England v Ireland: second women’s cricket one-day international – live

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3rd over: Ireland 10-1 (Hunter 0, Lewis 5) MacDonald-Gay starts off tight before going too short and too wide: Lewis puts everything into her cut shot, granting her a boundary.

2nd over: Ireland 5-1 (Hunter 0, Lewis 1) Amy Hunter, who hit 62 in the opener, joins her captain.

Fed Governor Waller indicates he will support holding rates steady at September meeting

In remarks that seem to contrast with statements last week from Chairman Kevin Warsh, Waller expressed confidence in the current inflation trends.

‘Leon Black is hiding behind litigation’: outrage after billionaire sues Congress over subpoenas for Epstein investigation – live

Republican oversight chair James Comer says he will speak to committee about next steps as Democrat calls for holding billionaire in contempt for defying two subpoenas

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Republican oversight chair James Comer has also weighed in on Leon Black not sitting for a deposition about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The billionaire financier, who has denied wrongdoing, filed suit against the oversight committee Thursday alleging the subpoenas were improper.

“It’s a shame Leon Black is hiding behind litigation rather than provide answers to the American people. Our investigation is examining how the federal government for decades failed survivors of Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes and how Mr. Epstein sought to curry favor with influential individuals to avoid scrutiny,” Comer said in a statement. “Mr. Black’s testimony is crucial to our investigation as he was one of Mr. Epstein’s fee paying clients and has several nondisclosure agreements.”

I own six guns. Here’s how to talk to conservatives about firearms

In rural America, guns are a fact of life. But even conservatives agree that properly locking them up is crucial in preventing deaths

I have six guns in my house.

The first was a vintage Winchester 12-gauge. It was the winter of 1990, and my husband and I had just moved from an urban block in north-west Philadelphia to 100-year-old farmhouse in Appalachian Virginia, where my family goes back seven generations.

The Ceuta border breach was leapt on by Europe’s right. That doesn’t absolve Spain | María Ramírez

The government’s sluggish response has been disastrous for everyone involved – and for Sánchez’s message on immigration

More than a month after an estimated 72,000 people suddenly crossed from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, the city remains in chaos and the damage inflicted on the Spanish government is becoming clearer. Most of those who made the crossing have returned to Morocco. The scale of the incident was nevertheless extraordinary, and about 140 people are thought to have died.

Also extraordinary was the response of the 22 EU governments that rounded on the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, rather than demonstrate the solidarity one might expect from allies. Perhaps less surprising was the exploitation of the crisis by rightwing and far-right parties in Spain and beyond, Donald Trump’s attacks and the interventions of Russian state-linked actors and Israeli critics on social media to fuel division.

Tango championships, floods and a downed drone: photos of the day – Thursday

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

Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal

Semi-conductor giant bets that support for open AI models could offset potential slowdown in demand for chips

Nvidia will buy the popular developer platform Hugging Face for nearly $13bn, betting that support for ⁠open AI models could offset a potential slowdown in demand for the semiconductor giant’s chips.

Shares ⁠in Nvidia were ⁠slightly lower ​after the $12.93bn (£9.57bn) deal – which ranks among its biggest ever – was announced for the database of AI models on Thursday.

Hugging Face approached Nvidia’s Huang weeks ahead of $12.9B acquisition, CEO tells CNBC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with Hugging Face, the chipmaker will "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide."

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wars

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Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92.

Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, a statement shared to her Instagram page said.

Leon Black sues House Oversight over Epstein probe subpoenas, won't appear Thursday

Black's attorneys say the NDAs being sought by the panel have nothing to do with his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein.

A sun goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining

Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and cyanide is leaching into the river

7Devotees in white clothing line the riverbank, praying as they carry offerings of fruit, kola nut and sacrificial animals in supplication to Osun, the Yoruba goddess of fertility, beauty and healing, whose carved form stands with arms outstretched a few metres away in the Osun River.

It is the final day of Nigeria’s annual Osun Osogbo festival in honour of the African deity, in a tradition that has existed for hundreds of years and draws people from across the diaspora.

Yeye Omifunto Ojo performs a sacrifice at the Osun River

Spain’s PM says no evidence ‘whatsoever’ Morocco behind Ceuta border breach

Pedro Sánchez continues to defend Rabat after police report claiming border forces helped 70,000 cross border

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Spain has seen no evidence “whatsoever” that Morocco planned or facilitated a mass border breach into its north African territory of Ceuta, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has told parliament.

The address on Thursday followed the emergence of a police report, commissioned by a judge and widely quoted in the media, claiming Moroccan border forces had actively aided about 70,000 people to cross the border in late July.

Invasive tropical mosquito found breeding in east London

Climate crisis could increase incursions of Aedes aegypti, which can transmit Zika virus and dengue, experts say

An invasive mosquito capable of transmitting tropical diseases has been found breeding in homes in east London, with experts warning that the rapidly warming climate will lead to greater “incursions of invasive mosquitoes”.

This is the first time the species has been identified breeding in the UK and the fourth time it has been detected.

Lindsay Clancy mistrial more likely after jurors tell judge they're deadlocked for second time

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial told Plymouth Superior Judge William Sullivan they were still deadlocked Wednesday, prompting him to read Tuey-Rodriguez instructions, a last resort pushing the jurors to reach a verdict. Caroline Polisi has more.

Fun, flirty and fried to perfection: farewell to Chicken Shop Date, the YouTube show that helped kill off TV

Amelia Dimoldenberg’s series helped turn YouTube into a world-beating phenomenon. As it bows out, we remember its best bits – from mocking MC Ghetts to that sizzling tension with Billie Eilish and Andrew Garfield

When Amelia Dimoldenberg posted a video to social media this week, telling an unknown companion “we need to talk”, it felt like a monumental announcement was on the horizon. And so it came to pass. Chicken Shop Date, Dimoldenberg’s YouTube series, is coming to an end.

