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Prices were so high for tickets that the tournament risked becoming a festival of pure greed. But fans simply weren’t buying it – and so Trump and FIFA have had to think again.

The president appeared to drift off to sleep at his own event on maternal health this week. It's far from the first time it's happened

A fearless, restless pioneer, the jazz legend was an imperfect man, but a musician of unique genius

A film about a great painter needs great paintings to succeed

The Taxi star revelled in creating chaos and confusion

He started off as a nerdy bookseller with a love of spreadsheets. Now he’s ended up as a stony-faced, muscle-bound plutocrat, posing on the red carpet with the Kardashians.

A new startup by the Silicon Valley money man will allow people to raise objections to stories in the press. A quick look at the targets of this new venture makes Thiel’s agenda all too clear

It may be self-sufficient in energy, but America can’t shut itself off from the global economy. As a result, the president’s war of choice in the middle east is about to make everything a lot more expensive

A new book details how three friends invented a new American cinema - then created the blockbusters that destroyed it

The US author’s best-selling The Hate U Give is being removed from school libraries in America - and now in Britain too

If the VP ever becomes president, there is truly no hope for America

It will be hideously expensive, will exclude whole sections of the US public and be largely inaccessible to foreigners – a perfect Trumpian tournament

After the disaster which was Melania, Donald Trump's son is now in the frame to take over the show which propelled his father into the White House

Charles and Camilla aren’t the only royals to have visited the Trump White House – and though Charles’s speech went down well in the UK, the MAGA faithful will no doubt see it very differently

A beautiful new memoir by novelist Siri Hustvedt, the writer’s widow, is full of philosophical insights

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Already rooted in conspiracy theory, the Trump presidency is now obsessing over aliens – another sign of US political culture gone insane

Trump’s war against Iran has led to a sharp, upward change in the path of interest rates. The question, as ever – who benefits?

The revived show’s central message is now clear – that on Main Street USA, bravado beats brains every time

Deborah Levy tries but comes up short in a stylish romp through Paris in search of the exiled author and scenester

A look into the monarch’s private journal reveals the truth behind his controversial trip to Washington DC. (Is this real, or satire?* Read on to find out…)

The Times Radio pundit has boasted of how he got a lowly New York waiter sacked for grumbling about his tip

The FBI director – currently engaged in a legal battle over reports of his drinking – is said to be facing a firing by Donald Trump

President Trump's propagandist predicted there would be "some shots fired" at the White House correspondents’ dinner

Paranoia and cynicism are no longer just for MAGA - and that might be the president’s lasting legacy

He was once a slavish devotee of the US president. But now Trump’s war on Iran has descended into catastrophic farce, the Reform leader is trying to distance himself from the demented man in the White House. That won’t be so easy

A man like Trump was always going to do it bigger and badder than any of his predecessors. The catastrophe he has created contains a stark lesson for voters around the world

The president has so offended US evangelicals that the previously loyal are calling him demon-possessed and the Biblical ‘father of lies’

Conspiracy theorists say a man in a black cap must be part of the plot to kill a president. But the truth is likely to be very different