Before he was Kamala Harris’s running mate, the Minnesota governor was a geography teacher, coach and faculty adviser for a gay-straight alliance at Mankato West High School. His former students tell Alex Woodward about their unlikely ally, and why dozens are now campaigning for him

Two new books claim to be the definitive texts on the 33-year-old wife of John F Kennedy Jr, who was killed – alongside her husband and her sister Laura – in a 1999 plane crash. But they only perpetuate her fashionable mystique, writes Adam White

A director with few credits to his name. A leading lady the studio didn’t want to pay. A mutiny by the British crew. As new sequel ‘Alien: Romulus’ hits cinemas, Tom Fordy looks back on the troubled production of what would become the gold standard for franchise follow-ups

Family is at the forefront of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, and she speaks frequently and fondly of her late mother’s influence – but rarely is there mention of her father. A “Marxist” economics professor who left Jamaica for UC Berkeley, Donald J Harris has said little about his daughter during her meteoric rise – other than to scold her, writes Sheila Flynn