Filing seeks to overturn seditious conspiracy charges of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members who laid siege to US Capitol in 2021 The US Department of Justice has requested that a federal appeals judge overturn convictions for members of far-right groups Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who were previously found guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the violent siege of the US capitol in 2021. Jeanine Pirro, the Donald Trump-appointed US attorney for the District of Columbia, signed separate motions on Tuesday to vacate convictions for a slew of individuals, including the Proud Boys’ leaders Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs as well as Stewart Rhodes, a former attorney who founded the Oath Keepers’ militia. Continue reading...

Strike marks third deadly attack on vessels in region in four days, and the killing of 174 people since September Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US military said it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific ocean on Tuesday, marking the third deadly attack on vessels in the region in four days. The US Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced the killings in a social media post, claiming, without providing evidence, that the men killed were “narco-terrorists”. Continue reading...

US president says negotiations could restart in Islamabad under ‘fantastic’ Pakistani army chief Asim Munir • Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has said that US-Iranian peace talks could resume in Islamabad over the next two days, and complimented the work of Pakistan’s army chief as mediator. The US president was speaking on Tuesday to a New York Post reporter who had gone to Islamabad for the first round of ceasefire talks over the weekend. After an interview discussing prospects for negotiations, the reporter said the president had called her back “with an update”. Continue reading...

Interior minister is ‘highly determined’ to block US rapper from performing in the southern city in June due to his past antisemitic remarks, sources say France’s interior minister is seeking to block the US rapper formerly known as Kanye West from performing in the southern city of Marseille in June due to his antisemitic remarks, a source close to the minister said Tuesday. The interior minister, Laurent Nunez, is “highly determined” to ban the 11 June concert at Marseille’s Velodrome stadium and is exploring “all possibilities”, the source told Agence France-Presse. Continue reading...

The second addition to Stratford’s new skyline from architects O’Donnell + Tuomey is a triumph, its bold lines and simple interiors a welcoming home for the art, people and creativity it celebrates It’s hard to tear your eyes away from Leigh Bowery’s pink sequined codpiece, just one of the many sumptuous objects in the cabinet of curiosities that is V&A East, the new museum in London’s Olympic Park. But the idea of radical tailoring underpins this whole building, which exudes an explicit haute couture vibe. For Dublin-based architects O’Donnell + Tuomey, it all started with a sleeve in a Vermeer painting that hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland. “I was trying to work with the folds,” says John Tuomey, “which became the first iteration of the building. I started thinking about the fabric that clothes you, the body that’s sheltered, but also the space in between.” Ideas of draping and concealment were also sparked by the work of Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, the subject of a 2017 V&A retrospective. As part of that exhibition, ghostly X-ray images, at once beautiful and forensic, revealed details not visible to the naked eye, such as boning, hoops and dress weights, which determined the precise fall of fabric and shape of garments. Continue reading...

British aid to double as 19m people face acute hunger, but summit unlikely to end conflict amid Saudi-UAE tensions The British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, will urge Sudan’s warring parties to “cease bloodshed” during a major conference on Wednesday, which analysts believe is unlikely to deliver a significant step towards peace. The talks in Berlin – held on the third anniversary of the start of Sudan’s ruinous war – are expected to help address a catastrophic funding shortfall that is compounding the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Continue reading...

From showstopping fabrics to mind-expanding photos and an opening show celebrating Black British music, the real value of London’s new museum will surely lie in the art it inspires Outside the V&A’s new outpost in east London, a nondescript young person stares blankly out across the old Olympic Park. This five-metre-tall sculpture is generic by design, an amalgam of “images, 3D scans and observations” of local people. It is easy to see why Thomas J Price’s idea appealed to a museum eager to engage with the area’s diverse communities – here is the quintessence of east London youth, executed at the scale of Michelangelo’s David – but by smoothing out the differences between individuals it sends out a confusing message. To aggregate data and identify common denominators is, after all, the logic of the algorithm. So the worry is that this museum will likewise second-guess the desires of its audience based on predictive models, guiding visitors towards things they are predisposed to “like” and away from opinions they are presumed not to share. So it is a relief to find, on entering the building, a vision of how people make and cultures meet that is infinitely richer, more heterogenous and more open-ended than those first impressions suggest. Continue reading...

ASA rules ads on Instagram and Daily Mail website broke ban on promoting items high in fat, salt and sugar Lidl and Iceland have become the first companies to have ads banned after the introduction of rules cracking down on the marketing of junk food in the UK. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has been policing the ban on ads featuring junk food on TV before 9pm, and in paid online advertising at any time of the day, since 5 January. Continue reading...

