Storm Goretti live: rail services suspended, flights cancelled and schools closed across UK as 380,000 homes in France lose power

Road, rail and air travel disrupted across the UK as Storm Goretti brings wind, rain and snow to the UK and parts of Europe

Officials in the West Midlands have warned of the “worst snowfall in a decade” as parts of England and Wales prepare to be hit with 5-10cm of snow on Friday, and up to 15-25cm in some areas.

In a statement on Wednesday, Stoke-on-Trent city council reassured residents it had not run out of grit after “misinformation” began to circulate. It said:

We are now facing the worst snowfall we have faced in 10 years. The Met Office has predicted that we could have 3.5 inches of snow and temperatures as low as minus 4C on Thursday into Friday morning. As a result, we are carefully managing our resources and stock of salt.

Unfortunately, we have been made aware of some misinformation circulating regarding the council’s salt supplies and gritting operations. It simply isn’t true that we have run out of grit.

The current cold snap is now expected to last at least until this weekend according to Met Office forecasts, and we know that prolonged exposure to low temperatures can have a severe impact on people’s health, especially if they’re older or have serious health conditions.

That’s why we’re urging people to check in on friends, family and neighbours who may be more vulnerable to the cold and make sure that they’re able to keep themselves warm while this period of cold lasts.

Manchester City sign Antoine Semenyo for initial £62.5m on contract to 2031

• Deal with Bournemouth has add-ons and sell-on clause

• Semenyo says he is aiming to get City into the title race

Antoine Semenyo says he has arrived at Manchester City with the intention of getting the club back into the Premier League title race. The £62.5m signing joins a team six points behind the leaders, Arsenal, with 17 matches remaining.

The 26-year-old’s transfer from Bournemouth, who could receive £1.5m in add-ons and are due 10% of any future profit, was confirmed on Friday and Semenyo could make his debut against Exeter in the FA Cup on Saturday. City fought off competition from Liverpool and Manchester United to secure his signature.

Toni Geitani: Wahj review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

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The Beirut-born producer’s masterly second album revels in dark tension to cinematic effect, finding beauty in ruinous sound

Arabic electronic experimentalism is thriving. In recent years, diaspora artists such as Egyptian producer Abdullah Miniawy, singer Nadah El Shazly and Lebanese singer-songwriter Mayssa Jallad have each released records that combine the Arabic musical tradition of maqam and its slippery melodies with granular electronic sound design, rumbling bass and metallic drum programming to create a dramatic new proposition.

Beirut-born and Amsterdam-based composer Toni Geitani is the latest to contribute to this growing scene with his masterfully produced second album Wahj (“radiance” in Arabic). Working as a visual artist and sound designer, Geitani is well versed in creating imaginative soundscapes for films such as 2024 sci-fi Radius Collapse, as well as referencing the shadowy nocturnal hiss of producers such as Burial on his dabke-sampling 2018 debut album Al Roujoou Ilal Qamar. On Wahj, he harnesses soaring layali vocalisations, reverb-laden drums and analogue synths to leave a cinematic impression.

Nigeria’s big tax gamble: great in theory but people are already checking their pockets | Cheta Nwanze

If this reform succeeds it will be a blueprint for African self-reliance. But the state has failed to deliver the most basic services for decades. No wonder Nigerians are suspicious

Let’s not mince words. Nigeria’s new tax regime, which landed on our heads this January, is the most ambitious attempt to reshape the state since, well, since the last time someone had a “bright idea” in Abuja. They’re calling it a “generational reset”.

From where I sit, and from where millions of Nigerians actually sit – in traffic, in market stalls, in offices – wondering how to make ends meet, it feels more like a grand, high-stakes gamble.

Russia fires hypersonic Oreshnik missile at Ukraine in massive attack

Kyiv dismisses as ‘absurd’ Moscow’s attempt to portray missile launch as retaliation for supposed attempted drone strike on Putin residence

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Russia’s military has said it fired its new hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in Ukraine during a massive overnight strike.

Ukraine confirmed the attack, saying it took place in the west of the country near the European Union border. Moscow said the launch of the intermediate-range ballistic missile was retaliation for a supposed attempted Ukrainian drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence late last month – an allegation both Kyiv and Washington have said is false.

Jenny on Holiday: Quicksand Heart review – Let’s Eat Grandma innovator’s knowing new-wave reinvention

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In Jenny Hollingworth’s first solo venture, her singular songwriting powers shine in swooping vocals and transcendent pop melodies

Over the past decade, 27-year-old Jenny Hollingworth’s musical output has become steadily less strange. As half of Let’s Eat Grandma, the Norwich native started out making freaky synth-folk the arch syrupiness of which chimed with the then-nascent hyperpop scene: I, Gemini, the duo’s 2016 debut, was outsiderish juvenilia of the most thrilling variety. For its follow-up, I’m All Ears, Hollingworth and her bandmate, Rosa Walton, sharpened their songwriting skills while holding tight to their eccentricities; the result was an album of sensational futurist pop. By 2022’s Two Ribbons, they were slipping into slightly more subdued, conventional territory – albeit retaining enough idiosyncratic sonic detailing to maintain their place at the edge.

