US president made fun of Republican frontrunneras legal woes while critics of his handling of Gaza war protested outside

Joe Biden has shown no mercy to Donald Trump with a series of barbed jokes about his election rival, telling a gathering of Washingtonas political and media elites: aIam a grown man running against a six-year-old.a

The White House Correspondentsa Association (WHCA) dinner on Saturday night provided the ideal platform for Biden to continue a recent run of taking the fight to Trump with more aggressive rhetoric, cutting humour and personal insults.

US secretary of state to meet regional leaders after Hamas says it is studying Israelas latest counterproposal

A senior Qatari official has urged both Israel and Hamas to show amore commitment and more seriousnessa in ceasefire negotiations in interviews with Israeli media.

The interviews with the newspaper Haaretz and the Israeli public broadcaster Kan were published and aired on Saturday evening.

If I look at the situation today if there was not a war in Gaza, we could be talking about a war in southern Lebanon given the number of strikes and the impact on the area.

I will pass messages and make proposals to the authorities here to stabilise this zone and avoid a war.

With pro-Palestine students arrested and campus protests broken up, educators are increasingly rallying in support

As student-led protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from Israel and its occupation of Palestinian land continue to spread across US universities, some faculty members are increasingly joining the charge a speaking up and even standing alongside their students.

At Georgiaas Emory University, faculty members have been arrested at pro-Palestine demonstrations a including Emila Keme, a professor of English and Indigenous studies, and Noelle McAfee, the philosophy department chair.

Ex-movie mogul is at New York City department of correction for tests, his lawyer said, and will be transferred to Rikers Island

The disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalized in New York City for a series of tests, his lawyer said.

Weinsteinas hospitalization comes after the New York court of appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction on Thursday. According to the courtas ruling, the judge who oversaw the watershed case during the peak of the #MeToo era prejudiced Weinstein with aegregiousa improper rulings and was mistaken in allowing women whose accusations were not part of the case to testify against him.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy repeats pleas for more defensive missiles after fourth large-scale aerial assault on energy system in five weeks. What we know on day 795

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Tornadoes collapsed buildings and flattened homes in Nebraska and Iowa on Friday as warnings continued to be issued

Tornadoes wreaked havoc Friday in the midwestern US, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes, many around Omaha, Nebraska.

As of Friday night, there were several reports of injuries but no deaths were immediately reported. Tornado warnings continued to be issued into the night in Iowa.

Dazhon Darien arrested over fake recording of principal complaining about students and faculty members

A high school athletics director suspected of using artificial intelligence to create a fake, racist recording of a principal in Baltimore has been arrested by police.

Police arrested 31-year-old Dazhon Darien of Pikesville high school on Thursday after an investigation into an AI-generated recording which featured the duplicated voice of the schoolas principal, Eric Eiswert. Officers allege that Eiswert was investigating Darien in connection with the potential mishandling of school funds when the latter man purportedly created the recording.

Statement from government contradicts stance taken by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who said Portugal should not put issue ain a drawera

Portugalas government has said it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to earlier comments from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by Portuguese vessels and sold into slavery, primarily in Brazil.

Robbi Mecus, 52, and climbing partner, who was rescued and hospitalized, fell from Mount Johnson in Denali national park

A helicopter crew on Saturday recovered the body of a climber who died after falling about 1,000ft (305 metres) while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaskaas Denali national park and preserve, park officials said in a statement.

Robbi Mecus, 52, of Keene Valley, New York, died of injuries sustained in a fall Thursday while climbing a route on the south-east face of the 8,400ft (2,560-metre) mountain, the park said. Her climbing partner, a 30-year-old woman from California, was seriously injured; she was rescued Friday and flown to an Anchorage hospital, park officials said.

Amount paid for businessman John Jacob Astoras watch is highest ever for Titanic memorabilia, auctioneers say

A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking APS1.2m.

