that Palantir, whose software has been used in Donald Trump’s ICE immigration crackdown and by Israel’s military, has held talks with the Metropolitan police over a wide-ranging contract that could run into tens of millions of pounds.

King Charles, Queen Camilla coming to Washington amid strained U.S.-U.K. relationship

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla begin a four-day visit to the U.S. on Monday, which comes at a time when U.S.-U.K. relations are tense amid the war with Iran. Holly Williams reports.

Iran reportedly proposes Hormuz Strait deal to U.S. Here’s where things stand — and what’s next for markets

U.S.-Iran peace talks stall. Here's where things stand — and what's next for markets

Everything we know about Cole Allen, the suspected DC correspondents' dinner gunman

Allen was a guest at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was held, and officials said he checked in on Friday.

Michael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy

The hit success of the critically reviled Michael Jackson movie shows that his fans only want to see the good – not the truth

It’s not unusual to see a gulf between the quality of a blockbuster hit as described by critics, and the greater acceptance of that film as determined by its viewing public. But it’s been a while since a movie quite as derided as Michael has been quite this big of a hit. This biography of pop star Michael Jackson is already one of the bigger-grossing musician biopics of all time; even with a steep second-weekend drop, it’s on its way to becoming one of the biggest global hits of 2026 so far.

Perhaps more notable, however, are the vast, chasm-sized reality gaps that have been opened up (or at least enlarged) by the film’s half-blessed, half-cursed existence. First, there’s the gap between the realities of Michael Jackson’s life and what this estate-approved biography is willing (and in some cases legally able) to depict – a disparity that’s part of any work of biographical fiction but that feels vaster here for a number of reasons. Scale over that one, and you might next encounter the related gap between the film that was originally planned, which was going to cover most or all of Jackson’s life, and the film that’s being released in theaters, which leaves off in 1988 before teasing a sequel. That change is owed in part to a bizarre snafu where the film-makers and estate didn’t realize they didn’t have the legal right to depict one of the people who accused Jackson of child molestation in 1993 (his estate claims this version of events to be “inaccurate and irrelevant”).

CBS News' Weijia Jiang was next to Trump at the Correspondents' Dinner. Here's what she saw.

CBS News' Weijia Jiang, who is the president of the White House Correspondents' Association, was sitting next to President Trump when the suspect in Saturday's shooting began firing. She describes to "CBS Mornings" what happened next.

China blocks Meta from acquiring AI startup Manus

Meta said Monday that the transaction "complied fully with applicable law" and that it anticipates "an appropriate resolution to the inquiry."

Man says "we actually felt the house lift up a little" as tornadoes sweep across central U.S.

Powerful tornadoes and dangerous storms swept across parts of the central U.S. over the weekend, reducing homes to rubble in some communities. Millions of Americans remain at risk of severe weather on Monday. Nicole Valdes reports.

UK spring sunshine prompts warnings over unsafe fake designer sunglasses

Experts say counterfeits lack UV filters, increasing the risk of eye damage, and urge shoppers to check for safety marks

While many will be enjoying the spring sunshine, experts have cautioned against wearing fake designer sunglasses, warning they could do more harm than good.

As the College of Optometrists notes, sunglasses not only protect the eyes against glare on sunny days, but can also shield them from harmful ultraviolet (UV) light.

Pro-choice campaigners in Malta create lockboxes containing abortion pills

Critics hit out at ‘dire’ situation in the country which has the strictest laws around abortion in western Europe

Rights campaigners have affixed lockboxes containing abortion pills to sites across Malta, in a campaign designed to highlight the country’s near-total ban on abortion.

The 15 black boxes aim to provide practical help to women grappling with the EU’s strictest abortion laws; anyone who is less than nine weeks pregnant and in need of an abortion is invited to send an email to obtain the location and codes to access the pills.

Security analyst breaks down the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

Aaron MacLean, a CBS News national security analyst who was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, describes what happened and breaks down the security measures at the event.

