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His gaudy White House UFC event is taking place just as those who love and take part in the sport are deserting his presidency

A game without the roars and songs of proper supporters is like a Hollywood blockbuster without a score

The Brexiteers were furious when Barack Obama made an intervention ahead of the referendum. These days they're more relaxed about American meddling

After the 2008 crash, it took a global effort to get the world economy back on track. But if another disaster did occur, with Trump in power, cooperation would be much harder

Gary Stewart was brilliant, briefly revered and doomed by drug addiction. Now a new biography finally gives him his due

Her homages to painters from Monet to Pollock only underline her own unique genius

Jared Isaacman’s bid to restore Pluto’s planetary status looks less like science and more like populism in space

The cartoonish villain who turned to cocaine was once an Olympic-calibre wrestler who helped US athletes win gold

James Talarico is facing a pile-on from senor Republicans who appear not to know what a vegan actually is

The Pope’s encyclical on the dangers of technology looks back to the last industrial revolution, and delivers a stark warning to the technology corporations of today – that transformative progress can destroy lives on a colossal scale

The vice-president, increasingly outside the Trump inner circle due to his dovish views on Iran, is said to be considering sitting out the next election

He is trying to absorb the Taiwanese computer chip industry into the US economy. If he does, it would give America one less reason to defend the island against China

The screen legend had 49 homes in her 36 years, and took her collection of 400 books wherever she moved

Violence silenced her, before she decided to tell the world about it

Less rage, more delivery is the former David Cameron adviser’s message in the race to become the state’s next governor

The car salesman was on social media complaining about a casting decision in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey. What Musk showed was that he doesn’t really know anything about classical civilisation

The president mocked the 'very poorly rated' Late Show with Stephen Colbert as it bowed out - as the most-watched late-night show in the US

The current president is clueless on the world stage. But, if the Democrats ever get back into power, they won’t turn the US into an open, internationalist peacebroker. Their focus is their voters – it looks set to stay that way

A former senior US spy chief has watched the spread of conspiracy theories, political hatred and outright cruelty under Trump, and has come to a worrying conclusion about the nation he once served

Despite Trump’s enthusiasm, the president has returned home with little more than a hint that if he avoids displeasing Xi, it could turn into something more substantial

Her San Francisco house was full of children – and her extraordinary suspended looped wire sculptures

The effortlessly stylish star preferred walking her dogs or arranging flowers to attending galas and premieres

The singer had been living in quiet retirement – then one night changed everything

The president has put the islands’ fate back on the table – without asking the islanders

I love football, and I love big international tournaments – but it will be impossible to watch Donald Trump’s tournament and enjoy it

A Christian author used a Washington DC event backed by Trump to say God had ‘raised up’ the president to build his gaudy ballroom

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