The press release covering the announcement came packed with superlatives. Chicken Shop Date has generated 34m hours of views over the years, and has reached 97% of all countries on the planet. What it didn’t mention is that Chicken Shop Date helped to legitimise YouTube as a platform that has taken on – and perhaps beaten – television. The very fact that the Guardian is covering the end of a YouTube video series in the first place is, in part, down to Chicken Shop Date.

‘We need a touch of humanity’: Swedish opposition pledges to help Britons facing deportation

Exclusive: Centre party says it will change law to end plight of those hit by post-Brexit policy if it gains power in upcoming election

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A leading Swedish opposition party has promised an urgent reprieve for British nationals facing deportation from the country over Brexit administrative issues.

Niels Paarup-Petersen, the migration spokesperson for the Centre party, said it would introduce laws to end the suffering of people such as the 78-year-old British widow Joyce Thomas if, as polls project, it forms a new centre-left coalition after the general election in 10 days’ time. Thomas has been told to leave by next Wednesday after 21 years in Sweden.

Ross Fire still burning, with over 90,000 acres scorched

The wildfire, which has torn through Palo Pinto and Jack counties, has forced evacuations, closed roads and disrupted schools.

Reform UK gets another £4m from crypto billionaire pardoned by Donald Trump

Ben Delo, who was convicted in 2022 for failure to apply anti-money laundering controls, is party’s second biggest donor

Reform UK has been given a further £4m from the British crypto billionaire Ben Delo, with the party saying it is confident the formerly Hong Kong-based businessman will not be caught by the new overseas donor cap.

Delo, who was convicted in the US in 2022 for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls in his cryptocurrency business before being pardoned by Donald Trump, has previously given £4m to Reform in January.

Gloria Steinem, trailblazing figure in women's liberation movement, dies at 92

Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. Magazine, was a leader in raising awareness about gender equality and violence against women, and for promoting inclusion, representation and social justice for women and girls.

Falling House review – fierce tale of an Iranian prison guard holding his family hostage

Venice film festival: Mohsen Gharaei’s powerfully acted domestic drama watches as the failing patriarch attempts to contain family rebellion

Iran is a prison and everybody is inside: cons and non-cons; parents and their children. That’s the message hammered home, never subtly but with terrific force and conviction, throughout the course of Mohsen Gharaei’s hothouse domestic drama, which plays in the Orizzonti section in Venice. It’s about a low-level jailer, crushed by life, who returns from the day job and proceeds to incarcerate his own family. He does so out of love and to reassert his authority, to protect his wife and kids from the world and from their own foolish notions. For him, it’s a bone-headed busman’s holiday. For his family, it’s a nightmarish tragicomic staycation.

Veteran Iranian actor Farhad Aslani is perfectly cast as Rashid Hafizhi, Gharaei’s misguided prison guard. Rashid is a burly bear of a man who nonetheless carries an air of bewilderment and defeat, as though he’s smart enough to know that everyone in the vicinity is just that little bit smarter than him. He’s been falsely accused of aiding and abetting a jailbreak and is facing imminent eviction from his rented family home. Then, just when it seems his day can’t get any worse, Rashid learns that his cherished eldest daughter, Ensi (Laleh Marzban), is planning to run off to seek work as a model in Turkey. Modelling in Iran is a non-starter, she explains. Ensi has to cover her arms and neck for each job, while the power supply is so unstable and the lights have a tendency to cut out in the middle of a photoshoot.

'No steering wheel, no pedals.' Tesla teases fans ahead of long-awaited Cybercab update

Tesla first unveiled the Cybercab almost two years ago, and fans of the company have been waiting to hear more.

Hillary Clinton on Gloria Steinem: "One of the architects" of women's equality

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remembered activist Gloria Steinem as "one of the architects of the entire structure of women's equality," while encouraging young women to lift up each other.

Andoni Iraola defends transfer strategy and reveals Liverpool turned down options

• Potential buys rejected for sporting or economic reasons

• Preference was ‘best players’ not specific right-winger

Andoni Iraola has defended Liverpool’s summer transfer strategy and said the club’s priority was to sign quality over quantity.

Liverpool had the highest net spend in the Premier League, with Bradley Barcola, signed for a potential £123m, added to a front line that includes the £125m Alexander Isak and £116m Florian Wirtz. Barcola could make his debut at Ipswich on Friday, despite not featuring for Paris Saint-Germain before his move on Monday.

What we’re reading: Irvine Welsh, Janice Hallett and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

I’ve been enjoying Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. The premise that love and art are the only things that make life worthwhile pulses beautifully through this novel and its two protagonists, spanning decades of their obsession with both, and each other. The tragedy is they are not sufficient alone for a relationship to survive to the exclusion of everything else (namely capitalism, which always has a place at the table), but they remain essential and enduring. Nowhere is this better evoked than here. Think John Williams’s Stoner but with art instead of literature and stuffed with more memorable characters.

Judge rules 2,000 Catalina Island deer can be killed to save native plant species

Cull of animals that eat native shrubs, causing spread of fast-igniting grasses, to go ahead despite fierce opposition

Locals and tourists have long fawned over Catalina Island’s mule deer population. For nearly a century, the ungulates have roamed the land’s waterfronts and woodlands, so comfortable around humans that it is not uncommon to spot deer roaming downtown Avalon.

But that sight will soon disappear, after a judge this week paved the way for the island’s conservancy to kill nearly all the island’s 2,000 deer.

Apocalypse prep or pure pragmatism: what is behind Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina?

Relocation coincides with proposed laws that opponents say would entrench power of US tech billionaires in country

Dozens of protesters converged on Peter Thiel’s mansion in Buenos Aires this week after a congressional session raised questions about the billionaire’s presence in the country.

