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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran war will be over ‘very soon’ but Tehran says it will determine when
US president says war is ‘very complete’ and threatens worse strikes if passage of oil via strait of Hormuz is blocked; IRGC says it will not let out ‘one litre of oil’
Oil prices drop sharply after Trump moves to reassure markets
Trump says Iran war is ‘very complete, pretty much’ as economic toll rises
Investor hopes for a swift resolution to the Middle East conflict propelled Australian shares higher today, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 finishing the day up 1.1% and recovering about $35bn in value after yesterday’s $90bn plunge.
Oil prices surged to a four-year high early in the week before coming back down below $US90 a barrel after Donald Trump suggested the Iran conflict would end soon, sending global stock markets higher.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 08:30
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Why One Battle After Another should win the best picture Oscar
Paul Thomas Anderson’s capering clash between a demented repressive regime and ragtag freedom fighters is both cartoonish and deadly serious – and perfectly tuned to its times
Viva la revolution and don’t forget your password, your pronouns, your plaid gown and your gun. One Battle After Another, from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, is the brawling rebel insider of this year’s Oscar race; a state-of-the-nation Hollywood spectacular that feels as disunited and unstable as the country it depicts. The film hates America and it loves it, too. It’s on the side of the angels even when it’s not quite sure who they are. It lights a candle to curse the darkness, and prays to God it hasn’t picked up a stick of dynamite by mistake.
“We have to stay out of politics,” Wim Wenders advised his fellow directors at last month’s Berlin film festival, and yet One Battle After Another is political to its fingertips, hard-wired to the here and now and perfectly anticipating the tenor of Donald Trump’s second term. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob, the one-time firebrand turned burnt-out stoner, who belatedly hauls himself off the couch when his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) is captured. Freely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, the film updates the book’s jaundiced post-60s hangover for the ICE-age 2020s as the plot careens from the migrant detention camp to the sanctuary city to uncover a Christian Nationalist cell within the US federal government. The self-styled “Christmas Adventurers” are on a heaven-sent mission to make America great again. They say, “If you want to save the planet, you always start with immigration.”
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 08:00
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Financier Crispin Odey takes FCA to court over exclusion from City
Regulator fined the multimillionaire £1.8m and banned him from the financial services industry last year
Crispin Odey, the multimillionaire financier fighting various lawsuits relating to allegations of sexual misconduct, is to launch a case against the financial services regulator over his exile from the City.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined Odey £1.8m and banned him from the financial services industry last year.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 08:00
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The blistering speech that tells me Britain’s social care deadlock can finally be broken | Polly Toynbee
If anyone can convince politicians and public of the need to pay for a national care service, it’s Louise Casey. With her involved, I now have hope
No government in my lifetime has been dealt a worse hand than Keir Starmer’s. Austerity-broken public services, an empty Treasury, a jittery bond market freaked out by Liz Truss and then stricken by the arrival of Trump 2.0 with his bully-tariffs. Now Britain’s ally is setting the Middle East on fire in a murderous war, exploding oil and gas prices. This needs repeating regularly, lest anyone forgets the obstacles blocking this government’s best intentions for change.
One of those good intentions in the Labour manifesto was the creation of a national care service. Louise Casey, respected troubleshooter, was given a commission to review adult social care and solve its impossible dilemmas. She showed her thinking in a blistering speech last week.
Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist
Guardian Newsroom: Can Labour come back from the brink? On Thursday 30 April, ahead of May elections, join Gaby Hinsliff, Zoe Williams, Polly Toynbee and Rafael Behr as they discuss the threat to Labour from the Greens and Reform – and whether Keir Starmer can survive as leader. Book tickets here or at guardian.live
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 08:00
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Relegated and then European champions? Have I got Spurs for you | Jon Harvey
It’s been a troubling season at Tottenham and while there is a slim chance it will end in glory, ignominy is looking more likely
How do you solve a problem such as Tottenham Hotspur? They’re the ninth-richest club in the world, who pride themselves on a thrilling style of play – “To dare is to do” – and have been blessed through the years with a pantheon of household names: Blanchflower, Hoddle, Ardíles, Gascoigne, Bale, Kane, Son. Last August they were seconds from beating Paris Saint-Germain to win the Uefa Super Cup, which would have made them – tenuously – the best team in Europe. Seven months later they’ve wilted into a shell-shocked laughing stock careering towards the Championship. They’re the club that launched a thousand memes.
In this most Spursy of seasons, hiring Mr Fixit Igor Tudor as interim manager looks like being the biggest misstep yet. The Croatian hard man has taken a squad who needed an arm round the shoulder and stuck them in a vice-like headlock. He has openly suggested there’s only three things wrong with them: they can’t run, they can’t score and they can’t defend. You could count the number of fans who backed his appointment on the fingers of Captain Hook’s bad hand, and if three crushing defeats are anything to go by, his shock treatment is going down like a cup of cold West Ham lasagne. Is there any way out?
