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Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr in Love Story.

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

  • Maureen Dowd

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People hold signs in New York thanking President Donald Trump.

What does war with Iran mean for US voters? In November, we’ll know

When US presidents start wars overseas, it doesn’t always win over the voters back home.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr in Love Story.

It was the greatest romance of the ’90s, but this retelling of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette’s story is just Hallmark froth

The first instalment in Ryan Murphy’s new anthology is basically The Crown for Americans – with added nostalgia, and Naomi Watts.

  • Kylie Northover
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the premiere of her documentary movie in Washington.

Trump renamed my beloved Kennedy Centre. Now, shamefully, he’s shuttering it

After Donald Trump added his own name to Washington’s mecca for the performing arts, few wanted to perform there.

  • Bill Wyman
Tatiana Schlossberg attends a book signing in San Francisco in 2019.

She submitted a heartbreaking gift of an essay. Weeks later, she was gone

It was the kind of piece that rarely lands on an editor’s desk, both completely raw and perfectly realised. David Remnick accepted it immediately.

  • Jesse McKinley

JFK’s granddaughter dies after rare cancer diagnosis

Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg died after revealing in November she had a rare form of leukaemia. She was 35.

  • Bhargav Acharya
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Donald Trump’s name is affixed to the Kennedy Centre facade in Washington on Friday.

‘Going to grab a pickaxe’: Kennedy family furious after Trump adds name to memorial

The new lettering on Washington DC’s “living memorial” to JFK marks the latest effort by the administration and its allies to remake the capital in Trump’s image.

  • Se Young Lee
Britain’s Prince William and US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy with her son Jack Schlossberg and daughter Tatiana Schlossberg in 2022.

JFK’s granddaughter reveals terminal cancer diagnosis

Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, has revealed she has less than a year to live.

  • Harriet Alexander
Jack Schlossberg will run for Congress in the state of New York.

JFK’s influencer grandson to run for Congress

The latest Kennedy scion to enter the world of politics is the TikTokking grandson of JFK and son of the former Australian ambassador.

  • Cameron Henderson
Charlie Kirk disinformation

Facts secondary to overarching plot line as wild speculation about Kirk shooting abounds

Charlie Kirk’s death was immediately entangled in a miasma of deliberate falsehoods, honest mistakes and half-baked guesswork.

  • Stuart A. Thompson