Benjamin Netanyahu This article is more than 1 year oldNetanyahu: Trump must ‘condemn’ antisemitism after Kanye and Fuentes dinnerThis article is more than 1 year oldLikely future Israeli PM, who has repeatedly praised Trump, says dinner with rapper and white nationalist ‘unacceptable and wrong’ Donald Trump should be “condemning” antisemitism following his meeting with the rapper Ye and Nick Fuentes, Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Trump had dinner with two avowed antisemites.
Alecia Moore, AKA Pink: ‘Now moms are like: “I love that my daughter loves you.” How the world turns.’ Photograph: Kurt IswarienkoHer daughter may think she’s a ‘total dork’, but the singer – back with her seventh album – has become an outspoken idol to millions of young women. She’s come a long way since being banned from friends’ houses as a rebellious kid. Photograph by Kurt Iswarienko
by Rebecca NicholsonMTV’s Vanguard award, now named after Michael Jackson, is given to the biggest names in pop.
CultureThe success of Sound of Freedom, Jason Aldean and Oliver Anthony has created a moment for outrage to take center stage
Pick any week this summer, and you’d likely find a headline about a new front in America’s long-running partisan culture wars – perhaps “surprising” or suspect or both, and usually framed by rightwing pundits as a victory.
Maybe it was the backlash to an Anheuser-Busch marketing campaign featuring the transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney that bumped Bud Light from the top of the beer market.
Jeanette Paras poses with her Taylor Swiftkin pumpkin. Photograph: Courtesy Jeanette ParasJeanette Paras poses with her Taylor Swiftkin pumpkin. Photograph: Courtesy Jeanette ParasTaylor SwiftInstallations across US include friendship bracelets and a ‘boyfriend graveyard’ , with fans spending hundreds on their masterpieces
Last week, Taylor Swift became a billionaire. She also became a 399lb pumpkin.
For 35 years, Jeanette Paras has “pumpkinized” celebrities, turning giant gourds into their likenesses in an effort to drum up breast cancer awareness for charities.
The ObserverScienceFrom moon missions to fast-charging batteries and AI-sourced antibiotics, in no particular order, the year’s significant scientific developments
1. The Dart and Orion missionsThe year opened with a bang. Or rather, it didn’t. The successful film Don’t Look Up, in which a comet is found to be on a collision course with Earth, had been released just before Christmas 2021. In the bleak days of post-festive gloom, the news media were on an adrenaline high, chasing any and every story about potential asteroid collisions to cheer us all up.