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    Democrat defense of Platner is rooted in false vision

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    Thieves steal more than 1,000 items from Oakland museum in ‘brazen’ heist

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    The Times thought they were interviewing ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. They were actually talking to a wine importer
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    The ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ is banking on a grassroots campaign to unseat the Democratic mayor

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    Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning

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    The leftwing defense of Graham Platner is rooted in a false Democratic vision

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    Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different path
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    Trump is using the shutdown to make life tougher for millions of workers

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    Food stamps are in danger and hundreds of thousands of federal workers may go unpaid, as thousands more are laid off
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    This isn’t a real ceasefire in Gaza – it’s a holding pattern before war returns

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    Halloween is no ungodly American import – just ask the medieval monks and nuns who marketed it

    Michael Carter
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    Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it

    Una Mullally
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    Scaring my kids is really fun – but it’s also how I teach them to navigate a dangerous world

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    Thunder guard, 20, undergoing treatment for testicular cancer

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    Landry says LSU AD won’t pick next football coach after $95m fiasco

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    The kids are alright but concerns over chemistry and aerial ability remain

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    Victims to receive payments based on severity and effects of abuse perpetrated by members of clergy
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    Video from Detroit virtual court hearing goes viral

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    Wife of British commentator ‘abducted by ICE’ speaks out: ‘We’re being kept in the dark’

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    Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil

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    Prince and Princess of Wales win privacy case against Paris Match

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    US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester

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    Shell’s profits pass $43bn after production hits new highs in Brazil and Gulf of Mexico

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    Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean

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    Environment
    All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, says report

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    Teacher tells court she thought she had died after six-year-old shot her in Virginia school

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    Novo Nordisk bids $9bn for obesity drug maker Metsera in challenge to Pfizer

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    Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests

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    Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

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    Geert Wilders faces shutout as centrists hail huge gains in knife-edge Dutch election

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    Volkswagen indicates shortage of Chinese chips would hit profits

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    More than half of UK businesses changing DEI approach due to Trump’s criticism

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    ECB keeps interest rates on hold despite eurozone inflation fears

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    Doctor Who lives on! But who will be the new Time Lord – and is it goodbye to Russell T Davies?

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    Late-night TV roundup
    Seth Meyers on Trump’s South Korea visit: ‘Getting the royal treatment he so desperately craves’

  2. Liam Hemsworth as Geralt Rivia in season four of Netflix’s The Witcher.

    Television
    The Witcher season four – Liam Hemsworth is as charismatic as a bollard in a wig

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    Film
    A House of Dynamite is both political fantasy and major disappointment

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    Television
    What’s with the sponcon slop in Nobody Wants This? Netflix, nobody wants this

    Alaina Demopoulos

What to listen to

  1. Abdulrazak Gurnah.

    Audiobook of the week
    Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah audiobook review – coming-of-age saga in Tanzania

  2. Youth Group, Australian band in 2025 credit Nicole Le Bris

    Music
    Youth Group on Forever Young at 20 and gen X middle age: ‘Angst doesn’t go away just because you get older’

  3. Tourist and guide … Juana Molina.

    Music
    Argentinian experimental music legend Juana Molina: ‘One of the things I hate most in life is to be solemn’

  4. Turnstile

    Music
    ‘Pepper-spraying a 15 year old is cowardly’: Turnstile on hostile cops, playing through pain and taking hardcore punk global

What to read

  1. Lily King

    Fiction
    Heart the Lover by Lily King review – a love story to treasure

  2. Zadie Smith.

    Books
    Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety

  3. Paul Bailey.

    Books
    Where to start with: Paul Bailey

  4. Dark streams and sandbanks in Saltwash.

    Books
    Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley review – raw, dark folk horror confronts mortality

What to play

  1. The White House posts an image on X of Donald Trump as Halo video game protagonist Master Chief

    Games
    Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE

  2. Crowd control … Asses.Masses played by a live audience.

    Pushing Buttons
    No half-assed performance: how playing with a live crowd turns video games into performance art

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    I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for

    Keza MacDonald
  4. A stylised image of the Séance of Blake Manor shows the protagonist holding a letter outside the manor at night.

    Games
    The Séance of Blake Manor review – gripping gothic detective game steeped in mystery and menace

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  1. Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell in Minority Report, 2002.

