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- The pace of inflation slowed in April, the month that Donald Trump announced his sweeping “liberation day” tariffs on the US’s largest trading partners. The annual inflation rate was 2.3% in April, down from an annual rate of 2.4% March.
- Americans are reconsidering major life events including marriage, having children and buying a home amid economic anxiety in the opening months of the Trump presidency, according to an exclusive poll for the Guardian.
- More than a decade ago, the new Pope Leo XIV condemned what he called the “homosexual lifestyle” and “the redefinition of marriage” as “at odds with the Gospel”.
- At least 10 cast members of Les Misérables are choosing not to participate in an upcoming performance at the Kennedy Center that the president is expected to attend.
- Ryan Coogler’s smash hit horror focuses on the opening of a juke joint, a one-time mainstay in Black southern culture.