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    The Democratic-leaning midwestern state where federal agents killed two citizens is in many ways anathema to the administration

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    Many people bought the devices thinking they would do little more than protect their delivery packages
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    US fixation on the hard-hat economy and making manufacturing great again makes little sense

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    Learn this from Bezos and the Washington Post: with hyper-capitalists in charge, your news is not safe

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    The UK's Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit

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    Valentine’s lamps, Easter rugs: ‘seasonal decor’ has become a year-long tat-fest

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    Reality TV pushed US speed skater out of comfort zone and into gold medal defense

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    Brazil’s Pinheiro Braathen wins South America’s first Winter Olympics medal

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    Two races, two golds: US star smashes another Olympic record in 500m

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    Formula One
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    Italy
    Nose for trouble: Italian town seeks ‘odour evaluators’ to sniff out bad smells

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    US man who fled jail and pleaded to Trump and Kim Kardashian gets 60-year term

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    Danish state could face legal action over deal that gives US powers on its soil

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    Western US states fail to negotiate crucial Colorado River deal: ‘Mother nature isn’t going to bail us out’

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    Mountain lions gain protection under California’s Endangered Species Act

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    Enforcement of laws against polluters nearly non-existent in US, analysis finds

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    Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

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    ‘A whole lost culture’: the Irishman reviving the forgotten sport of stone lifting

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Culture

  • black and white film still of a man smiling at woman as they sit on couch

    Romance films
    ‘Full of emotional wisdom’: Guardian writers on the best movie romances you might not have seen

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    Romance books
    ‘There’s only one bed’, ‘fake dating’ and ‘opposites attract’: how tropes took over romance

What to watch

  1. Tut Nyuot  as Troy, in Ashley Walters’ Animol.

    Film
    Animol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo

  2. Film still: A Prayer for the Dying
Director: Dara Van Dusen
Photo description: John C. Reilly, Johnny Flynn
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© Łukasz Bąk

    Berlin film festival 2026
    A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long

  3. Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights.

    Wuthering Heights
    ‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film

  4. A still from No Good Men.

    Berlin film festival 2026
    No Good Men review – intelligent and urgent Afghan romance

What to listen to

  1. Wolf Eyes performing in 2006.

    Love songs
    ‘Stabbed in the Face soundtracked an incredibly joyous time’: the weirdest songs we find romantic

  2. Tom Misch

    Music
    ‘I didn’t know who I was’: Tom Misch on burnout, becoming a barista and returning to music

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    ‘Choosing happy is a hell of a process’: Thundercat on funk, lost friends and being fired by Snoop Dogg (possibly)

  4. Natanya wearing a light blue, bow-shaped dress

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    The genre-busting, buttery falsetto of Natanya and the week’s best new tracks

What to read

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    Review roundup
    The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror

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    Fiction
    Good People by Patmeena Sabit review – addictive mystery caters to modern attention spans

  3. A giant inflatable Pikachu in Japan

    Gaming
    Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald review – a joyful celebration of the gaming giant

  4. Rabih Alameddine

    Fiction
    The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine review – drag fabulousness in war-torn Beirut

What to play

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    Pokémon
    What is Pokopia? Inside the calming Pokémon game that ditches battles for gardening

  2. Reanimal

    Platform games
    Reanimal review – you will never turn your back on a pelican again as long as you live

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    Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of ‘video game films’?

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    Review
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    ‘Thirteen influenced my hedonistic youth, until a psychotic episode ended it’

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    Tracey Emin
    ‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

  3. Portrait of a Young Man, 1944, Lucian Freud, Black crayon and chalk on paper, © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2025 / Bridgeman Images, Lent by a private collection

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Lifestyle

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    Valentine's Day
    ‘Nothing says love like chemicals’: Valentine’s roses often covered in pesticides, testing finds

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    ‘My husband burned down our house – then the bank threatened repossession’

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    Sleep
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    Chilean olive oil, a Scottish necktie and more: nine Valentine’s gifts Americans haven’t caught on to yet

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Well actually

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    Wellness trends
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Relationships

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    Blind date
    ‘My friends would adore her. She is a cupcake in a world of muffins’

  2. Illustration for you be the judge of clothes on a chair

    You be the judge
    Should my wife stop leaving piles of clothes all over the bedroom?

  3. Chris and Lauren smiling as they sit at a dinner table with their heads touching

    A moment that changed me
    I wasn’t sure about my relationship. Then my boyfriend went missing on 9/11

  4. A woman with cropped, dark-red hair, wearing a pink, fluffy jumper and black trousers and large leaf-shaped earrings and red nail polish, stands with her hands in her pockets, in her living room next to a blue corduroy sofa with matching cushions with a brown dachshund sitting on it. Both she and the dog are looking at the camera

    Sex
    I spent years meeting strangers for masochistic hook-ups. Was I a sex addict?

Health & fitness

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    Pass notes
    ‘Boy kibble’: why are young men turning to dog food for meal inspiration?

  2. Cartoon of Rapunzel in castle tower cutting her long hair as a prince on a horse looks on in anguish

    Life
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  3. Sally Goldner in her wrestling outfit before commentating at the Mayhem Pro Halloween Havoc wrestling night at Bacchus Marsh town hall.

    A new start after 60
    I became a wrestler, 50 years after falling in love with the sport

  4. Jason sat on a sofa, with his dogs, with a large window and a plant in the background

    Health
    The troubling rise of longevity fixation syndrome: ‘I was crushed by the pressure I put on myself’

Fashion & beauty

  1. Model wearing white dress and big fluffy white coat walks the catwalk.

    New York fashion week
    Michael Kors celebrates 45-year career by toasting chic women of New York

  2. A composite image of gold twisted hoop earrings, a red heart shaped umbrella, black leather long line jacket, green silk wrap mini dress, small red bag with a heart shaped handle, red lipstick and brown knee high boots on a lilac and red vertically striped background.

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    New York fashion week
    ‘Not blind optimism’: why Coach’s designer is not giving up on sustainable fashion

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    Becky Barnicoat on millennial life
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