    Film
    ‘Tom Cruise was not happy’: Colin Farrell was so drunk on Minority Report he needed 46 takes for a single line

  2. It Can Never Be The SameKabul, Afghanistan, October 2022:
Students attend a class in a madrassa. Since the Taliban government banned girls from attending regular schools, an increasing number of girls are enrolling in madrassas or religious schools where they memorise and learn to recite Islamic scriptures.
Kabul, Afghanistan, ottobre 2022 © Lorenzo Tugnoli
Giovani studentesse frequentano una lezione in una madrasa di Kabul. Dopo che il governo talebano ha vietato alle ragazze di frequentare le scuole regolari, un numero crescente di ragazze si è iscritto alle scuole religiose.

    Photography
    ‘Was I fully grasping these events?’ Everyday life for Afghans

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  3. Installation view of the exhibition Africa Direct, Khanenko Museum, Kyiv

    Ukraine
    ‘We are both freedom fighters’: Africa exhibition at war-damaged Kyiv gallery strikes a chord

  4. Meg Webster’s almost hemispherical dome of smooth, compacted clay at Minimal.

    Art
    Minimal review – primal, oddly vulnerable and boasting a man’s weight in mints

Lifestyle

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    You be the judge
    Should my boyfriend wear the clothes I buy for him?

  • Painting: The Suitor by Harold Copping (1932).

    Leading questions
    How do I break up with a kind and generous man who leaves me feeling cold and irritated?

Well actually

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    Why am I like this?
    I’m terrible on the field. But my amateurism might actually have benefits

  2. A woman in a Sim-version of her life where the bubbles are chores she must complete in her house: 'Answer emails', 'water plants', 'change sheets'

    Productivity
    I tried to not procrastinate for a week. Here’s what helped the most

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    You were asleep but swear you weren’t: what is paradoxical insomnia?

  4. Deception

    Dating
    ‘His teeth flew out of his mouth and landed in my spaghetti’: 10 first date horror stories

  1. three different colored oyster knives on black piece of fabric

    Kitchen
    The 20 best creative gifts for all home cooks, from knife connoisseurs to snack lovers

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    Halloween
    Halloween costume ideas from the pros who dress Heidi Klum, Chappell Roan and more

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    Seaweed sweaters, nano chargers and perfect pantry jars

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    Food
    The best slow cookers in the US for every type of home cook

Relationships

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    Life and style
    A new start after 60: I got divorced and spent a year trying 70 new things – from pole-dancing to spring rolls

  2. Joe wearing a blue and brown checked shirt sitting opposite Stuart who is wearing a dark jumper with a grey T-shirt underneath it. They are both smiling

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I said Trump’s a bit of a despot and shouldn’t have had a state visit to the UK’

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    This is how we do it
    When his grandma heard us having sex, she asked if we’d been “having a fun dance” upstairs

  4. Anne Enright photographed in Dublin, 2024. She is sat in a chair near a window with a black dog looking out of the window

    Anne Enright
    ‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home

Health & fitness

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    A moment that changed me
    I hated running – until I saw it through my daughter’s eyes

  2. Bowhead whale breaching in calm water with ice floes behind it

    Science
    Can bowhead whales with their 200-year lifespan help us to slow ageing?

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    Health & wellbeing
    Start small, keep a log, picture the end result: 17 experts’ top tips on how to stay motivated

  4. A woman in a blue medical gown and hat, holding a big cup and looking out of the window

    Hair loss
    ‘Every time I step outside, the first thing on my mind is my forehead’: the women getting hair transplants

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    Why young women are having facelifts: ‘I couldn’t even open my eyes. That’s how swollen I was’

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    The age of extinction
    How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

  4. a composite image showing a stencil of an owl over a swastika tattoo on the left and a colorful owl

    Tattoos
    Tattoo fixers on removing Nazi symbols: ‘You don’t know if they’re changing or hiding’

Documentary

  • Since founding Courtney’s House in 2008, Tina Frundt, 49, believes that her organization has helped about 2000 survivors of sex trafficking. Her current case load of 72 survivors means non-stop phone calls and texts, helping to find placement for people, get counseling for others, and lending an ear to some who just need to be heard.

    Give me shelter
    Protecting trafficked children in the US

    Tina Frundt is one of Washington DC’s most experienced specialists in protecting children from sex trafficking, where she fights to create an environment where some of America’s most vulnerable children can feel safe again

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