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  • An aerial view of a tent camp established by Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. Palestinians have started moving to the area from Rafah.

    Live
    White House says it wants ‘answers’ from Israel after mass graves found near hospitals in Gaza

  • Protesters in Venice.

    ‘Are we joking?’
    Venice residents protest against charge for visitors

    • Spain
      PM Pedro Sánchez considers resigning, blaming political ‘harassment’ of wife

    • Arizona
      House votes to repeal state’s near-total ban on abortion

    • Inequality
      World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

    • Live
      Risk of military incidents along Ukraine border quite high, says Belarus

    • Evan Gershkovich
      American reporter’s appeal against his detention rejected by Moscow court

    • Tupac Shakur
      Hip hop artist's estate threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

In focus

  • Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha

    ‘The first light of hope’
    Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty

  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    ‘Waiting for Trump’
    Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

    Exclusive: Hungary’s PM and EU’s most isolated leader says he is pursuing ‘friendship with everybody’ – particularly the former US president
  • Older white man with orangey skin and poofy hair in dark suit and red tie.

    Explained
    What would Trump’s Middle East policy be if he were re-elected?

    The former US president often describes himself as the ‘best friend that Israel has ever had’, but he may not be so reliable

Spotlight

  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

    Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again
  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound
    How could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    Climate crisis
    ‘Outrageous’ activists get in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

    As the climate crisis has deepened, protesters have become more confrontational – and their ambitions have grown
  • A water tower reads "Flint strong"

    ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’
    Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later

    Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice
    • Glicéria Tupinambá (right, with her niece Jessica) in the Brazilian pavilion at Venice, which features the Tupinambá cloak, along with letters asking for its return.

      Part protest, part rave
      The Indigenous artists stunning the Venice Biennale

    • Lisboans march in the city’s streets in the aftermath of the 25 April 1974 coup d'etat which overthrew Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.

      ‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’
      Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution

    • New York

      The lottery of life
      Real Americans by Rachel Khong

    • Supreme Court Hears Idaho Abortion Law Challenge<br>WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 24: A group of doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States to decide if Idaho emergency rooms can provide abortions to pregnant women during an emergency using a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to supersede a state law that criminalizes most abortions in Idaho. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

      US supreme court
      What’s at stake in emergency abortion care case?

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Pressure and Release

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Opinion

  • Abortion rights supporters staging a ‘die-in’ protest

    The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

    Moira Donegan
    Idaho’s law requires doctors to treat pregnant women’s health as disposable – and the loss of their lives as an acceptable risk
  • Heritage Foundation: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss on Fighting the Global Left

    Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

    Emma Brockes
  • An aerial photo shows residents of Akwidaa fishing village in Ghana erecting a makeshift sea defence

    Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires

    Svenja Schulze, Fernando Haddad, Enoch Godongwana, María Jesús Montero and Carlos Cuerpo
    Finance chiefs say higher taxes for the super-rich are key to battling global inequality and climate crisis
  • FILES-US-POLITICS-WOMEN-BOOKS-MELANIA<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 04, 2019 US First Lady Melania Trump boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base for a three state overnight trip in Maryland. - Melania Trump has a White House suite of her own, is less than chummy with first daughter Ivanka, and uses her wardrobe to make statements, a new biography about the US first lady says. "Free, Melania," an unauthorized look at President Donald Trump's wife by CNN reporter Kate Bennett, is set for release on Tuesday, but official Washington is already buzzing about its contents. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Trump family’s latest side hustle: Melania’s selling $245 Mother’s Day necklaces

    Arwa Mahdawi
    With her husband on trial over hush money payments – and desperate for cash – the ex-first lady isn’t worried about optics
    • "Eid in the Square" celebrations in London<br>London Mayor Sadiq Khan poses for a selfie as he greets audience members during 'Eid in the Square' celebrations in Trafalgar Square, London, Britain, April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams

      Elected mayors have made their mark, but still Westminster hogs power. That’s a national embarrassment

      Tony Travers
    • People under red fabric with shirts saying 'Jews say ceasefire now' and 'Not in our name'

      We need an exodus from Zionism

      Naomi Klein
    • ‘Each day, in a Manhattan courtroom, Trump is finding out that there’s a limit.’

      Trump’s hush-money case might finally show him what accountability feels like

      Margaret Sullivan
    • Cat hiding behind leaves

      I tried to become a local hero by rescuing a cat. I failed comprehensively

      Arwa Mahdawi

Sports

  • (Left to right) North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye, Caleb Williams of the USC Trojans, LSU Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels.