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 08:00
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Tourist photography subverted: Luigi Ghirri was a master of composition
An exhibition of rare photographs by the Italian photographer highlights the abstraction and poetry of his lesser-known works
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 07:00
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Learning You review – faith-stuffed autism road trip drama sets off to find father-son connection
This sappy and ill-conceived tale about an architect, his autistic son and a lifesize toy bear suffers from sanctimonious religious messaging and dreadful dialogue
Anyone with autism or close to someone with the condition might feel inclined to be forbearing of this family drama about a father and his autistic son, given its plea for acceptance and love. But yikes – it is so sappy, ill-conceived and bloated with sanctimonious religious messaging, it is a slog to get through. If, however, you feel that watching it is almost an act of charity in itself (apparently some of the proceeds will go toward supporting carers), admire this at least for being one of the few feature films that tries to depict more challenged autistic people who need support (also known by the now-contested label of “low functioning”). Also to its credit, the film opens with a disclaimer that acknowledges that “the autism spectrum is wide and varied” and that “this film reflects the individual experiences of two characters and is not intended to represent every autistic story”.
The main character here is Elijah (played as a child by Reece Turley and then as an adult by Caleb Milby), a young man first met just after a violent meltdown that has ravaged the family’s Christmas decorations. Elijah’s father Ty (John Wells) attempts to comfort the distraught teen, with help from Elijah’s favourite stuffed toy, polar bear Nook. Flashforward seven years, and Elijah is now in some kind of secure hospital, barely distinguishable from a jail, partly because his mother Pam (Layla Cushman), divorced from Ty, just wants to offload him on the state and wash her hands of him while Ty struggles to maintain his career as an architect.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 07:00
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Seven of the best music festivals to visit by train from the UK
From jazz in Rotterdam and hip-hop in Paris to brass bands on the beach in Blackpool, the Guardian’s music editor chooses the best European festivals that can be reached by rail
Paris has some great festivals, such as Cercle (22-24 May), with dance music stars against the backdrop of planes and rockets in an outdoor aerospace museum, but the most accessible and democratic is Fête de la musique, which began in Paris in 1982 but is now popular across the country. It is a loose event encompassing dozens of free, semi-impromptu outdoor performances all over each host city, including plenty in Lille, which is even cheaper and quicker to get to than Paris on the Eurostar from London.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 07:00
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Thomasina Miers’ recipe for stuffed cabbage in white wine and escabeche, with buttered dill and pea rice | Sunday best
I can’t get enough of cabbage right now, and it’s the perfect wrap for this warmly spiced picadillo filling
I love stuffed vegetables. When I was young, I came across a recipe for stuffed aubergines in an old book of my mother’s and must have cooked it a score of times. Later, in the early 1990s and to the echoes of nouvelle cuisine, Delia Smith showed us how we could work similar magic with peppers and tomatoes. Then the technique went deeply out of fashion, but I stayed loyal, and continued quietly stuffing tomatoes, pumpkins and courgettes, all no doubt influenced by my travels in Mexico. Thoday’s stuffed cabbage is inspired by the most delicious tongue in a tantalisingly light escabeche that I once had at Nicos in Mexico City, and also because I can’t get enough of cabbage at the moment.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 06:00
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Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible?
Trump has blamed Iran for the mass killing at Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school but geolocation, videos and satellite imagery indicate otherwise
The bombing of a primary school in Minab on 28 February killed scores of people, most of them seven- to 12-year-old girls. The strike is the worst mass killing of the US and Israel’s war on Iran so far – and has been described by Unesco as a “grave violation” of international law.
On Saturday, the US president, Donald Trump, declared that Iran was responsible for the school bombing. “In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran … they’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.”
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 06:00
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Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?
To some it was a reckless experiment but scientists hope the dispersal of 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine could ease the climate crisis
For four days last August, a thick slick of maroon bruised the waters of the Gulf of Maine. The scene, not unlike a toxic red tide, was the result of 65,000 litres of an alkaline chemical, tagged with a red dye, that had been deliberately pumped by scientists into the ocean.
Though it sounds perverse, the event was part of a scientific experiment that could advance a technology to combat both global heating and ocean acidification. Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), as the approach is called, acts like natural weathering, but on human – rather than geological – timescales.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 06:00
NPR Topics: News
Alexander brothers convicted of sex trafficking in Manhattan federal court
Three brothers, including two of the nation's most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking Monday after a five-week trial.
10th March 2026 05:53
NPR Topics: News
Australia grants asylum to 5 members of the Iranian women's soccer team
Australia has granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women's soccer team who were in the country for a tournament when the Iran war began.
10th March 2026 05:45
The Guardian
‘Charismatic and extremely confident’: how to recognise – and handle – a psychopath
Psychologist Leanne ten Brinke has spent decades studying toxic personality traits. What are the red flags to look out for among workmates, politicians and potential partners?
Coming face to face with a probable psychopath was enough to make Dr Leanne ten Brinke rethink her career choices. Early in her 20s, while studying forensic psychology in Halifax, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Ten Brinke was volunteering at a parole office, which would hold weekly group meetings for released sex offenders. “Most of the men showed contrition,” says Ten Brinke. “They really seemed to recognise the damage that they had done.” Except for one. The treatment programme seemed “like a game to him”, she says. One week, in a discussion about the impact their crimes had on victims, this rapist stared at Ten Brinke and, smiling slightly, started to say how much his victim looked like her, “and how I was ‘his type’. Clearly he was trying to scare me, and he did.”
