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Deadly New Orleans attack underscores looming threat of IS attacks in the US
Islamic State  
Deadly New Orleans attack underscores looming threat of IS attacks in the US
Islamic State has urged followers to attack the US, and the attorney general has called the group a top security concern
US weather  
Polar vortex expected to bring snow, ice and brutal cold to most of US
Hollywood  
Marlon Brando fury at ‘feeling like a freak’ among revelations in new book of Hollywood secrets
Ohio  
Two more family members sentenced in Ohio crime of ‘boundless depravity’
Dallas  
Fire at pet shop leaves more than 500 animals dead
In focus
‘It’s buzzing here’: City's revival takes shape after decades of decay
Detroit  
‘It’s buzzing here’: City's revival takes shape after decades of decay
The tech scene is booming in the US’s largest Black-majority city, with foreign investment and a recent population boost
Russia-Ukraine war  
‘It is impossible to outrun them’: how drones transformed war in Ukraine
X  
How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page
Spotlight
From vaping to doomscrolling, 10 bad habits and how to break them
Quit it!  
From vaping to doomscrolling, 10 bad habits and how to break them
Procrastinating? Online shopping too much? Always cancelling? These top tips from experts will help you change bad behaviour for the better
Sex  
This is how we do it: ‘We don’t share the intimate details of the sex we have with other people’
Language  
Rawdogging, brat and looksmaxxing: Guardian’s breakthrough words of 2024
‘What have we here?’  
How asking yourself a simple question can transform the way you think about your life
Blind date  
‘He handled an allergic reaction with stoicism, while I fretted about having to tell the Guardian I’d killed my date’
Let them eat sponge cake  
We watched Meghan Markle’s cooking show trailer so you don’t have to
Opinion
January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise
Arwa Mahdawi
January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise
Losing my ‘haunted’, mouldy flat was awful. I swore I’d get it back – and I did
Claire Jackson
Sports
NBA  
Heat suspend Butler for seven games and will seek to trade him
Heat suspend Butler for seven games and will seek to trade him
Live  
Tottenham v Newcastle – Premier League
Culture
Golden Globes 2025  
Who will win and who should win the film awards?
Who will win and who should win the film awards?
Books  
‘I became an optimist the night my wife died’: a science writer on loss and letting go of rationalism
In case you missed it
Love your liver! 19 simple ways to look after this incredible organ, chosen by doctors
The experts  
Love your liver! 19 simple ways to look after this incredible organ, chosen by doctors
Should you do Dry January? Is any amount of alcohol good for you? And do detoxes work? Hepatologists reveal the tips they live by
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
‘It was a light in the dark’: how a bakery transformed lives in war-torn Mostar
The Becky Barnicoat cartoon  
New year’s resolutions: the dream vs the reality
Ask Annalisa Barbieri  
How do we tell our young daughter that she has a half-brother?
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