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15 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Anna Bawden
People on weight loss drugs regain all the weight they have lost within a year of stopping the medication, analysis has shown. Analysis of 11 studies of older and newer GLP-1 weight loss drugs by the University of Oxford found that patients typically lost 8kg on weight loss jabs but returned to their original weight within 10 months of stopping them.
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15 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Dani Anguiano
After months of delays and decades behind bars, Erik and Lyle Menendez now have a long-awaited chance at freedom after a judge reduced their sentences for the 1989 killings of their parents. Their family and massive network of supporters celebrated Tuesday when Judge Michael Jesic resentenced the brothers from life in prison without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life.
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16 hours ago | 
theguardian.com
Measure targeting immigrants is to help close added $12bn deficit that Newsom blamed on ‘Trump slump’
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16 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Olivia Petter
I spent two months testing the most popular dating apps, from those for hookups to the best for relationships. Here’s what happened
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18 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Brian Baxter
Cultured, modest, intelligent: not words that immediately spring to mind when describing most Hollywood moviemakers. But for the writer-director Robert Benton, who has died aged 92 they are entirely apt. Combined with a sparse output, those qualities kept him on the periphery of mainstream cinema and its publicity treadmill – despite Oscar-winning successes including Kramer vs.
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19 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Nour Haydar |Karishma Luthria |Miles Herbert |Camilla Hannan |Hannah Parkes
The Greens were on a high – until they weren’t. This election left the minor party almost entirely wiped out in the House of Representatives and without its leader Adam Bandt. Ahead of a vote on who will take the party forward, the former Greens leader Richard Di Natale speaks to Nour Haydar on what lessons can be learned from the election result and where to now for the minor party• You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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19 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Angela Giuffrida
The Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner has met Pope Leo XIV, a few days after the newly elected pontiff, who is passionate about tennis, confessed that he wouldn’t want to face a match with the world number one. Along with his parents, Sinner, who is currently taking part in the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, had a private audience with Leo on Wednesday in a room next to the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.
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21 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Rowena Mason
A Labour peer and trade envoy for Keir Starmer has apologised for breaking the House of Lords code of conduct by writing to the Treasury to promote a cryptocurrency firm that was paying him. Iain McNicol, a former general secretary of the Labour party, was found to have breached the rules by offering a paid parliamentary service on behalf of Astra Protocol in June 2023.
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21 hours ago | 
theguardian.com | Ed Pilkington
Sean Duffy, the Trump administration’s transportation secretary, has made a startling admission that he switched flights for his wife this week to help her avoid flying out of beleaguered Newark Liberty, one of the busiest airports in the New York area. Duffy’s disclosure on Monday runs counter to his repeated assurances to the American public that it is safe to fly from Newark, despite a spate of dramatic outages affecting the airport’s radar systems.
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1 day ago | 
theguardian.com | Arwa Mahdawi
Shall we take a brief moment to forget the hellworld outside and focus on something utterly inane? That was a rhetorical question, because you’re coming with me immediately to the far depths of TikTok, where there is a furious argument raging about a hypothetical transatlantic brawl. Riffing on an online debate about whether 100 men or a single gorilla would win in a fight, someone posted a viral video asking: “100 British people v 100 Americans. One big room. No weapons.