A river goddess, April snowfall and King’s Day celebrations: photos of the day – Monday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

WCL and WSL talking points: Arsenal show super strength but Manchester pair stumble

Barça’s need to adapt on show in Bayern draw, while Sam Kerr’s ‘perfect hat-trick’ is denied by a lack of technology

Alexia Putellas said Barcelona have to “adapt our game” after a 1-1 draw away to Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals. The game, in which the scorer of Bayern’s equaliser, Franziska Kett, was sent off for pulling Salma Paralluelo’s hair late on, was a far cry from the 7-1 victory the Spanish champions earned over the German champions in their opening match of the league phase of the competition. “We knew this game would be different. As you’ve seen, we were right,” said the two-time Ballon d’Or winner. “The first half was different from the second half. In the end, they were in a medium block; we waited for more space in the middle. We have to adapt our game.” The key seems to be to let Barcelona have the ball and Bayern’s Giulia Gwinn said: “The biggest challenge against Barcelona is to accept that you’ll have very little possession without becoming passive. Every time we managed to go beyond that initial moment of pressing, we were dangerous. In the second half, we had the momentum. We could’ve made more of a couple of chances, but we could tell that they’re not unbeatable, that we can get something done.” Suzanne Wrack

How the shooting and response at the White House Correspondents' Dinner unfolded

New details are emerging about the alleged gunman in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, including how he evaded security. Matt Gutman reports on how the incident unfolded.

Trump says Correspondents' Dinner suspect is a "sick person," reacts to alleged manifesto

In a broadcast exclusive interview, President Trump spoke with Norah O'Donnell on 60 Minutes about the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the Secret Service's response and the alleged gunman.

Venice opera house fires government-linked music director after months of protests

Teatro La Fenice says Beatrice Venezi let go for making ‘repeated offensive’ statements

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Teatro La Fenice, the prestigious Venice opera house, has fired its incoming music director after she insinuated its hiring practices were nepotistic, with jobs “practically passed down from father to son”.

After months of controversy over the appointment of Beatrice Venezi, La Fenice Foundation said on Sunday it had decided to “cancel all future collaborations” with the 36-year-old conductor and pianist.

The Iran war's economic hit could linger through 2026, economists say

Economists say Americans should expect elevated prices at the pump and rising grocery costs in the months to come.

Alleged Correspondents' Dinner shooter to appear in court. And, Charles III visits U.S.

The suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting incident is set to appear in federal court today. And, King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive in Washington today for a state visit.

Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for green chilli eggs with coriander and coconut | Quick and easy

A flavour-packed one-pan egg, noodle and green vegetable dinner in lime-spiked coconut milk

This might look like a shakshuka, but with lemongrass, ginger and lime, you couldn’t really get away with calling it one – particularly because the noodles make this an easy, flavour-packed one-pan dinner. The crunch of the peanuts is particularly good against the lime-spiked coconut milk – a perfect transitional “is it spring yet?” dinner.

She celebrated her 11th birthday in ICE detention. Her wish: that her family could go home

After fleeing India, a family of four is being detained in a controversial Texas facility, facing deteriorating health, inedible food and substandard education

Three months ago, Manpreet was looking forward to her 11th birthday party. Her brother Guri, 12, was excited about his class field trip for Black history month.

Now their future looks like a void.

Brilliant Bayern’s wild comeback typifies the Kompany method perfectly | Andy Brassell

Vincent Kompany’s team demand more of themselves than ever before. Next up: a huge test against PSG

“You’re hopelessly behind, you know there’s a big game in Paris on Tuesday. But that doesn’t matter. This game in Mainz is what counts. The coach finds the right words and the team reacts.” Bayern Munich hope that there will be games to come which define their campaign more than a straightforward win – statistically speaking – in a Bundesliga game with the title of champions already done and dusted.

Yet Max Eberl was right. In terms of finding the kernel of what has already made Bayern’s season an extraordinary one, of what might yet make it an exceptional one, this really meant something. Absorbed on paper, from a distance, it could be mistaken for more grist to the mill of uncommon numbers; keeping alive the possibility of a joint best-ever Bundesliga season in terms of points, and extending the record goalscoring season in the league campaign to a barely-believable 113 from 31 matches.

Mali in turmoil after insurgents seize towns and kill defence minister

Military intelligence chief reportedly also killed in sweeping attacks by jihadists and separatist rebels

Mali has been left reeling from sweeping attacks by jihadists and separatist rebels who seized several towns and military bases and killed the defence minister and military intelligence chief.

The weekend assault on the west African state’s security architecture was coordinated by al-Qaida-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the separatist Tuareg-led movement Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) – former foes with distinct agendas.

Iran's flurry of diplomacy, as Trump insists U.S. has 'the cards'

Iran's foreign minister arrived in Russia on Monday, after a whirlwind weekend of diplomacy, seeking to gain political leverage and foreign backing as peace talks with the U.S. remain on hold.

Orbán may be gone, but his prejudices are now baked into the European political mainstream | Shada Islam

EU leaders have normalised once fringe racist narratives in their migration, border control and even foreign policies

For years, Viktor Orbán, with his anti-migrant and white Christian nationalist rhetoric – sentiments that endeared him to Donald Trump and his Maga base – offered his European counterparts the comforting fiction that racism in the EU was the preserve of a few unsavoury men and women. Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple.

