Donald Trumpas former communications director testifies that the 2016 campaign wasnat sure how to respond to Access Hollywood tape, aeveryone was still absorbing the shocka

• Trump trial continues with judge dismissing claims that ex-president canat testify

Judge Juan Merchan was referring to a claim Donald Trump made while addressing the media yesterday outside of court.

Speaking to reporters after court adjourned for the day on Thursday, the former president said:

Iam not allowed to testify. Iam under a gag order. I guess, right?

Iam not allowed to testify, because this judge, whoas totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order.

I want to stress Mr Trump that you have an absolute right to testify at trial.

That is a constitutional right that will not be denied or abnegated in any way ... It is a fundamental right that cannot be infringed upon ... the order prohibiting extra-judicial statements does not prevent you from testifying in any way.

People in Jerusalem express little sympathy with anti-war demonstrators, with some accusing them of hatred for Israel

At the Jerusalem theatre on Thursday night, concertgoers and staff expressed a mixture of anger, sadness and defiance as weeks of pro-Palestinian protests across dozens of US college campuses reached a tumultuous climax 6,000 miles away.

The noisy demonstrations have been closely followed in Israel, reported by major media and discussed by prominent public figures.

Prime minister said there were acredible allegationsa that India was behind the killing, leading to chilled relations between countries

Canadian police have detained members of an alleged hit team for their role in the assassination of the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the first arrests in a high-profile killing which officials believe was masterminded by India.

The arrest, first reported by CBC News, comes nearly a year after the prominent activist was killed in the parking lot of his gurdwara in the city of Surrey, British Columbia.

Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface

The sunas otherworldly landscape, including coronal moss, solar rain and 6,000-mile-tall spires of gas, is revealed in footage from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

The observations, beamed back by the European Space Agency probe, reveal feathery, hair-like structures made of plasma and also capture eruptions and showers of relatively cooler material falling to the surface.

Aprilas figure was lower than forecast and unemployment rate ticked up over the month but still market remains strong

Hiring in the US slowed in April with the workforce adding another 175,000 jobs and wage growth slowing.

The news cheered investors hoping that a cooling labor market will prompt the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates a which have been driven to a 20-year high as the US fights stubbornly high inflation. All the major US markets rose in early trading.

Heather Pressdee admitted to intentionally injecting excessive doses of insulin into 22 patients across the Pittsburgh area

A former Pennsylvania nurse has been sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting she intentionally injected nearly two dozen of her patients with excessive doses of insulin, killing three of them.

Heather Pressdee was sentenced on Thursday in a Butler county state courthouse near Pittsburgh, where nearly 40 of her victimsa family members spoke about how her crimes upended their lives, according to a news release that prosecutors issued at the conclusion of a case that highlights how frighteningly vulnerable patients can be in healthcare settings.

Democrat responds to reports of unspecified charges by the justice department two years after an FBI raid of his home and office

The Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar on Friday insisted he was innocent of unspecified aallegationsa amid reports that the US Department of Justice would imminently announce his indictment.

aI want to be clear that both my wife and I are innocent of these allegations. Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas,a Cuellar said in a statement that did not elaborate on what he was accused of.

South Dakota governor says she met North Korean dictator in same book in which she describes killing her dog

The South Dakota governor, Republican vice-presidential hopeful and self-confessed dog-killer Kristi Noemas bizarre claim in a new book to have met the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has been dismissed by experts as adubiousa and not aconceivablea.

The Dakota Scout first reported Noemas claim, which is in her forthcoming book, No Going Back: The Truth on Whatas Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward.

Health ministry rules that only adult dogs can be used for aanimal assisteda wellbeing activities

Passionate yogis in Italy have been taking their downward dog to the next level in studios offering apuppy yogaa classes.

But the health ministry has curtailed the growing trend after banning the use of pups to protect the animalsa health and welfare.

Nine-year-old Branson Baker ran more than a mile for help after parents wounded when twister flung familyas vehicle into trees

A nine-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero for saving his parentsa lives when an Oklahoma tornado tossed the familyas truck into surrounding trees, after reportedly telling them aMom, Dad, please donat die, I will be backa before sprinting for help.