The watch was sold on Saturday to a private collector in the US at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, for the highest amount ever for Titanic memorabilia, the auctioneers said.

In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humour

He cultivated a hard-drinking macho image, with a taste for big-game hunting and a love of bullfighting, but Ernest Hemingway had a generous and thoughtful side that is revealed in previously unpublished letters.

In the decade after he made his name with A Farewell to Arms, his 1929 war novel, his correspondence shows that he repeatedly offered advice and encouragement a as well as insights into his own craft a to aspiring young novelists.

A peaceful action at the school near Atlanta, Georgia, was met with violent use of force and 28 arrests of students and faculty

Clifton Crais, a history professor, was walking to class at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, outside Atlanta, on Thursday shortly before 10am when several students rushed up to him.

aPlease, please contact president Fenves,a they begged, referring to the university president, Gregory Fenves. aAsk him to not call the police.a Several dozen protesters seeking the universityas divestment from Israel and opposing a $109m police training center colloquially known as aCop Citya had set up tents on the schoolas grassy quad a the size of a football field a several hours before.

Polls predict ANC likely to lose parliamentary majority, due to high unemployment and wealth inequality

South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the countryas multicoloured flag.

Any sense of celebration on the momentous anniversary was however set against a growing discontent with the current government.

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery

While the civil war is associated with the end of slavery in the US, the so-called peculiar institution survived throughout much of the Confederacy right to the end of the conflict. Thatas the thought-provoking narrative of a comprehensive new book by Robert KD Colby, a history professor at the University of Mississippi.

aMany Confederates saw slavery as indelibly bound up with their bid for independence, and used the slave trade to try to build a world around an independent slaveholding republic,a Colby says.

Itas a huge leap from playing a bent copper in Line of Duty to starring in the musical Guys & Dolls, but if anyone can make a role work, itas actor Daniel Mays

In 2017, the British character actor Daniel Mays was nominated for a Bafta. His one-episode turn in the police procedural Line of Duty, described as aviscerala, aoutstandinga and astomach-clenchingly tensea, had impressed his peers. The nomination was a turning point in his career, but it was also a bust: he didnat win and he was so nervous during the award ceremony that he couldnat enjoy the evening. aYouare sort of anxious that if they say your name youave got to get up in front of the great and good of your entire industry and be coherent.a After the ceremony, a party kicked off in someoneas hotel room. aAdeel Akhtar was there,a Mays recalls. aAnna Friel was in the room.a Feeling a vibe, he left to buy cigarettes and got stuck in a goods lift. By the time he re-emerged, everyone had disappeared. aIt was not the way Iad wanted the evening to pan out.a He tuts. aI may have had something to drink.a

Mays is talking over lunch at an almost empty membersa club in central London, in the wake of being nominated for another award, the Olivier, following a year-long stint in a very popular production of Guys & Dolls, at the Bridge Theatre. The nomination has him reliving concerns about getting up on stage: What does he say? How long should he talk for? That second question was answered at a lunch put on for nominees. aThey said, aListen, if you win, youave got 40 seconds a thatas it. And if you go over 40 seconds, weall play you off with the band.aa He winces at the thought of his waffling being slowly drowned out by music, then relaxes slightly. aI recognise now that just being nominated a I know this is a thing people say a is an amazing achievement. Iam just going to try to enjoy it.a

Tents, debris and personal items from the Nova festival, where 364 people died on 7 October, form shocking exhibit on Wall Street

While New York was preoccupied with student protests over the USas Asupport of Israelas war in Gaza last week, another aspect of how the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel is coming to terms with bloodshed in the Middle East was being prepared.

On Wall Street, a gruelling Aexhibition has opened detailing the horrific attack on the Nova music festival by Hamas terrorists on 7 October, in which 364 people were murdered, many wounded and 44 taken hostage.

