Along with 11 fake electors, seven allies of the ex-president including Mark Meadows and John Eastman were also charged

An Arizona grand jury indicted 11 Republicans who falsely declared Trump won the state in 2020, and seven allies of former president Donald Trump.

Kris Mayes, the Democratic attorney general, announced the charges Wednesday, noting that the 11 fake electors were charged with felonies for fraud, forgery and conspiracy.

In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican

The criminal investigation into child sexual abuse in New Orleansa Roman Catholic archdiocese has entered a major new phase, after a judge ordered the church to turn over records to Louisiana state police showing how it responded to abuse allegations over the last several decades.

The order signed on Monday seeks files that would identify every priest and deacon accused of abusing children while working in the USas second-oldest archdiocese; when those complaints were first made; and whether the church turned those cases over to police, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Twenty arrested, including journalist, on campus as protests continue into evening

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Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, will visit Columbia University today to speak to Jewish students and hold a press conference aregarding the troubling rise of virulent antisemitism on Americaas college campusesa, his office has said.

New York House Republicans have called on Columbiaas president, Minouche Shafik, to resign immediately for failing to end the protests.

Federal prosecutors looking at relationship with Purdue Pharma and other drug manufacturers, and its role in US opioid crisis

McKinsey is under criminal investigation in the United States over allegations that the consulting firm played a key role in fueling the opioid epidemic, with federal prosecutors homing in on its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other drugmakers, three people familiar with the matter said.

The consulting firm and the US justice department declined to comment.

Joe Biden gave missiles to Ukraine under prior funding, after the US reportedly warned Russia against using long-range missiles in Ukraine. What we know on day 792

Atacms long-ranges missiles capable of hitting targets 300km away had already arrived in Ukraine this month at the presidentas direction, before the US security package was passed by Congress on Wednesday, the state department has said. Vedant Patel, a state department spokesperson, explained that the weapons were part of a March aid package for Ukraine a not the one just approved by Congress and signed by Joe Biden. aWe did not announce this at the onset in order to maintain operational security for Ukraine at their request.a

Ukraine has begun using the long-range Atacms, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area in recent days, two US officials have told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. One of them said the Biden administration previously warned Russia that if it used long-range ballistic missiles in Ukraine, Washington would provide the same capability to the Ukrainians. Russia has since done so.

Separately, Adm Christopher Grady, vice-chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, told the Associated Press that long-range weapons would help Ukraine take out Russian logistics and troop concentrations behind the frontlines. He explained how the decision to supply them was considered carefully and at length. aI think the time is right, and the boss [Biden] made the decision the time is right to provide these based on where the fight is right now.a

Ukraineas foreign minister has praised US politicians for approving the long-delayed $61bn military aid package for Ukraine, but said western allies needed to recognise that athe era of peace in Europe is overa and that Kyiv would inevitably need more help to fight off Russia, Dan Sabbagh and Luke Harding write from Kyiv.

Ukraine has stopped issuing new passports at offices abroad to some military-aged male citizens, according to legislation published on Wednesday, as part of measures to push them to return home amid manpower shortages in the army. The announcement came a day after the suspension of consular services for men aged 18 to 60 living abroad until the new law on mobilisation is implemented. Ukraineas foreign ministry said the passport suspension applied only to new applications and that any requests previously submitted would be honoured.

In Warsaw, Poland, hundreds of Ukrainians crowded outside a closed passport office in a confused scene. There was anger among those who felt they were being unfairly targeted. aThis is a fight against people who are fleeing the army,a said Maksym, a 38-year-old truck driver. aWe are not asked on what grounds we went abroad a| Why am I a draft dodger if I went abroad legally?a Ukraineas ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Zvarych, told AFP that aall applications submitted to the consular offices of Ukraine before April 23 a| will be processed in full and passport documents will be issued to such peoplea.

Ukraineas president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said a group of Ukrainian children were ain Qatar for medical, mental, and social recoverya, after Russia claimed an exchange of displaced children was taking place. aAll of them had previously been forcibly deported to Russia, but thanks to our friendly Qataras mediation efforts, they have been released,a said Zelenskiy, without addressing Russiaas claim that 48 children were involved in an exchange. Russiaas childrenas rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, who is wanted for war crimes by the international criminal court, claimed Russia was handing over 29 children to Ukraine and 19 were going to Russia.