So it takes a moment to adjust to the overt familiarity of Hollingworth’s first solo venture. Like Two Ribbons, it reflects on grief (she lost her partner in 2019) and the temporary disintegration of her lifelong friendship with Walton, except this time the introspection is set to knowingly nostalgic 1980s new wave. When the choruses don’t sparkle, Quicksand Heart can feel like plodding through the past, but the moment Hollingworth lands on an irresistible melody – see: Every Ounce of Me, whose bittersweet bounce bridges the gap between Olivia Rodrigo and the Waterboys – the effect is transcendent. The record peaks with the archetypally perfect powerpop number Appetite and the genre-bending Do You Still Believe in Me? in which Hollingworth patchworks together breakbeats, vertiginously swooping vocals, squealing hair metal bombast and shoegazey dissonance, reminding us of her singular powers in the process.

‘In isolation, we’ll never flourish’: What Iranians think about the protests and an end to the Islamic Republic

In Tehran this week, young adults told the Guardian about collapsing living standards, the mass anti-government protests and their hopes for the future

Mahsa is single and lives with her family. She has been working in fashion design for years and runs a page online where she sells her clothes. In recent months, she says she had achieved good sales and arranged for a prominent influencer to run a major promotion for her. But because of the current situation, the influencer returned the money, and her sales and page activity came to a halt.

DHS: 2 people shot by Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon

Two people were wounded in a shooting involving Customs and Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon, officials said.

Sports quiz of the week: Ashes, Afcon, Australian Open and moving managers

Have you followed the big news in football, cricket, boxing, tennis, athletics, snooker, darts and cycling?

‘I haven’t mellowed my violence’: Park Chan-wook on cultural dominance, the capitalist endgame and why we can’t beat AI

His brutal movies put Korean cinema on the map. Now the director of Oldboy is back with a blistering satire about a man driven to murder after redundancy

The Korean wave is being feted around the world right now but Park Chan-wook is not feeling too celebratory. From the outside, South Korea seems to be a well-oiled machine pumping out a stream of world-conquering pop music, cuisine, cars, cinema (especially the Oscar-winning Parasite) and TV shows, as well as the Samsung flat-screens to watch them on. But Park’s latest film, No Other Choice, bursts the balloon somewhat. It paints modern-day Korea as an unstable landscape of industrial decline, downsizing, unemployment and male fragility – with no KPop Demon Hunters coming to save the day.

“I did not mean it for it to be a realistic portrayal of Korea in 2025,” says Park, a serene, almost professorial 62-year-old. “I think it’s more accurate to view it as a satire on capitalism.”

Week in wildlife: rare gorilla twins, racing camels and a psychedelic spider

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Victor Osimhen’s volatile temperament risks harming Nigeria’s Afcon quest

Talismanic forward’s spat with teammate Ademola Lookman highlights the problematic behaviour threatening to overshadow his talent

Victor Osimhen is the talisman, the attacking arrowhead of Nigeria’s Super Eagles at the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, his three goals offering a warning to Algeria before Saturday’s quarter-final. But the focus on the 27 year old this week has fallen less on his talent and more on his behaviour.

Osimhen’s volatile temperament, displayed in a spat with his teammate Ademola Lookman during Monday’s 4-0 win against Mozambique, has grabbed the headlines. The Galatasaray striker scored twice to underline his world-class finishing but that has been rendered almost an afterthought.

Australia 4-1 England: player ratings as the hosts win the Ashes in style

Mitchell Starc and Travis Head were astoundingly good, but plenty of England players will want to look away now

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Ben Stokes: 184 runs at 18.4; 15 wickets at 25.1; two catches
A body unable to match his will, a team unable to match his ambition and, surely, a screaming sense that he made mistakes when preparing for this challenging but winnable series all adds up to a horrible seven weeks for the England captain. His personal form inevitably buckled – and you have to feel a little sympathy for a man more guilty of giving too much rather than too little.

Russia says it used new Oreshnik ballistic missile against Ukraine

Russian media said the Oreshnik targeted a huge underground natural gas storage in Ukraine's western Lviv region. Ukrainian officials said four people were killed in Kyiv overnight.

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

Grok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, has switched off its image creation function for the vast majority of users after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery.

The move comes after Musk was threatened with fines, regulatory action and reports of a possible ban on X in the UK.

Protests sweep Iran despite internet shutdown as state TV warns of casualties

Iranian protesters shouted and marched through the streets into Friday morning, despite Iran's theocracy cutting off the nation from the internet and international telephone calls.

After delays, the missing Jan. 6 plaque will be displayed at the Capitol

This week, senators stepped up after learning the plaque, which had been approved by Congress more than three years ago, was nowhere to be found at the Capitol.

How falcon thieves are targeting the UK’s protected birds

In this week’s newsletter: Conservationists have seen nests raided around the country to match demand from the Middle East

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Earlier this week we published an investigation that found hundreds of UK peregrine falcon nests have been raided in the past decade, in order to feed a growing appetite to own prized birds for racing and breeding in the Middle East.

This piece has been a year in the making, working with a great team of reporters from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) to shed light on a multimillion-dollar industry that stretches around the world.

Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them?

The LA wildfire victims still living in toxic homes: ‘We have nowhere else to go’

‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?