The latest incident comes as at least four people in Oklahoma, including an infant, were killed and dozens injured after multiple tornadoes hit the state.

The movement to press for an end to Israelas war on Gaza has now found itself overshadowed by its loudest voices

The protesters who seized Columbia Universityas Hamilton Hall on Tuesday swiftly unfurled a banner down the front of the storied building with just one word: intifada.

Other students among the pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the heart of the New York campus were sceptical about invoking the Arabic call for an uprising because it has been so widely used by pro-Israeli groups to discredit their cause as support for terrorism and therefore antisemitic.

Stateas fall as the last bastion of access to the procedure in the deep south means women will have to travel farther for care

Rose hadnat even missed her period when the thought hit her: aI need to take a test.a

The Florida resident, who has two kids, had given birth just three months ago. She thought that she and her husband were being careful. But the pregnancy test confirmed her suspicion: she was pregnant and, she realized, didnat want to be.

Implications of the lawsuit could extend beyond Cochise county, if local officials try similar tactics in November

In a courtroom in Phoenix, Arizona, two elected officials who allegedly tried to subvert the countyas 2022 election tried to get a lawsuit against them thrown out in a case one of their defense attorneys called both asillya and ascarya.

The Cochise county supervisors, Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, appeared in court virtually, to defend themselves against charges of attempted election interference for their initial failure to certify the countyas election results.

I played on tour for 16 years and I was ready for Luca Guadagninoas new movie to fail. But itas the most accurate depiction of the tennis life I have seen on screen

On a hot spring day in Munich, I went to a small movie theatre in the basement of an apartment building, dreading the prospect of missing an evening in the setting sun, possibly with a Bavarian beer in hand. The whole city seemed to be anxiously anticipating the upcoming Champions League semi-final between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. People roamed the streets, trying to find a place to watch football with their friends.

I, on the other hand, was on my way to see Luca Guadagninoas new movie, Challengers. I was ready to see it fail. For context, I played on the tennis tour for 16 years and retired at the US Open two years ago. Youave probably never heard of me. There are two reasons for that. With perfect timing, I retired at the same time as Serena Williams. Reason number two: I never had Serenaas career. Itas OK. One can thrive in so many other ways.

Andrea Petkovic is an author and a former world top-10 tennis player.

Final Destination inspires yet another throwaway teen schlocker, this time with an increasingly risible astrological bent

As many of us impatiently wait for the sixth Final Destination film, slated for release next year over a decade since the fifth, here comes yet another limp attempt to recreate that specific, sadistic form of magic. Some curse, some teens, some shock deaths, a formula thatas been trotted out in so-what films like Wish Upon, Countdown and Truth or Dare, shrugs where shocks should be, franchise starters ending after the first round.

Which brings us to Tarot, a film wisely kept from critics until the very last second and one that audiences would be smart to keep themselves from too. Itas not quite as bad as these things can often be but flashes of competence are not enough to distract from a sense of crushing pointlessness, more watery slop served up lukewarm for undemanding Friday night horror fans, who really ought to be demanding so much more.

Financial pressure prevented a ceremony, and our families werenat thrilled. But my wedding day was still beautiful

I got the phone call that would change my relationship at 4.45 on a Wednesday evening. It wasnat my ex calling with a sexual health update, nor was it an ex trying to get back together. It wasnat from our family, it wasnat a friend.

It was an office worker, calling from somewhere far away, informing me that my discounted health insurance was invalid and wouldnat cover my recent medical crisis.

Residents of manufactured housing parks typically own their homes a but not the parks themselves, which can be incredibly lucrative. Now some residents are forming cooperatives, and taking control

• This story is co-published with the Lever, a reader-supported investigative news organization

Bev Adrian, a retired career placement counselor for people with disabilities, lives in Woodlawn Terrace, a mobile home park just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. The nearby streets are full of bustling local businesses a a Sota Boys Smoke Shop, a Pump N Munch Gas a but Woodlawn is a quiet park tucked away under maples and pines.