Racism is not the work of one individual. It is structural. Racial logic is woven into our laws as well as our political, economic and social systems. It shapes access to jobs, housing, education and justice. It informs policing practices, border controls and foreign policy choices. Racialised biases are being stamped into our AI tools. A major scandal in the Netherlands arose because algorithms used to process childcare benefits wrongly flagged thousands of Dutch parents as fraudsters. A form of racial profiling left ethnic minority or migrant heritage families disproportionately impacted. The victims suffered devastating consequences including severe debt, forced evictions and wrongful prison terms and many are still struggling to recover.

Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons Project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company

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Wall Street expects solid Q1 results for GM, as Ford and Stellantis try to gain traction

America's largest automakers are set to report first-quarter earnings results this week.

Bomb blast on Colombia highway leaves at least 20 dead ahead of May elections

Dissident Farc faction blamed for attack on Pan-American Highway that also injured 36 people in south-western region

The death toll in a weekend highway bombing in Colombia has risen to 20, with another 36 people injured, amid a surge of violence ahead of presidential elections next month.

Buses and vans were left mangled in the blast on Saturday on the Pan-American Highway, in the restive south-western Cauca department.

World leaders express shock, support after White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

Leaders from the U.K., France, the EU and Pakistan react to a shooting at a high-profile dinner in Washington, D.C., with Trump and his cabinet members.

‘It’s like a slow death’: a jailed mother and her daughter on why prison is a sentence for them both

Valentina was seven when Ivonne first went to jail in Ecuador for selling drugs. Nine years later, as Ivonne faces another prison sentence, they discuss the trauma of living apart – and their lasting bond

Six months ago, 16-year-old Valentina was watching TV with her cousin and younger brother at her home in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, when she received a call from her mother, Ivonne. She had been arrested again, and was in prison. She wouldn’t be coming home for a while.

The pair had been living together since Ivonne’s last prison sentence ended in 2023, and the thought of being separated again was devastating.

Valentina, aged seven, with her mother, Ivonne, at home in Quito, Ecuador in 2016. After Ivonne was jailed for marijuana possession she was unable to be with her daughter for three years

Clean energy switch must not be excuse to plunder Indigenous lands, say leaders

Global conference told benefits should not come at expense of well-protected environments

The energy transition must not be used as a fresh excuse to plunder Indigenous territories, delegates at a groundbreaking global conference on phasing out fossil fuels were warned.

High oil prices and war in the Middle East have boosted the attraction of renewable technologies in many parts of the world, but the economic, security and climate benefits should not come at the expense of well-protected natural environments, Indigenous leaders said at the weekend.

Beasts of no party: the curious history of America’s animal mayors

Small towns across the US have elected animals to the pinnacle of civic leadership – and it seems to work for them

It was a fiercely contested election.

Seven candidates, each bringing a unique set of skills and perspectives, battled to be the next mayor. Locals followed every twist and turn, in a race that lasted weeks. The political hopefuls made repeated, frequently loud, appearances on TV news, and posed for photos on social media. By the end of the election onlookers agreed that any of the candidates would make a very good mayor.

East Africa redefines marathon limits as Sabastian Sawe leads historic charge

East Africa has rewritten marathon history as Sabastian Sawe produced a stunning breakthrough at the London Marathon, redefining what was thought possible over the marathon distance.

Photos show British royal visits to the U.S. over the years

King Charles is making his first state visit to the U.S. as monarch, though he traveled here 19 times before his coronation. Many of his royal relatives have also made memorable trips over the years.

Weijia Jiang: I was on stage with the president. This is what I saw.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang was sitting next to President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when the chaos unfolded.

The Eukrainian review – heroic portrait of the diplomat trying to haul Ukraine into Europe

Viktor Nordenskiöld’s film follows Ukraine’s deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna as she negotiates her country’s path into the EU, but lacks some of the rigour needed

After the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna embarked on the herculean challenge of steering her country’s pathway into the European Union. Shot over the course of two years, Viktor Nordenskiöld’s documentary portrait closely chronicles her race against time, as the war escalates.

Always on the move, Stefanishyna is often seen on trains or in the back of cars, as she and her staff attend seemingly endless meetings with EU officials and other world leaders. Working towards the deadline of 14 December, 2023, the date on which the European Council would decide on Ukraine’s accession, Stefanishyna is under immense pressure at home and abroad. Around the same time that a proposed bill concerning national minorities hits a snag in the Ukrainian parliament, politician Viktor Orbán, then the prime minister of Hungary, publicly voices his opposition to the enlargement of the EU.