We can get into the habit of thinking about our sibling with judgment and criticism

The question Since our motheras death, my brother and I have had no contact. He lives more than 100 miles away. Our relationship has been very difficult for over 40 years. When we both had young children, things were better for a time. When our dad died, Mumas health deteriorated and she moved in with me and died 12 years later. During this time, my relationship with my brother was at its worst. Before retirement, we both worked in mental health, but neither of us understand why our family relationship has been so fractured.

There is a family history: our grandfather did not get on with his sister, he and his wife kept secrets, and our dad fell out with his twin! Our childhood was difficult as our father had mental health issues.

The singer-songwriteras brand of stubborn protest songs with a strain of tenderness has kept him relevant for 40 years. Here he talks about why heas fighting for trans rights, his late-night tweeting habit and his forthcoming tour a with his son

Recently, Billy Bragg showed his two young granddaughters a little promo film he put together celebrating his 40 years of making records. The girls were nonplussed by the early scenes on picket lines and spiky festival stages, but towards the end, recognising an avuncular white-bearded bloke with a guitar, they brightened: aLook, itas Grandad Bill!a they chorused. aIt was actually all Grandad Bill,a their father pointed out, but they werenat having any of it.

Meeting Bragg at the station car park in Weymouth a not far from where he lives along the Dorset coast a and heading up to a cafe on the headland overlooking the sweep of the bay, I sympathise a little bit with their sentiment. The first time I saw the singer in the flesh was sometime late in 1984, when he was giving it his full aone-man Clasha performance on student stages at minersa benefits. Even at the time that felt like it might be a hard act to grow old with; yet here he is in the seaside retirement resort, still fighting the good fight.

People want more seafood than the oceans can sustainably supply, so a German firm aims to plug that gap with cultivated fish a but are consumers ready to buy it?

The redbrick offices, just north of Hamburgas River Elbe and a few floors below Carlsbergas German headquarters, are an unexpectedly low-key setting for a food team gearing up to produce Europeas first tonne of lab-grown fish.

But inside Bluu Seafood, past the slick open-plan coffee and cake bar, the rooms are dominated by gleaming white tiles, people bustling about in lab coats, rows of broad-bottomed beakers and pieces of equipment more at home in a science-fiction thriller. A 50-litre tank (a bioreactor) is filled with what looks like a cherry-coloured energy drink. The liquid, known as agrowth mediuma, is rich with sugars, minerals, amino acids and proteins designed to give the fish cells that are added to it the boost they need to multiply by the million.

The Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent provides fascinating insights into surviving his job and his 2019 diagnosis with an aggressive form of brain cancer in this inspiring journal of self-discovery

In the searing heat in Delhi in July 2019, the New York Times foreign correspondent Rod Nordland went for a morning jog across the city. It was more than 48C (120F), and the monsoon rains had arrived the previous day.

The Pulitzer prize-winning war reporter collapsed during the run, with a witness describing him reeling in circles, arms raised, before falling to the ground with a seizure. He had been struck down by an undiagnosed malignant brain tumour. Within days, Nordland had been flown back to the US by the New York Times and was being treated at the Weill Cornell medical center in New York, one of the best hospitals in the world.

Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adults

The eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents a or how much we shape our children a was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought.

Led by RenA(c) MAuttus of Edinburgh Universityas department of psychology, the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely children are to inherit what psychologists call the abig fivea or aOceana personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

Netflixas No 1 hit show sparks legal and moral debate over identities in true-crime stories

Baby Reindeer was meant to be a close-up, complex a even funny a look at mental health problems and the way sufferers can feed on each otheras different illnesses. According to its millions of fans worldwide, the Netflix drama achieved these tricky goals. But the show, which shot to the streameras No 1 slot, is also now likely to change how fictionalised crime is seen.

The fictionalised series tells an intimately personal story already explored by the showas writer, Scottish comedian Richard Gadd, in a couple of acclaimed one-man fringe theatre shows. It follows a depressed Scottish barman called Donny, played by Gadd, as he becomes enmeshed in the life of a female customer, aMartha Scotta, who is stalking him, sending him more than 41,000 emails, 350 hours of voicemail, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages, 106 pages of letters and torpedoing his other relationships.