Adrian moved there four years ago, coincidentally right as Woodlawnas owner was looking to sell. Woodlawnas landlord was well liked, but for years the parkas residents had been hearing rumors about possible sales to much less friendly owners.

Athletes are breaking their silence about their experience of eating disorders and disordered eating. Why is this happening in an arena celebrated as the epitome of health?

Elite sport has long been consumed with the idea of the superhuman. Pushing the capabilities of the human body to its extremes in the hopes of uncovering the blueprint to engineer bodies that can jump higher, run faster and endure longer. And, as professionalism has increased, so too has the optimisation of athletesa bodies in the quest for peak human condition.

But recent revelations that former Australian womenas cricket captain Meg Lanning cut her international career short due to struggles with disordered eating have exposed some of the cracks that have long been forming in the elite sport system.

Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads

Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to read what had long been thought unreadable

More than 2,000 years after Plato died, the towering figure of classical antiquity and founder of the Academy, regarded by many as the first university in the west, can still make front-page news.

Researchers this week claimed to have found the final resting place of the Greek philosopher, a patch in the garden of his Athens Academy, after scanning an ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the library of a Herculaneum villa that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79.

Late-night hosts talk police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests, Trumpas court naps and Kristi Noemas dogged defense

Late-night hosts talked use of force against college protesters and Donald Trumpas apparent struggle to stay awake during his criminal hush-money trial.

Tom Bakeras scarf! Jodie Whittakeras cupboard! David Tennantas gifs! As Ncuti Gatwa picks up his sonic screwdriver for the new series of Doctor Who, we rate every two-hearted Time Lord so far

It is too soon to place the Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, in the pantheon of actors to take on one of British TVas most beloved characters, but to whet your appetite before his debut series lands on 11 May, here is a top 20 of actors to have owned the Tardis since William Hartnell first emerged from a police box in 1963 a|

Protests are part of nationwide movement pushing universities to divest from businesses that support the war in Gaza

As the sun rose on a campus littered with wreckage, pro-Palestine protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles, were still facing off with lines of riot cops and chanting aWeare not leaving!a

Police had cleared UCLAas student encampment in a late-night operation, and arrested at least 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators early on Thursday morning . The schoolas student newspaper said ahundredsa had been arrested, including students and faculty.

Tourists delighted as pinnipeds congregate at cityas Pier 39, apparently attracted by feast of anchovies

More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Franciscoas Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years.

Mounds of floppy, delightfully ungraceful marine mammals have plopped themselves on to rafts along the cityas pier, displaying themselves to the thousands of tourists who pass by the area each day.

Researchers visited the Chicago Cafe to find out if itas really 121 years old a and entered a chop suey parlor filled with memories

On a warm morning in March, a group of researchers entered an unassuming chop suey parlor in the Sacramento suburbs for a rare field trip.

The six history enthusiasts affiliated with the University of California, Davis, had gathered at the Chicago Cafe in Woodland, California, with one goal in mind: to determine the exact age of what may be the oldest Chinese restaurant in the country.

Workers removed remnants of the Gaza encampment while pieces of plywood painted with aWe love you Gazaa lay about

At the University of California in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, staff were picking up the pieces after two nights of violence that shocked the urban campus.

A loader heaved the remnants of the Gaza protest encampment that law enforcement had forcefully cleared early in the morning into a large grey dumpster. Pieces of plywood spray-painted with aWe love you Gazaa and aACABa (aall cops are bastardsa) still lay about.

In 1985, Columbia students occupied campus to push for divestment from South Africa. Five months later, the university cut ties to the apartheid regime after years of dragging its feet

As three former 1980s student leaders at Columbia University, we applaud the courage and conviction of Palestine solidarity student activists in the eye of the storm. Despite the recent arrest of more than 100 protesters, they insist: aDisclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!a

We defend their right to protest and affirm the righteousness of their demands: an end to Israelas genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to the complicity of the US government and institutions in its apartheid and ethnic cleansing. The international court of justiceas recent ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians makes divestment a legal, not just ethical, obligation.