Ukrainian drones attacked oil facilities in western Russia, defence sources in Kyiv confirmed on Wednesday. Officials in the western Russian regions of Smolensk and Lipetsk first announced the attacks, blaming Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles for starting fires at energy sites. Another drone attack targeted the Lipetsk region further south, which houses metallurgical and pharmaceutical sites, governor Igor Artamonov said. Russian forces hit a Ukrainian drone production facility and a Ukrainian army fuel depot, Russiaas defence ministry said on Wednesday.

Federal Emtala law has become focal point in heated debate over emergency abortions in states that ban procedure

For the second time in a month, the US supreme court on Wednesday heard arguments in a major abortion-rights case, the second to reach the justices since they overturned Roe v Wade two years ago.

Wednesdayas case involves a 1986 federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or Emtala, which requires hospitals that receive federal dollars to stabilize the health of patients who show up at their emergency rooms with medical emergencies. The Biden administration has sued the state of Idaho, arguing that its ban clashes with Emtala because Idaho only permits abortions in medical emergencies if a womanas life is at risk a a higher threshold than Emtala.

Two reservists brigades mobilised for Gaza missions while rows of tents put up in Khan Younis

Israel appears to be readying to send troops into Gazaas southernmost city of Rafah, the only corner of the strip that has not seen fierce ground fighting and where more than half of the Palestinian territoryas population of 2.3 million has sought shelter.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that two reservist brigades had been mobilised for missions in Gaza, while video that circulated online appeared to show rows of square white tents going up in Khan Younis, 3 miles (5km) north of Rafah, which was decimated in a months-long Israeli air and ground campaign. A spokesperson for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahuas government said Israel was amoving aheada with a ground operation, but gave no timeline.

Wall Street Journal reporter, held since March 2023 on espionage allegations, to remain in Russian jail for at least two more months

The American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested over a year ago in Russia, will remain in jail for at least two more months after a Moscow court rejected his appeal against his detention.

Gershkovich, a 32-year-old reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been held in the Lefortovo prison on the outskirts of Moscow since March last year on allegations by the Russian authorities of espionage while on a reporting trip in the city of Ekaterinburg.

Push to integrate AI into Meta products boosts financial results, but share prices tumble with weak sales forecast

Metaas drive to integrate artificial intelligence into its products yielded strong financial results for the second quarter in a row. The company plans to spend even more on AI in the coming months, though, and its share price slumped more than 15% as the company reported earnings Wednesday. A weak sales forecast and higher spending guidance rattled investors.

Mark Zuckerberg said his main focus for the rest of 2024 and likely 2025 will be agetting millions or billions of people to use Meta AIa rather than generating revenue from it. He cautioned that Meta products such Instagram Reels have in the past not immediately generated revenue as they scaled before they became profitable pieces of Metaas ad business.

Gateway Pundit, run by Jim Hoft, is being sued for defamation by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss and others

The Gateway Pundit, a rightwing website known for spreading election conspiracies, will declare bankruptcy as it faces lawsuits for defamation.

The siteas parent company, TGP Communications, will file for bankruptcy in Florida aas a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outleta, founder Jim Hoft wrote on the website.

Unfinished Portrait of FrA$?ulein Lieser resurfaced in private collection but questions remain about its journey and its subject

A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was considered lost for 100 years has sold for a!30m (APS26m) at an auction in Vienna.

Entitled Portrait of FrA$?ulein Lieser, the unfinished picture was painted in the spring of 1917, when Klimt was one of the most celebrated portraitists in Europe, and a year before his death.

The justices must decide whether Idaho doctors can terminate a pregnancy to save a womanas health or only if her life is at risk

The supreme court heard its second abortion rights case of the term on Wednesday, this one focused on how states can regulate emergency abortions a exceedingly rare procedures that often save a womanas life or her future fertility.

The case may seem technical because it focuses on a small subset of emergency abortions and federal law that governs emergency room care.

Sugarcane biodiversity disappeared as big plantations dominated the sugar trade in Hawaii, but now native varieties are making a comeback

Noa Kekuewa Lincoln remembers when he first encountered native Hawaiian sugarcane in 2004. The fresh stalks, bursting with color, might have sprouted from Willy Wonkaas imagination, not the soil.

Lincoln, a kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) expert in Indigenous cropping systems and an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, said: aI grew up seeing grayish-green cane fields. But these canes are fluorescent pink, bright apple-green striped. They looked like huge cartoon candy canes. They almost donat look real!a

A New York court has heard how the tabloid deployed a practice known as acatch and killa to aid Trump in 2016

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A New York court has heard evidence of how Donald Trumpas long and tumultuous journey to secure the Republican nomination a and later the presidency a was aided by a US tabloid known for printing gory pictures of murder scenes and questionable journalistic ethics.

