The race for a place on Wisconsin’s supreme court could have major implications for abortion, democracy and the 2024 election More than $37m has already been spent in an election that will this month determine control of Wisconsin’s supreme court, easily making it the most expensive judicial contest in US history. Spending in the race … Read more
Wisconsin parmesan and an academic’s claims over culinary purity have caused an outcry in the country Food in Italy is an emotive, even metaphysical, subject. It’s through food (and wine) that Italians understand who they are and where they are from. Food is the central sacrament of family and of companionship, its simplicity providing an … Read more
An astonishing degree of media attention was lavished on a seemingly humdrum ski collision. What made it so compelling? America and the wider world are not exactly wanting for dramatic headlines. Barricades were erected in New York after Donald Trump’s indictment on criminal charges, in Ukraine a bloody and brutal war grinds on, and in … Read more
Campaigners’ anger as 1,173 held despite ministers’ pledge to scrap legislation More than 1,000 homeless people have been arrested for sleeping rough or begging since the government pledged to scrap the nearly 200-year-old Vagrancy Act, new figures show. Freedom of information responses from 29 police forces across England and Wales show officers have arrested 1,173 … Read more
Elizabeth Siddal, immortalised in the painting by John Everett Millais, is finally being judged for her art at a new Tate exhibition She is immortalised as the drowning Ophelia in John Everett Millais’s celebrated 1850s painting and as the auburn-haired model for several pre-Raphaelite artists in the mid-19th century. After dying prematurely aged 32, Elizabeth … Read more
Diplomats add their voices to Japanese campaigners in demanding LGBTQ+ rights as Hiroshima prepares to host the G7 summit Akane Kousaka and her partner live in fear of the day when one of them falls ill or is injured in an accident. The LGBTQ+ couple have a “partnership certificate” issued by their ward office in … Read more
President furiously criticises international system for letting Russia hold key role while it wages war on Ukraine, where top official calls it a ‘symbolic blow’ Follow our Ukraine coverage At least three civilians have been killed and six wounded in Russian shelling of Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine on Sunday morning, Reuters quotes a senior Ukrainian … Read more
Home secretary points to ‘particular combination of factors’, but Labour says ministers need to ‘start doing their actual job’ Suella Braverman has denied Brexit is responsible for delays at the port of Dover after some passengers said they had been queueing up to 14 hours to have their passports checked. Extra sailings were being put … Read more
Signed by 38 senior news figures from around the world, the letter criticises the Kremlin’s ‘anti-press’ detention of Evan Gershkovich More than three dozen editors of news organisations from across the world have signed a letter condemning the detention of the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. An experienced reporter of Russian affairs, Gershkovich was … Read more
Report finds that 72 cases of the disease on the vessel, which was housing asylum seekers, were caused by a wastewater leak A major outbreak of typhoid among asylum seekers living on a ship in the Netherlands has been traced to raw sewage which was allowed to mix with tanks of freshwater for drinking and … Read more