Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned
Simon Tisdall
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/donald-trump-us-constitution-president

Chaos unleashed by Musk’s Doge is starting to wane – what does that mean?
David Smith in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/27/elon-musk-doge-trump

Volunteers rush to send abortion pills to US women in need as ‘war between the states’ looms
Massachusetts abortion project pushes for access across country as controversial shield laws are put to legal test
Carter Sherman
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/abortion-clinic-pills-shield-laws

I used to laugh at my Chilean father’s paranoia about life in the US – not any more
Stacy Torres
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/27/chile-trump-pinochet-authoritarianism

‘It makes me sick’: the Amsterdam shops closing because of soaring rents
As Dutch capital prepares to celebrate 750th anniversary, small business owners fear for independent retail
Jennifer Rankin in Amsterdam
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/27/it-makes-me-sick-the-amsterdam-shops-closing-because-of-soaring-rents

‘It’s done wonders’: trading card game featuring middle-aged men revives Japanese town
Ojisan trading cards bear the faces of real people – local men whose competing professional qualities determine the outcome of each game
Justin McCurry in Kawara
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/27/its-done-wonders-trading-card-game-featuring-middle-aged-men-revives-japanese-town

Rattlesnake venom evolves and adapts to specific prey, study finds
An animation of a snake
Surprising new evidence challenges longstanding ideas about evolution
Richard Luscombe in Miami
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/apr/27/rattlesnake-venom-evolves-study

Bestselling German novelist found killed on Hamburg houseboat
Police launch murder inquiry after Alexandra Fröhlich is found dead on her boat on the Elbe
Kate Connolly in Berlin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/27/alexandra-frohlich-bestselling-german-novelist-murder-inquiry-hamburg

How did Hitler’s film-maker hide her complicity from the world?
A new documentary delves into controversial German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl’s private archive to uncover a director who spent a lifetime covering up her central role in the Nazi propaganda machine
Eliza Apperly
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/27/leni-riefenstahl-nazi-hitler-film-maker-documentary

Chè trôi nước in Vietnamese, tangyuan (汤圆) in Chinese, glutinous rice balls to the rest of us

Preserving English eccentricity: 20 years of the World Marmalade Awards
The contest now draws in more than 3,200 entries from as far afield as the Czech Republic and South Korea
Oranges are not the only fruit: Cumbrian marmalade awards offer blend of fruits
Hannah Al-Othman
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/26/preserving-english-eccentricity-20-years-of-the-world-marmalade-awards