How demand for elite falcons in the Middle East is driving illegal trade of British birds

‘It’s soul destroying to find nests have failed’: inside the battle against Scotland’s falcon thieves

Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds

Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan review – a tender tale of love beyond borders

This poignant debut about two strangers who fall in love offers a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain

“Love is not an easy thing … It’s both the disease and the medicine,” a character says in Manish Chauhan’s meditation on modern love. This poignant and perceptive coming-of-age story, about two strangers who become star-crossed lovers, is a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain, and of love as home, hope and destiny.

Newly arrived in England following an arranged marriage with British-Indian Rajiv, Mira feels increasingly out of place as she finds out that Rajiv holds secrets and loves someone else. On the eponymous Belgrave Road in Leicester, entire days go by “without sight of an English person”, and Mira feels “disappointed that England wasn’t as foreign or as mysterious as she had hoped”. She takes English classes, finds companionship in her mother-in-law and fills her days with household chores, but nothing shifts her deep loneliness.

In Search of Youkali album review – Katie Bray is outstanding in this voyage around Weill

Bray/Vann/Grainger/Schofield
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The easy fluency of Bray and pianist William Vann guides us through familiar and less well known Kurt Weill songs with the haunting Youkali as the lodestar on our journey

Youkali, for Kurt Weill, was the land of desires, promised but never to be attained – a strong image for an exiled and itinerant composer. The 1935 song in which he captured the idea, a lilting tango, forms the lodestar of Katie Bray’s voyage through Weill’s chameleonic songwriting career, undertaken alongside the pianist William Vann, accordionist Murray Grainger and double bassist Marianne Schofield, the latter moonlighting from the Hermes Experiment.

First, we hear a haunting, unaccompanied musing on the Youkali melody, then more of these punctuate the programme until we reach the song in full at the end. The journey takes in numbers in German, French and English – some familiar, some not – including a couple of songs written for the Huckleberry Finn musical Weill was working on at the time of his death.

Clouded judgment? Why Pantone’s colour of the year is causing controversy

Against a backdrop of rising white nationalism, the ‘global authority on colour’ has chosen white as the shade of 2026. Four experts wade in on the implications for everything from interior design choices to racial politics

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For more than 25 years, Pantone, which describes itself as “the global authority for colour communication and inspiration”, has attempted to prophesy the year ahead by choosing its specific colour. For 2026, it is hedging its bets on something called cloud dancer.

While it’s highly unlikely that the next 12 months can be neatly summarised by one colour before the year has even kicked off (Pantone’s announcement took place in December), it still garners headlines because, in a way, Pantone’s decision does reflect on some level what is happening in the zeitgeist – or, at least, what is expected to happen. After the economic crash in 2009 came mimosa, a “warm and engaging” shade of yellow said to represent hope and optimism (it rang true with a mimosa-coloured sofa becoming a must-have and everyone taking up daily affirmations). In 2016, there was the blending of serenity and rose quartz – AKA the ubiquitous millennial pink – while last year’s mocha mousse is the reason you are seeing brown everywhere.

DOJ pursues new criminal probe into Letitia James over financial transactions

U.S. prosecutors pursue new criminal probe centering on financial transactions between New York AG Letitia James and her hairdresser, two sources said.

Why is Trump interested in Greenland? Look to the thawing Arctic ice | Gaby Hinsliff

Forecasts suggest that global heating could create a shortcut from Asia to North America, and new routes for trading, shipping – and attack

Another week, another freak weather phenomenon you’ve probably never heard of. If it’s not the “weather bomb” of extreme wind and snow that Britain is hunkering down for as I write, it’s reports in the Guardian of reindeer in the Arctic struggling with the opposite problem: unnaturally warm weather leading to more rain that freezes to create a type of snow that they can’t easily dig through with their hooves to reach food. In a habitat as harsh as the Arctic, where survival relies on fine adaptation, even small shifts in weather patterns have endlessly rippling consequences – and not just for reindeer.

For decades now, politicians have been warning of the coming climate wars – conflicts triggered by drought, flood, fire and storms forcing people on to the move, or pushing them into competition with neighbours for dwindling natural resources. For anyone who vaguely imagined this happening far from temperate Europe’s doorstep, in drought-stricken deserts or on Pacific islands sinking slowly into the sea, this week’s seemingly unhinged White House talk about taking ownership of Greenland is a blunt wake-up call. As Britain’s first sea lord, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, has been telling anyone prepared to listen, the unfreezing of the north due to the climate crisis has triggered a ferocious contest in the defrosting Arctic for some time over resources, territory and strategically critical access to the Atlantic. To understand how that threatens northern Europe, look down at the top of a globe rather than at a map.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

Helen Goh’s recipe for baked apples with lemon and tahini | The sweet spot

A wholesome and indulgent pudding that’s a great way to use up dried fruit left over from the festive season

After the excesses of December, these baked apples are a light, refreshing vegan pudding. The filling makes good use of any dried fruit lingering still from Christmas, and is brightened with lemon and bound with nutty tahini. As the apples bake, they turn yielding and fragrant, while the sesame oat topping crisps to a golden crown. Serve warm with a splash of cream, yoghurt or ice-cream (dairy or otherwise), and you have comfort that feels wholesome and indulgent.

