Wall Street joins market rally as Trump postpones power plant strikes after ‘very good and productive’ talks with Iran – business live

Investors are piling back into shares after US president extends Iran’s deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz, sending oil price down

• Trump extends Iran deadline by five days and claims ‘productive’ talks

Wholesale gas prices in Europe have jumped in early trading.

The UK month-ahead gas prices is up 3.1% at 155p per therm, nearly double their levels before the Iran conflict began.

Middle East crisis live: Trump says Iran and US ‘want to make a deal’ but Tehran says claims of talks are ‘fake news’

Iranian parliament speaker says ‘no negotiations’ were held with US, as Trump postpones strikes on power plants for five days

• Israel launches new strikes on Tehran as Trump pauses Iran energy attacks

British prime minister Keir Starmer is set to chair an emergency meeting on the economic fallout from the war in Iran on Monday, with chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey also attending, the UK government has said.

Financial markets face another turbulent week after Iran said it would strike its Gulf neighbours’ energy and water systems if Donald Trump followed through on his threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open up the crucial strait of Hormuz.

Topics expected to be covered are the economic impact of the crisis on families and businesses, energy security and the resilience of industry and supply chains alongside the international response.

Supreme Court hears case over mail ballots that arrive after Election Day

The Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a Mississippi law that allows ballots that are postmarked by but received up to five days after Election Day to be counted.

WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike says new CBA will have a major impact on players' bank accounts

WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike told CNBC significant pay raises for WNBA players could change their off-season routines.

2 pilots killed as plane and fire-rescue truck collide at LaGuardia Airport

Two pilots were killed and dozens of people injured at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night when an arriving Air Canada Express plane and fire and rescue vehicle collided, authorities said.

Trump tells Republicans to not make any deals with Democrats until strict voter ID law is passed – US politics live

President tells Republican senators that Easter is not a reason to leave Washington until Save America Act is passed

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Donald Trump has said ICE agents did not need to wear masks when deployed at airports.

ICE has repeatedly faced criticism for its agents hiding their faces during immigration raids. State officials across the US have said the face coverings add to a climate of fear in local communities and a lack of accountability.

I am a BIG proponent of ICE wearing masks as they search for, and are forced to deal with, hardened criminals, many of whom were let into our Country by Sleepy Joe Biden and his wonderful “Border Czar,” Kamala (she never even went to the Border!), through their absolutely INSANE Open Border Policy.

I would greatly appreciate, however, NO MASKS, when helping our Country out of the Democrat caused MESS at the airports, etc. Thank you! President DJT

Scores feared dead as Colombian military plane crashes

Transport plane carrying 125 soldiers and crew crashes shortly after takeoff in southern Amazon region

Scores of Colombian soldiers are feared dead after a military transport plane crashed on takeoff in the south of the country.

The defence minister, Pedro Sánchez, said the accident happened as the Lockheed Martin Hercules C-130 plane was taking off from Puerto Leguízamo, deep in Colombia’s southern Amazon region, on the border with Peru, as it transported troops from the armed forces.

8 architecture and culture groups sue Trump and the Kennedy Center board

The groups, which include the American Institute of Architects, are asking for compliance with historic preservation laws and to secure approval from Congress.

3/23: Face the Nation

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Senate Homeland Security chair Rand Paul join as the backlash grows against the Trump administration for the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members. Plus. House intelligence committee member Democratic Rep. Jim Himes joins.

Viktor Orbán celebrated by Europe’s far right before Hungary election

France’s Marine Le Pen and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders among speakers praising prime minister at Budapest event

Marine Le Pen has called Viktor Orbán “an exceptional leader” and Geert Wilders hailed “a lion on a continent led by sheep” as Europe’s far-right figureheads rallied round Hungary’s prime minister before an election that polls suggest he may lose.

“Hungary has become a symbol in Europe of a proud and sovereign people’s resistance against oppression,” Le Pen, the parliamentary leader of France’s National Rally (RN), told a gathering of EU-sceptical leaders in Budapest on Monday.

Trump flip-flops on Iran deadline | The Latest

Donald Trump has said he is postponing strikes on Iranian power plants for a five-day period, extending a deadline he gave the regime to open the strait of Hormuz. The US president had threatened to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants, while Tehran said in return it would ‘irreversibly destroy’ essential infrastructure across the Middle East, including vital water systems, in the conflict’s latest escalation. The war in the Middle East is now in its fourth week as Trump declares the US and Iran had ‘good and productive conversations’, but what could come next? Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour

A war and maybe an unprecedented depression: it’s Trump’s mania, but now all of us will pay the price | Polly Toynbee

It had been possible to observe this presidency in abstract terms, but no more. The consequences of the Iran attack will affect our lives and our politics

Nothing has changed. Yet. But we stand on the edge of inevitable economic cataclysm, such as not seen in our lifetimes. It’s an odd, hold-your-breath moment, waiting for what the International Energy Agency (IEA) says is now certain to happen: an energy crisis so critical it will be the equivalent of the two oil crises in 1973 and 1979 and Russia’s 2022 full invasion of Ukraine, put together.

The IEA says it’s already too late to prevent this impending energy crisis. President Donald Trump has swerved the Armageddon destruction of oil and gas facilities threatening the entire Middle East, but too late. The deep recession, probably depression, that his war has caused is heading around the globe. Britain will be hard hit.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

Kinks guitarist Dave Davies hits back at Moby for calling 1970 single Lola ‘gross and transphobic’

The band’s co-founder responded to the US musician’s comments, defending the song and saying they are ‘not transphobic’

The Kinks co-founder and guitarist Dave Davies hit back at Moby after the US electronic musician said that he could no longer listen to the band’s 1970 hit Lola on the grounds that he found it “gross and transphobic”.

Moby told the Guardian Saturday magazine’s Honest Playlist feature that he was repulsed by the song after it came up on a Spotify playlist. “I like their early music, but I was really taken aback at how unevolved the lyrics are,” he said.

Tottenham’s interim manager Igor Tudor mourns death of his father Mario

• Tudor informed of news following 3-0 Forest defeat

• Cristian Romero promises ‘200%’ in remaining games

Tottenham’s interim manager Igor Tudor is mourning the death of his father Mario.

Tudor was unable to fulfil his media commitments after Spurs’ damaging 3-0 Premier League home defeat to relegation rivals Nottingham Forest due to a bereavement to an immediate family member.

