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Police: Attacker wounds 13 in Austin shooting and escapes

Crime The gunfire erupted just before 1:30 a.m. along 6th Street. This photo provided by Austin Police Department shows Chief Chacon providing an update on overnight shootings in Austin, Texas, early Saturday,...

On my radar: Shirley Manson’s cultural highlights

Born in Edinburgh in 1966, Shirley Manson is the frontwoman of alternative rock band Garbage and was previously a member of bands Goodbye Mr Mackenzie and Angelfish. Garbage released their self-titled debut in 1995 and in 1999 recorded the...

Black and Latino communities are left behind in Covid-19 vaccination efforts

When vaccines became increasingly available throughout America, US health officials moved quickly to try to convince large numbers of Americans to get vaccinated. But amid the mass vaccination rollout, Black and Latino communities, who are disproportionately affected by the...

‘There’s a concerted backlash’: Ibram X Kendi on antiracism under attack

A whitewashing of history is under way in red state America. Republican officials are proposing numerous laws to ban school teachers from emphasizing the role of systemic racism in shaping the nation.And every reactionary backlash needs a scapegoat. Conservatives...

‘Unique problem’: Catholic bishops split over Biden’s support for abortion rights

At some point this weekend, Joe Biden will take his place in a line of people approaching the altar of a Catholic church to receive communion.The US president, a devout Catholic whose speeches regularly include biblical references and who...

Agnes Chow: activist leaves jail as China says Hong Kong ‘pawn in geopolitics’

The Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during 2019 anti-government protests that triggered a crackdown on dissent by mainland China.Chow, 24, was...

Assembly by Natasha Brown review – a modern Mrs Dalloway

Here is a short sharp shock of a novel about the kind of person the UK government’s recent commission on race would have wanted to profile in their report. Natasha Brown’s virtuosic debut follows a British woman who is...

Raiders of the Lost Ark at 40: Indiana Jones’s first adventure remains his greatest

It took almost no time – certainly not the 40 years since it was released – for Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark to become the new standard of adventure films, surpassing the crude matinee serials that inspired...

Finding fangs: new film exposes illicit trade killing off Bolivia’s iconic jaguar

Elizabeth Unger was a 25-year-old biology graduate working as a PhD research assistant for big cat and climate projects in Latin America when she heard about the Bolivian authorities intercepting dozens of packages containing jaguar fangs sent by Chinese...

Every year, I take a long walk with friends. it's one of life's greatest pleasures | Marcel Theroux

On the first weekend of May this year, I met up with five of my oldest male friends at Waterloo station, took a train to Milford in Surrey, walked 12 miles across Bagmoor Common and the Devil’s Punch Bowl,...
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