The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books

After Donald Trump’s second election, I realised the insidious hold my phone had over my life. So I turned to something I’d loved in childhood to better occupy my attention

After a long day of looking at screens for work, I used to go to bed and stare at my phone until I fell asleep. When not doomscrolling news headlines, I’d crash out to hateful comments on social media or revisit workplace dramas via mobile versions of Teams and Slack. I was always plugged in.

It was a ritual that would start well before bedtime. As the evening wound down, I’d surf algorithms for hours on end, barely paying attention to whatever television programme was on in the background, only half-listening to conversations around me. Whether it was the incessantly dystopian news cycle, toxic opinions on pop culture, or posts railing against obtuse LinkedIn speak, there was always another online scab to pick.

‘Israel must change direction’: Netanyahu rivals join forces for next election

Rightwing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid announce new party before Knesset vote expected later this year

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing the prospect of running against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year after two of his most formidable political rivals combined forces in an attempt to oust him, inviting a third party leader to join them.

In a move that some analysts compared to the centre-right coalition that removed Viktor Orbán from power in Hungary, the former prime ministers – rightwing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid – issued statements announcing the merger of their parties, Bennett 2026 and Yesh Atid (There is a Future).

Weather tracker: Torrential rain in southern China leads to flooding fears

Heatwaves reach 45C across India as unseasonably cold weather affects parts of central Canada

Widespread heavy rain is sweeping over southern China. By Wednesday, rainfall totals are expected to exceed 100mm across many parts of Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, and in some areas as much as 150-200mm.

As a result, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management have been holding meetings with meteorological and hydrological departments to emphasise the importance of reinforced patrols and emergency responses to mitigate against the probable flooding that the intense rainfall is expected to bring. In particular, reservoirs with known safety concerns must remain empty during the period, as well as through the coming rainy season.

Nedra Talley Ross helped make the Ronettes the platonic ideal of a girl group

Even though she was unwell, the last surviving Ronette was full of poignant memories and saucy asides when I met her last year. And she had a rich life after pop success

• Nedra Talley Ross dies aged 80 – news

Nedra Talley Ross wasn’t a household name any longer, but she had been once upon a time. When she turned 18 in January 1964, George Harrison was among the guests who helped her celebrate. She and her cousins were feted, surrounded, adored. For she and her cousins were the Ronettes, the girl group above all others, the sound of teenage emotional extremity set to soaring, symphonic pop. Nedra was the last surviving Ronette and now she is gone.

Nedra’s cousins were Veronica and Estelle Bennett, and the three of them had sung and danced and played as long as they could remember. She was only a Ronette between 1963 and 1967, but in a few short years she was part of some of the greatest pop ever recorded: Be My Baby, Walking in the Rain, Sleigh Ride and the rest. Not that she was taken with Phil Spector, who produced them. “I wasn’t impressed by him, and he didn’t stir me with what he was saying, didn’t scare me with what he was doing,” Nedra told me when I interviewed her just before Christmas last year. “He was quite arrogant, and who wants to deal with an arrogant person?”

‘Bursts off the screen’: why Tombstone is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers drawing attention to their most rewatched comfort films is a celebration of an easily quotable western

On 26 October 1881, four men – gambler and lawman Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and his tubercular dentist friend Henry “Doc” Holliday – strode through the silver mining town of Tombstone, Arizona, and advanced on an alley next to Fly’s Boarding House and Photography Studio, just west of the OK Corral.

Thirty seconds of gunfire later, two men were dead and another lay dying; over the years, what was, depending on your viewpoint, either a law enforcement operation or a triple homicide became romanticized as a heroic tale of good defeating evil.

The pet I’ll never forget: Paddington, the street dog from Peru who roars like a bear

Before meeting my fluffy-eared friend, I had lost my brother and was exhausted by the hamster wheel of work. His zest has made me feel alive

My trip to South America in 2025 was something I’d been planning for a long time. I wanted to break up my mundane 9-to-5 life. Four months before I was due to leave, I broke my back and thought I might have to cancel. Luckily, I pulled through.

I was expecting breathtaking views, vibrant wildlife and memories to last a lifetime. What I wasn’t expecting was to fall in love with a fluffy-eared street dog and spend four months battling bureaucracy and world travel to bring him home. But I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat.