Report by Common Wealth argues rest of the world should pay for country’s transition as reparative climate finance Cuba could beat the US’s crippling energy blockade for ever with just an $8bn investment in renewable energy. And the rest of the world should pay for it. Those are the bold claims of a thinktank analysis of the embattled socialist republic’s energy policy, which claims that Cuba could show its Caribbean neighbours the way to a green energy future. Continue reading...

Analysis by IFS shows George Osborne’s mortgage schemes launched in 2013 had little effect on social mobility Higher-income households were the biggest beneficiaries of George Osborne’s Help to Buy mortgage schemes, introduced in the 2010s, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) thinktank. Launched by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government in 2013, Help to Buy involved two separate schemes aimed at making home ownership more achievable in a period of rapid house price growth. Continue reading...

Air pollution caused by wildfires is another blow to northern Thailand’s tourism industry as businesses suffer amid war in Iran The Doi Suthep temple in northern Thailand is known for its spectacular views of Chiang Mai and the lush forested mountains that surround it. Over recent weeks, though, visitors can see little of the city beyond a thick cloud of grey haze. Persistent wildfires have caused intense air pollution across the north of Thailand, forcing three provinces to declare emergencies and triggering spikes in pollution-related illnesses. Continue reading...

French child, who was six years old at the time of the incident in 2019, suffered life-changing injuries The family of a boy thrown from the 10th-storey balcony of the Tate Modern art gallery seven years ago said it feels as though his recovery has taken a “sad step backward” after surgery. The unnamed French youngster was six when he was seriously hurt in an attack by Jonty Bravery at the London attraction in August 2019. Continue reading...

When I’m seen changing a nappy, surprise on people’s faces tells me the bar isn’t just set low, in many contexts it doesn’t exist The slow, weeks-long reckoning that followed my son’s birth three months ago was something no book had prepared me for. What crept up on me was a dawning existential realisation, somewhere between one overnight feed and the next, that everything had quietly reorganised itself while I was too exhausted to notice. For nearly a decade I’ve been building my identity as a men’s health psychologist and researcher – testing it, recalibrating, working out how I want to operate. By the time my son, Arty, arrived, I knew that version of myself reasonably well. What I hadn’t reckoned with was the second identity that came with him: one that needed to find its place inside a life that was already fully furnished. This one didn’t come with a mentor, a peer group who’d been through it or years of iteration to draw on. It just arrived, and I was expected to know what to do with it. Continue reading...

The chef spies on failing eateries then visits them at night to unearth their secrets – with results that are quite often nauseating … and yet surprisingly emotional It’s 1.07am in Washington DC, and Gordon Ramsay is in a baseball cap, driving. His destination: Parthenon, once a thriving neighbourhood joint where White House power-brokers ate Greek. But 36 years after it was opened by Pete, who left Zakynthos for a new life in America when he turned 18, Parthenon is in such a state that one of its staff has contacted Ramsay and arranged for him to break in overnight. Kitchen Nightmares was a decent runner for Channel 4 in the UK, but the US remake was a bigger hit, lasting for more than 100 episodes – so this follow-up has a lot to live up to. Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service overreacts to the challenge by keeping the basic format (our man lovingly bullying bad restaurateurs into being good), then hurriedly throwing on garnish after garnish. Continue reading...

Saints just three points off second after 3-0 home win Ipswich slip to 2-0 defeat at battling Portsmouth Southampton have moved just three points off automatic promotion after a 3-0 victory over Blackburn, coupled with Ipswich’s 2-0 defeat at Portsmouth. The hosts extended their unbeaten run to 18 games in all competitions with a comprehensive victory at St Mary’s, secured by first-half goals from Cyle Larin and Ryan Manning and a late strike from Cameron Archer. Continue reading...

Stage was set for one of Liverpool’s classic comeback nights – but not this team against these European champions Often in the past Liverpool has demanded and Anfield has delivered. Past glories perhaps shouldn’t influence the present, but they do; precedent begets belief. That’s part of the mythos of the great stadiums, how they develop a life and an identity of their own. But a club cannot simply give itself to an arena and hope that it will do the job that players and management and the executive body cannot. No ground, not even Anfield, has an infinite capacity for miracles. Just because Liverpool came from 3-0 down to beat Barcelona in 2019, there’s no reason to believe they could overhaul a two-goal deficit against Paris Saint-Germain in 2026. Anfield did its bit on a windy night on which early drizzle gave way to teeming rain. The rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone was suitably stirring, the noise from both sets of fans boisterous. But it was not enough. Continue reading...

