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About 35,000 LA homes and businesses without electricity as police issue warning over looters
California fires live  
About 35,000 LA homes and businesses without electricity as police issue warning over looters
LA Department of Water and Power says it is working to restore power; Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to rise; police say looters posed as firefighters coming out of houses
New Orleans truck attack  
‘Brother for life’: man injured in New Orleans attack witnessed friend’s death
US supreme court  
US supreme court curbed public scrutiny as it boosted security before Roe ruling
Music  
‘What’s going on in Bob Dylan’s head’: Mr Tambourine Man lyrics up for auction
US news  
Jack Smith resigns from US justice department as special counsel
Los Angeles fires
Republican congressman calls for halting of disaster relief to California
Disaster relief  
Republican congressman calls for halting of disaster relief to California
Warren Davidson of Ohio says aid should be withheld until the state ravaged by wildfires reforms forestry management
‘There’s literally nothing’  
Surrounded by destruction, Los Angeles begins to process scale of loss
‘We have tweaked nature and pissed it off’  
How the climate crisis fuels devastating wildfires
California wildfires  
Community groups provide relief as LA staggers from wildfire emergency
California  
LA fires burn area twice the size of Manhattan – worst the city has seen in recent history
In focus
‘Why pick a battle over this?’: Trump’s threats over Panama Canal reopen wounds over 1989 US invasion
Panama  
‘Why pick a battle over this?’: Trump’s threats over Panama Canal reopen wounds over 1989 US invasion
Hundreds of people were killed during Operation Just Cause. Trump has stoked fears the US could invade again
Ecuador  
‘We are shattered’: Afro-Ecuadorians mourn four boys found dead after encounter with military
Technology  
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation
Spotlight
‘I like to break the rules’: Björk on comedy, darkness and the most flamboyant tour of her career
Music  
‘I like to break the rules’: Björk on comedy, darkness and the most flamboyant tour of her career
The musician describes herself as many things: artist, introvert, activist, Scorpio, matriarch, punk, joker, optimist… We step inside the multiverse of the incomparable Björk
Technology  
‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes - and the women fighting back
Life and style  
The 10 rules of friendship: show up, go beyond banter, learn the boring details
Science  
Music sounds better with you? How your listening habits affect your love life
Life and style  
‘It’s been life-changing’: meet the adults making big changes later in life
Books  
Lost and found: a mother and daughter on surviving teenage mental breakdown in the social media age
Opinion
Britain is a weak link in Donald Trump’s new world order, so it needs to find friends… fast
Will Hutton
Britain is a weak link in Donald Trump’s new world order, so it needs to find friends… fast
Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week
Adrian Daub
Sports
NFL playoffs  
Jackson and Henry shine as Ravens overrun Steelers to reach AFC’s last four
Jackson and Henry shine as Ravens overrun Steelers to reach AFC’s last four
Australian Open  
Sabalenka starts bid for third straight title with dominant win
Culture
Film  
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin spar in sublimely bittersweet Holocaust tour movie
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin spar in sublimely bittersweet Holocaust tour movie
‘Most of my work is a response to war’  
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor
In case you missed it
Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows
US immigration  
Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows
Program for skilled foreign workers pits Trump and Musk against Bannon – and progressive Bernie Sanders
Abortion  
New Mexico supreme court strikes down local abortion pill restrictions
Books  
Key Republican claims Bob Woodward told him Biden was financially corrupt
US  
Vince McMahon reaches deal with SEC over sexual misconduct claim settlements
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