Hungarian election candidate accuses ruling party of treason over alleged EU leak to Russia

Péter Magyar, who leads in polls, says Orbán government is ‘betraying Hungarian and European interests’

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The candidate leading the polls in Hungary’s upcoming elections has said the alleged sharing of confidential EU information between Budapest and Moscow should be investigated as possible treason, while the European Commission has called for “clarifications” over the alleged leaks.

Péter Magyar, a conservative anti-corruption campaigner who is mounting the most serious challenge to Viktor Orbán’s 16-year-long grip on the Hungarian premiership, said the government appeared to be colluding with Russia, “thereby betraying Hungarian and European interests”.

ICE deployed to some U.S. airports as long security lines persist during partial shutdown

The Trump administration said it plans to send ICE officers to help ease airport congestion amid TSA officer absences as they face second missed full paycheck.

Italian voters reject Giorgia Meloni’s plan to overhaul judiciary

Referendum result could tarnish PM’s reputation and make winning next year’s general election more challenging

Italian voters have rejected an overhaul of the country’s judiciary pushed by the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, an outcome that is expected to tarnish her reputation and make winning next year’s general election more challenging.

In a two-day referendum, almost 54% of voters said no to the plans to reorganise the judiciary, compared with about 46% for the yes camp.

ICE agents deployed to some U.S. airports as TSA lines stretch for hours

The Trump administration began deploying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to some of the busiest airports in the country Monday morning.

AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock’s Larry Fink

CEO of asset manager says only a few firms and investors may reap rewards from growth in the technology

The boom in artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, with only a handful of companies and investors likely to reap its financial rewards, the BlackRock chief executive, Larry Fink, has said.

The boss of the $14tn (£10.4tn) asset manager used his annual letter to investors on Monday to highlight potential hazards around the exponential growth in AI, which has attracted rapid investment and become, he said, “central to strategic competition” between global powers such as the US and China.

Fed's Goolsbee says he's worried about inflation in 'fraught but intense' climate

In a CNBC interview, the central banker said policymaking is difficult in the current environment.

Football Daily | Jorginho v Chappell Roan and another normal weekend on the internet

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Hands up who had Jorginho v Chappell Roan on their bingo cards this weekend? Ah, who’s Chappell Roan, you ask? It’s a fair question if you’re a reader as long in the tooth as this tea-timely email. Pink Pony Club anyone? Ah. Well, Football Daily hasn’t had to do any research at all, nope, to tell you that she’s a flamboyant 28-year-old synth pop singer-songwriter from the USA USA USA who is so popular with the kids that she has eight gazillion followers on Instachat and fans including the former Chelsea and current Flamengo star’s stepdaughter. Those followers may number 7,999,997 after the weekend, mind, when Jorginho took to his social media disgrace of choice to lash out at Roan, claiming one of her security guards made his stepdaughter cry after speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” to her and his wife at a São Paulo hotel.

Is there a better walk home from a Premier League ground, I wonder? After watching Brighton beat Liverpool, I walked back from the Amex to Lewes: up the Downs, along the top of the South Downs Way, down into historic Southover past the Anne of Cleves House, through beautiful Grange Gardens, up past Lewes Castle, the Pells Pools, and over the River Ouse, to South Malling. Countryside and then Historic England. About two hours of bliss. Followed by a good walk” – Peter Harris (and no other ramblers).

I’ve been reading and hearing Thibaut Courtois’s name for almost 15 years now and it only just struck me that it might be a derivative of ‘Tybalt’. Did we ever get Lukaku rounding Courtois and finishing in an open net to prompt a ‘Romelo slew Thibaut’ line from a pundit or writer? Or perhaps there are some other Pro Evo-style Shakespeare quotes I missed?” – Kristian Karamfiles.

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Reacher star Alan Ritchson filmed allegedly assaulting neighbor

Video allegedly shows actor striking a man in front of actor’s kids in what looks like a suburban Tennessee neighborhood

Alan Ritchson, the actor best known for his role in the hit action series Reacher, was filmed allegedly assaulting his neighbor in front of the actor’s children.

In a video obtained by TMZ on Sunday, the 43-year-old appeared to strike a man several times as he kneeled on the ground in what looked like a suburban neighborhood in Tennessee. Two children, reported by TMZ to be Ritchson’s, can be seen nearby sitting on motorbikes and watching the incident unfold.

Toyota to invest $1 billion to increase U.S. production in Kentucky, Indiana plants

Toyota on Monday announced $1 billion in investments in two U.S. plants as part of a plan to invest up to $10 billion domestically over the next five years.

Pete Songi on Donald Trump’s changing stances towards Iran – cartoon

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Trump has Christopher Columbus statue placed near White House

A statue of Christopher Columbus been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House.

Face the Nation: Himes, Gottlieb, MacFarlane, Montoya-Galvez

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Rep. Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz "distorted the law" in the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, which requires a declaration of war, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s suggested alternatives to the MMR vaccine are "not viable", and CBS News correspondents Scott MacFarlane and Camilo Montoya-Galvez, who acquired the list of the 238 Venezuelans deported, join to discuss the unfolding legal process regarding the deportations.

Buddha’s birthday preparations and horseback goat-grabbing: photos of the day – Monday

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

Trump tells CNBC 'we are very intent on making a deal' with Iran

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he would order the military to postpone strikes on Iran's power plants and energy infrastructure for five days.

Dow jumps more than 1,000 points after Trump delays Iran ultimatum

Crude oil prices also dropped after President Trump said the administration had held "good and productive" peace talks with Iran.

Leonid Radvinsky, owner of OnlyFans, dies aged 43

Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned subscription service for adult content died of cancer, the company says

Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of OnlyFans, has died of cancer at the age of 43, the company announced on Monday.

“We are deeply saddened ​to announce the death of Leo ​Radvinsky. Leo passed away peacefully after a ⁠long battle with cancer,” said a spokesperson for the company, best known for subscriptions to pornographic content creators. “His family have requested privacy at ​this difficult time.”

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43

The reclusive billionaire bought a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018, growing the site into a major adult content platform.

‘An attack on the heart of this community’: Golders Green arson leaves Jews feeling besieged

Local people say incident is just the latest example of hostility that has built up over a long time

• Golders Green ambulance arson attack – live updates

The blasts that boomed out in the early hours of Monday in suburban north-west London struck terror into people living in the surrounding streets. Their effects in Golders Green, with its large Jewish population, were still reverberating later that morning.