It put her off a career working with convicted criminals, but she remained fascinated with “dark personalities” – psychopathy, mainly, but also narcissism, machiavellianism (manipulating and exploiting others) and sadism. From politics to business to the media, it wasn’t as if there was a shortage of people to study. There were selfish, callous, impulsive and manipulative people everywhere, often presenting as gregarious and charming. “It started to occur to me that these traits aren’t just confined to an underworld. These traits appear in all aspects of our lives,” she says.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 05:00
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Was Iran really building a nuclear weapon? – podcast
Among the many justifications Donald Trump has presented for the US and Israel attacking Iran has been the supposedly imminent threat posed by its nuclear weapons programme. But how close was the country really to developing an atomic weapon? Ian Sample hears from Kelsey Davenport, the director of non-proliferation policy at the Arms Control Association. She sets out why many experts don’t believe the country even had a structured nuclear weapons programme, and explains what she thinks the impact of the war could be on nuclear proliferation around the world.
Attacking Iran’s nuclear programme could drive it towards a bomb, experts warn
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Continue reading... 10th March 2026 05:00
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How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution
When Trump granted white South Africans refugee status, he was echoing a falsehood about Black people taking revenge for years of brutality. But no one flourishes in a repressive police state
There’s a little town in the scrub in South Africa – a full day’s drive from the country’s big cities – that has become perhaps the most scrutinised place on earth, given its size. It is 9 sq km (3.5 sq miles) of suburban-style houses harbouring about 3,000 people, with a main drag, a municipal swimming pool, one gas station and some pecan farms. Nothing of consequence ever really happens there, a fact the townspeople take as a point of pride. And yet over the past three decades, dozens of English-language news outlets have made a pilgrimage to it, often more than once. The New York Times alone has run four dedicated profiles. The essays have kept pace year after year, quoting the same people over and over, even as nothing of note occurred. There’s been no war, no disaster.
That changelessness is the point. No people of colour are allowed to live in the town, called Orania. The name is a nod to the river that runs nearby – and to the Orange Free State, the apartheid-era designation for the province in which it lies. Orania’s founders established it in 1991, the year after South Africa’s best-known Black liberation leader (and future president), Nelson Mandela, was freed following 27 years in prison.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 05:00
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Short films made from brain activity of mice aim to show how they see world
Scientists hope results analysed after the mice watched video footage will help them understand their perceptions
Scientists have reconstructed short movies from the brain activity of mice that watched videos for a project that aspires to lift the veil on how animals perceive the world.
The brief movie clips are grainy and pixellated, but provide a glimpse of how mice processed footage that featured people taking part in various sports from gymnastics to horse riding and wrestling.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 05:00Oil tankers transiting Strait of Hormuz 'must be very careful,' Iran Foreign Ministry warns
The price of crude oil has sharply spiked as the Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed as the United States and Israel wage war on Iran.
10th March 2026 04:54
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Iran women’s football team heads to airport as clock ticks on Australia’s offer of asylum
Protesters try to block bus carrying players at hotel
Advocates working to inform players of their rights
The Iranian women’s football team left their hotel and arrived at Gold Coast airport on Tuesday afternoon, appearing to have just hours left to take up Australia’s offer of asylum before they depart the country.
Five players, led by captain Zahra Ghanbari, were formally granted protection in Australia by home affairs minister Tony Burke early on Tuesday morning. The group has already been given an offer to train with A-League Women club Brisbane Roar.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 04:223/2: Face the Nation
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," as fallout continues from the unprecedented Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Margaret Brennan speaks to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, GOP Reps. Mike Turner and John James and Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.
10th March 2026 04:01
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Here are Mississippi's 2026 primary election results
Live election results: Get the latest on Mississippi's U.S. Senate and U.S. House primary races.
10th March 2026 04:01
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New Zealand Covid response among world’s best but ‘scars’ remain, inquiry finds
Royal commission says response led by Jacinda Ardern was broadly ‘appropriate’, in a wide-ranging report featuring recommendations for future pandemics
A royal commission into New Zealand’s Covid response has found it was one of the best in the world but acknowledged the period had left “scars”.
The second of two inquiry reports on the pandemic was released on Tuesday and focused on the period between February 2021 to October 2022, when the government changed from an elimination strategy to one of suppression and minimisation of the virus. It also examined vaccine safety and the government’s immunisation programme, lockdowns and tracing and testing technology.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 02:43
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Vague and contradictory Trump says Iran war ‘won’, but not ‘won enough’
After oil prices surged on Monday the US president sought – and failed – to offer a clear vision for when the largest US intervention in the Middle East in years will end
At one of the most consequential moments of his two terms in office, wartime president Donald Trump on Monday delivered a vague and contradictory forecast for how long the United States will continue to fight in Iran and what the ultimate goal of the US military campaign there will be.
With oil hovering above $100 a barrel for much of Monday and Middle Eastern allies fearing a further tumble into regional conflict, Trump appeared in Doral, Florida with the mission of calming global markets and reassuring skittish allies that he has a clear vision for how to end the largest US intervention in the Middle East since the Iraq war.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 02:14
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Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security
As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survival
North Korea’s launch last week of a missile from a naval destroyer elicited an uncharacteristically prosaic analysis from the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un. The launch was proof, he said, that arming ships with nuclear weapons was “making satisfactory progress”.