The scenes in Florida of frantic and overcrowded clinics are a grim preview of the future that apro-lifersa want for women

A Womanas Choice, an abortion clinic in Jacksonville, usually sees somewhere between 10 and 15 patients a day. But last week, they extended their hours. On Monday, they scheduled somewhere between 70 and 80 patients, according to the Washington Post. The president of one reproductive health center spoke of warning her incoming patients about the scenes they would encounter at Floridaas abortion clinics. aWeare telling them, aHey, itas going to be busy,aa said Kelly Flynn.

For some, a deadline loomed after an anxious period of trying to scrape together the funding for the care they need: one doctor recalled calling patients who had delayed their appointments a in most cases because they hadnat been able to secure enough money for the procedure yet a and reminding them that they donat have much more time. For other women, a sudden realization led to a last-minute scramble. aOne patient this morning told me that she had just gone for a regular doctoras appointment last week and found out she was pregnant,a a clinician told the Florida news radio station WOKV.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

In history, as in romance, beginnings matter a so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the future

In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson has argued? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the world beginning to resemble the late 19th-century Europe of competing empires and great powers writ large?

Another way of trying to put our travails into historically comprehensible shape is to label them as an aage of a|a, with the words that follow suggesting either a parallel with or a sharp contrast to an earlier age. So the CNN foreign affairs guru Fareed Zakaria suggests in his latest book that we are in a new Age of Revolutions, meaning that we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. Or is it rather The Age of the Strongman, as proposed by the Financial Times foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman? No, itas The Age of Unpeace, says Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, since aconnectivity causes conflicta.

I have spent long stretches of my life around the racetrack. The methods for training young horses in the US means fatalities are inevitable

As Churchill Downs prepares to host the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday a darker anniversary looms. One year ago, 12 horses died at Churchill Downs in the days and weeks surrounding Americaas biggest race.

As hype builds around this yearas runners, those who died fall deeper into the well of memory, if theyare thought of at all. Wild on Ice, a gelding born in 2020 and a Derby qualifier, was euthanized after sustaining a hind leg fracture during training leading up to last yearas race. His connections expressed regret over their missed opportunity to watch him reach his full potential. A month later, Kimberley Dream, a seven-year-old awar horsea was making her 61st start when she broke down in a claiming race. In the chart the final note on her short life read awent wrong in upper stretcha.

Donald Trumpas former communications director testifies that the 2016 campaign wasnat sure how to respond to Access Hollywood tape, aeveryone was still absorbing the shocka

• Trump trial continues with judge dismissing claims that ex-president canat testify

Judge Juan Merchan was referring to a claim Donald Trump made while addressing the media yesterday outside of court.

Speaking to reporters after court adjourned for the day on Thursday, the former president said:

Iam not allowed to testify. Iam under a gag order. I guess, right?

Iam not allowed to testify, because this judge, whoas totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order.

I want to stress Mr Trump that you have an absolute right to testify at trial.

That is a constitutional right that will not be denied or abnegated in any way ... It is a fundamental right that cannot be infringed upon ... the order prohibiting extra-judicial statements does not prevent you from testifying in any way.

People in Jerusalem express little sympathy with anti-war demonstrators, with some accusing them of hatred for Israel

At the Jerusalem theatre on Thursday night, concertgoers and staff expressed a mixture of anger, sadness and defiance as weeks of pro-Palestinian protests across dozens of US college campuses reached a tumultuous climax 6,000 miles away.

The noisy demonstrations have been closely followed in Israel, reported by major media and discussed by prominent public figures.

Prime minister said there were acredible allegationsa that India was behind the killing, leading to chilled relations between countries

Canadian police have detained members of an alleged hit team for their role in the assassination of the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the first arrests in a high-profile killing which officials believe was masterminded by India.

The arrest, first reported by CBC News, comes nearly a year after the prominent activist was killed in the parking lot of his gurdwara in the city of Surrey, British Columbia.

Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface

The sunas otherworldly landscape, including coronal moss, solar rain and 6,000-mile-tall spires of gas, is revealed in footage from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

The observations, beamed back by the European Space Agency probe, reveal feathery, hair-like structures made of plasma and also capture eruptions and showers of relatively cooler material falling to the surface.

Aprilas figure was lower than forecast and unemployment rate ticked up over the month but still market remains strong

Hiring in the US slowed in April with the workforce adding another 175,000 jobs and wage growth slowing.

The news cheered investors hoping that a cooling labor market will prompt the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates a which have been driven to a 20-year high as the US fights stubbornly high inflation. All the major US markets rose in early trading.

Heather Pressdee admitted to intentionally injecting excessive doses of insulin into 22 patients across the Pittsburgh area

A former Pennsylvania nurse has been sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting she intentionally injected nearly two dozen of her patients with excessive doses of insulin, killing three of them.

Heather Pressdee was sentenced on Thursday in a Butler county state courthouse near Pittsburgh, where nearly 40 of her victimsa family members spoke about how her crimes upended their lives, according to a news release that prosecutors issued at the conclusion of a case that highlights how frighteningly vulnerable patients can be in healthcare settings.

Democrat responds to reports of unspecified charges by the justice department two years after an FBI raid of his home and office

The Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar on Friday insisted he was innocent of unspecified aallegationsa amid reports that the US Department of Justice would imminently announce his indictment.

aI want to be clear that both my wife and I are innocent of these allegations. Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas,a Cuellar said in a statement that did not elaborate on what he was accused of.

South Dakota governor says she met North Korean dictator in same book in which she describes killing her dog

The South Dakota governor, Republican vice-presidential hopeful and self-confessed dog-killer Kristi Noemas bizarre claim in a new book to have met the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has been dismissed by experts as adubiousa and not aconceivablea.

The Dakota Scout first reported Noemas claim, which is in her forthcoming book, No Going Back: The Truth on Whatas Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward.

Health ministry rules that only adult dogs can be used for aanimal assisteda wellbeing activities

Passionate yogis in Italy have been taking their downward dog to the next level in studios offering apuppy yogaa classes.

But the health ministry has curtailed the growing trend after banning the use of pups to protect the animalsa health and welfare.

Nine-year-old Branson Baker ran more than a mile for help after parents wounded when twister flung familyas vehicle into trees

A nine-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero for saving his parentsa lives when an Oklahoma tornado tossed the familyas truck into surrounding trees, after reportedly telling them aMom, Dad, please donat die, I will be backa before sprinting for help.

The latest incident comes as at least four people in Oklahoma, including an infant, were killed and dozens injured after multiple tornadoes hit the state.

The movement to press for an end to Israelas war on Gaza has now found itself overshadowed by its loudest voices

The protesters who seized Columbia Universityas Hamilton Hall on Tuesday swiftly unfurled a banner down the front of the storied building with just one word: intifada.

Other students among the pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the heart of the New York campus were sceptical about invoking the Arabic call for an uprising because it has been so widely used by pro-Israeli groups to discredit their cause as support for terrorism and therefore antisemitic.

Stateas fall as the last bastion of access to the procedure in the deep south means women will have to travel farther for care

Rose hadnat even missed her period when the thought hit her: aI need to take a test.a

The Florida resident, who has two kids, had given birth just three months ago. She thought that she and her husband were being careful. But the pregnancy test confirmed her suspicion: she was pregnant and, she realized, didnat want to be.

Implications of the lawsuit could extend beyond Cochise county, if local officials try similar tactics in November

In a courtroom in Phoenix, Arizona, two elected officials who allegedly tried to subvert the countyas 2022 election tried to get a lawsuit against them thrown out in a case one of their defense attorneys called both asillya and ascarya.

The Cochise county supervisors, Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, appeared in court virtually, to defend themselves against charges of attempted election interference for their initial failure to certify the countyas election results.

