Nick Miles
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That was Kerry Allen. Well, despite the looming trade war and the threat of recession, it seems Donald Trump can still count on a significant amount of support domestically, particularly in the so-called red states. Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild has made it her life's work to understand the nature of American politics and the reason for Mr Trump's appeal.
She's the author of Stolen Pride, Lost Shame and the Rise of the Right. For that book, she's been spending time in rural Kentucky, an area she describes as the whitest and second poorest congressional district in the US. She's been telling the BBC more about what she found.
Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild was speaking to the BBC's Justin Webb. It has been two years since Sudan was plunged into a civil war between the National Army and a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. Since then, tens of thousands of people have been killed, with reports of atrocities on both sides.
Now the International Court of Justice in The Hague is hearing accusations that the United Arab Emirates has been complicit in a genocide allegedly perpetrated by the RSF. The UAE strongly rejects the allegations. Our correspondent in The Hague, Anna Holligan, was at the court.
And what is the allegation against the United Arab Emirates?
And what has the UAE said in response?
And briefly, how could this case unfold for the UAE?
Anna Holligan in The Hague. A groundbreaking study has generated the most powerful and detailed map of a mammal's brain to date. Using a mouse, scientists say they've made Google Maps for the brain and the images they've captured are striking. A series of 3D blueprints showing over three kilometres of neural wiring.
close to 100,000 nerve cells, and about 500 million synapses have been compared to a galaxy, with different parts lighting up at different times. The research involved showing the mouse video clips, including the film The Matrix. Forrest Coleman is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. He co-authored the study and spoke to Jackie Leonard.
Dr. Forrest Coleman, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. still to come in this podcast.
Why George Clooney's Broadway debut is being seen as even more resonant in Donald Trump's America.
Rescue workers in the Dominican Republic are still searching for survivors after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the capital, Santo Domingo. At the time of recording this, 218 people are now confirmed to have died at the Jet Set Club during a concert by a popular Dominican singer. Our Central America correspondent, Will Grant, reports from Santo Domingo.
Will Grant reporting. Russia and the United States have carried out another prisoner swap, the second since Donald Trump came into office. Steve Rosenberg is our Russia editor in Moscow.
The influencer Andrew Tate has been accused of putting a gun in a woman's face in court documents seen by BBC News. Four women are suing the self-proclaimed misogynist, accusing him of rape or assault. One of them, who we're calling Sienna, told the BBC that when she slept with Tate, the sex was initially consensual. But things took a turn.
As a warning, this clip contains strong language and distressing details of alleged violence and sexual assault.
Andrew Tate denies all the women's claims, saying they are a pack of lies. Our special correspondent Lucy Manning reports.
A simple saliva test could turn the tide on prostate cancer. That's according to scientists in the UK. Each year, more than a million people around the world are diagnosed with the aggressive form of cancer. More than a third of them die. Professor Rosalind Eales from the Institute of Cancer Research led the study.
James Gallagher is the BBC's health and science correspondent.
James Gallagher, we're speaking to James Kumarasamy. The American actor George Clooney has been a famous TV and film performer for many years, and now he's also enjoying success on the stage. His Broadway debut, Good Night and Good Luck, is a stage adaptation of a critically acclaimed film of the same name that was written by, directed and featured George Clooney in 2005.
It's a historical drama set in the early 1950s during the McCarthy era. and is being seen as a cautionary tale about what could happen to press freedom in President Trump's America. Tom Brook went to see the play in New York.
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