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Super Bowl: Kendrick Lamar, the ads, Taylor Swift and everything but the football – live

While the game goes ahead, it’s a big night for culture with a much-anticipated half-time show kicking off between 8-830pm, a string of big name ads and a returning role for Taylor Swift

Brad Pitt is making sure you know that football is culture. The actor just showed up in a PSA for … the Super Bowl? That was essentially a rambling collage of American propaganda. Appearing in New Orleans – an interesting choice, given the many issues with homes his foundation built there post-Katrina – Pitt waxes poetic on the football huddle as “a metaphor for our history” along with many platitudes on American unity, for a game Donald Trump is attending.

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© Photograph: Michael Owens/Getty Images

© Photograph: Michael Owens/Getty Images

36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations

The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.

© Al Drago for The New York Times

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by Congress in 2011 in the aftermath of the housing crisis that set off the Great Recession.

Trump to announce 25% aluminum and steel tariffs in latest trade escalation

Tariffs will come on top of existing metal duties and reciprocal tariffs will also come later in week, says president

Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will announce on Monday new 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the US, which would come on top of existing metals duties in another major escalation of his trade policy overhaul.

The US president, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, also said he will announce reciprocal tariffs on Tuesday or Wednesday, to take effect almost immediately.

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© Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

© Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Keir Starmer takes public HIV test in push to destigmatise testing for virus

Prime minister takes home test at No 10 with soul singer Beverley Knight to promote HIV Testing Week

Keir Starmer has taken a public HIV test in an effort to destigmatise testing for the virus and to highlight HIV Testing Week.

The prime minister took a home test at 10 Downing Street alongside the soul singer Beverley Knight. “It’s really important to do it and I’m really pleased to be able to do it. It’s very easy, very quick,” he said.

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© Photograph: Lucy Starmer/PA

© Photograph: Lucy Starmer/PA

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