The antisemitic attack, in which four ambulances run by the Jewish charity Hatzola were set on fire, has left local people afraid. They are afraid because of the incident itself but also because of what they see as a febrile atmosphere of antisemitism in the UK more generally.

Two pilots killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia in New York

Nine people hospitalised and airport closed after landing plane hits fire truck responding to separate incident

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The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada Express regional jet have been killed after it collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport, in an incident that closed the airport.

The collision also caused serious injuries, with nine people in the hospital. It happened as a firefighting vehicle was responding to a separate incident, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.

The Associated Press contributed reporting

John Oliver on police stings: ‘might actually be doing more harm than good’

The Last Week Tonight host says police stings can manufacture criminals yet lead to real punishments

John Oliver took aim at police stings on his HBO show Last Week Tonight, claiming that they “might actually be doing more harm than good”.

The comedian started with a brief history of something that has become “a major part of law enforcement” over the last four decades in an attempt to cut down on crimes like drug dealing, tax fraud and prostitution.

Europe’s ‘staggering’ clean power gains undermined by failure to phase out fuel-burning machines

The EU’s reluctance to replace petrol cars and gas boilers keep it hooked on foreign fuels, say industry groups

Europe has made “staggering progress” in producing clean power but neglected efforts to phase out fuel-burning machines, the head of an industry group said as the global oil crisis deepens.

Adrian Hiel, director of the Electrification Alliance, said the EU has “radically transformed” its power supply and must now focus on getting “more electricity into the stuff we use every day”.

‘Audiences told us we didn’t show enough teacher sex’: how we made Waterloo Road

‘In series one, it was bullying, drugs and alcohol. Twenty years on, it’s vapes, cyber-bullying and bloody energy drinks’

I was working on women’s prison drama Bad Girls when the idea for Waterloo Road came up. Bad Girls creators Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus had a fiery belief in social justice and did rigorous research. Those are often the foundations of successful serial drama. Ann had once taught in a Glasgow comprehensive and was passionate about education: she believed we write off young people too readily. That became the basis of Waterloo Road.

‘The most stunningly awful wonderful record’: how the Shaggs became rock’s most divisive band

Often completely out of tune and rarely in time, the group of sisters forced to play together by their father gained an army of fans from Frank Zappa to Kurt Cobain. A new documentary celebrates their cult status

When Austin Wiggin Jr was a boy, his mother read his palm. She foretold that Austin would have two sons she wouldn’t live to see; he’d marry a strawberry blonde; and his daughters would play in a popular band. By 1965, the first two omens had come true. Austin felt this was reason enough to pull Dorothy, Betty and Helen Wiggin from school in pursuit of musical superstardom.

Austin’s domineering daily regime began immediately: mail-order homework, calisthenics, and constant band practice under his watch. Whether they liked it or not, the sisters were now the Shaggs – and barred from being anything else. They were rarely permitted to leave their home, save for church, shopping, and a gig every Saturday at the town hall in Fremont, New Hampshire, where for five years they played to peers they never got to know.

Seahawks to make $168m Jaxon Smith-Njigba highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history

• First-team All Pro expected to get $120m guaranteed

• PLayer was NFL Offensive Player of the Year for 2025

Seattle Seahawks star Jaxon Smith-Njigba recently said he expects to become the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history. He got his wish with a four-year, $168.6m contract extension that includes $120m guaranteed, according to multiple reports on Monday.

Smith-Njigba’s $42.15m annual salary surpasses Cincinnati Bengals star Ja’Marr Chase, who averages $40.25m a season on his four-year, $161m deal.

French local election results give unexpected lift to centrist parties

Outcome suggests that when mainstream parties cooperate they can still block Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally

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France’s local elections, closely watched for clues to next year’s presidential vote, have given parties of the centre a welcome and unexpected lift as the far right and radical left fell some way short of their ambitions.

The 35,000 municipal ballots often focus on local survival and their outcomes do not always reflect national voting patterns, but they do show trends in popularity and suggest what kind of alliances can be struck in a fragmented political landscape.

The ghost of Aprils past: is Arsenal’s title anxiety returning? | Jonathan Wilson

The Gunners have a nine-point lead in the Premier League. But recent run-ins, and their loss to City on Sunday, will keep them wary

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Some day, probably quite soon, Arsenal will win something again. Quite probably something much bigger than the Carabao Cup. But until then, there is only going to be anxiety, and it is going to get worse after Sunday’s second-half freeze against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final, which City won 2-0. Wembley could have seen the start of the Arsenal era, perhaps even the first leg of an unprecedented Quadruple; instead it was City celebrating, and with a gusto that suggested the past couple of years of dearth have served as a useful reminder that these occasions can never be taken for granted.

Claims that victory in this final could be a huge psychological blow in the title race are perhaps a little fanciful. One game is one game. Professional athletes, robust self-belief integral to their existence, recover from defeats. But still, that flatness in the second half, the way Arsenal were pinned back and unable to break forward, has to be a concern. City were able to use the way Arsenal like to control the pace of the game against them, the short passes out from the goalkeeper used as a way of penning them in as they closed down passing lanes, allowing their defenders to have the ball and denying them options. What was that? A tactical triumph for Pep Guardiola? Exhaustion from Arsenal? Or the familiar mental fragility returning?

Supreme Court declines to review press freedom case

At issue was the 2017 arrest in Texas of a journalist who published news stories about a border agent's public suicide and a car crash.

Hawaii assesses damage left by worst flooding in more than 20 years

People evacuated on Oahu and Maui as rains lifted houses and cars, swept through stores and left streets mud-clogged

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Hawaii is coming to grips with the extensive damage left by the worst flooding the islands have seen in more than 20 years.

Over the weekend, heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago, forcing thousands on the North Shore of Oahu to evacuate before more evacuations for parts of the island of Maui.

When your culture becomes a meme: the ‘jarring’ effect of Chinamaxxing

The TikTok trend may be fading, but people of Chinese heritage wonder if an appreciation for their culture will continue after the algorithm moves on

I have been Chinese my whole life. Lately, many online have also found their Chinese roots, but not through traditional ancestry tests.

Creators are drinking hot water, wearing slippers around the house, using chopsticks, eating Chinese food, and wearing red. Taking off in popularity from mid-2025, these videos have racked up hundreds of thousands of views, finding virality first on TikTok, then later Instagram and X. Put simply, “people are trying to be more Chinese regardless of what their heritage is,” says Michelle She, a London-based fashion label owner.

