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The far right This article is more than 3 months old‘No enemies to the right’: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalismThis article is more than 3 months oldChristopher Rufo’s Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’ Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”.

Metro BankProfileJaime Gilinski Bacal is known for snapping up struggling lenders on the cheap and turning around their fortunes The Colombian banking tycoon Jaime Gilinski Bacal is known for taking a gamble. Now one of the wealthiest people in Latin America, worth a reported $5.3bn (£4.3bn), Bacal built his name snapping up the assets of struggling lenders on the cheap, turning around their fortunes and selling them on for a big profit.

CitiesThe space under cities is getting busier – from transport excavations to billionaire’s mega-basements. So how to keep track of what’s down there? Just over a year ago I was sent a photograph of a tunnel-boring machine in a dirt lot in Los Angeles. The caption read: “Elon Musk is about to start digging.” The message was from Wayne Chambliss, a geographer in southern California, who tends to be prescient in such matters – and indeed, Musk’s freshly minted Boring Company soon set its machine loose, ripping through the subsurface soil under the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne to create a short tunnel.

Pop and rockObituaryArt Laboe obituaryAmerican DJ and rock’n’roll promoter whose celebrated 1950s El Monte concerts broke down racial barriersThe American disc jockey Art Laboe, who has died aged 97, may have been the first person to recognise that a rock’n’roll song could enjoy a life beyond its few weeks in the charts. In 1959 he popularised the phrase “oldies but goodies” by using it as the title for an album he had compiled, consisting of hits, all barely a year or two old, by such artists as the Penguins, Etta James, the Five Satins and the Teen Queens.

BooksReviewChristobel Kent is beguiled by the Borgias in a saga of guile, charm and cruelty in 15th-century RomeWho would be a historical novelist of calibre and ambition, while the great glittering caravan of Hilary Mantel's Tudor trilogy is still passing? Sarah Dunant's Blood and Beauty, the fourth of her Italian historical novels and the initial instalment in what is planned to be a two-part saga, is her first since Mantel's colossal success.

MusicReviewM&S Bank Arena, Liverpool In addition to his epic songcraft, the Irish singer makes the most of his platform with an impassioned monologue calling for women’s rights and a ceasefire in Gaza It’s almost a decade since Andrew Hozier-Byrne’s Take Me to Church – an impassioned anthem supporting gay marriage in Ireland, that was partly recorded in his attic – went five times platinum in the US and topped the charts in a dozen countries.

Manchester United‘I’m a happy man’: Højlund admits relief after breaking Premier League duckLandmark goal secured Manchester United win over VillaHøjlund said he has remained focused under pressureRasmus Højlund’s reaction to scoring his first Premier League goal for Manchester United to secure a comeback victory over Aston Villa said everything about his emotions, according to the forward. The Denmark international took 15 league appearances to find the net for the first time, causing many to question his suitability as United’s first-choice striker after arriving for £72m from Atalanta in the summer.

ObituaryRandolph HearstUS tycoon sobered by his daughter's kidnapRandolph Apperson Hearst, who has died aged 85, was the one of the five sons of William Randolph Hearst who looked after the business side of his family's vast American newspaper, magazine and broadcasting empire. Quiet and fabulously wealthy, he was catapulted into most unwanted notoriety when his daughter, Patty, was kidnapped in February 1974 by a group of black militants calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Birds This article is more than 1 year oldSwedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette buttsThis article is more than 1 year oldClever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter Crows are being recruited to pick up discarded cigarette butts from the streets and squares of a Swedish city as part of a cost-cutting drive. The wild birds carry out the task as they receive a little food for every butt that they deposit in a bespoke machine designed by a startup in Södertälje, near Stockholm.