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The DC takeover is, first and foremost, an attempt to deflect from the Epstein case. But that’s not all that’s going on

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: No democratic society should concede the principle of the right to a fair trial, one uncontaminated by misreporting that might influence a jury. But new guidance that permits police to share a suspect’s ethnicity and nationality with the public will enable the force to defend itself…

About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’

A friend gave me a mango the other day. In starving Gaza, this is the ultimate act of selflessness. I took the piece of fruit home to share it with my four children.

In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

If I had a pound for every developer, designer or official who told me that a bridge, office, home or factory must be ugly because it’s “all we can afford”, reader, I would be a rich man. But what they tell you is a lie: ugliness is always a choice.

Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to? asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime

What is really behind the US Department of Energy’s weird pronouncement on social media, asks Arwa Mahdawi