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20 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Sherwood
Francis sought to lower age profile and broaden spread of college of cardinals and for most it is their first conclave
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2 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Andrew Roth
President’s international engagements have set stage for explosive confrontations and Pope Francis’s funeral comes at an especially fraught moment
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2 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Rowena Mason |Pippa Crerar |Peter Walker
Senior Conservatives have warned colleagues against “bloody panic”, urging them not to consider doing deals with Reform or removing Kemi Badenoch as leader, as the party braces for a disastrous set of local election results. Two former cabinet ministers warned against changing direction regardless of the result next Friday, with Andrew Mitchell saying “talk of deals with Reform is misplaced” and John Glen arguing Badenoch must not be “pushed off course”.
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2 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Lenore Taylor
Predicting election results is a game for pollsters or mugs, particularly in a contest where complicated preference flows will determine the winner in many electorates. But published polls suggest a minority government is possible after 3 May. The prime minister flatly refuses to contemplate the prospect.
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2 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Josh Taylor
Alda Curtis, a 63-year-old counselling student from Sydney, set up a Redbubble store as a hobby, including selling a T-shirt featuring an unhappy cat cartoon. After years of running the store, a single sale of that T-shirt resulted in a US$100,000 default judgment against her for infringing on the trademark of Grumpy Cat late last year. Then Curtis noticed nearly US$600 had been taken from her PayPal account.
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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Victoria Bekiempis
Luigi Mangione is scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court on Friday for arraignment on charges that he tracked and murdered the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, Brian Thompson, late last year. Mangione, 26, could face the death penalty in a case that shocked America for the killing of a top business executive on New York’s streets but also triggered an outpouring of anger against America’s for-profit healthcare industry.
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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Dan Milmo
Microsoft has good news for anyone with corner office ambitions. In the future we’re all going to be bosses – of AI employees. The tech company is predicting the rise of a new kind of business, called a “frontier firm”, where ultimately a human worker directs autonomous artificial intelligence agents to carry out tasks. Everyone, according to Microsoft, will become an agent boss.
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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Dan Milmo
Apple is reportedly planning to switch assembly of all iPhones for the US market to India as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on a Chinese manufacturing base amid Donald Trump’s trade war. The $3tn (£2.3tn) technology company aims to make the shift as soon as next year, the Financial Times reported.
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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Gaby Hinsliff
Sometimes a political backlash doesn’t take the shape you expect. Though there are times when it goes off like a firework, as young men’s TikTok-fuelled surge of enthusiasm for Nigel Farage did last summer, sometimes it’s more of a long, slow burn. The most underexplored form of revolt against mainstream politics right now is the second kind, involving not angry young men lurching rightwards but anxious young women turning, if anything, more sharply left.
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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Lanre Bakare |Courtney Yusuf |Homa Khaleeli
When Guardian arts and culture correspondent Lanre Bakare was growing up, he learned the same Black British history as many of us did. It was a series of singular events: the docking of the Windrush in 1948, unrest in Notting Hill or Brixton, the murder of Stephen Lawrence. All important, but all firmly focused on the capital.