Chaos on first day of Greece train crash trial as relatives shout ‘shame on you’

Judges adjourn hearing into country’s worst rail disaster after grieving families denounce it as caricature of justice

A long-awaited trial into Greece’s worst train crash has descended into chaos hours after it began, with relatives of the 57 people killed in the disaster screaming “shame on you” at judges who were forced to adjourn the hearing until next month.

More than three years after the tragedy, grieving families denounced the proceedings as a caricature of justice amid demands the trial be held elsewhere. The five-member panel of judges called multiple recesses on Monday before announcing the hearing would be postponed until 1 April.

Do we have to keep talking about AI? The machines are always one step ahead | Zoe Williams

Whether you want to free it or regulate it into submission, one thing is clear: this new technology is moving so fast that we can’t fully grasp it

At an 80th birthday party at the weekend, I met an academic who was evasive about his field. When he finally disclosed “computer science”, I asked him why he hadn’t wanted to say, and he replied: “Because I cannot have one more conversation about AI.” I couldn’t ask him why not, because of stupid manners; that would have been one more conversation about AI. But I don’t want to have another conversation about AI either.

Nobody’s opinion, whether utopian or dystopian, seems to keep up with the thing itself, so everything has the laggy, outdated feeling of a BBC Radio 4 afternoon play about AI. There was one last week, and I listened to it patchily, thinking: “If AI had written this, it would have made a more sophisticated evaluation of the threat posed by itself, and been less hammy, unless the instruction had specifically been, ‘Write some dialogue in the style of a pretend-family on a party political broadcast from the 90s.’”

Nearly 200 rescued from homes, cars in Hawaii amid severe flooding

Parts of Hawaii have been ravaged by some of the worst flooding in decades following a new round of storms over the weekend. Nearly 200 people have been rescued from homes and cars across Hawaii and the state's governor says the damage could cost over $1 billion.

Breaching the Iron Dome: the Iranian cluster bombs bypassing Israeli air defences

Gleaming trails of bomblets in night sky have become familiar to Israelis as Tehran exploits apparent vulnerability

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On 5 March, a post appeared on the X account of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, managed by his staff after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 28 February. The tweet featured a stark piece of propaganda: a gleaming, oversized missile arcing across the sky as a city below is engulfed in flames. The caption read: “Khorramshahr moments are on the horizon.”

The Khorramshahr missile, Iran’s most advanced ballistic missile, is believed to be capable of carrying a cluster warhead dispersing up to 80 submunitions. Since that post, it has come to loom large in Israeli threat assessments, a persistent concern for a country equipped with a multi-layered missile defence system that is widely regarded as the world’s most sophisticated.

GLP-1 drugs are changing how Americans eat. Food companies are racing to catch up

For restaurants and food companies, the increasing adoption of GLP-1 drugs present both an opportunity and a threat to their businesses.

World’s broadcasters urge EU to tighten rules for big tech in smart TV battle

Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung control operating systems, allowing them to act as gatekeepers, letter claims

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The world’s largest broadcasters have pushed for the EU to enforce its toughest regulations against virtual TVs and smart assistants built by Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung.

The call came in a letter from the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe (ACT), whose members include Canal+, RTL, Mediaset, ITV, Paramount+, NBCUniversal, Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Sky and TF1 Groupe.

Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds

Monument made from shattered pieces of original statue tossed into Baltimore’s inner harbor by protesters in 2020

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A statue of Christopher Columbus has been installed in the grounds of the White House in the latest attempt by Donald Trump to position the controversial explorer as a foundational hero of the US.

The president had the 13ft statue, which weighs one ton, placed outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on Pennsylvania Avenue. It is a replica of a monument to Columbus that was torn down and tossed into Baltimore’s inner harbor by protesters in the city amid widespread anti-racism protests in 2020.

Pilot calls circumstances surrounding LaGuardia Airport collision "very unusual"

Capt. Laura Einsetler, a pilot with more than 30 years of experience, called the LaGuardia Airport collision, "very concerning," saying, "it's very unusual to have a situation where landing on the runway and you have emergency equipment, emergency equipment operators on the runway itself." She discusses the deadly incident, aviation safety and staffing.

Investigation into what led to the deadly LaGuardia collision between plane, firetruck

The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate the deadly collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport between an Air Canada plane and firetruck on a runway. According to ATC audio, an air traffic controller had given clearance for the vehicle to respond to another emergency involving an odor on a United flight, but moments later the controller realized his mistake and tried to stop the vehicle.

Voice of America staffers sue, alleging Kari Lake put on propaganda

Voice of America staffers are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, alleging she put pro-Trump propaganda on its airwaves. She has lost numerous rulings of late.

2 pilots killed after plane, firetruck collide at New York's LaGuardia Airport

New York's LaGuardia Airport is closed after an Air Canada Express plane and emergency vehicle collided on a runway late Sunday, killing two pilots and injuring dozens of people. Tom Hanson and Kris Van Cleave have the latest.

Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for spiced roast noodle traybake | Quick and easy

Supermarket Thai herb and spice kits make this simple to shop for. Then add fragrant coconut milk and vegetables for a delicious family dinner

Call me well and truly influenced. I am jumping on the social media trend of roasting noodles in a fragrant sauce for an easy one-tray family dinner. If I was being authentic to my socials, then I would throw a few frozen gyozas in there too (and why not, if you have them feel free to chuck them in), but what I will say is that this is delicious as it is. You can get a fresh Thai herb and spice kit from most large supermarkets these days, which includes the key ingredients you need here – lemongrass, bird’s eye chillies, lime leaves, etc; it also saves you from having to buy them all separately. Use this base as your hero, and think of it as a plant-based core recipe – perfect, but also happy to be finished with some shredded chicken or pork, a soft-boiled egg or even some of those failsafe frozen dumplings on top.

California sheriff running for governor seizes over 650,000 ballots from 2025 election

Republican Chad Bianco investigating Prop 50 vote despite officials denying claims of ballots being cast unlawfully

A California sheriff who is running as a Republican for governor has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last year’s election, escalating an ongoing conflict with state officials.

Chad Bianco, Riverside county’s sheriff, says he is carrying out an investigation into allegations that ballots were unlawfully cast in last year’s election that resulted in the passage of Proposition 50. The proposition redrew congressional districts to help gerrymander the state in favor of Democrats, in response to similar measures in Republican states like Texas.