But the test, and Kim’s mildly upbeat appraisal, were designed to reverberate well beyond the deck of the 5,000-tonne destroyer-class vessel the Choe Hyon – the biggest warship in the North Korean fleet.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 02:09Prolonged Strait of Hormuz closure would cause oil prices to surge, experts warn
The Iran war is renewing concerns about the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz. A prolonged closure could sharply drive up oil prices, experts said.
10th March 2026 02:03
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Oil prices drop sharply after Trump moves to reassure markets over Iran war
US president describes conflict as ‘very complete’, but threatens further strikes after Iran says it won’t allow ‘one litre of oil’ to leave Middle East while war continues
Oil prices have tumbled from four-year highs, capping an extraordinary 24 hours in global markets after Donald Trump suggested the US-Israel war on Iran could end “very soon”.
Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged as high as $119.50 per barrel on Monday as the Middle East conflict intensified fears of a deepening energy supply crisis.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 01:36Alexander brothers found guilty on all charges in sex trafficking trial
Jurors in Manhattan federal court reached a verdict Monday after weeks of testimony in the sex trafficking trial of brothers Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander.
10th March 2026 01:08FBI launches terrorism probe into IED attack outside Mamdani's residence
Two men from Pennsylvania are facing federal charges for the incident. Video captured someone yelling "Allahu Akbar" just as a protester threw an "ignited device" during an anti-Islam demonstration in New York City.
10th March 2026 01:04Elon Musk's xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day
The NAACP has accused Mississippi regulators of rushing a meeting to approve xAI plans for a massive, methane-burning power plant in Southaven.
10th March 2026 00:30Georgia teacher dies after student prank gone wrong
A Georgia teacher has died after authorities say he was struck by a vehicle during a late-night prank outside his home, prompting vehicular homicide charges against an 18-year-old. Mark Strassmann has more
10th March 2026 00:19Trump says Iran war will end 'very soon,' predicts lower oil prices
U.S. stock market indexes rose earlier in the day after an initial report that President Donald Trump said he believed the Iran war was largely finished.
10th March 2026 00:17Long security lines at U.S. airports as DHS funding affects TSA staffing
Wait times to get through security hit two hours in New Orleans and over three hours in Houston as TSA staffing took a hit amid the partial government shutdown.
10th March 2026 00:16Woman arrested in shooting at Rihanna's home in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Police Department has identified a woman arrested for allegedly firing several shots at the Beverly Hills home of pop star Rihanna. Carter Evans has details.
10th March 2026 00:15Frustration mounts at airports amid TSA staffing shortages spurred by DHS shutdown
Airline passengers in some of the United States' largest airports are seeing long security lines amid the ongoing partial government shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security. As Kris Van Cleave reports, more TSA employees are calling out sick as they work without pay.
10th March 2026 00:13Here's how much Americans are paying for gas as oil prices spike
The U.S. average gas price has jumped 48 cents since last week, with experts predicting that higher fuel costs could persist for months.
10th March 2026 00:12Trump says Iran war will end "very soon" at Florida news conference
At a Miami-area news conference Monday, President Trump said he expects the war in Iran to end "very soon," but also called it "the beginning of building a new country."
10th March 2026 00:11Americans react to rising gas prices: "Very frustrating"
The reality of the war in Iran is showing up at gas stations nationwide. Jo Ling Kent spoke to consumers at the pump.
10th March 2026 00:11
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Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli review – a heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance
Lady Gaga and David Gest are among those who get ferocious dressings-down in this brutally candid memoir
Liza Minnelli’s father, the film director Vincente Minnelli, used to joke that his daughter’s career in show business was preordained. She was certainly familiar with the dark side of the industry from a young age through her mother Judy Garland, who was on the MGM payroll aged 13, before shooting to fame as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Garland was famously depressive and addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol. When her daughter was six, she shut herself in the bathroom and made the first of many suicide attempts. Minnelli soon learned to monitor her mother and hide her pill bottles when she saw darkness descending. By 13, she was “my mother’s caretaker – a nurse, a doctor, pharmacologist and psychiatrist rolled into one … Just as the MGM studio system robbed Mama of her childhood, she robbed me of mine.”
In her memoir, Minnelli – who turns 80 this month – recounts how she broke free from her dysfunctional family at 16 and moved to New York to make it as a singer and actor. Little surprise, given her parentage, that her ascent was swift. “I was the original nepo baby,” she observes, gleefully. But if show business was in her DNA, so was addiction. In her 20s she became hooked on Valium, diet pills, cocaine and alcohol. Later, as her career faltered and her private life imploded, her sister Lorna staged an intervention and got her into the first of many rehab programmes.
Continue reading... 10th March 2026 00:05Democrats threaten more Iran war powers votes, call for Hegseth, Rubio to testify
Democrats are vowing to interrupt normal order in the Senate unless Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio testify publicly.
10th March 2026 00:03
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Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US
The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday.
