US vice-president’s post marks first time Trump administration used the word to describe the massacres

The White House has deleted a social media post in which the vice-president, JD Vance, referred to the Armenian genocide, prompting anger from members of the Armenian diaspora as well as opposition politicians across the US.

The post was made during Vance’s two-day trip to Armenia to mark a visit by Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, to a memorial for the up to 1.5 million Armenians killed by Ottoman troops more than a century ago. The now-deleted post on Vance’s official X account said he was visiting the memorial to honour “the victims of the Armenian genocide”.

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Lucy Harrison died after being shot in chest by alcoholic Kris Harrison while staying at his home in US last year

A Cheshire woman who was shot dead by her “reckless” father while visiting him in the US after a row about Donald Trump was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.

Lucy Harrison, 23, who lived in Warrington and worked as a fashion buyer for Boohoo, was shot in the chest with a semi-automatic handgun by Kris Harrison while staying at his home in Prosper, Texas, on 10 January last year.

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Collection is unabashedly grand while reflecting an awareness of fashion as it looks in the real world right now

Ralph Lauren is the US’s poet laureate of style. His brand came of age in a gilded era of American charm, when Bill Clinton was president, the economy was booming and the twin towers glittered on the Manhattan skyline. His clothes speak to an America of sportsmanship and vigour, where everyone has a firm handshake and perfect teeth.

The US could use some poetry right now, and at 86, Lauren is still the man. To open New York fashion week, he transformed a grand marble palazzo in the city’s financial district – a showpiece of the young city’s financial muscle when it opened in 1894 – in the style of his own country estate upstate.

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The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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The archdiocese agreed to pay 600 abuse survivors a $305m settlement before the Vatican confirmed Aymond’s exit

Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of the Roman Catholic archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, on Wednesday – one day after the archbishop concluded a series of meetings with survivors of a clergy molestation scandal that has embroiled the city’s church leadership for years.

Aymond had submitted his resignation to global Catholic church leaders at the Vatican as he was required when he turned 75 in November 2024. But the Vatican didn’t immediately accept it, plotting for Aymond to remain in position until the New Orleans archdiocese settled a federal bankruptcy protection case that it filed in the spring of 2020 amid the continuing fallout of the decades-old worldwide clerical abuse crisis.

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De Winterspelen in Milaan en Cortina zijn nog niet eens halverwege, maar in Frankrijk is al veel commotie rond de organisatie van de volgende editie, die in 2030 plaatsvindt in…

Speciaal voor de Boekenweek treedt Hendrik Groen, pseudoniem van Peter de Smet, uit de anonimiteit, kondigt CPNB aan. Hij zal een bezoek brengen aan boekhandels verspreid over het land.

Violiste Noa Wildschut (24) woont in Berlijn en logeert weer even bij haar ouders in Hilversum voor twee Nederlandse tournees. Als voor een concert in Enschede de andere twee musici vertraagd zijn, stapt ze maar vast alleen het podium op. „Het is ‘God zegene de greep’ en gewoon spelen.”

Een auto is woensdagmiddag tegen een boom gebotst op de Banneweg in Gorinchem. Dat gebeurde nadat het voertuig een verkeersbord had geraakt en in de middenberm terecht kwam. De bestuurder is naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.