Big companies position themselves for payday from $50B federal rural health fund

A $50 billion federal fund is supposed to modernize rural healthcare. But community clinics and advocates fear that the contractors administering the money for states will bite off a big chunk before it reaches patients.

Inflation is sucking the life out of teacher pay raises, report says

A new review of state education data shows teacher pay increases can't keep up with inflation and fewer students are enrolled in public schools.

Musk vs. Altman: Tech CEOs head to court over the fate of OpenAI

The former OpenAI business partners are embroiled in a high-stakes dispute over the future of one of the world's top AI companies.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI’s founding mission

Musk’s lawsuit accuses Altman of fraud, while OpenAI says that Musk is ‘motivated by jealousy’

A lawsuit between two of Silicon Valley’s biggest tycoons goes to trial on Monday in California, the culmination of a years-long bitter feud. Elon Musk has accused Sam Altman of betraying the founding agreement of the non-profit they started together, OpenAI, by changing it to a for-profit enterprise.

Musk accuses Altman, OpenAI, its president Greg Brockman, and its major partner Microsoft of breach of contract and unjust enrichment in the lawsuit. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday morning at a federal courthouse in Oakland, with opening arguments from both sides expected later this week. The trial is slated to last two to three weeks. Along with internal communications from Musk and key executives at OpenAI, the trial promises a who’s who of Silicon Valley on the witness stand, including Musk, Altman and the Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella.

Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects

The Girls creator has endured brickbats and breakdowns – but she doesn’t always make it easy to feel sorry for her

At the end of last year, Netflix released Too Much – a sickly, indie-sleaze romcom about an American transplant who falls for a troubled British muso. It was created by Lena Dunham and her musician husband Luis Felber, and apparently loosely based on the couple’s backstory. It felt, to many critics, like second-screen fare, decidedly Lena Dunham-lite. Was this really the same person who had given us the spiky, self-absorbed world of Girls, the millennial Sex and the City complete with brutal situationships, toxic besties and, er, one of the main characters accidentally smoking crack?

Famesick sheds almost all the Richard Curtis-isms to find that old, controversy-courting Dunham alive and – if not exactly well – then learning to cope with it. Her second memoir (Not That Kind of Girl was published in 2014) charts the chronic illness and seemingly unending stress that came to define her 20s and 30s after she had snagged her own HBO series aged just 24. The afflictions described across its 400 pages include – though are not limited to – OCD, colitis, the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, endometriosis, early menopause, PTSD and addiction to both opioids and benzodiazepines. At one point, Dunham accidentally sets herself on fire; at another, she panics about how Vogue will cover up the impetigo on her face, “a waterfall of golden blisters, turning a sickly green as they dried”. The book is scattergun and sometimes lacking in self awareness (who cares that Dunham had to give her designer booties up, like contraband, when she entered rehab?). It’s also undeniably frank and exhaustive: a lifetime of therapy condensed into something you could conceivably rip through in a weekend.

The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder review – excavating the memories of civil war in Mozambique

Inadelso Cossa’s documentary grapples with the trauma left by the conflict through witness that wavers between real and imagined truths

Lasting from 1977 to 1992, the Mozambique civil war left deep scars on the psyche of the whole nation. In his second feature, Inadelso Cossa attempts to grapple with the psychological wreckage of this harrowing period by combing through his own family history; returning to the village where he grew up, the film-maker conducts a series of interviews with his grandmother, whose testimony is rendered unreliable by her worsening dementia.

The film wavers between real and imagined truths, a liminal state echoed by the evocative cinematography. Nocturnal sequences, in which wooden sheds, grassy fields, and even Cossa’s grandmother, are wrapped in a cloak of darkness inspire a deceptive sense of calm. In the dead of night, though, the spectres of the past linger. Cossa also speaks to other historical witnesses: Macuacua and Zalina, an older couple, spend much of their screen time bickering but these domestic moments are underlined with unease. A former soldier, Macuacua was once a participant in the violence against civilians but his life now, however, is marred by poverty. In a striking scene, Macuacua holds up a tree branch shaped like a rifle and reenacts a patrol route from his youth with astonishing matter-of-factness. As his muscle memory kicks in, the past and the present collapse together to startling effect.

For Cossa, history is distilled in these kinds of gestures, moving beyond linear time. Although the film is bookended by archival footage, the director prioritises non-traditional forms of documentation, such as monologues, songs, and reenactments. While this approach embodies the slipperiness of memory, it also renders the film difficult to follow on occasion. But across these streams of oral history, what we find are not merely facts and figures, but feelings, in which pain and healing entwine.

