43 h. ago More Black babies are dying than white infants. Scientists are blaming healthcare inequality

Researchers say five million Black Americans could have been saved since the 1950s if their mortality rates were equal to those of white Americans

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3 d. ago Bizarre White Lotus fan theory claims to reveal who is going to die in the season three finale

A new theory predicts who will die in the season finale - and it's all based on the $10,000 necklace she's wearing. 

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5 d. ago Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya review – teenage lives at the crossroads

A night of violence exposes the dynamics of race, masculinity and privilege at play in America’s schools The Marabar caves in A Passage to India represent the breakdown of order and communication as well as provoking the terrible accusation that drives EM Forster’s story. Sameer Pandya plays with a similar plot device in his compelling US-based novel, including an epigraph from Forster’s classic.It is set in southern California, where three teenage boys on the brink of adulthood – stars of their high school American football team with promising college careers ahead of them – attend a party at an abandoned house in the hills. Vikram is an Indian American, while Diego, who is Latino, lives with his academic mother. MJ is white with wealthy parents. Part of the pleasure of Pandya’s writing lies in his unravelling of identity politics – a theme explored in his debut, Members Only.Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya is published by Bloomsbury (£16.99). To support the Guardian and Observ...

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1 week ago Who's going to die in The White Lotus Season 3? We break it down

A gun has gone missing, and there’s no shortage of guests with a motive to use it

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1 week ago Inside Snow White actress Gal Gadot's sweet bond with Vin Diesel who took a chance on star

Snow White actress Gal Gadot celebrates a new milestone with long-time friend Vin Diesel attending to support. The Hollywood pals share a long friendship spanning back 15 years

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2 w. ago Mother of woman killed by suspected methanol poisoning demands Laos be put on no

Exclusive: Simone White died along with five others at a popular stop on the southeast Asia backpacker trail

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3 w. ago Checking out early: who is going to die in this season of The White Lotus?

The third season of Mike White’s delicious resort-set comedy drama has teased yet another murder but we don’t yet know the whos or the whysAfter a characteristically slow start, we are now halfway through this year’s season of The White Lotus. From what we know of the last two seasons, this means that things are about to get very crazy very quickly. To use season one as a way marker, we are now approximately the runtime of The Brutalist away from watching someone perform the equivalent of a suitcase poop.More than previous runs, however, a number of mysteries still hang over almost every White Lotus character this year. We know that there’s a shooting. We know that there’s a body. At this point, almost every character could be either one of them. It’s time to theorise wildly. Continue reading...

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