Health secretary says NHS is ‘failing women’ and pledges to end ‘gaslighting’ by doctors Wes Streeting has vowed to stop women being “gaslit” by doctors as he relaunches the women’s health strategy for England. Speaking before the publication of the renewed strategy on Wednesday, Streeting said the NHS was “failing women” and set out measures to help them access the healthcare they need. Continue reading...

Atlético Madrid knocked 10-man Barcelona out of the Champions League and reached the semi-finals with a 3-2 aggregate victory despite a 2-1 home defeat in Tuesday’s quarter-final second leg. Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres put Barça up inside 24 minutes but Ademola Lookman’s strike gave Atlético the edge in the gripping all-Spanish tie once again after their 2-0 win in the first leg. Diego Simeone’s side returned to the semi-finals for the first time since 2017 by holding on against the La Liga champions in a compelling battle. Continue reading...

It will be of little consolation to Arne Slot and Liverpool that, for the second season in succession, they went toe-to-toe with Paris Saint-Germain at Anfield and had nothing to show for their endeavours. Having exited the FA Cup quarter-final with a whimper, Liverpool exited the Champions League quarter-final with a fight. The damage done in Paris proved irretrievable. Ousmane Dembélé, so wasteful in the first leg at Parc des Princes, put the quarter-final beyond any doubt with a clinical late finish to ensure there would be no famous European comeback from Liverpool on this occasion. Slot’s team at least performed with belief, and for 72 minutes they had hope, but the European champions held their nerve to advance into the semi-finals. Dembélé inflicted further punishment with a second goal from Bradley Barcola’s second assist in stoppage time. Continue reading...

Departures came after lawmakers from both parties threatened to introduce resolutions expelling the two men US politics live – latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzales submitted their resignations to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, abruptly ending their political careers amid bipartisan furor over allegations of sexual misconduct against both. Swalwell resigned at 2pm eastern time, while Gonazales’s resignation will take effect at 11.59pm on Tuesday evening, according to the House clerk. Continue reading...

Photos prompted investigation by The Athletic Russini seen as one of NFL’s top reporters NFL reporter Dianna Russini has resigned from The Athletic less than a week after photos of her and New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel prompted an internal investigation at The New York Times-owned sports outlet. The New York Post last week published the photos of Vrabel and Russini at an Arizona resort and said they were taken before the NFL owners meetings that began in Phoenix on 29 March. Continue reading...

World Cup qualifier: England 1-0 Spain (Hemp 3’) Lionesses win sides’ first meeting since Euros final England gave their chances of automatic qualification for 2027’s Women’s World Cup a tremendous boost as they beat the world champions Spain at Wembley to continue their perfect record in qualifying so far. In a closely-fought game which saw both teams miss some gilt-edged opportunities, the two sides were ultimately separated by two moments where the ball bounced extremely close to the line; one where it did cross the goalline and another where it did not. Thankfully for England, Lauren’s Hemp’s early effort did, whereas for Spain, Olga Carmona’s deflected strike in the second half bounced down off the underside of the crossbar and away to safety. That, plus a great reflex save from Hannah Hampton to deny Edna Imade at the death, saw the Lionesses win 1-0. On such margins, this qualification group may well be decided. Continue reading...

Grand jury brings manslaughter charge over fatal 2024 operation as patient dies on table A surgeon in Florida has been indicted for manslaughter after he wrongly removed a patient’s liver instead of his spleen during an August 2024 procedure. Thomas Shaknovsky, 44, was indicted by a grand jury in Tallahassee on Monday after prosecutors said he botched the surgery of 70-year-old William Bryan, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Continue reading...

Cuts will fall on its studio and television business, ESPN, certain corporate functions and more, a source says Walt Disney ’s new chief executive, Josh D’Amaro, announced layoffs in an email to employees on Tuesday, as he looks to streamline the company’s operations. About 1,000 positions will be eliminated, according to a person familiar with the development. Continue reading...

EFL in race against time to hear charges Club alleged to have breached P&S rules West Brom could be given a points deduction that relegates them from the Championship after the season has finished as the club contest charges of breaching the English Football League’s profit and sustainability (P&S) rules. With the Championship league season concluding on 2 May the EFL is running out of time to hear the charges against West Brom, which relate to an alleged breach of the £39m loss limit in the three-year period culminating in the 2024-25 season. EFL sanctioning guidelines state that any punishment for a P&S breach must be applied in the campaign after it took place, which in West Brom’s case means this season, but the rulebook does not give a definitive cutoff point so it is unclear when the season ends. Continue reading...