I played on tour for 16 years and I was ready for Luca Guadagninoas new movie to fail. But itas the most accurate depiction of the tennis life I have seen on screen

On a hot spring day in Munich, I went to a small movie theatre in the basement of an apartment building, dreading the prospect of missing an evening in the setting sun, possibly with a Bavarian beer in hand. The whole city seemed to be anxiously anticipating the upcoming Champions League semi-final between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. People roamed the streets, trying to find a place to watch football with their friends.

I, on the other hand, was on my way to see Luca Guadagninoas new movie, Challengers. I was ready to see it fail. For context, I played on the tennis tour for 16 years and retired at the US Open two years ago. Youave probably never heard of me. There are two reasons for that. With perfect timing, I retired at the same time as Serena Williams. Reason number two: I never had Serenaas career. Itas OK. One can thrive in so many other ways.

Andrea Petkovic is an author and a former world top-10 tennis player.

Final Destination inspires yet another throwaway teen schlocker, this time with an increasingly risible astrological bent

As many of us impatiently wait for the sixth Final Destination film, slated for release next year over a decade since the fifth, here comes yet another limp attempt to recreate that specific, sadistic form of magic. Some curse, some teens, some shock deaths, a formula thatas been trotted out in so-what films like Wish Upon, Countdown and Truth or Dare, shrugs where shocks should be, franchise starters ending after the first round.

Which brings us to Tarot, a film wisely kept from critics until the very last second and one that audiences would be smart to keep themselves from too. Itas not quite as bad as these things can often be but flashes of competence are not enough to distract from a sense of crushing pointlessness, more watery slop served up lukewarm for undemanding Friday night horror fans, who really ought to be demanding so much more.

Financial pressure prevented a ceremony, and our families werenat thrilled. But my wedding day was still beautiful

I got the phone call that would change my relationship at 4.45 on a Wednesday evening. It wasnat my ex calling with a sexual health update, nor was it an ex trying to get back together. It wasnat from our family, it wasnat a friend.

It was an office worker, calling from somewhere far away, informing me that my discounted health insurance was invalid and wouldnat cover my recent medical crisis.

Residents of manufactured housing parks typically own their homes a but not the parks themselves, which can be incredibly lucrative. Now some residents are forming cooperatives, and taking control

• This story is co-published with the Lever, a reader-supported investigative news organization

Bev Adrian, a retired career placement counselor for people with disabilities, lives in Woodlawn Terrace, a mobile home park just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. The nearby streets are full of bustling local businesses a a Sota Boys Smoke Shop, a Pump N Munch Gas a but Woodlawn is a quiet park tucked away under maples and pines.

Adrian moved there four years ago, coincidentally right as Woodlawnas owner was looking to sell. Woodlawnas landlord was well liked, but for years the parkas residents had been hearing rumors about possible sales to much less friendly owners.

Athletes are breaking their silence about their experience of eating disorders and disordered eating. Why is this happening in an arena celebrated as the epitome of health?

Elite sport has long been consumed with the idea of the superhuman. Pushing the capabilities of the human body to its extremes in the hopes of uncovering the blueprint to engineer bodies that can jump higher, run faster and endure longer. And, as professionalism has increased, so too has the optimisation of athletesa bodies in the quest for peak human condition.

But recent revelations that former Australian womenas cricket captain Meg Lanning cut her international career short due to struggles with disordered eating have exposed some of the cracks that have long been forming in the elite sport system.

Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads

Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to read what had long been thought unreadable

More than 2,000 years after Plato died, the towering figure of classical antiquity and founder of the Academy, regarded by many as the first university in the west, can still make front-page news.

Researchers this week claimed to have found the final resting place of the Greek philosopher, a patch in the garden of his Athens Academy, after scanning an ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the library of a Herculaneum villa that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79.

Late-night hosts talk police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests, Trumpas court naps and Kristi Noemas dogged defense

Late-night hosts talked use of force against college protesters and Donald Trumpas apparent struggle to stay awake during his criminal hush-money trial.

