Hollywood director Brett Ratner reveals "unprecedented access" to first lady Melania Trump while filming the documentary that Amazon paid $75 million to acquire and market.

President Trump was smart to select Kevin Warsh as next Fed chairman. He should reverse Jerome Powell’s policies and work quickly to restore stability at the Federal Reserve.

Los Angeles Sparks star Cameron Brink teased the possibility of appearing in Playboy one day, but stressed that she had to get her finance's approval.

An Ohio jury found a woman guilty of attempted murder after a New Year’s party shooting that left an innocent bystander critically injured.

Venezuelan nationals accused of assaulting ICE officer were released by judge, then immediately re-arrested in Minneapolis snow shovel attack case.

Super Bowl bettors are looking to “walk this way” to a payout with Kenneth Walker III. As of early this week, Walker’s receiving yardage line of 20.5 yards was the most-bet prop at BetMGM for the Seahawks’ showdown with the Patriots in Santa Clara, Calif. on Sunday, per Yahoo.  Listed at a price of -143,...

‘Longest period of job shedding’ in 16 years taking place as business activity grows at fastest rate since August

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Companies in the UK’s dominate services sector cut jobs last month, as they turned to “automation” rather than hiring new staff, a closely watched survey showed.

The monthly purchasing managers’ index showed employment numbers fell more sharply in January compared with December, continuing a trend that started in October 2024.

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Mike Vrabel's bill is getting close to due and he isn't quite willing to risk it all anymore.

Harrison Ford's Emmy-nominated role in "Shrinking" might be his swan song.

Sleep your way to dewy skin.

"If they need to use a penis pump? Heck yeah. Pump it up, bro."

It may be winter, but it's time to get our glow on.

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

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© Composite: Various

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Cheshire coroner says there is ‘reason to suspect unnatural deaths’, with proceedings to begin in September

A coroner has formally opened inquests into the deaths of five newborn babies Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering.

In a 20-minute hearing at Cheshire coroner’s court, the senior coroner Jacqueline Devonish heard brief details of the deaths before adjourning proceedings until September.

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“Given the pervasiveness of fraud in your state, it is past time for Minnesota to answer for its apparent failure to safeguard taxpayer dollars,” Johnson wrote in a letter to Walz.

In the south American port city, an expressive Black ancestral community live full, self-fashioned lives protected by culture and identity

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Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, it comes to you from Cartagena, Colombia, where I was attending a literary festival but, to be honest, have been mostly eating empanadas. It was my first time in Latin America, and I was not quite ready for a strange sort of culture shock, one that was as much about alienation as it was about recognition. I walked around the city in circles, trying to pound my way into absorbing a place of complex, layered histories.

But it was Cartagena’s racial legacy that, at points, I found overwhelming. It sounds naive, but there is something about travelling halfway across the world to meet others of African descent that brings home the scale of the impact of centuries of enslavement. And it was in the “palenqueras” of Cartagena that I felt that history, in all its contradictions and legacies, resided.

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© Photograph: Ever Mercado/The Guardian

Ryan Routh, convicted of attempting to kill the president at a West Palm Beach golf club in 2024, set to face sentencing

Federal prosecutors will ask that a man convicted of trying to assassinate Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in 2024 be sentenced to life in prison at a hearing on Wednesday.

Ryan Routh is scheduled to appear before US district judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce.

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The Ole Miss coach grew tired of watching what he believed to be a one-sided whistle during an 84-66 road loss to No. 25 Tennessee and finally snapped with 6:15 remaining in the game.

The 66-year-old actor revealed his tongue cancer battle in December 2025, one year after going public with his lymphoma diagnosis.

During Tuesday's episode of "Today with Jenna & Sheinelle," Sheinelle Jones confessed that "behind the scenes … we’re all rattled" after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

At 56, I want to age naturally. Having breast implants ran counter to that, so I got explant surgery, which has surged in demand recently

For 22 years, I ran around with small bags of saline water on my chest – a fact I shared with only a handful of close friends. I felt ashamed of having chosen artificial enhancement.

I’m an outdoorsy mountain runner. At 56, I want to model ageing naturally, but having breast implants ran counter to that. Now they are gone, thanks to explant surgery – implant removal without replacement.

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© Photograph: Sarah Lavender Smith

Philando Castile, a lawful gun owner, was shot and killed by a police officer in 2016 – gun rights groups were largely silent

The killing of Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis has sparked a thorny conversation among gun rights groups and Trump administration officials about the second amendment and the right to carry concealed firearms at protests and demonstrations. Among the questions is which cases the movement rallies behind, and behind which it doesn’t.

In the hours and days after Pretti’s killing, dozens of local national and local gun rights groups lambasted federal officials like Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Gregory Bovino, a senior border patrol official, who baselessly claimed that Pretti’s carrying of a handgun proved that he planned to harm and kill border patrol agents. Prominent gun rights organizations, including Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the National Rifle Association (NRA), called for an independent investigation into the shooting and defended Pretti’s right to carry a gun.

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© Composite: Dmitri Drekonja, AP

© Composite: Dmitri Drekonja, AP

After impressive work by Manchester United and Liverpool and disappointment for Chelsea, we assess every team’s business

With so many senior players’ contracts expiring in June, Arsenal’s focus was on preparing for the summer, when they are expected to go through a major rebuild. Therefore their quiet window was no surprise, but they will be relatively pleased to have brought in a star of the future, Smilla Holmberg, at right-back and to have fulfilled their need for a backup goalkeeper, with Barbora Votíkova’s deadline-day loan. Much more significant, though, is the positive progress they are understood to have made in their attempt to sign Georgia Stanway on a free at the end of the season, and big decisions such as not seeking to extend Katie McCabe’s stay, as they prepare to refresh the team.

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© Composite: Getty, Shutterstock

© Composite: Getty, Shutterstock

Almost anything goes with these thrifty and delicious cookies

I often eat a bag of salty crisps at the same time as a chewy chocolate bar, alternating bite for bite between the two, because the extreme contrast of salt from the chips and the sweetness of the chocolate fire off each other and create an endorphin rush. The same goes for these cookies, adapted from a recipe by Christina Tosi at New York’s legendary Milk Bar.

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© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian. Food styling: Tom Hunt.

© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian. Food styling: Tom Hunt.