Testimony from David Pecker revealed how the former publisher of the National Enquirer had pledged to be Trumpas aeyes and earsa during his 2016 presidential campaign.

The divestment movement has a long history among US student activists, including in the overlapping movements of today

Cameron Jones first learned about fossil fuel divestment as a 15-year-old climate organizer. When he enrolled at Columbia University in 2022, he joined the campusas chapter of the youth-led climate justice group the Sunrise Movement and began pushing the school in New York to sever financial ties with coal, oil and gas companies.

aThe time for institutions like Columbia to be in the pocket of fossil fuel corporations has passed,a Jones wrote in an October 2023 op-ed in the student newspaper directed toward the Columbia president, Minouche Shafik.

Appleas new drama series Franklin, starring Michael Douglas as the founding father, recalls a vital time in US history as he travelled abroad for help

aA long life has taught me that diplomacy must never be a siege but a seduction,a says Michael Douglasas Benjamin Franklin, raising a wine glass in a world of candlelit tables, baroque music and powdered wigs. aThink of America as a courted virgin. One that does not solicit favours but grants them. And nothing speaks to romance quite as loudly as a dowry worth half a hemisphere.a

This is the first episode of Franklin, now streaming on Apple TV+, which tells the story of author, printer, postmaster, scientist, statesman and all-round Renaissance man Benjamin Franklinas late-life secret mission to France, aimed at persuading the country to help America win the Revolutionary war and gain independence from Britain.

The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy a about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations a into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks a and her terror of being judged

Late one night, while her husband was away and her children were asleep, the writer Robinne Lee came across something that would change the course of her life. The US author, who now lives in Paris, found herself watching a particular boyband on YouTube a she refuses to name which a and felt attracted to one of them. When her husband came back from his business trip, she told him: aI found this perfect guy. Iam going to run off and follow him and his band around the world.a He laughed and said: aYouare crazy. But that would make a really good story.a

He was right. This really good story became Leeas debut novel, The Idea of You, which snowballed into a lockdown hit, attracting legions of obsessed fans around the world via word-of-mouth recommendations. Now, the story of SolA"ne Marchand, a sophisticated US divorcee on the cusp of 40, and Hayes Campbell, her 21-year-old British pop star boyfriend, has been turned into a film starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.

Everton were set on closing down their rivals from the off and the tactics sapped the belief from the title challengers

It is little wonder JA1/4rgen Klopp is running out of energy when he is having to come up with a new lineup every few days. For the Merseyside derby defeat to Everton there were six changes to follow on from the half-dozen made for Sundayas win over Fulham. On this occasion, however, it did not work.

The latter weeks of the season are a tricky balance for any coach with so much at stake. Trying to maintain a rhythm and build momentum while keeping everyone fresh for crucial fixtures is an unenviable task. It cannot help a manager when hours before the match a starter withdraws but not even the riches of football can dictate when a mother-to-be enters labour.

Late-night hosts discuss another day in court for Donald Trump, where he once again violated a gag order to not harass witnesses

Late-night hosts talked Donald Trumpas violation of another gag order during his criminal hush-money trial and witness testimony from the former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.

Shares jump after carmaker says it is looking to accelerate production of lower-price EVs

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Teslaas plans to bring a more affordable electric vehicle to the market appear to have moved a step closer.

On Tuesday, the companyas share price shot up by 12% after an update revealed the carmaker was hoping to accelerate the production of lower-priced EVs, with production of the first cars beginning as early as this year.

They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From the suburbs of Britain to the deserts of Arizona, we explore a show celebrating glorious green borders

Somewhere in the leafy depths of British suburbia, a thick circular hedge sprouts from the top of a grassy hill in the middle of a roundabout. The top of the hedge is carefully trimmed with rectangular crenellations, giving it the look of a motte-and-bailey castle, while a second more threadbare hedge encircles the foot of the mound, like another layer of defence. The surrounding streets are lined with more hedges, some neatly trimmed, some left wild, some poking up behind high brick walls, others climbing even higher than the homes they shield.

This single image, taken by photographer Gareth Gardner, somehow encapsulates all of the anxieties and ambitions of the great British hedge. This trophy clump of privet a part defensive barrier, part symbol of domestic pride a stands as a shrubby monument, raised aloft on a grass plinth for all to admire, as they drive past on the way back to their own hedge-fringed homes.