Tom Bakeras scarf! Jodie Whittakeras cupboard! David Tennantas gifs! As Ncuti Gatwa picks up his sonic screwdriver for the new series of Doctor Who, we rate every two-hearted Time Lord so far

It is too soon to place the Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, in the pantheon of actors to take on one of British TVas most beloved characters, but to whet your appetite before his debut series lands on 11 May, here is a top 20 of actors to have owned the Tardis since William Hartnell first emerged from a police box in 1963 a|

Protests are part of nationwide movement pushing universities to divest from businesses that support the war in Gaza

As the sun rose on a campus littered with wreckage, pro-Palestine protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles, were still facing off with lines of riot cops and chanting aWeare not leaving!a

Police had cleared UCLAas student encampment in a late-night operation, and arrested at least 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators early on Thursday morning . The schoolas student newspaper said ahundredsa had been arrested, including students and faculty.

Tourists delighted as pinnipeds congregate at cityas Pier 39, apparently attracted by feast of anchovies

More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Franciscoas Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years.

Mounds of floppy, delightfully ungraceful marine mammals have plopped themselves on to rafts along the cityas pier, displaying themselves to the thousands of tourists who pass by the area each day.

Researchers visited the Chicago Cafe to find out if itas really 121 years old a and entered a chop suey parlor filled with memories

On a warm morning in March, a group of researchers entered an unassuming chop suey parlor in the Sacramento suburbs for a rare field trip.

The six history enthusiasts affiliated with the University of California, Davis, had gathered at the Chicago Cafe in Woodland, California, with one goal in mind: to determine the exact age of what may be the oldest Chinese restaurant in the country.

Workers removed remnants of the Gaza encampment while pieces of plywood painted with aWe love you Gazaa lay about

At the University of California in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, staff were picking up the pieces after two nights of violence that shocked the urban campus.

A loader heaved the remnants of the Gaza protest encampment that law enforcement had forcefully cleared early in the morning into a large grey dumpster. Pieces of plywood spray-painted with aWe love you Gazaa and aACABa (aall cops are bastardsa) still lay about.

In 1985, Columbia students occupied campus to push for divestment from South Africa. Five months later, the university cut ties to the apartheid regime after years of dragging its feet

As three former 1980s student leaders at Columbia University, we applaud the courage and conviction of Palestine solidarity student activists in the eye of the storm. Despite the recent arrest of more than 100 protesters, they insist: aDisclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!a

We defend their right to protest and affirm the righteousness of their demands: an end to Israelas genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to the complicity of the US government and institutions in its apartheid and ethnic cleansing. The international court of justiceas recent ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians makes divestment a legal, not just ethical, obligation.

The scenes in Florida of frantic and overcrowded clinics are a grim preview of the future that apro-lifersa want for women

A Womanas Choice, an abortion clinic in Jacksonville, usually sees somewhere between 10 and 15 patients a day. But last week, they extended their hours. On Monday, they scheduled somewhere between 70 and 80 patients, according to the Washington Post. The president of one reproductive health center spoke of warning her incoming patients about the scenes they would encounter at Floridaas abortion clinics. aWeare telling them, aHey, itas going to be busy,aa said Kelly Flynn.

For some, a deadline loomed after an anxious period of trying to scrape together the funding for the care they need: one doctor recalled calling patients who had delayed their appointments a in most cases because they hadnat been able to secure enough money for the procedure yet a and reminding them that they donat have much more time. For other women, a sudden realization led to a last-minute scramble. aOne patient this morning told me that she had just gone for a regular doctoras appointment last week and found out she was pregnant,a a clinician told the Florida news radio station WOKV.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

In history, as in romance, beginnings matter a so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the future

In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson has argued? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the world beginning to resemble the late 19th-century Europe of competing empires and great powers writ large?

Another way of trying to put our travails into historically comprehensible shape is to label them as an aage of a|a, with the words that follow suggesting either a parallel with or a sharp contrast to an earlier age. So the CNN foreign affairs guru Fareed Zakaria suggests in his latest book that we are in a new Age of Revolutions, meaning that we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. Or is it rather The Age of the Strongman, as proposed by the Financial Times foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman? No, itas The Age of Unpeace, says Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, since aconnectivity causes conflicta.