For Trump, there’s Columbus Day and Victory Day, but no World Aids Day Administration said ‘awareness is not a strategy’, but here is a short list of orders the president has signed to do just that

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Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’ Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaos

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‘It’s important that we tell our own stories’: how the Wicked movies are helping disability representation on screen Marissa Bode is the first disabled actor to play Nessarose, a key character in the stage turned film franchise – but has had to respond to online abuse

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Move over, gender studies: the conservative tide coming for US universities Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the ‘great books’ of western civilization

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As Trump cracks down, faith groups step up for immigrants: ‘What has happened to our heart?’ Nuns, bishops and laity from California to Texas have created a network of help to uphold church teachings

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‘It’s quite useless to us’: what autistic people actually want from the Trump administration US government is seeking proof that acetaminophen leads to autism while not providing ‘services and support so we can be included in the community’

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Faculty at Texas university fear entire liberal arts departments will be slashed University of Texas at Austin faculty fear changes from new taskforce that could restructure humanities programs

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MIT rejects White House proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding Other universities still mulling proposal while MIT’s president said it would compromise academic freedom

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds

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‘Unprecedented in history’: global academic freedom group warns of dismantling in US Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025

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Autistic people could teach Donald Trump a thing or two about focus, facts and empathy | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett While not without its challenges, autism isn’t a curse to be cured of, as the likes of the President and RFK Jr want us to believe, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

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‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assault The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back

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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

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We are gen Z – and AI is our future. Will that be good or bad? The more we know about this technology, the more it is the source of hope and worry, say Sumaiya Motara and others

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For those put off by the recent production of Superstar: another way to view it. medium.com/@suescheibler

Protesters gather in L.A. amid nationwide demonstrations against Trump’s policies

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Commentary: Cowardly Dodgers remain silent as ICE raids terrorize their fans

All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids

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Trump is waging war against his own citizens in Los Angeles | Judith Levine In its first months in office, the Trump administration enacted what could be called soft authoritarianism. Now we are in a second phase

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University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

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Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump: ‘The repression is growing, but so is the resistance’ As the administration continues to exploit antisemitism to arrest protesters and curb academic freedoms, more American Jews are saying ‘not in my name’

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Have you looked at images of Gaza on Google Maps? You should | Arwa Mahdawi If you don’t trust Palestinians, maybe you’ll trust Google Maps. Satellite imagery shows the extent of the devastation

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Episcopal church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status

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‘Laughable, if it weren’t so dangerous’: your responses to RFK Jr’s autism stance