Cycling, crystals and cutting-edge science: the secrets of Hodgkinson and Hunter Bell’s success

Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, who oversaw gold medal success in Torun for Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell, believe the best is yet to come for the pair

It was the architect of the London 2012 Olympics who said it best, shortly after Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell and Molly Caudery had lit up the world indoor championships with three gold medals in 29 minutes. “That was a towering moment, not just for UK Athletics but for British sport,” said Sebastian Coe, now the World Athletics president. “It was very exciting, hugely inspirational. I really do hope they cause a stampede to local athletics clubs, particularly among young girls.”

Soon afterwards, Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, the husband and wife coaching team who have guided Hodgkinson and Hunter Bell to glory, were explaining the secrets behind their success – ranging from cycling to crystals to cutting-edge science – before predicting the best was yet to come.

Trump postpones threat to attack Iran power plants as Israel launches new strikes

In the Iran war, President Trump postponed his threat to strike Iran's civilian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened. Charlie D'Agata has the latest on the war, including new attacks from Israel and Iran continuing to strike back.

Esposito excels for Inter and could banish the fear stalking Italy before playoff | Nicky Bandini

Inter dropped more points at Fiorentina but young striker showed yet again that he can step up and deliver for club and country

Is Francesco Pio Esposito immune to The Fear? Even as Inter threw away another two points on Sunday night, drawing 1-1 at Fiorentina and giving fresh encouragement to their rivals in a title race that was supposed to have been done and dusted by the end of February, their 20-year-old striker remained untouched by it.

He opened the scoring inside the first minute at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, rewarding Nicolò Barella’s cross with a firm header past David De Gea. When the ball reached him again in the dying seconds of injury time, Esposito once again met the occasion, keeping his feet as Luca Ranieri grabbed at him with both hands, and turning brilliantly to fire towards the bottom corner. This time, however, the goalkeeper was equal to it.

CBS News poll shows majority of Americans don't approve of Iran war as gas prices rise

In a recent CBS News poll, 57% of respondents said they think the war with Iran is not going well for the U.S. and 66% called it a "war of choice." Fewer than one-third think the Trump administration has clearly stated U.S. goals in the conflict. Ed O'Keefe reports.

English clubs’ plea for bigger Champions League squads rejected after Spanish backlash

• Premier League clubs wanted 28-man squad

• Atlético Madrid among clubs with reservations

Uefa has rejected requests from English clubs to increase the size of Champions League squads to 28 next season after a backlash led by their counterparts in Spain.

As reported by the Guardian larger squad sizes was discussed at a meeting of Uefa’s club competitions committee last month, but the proposal has not been put forward for the next meeting of Uefa’s executive committee, which will take place before the Europa League final in Istanbul on 20 May.

England bring Ben White in from exile and call up Scotland target Harvey Barnes

• Defender has not played for England since 2022

• Scotland were hopeful of picking Newcastle winger

Ben White has been recalled to the England squad by Thomas Tuchel for the Wembley friendlies against Uruguay and Japan, ending his partly self-imposed exile. The Arsenal right-back has not been involved in the setup since he left camp during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar for personal reasons. He made himself unavailable for the remainder of Gareth Southgate’s tenure.

Tuchel said last March, before he named his first England squad, that White “wants to be back”, although he did not pick him then as the player had only just returned after a serious knee injury.

Trump sends ICE agents to airports amid TSA shortages as partial shutdown continues

The Trump administration is deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to some airports to fill in for Transportation Security Administration officers amid staffing shortages during the partial government shutdown. Democrats have slammed the move as ICE agents have been at the center of the partial shutdown on Capitol Hill. Skyler Henry reports.

Counter-terror police investigating arson attack on Jewish charity’s ambulances in London

PM and mayor among those to condemn torching of vehicles with Met treating it as antisemitic hate crime

• Golders Green ambulance arson attack – live updates

Counter-terrorism officers are leading an investigation into an arson attack on four ambulances in north London belonging to a Jewish community service, police have said.

Officers were called to Highfield Road in Golders Green at about 1.45am on Monday after receiving reports of ambulances on fire near the Machzike Hadath synagogue and were looking for three suspects, the Metropolitan police said.

Break down of how collision between plane, firetruck unfolded at LaGuardia Airport

Robert Sumwalt, a former chair of the NTSB and a CBS News transportation safety expert, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the collision on a LaGuardia Airport runway between a plane and firetruck. Sumwalt explains what the NTSB investigation will look like, how long it could take and discusses air traffic control staffing.

It’s 100 and out for Kwasniok after derby thriller leaves chaotic Köln in trouble | Andy Brassell

The breathless 3-3 draw with Mönchengladbach only highlighted the disarray that has cost head coach his job

Lukas Kwasniok will always be able to say that he led FC Köln in the historic 100th top-flight Rhineland derby against Borussia Mönchengladbach. He will always be able to say that his team fought as hard as the occasion demanded, overcame myriad setbacks and never deserted the cause, or him.

Yet Kwasniok will also have to acknowledge that this was the end; that even a derby as intense as this and everything his team did right in it could not exist in a bubble separately from an increasingly fraught situation in Köln’s season. The writing had felt like it was on the wall for a while and when sporting director Thomas Kessler spoke after the game, it was sprayed in neon capitals. “It was,” Kessler acknowledged after a thrilling 3-3 draw, “a rollercoaster of emotions but ultimately, we have to say that the point isn’t enough today.” As soon as Kessler conceded that final point it wasn’t a case of if but when for Kwasniok.

Cecily Brown: ‘I was too shy to talk to all these super cool kids like Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst’

She left London because her paintings felt hopelessly unfashionable compared with the work of the YBAs. Now she’s back with a blockbuster show – and the world has come round to her point of view

People say that Cecily Brown left London in the early 1990s because of the YBAs – as if, she laughs, she wanted to get away from them. “I actually had great admiration for the art being made, I just wasn’t in sync with them.” While Damien Hirst was dunking dead animals in formaldehyde and Sarah Lucas was devouring bananas in front of the camera, Brown was wielding a palette and brush. “There was this feeling in London at the time that if you were a painter, you were a loser. I didn’t feel like a saddo for being a painter in New York.”

You would think, then, that she’d be returning triumphant. She was taken on in her 20s by mega-gallery Gagosian, and has works in MoMA and the Tate. Recent shows include a survey at the Met in New York. Her paintings, slippery and complex canvases that are richly allusive and reward slow looking, sell for millions, making her one of the most valuable living female artists.

Trump delays strikes on Iran's power plants for 5 days. And, ICE deploys to airports

Trump says he will deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports to help address delays. And, the president said he would delay strikes on Iranian power plants for five days.

‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park

Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago

Six decades ago, pioneering oceanographer and conservationist Sylvia Earle made a bittersweet discovery while diving off Chile’s oceanic islands with the US National Science Foundation vessel, the Anton Bruun. She found the remains of a baby fur seal, one of the world’s most isolated aquatic mammals.

Endemic to the Juan Fernández archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, and once prized for its fur and meat, the species, Arctocephalus philippii, was believed to have been hunted to extinction in the 19th century. But, Earle said: “A baby must have a mum and dad somewhere.”

Pioneering oceanographer and conservationist Sylvia Earle. Photograph: Andy Mann/Blue Marine Foundation

As Jewish ambulances are set ablaze, we must quell the flames of hate from Golders Green to the West Bank | David Davidi-Brown

Britons face a clear choice: fuel the division arising from all the horror abroad or refuse to let that hatred take hold in our own communities

A few weeks ago in Tel Aviv, on my first days there – before what has now become an extended stay due to the war – I stopped at a small place to grab lunch. I began my order in hesitant Hebrew, thinking I was doing well, but after a moment that exposed my linguistic limitations, the man behind the counter switched to English to ask where I was from. “London,” I said. “Ah,” he replied with a chuckle. “Londonistan.”

With the easy certainty of someone stating a fact, he then told me that London is no longer safe for Jews. I brushed it off at the time. It feels harder to dismiss now.

ICE agents will be deployed to U.S. airports on Monday: Homan

The shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security has caused massive pileups at airport security lines.

Secrets of the karst: new species found in Cambodia’s limestone caves – in pictures

A survey has revealed the vast array of wildlife – some never seen before – living within the south-east Asian country’s karst ecosystems. The work was led by international wildlife conservation charity Fauna & Flora in collaboration with Cambodia’s environment ministry and field experts

• I discovered three new geckos in Cambodia’s limestone caves – and that’s not all we found

The pet I’ll never forget: Harriet, the hedgehog in my airing cupboard

Her job was to tackle slugs in the garden, but she soon found a way into my home – and my heart

Harriet came into my life when I asked my vet if I could get a hedgehog to come and live in my garden and deal with the slugs. She found me Harriet in Tiggywinkles, a Buckinghamshire-based wildlife hospital. Harriet was rather shy. I brought her home in a cardboard box and put it on the ground, on its side. She poked her nose out and, as soon as she saw me, scuttled off to hide in a corner of the garden.

Harriet settled in well and did her job efficiently, eating all the slugs. She slept in an old compost bag in the garden, to which I added some dried leaves to make a bed for her. One day, sitting on the sofa with my legs stretched out, I felt something touching my bare toes. It was Harriet, examining them. She had come in through the cat flap.

The sun may be shining but beware eating alfresco – it can turn into an absolute indignity

During a trip to London I ended up perching on a wall, balancing a salad bowl on my knees. It wasn’t what I’d had in mind

Spring seems to be settling in and that’s great, but I have been recently reminded of one of its worst bits: not hay fever or wrong coat season, but the absolute indignity of alfresco eating.

I usually avoid eating outside; it’s fraught with dangers, from the stress position that is “sitting on picnic blanket” to seagull attack. But last week, giddy with the warm weather and leaving my sordid home office to come to London, my better judgment deserted me. I had one goal: I would treat myself to one of those fancy salad bowls I keep reading about (the “slop” ones that are harbingers of civilisational collapse), sitting in the sun. I wanted to emulate metropolitan sophisticates by paying £12 for elite rabbit food; I wanted improbable amounts of protein and fancy dressing; I wanted vitamin D. You don’t get that in York.

Trump says the U.S. is in talks with Iran to end the war, which Iran denies

Trump said the U.S. will postpone any strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days, even as Israel continued hitting Tehran and Iran warned it could retaliate across the Gulf.

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death | Jan-Werner Mueller

The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence

It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing; he also refuses to apologize for “understanding” an assault on fellow senator Rand Paul. Never before has an administration so openly glorified outright killing as the current White House propaganda machine does with its obscene snuff videos of the Iran war and the destruction of small boats.

Unlike with fascism in the 20th century, there is no attempt to promote or symbolically reward self-sacrifice – it is just video game-style killing at a distance, justified not with strategic objectives, but with seemingly uncontrollable emotions (“fury” and a thirst for vengeance). And all accompanied by open admissions that basic laws of warfare will be broken. Actual soldiers with longstanding codes of honor, as opposed to the fantasy world Hegseth is creating with his cliche-ridden chatter on TV, would not punch enemies when they are down.

More than 40 Middle East energy assets ‘severely damaged,’ IEA chief says

The IEA’s Fatih Birol warned that damage to energy infrastructure across the Middle East would take some time to repair.

The Magic Faraway Tree review – spruced up Blyton with Foy and Garfield proves fruitful

Paddington 2 co-creator Simon Farnaby branches out with adaptation of children’s classic boasting lively performances and some sharp gags

The estimable Simon Farnaby got hall-of-famer status for co-creating the film Paddington 2, an achievement which by common consent is basically up there with the moon landing and the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Now this screenwriting powerhouse of British movie entertainment has adapted and modernised Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree books from the late 1930s and 40s – all about a huge enchanted tree whose branches are a canopy of magical wonder.

The result is a thoroughly likable and sweet-natured family fantasy film for the Easter holidays, with acres of innocent jollity and eccentric quirkiness.

Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor review – portrait of a working-class artist in New York

This novel is stacked with ideas about Black art and aesthetics – but its language is too clumsy and academic to bring them to life

Brandon Taylor’s third novel, following the Booker-shortlisted Real Life and 2023’s The Late Americans, is full of hands. It’s set in the years after a pandemic that made many people desperate “to touch and be touched”. Long before then, no one had ever held the hand of its chief character, a young painter called Wyeth – not even his mother. In the doldrums, he recalls a conversation with a printmaker who extolled lithography because the images it produces reveal the strength and dexterity of an artist’s fingers: human marks. Poring through a company’s digital files, he has a near-seizure when he comes across a handwritten ledger: “There was something almost romantic about the curves of the numbers, elegant and swooping.”

Wyeth was born in Virginia, a state where, within living memory, Black farmhands developed cancer because they weren’t given gloves to pick the tobacco that would later poison their blood. He grew up in a trailer park with his white mother, a nursing assistant. To be working class, fatherless and from the south: this was, for him, a kind of isolation chamber. It led him to imagine that “the future and history belonged to another species of human that did not include him and his family and their distant relations”.

