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Five years after Daniel Craig’s James Bond left our screens, Hollywood is finally narrowing down the five actors in contention to take over the tuxedo. But how do you reinvent a 60-year-old spy franchise for a modern audience without losing what makes it tick? Guardian Australia’s deputy culture editor Sian Cain joins Taylah Strano to unpack the frontrunners, the franchise’s identity crisis and what the next era of 007 could look like

Barrie Cassidy is back from his break and keen to dive into the lessons for Australia from one of the biggest US midterm shifts in history. What can Labor learn from the Democrats about how to select winning – and inspiring – candidates? Tony Barry gives his take on why the Republicans lost Texas despite being bankrolled by the richest man in the world – and why George W Bush was so pivotal to the bad result for the right wing party. The Barries also discuss the prime minister’s trip to Turkey to attend the Cop climate conference, the newly commenced Big Build royal commission and the Victorian Liberals’ decision to preference One Nation in the upcoming state election

After seven weeks of intense public interest, former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has entered the witness box to give his testimony of how Jesse Baird and Luke Davies died. Facing cross-examination, Lamarre-Condon told the court he was guilty of manslaughter, but denies he intentionally murdered the pair in February 2024. Reporter Kat Wong joins Taylah Strano to unpack the tense courtroom exchanges and what happens next in the high-profile trial

Jensen Huang is many things. A billionaire, CEO of the world’s second-most valuable company, and now, a man who had an affair with a woman accused by US intelligence of being a Chinese spy. Guardian tech reporter and US editor Johana Bhuiyan speaks to Matilda Boseley about the global consequences of the cheating scandal, what this means for US national security, and whether Huang’s time at Nvidia is up

Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad examine the Democrats’ failed impeachment attempt against the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and ask: could we see another bid soon? The other Trump appointee making headlines is the president’s new chief of staff, Stephen Miller. Known as the architect of Trump’s tough immigration policies, the appointment is seen as a clear sign the president has no intention of playing nice with the other side, despite indicating he would do just that after the Republicans’ massive midterms loss. Jonathan looks back at Miller’s past to try and decipher how the descendant of a family fleeing persecution developed such hardline views that he has been condemned as a white nationalist