Senate Republicans criticize Democrats for opposing their seven-week government funding extension after Democrats supported 13 similar measures under former President Joe Biden.

With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians still in the city, the Israeli military said it was opening another temporary evacuation route.

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The investment will ease fears in Kyiv that Washington is pulling back from Ukraine’s war effort. It also underscores the mercantile nature of the U.S.-Ukrainian alliance under President Trump.

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As ICE raids stoke anxiety in California, Latino men find solace at a baseball field built in the middle of a Sonoma County vineyard.

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Two nonprofits prided themselves on being neutral voices. Then they found that there seemed to be no middle ground in the nation’s redistricting war.

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As the Fed meets, we examine the nation’s economic health.

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A negotiated settlement to end the fighting remains distant, in part because of the maximalist positions of Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, and of Hamas.

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Florida Gators running backs coach Jabbar Juluke was suspended for three games for his role in an altercation before the team's game against LSU.

A Spirit Airlines flight in the vicinity of Air Force One was repeatedly ordered to turn on Tuesday, and both planes ultimately arrived at their destinations.

A Swiss International Air Lines flight aborted takeoff from Boston Logan International Airport on Sept. 16 after flames were seen shooting from its engine.

The president, vice president, and other figures are slated to deliver remarks at State Farm Stadium during an event honoring Charlie Kirk

• Over-by-over report of Twenty20 international in Dublin

• Taha Hashim on Ireland’s near-empty summer of cricket

1st over: Ireland 7-0 (Stirling 5, Adair 1) Luke Wood takes a couple of deliveries to get going. His first ball is a wide; his first legal delivery is larruped to the cover boundary by Stirling.

The rest of the over is better. An inswinging yorker is well defended by Stirling, who then inside edges past the stumps.

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Dion Rudakubana tells inquiry his younger brother, Axel, became ‘progressively more isolated’ after school expulsion

The brother of the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has asked a public inquiry to determine whether officials could have stopped his sibling causing “the most immense pain, anguish and grief”.

In his first public comments since the attack last July, Dion Rudakubana said his younger brother had become “progressively more isolated” after being expelled from school in October 2019.

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A senior in Ontario was robbed in broad daylight in what is being described as distraction theft by the Hamilton police. Read More

People remember the human side of the ‘dazzling’ film star, who was kind and wise and lived a dignified life

• Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89

I met Bob in 1984 after he finished Out of Africa through a mutual friend in Malibu, and subsequently began to work for him and became friends. At that time he was establishing Sundance and distancing himself from Hollywood. He was a dolphin among sharks. He was the most kind and wise person one could ever know in this life.
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Kidnappings, enslavement, cops and squad cars, golfers, picnics, croquet-players, interstellar travellers … the US artist’s largest ever European show takes in an extraordinary range of experience in a breathtaking show

Biting, funny, astonishing, difficult, surprising, erudite and hugely ambitious, Kerry James Marshall’s The Histories is the largest show of the black American’s work ever held in Europe. Its effects are cumulative. The Histories charts the 69-year-old painter’s intellectual as well as practical development, his themes, his switches of media and of focus and attention. Everything is here for a reason.

How engaging Marshall’s art is, from the first. He takes us from the bar to the bedroom, to the Middle Passage, from the studio to the academy, from the beauty parlour to the dancehall. He paints scenes of kidnappings and of enslavement in Africa and of a black cop sitting on the hood of his squad car – I love the jagged stylised flare of the streetlights in the background. Marshall knows that everything is contended and complex and that there are no innocent images. Pustules of paint, like litter between the blocks, decorate the spaces between the housing projects, like flowers blooming in a riot. On an idyllic day in the park, black folks picnic, practise a golf swing, play croquet, water-ski on the lake and listen to the Temptations, the lyrics floating up like ticker tape from radios on a sunny afternoon. It is an absurd, impossible image. The humour in Marshall’s art is not to be underestimated. In a series devoted to the Middle Passage a Baptist flounders. There are water slides and swimming pools, ocean liners and toy boats and a woman about to dive from a board. The water is filled with drowned maps of Africa and carefully rendered fish, and there’s an exhortation to plunge.

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© Photograph: Sean Pathasema. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York/© Kerry James Marshall.

© Photograph: Sean Pathasema. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York/© Kerry James Marshall.

Speaking to Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch on her Good Hang podcast, the star criticised the lack of credit given to comedy acting

Amy Poehler, the Saturday Night Live veteran and star of multiple films as well as Parks and Recreation, has spoken out about what she perceives as an anti-comedy bias at the Oscars.

Speaking to Olivia Colman on her Good Hang podcast, Poehler first canvassed Colman’s The Roses co-star Benedict Cumberbatch for questions.

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The freezer is one of the best tools for saving waste. Here it makes an unexpected but inspired burrata topper

While most Instagram food trends prioritise spectacle over substance, the viral frozen tomato idea that I’m employing today delivers genuine culinary value, and solves a common kitchen problem into the bargain. I’m a bit late to the party, admittedly, but it’s a versatile waste-saving technique.

Its origin clearly derives from either Hawaiian shaved ice or granita, that classic Italian frozen dessert made by stirring and scraping or grating a sorbet-like base into shavings, and the approach essentially applies granita principles to fresh produce, while at the same time cutting out all of the hassle: simply pop any surplus or past-its-best fruit or vegetables in the freezer until they’re rock solid, then grate!

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Yulia Navalnaya says tests by two laboratories on samples smuggled out of Russia show her husband was killed by poison

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that two foreign laboratories had confirmed her husband was poisoned, after tests on biological samples secretly smuggled out of Russia.

Navalny, 47, died suddenly on 16 February 2024, while being held in a jail about 40 miles (64km) north of the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to decades in prison to be served in a “special regime”.

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• Former sprinter claims he is facing own financial losses

• ‘Michael has asked for patience while we try to fix this’

Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track organisation has denied the former American sprinter has pocketed $2m from the series while his athletes have gone unpaid, calling the speculation “categorically false” – and claimed he was facing financial losses himself.

Johnson is facing the prospect of legal action from athletes, agents and the suppliers who helped stage three GST meetings, with sources claiming they are owed as much as $19m (£13.9m). It is understood that two athletes claim they had to withdraw from buying a house when prize money was not paid, and many privately believe they will never receive their money.

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Kevin Parry is one of the first senior UK bank executives to engage with Nigel Farage’s rightwing populist party

A hatred of interference in national affairs disappears when American conservatives are doing it

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