    NFL draft predictions
    The stars, the needs and the lower-round gems

    Our writers take a look at the best prospects coming out of college, and which teams needs to nail their picks over the coming days
  • Dominic Calvert-Lewin celebrates Everton’s second goal.

    Everton 2-0 Liverpool
    Toffees strike blow to rivals' title hopes

  • Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United celebrates scoring his team's third goal against Sheffield United.

    Man Utd 4-2 Sheff Utd
    Fernandes rescues hosts in frantic win over Blades

    Manchester United recovered twice from going behind to beat the league's bottom side at Old Trafford
  • FILE - Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush of the University of Southern California smiles while posing for photos after a news conference in New York, Dec. 10, 2005. Reggie Bush has been reinstated as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, more than a decade after Southern California returned the award following an NCAA investigation that found he received what were impermissible benefits during his time with the Trojans.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

    Reggie Bush
    Heisman trophy returned to former USC star after 14 years

    Bush forfeited the award in 2010 after an NCAA investigation into impermissible benefits during his time with USC
    • man holding a t shirt that says tunsil

      Forgotten picks to gas mask bongs
      The strangest NFL draft moments

    • Rory McIlroy in action at the RBC Heritage event.

      ‘I can be helpful’
      McIlroy hopes to unite golf with return to PGA Tour board

    • Olympic Rings at the Olympic Stadium, main venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

      Olympics
      Ukad joins clamour for Chinese swimmers inquiry

    • three side by side images of two footballers and a coach

      MLS
      Can San Diego FC pull off their plan to be the Ajax of North America?

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Climate crisis

  • driftwood, lots of plastic bottles and other pollution on beach, with two figures on bikes in background

    Environment
    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution

  • A small fishing boat navigating a complex pattern of rivulets in a grassy and partially submerged estuary

    ‘Nurseries of the sea’
    Why estuaries are disappearing fast

  • a hazy city skyline

    Pollution
    More than one-third of people in the US exposed to harmful air – report

  • A street strewn with downed power lines after Hurricane Laura passed through the area on 27 August 2020 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

    Extreme weather
    US seeing rise in climate-related power outages, report says

Across the country

  • In crowd of people sitting down is older white man in classes and suit - everyone seems to be laughing.

    Gateway Pundit
    Rightwing website known for election conspiracies declares bankruptcy

    Gateway Pundit, run by Jim Hoft, is being sued for defamation by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss and others
  • A section of sidewalk cut out in the shape of a rat and filled with water

    Chicago
    City’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

  • McKinsey & Company logo in airport lounge

    McKinsey
    Company reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work

  • The Amazon - DIL3 Warehouse at 3507 W 51st St, Chicago, IL 60632 in the Gage Park neighborhood. Zbigniew Bzdak © 2021

    Illinois
    Mega-warehouses heap more pollution on hard-hit neighborhoods

    • Meta
      Shares tumble as weak revenue guidance overshadows AI boom

    • Health
      Cakes and drinks sweetener neotame can damage gut wall – experts

    • Donald Payne Jr
      New Jersey congressman dies aged 65

    • US foreign aid
      Biden signs $95bn package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

    • Bird flu
      US requires tests for dairy cows being moved across states

    • Exclusive
      Billionaire Jeff Yass linked to $16m in donations to anti-Muslim and pro-Israel groups

Around the world

  • A demonstration against the new ‘Venice Access Fee’.

    Venice residents protest as city begins visitor charging scheme

    Locals say city is against plan and accuse authorities of turning Venice into a ‘theme park’ by charging day trippers for visits
  • A doctor holds a patient's hand at a desk

    Exclusive
    Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

  • Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia raises his hand to veto the Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons resolution bill during a meeting of UN Security Council members

    UN
    Russia vetos security council resolution to prevent nuclear arms race in space

  • Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad

    UK
    Lack of action on Iran could lead to more threats and attacks, says journalist

    • Children
      UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

    • France
      Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse in Paris

    • Iran
      Women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown

    • 'Stark reality'
      Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert

    • Indonesia election
      Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

    • Live
      Anglo American shares surge after BHP proposes £31.1bn takeover

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  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science
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  • Arsenal

    Football Weekly
    Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

    Today in Focus
    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

  • Members of India’s Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a rally near Hyderabad. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart – podcast

  • The Netherlands Women v Norway Women, Women's EURO 2025 Qualifiers - 09 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/REX/Shutterstock (14426990jc) BREDA - Victoria Pelova of Holland and Merel van Dongen of Holland after the European Championship qualifying match for women in group A1 between the Netherlands and Norway at the Rat Verlegh stadium on April 9, 2024 in Breda, the Netherlands. The Netherlands Women v Norway Women, Women's EURO 2025 Qualifiers - 09 Apr 2024

    Football Weekly
    An episode from Women’s Football Weekly – Fifpro exclusive interview

  • Barcelona v Chelsea in the Women's Champions League.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Fifpro exclusive interview and Chelsea stifle Barça – Women’s Football Weekly

Culture

  • Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

    28 Years Later
    Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes cast in sequel

    The new film marks the reunion of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, who created 2002’s 28 Days Later starring Oscar winner Cillian Murphy
  • Groomed for a future of political respectability … Marwan Barghouti in a still from Tomorrow's Freedom.