Gardner happened upon the roundabout by chance, in Kingsmead, near Northwich in Cheshire, when he was retracing the footsteps of the late architecture critic Ian Nairn. In the 1950s, Nairn undertook a rage-fuelled road trip from Southampton to Carlisle, railing against what he called asubtopiaa, the kind of mindless identikit sprawl that was taking over the country like acreeping mildewa.

Online, Leonardo da Vincias famous painting is the subject of thousands of negative reviews a on display at the Louvre, it is deluged with visitors. Is the problem the artwork or the stressful experience of seeing it?

Name: Mona Lisa.

Age: Approximately 520 years old.

A conviction would prove, once and for all, that Trump is not the normal politician that many in the media act like he is

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Donald Trump, who once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters, has gotten away for years with unimaginable amounts of malfeasance.

He grifted and insulted and lied his way into the White House, embarrassed the nation while president, refused to accept his defeat to Joe Biden in 2020 and then incited a riot at the US Capitol as he tried to overturn the election.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist

This Passover, we donat need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

Iave been thinking about Moses, and his rage when he came down from the mount to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf.

The ecofeminist in me was always uneasy about this story: what kind of God is jealous of animals? What kind of God wants to hoard all the sacredness of the Earth for himself?

Punchdrunkas revolutionary theater piece is no more after over a decade in New York. Now weare drowning in structured fun

The aimmersive experiencea is one of the defining scams of our young century, in which the content-hungry and reality-starved will pay good money to take selfies in a ball pit, or pretend to be locked in a room by an MFA candidate in a top hat.

To be aimmerseda means to be inside of something, but buildings already accomplish that, so we now understand aimmersivea to mean a building-sized gimmick. Immersive Van Gogh poses the question: aWhat if Starry Night were a giant screen saver?a Meow Wolfas amind-bending art installationsa offer a return to the womb with their warm, EDM-hued tunnels. The Museum of Ice Cream allows adults to ride a pink slide into a pool of sprinkles.

Just because we find a political leader ludicrous, that doesnat mean theyare not dangerous

Thereas something I heard that I canat get out of my mind. Itas one line in a very long book full of other very good lines. This was the audiobook of Ian Kershawas seminal biography of Adolf Hitler. Itas absorbing, exhaustive, fascinating and alarming in equal measure. But there is this one line that wonat leave me alone. I was driving on a bleak day on a country road when I heard it for the first time. I instantly rewound to hear it again, and then again. And then when I got to where I was going I bought the book itself so I could see it as well as hear it. The line torments me still. And since a problem shared is a problem halved a or whatever the expression is a I ask you to bear the burden with me.

It comes in a chapter called The Beerhall Agitator, about the absurd-looking little rabble-rouseras activities during the early 1920s. As a kid I always wondered how they could all have been taken in by such an apparently ludicrous man. The awful truth, of course, was that enough people thought him ludicrous for this ludicrous man to be calamitously underestimated.

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Wealthy nations exploit their position as the worldas bankers to siphon off hundreds of billions from the needy

Developing nations have long complained that globalisation has enthroned western currencies in such a way as to subsidise living standards in the rich world. Last year, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa a the Brics a even talked of an alternative common currency to replace the dollar. Wealthy countries, perhaps, think that their ambitious goals for aid defuse arguments over their aexorbitant privilegea.

As TS Eliot put it, abetween the idea and the reality a| falls the shadowa. A paper out last week calculates that the bottom four-fifths of humanity finance the richest fifth to the tune of $660bn a year. The reason, say GastA3n Nievas and Alice Sodano of the Paris School of Economics, is that wealthy countries have become the worldas bankers, able to squeeze debtors. Poor nations borrow in rich-world currencies because they run deficits in energy and food, while exporting low-value goods relative to their imports. Markets are liberalised in poor countries and profits flow to the global north.

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The final Merseyside derby of JA1/4rgen Kloppas Liverpool reign might well be remembered as the final blow to his dream of signing off with the Premier League title. For the first time in 14 years, and the first time against Klopp, Everton were triumphant against their local rivals at Goodison Park. Victory tasted all the sweeter for Sean Dycheas team for almost certainly securing their top-flight status at the expense of Liverpoolas title shot.

aYou lost the league at Goodison Park,a the home crowd bellowed as they rejoiced in a deserved Everton victory, an outstanding Everton performance and the best night of Dycheas often-troubled reign. The imperious Jarrad Branthwaite and Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored the goals that consigned Liverpool to a hugely damaging defeat.

The leagueas annual circus will descend on Detroit this week. We look back on some of the draftas oddest and infamous moments

Teams spend years plotting their draft strategy. But once the clock starts ticking, things do not always go as planned.