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Nashville school shooting This article is more than 9 months oldNashville shooting: what it reveals about Americans’ love of military-style gunsThis article is more than 9 months oldAssault firearms with ‘phenomenal lethality’ have flooded the US market, with firms making more than $1bn profit in the last decade In September 2021, the gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson announced that it was relocating from the Massachusetts town in which it was incorporated in 1852 to a new location – Maryville in Blount county, Tennessee.

Yotam Ottolenghi recipesFoodDon't leave it until next Christmas before you cook brussels sprouts againBrussels sprouts aren't just for Christmas, they're for life – or at least until the season ends in March. Though I suppose that does rather depend on whether or not you have the TAS2R38 gene, which affects your tongue. That name may not be quite as catchy as "yum" or "yuck", admittedly, but it does provide a genetic explanation for why people either love or loathe brussels sprouts.

USA women's football team This article is more than 2 years old‘Woke means you lose’: Donald Trump rails at USWNT after Olympic bronzeThis article is more than 2 years oldLoser of presidential election attacks team who won bronzeTrump falsely says players did not stand for anthemDonald Trump, who spent significant portions of his presidency criticizing athletes, has been strangely quiet during the Tokyo Olympics. But on Thursday he popped up to take aim at one of his favourite targets: the US women’s national soccer team.

BitTorrent This article is more than 8 years oldDoctor Who gets official BitTorrent ‘box-set’ from the BBCThis article is more than 8 years oldBroadcaster follows Radiohead’s Thom Yorke in testing legal file-sharing distribution with 10-episode bundle Doctor Who is on BitTorrent. But this time, it’s the BBC that has put it there. The broadcaster’s BBC Worldwide division is releasing an official digital box-set of 10 episodes from its popular sci-fi show’s modern incarnation.

On average, women with facial hair spend 104 minutes per week managing it, according to a 2006 British study. Photograph: Mona Chalabi/The GuardianOn average, women with facial hair spend 104 minutes per week managing it, according to a 2006 British study. Photograph: Mona Chalabi/The GuardianWomen's hairFemale facial hair a series of contradictions – common yet considered abnormal – and the pressure to remove it represents the most basic rules of the patriarchy

History booksReviewFrom a ferocious Norse warrior to an outrageously original autobiographer, the female characters changing our understanding of the past In 1878 a pile of ancient bones was pulled from the ground at Birka, near Stockholm, and confidently identified as the remains of a 10th-century Norse warrior. After all, the skeleton, known as “Bj 581”, was going into the next life surrounded by every kind of death-dealing instrument: spears, axes, arrows and swords, and a couple of strapping war horses.

RapInterviewKendrick Lamar: the rise of a good kid rapper in a mad cityHattie CollinsDespite being steeped in gang culture, the rapper who Pharrell Williams calls 'this era's Bob Dylan' deconstructs the lifestyle rather than glamourising it"You know Compton," rumbles Kendrick Lamar. "You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability. You always hear about the person pulling the trigger. You never hear about the one in front of it." There are a lot of sharp observations in Kendrick Lamar's debut album, good kid, m.

Pop and rockReviewUtilita Arena, Newcastle Weaving supreme new material with the classics, the veteran duo provide thrilling emotional catharsis Curt Smith explains that Tears for Fears’ former management team had a grand masterplan for the group. There’d be no more new music, they’d just tour the old hits, and become producers and songwriters for other people. “That didn’t work out,” the singer/bassist tells the audience. “Eventually we fired them and made an album that we’re proud of.

FilmFor George Orwell, there was nothing pro-American about Animal Farm. The CIA, however, had other ideas. Karl Cohen tells the remarkable story of how US intelligence secretly funded a landmark British movieAmerica's use of animated propaganda during the second world war is fairly well known, but propaganda made after the iron curtain went up is rarely seen or discussed. By the late 1940s, the CIA was spending tax dollars creating culture as a secret weapon to combat communism around the world.