Donald Trump This article is more than 2 months oldGeorgia prosecutors seek protective order after leak of videos in Trump caseThis article is more than 2 months oldRequest follows publication of ‘confidential video recordings’ of statements by Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro
Fulton county prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia to immediately impose an “emergency” protective order over the discovery materials to prevent potential future leaks of evidence.
Life and styleThe idea, according to TikTok, is to set wild expectations for yourself – and convince your mind to believe in them
In the 1950s, Norman Vincent Peale called it “positive thinking”. In the noughties, Oprah promoted it through her talkshow as “manifesting”. Just six or so months ago, TikTok dubbed it “lucky girl syndrome”.
The belief that “if you think it, it will come” has long been popular among the young and hopeful.
Hey, what's that sound?Electronic musicFrom its humble origins as a glorified tape recorder to its current prominence in hip-hop production, this box of delights has transformed the language of popWhat is it? A sampler, in ultra-simplistic terms, is basically a glorified tape recorder. Used primarily in electronic music, the sampler allows music to be made out of any sound recorded by the user, rather than relying on tones generated by oscillators, computer chips, white noise or other synthesiser technology.
Book of the dayJoan DidionReviewThese remarkable essays from the writer’s early years highlight her search for truth and attention to detail Except for Joan Didion, the New Journalists of the 1960s were a self-dramatising gang, determined to upstage the stories they reported. Norman Mailer brawled, Hunter S Thompson raged; less loudly macho, Tom Wolfe preened and Truman Capote whispered sedition. When Didion calls writing “an aggressive, even a hostile act” or “the tactic of a secret bully”, she might be defining this bumptious fraternity.
World newsMandela's eldest son dies of AidsNelson Mandela today revealed that his eldest son, Makgatho, has died of Aids. Mr Mandela's announcement challenged the widespread prejudice against sufferers of the disease in South Africa, which has undermined efforts to tackle the pandemic.
Makgatho, a 54-year-old attorney, died earlier today in Johannesburg's Linksfield Park Clinic, to which he was admitted last month. His wife, Zondi, died from pneumonia two years ago. He is survived by three sons.
Prince Harry This article is more than 2 years oldPolice called to Harry and Meghan’s California home nine times since JulyThis article is more than 2 years oldOfficers were called to reports of trespassing, alarm activations and phone requests Police have been called to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s mansion in southern California nine times in as many months, it has emerged.
Santa Barbara county sheriff’s office has responded to calls listed as phone requests, alarm activations and property crimes since Harry and Meghan moved into their Montecito home with their one-year-old son, Archie.
Siri HustvedtReviewA woman painter takes on misogyny in the New York art establishment"All intellectual and artistic endeavours," writes the female painter-protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's new novel, "even jokes, ironies, and parodies, fare better in the mind of the crowd when the crowd knows that somewhere behind the great work or the great spoof it can locate a cock and a pair of balls." The absence of women artists in the history of painting is an old feminist topic, but it is one The Blazing World approaches head-on.
The Lowline site as it was in 2016. Photograph: Andrew EinhornIn two years’ time, the Lower East Side will be home to the world’s first underground ‘green’ space – the Lowline
by Jake NevinsTo get a glimpse of what will eventually become the Lowline, a subterranean Eden being billed as the world’s first underground park, you have to swipe your MetroCard at the Lower East Side’s Delancey Street station, go down one flight of stairs, go down another, slither through a few characteristically congested subway corridors, and then up another flight, to the J train platform.
PoliticsObituaryBarbara Castle: ObituaryBarbara Castle, Labour's Red Queen, the woman Michael Foot called 'the best Socialist minister we've ever had', has died, aged 91.
Clever, sexy and single-minded, author of some of the best political diaries of her time, she was the most important female politician the Labour movement has yet produced, a unique witness to and participant in the 20th century history of the left.
From the pre-war unity campaign against fascism via the early issues of Tribune to the Bevanites in the 50s, taking in Cyprus and the Hola camps in Kenya,and climaxing in the heart of Harold Wilson's government she was an unflagging champion of an ethical socialism which she believed should shape every aspect of life.
Parents and parentingInterviewBugaboo designer Max Barenbrug: the master of reinventionKate CarterThe Bugaboo is the buggy of choice for the Duchess of Cambridge and style-conscious parents around the world. So how did its creator turn the humble stroller into a status symbol? And what's his next big idea?It may come as a surprise to the archetypical yummy mummy, clad in Brora and pushing her Bonton-clad tot to the yoga class, to learn that the Bugaboo – the pushchair of choice since Gwyneth Paltrow pushed baby Apple around Manhattan – was originally designed for men.