Pressure mounts on head of US homeland security as agency’s funding set to lapse
Kristi Noem faces new claims of chaos at department that oversees Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown
Letter: Europe’s security strategy cannot rest on hard power alone
From Lt Gen (Ret’d) Kees Matthijssen (NLD) and others
Letter: A darker side to Canada’s maple syrup origin story
From Don Huff, ECO Strategy, Toronto, ON, Canada
Letter: My postcard includes another Mantua gem
From Ann Webb, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Letter: Did Moynihan prefigure Trump’s new normal?
From Marke Raines, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK
Letter: Prediction markets should take their cue from 007
From Nick Bradbury, Reading, Berkshire, UK
Letter: Meloni’s fresco rendering just part of a long tradition
From Lord Peter Ricketts, House of Lords, London SW1, UK
Letter: How grease guns kept the Victoria Line running
From Sandie Hobley, Birmingham, UK
Letter: Forget decluttering, this trend is monetising waste
From J Forinton, Stathern, Leicestershire, UK
Letter: Not the first red-headed Irishman to grace No 10
From Charles Lysaght, Biographer of Brendan Bracken, Dublin, Ireland
Letter: It wasn’t the archbishop’s wonderful garden after all
From Richard Stead, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
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Trump says regime change ‘the best thing that could happen’ in Iran
Comments from US president come as Washington deploys a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East
Trump considers Treasury official John Hurley for ambassador to Germany
Interviews under way as US president tries to fill role
Co-founders of Musk’s xAI join exodus from start-up’s tech team
Jimmy Ba will be the sixth member of the founding team to depart
Gates Foundation ‘sullied’ by Epstein link, chief says
Philanthropic group’s staff express concern about the impact of chair’s ties to disgraced financier after 2008 conviction
Merz holds talks with Macron over Europe’s nuclear deterrence
Germany explores joining France’s nuclear umbrella as European fears grow over the US reducing its military footprint
What the truck just happened to transport stocks?
The flap of an AI paper triggers a freight-ening sell-off
Transcript: Mandarin mayhem
Lucy Fisher talks to Miranda Green, Stephen Bush and Chris Smyth
Trump’s starring role in the Warner Brothers fight
How the Trump administration could determine who owns a media giant
Why ads are coming to your AI chatbot
OpenAI is rolling out advertising on ChatGPT to select users. Experts say others will almost certainly follow suit
Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich
US secretary of state cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’
The challenges of a weight-loss economy
Can capitalism survive the curbing of appetites?