Organized by the Annals of Improbable Research, a digital magazine that highlights research that makes people laugh and then think, the 36th annual ceremony will be held in Zurich. It’s usually held in the US in September, a few weeks before the actual Nobel prizes are announced.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 23:59
The Guardian
Jack Draper sets up Djokovic clash after beating Cerundolo at Indian Wells
Draper defeats Argentinian 6-1, 7-5 in third round
Cameron Norrie sees off Alex de Minaur 6-4, 6-4
Jack Draper continued his impressive comeback from an arm injury by beating Francisco Cerundolo to set up a last-16 clash with Novak Djokovic at Indian Wells.
Draper rode his luck at the end of the second set to clinch a 6-1, 7-5 win and set up his first meeting with Djokovic since he took the first set off the defending champion on his Wimbledon debut in 2021.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 23:53Top permitting-reform Republican, Democratic senators meeting as talks thaw: API chief
Speeding up the federal permitting process is a top priority for the energy and tech industries.
9th March 2026 23:40Warsh to meet Tillis as Senate confirmation remains blocked
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., has refused to advance Warsh's confirmation until a probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell is dropped.
9th March 2026 23:36What we know about U.S. service members killed in Iran war
Seven American service members have been killed since the war with Iran started in February.
9th March 2026 23:32
The Guardian
New Mexico authorities launch search of ranch previously owned by Epstein
The so-called Zorro Ranch was the site of numerous alleged abuses, but was not subject to intense scrutiny
New Mexico authorities launched a search of a ranch previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein, state officials announced on Monday.
The late convicted sex offender and financier’s so-called Zorro Ranch was the site of numerous alleged abuses, according to civil and criminal proceedings. But the location was not subject to the same scrutiny as other Epstein properties, and a Guardian investigation in February revealed that federal authorities apparently never searched the New Mexico ranch.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 23:22
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Trump threatens not to sign any bills until Congress approves strict voter ID act
Save Act would limit voting access in the US and centers on Trump’s unfounded claims of noncitizens stealing elections
Donald Trump renewed his push Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills until Congress approves the legislation.
“All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote,” Trump said during remarks on Monday at a Republican event in Miami. “No mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military or travel.”
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 23:03
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Uber launches women-only option across the US
Uber is expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform
Uber launched a feature on Monday to allow both female riders and drivers across the US to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.
The new feature is being rolled out nationwide despite an ongoing class action lawsuit against the policy in California, filed by Uber drivers who argue that it is discriminatory against men. Rival ride-hailing company Lyft is also facing a discrimination lawsuit over a similar offering that it introduced nationwide in 2024.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 22:45
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Rooster review – Steve Carell and a naked college president add wisdom to this cringe comedy drama
The master of the everyman gifts us some hard-won parenting insights in this blissfully awkward show about a father and daughter relationship
Humankind, as TS Eliot’s bird said in Burnt Norton, cannot bear too much reality. That feels especially salient now, when we have more reality arriving in a day than we used to have to process in a year.
At the same time, unless you go the whole high-fantasy hog and offer 100% escapism via immersion in a completely alternative world, it is becoming trickier for your audiences to believe in you at all. Programmes set in the real world have to acknowledge the new way of it. Pure, frothy comedy just became that much harder to pull off – and it was never easy. But walking the line between too much reality and not enough is almost as difficult.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 22:40Watch live: Trump holds press conference as Iran war fallout roils oil market
9th March 2026 22:31
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Alexander brothers, high-profile US real estate brokers, guilty of sex trafficking
Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander convicted in New York after being accused of raping dozens of women
Three brothers, including two of the nation’s most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking charges on Monday after a five-week trial over accusations that they used drugs and force to rape scores of women they had dazzled with their wealth and opulent lifestyle.
The verdict came after 11 women testified they were sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers: twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 38, and Tal Alexander, 39.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 21:56Seventh U.S. service member killed in Iran war identified as Sgt. Benjamin Pennington
Pennington, 26, from Glendale, Kentucky, was wounded on March 1 during an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. He died on Sunday.
9th March 2026 21:40NTSB member fired by White House over workplace allegations that he denies
National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman called the allegations against him false and a "political hit job."
9th March 2026 21:39OpenAI to buy cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to better safeguard AI agents
Promptfoo's team will join Sam Altman-led OpenAI, and its technology will be integrated into the Frontier platform for AI agents.
9th March 2026 21:22
NPR Topics: News
Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims 'don't belong in American society'
Rep. Andy Ogles' social media post is the latest in a series of Islamophobic statements from House Republicans.
9th March 2026 21:22Apple turns 50, in a world it helped create
David Pogue, author of "Apple: The First 50 Years," talks with Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak, CEO Tim Cook, and others about the vision of Steve Jobs, and how the company's products and services have reshaped life, technology and culture in the 21st century.
9th March 2026 21:22FBI obtains records of Arizona Senate audit of 2020 Maricopa County election results, Republican says
President Donald Trump touted the fact that the records had been obtained by the FBI. He long has claimed he was cheated out of victory in the 2020 election.
9th March 2026 21:14Stocks regain ground after early losses as oil prices cool
After a sharp drop in early trading, stocks recovered part of those losses as oil prices fell back below $100.