‘A big smile on my face’: why Everybody Wants Some!! is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their go-to comfort films is a trip back to 1980 with Richard Linklater’s charming hangout comedy

If any film can make me feel like a teenager again, it’s Everybody Wants Some!!

I first saw it when it came out in 2016 (making basically no money at the box office, which is a shame), and I’ve watched it at least once a year since.

With more older drivers on the road, states try to balance safety and mobility

The number of older drivers on the road is climbing. Safety advocates want tougher rules for relicensing, but many drivers say they shouldn't be forced to give up their mobility because of age alone.

Worried about a shaky stock market? This is what financial advisers suggest you do

Their answer depends on how soon you need to tap into your funds — and it might simply be "do nothing."

Raye: This Music May Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious epic of unbridled self-expression

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Almost overstuffed with musical ideas, the singer’s second studio album can be self-indulgent and messy, but it’s a heartfelt and exuberant grand statement from an artist determined to go her own way

Last autumn, Raye was the subject of a lengthy profile in a major fashion magazine. In it, the singer told an anecdote that placed her in precisely the position you would expect following her successful debut album: ensconced in the studio with a very big name producer, the better to capitalise on its success. But the recording session was, she suggested, “fuckshit”: the producer simply turned up with a beat and expected her to sing over it. Raye declined to, as she put it, “do that dance … I was just thinking: ‘Get me out of here.’”

This story seems telling in light of This Music May Contain Hope, an album that very much suggests an artist determined to go her own way. It’s about an emotional breakdown occasioned by romantic woe, online criticism, a troubling call from her grandmother and, she notes, “seven negronis”. And, like Lily Allen’s West End Girl, it flies in the face of perceived wisdom about how people consume music in the streaming age, being a 17-track, 73-minute concept album divided into four sections and evidently intended to be listened to from start to finish.

Is it true that … you need to work out if you want to lose weight?

To shift the pounds you need to create a calorie deficit, which means changes to your diet, exercise, or a combination of the two

In order to lose weight, most people need to maintain a calorie deficit over a sustained period, says Bethan Crouse, a performance nutritionist at Loughborough University. “This can be done by increasing exercise to boost your calorie expenditure and therefore create a deficit,” she says. “In that case, exercise might be the key to losing weight. But you could approach it the other way: by choosing less calorie-dense foods and reducing your energy intake, you can create a deficit without changing how much you exercise.”

Relying on workouts alone for weight loss can be challenging. “If you’re aiming to burn an extra 300 to 500 calories a day, that’s an awful lot of exercise. You’re likely to need some kind of nutritional intervention as well to create that gap between energy intake and output.”

iPhone 17e review: Apple upgrades its cheapest new smartphone

Mid-range handset gets chip, storage and MagSafe upgrades to offer more essential iOS features for less

The cheapest new iPhone has been upgraded for this year with a faster chip, double the storage, automatic portraits and MagSafe, providing even more of the core Apple smartphone experience for less.

The iPhone 17e is an upgraded version of the mid-range “e” line launched last year with the first iPhone 16e and is the latest member of the iPhone 17 family. It starts at £599 (€699/$599/A$999), undercutting the iPhone 17 and iPhone 16 by £200 and £100 respectively to be the cheapest new iPhone sold by Apple.

Screen: 6.1in Super Retina XDR (OLED) (460ppi)

Processor: Apple A19 (4-core GPU)

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 256 or 512GB

Operating system: iOS 26

Camera: 48MP rear; 12MP front-facing

Connectivity: 5G, wifi 6, NFC, Bluetooth 5.3, USB-C, Satellite and GNSS

Water resistance: IP68 (6 metres for 30 mins)

Dimensions: 146.7 x 71.5 x 7.8mm

Weight: 170g

We Know You Can Pay a Million by Anja Shortland review – the terrifying new world of ransomware

Criminals extorting money online have created huge businesses, complete with branding and HR

The birth of ransomware was a stunt that got out of hand. In 1989, an evolutionary biologist called Joseph L Popp Jr was working part time for the World Health Organisation on the Aids epidemic. He was a difficult man. When he was denied a permanent job, he decided to punish his peers while shocking them into acknowledging another kind of infection: the computer virus.

Popp wrote a questionnaire promising to help minimise the risk of contracting HIV, duplicated it on to 20,000 floppy discs, and sent them to researchers in 90 countries. Each disc contained a Trojan virus. Once it was inserted, a malware timebomb eventually made the computer unusable until the user paid a “licence fee” of $189 to a PO box in Panama. Popp’s primitive “Aids Trojan” was quickly identified and he was arrested for blackmail. Intending to make a point rather than a profit, he was mortified to learn that some of his targets had overreacted by wiping their hard drives: one Italian Aids organisation lost a decade’s worth of vital data. Popp experienced a psychological collapse and was deemed unfit to stand trial. The criminals who developed his crude innovation into a global business would not be so scrupulous.

Jane Fonda’s life goes under the microscope: best podcasts of the week

Pop culture icons and music legends are explored in a new show that has access to the BBC’s vast archive. Plus, the Guardian delivers a propulsive crime story that asks big questions of the US criminal justice system

Emmanuel Dzotsi had an all-too-brief run on internet culture podcast Reply All, so it’s great to hear him back on a smart and chatty show. He co-hosts this series alongside Kai Wright of WNYC’s Notes from America, with the pair drawing on the BBC’s vast archive to tell the stories of major pop culture figures. First up is actor and activist Jane Fonda, followed by a thoughtful profile of George Michael. Hannah J Davies
Widely available, episodes weekly from Monday 23 March

A new start after 60: I went on 75 first dates – and wrote a book of Kama Sutra-inspired poetry

Zack Rogow thought he was ready for love after the end of a long relationship – but not everyone agreed. How did he get over the rejections?

When Zack Rogow’s relationship ended, he joined an online dating site. Aged 66, Rogow prepared for his first date with a mixture of grief at the loss of a love he’d thought would last a lifetime, and euphoria. “I was gaga – ‘Oh, I’m single again. I can meet people!’” In the event, one match led to another and he notched up 75 first dates over 18 months.

Some dates were outdoorsy walks. Others took place in wine bars, in cafes or at the movies. He kept notes, jotting down each woman’s career and family situation so he wouldn’t put his foot in it on a second date. It must have started to feel like a job.

Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik

What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit

The war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabilises the Middle East and the global economy, is not real. This is how it is being portrayed by the Trump administration. The war is a video game, a spectator sport, a social media festival of dunking. The architects of this war have made a virtue out of stupidity, and have been supported in that by a stupefying information ecosystem. The conflict waged by the US feels like the first of its kind in the modern age: distinctly remote and profoundly ignorant.

A week into the war, the White House uploaded a clip on its social media channels featuring montages of Top Gun, Braveheart and Breaking Bad, with the caption “Justice the American way” – itself a repurposing of a Superman motto. In another, entitled Touchdown, NFL players tackle each other and upon contact, boom, footage of a strike explosion tagged “unclassified”. SpongeBob SquarePants also makes an appearance, asking, “Wanna see me do it again?”, and then, an explosion. In another, Operation Epic Fury is rendered as a Nintendo Wii game.

‘Constant uncertainty’: Mahmood’s ‘earned settlement’ immigration plan has families stuck in limbo

Home secretary’s new ILR rules mean couples such as Felix and Tessa King, from UK and US, face an insecure future

“It’s the sickening stress of never quite feeling like you have roots. My marriage feels like it’s on probation, conditional to whether the government puts a stamp on the next renewal. It’s the constant uncertainty that makes me ill,” Felix King said.

King, 31, an IT worker, wants to adopt a child with her American wife, Tessa, 29. But the impact of the home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s “earned settlement” immigration plan means the couple, who live in Cheshire, fear they will never get the chance.

‘In 20 years most of the world could be racist dictatorships’: Ibram X Kendi on book bans and far-right fear-mongering

How have the rich and powerful convinced so many voters that the reason they are struggling is the poor and powerless? The American historian talks about the weaponising of divisiveness

‘I think I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries no bitterness but stops just short of pride. It’s proof, he says, that his works on racism, which extend from deep, scholarly histories to a biography of Malcolm X for children, are getting through to the right people – and annoying the right people. According to the writers’ advocacy group PEN America, his books have been banned at least 50 times by multiple US school districts during the tumultuous “anti-woke” backlash of the past five years. He’s not happy about that, but nor was he discouraged. “I understood that the major reason why people were singling me out and demonising me was because they did not want people reading my books,” he says. “And when the character assassinations did not work to the scale that they wanted them to, then they started banning my books, and the books of many others.”

Kendi’s work is divisive almost by design. He has a way of framing his ideas in radically stark terms. In his 2016 breakthrough book Stamped from the Beginning, a history of racist ideas in the US, he argued that racist policies lead to racist ideas, not the other way round. His bestselling follow-up, 2019’s How to Be an Antiracist, introduced an equally contentious proposition: there was no such thing as “not racist”; you were either racist or anti-racist. There was no in-between: inaction or neutrality about racist issues was effectively complicity. By extension, he argued that all racial disparities in outcome for Black people were the result of racist policies – not just some, all.

‘Luxury takes time. We don’t have time’: The former top military officer on a mission to fix the Dutch housing crisis

Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan plans to simplify the housebuilding process to tackle shortage of 400,000 homes

Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan is on a mission. The new housing minister of the Netherlands is charged with building 100,000 homes a year and breaking through a planning deadlock to combat one of Europe’s worst housing crises.

The Irish-born 50-year-old is new to politics. Until a fortnight ago she was the country’s top female military officer, famous for getting flak jackets redesigned for women’s bodies and holding her own in a male-dominated sphere.

Flock and awe: inside the big changes at Henry Moore’s glorious sheep-filled Hoglands home

The great sculptor worked as a war artist in the 1940s, sketching people sheltering from bombings. Now his powerful underground drawings are opening the vast, renovated sheep barn gallery at his Arcadian home

In September 1940, Henry Moore and his wife, Irina, left London to escape wartime bombing, ending up in the bucolic hamlet of Perry Green, where Hertfordshire meets Essex. What was envisaged as a temporary refuge eventually became permanent, and the array of buildings in which Moore lived and worked is now a kind of cultural ecosystem dedicated to his genius. Part minor stately home, part sculpture park and part archive – one of the largest devoted to a single artist – it’s now overseen by his eponymous foundation, established in 1977.

Today, it comprises a constellation of studios and workspaces dispersed across an Arcadian landscape. Sheep graze in far fields and colossal sculptures loom on the horizon. Moore’s house, Hoglands, is preserved just as he left it, replete with his collections of books and artefacts – Dogon and Ashanti carvings, a narwhal tusk casually slung in a corner, a Picasso print in the kitchen – along with amply provisioned drinks trays for entertaining visitors and prospective buyers. Over the years, Moore clinked glasses with a stream of admirers, from Lauren Bacall to German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who had a large Moore situated outside his Bonn chancellery in the 1970s, remarking that it synthesised “nature with intelligence”.

New Zealand PM’s ratings dip as fragile economy fails to impress before November election, poll shows

National leader Christopher Luxon drops in preferred PM stakes with rise in people saying country heading in wrong direction

The personal ratings of New Zealand’s prime minister, Christopher Luxon, have dipped, polling shows, as his government’s handling of the economy fails to impress voters ahead of the November election.

The RNZ-Reid Research poll, released on Monday, also found a growing number of people felt that New Zealand was heading in the wrong direction.

Opinion: As Trump eyes Cuba, my trips there a decade ago remind me how different things were

Trump has threatened a 'friendly takeover' of Cuba after cutting it off from Venezuela's oil. CNBC's Justin Solomon reflects how different things used to be.

Artemis II back on launch pad for moon flyby mission

NASA's Artemis II rocket is back on the launch pad after repairs inside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Early next month, NASA will try, for a second time, to send a crew of four on a flyby of the moon. Mark Strassmann has more.

Hawaii hit with worst flooding in 20 years

Hawaii is under a flood watch after weeks of heavy rain triggered the worst flooding there in 20 years. Carter Evans reports and Andrew Kozak has a look at the national forecast.

Lawmakers still far apart with DHS shutdown in Day 37

The Senate was in session Sunday but there is no end in sight to the partial shutdown fight, or the blame game, with Democrats and Republicans still far apart on a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Cristian Benavides reports.

Officials scramble to carry out Trump's directive on ICE agents at airports

President Trump said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will assist TSA agents at airports as delays and security staffing shortages continue to worsen.

Trump calling in ICE agents for airport security as DHS shutdown continues

The Trump administration says ICE officers will be stationed at hotspot U.S. airports starting Monday to assist with TSA screenings. They will undergo some training before then. Skyler Henry reports.