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Georgia lawsuit challenges anti-LGBTQ+ book bans over ‘real harms’
Georgia  
Georgia lawsuit challenges anti-LGBTQ+ book bans over ‘real harms’
Lawsuit says student and youth groups hurt after teacher was fired for reading My Shadow is Purple to students
Joe Biden  
Biden to meet Democratic governors to assuage fears after debate performance
Afghanistan  
Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail
Migrants  
US expels more than 100 Chinese migrants in rare mass deportation
Donald Trump  
Hush-money trial judge postpones Trump sentencing to September
In focus
‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war
Donald Trump  
‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war
The ex-president is ranting about low water pressure and attacking mundane rules and technologies – and Republicans in Congress are now following his lead
Cannabis  
Cannabis will likely soon be legally classified as medicine. But medicine for what?
Britain's future  
‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories
 

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Spotlight
All the rage: women are furious – and repressing it can ruin our lives
Women  
All the rage: women are furious – and repressing it can ruin our lives
By 2021, women around the world were 6% angrier than men, a gap that widened during the pandemic. Dr Jennifer Cox says it is time to let it all out
A moment that changed me  
My feet appeared on a kink website that gets 20m views a month
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review  
Fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories
Australia  
The senator dividing the ruling Labor party over Palestinian statehood
Unsweet  
‘It’s the future of sugar’: new technology feeds Vermont maple syrup boom amid climate crisis
TV  
The Man with 1000 Kids review – yet more proof that we should raze human civilisation to the ground
Opinion
The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt
The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt
What do Rudy Giuliani’s Amazon purchases reveal? Appallingly bad taste – and even worse morals
Sports
NBA free agency winners and losers  
The break-up of the Splash Brothers and the Sixers reload
The break-up of the Splash Brothers and the Sixers reload
Euro 2024 live  
Quarter-final buildup begins after Turkey book spot in thriller
Culture
New York  
Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect rejects plea deal over terrorism charge
Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect rejects plea deal over terrorism charge
Music  
Ann Wilson, frontwoman of Heart, diagnosed with cancer
In case you missed it
She was a firebrand Democrat. Now, Cleta Mitchell is a rising star of Republican election denialism
The election operators  
She was a firebrand Democrat. Now, Cleta Mitchell is a rising star of Republican election denialism
Before she joined Trump in asking Georgia state officials to ‘find 11,780 votes’ in 2020, Mitchell was the feminist flag bearer of the Equal Rights amendment in Oklahoma
Pornography  
The secret lives of porn addicts: ‘I am meticulous about covering my tracks’
Louisiana  
He was acquitted in New Orleans in a ‘trial of the century’. For those closest to him, the pain lingers
Analysis  
Can AI boom drive Nvidia to a $4tn valuation despite investor doubt?
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