Seth Meyers on Minneapolis: ‘Trump is trying to distance himself from the chaos he created’

Late-night hosts discussed the ongoing Minneapolis chaos and how some Republicans are starting to turn against Donald Trump.On Late Night, Seth Meyers spoke about the “intense national backlash from both sides of the aisle” that Trump is facing for his ICE occupation in Minneapolis.The host said that when Trump and his inner circle got back into power, they thought they could do “whatever they wanted whenever they wanted”, but some found that what Stephen Miller wanted was “much different”.The homeland security adviser has been reportedly screaming in meetings, demanding a high quota of deportations and even asking officers to raid local businesses.“No one wants an ICE raid at a Home Depot,” Meyers said, adding that it was “already bad enough” in there

Blood, butter and boys in luv: BTS’s 20 best songs – ranked!

As the superstar K-pop boyband prepare for their first album in three years – after its members completed their military service – we count down the best of their toothsome popAt the start of their career, BTS were marketed as a cross between a Korean idol band and a blinged-out rap act: “Our life is hip-hop,” offered band member Suga early on. No More Dream is actually far tougher-sounding than you might expect: the vocals growl, the backing blares, the double-bass sample that drives the intro is great.Evidently written with arenas twinkling with thousands of (lucratively branded) light sticks in mind, Mikrokosmos offers a brand of electronic pop that’s both melodically pretty and epic-sounding. Whether you choose to believe the claim that its title actively encouraged fans to bone up on ancient Greek philosophy is up to you.Part of BTS’s appeal clearly rests on the strikingly un-macho vulnerability they project

Post your questions for the Cardigans’ Nina Persson

After more than 30 years of melodious guitar pop, the Cardigans are returning to the stage – and their frontwoman Nina Persson will be joining us to answer your questions.The Swedish band instantly marked themselves out from the rest of both pop and alternative music when they broke through in 1995 with their album Life: sophisticated lounge-pop informed by bossa nova and disco (including sprightly Black Sabbath cover versions) was the very opposite of boorish Britpop or rave culture, and Persson’s vocals – girlish yet faintly careworn – carried so much drama within them.Third album First Band on the Moon contained their first true hit, Lovefool, which reached No 2 in the UK after framing Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes’ romance as Romeo and Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film adaptation – and has endured, now closing in on its billionth play on Spotify.Their next album, 1998’s Gran Turismo, was just as sophisticated but switched into a darker-hued digital palette, as on singles My Favourite Game and Erase/Rewind. Shortly after, Persson duetted with Tom Jones on a cover of Talking Heads’ Burning Down the House, which was included on his mega-selling Reload album

I’ve read this picture book so many times – but only 25 years later do I really understand it | Lenore Taylor

When my son was small, he and my dad liked to read Mem Fox’s 1984 picture book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.The book, which was illustrated by Julie Vivas and is competing in Guardian Australia’s reader poll of the best Australian children’s picture book of all time, is about a boy called Wilfrid climbing through the fence to visit the aged care home next door. He meets many interesting people there, including Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, who had four names like Wilfrid, but who, according to Wilfrid’s parents, had “lost her memory”.Wilfrid brings Nancy treasures and each helps her remember something fleeting but lovely from her life. An egg reminds her of a bird’s nest in her aunt’s garden, and a shell reminds her of going to the beach in a tram long ago, and how hot she had felt in her button-up boots

‘It turned out I had a brain tumour …’ Six standup comics on what spurred them to get on stage

When it comes to origin stories, comedians have some of the strangest – from performing for a £5 bet to getting back at their boss to making an unlikely pact with a friendNot all standup comedians wake up one day and decide to be funny for a living. That wasn’t the case for John Bishop, anyway. He took up comedy to avoid paying a bar’s cover charge and to escape his failing marriage – a story that inspired Bradley Cooper’s new film, Is This Thing On? And Bishop is not the only comic with an unusual origin story. From impressing girlfriends to losing their voices, brain tumours to bad bosses – or not wanting to lose a £5 bet – British comics told us the reasons they became standup comedians and the lengths to which they went to get on stage for the first time.The first time I had an inkling I wanted to be a standup was at 14, in the school canteen, when my friend Tom and I were talking about what we thought we’d be when we grew up

Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon: who knew the end of the world could feel so romantic?

From a squad of young soldiers stationed in the middle of the Djiboutian desert to a stubborn plantation mistress refusing to abandon her estate amid a brewing civil war, Claire Denis’s films have placed some of cinema’s most alluring stars in some of the world’s most volatile environments.Stemming from her memories growing up as a child throughout West Africa, the legendary French film-maker has possessed a career-long fascination with the everlasting ripples of colonial oppression and its lingering psychic effects on native communities.On paper, her 2022 film Stars at Noon seemed to be another one of these stories: a return to the material that launched the 79-year-old director to global acclaim more than three decades ago. But when the lights inside the Lumière auditorium finally went up after the film’s glitzy world premiere at Cannes, critics noted that the immediate reaction to Denis’s movie was instead a confused and puzzling silence.A storm has just rolled through town when we’re first introduced to Trish (Margaret Qualley), a disillusioned American journalist stranded in a Covid-stricken Nicaragua turning tricks in order to survive