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Baseball’s biggest star was the subject of racist insults at a time when black players were banned from the game

A generation of immigrants and their descendants chronicled an urban revolution

He’s done it before – will the president tell another US tech firm to shut down one of its biggest platforms?

He made speeches about the heroism and nobility of waging war against Iran, but the US president ended up cowering among the readymeals

Donald Trump's former advisor has launched a new fashion website, but should probably have examined its URL a little more closely

Senate hopeful Royce White wants to join the WNBA draft in protest at transgender athletes in sport. The only problem is he's not very good

Canadians have endured so many insults, tariff threats and so much political pressure from Trump’s US that it looks like the old relationship has gone forever

A New York Times writer tested out the oddball US health secretary's diet of nothing but meat and fermented food

Bands like Oasis are ducking interviews in favour of telling their own stories. Does that guarantee them an easy ride?

A new book knows its stuff about the WWE star, but glosses over some of his worst moments

Punishment Park, the brutal mock-doc by Brit Peter Watkins that anticipated our age of rage and recrimination

Robert Altman’s Popeye was a disaster – until it wasn’t

The president will do everything he can to cheat the mid-terms. But the real trouble will start when Congress returns in January next year

US officials used AI to produce a map of Africa - and it managed to put every country in the wrong place

Four American soldiers were killed in Trump’s fight against Iran – but then their names were removed from the “Epic Fury? casualty list

The painter-turned-director’s In the Hand of Dante has divided critics. Luckily, he thinks it’s a masterpiece

The bandleader was drifting on a long US tour until he met an activist who redefined his purpose

The president’s two key men are dealing with big foreign problems – the outcome could decide who gets Trump’s backing for a White House run

The paper claimed "thousands of 9/11 families" had demanded the mayor be banned from a commemoration. Except the figures don't stack up

His deal to let Saudi Arabia develop a domestic, unregulated nuclear programme is a landmark moment in the disintegration of global order

The X agitator accused the magazine's editor-in-chief of treachery after she pressed him on his support for the far right

MAGA thinks I’m a fan - and sends me multiple weird emails each day asking for donations

The World Cup just about survived them - but could FIFA's boss really end up in charge of NATO?

The US president thinks the under-fire football administrator would be perfect for the job as he's "respected by everyone around the world"

The restless author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is back with a new novel – and he still believes in America and the power of writing

A new exhibition celebrates the artist and activist forged by New York and Aids

No one uses the old Chicago to Santa Monica route any more, but the diners, rest stops and neon signs that marked Route 66 carry an eternal message

When the senator and close ally of Donald Trump died recently, his senate seat was inherited by his sister. This has never happened before in US history

Gene Roddenberry’s franchise understands ageing, loss and friendship in ways George Lucas’s never has