9th March 2026 21:08
NPR Topics: News
Trump says U.S. is 'achieving major strides' in Iran but doesn't cite endpoint
President Trump held his first news conference since the beginning of the U.S.-Israel-led Iran war on Monday as oil and gas prices soared, throwing the global economy into turmoil.
9th March 2026 20:59Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
The OpenAI deal fallout exposes the fundamental danger of being the most leveraged player in a market where the chip cycle moves faster than the concrete dries.
9th March 2026 20:52Raw oysters and clams recalled in 9 states over norovirus risks
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
9th March 2026 20:32
The Guardian
Definition of anti-Muslim hate will not harm free speech, says Steve Reed
Communities secretary tells MPs that government has to act against record levels of hate crimes
A new definition of anti-Muslim hate will not restrict freedom of speech, the communities secretary has pledged, as he said that “clear expectations” will still be set for new arrivals and existing communities in Britain to learn English.
MPs were told by Steve Reed that the government had a duty to act against record levels of hate crime against Muslims, but that “you can’t tackle a problem if you can’t describe it”.
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Epstein used his ties to Nobel laureate scientists to try to rebuild his image
A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.
9th March 2026 19:33
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‘We thought we were doomed’: Canadian fishers in dramatic rescue after ice shelf floats away
Anglers describe harrowing phone calls to loved ones once ice detached from shores of Georgian Bay in Ontario
Kevin Fox thought the spring-like temperatures that had temporarily pushed the cold away from south-eastern Ontario meant a good day on for ice fishing, a popular winter pastime in the region.
After shifting location because the wind and ice “didn’t feel right” and the fish weren’t biting close to shore, he and a friend joined nearly two dozen others far out on a sheet of ice in Lake Huron. They followed the familiar routine of anyone who spends a day on the ice: they drilled holes, dropped their lines and waited.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 19:14Live Nation to open Ticketmaster to other sellers in U.S. antitrust deal
Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, has reached a deal with the Department of Justice as part of a high-stakes antitrust trial.
9th March 2026 19:03
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‘Revolutionary’: Ukrainian para-biathlete wins silver using ChatGPT as his coach
Murashkovskyi benefits from artificial intelligence support
‘I used it as a psychologist, coach and sometimes as a doctor’
Team Ukraine have hit the ground running at the Winter Paralympics, standing second in the medal table after three days of competition. Their resolve and determination has been inspirational to many, but one athlete has revealed a secret weapon in their search for a competitive edge.
Maksym Murashkovskyi, who won silver in the men’s visually impaired biathlon on Sunday and did not miss a shot, has been working with OpenAI’s large language model. “For the past six months, I have been training with ChatGPT,” he said. “It was not only tactics. It was half of my training plan, motivation, etc. So it was a huge volume of all of my training. I used it as a psychologist, coach and, sometimes, as a doctor.”
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 18:52
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Top Arizona lawmaker says he's complied with a subpoena for 2020 election records
Arizona's state Senate president says he has complied with a subpoena he received last week seeking records from a flawed, Republican-led review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
9th March 2026 18:36California rep. leaves GOP to become an independent, complicating majority
Rep. Kevin Kiley of California said Monday he was immediately leaving the Republican Party to become an independent.
9th March 2026 18:35
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Two teens charged over ‘Islamic State-inspired’ attack outside Mamdani home
Pair charged with throwing explosive devices during anti-Islam protest described by mayor as ‘appalling’
Two teenagers were charged on Monday with offenses including terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction after they allegedly threw improvised explosive devices during an anti-Islam demonstration on Saturday outside the residence of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani.
According to a 10-page criminal complaint filed in federal court in the US southern district of New York, 18-year-old Emir Balat threw the devices at protesters after they were handed to him by Ibrahim Kayumi, 19. It said both declared allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
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What to know about Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader
The second son of the late supreme leader keeps a low profile. But he's long been viewed as wielding his power behind the scenes, from crushing dissent to influencing presidential elections.
9th March 2026 18:11Fears of 1970s-style stagflation arise with oil spike to $100. How big a threat is it?
High inflation and slow growth present a double threat, as measures like interest rate cuts and government spending only aggravate inflation.
9th March 2026 18:113/9: Face the Nation
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," after a whiplash week of on-again, off-again tariff announcements, Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman joins to discuss the costs and consequences of a trade war. Plus, former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill discusses President Trump's diplomatic pivot on Ukraine.
9th March 2026 18:01Iran's strategic oil island thrust into the spotlight as Middle East conflict escalates
Kharg Island serves as the centerpiece for Iran's oil industry, accounting for roughly 90% of the country’s crude exports.
9th March 2026 18:00
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Now we have proof: dealing with difficult people really does age you
Researchers have found evidence of what many of us always suspected: ‘hasslers’ shorten your lifespan. And they know by exactly how long
Name: Hasslers.
Age: More like ageing.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 17:49
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Sheinbaum tells Trump: stop illegal arms trade from the US to Mexico
US president claimed he wanted to eradicate cartels and made comments about Mexico’s president that were deemed sexist in summit speech
Claudia Sheinbaum has responded to Donald Trump’s description of Mexico as the “epicenter of violence,” by calling on the US government to step up efforts to combat gun trafficking.