Purple ube’s viral rise is turning a Filipino staple into a global trend — but supplies are tightening

Ube, a naturally sweet, starchy vegetable grown in the Philippines, has transcended Filipino culture and become a social media sensation.

Is it true that … it’s harder for women to build muscle than men?

Men tend to have a higher ratio of muscle to fat, but women respond just as well to resistance training

This is a common misconception, says Prof Leigh Breen, a muscle physiology specialist at the University of Leicester, though it’s easy to see where it comes from. Men typically have a higher ratio of muscle to fat than women, largely because of differences established during puberty, when testosterone levels rise significantly in males. Women, by contrast, tend to have a higher proportion of body fat – linked, in part, to oestrogen.

“Although there is a relationship between testosterone and the amount of muscle mass we have, this doesn’t determine how effectively we can build muscle with resistance training,” says Breen. “Women have much lower testosterone levels – around 15 to 20 times lower than men. There is a perception that men gain muscle more easily because of higher testosterone and more androgen receptors in muscle, but that’s not quite right. If you look at relative change – the percentage increase – men and women respond very similarly to training.”

‘When we saw one there were high-fives and hugging’: the Swedish TV show (hopefully) bringing moose to your sofa

The Great Moose Migration has become a ‘slow TV’ sensation, keeping audiences worldwide glued to the beasts’ epic trek – even if they’re rarely spotted on screen. We go behind the scenes with its makers

On a crisp bright early spring afternoon on a small uninhabited island in the Ångerman river in northern Sweden, the stars of The Great Moose Migration are proving suitably elusive. Just as they do, for the most part, to viewers of the world’s biggest slow TV phenomenon – a three-week-long, 450-hour, free-to-view continuous livestream from the Västernorrland wilderness that has a global audience of millions mysteriously captivated every year, despite precious little happening at all.

Hardcore watchers will be lucky to spot an älg, as they are called in Swedish, making their annual crossing of the Ångerman en route to richer summer pastures north any more frequently on average than about once every 400 minutes. But among this landscape, which moose have traversed for 6,000 years, traces of the illustrious beasts are everywhere if you know where to look for them. After a bit of raking among some lingonberry bushes, The Great Moose Migration producer and co-creator Stefan Edlund eventually finds a firm round lump of dried moose dung to hand me. “It’s a bit gross,” he acknowledges, “but they only eat plants.”

Premier League and FA Cup semi-finals: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Sánchez plays long game for McFarlane, Southampton can take heart, Arteta tries to gain edge and Isak will come good

One moment from their FA Cup semi-final to Chelsea will haunt Leeds. When Tosin Adarabioyo stretched for a through ball and couldn’t quite get there, quarter of an hour in, everything seemed to slow down. There was Brenden Aaronson with just Robert Sánchez to beat, with the chance to put Leeds ahead against a side that hadn’t scored in five Premier League games and had seemingly lost all confidence. Even at the time it felt a huge moment. The US international didn’t do much wrong, but Sánchez made a fine save with his foot. That, it turned out, was the game. There were other opportunities – most notably Anton Stach’s drive that Sánchez saved spectacularly and the Dominic Calvert-Lewin header just after that, aimed straight at the keeper. They came after Chelsea had taken the lead and the emotional tone was set, though. Sometimes one chance can define a game. Jonathan Wilson

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Carrick at Manchester United: sensible full-time option or reasons to be cautious? | Jamie Jackson

Job is his to lose after closing in on Champions League but unknown is how will the manager cope with a dip in form

Michael Carrick is the calm Manchester United interim manager who moves ever closer to being appointed the seventh permanent leader of the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era. To coin the cliche: it is certifiably the 44-year-old’s to lose.

Having guided United to third place and eight points clear of Brighton in sixth, two wins from their last five games will all but seal a Champions League berth due to superior goal difference. Defeat Brentford when Keith Andrews’ team visit Old Trafford on Monday and the champagne can be iced.

Human remains found in search for missing Florida doctoral student

Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, has been charged with the murders of Nahida Bristy and Zamil Limon, whose body was found Friday.

Can you solve it? Are you as s-s-smart as a snake?

This puzzle has bite

Did you hear about the snake that liked maths?

I’m sure you did – it’s one of the oldest jokes in the book.*

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by trauma

The American author Elizabeth Strout famously persisted throughout years of rejection to publish her first novel when she was in her 40s, and the hard work has certainly paid off. She won a Pulitzer prize in 2009, and has been nominated multiple times for the Booker and Women’s prizes. The Things We Never Say is her 11th book.

