The Texas State University student who was expelled when he was caught mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination in front of a horrified crowd claimed he "made a mistake in the heat of the moment."
The Department of Defense will force reporters to pledge not to gather or use any information that had not been formally authorized for release, or risk losing their credential to cover the military.
After reading a new book, ‘My Parent the Peacock’, Charlotte Cripps realised that narcissistic parenting may well have been at play in her large family. She explains how she was cast in the role of the ‘golden child’, and the impact of this on her later life
Cillian Murphy shines in a brutal yet hopeful high school drama, while the singer-songwriter from south London returns with her streetwise swag. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
The Greater Manchester mayor has made no secret of his Labour leadership ambitions, but faces significant obstacles
When Andy Burnham addressed a gala dinner this week, he was as coy as he could have been in a week when speculation about his future ambitions were in overdrive. “I love this job,” the mayor of Greater Manchester said. “I am very happy where I am. I have no ambition to be … ambassador to Washington.”
It was a gag that got a big laugh. Burnham has never played the game of pretending that he doesn’t seek to enter No 10. But he also does not give the standard ambitious politician’s response of saying that no vacancy is available.
A vegetarian delight that’s the perfect dinner solution for when you can’t decide between Indian or Italian
Would you like Italian tonight, or Indian? Thanks to this pizza, you can have both. This recipe is written in memory of the beloved pizza of my youth: a vegetarian delight that I ate on the regular with my cousins at one of the many Indian-Italian restaurants on Leicester’s Belgrave Road (AKA the Golden Mile) circa 1990, right before washing it down with Rubicon mango juice and doing handbrake turns in a nearby car park.
Niamh, 27, who works in classical music, meets Harry, 30, a public sector consultant
What were you hoping for?
A pub quiz partner who is witty, well dressed and preferably Irish. It’s where my family is from originally and my mum’s dream is for me to settle down back over there.
He was once so stoned he missed his own birthday party, but the Oscar-winning actor has swapped pot for poetry. He reveals the trauma and triumph that taught him why it’s more important to be a good man than a nice guy
“Simon!” Matthew McConaughey barks. “How do, sir?!” Matthew McConaughey could not be more Matthew McConaughey if he tried. And he’s only said four words. Charming, sincere, intense, 100% Texan and 101% eccentric.
Five years ago, the Oscar-winning actor wrote a memoir called Greenlights. It wasn’t a conventional memoir, more a collection of life lessons, bullet-point anecdotes and gnomic philosophies. Now he has written a book of poetry called Poems & Prayers. For McConaughey, the two are interchangeable. It’s another memoir of sorts – this time, a portrait of his faith and its impact on his everyday life. In it he addresses faith in the broadest sense. There’s plenty of talking to God as he searches for the divine in himself, loads of Amens, but it’s also about faith in himself, his family, his career, the world, the works.
Having flown the nest, two of our sons are now back under our roof – and the third lives just around the corner
It is late on Saturday morning, and the oldest one and I are sitting opposite one another at the kitchen table, staring at our laptops in silence. We are silent because we are both working on the same puzzle, and neither of us wants any help from the other at this point.
The front door opens and my wife comes in, bringing with her the middle one and all his worldly possessions. Only the youngest one, the last to leave, has yet to return home, but he lives just minutes away and, like the other two, he has a key.
From reduced hunger to a changing palate, weight loss jabs can alter our experience and enjoyment of food
The revelation that the chef Heston Blumenthal has created a tasting menu for people on weight loss jabs may have raised eyebrows, but there is scientific evidence that drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro not only make you less hungry, but change what you want to eat.
So what do we know about how weight loss medications affect your relationship with food?
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
If you glanced into a green field and saw a yellow digger tearing into the turf, you might assume it was another site for new houses. But the two circle-shaped scars of dark soil on a Norfolk pasture are ghost ponds being brought back to life by an innovative and cheap form of nature restoration.
“It looks awful now. ‘What have they done? It’s a disaster!’” says Carl Sayer, a professor of geography at UCL, who is dancing with glee around the bleak-looking, freshly dug hole. “The colonisation is so quick. Within a year, it is full of water plants. Within two years, it looks like it’s been there forever. It’s a spectacular recovery, and you’re truly recovering ancient assemblages of plants.”
Barred from entry on ‘public security’ grounds, I had a moment to reflect on how far the country has fallen
Earlier this week, I was denied entry into Israel while on a humanitarian parliamentary delegation organised by the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU). The NGO is one of the most active and respected bodies working on the Middle East in the British parliament. It promotes conflict resolution, human rights and civil society.
The purpose of my visit, alongside my parliamentary colleague Simon Opher, a doctor like me, was to begin to understand the state of healthcare for Palestinians in the West Bank. Unfortunately, we never set foot in Israel, let alone visited any hospitals in the occupied territories.
Peter Prinsley is the Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
The hit producer finds himself nostalgic for his party days as a ‘celebrity DJ’ in Nineties New York City as he talks to Hannah Ewens about antisemitism, being motivated by fear, and why he decided to include P Diddy and his privileged upbringing in his new memoir, ‘Night People’
Mazda’s new compact SUV boasts a new powertrain that helps it outstrip expectations on the road, while offering excellent fuel economy and low emissions, writes Sean O’Grady
Remakes are inescapable these days, with major studios now churning out fresh takes on popular classics every yea. Kathryn Vann picks out 13 of the best
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