In white masks, they held signs saying “Peter Thief” and “No to the Peter Thiel law” in front of the wrought-iron gates of the $12m (£8.9m) residence, which Thiel bought in April as he moved his family to Argentina.

Tall tales: the 20 best giants in film – ranked!

On the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, we celebrate the biggest film stars of them all – from a stone colossus to a metal-munching alien and a 50ft woman on the rampage

Not a first-person-shooter BFG, alas, but one of Steven Spielberg’s worst films, reducing Roald Dahl’s story to digital pap. Mo-cap Mark Rylance, whose cutesy ungrammatical babbling should have been left on the printed page, is the 24ft Big Friendly Giant who kidnaps an orphan girl, Sophie. Ugh. Big Creepy Giant, more like.

La Mesías review – this utterly bizarre TV show is unforgettable

Finally landing on Mubi, this Spanish mega-hit about six sisters drilled into becoming viral Christian pop stars is wildly ambitious, blackly funny and a true triumph. Oh, and there are UFOs too

At Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in 2024, nestled alongside the likes of Pulp and Charli xcx was an unusual addition to the bill. Stella Maris arrived on stage as haunting home movies, religious iconography and glittery gifs popped up on the screen behind them. Part-Haim, part-Heaven’s Gate, the six sisters performed their hits: “Christian electronic dance music” that their late mother, apparently, believed would help them to save the world.

The performance was very real, but the band was not. It was a stunt for the Spanish TV mega-hit La Mesías or The Messiah, which was released there in 2023. Its seven episodes centre on an estranged brother and sister, Enric and Irene, who discover that their siblings have become a viral pop band. Cue a soft-focus, flashback-heavy trip into the family’s past, thick with emotional neglect, parental narcissism and religious fanaticism. Oh, and there are UFOs, too.

Hillary Clinton reflects on Gloria Steinem's impact on women's rights

Writer and women's rights trailblazer Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at 92, her foundation announced Thursday. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined "CBS Mornings" via phone to reflect on Steinem's life and impact.

Journalist and feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem dies at 92

Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. Magazine and played a significant role in the women's liberation movement, died Wednesday at 92, her foundation announced Thursday on social media.

Jam season is here - bottle that sunshine now to brighten up the winter

September’s preserving season is a race to capture the heady flavours of summer fruit

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The ideal time to make lemonade, when lemons are juicy and plentiful and cheap, is in the dead of winter, when the last thing you want is a cooling glass of lemonade. Similarly, jam-making is best done on a grey November afternoon, when the windows are steamed up and the kitchen is the warmest place in the house. Winter is exactly when you want to be standing over a great pot of bubbling fruit and boiling sugar, but much less so in summer, which is when all the good fruit is in season. From May until mid-October, our fruit supplier bills spike exponentially as boxes and boxes of seasonal fruit in its absolute prime make their way to our kitchen for a jam session, and the practice of turning them into a sweet spread is part profession, part obsession. Jam is very much our jam.

Early in the season, we can just about cope. The soft fruits start to come in when the weather is still behaving itself, and we love giving them a little seasonal accent – elderflower comes with the last rhubarb, as well as with the first strawberries and apricots, and it pairs wonderfully with all of them (if you are starting there, Felicity Cloake has a very thorough guide to the perfect strawberry jam). Cherries, meanwhile, go with just about anything, while young bay leaves often find themselves heading into the blackcurrant pot. Fennel fronds and peaches are another favourite, and we make some whenever we can get those two at the same moment. It is an amazing combination: sweet, perfumed and just a little bit green.

Share your tributes and memories of Gloria Steinem

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of Gloria Steinem – whether you met her, or appreciated her work

Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92.

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of Gloria Steinem – whether you met her, or appreciated her work.

Yen soars as Bank of Japan tipped to raise interest rates

Jump lifts currency to highest level against dollar in a month, while global markets remain jittery

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The Japanese yen has soared by nearly 2% against the dollar amid speculation the Bank of Japan is set to raise interest rates.

The latest jump on Thursday lifted the yen to its highest level against the dollar in a month, at 155.57, and followed a 0.9% move the previous day.

Care workers and others fleeing UK modern slavery win visa reprieve

Exclusive: Home Office concedes skilled workers abused by sponsors can change employer and complete visa term

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Care workers, chefs and others in danger of losing their migration status under post-Brexit rules if they leave an exploitative employer will be helped by new visa changes, the Home Office says.

Officials said if an employee was found to be a victim of modern slavery they would be allowed to work for any employer for the remainder of their visa.

Dems demand DHS fund election security. And, journalist Gloria Steinem has died

Two Democrats are demanding that Homeland Security officials fund election security ahead of the midterms. And, trail-blazing journalist Gloria Steinem has died.

Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92

At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.

Hull condemn ‘disgusting’ racist abuse of deadline-day signing Robinio Vaz

• Teenage striker racially abused on social media

• Club working with authorities to find those responsible

Hull City have condemned racist ⁠abuse directed at their new signing Robinio Vaz on ⁠social media ⁠and ​said they were working with authorities to identify ⁠those responsible.

The 19-year-old striker joined the promoted ⁠Premier League side on loan ​from Roma ‌on transfer deadline day. Vaz’s move was announced in a social media post that garnered a high volume of derogatory comments aimed at the Frenchman.

Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: ‘Do your best to pronounce these words’

People online are distressed at men butchering words such as ‘hyperbole’ and ‘hors d’oeuvres’ – highlighting a gender reversal in ‘intelligence gaps’

There are common non-negotiables we look for in a prospective partner. They should be kind, caring and thoughtful. Having a shared interest helps. So does remembering important dates and anniversaries. But how much does it matter if they know how to pronounce the word “gnocchi”?

