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THE OBSERVER MAGAZINE – SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2026

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The Observer Magazine: The latest issue features – Coverage centers on the ongoing Middle East crisis, featuring a dramatic account of a mission to rescue the crew of a downed U.S. F-15 fighter jet. Reports also detail Israeli airstrikes in Beirut and Iranian drone attacks on energy facilities in Kuwait. Also, the Economic Impact: Analysts warn that soaring energy costs triggered by the conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz could threaten the global AI boom and lead to higher taxes and mortgage rates in the UK.

A picture of home

Nasa’s moon mission has captured a view immortalised by Apollo astronauts in 1968, but its quest to beat China to the lunar surface is now under threat from Trump By Giles Whittell

White House chaos intensifies after Iran downs two US warplanes

Desperate search for missing US pilot caps a week of confusion for the president as he loses his grip on the conflict

‘Forty-eight hours before all hell will rain down’: Trump warns Iran over Hormuz

As the US president ups the ante, allies discuss using minesweepers to clear the strait and Tehran imposes new transit fees on shipping

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THE NEW YORK TIMES – SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2026

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U.S. Rescues Missing Airman Shot Down in Iran

Risky Night Mission Took Commandos Deep Into Iranian Territory

President Trump said on social media that the injured Air Force officer would “be just fine.” He added that there were no U.S. casualties.

Iran’s Downing of Plane and Daring U.S. Rescue Leave Both Sides Emboldened

Stephen Miller Is Still Pursuing His Immigration Agenda, but More Quietly

The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign wants “a moratorium on immigration from third-world countries until we can heal ourselves as a nation.”

China Built the World’s Drone Industry. Now It’s Locking Down the Skies.

The Chinese government tightened rules to curb what it described as illegal drone use, but some users said the changes were restricting too many flights.

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THE WEEK MAGAZINE —– APRIL 10, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE WEEK MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘IRAN’S ADVANTAGE’ – Controlling the Strait of Hormuz with drones and mines.

Has Trump’s unpredictability broken the oil market?

How could rising gas prices affect the EV market?

Just because gas is up doesn’t mean EVs will take over

Trump’s White House Makeover Halted: A federal judge ordered a work stoppage on a $400 million ballroom project intended to replace the demolished East Wing, ruling the project lacked Congressional approval.
The Reinvention of War: The editor’s letter and lead features examine how cheap, deadly drones in Ukraine and Iran have transformed combat, turning sophisticated hardware into “knights in shining armor” vulnerable to modern technology.
Supreme Court Blocks Conversion Therapy Ban: The Court overturned a Colorado law prohibiting conversion therapy for minors, focusing on freedom of speech for mental health professionals.
Social Media Liability Inflection Point: Coverage of landmark jury awards in Los Angeles and New Mexico against Meta and Google for failing to protect children from psychological harm and online predators.
The Cicada Covid Variant: A new variant of Covid-19, dubbed “Cicada,” is reported to be spreading across the United States.
The German Deepfake Scandal: An investigative look into a scandal in Germany that has brought the issue of “virtual rape” and deepfake technology into the international spotlight. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

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THE NEW YORK TIMES – SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2026

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U.S. Searches for Airman as Israel Launches Fresh Strikes on Tehran

The U.S. military was racing to find a pilot who bailed out of a fighter jet that was shot down over Iran on Friday.

Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

Since 1979, Iran has repeatedly used Americans and Europeans detained on its territory to win concessions over more powerful adversaries.

Europe’s Options in the Strait of Hormuz: Few, and Risky

European leaders and other officials have ideas for bringing shipping back to the strait once the Iran war ends. But none of them are sure bets.

New Attorney General, Same Albatross: Trump’s Quest for Retribution

The name atop the Justice Department’s organizational chart matters less than the presence of a president whose demands for revenge have become extreme.

Trump Wants to Make Deportation Deals. Autocrats Are Ready to Listen.