Attempt to overturn the Gambia’s ban on FGM heard by supreme court

Case brought by Muslim leaders and MP follows failed 2024 bid and seen as part of global anti-women’s rights backlash

A group of religious leaders and an MP in the Gambia have launched efforts to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation at the country’s supreme court.

The court case, due to resume this month, comes after two babies bled to death after undergoing FGM in the Gambia last year. Almameh Gibba, an MP and one of the plaintiffs, tabled a bill to decriminalise FGM that was rejected by the country’s parliament in 2024.

Why Spain’s prime minister has broken ranks in Europe – and dared to confront Trump

Outrage at the US, close ties with Venezuela and mounting domestic challenges have prompted Pedro Sánchez to take a stand

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, rarely utters the words “Donald Trump” in public. Since the US president took office, Sánchez has typically referred to the US administration and its president without explicitly naming him. This was initially interpreted as a calculation designed to avoid personal confrontation, but even without using Trump’s name, Sánchez has managed to deliver harsher criticism of the US president’s aggression than any of his fellow European leaders.

This week, Sánchez did not wait for a joint EU statement to issue judgment on the US’s illegal military intervention to capture the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro: he swiftly joined Latin American countries in condemning it. A few hours later he went even further, saying the operation in Caracas represented “a terrible precedent and a very dangerous one [which] reminds us of past aggressions, and pushes the world toward a future of uncertainty and insecurity, similar to what we already experienced after other invasions driven by the thirst for oil”.

María Ramírez is a journalist and deputy managing editor of elDiario.es, a news outlet in Spain

Whistle, crackle, banned: Dutch set to outlaw fireworks after more new year chaos

Netherlands expected to join Ireland in prohibiting most consumer fireworks as other EU countries debate crackdown

Window-rattling explosions turned Yara Basta-Bos’s street into a “war zone” last week, but she was spared from the worst of the new year chaos she had seen in the past. A few years ago, the emergency doctor in Amsterdam had to treat a patient clutching their own eyeball after a firework blew it out of its socket.

“It feels like such a waste,” said Basta-Bos, president of the Dutch society of emergency physicians, adding that last week’s revelry resulted in more than 1,200 injuries – one-third of whom ended up in hospital – and two deaths. “Of course, fireworks are nice to look at. But the level of damage it’s causing in the Netherlands right now is just unbelievable.”

‘We can’t take it any more’: thousands flee guerrilla clashes on Colombia-Venezuela border

Caracas shake-up could intensify violence in Catatumbo in Colombia, an area rich with coca crops, cocaine laboratories and a porous border with Venezuela

Alberto’s eyes shifted nervously. His chin trembled.

His slender hands fumbled with a manila folder containing his family’s documents, which he was waiting to present to staff of the Human Rights Ombudsman in the north-eastern Colombian city of Cúcuta, in the hope of receiving humanitarian aid.

‘Damage is piling up’: has the Netherlands forgotten how to cope with snow?

Cyclists and others voice frustration as transport infrastructure descends into chaos amid increasingly rare cold snap

A week-long winter cold snap that would once have been normal in the Netherlands has caused more than 2,000 flight cancellations, chaos on roads and railways, buildings to partially collapse, and a stream of angry cyclists asking why roads seem better gritted than cycle lanes.

Since Saturday, up to 15cm of snow has fallen across the country, with temperatures of -10C (14F) including wind chill, sparking angry commentary over how some nations manage months of snow but the Netherlands, no longer used to it, appears paralysed.

‘There’s serendipity to my story’: Emmylou Harris on Gram Parsons, her garlanded career – and her dog rescue centre

Ahead of her final European tour, the US songwriter discusses her unlikely life as a country star, seeking advice from Pete Seeger – and why retirement isn’t on the cards just yet

When Emmylou Harris was starting out in the late 1960s, she thought country music wasn’t for her. “I hadn’t seen the light,” she says. “I was a folk singer who believed you don’t ever work with drummers as they wreck everything.” It was Gram Parsons, of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, who changed her mind. Their musical partnership was brief – Parsons died after an accidental drug overdose at the Joshua Tree national park in 1973, aged 26 – but his impact on her was profound. “He had one foot in country and one in rock and was conversant in both. It changed my thinking completely.”

Is Harris, legendary doyenne of the country ballad and distinguished recipient of three Country Music Association awards whose guitar was exhibited in Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, really saying she hated country? “It can be corny!” she says. “Country music aims straight for the heart and when it misses, it misses really badly. And that’s the stuff that makes the most noise and takes up most space.” She pauses. “But then you hear something like George Jones’s Once You’ve Had the Best, and you hear the simplicity of his phrasing and the earnestness with which he sings. There’s a soulfulness to country music that can elude you if you just look at the big picture.”

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Tensions boil over in Minneapolis as residents mourn woman shot and killed by ICE; Reflecting on the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis

5 states sue Trump administration for freezing social services funding

California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois and New York called the move an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Federal agents clash with protesters day after ICE officer fatally shoots woman

An ICE officer fatally shot a woman Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A U.S. official identified her as Renee Good. City leaders said the victim was a legal observer of federal actions in the city.