Turns out that’s a potential dealbreaker, at least according to a (rather judgy) cohort on TikTok. See: the “Illiterate Boyfriend” trend, which is testing some couples on the app. Users have compiled a list of what are essentially SAT words for women to ask their male partners to read. Many of these men – this is an overwhelmingly heterosexual activity – fail to finish the list unscathed. They trip over entries such as “hyperbole”, “cynicism”, “diaphragmatic” and the oft-butchered French term, “hors d’oeuvres”.

An epic train chase is turning 100 — and Buster Keaton fans are celebrating

100 years ago, silent film star Buster Keaton filmed The General in Cottage Grove, Ore. Fans are gathering there to celebrate the making of an epic early film.

Arsenal bank on continuity after big names elude them late in transfer window

Could the vain pursuit of ‘dream’ signings such as Vinícius Júnior at the expense of all-round strengthening come to haunt the champions?

When Mikel Arteta revealed before Arsenal’s win at Aston Villa that he had pleaded with the Premier League to introduce bigger matchday squads, the final 24 hours of the transfer window was not quite what he would have had in mind. A deadline day on which Manchester City matched the British record to sign Enzo Fernández from Chelsea for £125m came and went as Arsenal allowed Gabriel Jesus and Ethan Nwaneri to leave without bringing in replacements.

With Gabriel Martinelli expected to join Al-Hilal before Sunday’s deadline in Saudi Arabia for a fee that could rise to £60m, there are question marks about the depth of the champions’ squad, despite Arteta still having at least two options for each position. Eberechi Eze will provide competition on the left for the new boy Christos Tzolis, and the manager has a plethora of central midfielders at his disposal after the arrival of Bruno Guimarães from Newcastle, but there is not much room for manoeuvre should Arsenal experience injuries in attack like they have for the past two seasons.

Lindsay Clancy jury deadlocked as judge gives "dynamite" instruction

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial will resume deliberations Thursday, a day after getting a final "dynamite" instruction from the judge.

Off-grid UK-Australian couple describe ‘anguish’ at removal of children by Italian court

After judge allows partial access rights, Catherine Birmingham and Nathan Trevallion say the enforced separation ‘broke each of our hearts’

A couple have told of their heartache, trauma and stress after fighting for two years for their right to parent their children as they choose in the glare of the world’s attention.

The three children of a Melbourne woman, Catherine Birmingham, and her British partner, Nathan Trevallion, were removed from their “dilapidated” off-grid home in Italy last year.

U.S. journalist gets 2 year sentence for acting as agent for China, DOJ says

American journalist Thomas Weir Pauken II has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for acting as an agent of China's government within the U.S., the Justice Department says​.

‘We continue to suffer’: victims of apartheid-era Sharpeville massacre demand compensation

Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South Africa

The day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against pass laws, which forced “Black, Indian and Coloured” South Africans to carry documents at all times specifying where they were allowed to be.

Abraham Mofokeng joined the march, one of dozens organised nationwide by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a breakaway group from the African National Congress (ANC). “The weather was very nice, the sun was out. You could not have suspected that the day would go so horribly,” said Mofokeng, who was then a 20-year-old factory worker.

Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi

Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity

Let me introduce you to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel’s far-right Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party, the minister of national security, and an almost cartoonishly evil man. You’ll have heard his name before: he made international news when he filmed himself taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. But you might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven’t been widely covered by much of the US media.

Let’s start with an AI-generated video that Ben-Gvir posted on Twitter/X on Sunday and then deleted. It shows portly Palestinian prisoners being loaded on to a conveyor belt and going into a detention camp, then emerging emaciated. The caption is “we promised – we delivered!” which seems to be a reference to the national security minister’s promise to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners. An ambitious goal, considering conditions are already hellish: Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has likened the prisons where Palestinians are kept to “torture camps”.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist

606 miles in six days: teacher Megan Eckert chases ultrarunning history – and a men’s record

At this week’s world championship, the women’s record holder who once feared a 5K will try to top her own 144-hour distance – and beat the US men’s mark

While many teachers head back to school this week, middle-school math teacher Megan Eckert will be 5,000 miles from her classroom in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has a good reason to miss a few classes: she’ll be competing at the Global Organization of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners World Championship.

On Thursday, more than 100 runners will gather on a start line in Balatonfüred, Hungary, and attempt to run as many miles as they can in six days.

The wars in Ukraine and Iran are becoming dangerously enmeshed | Christopher S Chivvis

As the Trump administration refuses to end its war in Iran, it is steering into the storm, not out of it

Russia hasn’t yet killed large numbers of Europeans outside Ukraine, but it’s getting closer. The night of 4-5 August, an airport bus driver discovered an armed drone lying near the tarmac of the Leipzig-Halle airport, which is a central hub of Europe’s logistical support to Ukraine’s war effort. A cargo jet, meanwhile, may have struck a second drone shortly after takeoff, forcing an abrupt landing, and investigators found a third drone laden with military explosives nearby.

In 2024, incendiary devices hidden in parcels ignited in DHL cargo at the same airport. Had these detonated in the air, a major air catastrophe and large-scale civilian casualties would have ensued, probably resulting in a broader war.

Hidden China risks are emerging in America’s multibillion-dollar AI data center boom

U.S. AI data centers rely on China-linked supplies of transformers, batteries and optical gear as Washington moves to tighten restrictions on foreign equipment.

Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of U.S. and Canada, citing ‘crisis preparedness’

DNB said gold stored with the Bank of England is more readily tradable, allowing it to be deployed more quickly in a severe crisis.

Arsenal poised to land PSG’s Élisa De Almeida on WSL transfer deadline day

• PSG reluctant to let Echegini join Manchester City

• New United coach Olid promises ‘attacking’ style

Arsenal are expected to finalise the signing of the France defender Élisa De Almeida before the 11pm BST Women’s Super League transfer deadline. The club are understood to have agreed a fee of just over £500,000 with Paris Saint-Germain for the 28-year-old.

