36 h. ago Can you solve it? The pals that broke the internet, ten years on

Albert, Bernard and Cheryl returnTen years ago I published a maths olympiad question from Singapore on the Guardian website, and it changed my life.‘Cheryl’s birthday problem’ went viral. Its unexpected success led to the birth of this column in May 2015. And here we are, almost 250 puzzles later.May 15, May 16, May 19June 17, June 18July 14, July 16August 14, August 15, August 17 Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment | Margaret Sullivan

Shining a bright spotlight on this mess was a public service. One can only imagine what other information has been as recklessly handledOver the past six months or so, the Atlantic has been assembling more and more reporting talent, including by poaching some of the biggest stars from the troubled Washington Post.One of the best intelligence reporters in the country is Shane Harris, who moved from the Post to the Atlantic last summer.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Jeff Bezos' unfiltered rant to Trump about 'crazy' staff at his newspaper revealed

Donald Trump said that Jeff Bezos believes his staff at the Washington Post are 'crazy' as the owner of the leading liberal paper works to make sure he's 'more fair' to the president.

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7 d. ago An iPad spent five years in a river — then helped crack a murder plot

An iPad spent five years in a river — then helped crack a murder plot  The Washington Post

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9 d. ago IRS nears deal with Ice to share data of undocumented immigrants – report

Immigration officials could give names and addresses, raising concerns about abuse of power by Trump administrationThe US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly nearing a deal to allow immigration officials to use tax data to support Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, according to reports by the Washington Post.Under the proposed data-sharing agreement, said to have been in negotiations for weeks, Immigration And Customs Enforcement (Ice) could hand over the names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS, raising concerns about abuse of power from the Trump administration and the erosion of privacy rights. Continue reading...

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1 week ago London’s Heathrow Airport partially reopens after fire cut power

London’s Heathrow Airport partially reopens after fire cut power  The Washington Post

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1 week ago London’s Heathrow Airport closed after substation fire cuts power

London’s Heathrow Airport closed after substation fire cuts power  The Washington Post

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1 week ago London’s Heathrow Airport closes after substation fire, upending global travel

London’s Heathrow Airport closes after substation fire, upending global travel  The Washington Post

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1 week ago Live updates: London’s Heathrow Airport closes after substation fire, upending global travel

Live updates: London’s Heathrow Airport closes after substation fire, upending global travel  The Washington Post

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1 week ago Live updates: Global travel upended as nearby fire closes London’s Heathrow Airport

Live updates: Global travel upended as nearby fire closes London’s Heathrow Airport  The Washington Post

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1 week ago Live updates: London’s Heathrow Airport closed as nearby fire causes power outage

Live updates: London’s Heathrow Airport closed as nearby fire causes power outage  The Washington Post

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1 week ago Donald Trump to sign executive order aiming to shut down Department of Education – US politics live

Order challenged by Democratic state attorneys general as NAACP says it is a ‘dark day for millions of American children’ The Trump administration is working on a plan to create what conservatives have long demanded: a militarized buffer zone along the southern border in New Mexico that would be occupied by active-duty US troops, empowered to detain migrants who cross into the United States unlawfully, the Washington Post reports.According to the Post, recent internal discussions have centered on deploying troops to a section of the border in New Mexico that would be turned into a kind of military installation, which would give the soldiers a legal right to detain migrants who “trespass” on the elongated base. Unauthorized migrants would then be held until they can be turned over to immigration officers.Speaking from the podium of the White House briefing room, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused federal judges of ruling against the president for partisan reaso...

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1 week ago Trump administration plans for militarized border in New Mexico – report

Administration reportedly working to fulfill a conservative dream: create buffer zone to be occupied by US troopsThe Trump administration is working on a plan to create what conservatives have long demanded: a militarized buffer zone along the southern border in New Mexico that would be occupied by active-duty US troops, empowered to detain migrants who cross into the United States unlawfully, the Washington Post reports.According to the Post, recent internal discussions have centered on deploying troops to a section of the border in New Mexico that would be turned into a kind of military installation, which would give the soldiers a legal right to detain migrants who “trespass” on the elongated base. Unauthorized migrants would then be held until they can be turned over to immigration officers. Continue reading...