“There is something that the US can help us a lot with: stop the trafficking of illegal weapons from the US to Mexico,” the president of Mexico said. “If they stopped the entry of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico, then these groups wouldn’t have access to this type of high-powered weaponry to carry out their criminal activities.”
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 17:33
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Anthropic sues the Trump administration over 'supply chain risk' label
The Pentagon told suppliers they can't use Anthropic's artificial intelligence tools after the company said it would not let its tech be used for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.
9th March 2026 17:30Anthropic sues Trump administration over "supply chain risk" order
Anthropic sued the Defense Department and other federal agencies on Monday over the government's move to designate it a risk to the supply chain.
9th March 2026 17:17Amazon's Zoox expands robotaxi testing to Phoenix and Dallas
Zoox will start by deploying a fleet of retrofitted Toyota Highlander SUVs, before rolling out its toaster-shaped robotaxis for testing.
9th March 2026 17:14
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Ukraine sent drone experts to protect US bases in Jordan, says Zelenskyy
Interceptor drones and operators deployed to Middle East after ‘requests for help from 11 countries neighbouring Iran’
Ukraine’s president has said he dispatched interceptor drones and operators to protect US bases in Jordan last week, one of 11 countries that had asked Kyiv for help as the US-Israeli war against Iran continued into its 10th day.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview that he had responded to a US request for help in defending Jordan last week as Ukraine seeks to improve relations with Gulf and Middle Eastern countries coming under attack from Iran.
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Von der Leyen calls for EU foreign policy to be ‘more realistic and interest-driven’
European Commission head says rules-based system can no longer be relied upon to protect the continent’s interests
Europe can “no longer be a custodian for the old-world order” and needs “a more realistic and interest-driven foreign policy”, the head of the European Commission has said.
Speaking to an audience of EU ambassadors on Monday, Ursula von der Leyen said the union “will always defend and uphold the rules-based system” but could no longer rely on it to defend European interests and shelter the continent from threats.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 16:59
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Britons don’t want any part of Trump’s war fixation – the sooner Labour realises that the better | Owen Jones
Kowtowing to US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan had disastrous consequences. Why are leaders making the same mistake all over again?
Here is the sort of analysis you’re being served up by our esteemed commentariat. Keir Starmer’s positioning on the Iran war, we are told, reveals a prime minister with no political compass. True, but talk about burying the lede. The story here is not Starmer’s lack of political acumen. British involvement in the Iran war is not a policy question on which reasonable people might disagree, like raising a tax here or spending a bit more money there. This is a grave crime.
Yet all the pressure on Starmer seems to arrive from one direction. He “should have backed America from the very beginning”, declares Tony Blair, apparently eager for a successor to emulate his own record of dragging Britain into US-led catastrophes widely condemned as illegal. Donald Trump’s sidekick Nigel Farage, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and the rightwing press make much the same complaint.
Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist
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Iran could face possible Fifa tournament ban if they withdraw from World Cup
Fifa can take disciplinary action against exiting nations
‘Sanctions include exclusion from future competition’
Iran could face disciplinary action from Fifa, including a possible ban from future tournaments, if they unilaterally withdraw from the World Cup.
Donald Trump told Politico last week that he “really doesn’t care” if Iran fail to take part in this summer’s tournament, but Fifa remains committed to the World Cup going ahead with all qualified teams participating.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 16:42
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Why do we need International Women’s Day? Apart from misogyny and Christian nationalism, you mean? | Zoe Williams
I should probably be fuming about the way that companies try to cash in on IWD. But there are so many vile opinions to worry about instead
Sunday was International Women’s Day, which you’ll know because every company you’ve ever shopped with will have emailed you, taking this fine opportunity to suggest things women might like to buy. Plants, clothes, spices … all are particularly female-friendly at this time of year, or maybe I’m revealing nothing but my algorithms. Is any of it emancipating? Would you have to balance the freedom of the woman wearing the midi-dress against the servitude of the woman who had to sew it? I don’t really want to set myself up as the arbiter of the spirit of IWD, being unable to remember a time before it meant mass-marketing mail-out.
On Women’s Day Eve, though – yes, that is a thing – I was attending evensong at a university college, maybe for the first time ever, and it was definitely the first time I’d heard an IWD sermon. The Rev Marcus Green had set himself the challenge of feministly reading a book, the Bible, in which almost none of the women have a name. There are a bunch called Mary, but so few other names that “Mary” was basically Bible-speak for “Karen”. There’s one who is the mother of the sons of Zebedee, but even though she has actual lines and he has none, he still gets this cracking name, while you have to piece her identity together by triangulating other accounts, like an investigator at a crime scene.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 16:38
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This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America
In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.
9th March 2026 16:34
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Syrian who fled to UK charged with crimes against humanity over violent crackdown
Former intelligence officer charged with murder and torture in first prosecution of its kind in England and Wales
A former Syrian intelligence officer who fled to the UK has been charged with murder and torture as crimes against humanity, in the first prosecution of its kind in England and Wales.
The 58-year-old man, who has not been named for legal reasons, is alleged to have played a leading role in the violent crackdown on protesters in Syria at the start of uprising against the regime of former leader Bashar al-Assad in 2011.