Avelo Airlines to halt deportation flights for ICE

Budget carrier Avelo is ending a contract with the U.S. government to deport migrants, citing "operational complexity and costs."

Morality, military might and a sense of mischief: key takeaways from Trump’s New York Times interview

Trump sounds off on Venezuela’s future, Taiwan’s security and his aims for Greenland, days after operation to seize Nicolás Maduro

Just days after launching an unprecedented operation in Venezuela to seize its president and effectively take control of its oil industry, Donald Trump sat down with New York Times journalists for a wide-ranging interview that took in everything from international law, Taiwan, Greenland and weight-loss drugs.

The president, riding high on the success of an operation that has upended the rules of global power, spoke candidly and casually about the new world order he appears eager to usher in; an order governed not by international norms or long-lasting alliances, but national strength and military power.

Two people shot by US federal agents in Portland

Mayor urges ICE to pause operations as representative says victims alive but extent of injuries unknown

US federal agents shot two people outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, a day after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.

The Portland police bureau (PPB) said in a statement on Thursday afternoon that two people were in the hospital following a shooting involving federal agents, adding that the conditions of those shot were not known.

Border Patrol agent shoots 2 people in Portland, day after ICE agent kills Minneapolis woman

Federal officials have accused Renee Nicole Good of trying to run down an ICE agent in Minneapolis when she was shot.

ICE officer who shot woman in Minneapolis was dragged by a car in June incident

The Minneapolis-based officer was part of an enforcement and removal operations special response team and had a decade of experience.

Inside chaotic Minneapolis protests a day after woman was killed by ICE officer

CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman reports from the scene of a protest Thursday outside a federal building in Minneapolis.

Mayor says ICE seeks to cause "chaos and disruption" in Minneapolis

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey indicated Thursday that the city is united in the wake of Wednesday's shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Bug review – Carrie Coon brings intensity to paranoid Tracy Letts revival

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York

The White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks

You can practically smell the stale cigarette smoke lingering in the air of the fake motel set for Bug. It’s the play’s only location – though it appears in a distinctive second guise in the second act – and in its staging at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre, the set comes to a corner in the center of the stage, jutting out toward the audience. The additional angle gives the room a little more depth, but it also distorts the room’s geography, rendering it neither proscenium neat nor fully realistic. That’s the increasingly hard-to-recognize world that Agnes (Carrie Coon) inhabits when she brings near-stranger Peter (Namir Smallwood) into her life.

Agnes is a waitress living out of the motel, drinking and taking drugs in between shifts. Her abusive ex, Jerry (Steve Key), just out of prison, lurks around, expecting Agnes to welcome him back to their “home” whenever he pleases. So when her friend RC (Jennifer Engstrom) introduces Agnes to the drifter and supposed veteran Peter, he can’t help but seem gentler by comparison. But when Peter thinks he notices a bug bite from their shared motel bed, he starts to spiral further into paranoia. Agnes, whether aided by drugs, love, grief over her lost child or a combination of those, spirals right along with him.

What we know about the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis

Video from the scene, along with statements from witnesses and local officials, disputes the accounts of federal officials regarding the circumstances that led up to the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman.

Minneapolis ICE shooting brings back painful memories for community

The 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police occurred less than a half-mile away from where a federal agent fatally shot Renee Good while she was in her vehicle.

Reflecting on the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis

With so much to be said about the last 24 hours, CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil reflects on what's yet to be said -- and what some still need to hear.

Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting video

CBS News watched bystander video of the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis frame-by-frame with retired ICE agent Eric Balliet​ to discuss the tactics used. He raised a few key points that dispute the DHS narrative of what happened.

George Floyd's aunt reacts to fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis

For George Floyd's aunt, Angela Harrelson, the fatal shooting of Renee Good, less than a half mile from George Floyd Square, hits close to home. Jonah Kaplan spoke to her about the circumstances.

Mayor Jacob Frey says ICE aims to "cause chaos and disruption" in Minneapolis

In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey answers questions about what's next for the city and his leadership.

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Venezuelans celebrate in Florida as White House doubles down on Trump's Greenland pursuit; The many roles of Marco Rubio

New details on ICE agent involved in Minneapolis shooting

The federal agent who fatally shot a woman in south Minneapolis belonged to a specially trained tactical ICE unit, sources told CBS News. Nicole Sganga has details.

Tensions boil over in Minneapolis as residents mourn woman shot and killed by ICE

Minneapolis residents are mourning 37-year-old Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE officer, sparking outrage and nationwide protests. Tony Dokoupil, Matt Gutman, Nicole Sganga and Jonah Kaplan have more.

Inside the protests in Minneapolis as federal agents deploy pepper balls

Federal officers fired pepper balls and surged into a crowd of protesters outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, as tensions boiled over following the fatal shooting of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer a day earlier. Matt Gutman was there.

NASA will bring space station crew home early after medical issue

A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station was scrapped because of what NASA called a "medical concern" with an unidentified crew member.

White House says it wasn't economical to save East Wing amid ballroom construction

The White House says structural issues and decay had made it unfeasible to save the East Wing.

