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Thu Oct 1 2026
Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, with US attorney for Minnesota Daniel Rosen and DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin. The administration has doggedly pursed alleged voter fraud.
US politics
Trump officials abandon effort to investigate election threats, experts warn
Emergency vehicles arrive after the execution of Christa Pike was halted.
US politics live
Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year
Glitchy photo of a person wearing a hijab, seen from behind
Technology
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Aerial views of Al-Mawasi, Rafah, show farmland in 2023 replaced by dense housing by 2026
Israel-Gaza war
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Israeli passenger Yaniv Hayoun, with blood stains on his shirt, who was aboard a flydubai aircraft that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, is welcomed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv.
Israel
Motive behind flydubai cockpit stabbing unknown as international investigation opens
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Special report

Two people hold anti-ICE signs as police stand nearby
ICE 2.0
ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
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In focus

Mahmoud Khalil is preparing for the supreme court to decide whether Donald Trump can legally deport him – and the outcome of his case will affect all political speech in the US. Kai Wright speaks with Khalil and his wife, Noor Abdalla, about their family’s experience after ICE snatched Khalil up, flew him across the country and deposited him in a for-profit detention center
Stateside with Kai and Carter
Mahmoud Khalil is ready to talk about ICE detention
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Donald Trump
Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy
Venezuela
‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump
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Features

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Astrology
I went to America’s largest gathering of astrologers. It was a battle over how to read the stars
Hair
20 fascinating facts about hair: why baldness is super-masculine – and a pubic bush could be a ‘cheating detector’
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Opinion

donald trump raises fist with half-smile
quote  Americans are paying millions for a batch of pro-Trump ads
Margaret Sullivan
quote  Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month
Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
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Sports

Quarterbacks Kirk Cousins, Case Keenum and Brock Purdy shown throwing, smiling and running in games
NFL
Pleasant surprises of the season so far: Brock Purdy for MVP and actual Raiders competence
Soccer
US soccer’s youth system is expensive, chaotic and overdue for reform
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Culture

Chris Burton leans beside his cat Henry, leaning on his detailed Lego model buildings
Culture
‘It’s frustrating to see immoral videos do so well’: how YouTube sensation Half-Asleep Chris sent a rollercoaster to space and made Bella the cat a star
Europe
‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
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Lifestyle

A great white shark
Thursday quiz
Superheroes, AI zeroes and a very lost shark
You be the judge
Should my girlfriend let me hang my football calendar in her flat?
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