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Taking multivitamin daily could help to slow biological ageing, study suggests
Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age
Taking a multivitamin every day for two years appears to slow some markers of biological ageing – albeit to a small degree, research suggests.
While chronological age is based on how long a person has lived, biological age reflects the state of the body. Estimates of the latter are often based on changes in patterns of DNA methylation – modifications to DNA that accumulate with age and affect how genes function.
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To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free | Mahmoud Khalil
One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – also for daring to speak the truth
Sunday marked one year since Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, was arrested last year for his political advocacy. Below, he writes to Leqaa Kordia, a fellow Palestinian currently in ICE detention in Texas. Khalil was released after more than three months but the Trump administration continues to seek his deportation; Kordia has been detained for nearly a year. Read more about her case here.
Dear Leqaa,
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 15:52‘Sky is the limit’: Analysts warn oil prices could surge further
Energy analysts warned that oil prices could continue to rise in response to the war in the Middle East.
9th March 2026 15:46
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Verdict on the start of F1’s new era: five talking points from the Australian GP
Mercedes’ flying start lives up to promise, but new regulations receive scathing reviews
The pre-season favourites had done their level best to play down their expected advantage in the buildup to the Australian Grand Prix, but it was impossible to hide. A dominant one-two by the best part of a second for George Russell and Kimi Antonelli in qualifying was followed by a similarly assured one-two finish in the race.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 15:25Congressional Democrats demand reversal of Russian oil sales into India as energy prices soar
Russia is reportedly helping Iran target U.S. forces in the Middle East and could now benefit from a windfall of new oil and gas sales.
9th March 2026 15:14
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Live Nation reaches surprise settlement with justice department in antitrust case
Live Nation will pay $280m to states in lawsuit, and Ticketmaster will open parts of platform to rival companies
Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, has reached a surprise settlement with the Department of Justice in its antitrust case just one week after the trial began.
Under the agreement, Live Nation will create a $280m settlement fund for states that participated in the lawsuit and Ticketmaster will be required to open parts of its platform to rival ticketing companies, Live Nation announced Monday.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 15:01Face the Nation: Fitzpatrick, Suozzi, Hill
Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is one of the bipartisan co-chairs of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that he will be voting against the continuing resolution to avoid a shutdown because there has been "no outreach on a bipartisan basis." His GOP counterpart, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, says he is undecided, and it "remains to be seen" if his party has the votes, and Fiona Hill, who served as a top National Security Council official in the first Trump administration, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the White House's decision to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine has "emboldened Russia to really step up the attacks".
9th March 2026 15:00These 10 jobs are most exposed to AI, Anthropic finds
The maker of the Claude chatbot says its research could help identify economic disruptions by measuring how AI is currently reshaping work.
9th March 2026 14:58TSA staff shortages lead to hourslong security lines for travelers at some airports
Travelers are facing hourslong waits at some airport security lines amid TSA staffing shortages.
9th March 2026 14:45
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Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’
Arquette says 1994 film is ‘great on many levels’ but she ‘cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall pass’
Pulp Fiction and Desperately Seeking Susan star Rosanna Arquette has said she found Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction to be “racist and creepy”.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Arquette said of the film, in which she plays the tattooed and pierced wife to Eric Stoltz’s syringe-wielding drug dealer: “It’s iconic, a great film on a lot of levels. But personally I am over the use of the N-word – I hate it. I cannot stand that [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass.”
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Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
Exclusive: Rented datacentres and ‘supercomputer’ site that’s still a scaffolding yard raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’
A multibillion-pound drive to “mainline AI into the veins” of the British economy is riddled with “phantom investments” and shaky accounting, a Guardian investigation has found.
Since 2024, successive Conservative and Labour governments have proclaimed massive deals to build new datacentres, create thousands of jobs and construct a supercomputer.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 14:40Trump tariffs: Customs and Border Protection tells judge it can't comply with refund order
CBP told Judge Richard Eaton that the technology upgrades it plans would save more than 4 million man-hours in processing refunds for Trump's tariffs.
9th March 2026 14:27Trump says he's "not happy" about Iran's new supreme leader
Mojtaba Khamenei was named Iran's new supreme leader following the death of his father in the U.S.-Israeli strikes.
9th March 2026 14:08
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She was arrested for holding a protest sign in small-town California: ‘This is a testing ground’
Jenny O’Connell-Nowain was put under house arrest, and her husband, Benjamin, lost his job after they protested at board of supervisors meetings
Jenny O’Connell-Nowain was ready to go to jail.
She had been prepared to spend six months in the custody of the Shasta county sheriff’s office. One of the top prosecutors in this part of far northern California had presented the evidence against her in a weeklong trial, and a jury had delivered a guilty verdict. A judge offered probation, but O’Connell-Nowain did not agree to the terms.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 14:00
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A Mississippi mother couldn’t find accurate sex ed for her kids. So she started a class at church
As states scale back requirements for comprehensive sex ed, some parents and faith communities are stepping in to teach what schools won’t
When Wendy Pfrenger’s children started high school in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, she had the choice to enroll them in abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex ed.
Although the abstinence-plus option would include instruction on contraception, neither curriculum was required to provide medically accurate information. As a parent, she felt like the lessons her teens were receiving fell short of their reality.
Continue reading... 9th March 2026 14:00