Strout, who grew up in Maine and New Hampshire, writes mainly about small-town America and the mostly white, working-class people who inhabit it. She’s interested in the small details of ordinary lives: people’s joys and disappointments, marriages and infidelities, and the lasting effects of trauma. The fictional world of a Strout novel often extends into subsequent companion works: Olive Kitteridge, published in 2008, was followed by Olive, Again in 2019; the characters first seen in her 2016 novel My Name Is Lucy Barton reappeared in Oh William! in 2021 and Lucy by the Sea in 2022. In 2024, Strout took this world‑building to another level when Lucy, Olive and other recurring characters were brought together in Tell Me Everything. She has charted her fictional worlds so extensively across interlinked novels and stories that readers often think of her characters as their personal friends.

Richard Bacon asks celebs why they’re more famous than him: best podcasts of the week

The broadcaster’s thoughtful new interview series is an impressive feat. Plus, former tennis champ Maria Sharapova fronts a new female-orientated chatshow

Take a trip on Route 66: still delivering kicks after 100 years

The US’s most famous road celebrates its centenary. The 2,400-mile highway crosses eight states and three time zones from Chicago to LA

The Mother Road, as the author John Steinbeck called it, has evolved over the years from an escape for poor farmers fleeing the devastating dust storms of the 1930s to perhaps the quintessential American road trip route that’s still delivering kicks.

Although there have been faster and more direct routes between the nation’s second and third largest cities for some time, Route 66’s neon still burns brightly and its vintage signs beckon travellers to restored motor lodges, classic diners and roadside attractions.

Record bear sightings in Japan cause alarm as hibernation ends

Woman’s body found in Iwate prefecture last week, soon after a police officer was injured in bear attack nearby

Rested but famished bears emerging from hibernation in Japan are already coming into contact with humans, with the pace of sightings outstripping that seen in 2025, a record year for bear attacks.

According to media reports, the animals have been spotted with surprising frequency in urban areas in the country’s north-east, with authorities urging caution among people planning to spend the coming Golden Week public holidays in the countryside.

‘I needed to be in that strange, flat place’: how an Orkney garden healed a writer

After her sister died, Victoria Bennett left Cumbria for the remote Scottish archipelago, where she learned to go with the ebb and flow of life

It was during her first winter in Orkney that the nature writer Victoria Bennett experienced the joy of baying into the sea during a storm. “There’s something very physically releasing about howling,” she says. “It’s quite animalistic and powerful.” On a stormy beach, when waves are crashing on the rocks, “you can really let rip”, she says. “The sound just disappears.”

Until that moment, Bennett had been struggling with her decision to move to the remote archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. “I was beginning to feel like I was in a fight against the sea, and against the weather.”

Zombie politics is the new norm and Starmer’s dying premiership is the latest instalment | Nesrine Malik

Distracted, listless and unambitious – the PM’s true form has finally emerged. But whatever comes next must end this ruinous cycle

Finally, belatedly, an honest portrait of Keir Starmer has been allowed to form. It’s been a hell of a journey. At first he was sanctified as the Labour saviour, finally arrived. That gave way to pleas that he was essentially a good sort, new to politics and in need of time. Now an impression is emerging that he is, in fact, quite a bad egg. To quote a brutal recent summation from a Labour insider speaking to Politico: “Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth. Wrong. He’s an asshole who’s out of his depth.”

The charges are now coming thick and fast. He cannot manage teams. He throws people under the bus to save his own skin. He cannot do the job. The whole Peter Mandelson affair, the latest instalment of which is the revelation that Mandelson failed his security vetting, and that Starmer claims not to have been told of this, has at least come with one silver lining. As his own ministers distance themselves from him and give up the ghost on live television, even loyal stalwarts can’t sustain their tedious, misguided speculation that he might be rebooted and come good. The broad conclusion is that Starmer is now beyond rehabilitation, and his fate only a matter of time. So what now?

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

Country diary: The skies here are busy with satellites and fieldfares | Rchard Smyth

Prendwick, Northumberland: On a crisp, cold walk, I’m reminded that winter still clings on, and that familiar constellations are far from alone

The red sun rising over the radar station on Alnwick Moor picks out the tall shape of a hare at our end of the meadow. It lopes forward a little way – forever appearing, as hares always do, to be on the brink of a forward roll – and then pauses, sits up and shakes the dew from its front paws.

A nearby pheasant lets rip a choked cock-crow. Both of these animals are game, here in England (as is the red-legged partridge, toiling tortoise-like through the weeds at the meadow bottom).