PSG, for whom De Almeida has played since 2021, are less willing to let their Nigeria midfielder Jennifer Echegini go. The 25-year-old is understood to be the subject of interest from Manchester City but PSG were fighting hard to keep her on Thursday morning.

‘I would rather die than return to France’: the brutal reality of the UK’s one in, one out scheme

Aso and Baran fled Iran, crossed the Channel together and were both returned to France. After risking their lives to reach Britain again, the friends found themselves facing very different fates

At the end of last year, two men fled Iran. Aso and Baran* were strangers at the time. The way their stories would cross, then diverge, reveals the cruel arbitrariness of the UK asylum system in general, and the government’s controversial one in, one out scheme in particular.

Before he left Iran, Aso, 28, had converted from Islam to Christianity, putting his life in imminent danger. “I had to keep my conversion to Christianity a secret,” he says. “I knew if I was caught, I risked being executed by the Iranian regime … one of my relatives, who I trusted, paid smugglers to get me out last November.”

Green party leader Zack Polanski seeks to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer seat

Polanski says he will ‘stand up for people struggling to pay their bills’ if he becomes MP for Holborn and St Pancras

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Zack Polanski will seek to stand as a candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, he has announced.

The leader of the Green party in England and Wales told the Camden New Journal on Thursday he would “stand up for people struggling to pay their bills” if he was elected as the representative for the area, which became vacant when Keir Starmer announced he was standing down as an MP.

Maduro, wife seek dismissal of drug trafficking indictment on immunity grounds

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife asked a judge to toss their drug trafficking indictment on the grounds that they have immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country.

Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together

On a bitingly cold night in Lapalala Wilderness nature reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once the drone has disappeared into the inky sky, Kanyakera, from Tsavo in Kenya, and 20 other conservation professionals from across Africa turn their attention to the open-air screen in anticipation.

Many of the students – from 11 African countries as far flung as Benin, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar – witnessing the demonstration have earned their places at Lapalala after performing well on an online training programme for protected area technicians (PAT) run by the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF). Also on the course, are five members of Peace Parks staff in training.

Chad Powers season two review – Glen Powell’s sweet sports comedy scores a touchdown

The Hollywood hottie is back as the quarterback in disguise, in an oddball comedy that is naughty, lovable and disarmingly unique

In the first episode of season two of Chad Powers, there is but one concern: the main character’s nose has fallen off.

The TV outlet for the wacky side of movie hottie Glen Powell, Chad Powers presents itself to us having willingly taken on the burden of a ludicrous premise. Powell is Russ Holliday, a former hotshot college-football quarterback who, eight years ago, committed a career-cancelling faux pas during the televised game that was meant to make him a star. With his sporting dreams suddenly vaporised, he became an obnoxious playboy. But then, just as he felt his feet starting to scrape rock bottom, he heard that a university in Georgia was holding open tryouts for a new quarterback. Donning prosthetic whiskers, teeth, hair and an occasionally unreliable nose – a slightly more sophisticated version of a joke-shop disguise – Russ became “Chad Powers”, a southern oddball and the new star of the team, while constantly dealing with the threat of being found out and sent home.

Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme kicked a woman and his ex-wife alleged domestic abuse. Why the cosy makeover?

Like Johnny Depp and Chris Brown before him, Homme has got past his chequered history to retain an adoring fanbase. Almost a decade post-#MeToo, audiences no longer seem to care

As part of the promo for Queens of the Stone Age’s new album Perfecth, the band has set up a novelty complaints hotline for fans to call. “No bitching too big, no whiny too tiny,” it promises. I’ll bite: how about the fact that frontman Josh Homme’s ex-wife Brody Dalle testified in court that he head-butted her so hard that she “saw stars” and said he had fantasised about killing her? Or that he kicked a female photographer in the face? It’s certainly not what anyone’s talking about as part of Homme’s friendly neighbourhood rock star image rehabilitation: duetting on Shania Twain’s new album, taking the couch on Celebrity Gogglebox, teatime BBC 6 Music interviews.

Homme and Dalle clearly had a complicated relationship: he allegedly tried to throw her boyfriend off a balcony; he claims that she was violent towards him; both have taken out restraining orders against one another; Homme has full custody of their kids after Dalle’s boyfriend was found to have forged her signature on an application for a restraining order. Homme has recently talked about coming through a dark period, including successful treatment for cancer, and getting a handle on his vices. Nevertheless, there is clear footage of him brutally kicking the camera of photographer Chelsea Lauren back into her face, which he acknowledged in an apology video, and court testimony from Dalle alleging that a drunk Homme told her “I want to fucking strangle you right now” on one occasion, and head-butted her on another.

As millions of kids lose SNAP food benefits, free school meals are also at risk

Food stamps have a direct link to other critical resources, such as free breakfast and lunch at school. Now, experts say they're starting to see that link break.

Inside the failed mission to eliminate FEMA

David Richardson worked to eliminate the country's top disaster agency when he led FEMA last year. Now, he says the administration has abandoned that goal.

Morning News Brief

Exodus of experienced military leadership continues in the Pentagon, Trump touts Venezuela oil deal as critics question legality, the jury is deadlocked in the trial of Lindsay Clancy.

Xi visits Egypt as China seeks deeper influence across the Mideast

China's President Xi Jinping visits Egypt this week for the first time in a decade. The trip illustrates China's growing ambitions at a time when U.S. influence has been weakened by its war in Iran.

