The Guardian Culture

50? Moi? How The Muppets rocked the world with anarchy, nonsense and the inimitable Miss Piggy

Half a century on, Jim Henson’s fuzzy felt friends are as influential as Monty Python and the Beatles. It’s been a wild journey of nightclubbing, light operas, duetting with Debbie Harry and tying John Cleese to a chairFifty years ago today, it was time to play the music and time to light the lights. On 5 September 1976, the British public first met the Muppets – an epochal moment in the history of light entertainment whose reverberations are still felt to this day.This was the show that saw Ri

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian

‘Every girl now wants to be a boxer’: excitement in Katie Taylor’s home town for her valedictory bout

Irish boxer lauded for her tenacity and inspiration before her last fight in front of 80,000 people at Croke ParkWhen Katie Taylor steps into the ring on Saturday night to defend her titles and once again enthral Ireland, there will be a bittersweet tinge. After a singular career that pioneered women’s boxing, the super-lightweight champion and Olympic gold medallist is bowing out. She is 40 and it is to be her final bout.“The end of an era, isn’t it?” said Trevor McMahon, her brother-in-law and

general  Sep 5, 2026

Financial Times

US Republicans revolt against Flock AI surveillance as tech backlash intensifies

Governors crack down on licence-plate-reading start-up bankrolled by Trump donors

business  Sep 5, 2026

Financial Times

Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism

How nationalists, religious fundamentalists and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future

business  Sep 5, 2026

Financial Times

EU counterterror envoy urges pressure on social platforms over youth extremism

Large-scale terrorism has receded but smaller attacks by individuals recruited online are on the rise

business  Sep 5, 2026

Financial Times

‘RAMageddon’ hits consumer electronics as AI drains chip supply

Prices for phones, laptops and gaming consoles already up and retailers forecasting further increases

business  Sep 5, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Victor Miller, ‘Friday the 13th’ Screenwriter, Dies at 86

"He was almost always the smartest, funniest person in whatever room he was in. He inspired in me, and many others, a love of photography, music, and storytelling," his son, Ian, wrote on Instagram.

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

ESPN

Williams sisters put on NY show, lose 3-set thriller

Serena and Venus Williams are out of the US Open women's doubles after losing to Hao-Ching Chan and Maya Joint in a third-set tiebreaker.

sports  Sep 5, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Medicare Won’t Pay for Long-Term Care: Why Retirees Could Face a $115,000-a-Year Bill

business  Sep 5, 2026

BBC World

At least two dead in blast at Bolivia military barracks

Authorities fear the death toll in Viacha will rise and warn people to stay away from the barracks due to a risk of further explosions.

general  Sep 5, 2026

Bloomberg Markets

HK’s Lee Says City to Expand Offshore Yuan Usage in 5-Year Plan

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said the city’s first five-year plan will focus on areas including expanding offshore yuan usage and cross-border investment with the mainland.

business  Sep 5, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Honeywell Is Now Three Companies. Here's Which Piece I'd Actually Own.

business  Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western

Telluride film festivalIn a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to meltAndrew Haigh’s mysterious and beautiful new film is adapted by him from the 2006 story by Colm Tóibín, transplanting the action from the 1930s Spanish Pyrenees to the wintry, vertiginous landscapes of Colorado about the time of the Korean war. It is a poignant, subversive study of grief and desire, and the terrible, infantilised lonelin

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Yahoo Finance

California Just Hit a Cannabis Tax Milestone: Gavin Newsom Announces $8.4 Billion Haul, Vows to 'Keep Strengthening Our Legal Market'

business  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Andrew Haigh’s Moody Drama, Set on a Farm in the Rockies in the Early ’50s, Is a Sweeping Act of Cinematic Storytelling

Based on a novella by Colm Tóibín, it’s a movie austere enough to risk alienating its audience, yet if you get onto its wavelength you stay right there, inside the movie’s world.

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Shine as Family Thrust Into Uneasy Isolation in Andrew Haigh’s Fine-Grained Drama

Also featuring Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, the film — adapted from Colm Tóibín's novella — measures the after-effects of a disappearance in the Rocky Mountains in the 1950s.

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

BBC World

Tate brothers charged with further trafficking and sex crimes in Romania

Andrew and Tristan Tate are currently in a Miami jail fighting extradition to the UK over separate charges and deny all the allegations.

general  Sep 5, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Why UiPath Stock Plunged Today

business  Sep 5, 2026

BBC World

How much can Canada fight back in its trade war with the US?

The US may be the bigger trading partner, but Canada shouldn't be counted out quite yet in the escalating trade fight.

general  Sep 5, 2026

Yahoo Finance

SanDisk (SNDK) Soars on S&P 100 Inclusion; Hedge Fund Ownership More-Than-Doubles

business  Sep 5, 2026