‘Tracey Emin said they’re all about death’: Johnnie Shand Kydd on his dog-walk photographs – and capturing the hard-partying YBAs

He shot the YBAs boozing, canoodling – and shaking up the art scene. Now the photographer has found inspiration in some other unruly characters: his lurchers. We join him for walkies in rural Suffolk

‘Finn! Finn! FINN!” Johnnie Shand Kydd is having trouble keeping his inquisitive lurcher in sight. Finn may be an incredibly sweet-natured dog but he’s hard of hearing – and has previous for disappearing on this particular walk.

At least the photographer has experience in dealing with unruly characters. In the 1990s, he found himself embedded with the Young British Artists, granted free rein to shoot the hedonistic, chaotic and wildly creative art scene that birthed Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and more. Shot in black and white, these images upended the convention for artists posing in their studios, easels in hand. “I just wasn’t interested in that at all,” says Shand Kydd. Instead, his photographs capture Hirst balancing a tower of hats on his head, Emin in a rubber dinghy with Georgina Starr, a newly pregnant Sam Taylor-Johnson (then Taylor-Wood) and a whole load of partying, boozing and canoodling.

King Charles visits Trump: what are the potential pitfalls for the monarch?

The king faces possibly his most important ever speech and a thin-skinned president, in the shadow of the Sussexes and the Epstein scandal. What could go wrong?

On his high-stakes four-day state visit to the US, King Charles will have to walk a diplomatic tightrope as the guest of an erratic Donald Trump against the backdrop of Iran and security concerns after Saturday night’s shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

Many challenges lie ahead as he takes up his UK government-decreed task to “reaffirm and renew” bilateral ties amid a worsening “special relationship” on the 250th anniversary of American independence.

Drug use in England spikes during heatwaves and big sports events, research finds

Project that tested traces of illicit drugs in wastewater also found higher use during Eurovision song contest

Traces of illicit drugs in wastewater in England show spikes in usage during bank holiday weekends, heatwaves and sports events, while the Eurovision song contest ranks as one of the most drug-fuelled nights of the year.

Tests at water treatment plants across the country found clear patterns in drug taking through the week and changing seasons, and revealed particularly high levels of cocaine and ketamine use compared with other European countries.

Harvey Fierstein on Kinky Boots, addiction and survival: ‘When you get sober, it takes five years to get your marbles back’

He found roaring success on Broadway with Torch Song Trilogy, then appeared in blockbusters Mrs Doubtfire and Independence Day. But notoriety had a cost. The 73-year-old stage legend talks recovery, grief and why he’s taking aim at Trump

I hear Harvey Fierstein’s inimitable rasp as soon as I enter Cotton Candy Fabrics quilt store in Connecticut. The walls are lined with vibrant fabrics and colourful quilts hang from the ceiling. On any given day you’ll probably find the 73-year-old five-time Tony winner here, among a chatty cast of crafty women and gay men.

Fierstein took up quilting in 2009, partly inspired, he says, by his enjoyment of the cable TV show Simply Quilts, but also because of the Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt. It was to be displayed in Washington DC, and he wanted to make panels for two of his close friends who had died of the disease. He has been prolific ever since. He shows me photos of his creations on his phone: an LGBTQ+ rights quilt featuring pink triangles, yellow stars of David – the “Jewish badge” – and Nazi-saluting skeletons; Fierstein with his two dogs; some horny, phallic trees he dreamed about; and an even hornier nude portrait of a young man (an Amazon delivery driver, apparently).

Another strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific, military says

The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday.

4/26/2026: Shots Fired; Ben Sasse; The Pigeon Mafia

First, President Donald Trump: The 2026 60 Minutes Interview. Then, Ben Sasse: The 60 Minutes Interview. And, a report on the pigeon mafia.

Ben Sasse on Senate's "smack-down nonsense" and his wish for America

Former Sen. Ben Sasse, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer late last year, spoke to CBS News about why Congress is dysfunctional, the promises and risks of AI and his wish for the country.

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Breakdown of White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting; alleged gunman wrote that he expected more security.

Tony Dokoupil on political violence in America after Saturday's correspondents' dinner attack

Tony Dokoupil shares his thoughts on Saturday night's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Latest info on White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

Tony Dokoupil, Nancy Cordes, Matt Gutman and Weijia Jiang lay out what we know about Saturday night's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Deadly tornadoes pummel North Texas

At least two people died and six others were injured as severe weather rolled through North Texas Saturday night. Nicole Valdes reports on the destruction and Rob Marciano has a look at the forecast.

What's in the "manifesto" of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect

Cole Allen, 31, sent an email to family members shortly before the annual press gala, officials told CBS News.