The Gentlemen season two review – these geezers in tweed are irritating, stupid and extremely funny

Guy Ritchie’s crime caper is back with the usual hijinks, swearing and men shaking their fists. But its ridiculousness is strangely comforting – and Theo James’s beefcake Eddie is so bland that he is fascinating to observe

He lives in a house, a very big house in the country. He has pectorals the size of Bentleys and wears plus-fours so voluminous they could accommodate his fleet of gundogs and still provide room for snarling groundskeeper Geoff (“I would do anyfink for you an’ this famlee”). And yet! Edward “Eddie” Horniman, 13th Duke of Halstead (Theo James), is sad. And aggrieved. A moment’s silence, please, as this powerful hunk pontificates on the unbearable lightness of being the millionaire protagonist in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen.

“Four hundred years ago, this estate spread out as far as the eye could see,” he tells Geoff (Vinnie Jones) as the camera swoops over his verdant playpen, a lavish patchwork of abundant hedges and cap-doffing deer. “But it’s been diminished. Year after year. Generation after generation. First came the apologies, then came the shame, then came the contraction. I want it back, Geoff,” he growls, hexagonal jaw stiff with emotion. “I want it all back!”

‘I show how energetic it can be’: the photographer capturing Britain’s golden age of jazz

Temi Adegbayibi started out taking pictures of the Ezra Collective and other British musicians as a hobby, then found his work exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall. He discusses Black joy and the movement and stillness of jazz

When I speak to Temi Adegbayibi on the phone, the 26-year-old photographer is on the move. He is travelling across London, then running up the stairs to his desk, fitting our conversation into the interstitial spaces of a life split between freelance photography, film production and working at the Royal Albert Hall.

His glittering portfolio includes photographs of Jorja Smith, Basement Jaxx, Fireboy DML and Ezra Collective, but like many in the creative industries, he oscillates between the glamour of the stage and the reality of making a living. “I’ve always had day jobs,” he says. “Most photographers back in the day weren’t shooting for money, they were shooting for passion.”

Premier League paradox: midfielders are more and more expensive, yet more and more mediocre | Jonathan Liew

Enzo Fernández and Sandro Tonali had big-money summer moves, but can they hold a candle to past greats?

Perhaps the only thing you really need to know about the modern midfield role is that Enzo Maresca reckons that Marc Guéhi can play it better than Mateo Kovacic. Guéhi, in reality a centre-back, started the season in midfield for Manchester City, ahead of Kovacic, the now-departed Nico González, and Matheus Nunes. In this context City’s purchase of Enzo Fernández for a club record £125m can be seen in one of two ways: either an enormous statement of intent, or a hell of a lot of money to pay for Guéhi’s understudy.

We jest, of course. Fernández is in fact a very different kind of midfielder to Guéhi, largely on the basis that he actually is a midfielder. Versatile, able to receive deep from the goalkeeper or the centre-halves; capable of recycling or progressing the ball in tight spots, driving into final-third positions as a No 8, ghosting into the penalty area and offering an advanced goal threat. Like Elliot Anderson, signed from Nottingham Forest for £116m but so long ago that in transfer window time it no longer counts, Fernández is one of the new breed of Premier League central midfielders who seems to offer everything; albeit in modest qualities, and whose primary attribute appears to be the absence of exposed risk he represents.

You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop letting the recycling pile up?

Robin keeps used packaging on the kitchen ledge. Benny thinks that’s unhygienic. You decide who’s talking rubbish

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We’ve had little flies buzzing around – I know they’re coming from the recycling

Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and wife seek to end drug charges case on immunity grounds

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife have asked a judge to dismiss the drug trafficking indictment against them on the grounds that they have immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country

‘I was never taught Welsh history’: Michael Sheen on reclaiming rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr

Actor will play 15th-century hero in sweeping production about Welsh rebellion against English crown

There are myriad films, plays and books focusing on heroes of English, Scottish and Irish history but far fewer that tell the stories of the great figures of Wales.

A major new play about the Welsh nobleman Owain Glyndŵr’s early 15th-century rebellion against the English crown will help redress the balance this autumn.

A Death of One’s Own by Terry Eagleton review – meditations on arriving at a full stop

The literary critic brings his vast reading to bear on life’s most inescapable fact

Terry Eagleton is not a fan of sloppy thinking, especially when it comes to the granite fact of death. He particularly doesn’t like the attitude of Dylan Thomas who famously urged his ailing father to “not go gentle into that good night”. If the “night” – death – is so “good” then why, asks Eagleton reasonably, would Thomas want his dad to dawdle? Shouldn’t DJ Thomas, rather, be encouraged to trot towards his lovely end like an ecstatic marathon runner on the home straight?

Eagleton’s reproach to Thomas’s doublethink should not be read as panicky denial about the reality of his own mortality. To the contrary, Eagleton, who at 83 admits that he wasn’t sure whether this book would end up being published posthumously, finds it hard to think or write about much else. After a 60-year academic career spent tussling with Marxist literary theory, not to mention the epistemological void at the heart of postmodernism criticism, these days Eagleton is more interested in pondering death and how it “lacks a sense of occasion”. It might visit, for example, while you happen to be dressed in a giraffe outfit.

I camped in one of Britain’s last remaining rainforests

A fragment of temperate rainforest lies on the edge of Dartmoor, and following years of conservation work, its owners have now opened up a sustainable campsite next to this fragile ecosystem

Mist blankets the valley as I wheel my camping gear down the small hill towards a clearing ringed by trees and shrubs. A picnic bench sits at its edge, angled towards the reason why I’m here: one of the last remaining fragments of temperate rainforest in Britain. I’m pitching my tent at Wray Valley Camping, a low-impact site on Dartmoor’s eastern edge between Lustleigh and Moretonhampstead, where I’ll spend five days on one of the site’s “nearly wild” pitches.

Also known as Atlantic woodland, temperate rainforests depend on a rare combination of high humidity, rainfall and consistently mild coastal temperatures where the sea moderates the climate. They once stretched from the western Highlands of Scotland down to Cornwall, covering 20% of the UK, and sheltering rare and delicate lichens and plants. Today more than 95% of our temperate rainforest cover is gone, but Devon’s near-constant dampness and its exposure to the Atlantic make it one of the last strongholds for this rare habitat.