Human eggs ‘rejuvenated’ in an advance that could boost IVF success rates

Exclusive: Research suggests supplementing eggs with a key protein reduces age-related defects, raising hopes of improved IVF for older women

Scientists claim to have “rejuvenated” human eggs for the first time in an advance that they predict could revolutionise IVF success rates for older women.

The groundbreaking research suggests that an age-related defect that causes genetic errors in embryos could be reversed by supplementing eggs with a crucial protein. When eggs donated by fertility patients were given microinjections of the protein, they were almost half as likely to show the defect compared with untreated eggs.

Becoming Victoria Wood review – intimate and hilarious portrait of the trailblazing standup

Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Waters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot

There is a moment at the start of this documentary about the comedian Victoria Wood when you realise what she was up against at the beginning of her career: a snippet from the archives of Melvyn Bragg hailing her as Britain’s first female standup comedian. That wasn’t entirely the case, but it seems unthinkable now that it took until the 1980s for women to break through in any numbers. In 1985, when season one of Wood’s sketch show As Seen on TV aired on BBC2, there were sniffs of doubt that a woman could front a comedy programme, let alone a northern woman. How wrong they were. Clips from the show, featuring Wood, Julie Waters and Celia Imrie, are a hoot: high on a tipsy energy, the performers are all on the edge of collapsing into giggles.

For those who grew up with Wood as a national treasure, Becoming Victoria Wood will be a revelation. Her standup routines in the 1980s blazed a trail, with jokes about tampons and cellulite. She had a lonely childhood, was ignored by her mother and was shy and self-conscious about her weight. (Later press coverage fixating on her size was vile.) She didn’t feel clever or good-looking enough but she had a fierce streak of ambition that seemed to come from nowhere.

As climate crisis threatened her home, Alolita was offered a chance at a new life in Australia

Alolita Tekapu and her family among the first arrivals under a world-first agreement that allows people from Tuvalu to move to Australia

On a suburban street in eastern Melbourne on a cool summer’s day, Alolita Tekapu sits on the couch feeding her one-month-old son, Philip, while her three older boys play outside. Her husband folds laundry nearby, pausing occasionally to check on the children.

It’s an ordinary domestic scene. But the reason this family are in Australia is far from ordinary.

Angie Craig, Tom Emmer spar on House floor over ICE shooting

Rep. Angie Craig told WCCO she wanted to address what she saw as Rep. Tom Emmer's lack of standing up for Minnesotans.

NASA to bring Space Station astronauts back to Earth weeks early due to medical situation

NASA earlier delayed a planned spacewalk with ISS Commander Mike Fincke and flight engineer Zena Cardman.

Return of the Emirates Groan: Arsenal fans restless on night of stalemate with Liverpool | Jonathan Liew

Only one club are sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League, but the supporters’ anxiety after 22 years without the title risks infecting the players

Full-time and handshakes. A little Tears for Fears tinkles over the public address system. Beyond that … what, exactly? How to describe this swirling, velvety anti-noise? The sound of no gloves clapping? The sound of time physically disappearing down a vortex? The sound of no emotions?

It began with North London Forever and by the end we felt as though we had been in north London for ever: stuck on an endless loop of William Saliba passing to Jurriën Timber, of Virgil van Dijk pausing as he tried to bait a press that would never come. Long periods of this game were played at literal walking pace.

Intel stock rises after Trump touts 'very successful' CEO, applauds government's investment

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump said he just met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, and applauded the company for launching a processor in the U.S.

Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting

Retired ICE agent Eric Balliet reviewed bystander video of a federal immigration officer shooting and killing a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. CBS News' Nicole Sganga reports.

AI images and internet rumors spread confusion about ICE agent involved in shooting

While the agent wore a mask in videos taken of the event, he appeared to be unmasked in many social media posts. That image appeared to have been generated by xAI's generative AI chatbot, Grok.

House approves 3-year Affordable Care Act tax credit extension

The House approved a three-year extension of expired health care tax credits, with increased Republican support.

US congressmen ask judge to appoint official to force release of all Epstein files

Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie seek to compel justice department to release full set of files

Two US House of Representatives members have asked a federal judge to appoint a special master to compel the justice department to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.

On Thursday, Democratic representative Ro Khanna of California and Republican representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky asked US district judge Paul Engelmayer to release the full Epstein files, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

At least 13 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including five children, civil defence agency says

Attacks bring total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 425 since October ceasefire took effect

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the fighting.

Four people including three children were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

Photos: Protests grow over the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis

In cities across the country, demonstrators have expressed grief and outrage over the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday morning.

Nasa postpones spacewalk due to medical issue with astronaut

Space agency says US-Japanese-Russian crew of four will return to Earth in the coming days, earlier than planned

Nasa is cutting short a mission aboard the International Space Station after an astronaut had a medical issue.

The space agency said Thursday the US-Japanese-Russian crew of four will return to Earth in the coming days, earlier than planned.

Noem defends ICE officer who shot woman in Minneapolis as having "followed his training"

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Minnesota authorities "don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation."

Houses passes ACA subsidies; fate of bill murky in Senate

A bipartisan Senate working group is negotiating a separate deal to address the expiration of ACA tax credits.

