First Thing: Bondi distances herself from ‘botched’ release of Epstein files
Former attorney general says expected replacement, Todd Blanche, was in charge of controversial process. Plus: why are US consumers so angry?
Boom Box: the story of undercover police who set up a fake music studio in London
New four-part documentary reignites criticism of Operation Peyzac, in which officers posed as music industry figures to gather intelligence
The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration?
Reform and Maga are correct that ageing populations are storing up huge social problems, but our prosperity still rests on the hard work of migrants, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Henry Nowak: controversy behind US intervention in a murder case that has rocked Britain
Details about what happened, the rightwing response – and accusations by some of ‘two tier policing’
Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation
The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain why they relocated the film to a post-industrial mining town – and refused to make it in English
‘I wouldn’t flinch’: Burnham on social care, markets, Brexit – and the prospect of a general election
Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor sets out his priorities before Makerfield byelection – and what might happen after the vote
SNL UK’s Larry Dean: ‘That heckle was so harsh it left my heart pounding!’
The Glaswegian standup on joining the ego-less Saturday Night Live, smiling at himself in the mirror and why he’s not slept in his new house
‘It’s a relief … I’m irrelevant!’: Rufus Norris on life after the National Theatre
He stood down as boss of the NT – and threw himself into kayaking, writing and DIY. The veteran director talks about his new start aged 60, mourning his mother – and directing Death of a Salesman in Turkish
Man, 21, charged with attempted murder after Surrey University staff member shot with crossbow
Former student Almunthir Daqamah, 21, due to appear in court on Friday while campus safety officer is in stable condition in hospital
Divine intervention: why Pope Leo visit could be a godsend for Pedro Sánchez
Pontiff’s resolve to highlight plight of migrants has aligned him with Spanish PM, whose inner circle and party are mired in corruption allegations