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Police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats
Revealed  
Police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats
Claim that Tren de Aragua planned to attack officers was widely shared – only for FBI to later acknowledge it was mistaken, internal files show
Ukraine  
US imposes sanctions on Russian oil over Putin’s ‘refusal’ to end war in Ukraine
West Bank  
Marco Rubio warns Israel not to annex West Bank after Knesset vote in favour
US  
White House East Wing will be torn down ‘within days’ even as no plans filed for Trump’s new ballroom
San Francisco  
Trump poised to send scores of federal agents to San Francisco
In focus
Trump’s ballroom blitz sparks chorus of disgust: ‘The perfect symbol’
The White House  
Trump’s ballroom blitz sparks chorus of disgust: ‘The perfect symbol’
Obama once joked about what a gaudy Trump White House would like – the president seems bent on proving him right
Africa  
Africa’s children: 20 years on, what happened to the millennium babies?
Artificial intelligence  
Once the AI bubble pops, we’ll all suffer. Could that be better than letting it grow unabated?
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Features
‘The pressure to get your old body back is immense’: the new mothers driven to weight-loss jabs
Pregnancy  
‘The pressure to get your old body back is immense’: the new mothers driven to weight-loss jabs
The NHS warns against using GLP-1s while breastfeeding – for the baby’s sake as well as the mother’s. But how much does that count when they’re so readily available and there’s so much pressure to ‘bounce back’?
Television  
Nobody Wants This review – Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s chemistry is electric
Opinion
What we misunderstand in the debate over free speech
What we misunderstand in the debate over free speech
The White House is getting renovated. Can we do the whole country while we’re at it?
Sports
Chess  
Fide to investigate Kramnik as sport reels from Naroditsky’s death
Fide to investigate Kramnik as sport reels from Naroditsky’s death
MLB  
From monkey elixir to fentanyl: Skaggs’s death is merely a chapter in baseball’s 136-year drug fix
Culture
Film  
A film about an audacious art heist? Inside The Mastermind, the timeliest movie ever
A film about an audacious art heist? Inside The Mastermind, the timeliest movie ever
Book of the day  
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman – nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series
Lifestyle
The secrets of sleep  
Could this ‘brutal and restrictive’ therapy cure my intense insomnia?
Could this ‘brutal and restrictive’ therapy cure my intense insomnia?
Travel  
A train tour of Europe’s cool northern capitals: from London to Vilnius, via Berlin and Warsaw
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