The White House has turned deportations, a signature domestic issue, into a major piece of foreign policy. Here’s what we know about the program.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2026

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Drone Hits Kuwaiti Oil Refinery in New Attack on Gulf Energy Sites

The strike set several refinery units ablaze, its operator said. President Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s infrastructure but there was no sign of a deal to end the war.

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Military Spending

The massive proposed increase would be offset in part by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the administration describes as wasteful.

Strong Showing for Job Market in Latest Report

U.S. employers added 178,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3 percent, a robust showing after a run of weakness.

Jobs and Workers Are in Balance. Nobody Is Happy About It.

Lower immigration has brought labor supply in line with shaky demand, but economists worry that such a slow-moving job market is at risk of toppling over.

Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit, but Trump Wanted Her Gone

Pam Bondi had a feeling her days as attorney general were numbered. But she didn’t expect President Trump to drop the curtain quite so soon.

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – APRIL 4, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How China hopes to win from the war‘

How China hopes to win from the war

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

The perils of a ground war in Iran

Donald Trump may send in troops. Does he know what to do with them?

Lessons for the world from tiny Hungary

A regime loved by MAGA may soon lose power. That matters

How worried should you be about private credit?

Its humbling could raise borrowing costs

Index providers should not bend the rules for Elon Musk

They will only expose ordinary investors to unnecessary risks

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 23, 2026

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features a dispatch from Tehran, Jed Perl on Morgan Meis’s funky kind of art criticism, Francine Prose on MAGA fiction, Caroline Fraser on the dump, Michael Gorra on Civil War diaries, David Cole on the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Hermione Lee on Virginia Woolf’s letters, Trevor Jackson on American “retirement,” Kathryn Hughes on Tennyson’s cosmos, Colm Tóibín on Irish reunification, a collage by Lucy Sante, poems by Andrea Cohen and Timmy Straw, and much more.

From the Rooftops of Tehran

We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

Living Through the Civil War

George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries edited by Geoff Wisner

‘A Vast Symphony of Stone’

In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.

Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City, January 28–May 24, 2026

The Aging Class

Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy by Teresa Ghilarducci, with a foreword by E. J. Dionne Jr.

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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – APRIL 3, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘The Tipping Point’ – A watershed moment for big tech’…

In a landmark case, a California jury last week found social media companies Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately designing addictive products. The ruling came the day after Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, was ordered to pay $375m after a jury in a separate trial in New Mexico found it misled consumers about the safety of its platforms.

Meta, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok are facing thousands of similar lawsuits in US courts, while governments around the world are starting to introduce measures to curb social media’s grip on children’s attention.

Guardian technology editors Dan Milmo and Robert Booth assess whether what has been called a “big tobacco” moment for the industry will lead to significant change. And in our opinion section, Jonathan Freedland argues that the court verdicts must be just the start of a global fightback.

The big story | A war of regression
Weeks into a war that was going to take days and has cost billions, Donald Trump has bombed the US into a worse position with Iran, writes Patrick Wintour

Science | ‘On the shoulders of giants’
Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin have been unearthed and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany, Donna Ferguson reports

Feature | Circuit training
After touring 11 Chinese companies making humanoid robots, Chang Che asks: just how close are we to a robotic future?

Opinion | Labour needs a thinker
Ed Miliband’s stock is rising in a party in need of an old-style intellectual heavyweight, argues Gaby Hinsliff

Culture | Gimme shelter
Catherine Slessor visits Henry Moore’s former countryside home Hoglands, now home to studios and a vast sculpture garden, to learn about a new exhibition of the drawings he made as a war artist, capturing people as they took sanctuary from the blitz

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THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2026

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Oil Prices Surge After Trump Threatens to Escalate Attacks

In his address, President Trump also insisted that the military campaign was an overwhelming success but failed to offer a clear exit strategy.

House Takes No Action on Bill to End D.H.S. Shutdown

The Senate’s bipartisan bill to fund the agency is now formally back with the House, and the shutdown will continue at least through Monday, when the chamber will hold its next session.