First vetoes of Trump's term survive override vote in Congress

The vote came hours after the Senate voted to block President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela.

General Motors reports $7bn earnings loss after pulling back from EVs

GM says end of tax incentives and less stringent emissions regulations slowed consumer demand for EVs in 2025

General Motors said on Thursday it will record a one-time earnings hit of $7.1bn in its quarterly financial results, mostly due to its pullback from electric vehicles in light of shifting US policies.

The Detroit auto giant’s fourth-quarter results will be dented by $6bn in charges connected to reversals on EV investments, according to a securities filing. The remaining $1.1bn includes costs from the company’s restructuring of its China operations.

Doctors says 'The Pitt' reflects the gritty realities of medicine today

The Pitt is back for a new run, evoking the tensions health care providers face in the U.S. today. Here's what one doctor says to watch out for this season.

The December jobs report is due out Friday. Here's what it is expected to show

Nonfarm payrolls likely rose by 73,000 last month while the unemployment rate edged lower to 4.5%, according to the Dow Jones consensus.

As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

During black summer, my daughters were too young to know what was happening. Now, amid another Australian heatwave, they deserve answers

When the forecasts for this week started to roll in, my mind immediately drifted back to Australia’s black summer.

I had taken my daughters down to the pool in our estate in western Sydney, hoping for a brief reprieve from the relentless heat. The Gospers Mountain fire was raging in the Blue Mountains, but on that particular day the smoke didn’t seem too bad.

House fails to override Trump's vetoes of 2 bills that passed unanimously

The House on Thursday failed to override two of President Trump's vetoes of bipartisan bills, with Republicans largely sticking by the president.

Why is the U.S. pulling out of 31 U.N. groups? And what's the impact?

The Trump administration is withdrawing from 66 global groups, including U.N. entities that focus on climate and health issues.

GM to record $7.1 billion in fourth-quarter charges due to EV pullback, China restructuring 

GM's announcement comes after Ford said it would record similar writedowns following a broad resetting for the U.S. EV market.

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’

President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

Donald Trump has said ‘I don’t need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”.

In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.

Mamdani says New York child care expansion a real step to fulfilling campaign pledge

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says a plan unveiled Thursday to take the first steps toward universal childcare for kids under five shows New Yorkers that "democracy can actually deliver for them."

Who was Renee Nicole Good?

We're continuing to learn more about the 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

A 'medical situation' is forcing NASA to end mission at the space station a month early

NASA says a crew member on the International Space Station is unwell. The agency canceled a planned spacewalk for Thursday and is taking the rare step of ending the Crew-11 mission early.

The Supreme Court may rule Friday on Trump's tariffs. Here's what's at stake for the economy

The decision is poised to have far-reaching impacts on not only trade policy but also the U.S. fiscal situation.

Epstein files: Reps ask judge to appoint monitor to ensure all documents released

"The Department of Justice is openly defying the law by refusing to release the full Epstein files," California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said

Man jailed in New York for hoax bomb threats to UK hospitals and venues

David Hart, 22, imprisoned for one year over nuisance calls to London hospitals and Westminster Abbey

A man has been jailed for a year in New York for calling in a series of hoax bomb threats, many of which targeted institutions in the UK.

David Hart was prosecuted by US authorities after a joint investigation by Scotland Yard and the US department for homeland security.

Manchester United fan group seeks to oust ‘incompetent clown’ Jim Ratcliffe

• The 1958 says club has become a ‘laughing stock’

• Protest planned at Old Trafford in early February

Manchester United supporters group The 1958 has called for a vote of no confidence in the club’s ownership model, calling Sir Jim Ratcliffe “an incompetent clown”. The organisation will also hold a protest at the home match against Fulham on 1 February to make their voices heard at Old Trafford.

The group wants the removal of the Glazer family and Ratcliffe from the club. Concerns were also expressed in relation to the work of the chief executive, Omar Berrada, and the director of football, Jason Wilcox, in the aftermath of Ruben Amorim’s sacking, which will lead to an interim replacement.

Iran plunged into internet blackout as protests over economy spread nationwide

Security forces reported to have killed at least 45 people since protests began 12 days ago, as pressure on regime increases

Iran was plunged into a complete internet blackout on Thursday night as protests over economic conditions spread nationwide, increasing pressure on the country’s leadership.

While it was unclear what caused the internet cut, first reported by the internet freedom monitor NetBlocks, Iranian authorities have shut down the internet in response to protests in the past.

ICE shooting: State officials say FBI is blocking evidence in Minneapolis investigation

Top federal officials have blamed Renee Nicole Good for being fatally shot by an ICE agent, despite the fact an investigation hasn't been completed.

Two oil tankers under US sanctions sailing through Channel towards Russia

Aria and Tia both south of Britain after US-UK seizure of Marinera, deemed to be part of Moscow’s ‘shadow fleet’

Two oil tankers under US sanctions are sailing east through the Channel towards Russia, prompting speculation over whether the US and UK would be willing to seize further vessels linked to Moscow.

The Aria and the Tia, which has changed its name and country of registration several times, were both travelling south of Britain a day after the Marinera oil tanker was captured in the Atlantic by the US with UK help.