The liberal justice has been called the supreme courtas conscience but we canat afford a repeat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A month ago Josh Barro (a man) at the Atlantic wrote a piece headlined Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now. Around the same time the Guardianas Mehdi Hasan (a man) similarly opined that afor the sake of all of us, Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire from the US supreme court.a The University of Colorado Boulder law professor Paul Campos (a man) also went on CNN to argue that 69-year-old Sotomayor should consider stepping down as a justice in order to give Joe Biden time to fill the seat with another liberal judge should the worst happen. And pundit Nate Silver (you guessed it a| another man) said much the same thing.

From Everest to Machu Picchu, we canat get enough of those amust-seea places. Itas time to show some restraint

Climbing Everest used to be an even more dangerous pursuit than it is today, requiring huge bravery, endurance and skill. Even then the mountain could kill. A century ago, it claimed the lives of two of Britainas finest climbers, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine.

The worldas highest mountain eventually succumbed to human challenge when, almost three decades later, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay carried the flags of Britain, the UN, and Nepal to its summit on 29 May 1953. Sporadic trips involving handfuls of explorers continued over succeeding years.

Pots of slime, pig heads, sexy dollsa| we were only looking for a present for my sonas fourth birthday

This week I found myself in a large toy shop in a retail park off Londonas North Circular. We were looking, in a pleasant panic, for a present for my sonas fourth birthday. His birthdays always hit me in an odd way, a bit like those slaps round the face they have in films to stop the woman screaming. Because: he was born at the beginning of the pandemic and, just as his early developmental stages like sitting up or eating solids worked as a marker of time having passed, of us having survived, so do his birthdays. It is four years, this means, since those tight, hot days of the first Covid lockdown, of sanitiser-cracked hands and the brisk hell of home schooling, and every time the anniversary comes round I find myself having to sit down, take a breath.

Anyway, this toy shop, good God. Do you have any ideas what toys are today? I was not prepared. There are the board games, which include your Guess Whoas and so on, but they are overwhelmed by other games called things like, Who Can Poo On Who and Fart School and Diarrhoea of a CEO and I may be misremembering titles slightly yes, but this was very much the gist, boxes with rabid cartoon characters covered in phlegm and instructions that involve, for eg, burping oneas name.

#MeTooas real legacy may not be ending predatorsa impunity so much as highlighting the tenacity of that impunity

Usually, rape isnat reported. When it is reported, it is often not charged. And when it is charged, it rarely leads to a conviction. These facts shape both our cultural understanding of sexual violence and womenas sense of their own embodied lives, clarifying something many of us already know a that while sexual violence is technically illegal and officially abhorred, it is also tolerated in practice, with actual arrests and convictions being so rare that most sexual violence is de facto decriminalized.

Only occasionally does a notable rape conviction come to pass; when it does, its very rarity highlights this dissonance, making plain the gulf between how rape is officially talked about and how it is usually treated. Now, that gulf has come to the fore again, because on Thursday one of the most high-profile rape convictions in American history was overturned.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

Americans are recognizing we must do more for Palestine and are signaling dissatisfaction with the party, as they did in 2008

The US is just months away from the 2024 election, and the prospect of a second Trump presidency grows each day as he evades repercussions for the expansive list of indictments heas accrued. With this reality looming, many Democratic party loyalists are panicked about the aleave it blanka movement, in which hundreds of thousands of voters have marked auncommitteda on their primary ballots to protest against US support of Israelas war on Gaza.

Some worry that a protest vote at the ballot box is an automatic vote for Trump. Theyare sure that even during times of mass dissent, harm reduction is the only moral voting strategy. Theyare afraid that this election will mean the end of democracy, or that the re-election of Trump will guarantee unprecedented disharmony.

Camonghne Felix is an assistant professor of creative writing at The New School