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1 week ago How to make the perfect spinach and cheese börek – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect

Having scoured the eastern Med and Balkans for the definitive take on this delectable stuffed filo snack, our resident perfectionist unveils her ultimate recipe“Few dishes,” according to food writer Zeynep Betul, “embody the spirit of Turkish cuisine as perfectly as börek”. This family of crunchy, flaky pastries in various shapes and fillings are “immensely popular” throughout the country, says award-winning author Özlem Warren: “Even the fussiest child,” she assures readers of her book Özlem’s Turkish Table, “will ask for seconds.”So foundational do börek seem to be to Turkish life that a conservative female politician made headlines a few years ago for a tweet claiming that, if a woman didn’t know how to make them, “her family is doomed to disintegration”. In reality, as others were quick to point out, though börek aren’t difficult to prepare (and, with practice, perfect), many Turkish women, as well as men, choose to buy them instead, without obvious domestic repercussions. As jo...

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1 week ago Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review – what Doge is trying to destroy

The Moneyball author is joined by writers including Dave Eggers and Geraldine Brooks in a hymn of praise to the workers who keep America’s cogs turningIt is a tad obnoxious for Michael Lewis, perhaps America’s most consistently successful nonfiction author, to open his new book by boasting that a previous one sold half a million copies, but bear with him. The book in question was 2018’s The Fifth Risk, in which Lewis smartly responded to Donald Trump’s first administration with profiles of a handful of unknown federal government employees in order to valorise what Trump scorned and highlight the cost of breaking it. His point in the introduction to Who Is Government? is that you could lift the lid on any department and find a similar treasure trove of stories: people you’ve never heard of, doing work whose importance you’ve never understood.Last year, Lewis assembled a crack team of long-form writers to uncover more of these stories for the Washington Post, and those articles are co...

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2 w. ago Washington worried with Trump back in town: ‘The atmosphere is toxic here’

The Kennedy Center and BLM mural have been targeted, the newspaper is in freefall – and the Maga movement is gaining a footholdIt was an audience more accustomed to stifling a cough or resisting the temptation to unwrap a sweet. But when they spotted vice-president JD Vance taking his seat at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Thursday night, classical music-goers erupted in unrestrained boos, jeers and shouts of “You ruined this place!”The noisy protest exemplified a culture clash taking place in the nation’s capital. It came in the same week that work began to remove a giant “Black Lives Matter” mural near the White House, a top political columnist quit the Washington Post newspaper and a spending bill passed by the House of Representatives sought to impose drastic budget cuts of $1.1bn on the District of Columbia (DC). Continue reading...

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2 w. ago If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up | Stewart Lee

Social media is lurching to the right like a tapeworm scenting offal – and X’s algorithms make it hard to find opposing opinionWake up grandad and put your opinions in the pedal bin! If you even think you are well informed you are living a lie. What the world believes today depends on who is controlling legacy media’s last feeble news fronts, like the head-bobbing slaphead Jeff Bezos’s supine Washington Post, and on who programs digital social media sluices, such as Ketamine Ken’s Twitter, currently X, essentially an ape with a megaphone standing in a crowded marketplace shouting unsubstantiated rumours at babies, and showing pornographic photographs to children.But was it ever thus? Did it just take the unalloyed unpleasantness of Elon Musk to make us see ourselves as we always were, toilet paper people fluttering on the whims of wealthy men’s media outlets, 8 billion dogshit golems, Frankingsteins made of farts? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Column | I saw 11 celebrities on London stages in a week. Here’s how they fared.

Column | I saw 11 celebrities on London stages in a week. Here’s how they fared.  The Washington Post

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2 w. ago I saw 11 celebrities on London stages in a week. Here’s how they fared.

I saw 11 celebrities on London stages in a week. Here’s how they fared.  The Washington Post

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2 w. ago Former Washington Post writer unveils rejected Bezos column that led to her resignation

Ruth Marcus also claimed that another column by the Post’s media critic that criticized Jeff Bezos’ opinion edict was also killed

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