Harvey Weinstein weighing guilty plea to resolve third-degree rape charge

Disgraced former movie mogul would avoid a third trial in New York on charges that came to define the #MeToo era

Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve an undecided third-degree rape charge and avoid a third trial in New York on charges that came to define the #MeToo era.

Weinstein, in a wheelchair and looking noticeably paler than he did when he was last in court in June, was brought to Judge Curtis Farber’s court on Thursday, seeking to have his latest sex crime conviction thrown out over claims of juror intimidation.

Senate votes to block Trump from future military strikes on Venezuela

The Trump administration used to military to snatch Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last week.

David Bowie’s childhood home to open to public after 1960s restoration

South London house to feature never-before-seen archival items and creative workshops for young people

On the evening of 6 July 1972, thousands of young people across the UK had their lives changed when the sight of David Bowie performing Starman on Top of the Pops was beamed into their living rooms.

Come the end of 2027, Bowie fans will be able to walk the very floorboards where the young David Jones had his own Damascene cultural conversion, when his childhood home in south London, is opened to the public for the first time.

Tennis Kenya admits to wildcard error after player’s heavy defeat goes viral

• Hajar Abdelkader won just three points in 6-0, 6-0 loss

• ‘Wildcard should not have been granted’ to Egyptian

Tennis Kenya said a controversial wildcard granted to Hajar Abdelkader should not have happened after the young Egyptian’s performance at a professional tournament in Nairobi went viral.

The 21-year-old won three points and served 20 double faults on her way to a 6-0, 6-0 defeat against German world No 1,026, Lorena Schaedel. Videos shared on social media showed the Egyptian struggling to serve and position herself on the court.

The Guardian view on the new global disorder: Britain and Europe must find their own path | Editorial

Donald Trump’s Venezuela policy confirms he has no time for rules or process. America’s allies must find new ways to guarantee their own interests

Occasionally, history generates smooth changes from one era to another. More commonly, such shifts occur only gradually and untidily. And sometimes, as the former Downing Street foreign policy adviser John Bew puts it in the New Statesman, history unfolds “in a series of flashes and bangs”. In Caracas last weekend, Donald Trump’s forces did this in spectacular style. In the process, the US brushed aside more of what remains of the so-called rules-based order with which it tried to shape the west after 1945.

The capture of Venezuela’s former president Nicolás Maduro has precedents in US policy. But discerning a wider new pattern from the kidnapping is not easy, especially at this early stage. As our columnist Aditya Chakrabortty has argued this week, the abduction can be seen as a assertion of American power, but also as little more than a chaotic asset grab.

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The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children. | Editorial

A wave of humiliating sexualised imagery must prompt regulators and politicians to step up

An online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has rightly sparked outrage in the UK and internationally. Earlier this week Liz Kendall, the science and technology secretary, described the proliferation of the digitally altered pictures, some of which are overtly sexualised or violent, as “unacceptable in decent society”. What happens next will depend on whether she and her colleagues are prepared to follow through on such remarks. The government’s generally enthusiastic approach to AI, and the growing role they see for it in public services, do not inspire confidence in their ability to confront such threats.

In addition to the deluge of bikini images, the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity, has evidence that Grok Imagine (an AI tool that generates images and videos from prompts) has been used to create illegal child sexual abuse images. Yet while X says that it removes such material, there is no sign of safeguards being tightened in response to bikini images that are cruel and violating even where they do not break the law.

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Trump's team races to come up with a Greenland takeover plan — here's what's at stake

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that he intends to convene with Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reveals her one-year-old son has died after a short illness

The Nigerian novelist has said that she is ‘devastated’ after the death of Nkanu Nnamdi, who was one of twin boys

One of the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s one-year-old twin sons has died after a brief illness.

“We’re deeply saddened to confirm the passing of one of Ms Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dr Ivara Esege’s twin boys, Nkanu Nnamdi, who passed on Wednesday,” read a statement made by Adichie’s communications team.

Google and AI startup to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots led to teen suicide

Lawsuit accuses AI chatbots of harming minors and includes case of Sewell Setzer III, who killed himself in 2024

Google and Character.AI, a startup, have settled lawsuits filed by families accusing artificial intelligence chatbots of harming minors, including contributing to a Florida teenager’s suicide, according to court filings on Wednesday.

The settlements cover lawsuits filed in Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas, according to the legal filings, though they still require finalization and court approval.

Are you taking supplements correctly? Here’s a guide on their dosage limits

From vitamins C and D to calcium and magnesium, it’s critical to know whether you’re taking the correct dosage to avoid health problems

There are more than 100,000 supplements on the US market – capsules, powders, tablets and gummies sold to improve or maintain health. Supplements can contain vitamins, minerals, botanicals and amino acids on their own or in various combinations.

The consumption of these products is surging. But it’s a common misunderstanding that these products are entirely safe, says Dr Pieter Cohen, an internist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Excessive amounts of nutrients can cause health problems, so it’s critical to know whether you’re using the correct dosage of high-quality products.

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Treasury Secretary Bessent says more Fed rate cuts are 'only ingredient missing' for stronger economy

Bessent on Thursday pressed the administration's desire for lower interest rates, saying they are the key to future economic growth.