    Film
    Tomorrow’s Freedom review – does this man know the way to peace in Israel and Palestine?

  • Paola Cortellesi in There’s Still Tomorrow.

    There’s Still Tomorrow review
    Resoundingly sentimental drama in postwar Rome

  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’
    Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

  • Steve Carell and Alison Pill. Credit to Marc J. Franklin

    Uncle Vanya review
    Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

  • Detail from the cover of the book And They Lived … Ever After with a picture of Rapunzel and the subtitle 'Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales'.

    Rapunzel reimagined
    The women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection

Lifestyle

  • A man dressed as Sherlock Holmes in profile

    Thursday quiz
    Strange distances, surprise candidates and Sherlock Holmes

    Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?
  • Felicity Cloake's huevos rancheros.

    How to cook the perfect ...
    Huevos rancheros – recipe

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    Time is your most precious commodity
    Can you ever get it back?

  • Mondragon Corporation<br>Inside Fagor Arrasate factory, in Mondragon, Spain.

    ‘In the US they think we’re communists!’
    The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living

  • Silvia Rothlisberger sitting on her van on the roadside in New Zealand

    A moment that changed me
    Joyriders destroyed my van in New Zealand – which led to a lovely life in London

  • Karla Zazueta's camarones a la diabla.

    Devil prawns and cheese broth
    Karla Zazueta’s traditional recipes from northern Mexico

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  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
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  • We’re after things that are small, genuinely useful, and inexpensive to buy (nothing over £20).

    Technology
    Tell us: what’s your favourite everyday gadget?

  • Tony and June

    Sex
    Would you and your partner like to share the story of what you get up to in the bedroom?

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

From our global editions

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

  • Illustrated portrait of Tommy Nicol.

    ‘99-year’ sentence
    Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison?

  • Street life in Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you

    Ana Schnabl
  • An elderly woman with her hands on an ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.

    Plant apocalypse
    How new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

In case you missed it

  • An issue of the National Enquirer featuring President Donald Trump.

    ‘The only choice for president’
    How the National Enquirer boosted Trump and smeared his opponents

  • Dr. Noa Lincoln with native Hawaiian sugarcane on the campus of the University of Hawai'i at HIlo. Undergraduate student Quinn Leggett is studying tropical ag plant production and management.

    Hawaii
    A scientist's quest to find and save the state’s native sugarcanes

    Sugarcane biodiversity disappeared as big plantations dominated the sugar trade in Hawaii, but now native varieties are making a comeback
  • Two hands hold a ramekin and spoon with a creamy dessert inside.

    Can there be delish dessert with less sugar?
    Absolutely, say these chefs

    We don’t have to reflexively use refined sugar to sweeten. Dates often do the trick – in a way that’s healthier for us and the planet
  • A white woman with long brown hair, dressed in a red paisley long-sleeved blouse and maroon pants, sits at a kitchen table in front of a can of Coke and a laptop, with her legs crossed and her hand on her knee, her chin resting in her other hand.

    Mary Jane review
    Rachel McAdams makes a magnetic Broadway debut

  • Two middle-aged men sharing a warm hug

    I worry that hugging people could come across as creepy. So, from now on, all you’re getting is a handshake

    Adrian Chiles
  • Dozens of tents and young protesters wearing keffiyeh, with a rainbow Pride flag in the foreground.

    Divestment
    How it became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests

  • Harry Daniels and Dua Lipa.

    ‘I may be a troll but I’m not stupid’
    Super-stan Harry Daniels on singing loudly at Biden, Dua Lipa and Anna Wintour for clout

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  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude
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    Magdalena Wosinska spent the 1990s hanging out with bands, skateboarders and whoever else crossed her path. These photos capture blissful free spirits
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    A littler splash and a Cuban mystery

  • Two military horses bolt through the streets near Aldwych in London, UK, after escaping during morning exercise

    Photos of the day
    A kite festival and horses bolt in London

  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Subways, sphinxes and the Stones
    Highlights from NYC’s Photography Show

  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk
    The 60th Venice Biennale

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