More than 800 students and teachers in Indonesia suffer food poisoning after eating government free meals

Hundreds of students fall ill in three seperate incidents in Java and Sumatra this week as criticism of president’s flagship program grows

More than 800 Indonesian students and teachers have fallen ill in separate incidents of food poisoning linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s free-meals program this week, with dozens hospitalised after they with struck with nausea, vomiting and stomach aches.

The president’s flagship free-meals program was launched last year to tackle malnutrition, with meals distributed to more than 62 million students and pregnant women across the country.

Waymo and Zoox expand into more U.S. markets as robotaxi race heats up

Waymo is bringing driverless rides to three more cities, and Amazon plans to start testing in two additional U.S. markets.

Thursday news quiz: Stolen jewels, breakdancing fools and a car that’s breaking the rules

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

Every now and then the Thursday quiz pauses to ponder humanity’s ongoing obsession with setting records for things that do not need to exist. Last week we had a cat breaking the world record for toe-count and a robot running the 100 metres faster than Usain Bolt. One feels a bit unnecessary, the other feels like the plot of a dystopian 1980s sci-fi film. Neither feel like things we used to actually count. Never mind. Here are 15 question on topical news, general knowledge and pop culture to amuse and delight. No anteaters were harmed in the making of this quiz. Allons-y!

The Thursday news quiz, No 263

Rachel Roddy’s summer minestrone with pesto – recipe | A kitchen in Rome

A fresh, seasonal vegetable soup that can be made in advance and only improves in texture and flavour over time

Now that I am an accomplished sourdough maker, soon to start my own micro-bakery and YouTube channel … Only joking! Now that I can make half-decent, variable loaves of sourdough, I have become more aware of how the temperature in the kitchen affects food. Not that I was completely unaware, of course – I have curdled enough milk and neglected enough eggs – but feeding, then watching the sourdough starter in a jar, and then the dough itself, seeing how the process takes hours in winter, speeds up in spring, then takes on a foaming, bubbling and at times terrifying life of its own in summer, are lessons in living microorganisms and fermentation.

It is a shame, then, that I didn’t give the same attention to the pan of summer minestrone I had felt so pleased with myself for cooking, cutting the courgettes carefully so they looked like Trivial Pursuit scoring wedges, while drinking tea and listening for the bottle bank lorry to drop the glass into its box, and before the sun (or anyone else) was up. Even though the combined taste of minestrone and milky Yorkshire tea is interesting, I knew it had turned out particularly well. I put on the lid, left the pan at the back of the stove and went out.

NBA suspends Clippers owner Ballmer for one year in Kawhi Leonard salary cap probe

The NBA also fined the Los Angeles Clippers $30 million and said the team will forfeit five first-round picks, one in each year in drafts starting in 2029.

States now must report undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk federal funding, DOJ says

The new DOJ opinion relates to funding states get for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs.

‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T

He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?

Mr T explains why he’s late, but he wants to make one thing clear – this is not an apology. “You caught me in my devotion, and nothing comes before God. So I won’t say I apologise for the delay. I just want you to know that God comes first in all my life. For allowing my success, I give God the glory.”

He is here to discuss a new Netflix documentary, Untold Mr T: I Pity the Fool. At 74, he rarely gives interviews. But when Mr T decides to talk, he really does talk. What Mr T thinks, Mr T says. And I’ve never heard anyone trash the very thing they’re here to promote quite like Mr T does today.

The people of France are in an extraordinary funk about their future – here’s why | Paul Taylor

The race to succeed Emmanuel Macron is looming, but rarely has the mood been so gloomy or the lure of extremist solutions so alarming

France, as the French travel writer Sylvain Tesson once noted, “is a paradise inhabited by people who think they live in hell”. As the campaign for next year’s presidential election hits its stride with ever more wannabes declaring their candidacies, the country is in a particularly sullen mood.

If the vote were held now, the anti-immigration populist Marine Le Pen would have a strong chance of romping into the Élysée palace, riding a wave of voter disillusionment with the entire political class and a sense that “we’ve tried everything else”. But a lot can happen between now and 18 April 2027, the date of the first round. France is also a country of sudden shocks.

Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre

‘My work has always been serious’: Maurizio Cattelan on his $6m banana, his gold toilet – and bringing Hitler and a pope to Berlin

He is famed for creating a golden loo that was stolen and a $6m banana that was eaten. But, says the sculptor ahead of a major new show in Germany, there’s more to his work than pranks and provocation

Maurizio Cattelan, the art world’s merriest prankster, pauses when asked which object in his sprawling new Berlin show is most likely to be defaced, stolen or eaten, then emits a foghorn of a laugh. “There is no need to vandalise anything,” says the trim, soulful Italian, explaining that he has already taken care of all that, given how the work cuts villains, imposters and straw men down to size. “But,” he says, referring to the show’s more daring works, “maybe we need someone to resuscitate people.”

Cattelan, who speaks in a lilting English, grins broadly, a mischievous glint in his brown eyes. Speaking on the subterranean level of Mies van der Rohe’s weightless Neue Nationalgalerie (NNG) in Berlin, he darts between the impish and the profound in conversation, mirroring the dizzying range of his work. The silver-haired sculptor is best known for duct-taping a banana to a wall in 2019 and calling it Comedian, in a droll commentary on the excesses of the art market. The joke became even funnier when it sold for $6.2m, then hilarious when its buyer took a bite out of his purchase and swallowed it.

The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less

The race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected area

Electric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry Noah’s snowmobile as he races across sea ice extending out from Canada’s northernmost public community: Grise Fiord in Nunavut, a hamlet of 144 people closer to Murmansk in Russia than the Canadian city of Toronto. The bay’s cliffs loom higher and higher like stone icebergs as he approaches his destination across the bay.

Noah pulls his sled carefully over a seal’s breathing hole, about the circumference of a basketball. Using a custom-made winch, he lowers a submersible instrument into the sea below the ice.

2 killed, at least 5 others injured in downtown Minneapolis shooting

Two people are dead and at least five others are injured, including three officers, after a shooting near 15 East Grant Street Wednesday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis, according to police. The suspected shooter is also dead.

Broadcom delivers strong earnings view as CEO touts growth with AI labs

Broadcom gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter but provided robust earnings guidance for fiscal 2028.

Ukraine war briefing: ‘Shameful’ – Zelenskyy furious after shootout between Kyiv’s spy services

Only shoot at Russian occupiers, president says, after three officers wounded in clash; Patriots could take years to make, says Rubio. What we know on day 1,653

Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’

Bank says gold reserves held in London could be traded more easily and the move will allow it to respond more rapidly in a ‘crisis situation’

The Dutch central bank says it has moved 86 tonnes of its gold reserves out of the US and Canada to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”.

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) said gold reserves held in London could be traded more easily than those held in New York and Ottawa.

Retired Navy veteran reclaims title of oldest person to finish crossing Appalachian Trail

A retired Navy veteran set a record as the oldest person to ever finish hiking along the 2,200-mile-long Appalachian Trail in 2017. After a friend took his title in 2021, Dale Sanders reclaimed it this week. Tony Dokoupil has the story.

Police find bobcat in 93-year-old woman's home near Seattle

When a 93-year-old woman near Seattle heard strange noises in her house last month, she called the cops to report a prowler. Police found an unexpected intruder - a bobcat. Carter Evans has the story.

Trump says U.S. issued a "very heavy attack," on Iran and is "prepared to do another one anytime"

Oil prices jumped higher on Wednesday after the U.S. and Iran traded military strikes, and gas prices are on track to hit a Labor Day weekend high. Charlie D'Agata reports on the attacks.

Alleged Penn State cocaine trafficking ringleader's bail set at $250,000

24-year-old Agostino Abbatiello, the alleged ringleader of the cocaine trafficking operation at Penn State, was led into court on Wednesday. A judge granted bail of $250,000 to the former member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Lana Zak reports from the courthouse in Pennsylvania.

Lindsay Clancy jury deadlocked for second time, judge orders "dynamite charge"

As of Wednesday, there was still no verdict in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. The jurors went home after a fifth day of deliberations, telling the judge for a second time that they could not decide whether Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The judge told them to keep trying. Shanelle Kaul reports and Caroline Polisi has more.

Tropical Storm Edouard spins into East Texas, pours dangerous amounts of rain

What was left of Tropical Storm Edouard caused major flooding in Southeast Texas on Wednesday. First responders raced to rescue people trapped by floodwaters, as some areas received nearly 2 feet of rain. Jason Allen reports from the flood zone and Rob Marciano has the forecast.

Judge refuses to block Arkansas news reporting on Google data center energy documents

Entergy Arkansas said the documents cited by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette contained "trade secrets" and "highly sensitive protected information."

Espionage, true crime and war: Baillie Gifford longlist revealed

Patrick Radden Keefe, Ben Macintyre and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins are among the 13 authors selected for the nonfiction award

The Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins joins American investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe and bestselling historian Ben Macintyre on this year’s Baillie Gifford prize longlist.

Higgins’ book, Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War, examines the role of culture in Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion, drawing on multiple reporting trips to Ukraine. Keefe, who won the prize in 2021 with Empire of Pain, is listed again for London Falling, which tells the story of Zac Brettler, a teenager who fell from a luxury London apartment after having posed as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. Macintyre’s Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War’s Most Extraordinary Spy, tells the story of a KGB double agent cultivated by MI6 in revolutionary Tehran.

China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed

Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls

China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by 1% after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran, thanks to a sharp reduction in oil consumption and a steady rise in the use of electric vehicles and public transport, analysis shows.

The report reveals the role of clean energy in cushioning the price shocks caused by the strait of Hormuz crisis to the world’s biggest oil importer. It also reinforces hopes that China, which is the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, may be nearing a turning point in decarbonising its economy.

Microsoft to start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as company consolidates business units

Microsoft will begin reporting quarterly Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, providing more clarity about its business that competes with AWS.

9/2: CBS Evening News

Mass shooting in downtown Minneapolis; jurors were deadlocked for the second time in the Lindsay Clancy trial.

Uber to shed 10% of workers as it moves to cut costs and streamline

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Uber is removing organizational layers and taking other steps to boost its efficiency.

Trump and Xi are set to meet in DC. Why some China watchers have low expectations

Trump's summit with Xi is expected to take place less than six weeks before the U.S. election, with polls showing Democrats favored to make gains in Congress.

NBA suspends Clippers owner Ballmer, fines team $30M, Kawhi Leonard $700K in cap circumvention case

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was suspended for one year by the NBA, and the team was ordered to pay $30 million for violating salary cap circumvention rules in a case involving Kawhi Leonard.

Plane carrying Mullin makes emergency landing after engine failure

"The United States Coast Guard pilots made the single engine landing feel routine. No panic, just straight professionalism," Mullin said on X.

Dark money in Texas Senate race spurs Talarico complaint to FEC against Paxton

James Talarico's Senate campaign is accusing Ken Paxton and his campaign treasurer of "illegally spending" $1 million that was routed to a Paxton-aligned super PAC.

Trump floats renaming Strait of Hormuz the 'Trump Strait'

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC that more than 17 million barrels of oil transited the strait on Monday, a wartime record.

9/2: The Takeout with Major Garrett

Lindsay Clancy jury ends day 5 of deliberations deadlocked; President Trump urges Iranian citizens to fight against their government.