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  • a side-by-side image of a woman who shot her dog and a man who likes to look at things

    Kristi Noem
    Experts dismiss US governor’s ‘dubious’ claim to have met Kim Jong-un

  • Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court in New York on Friday.

    Live
    Trump hush-money trial: judge rejects ex-president’s false claim that he is not allowed to testify

    • Germany
      Foreign minister summons Russian envoy over 2023 cyber-attacks

    • Live
      Lithuania hits out at Russia ‘disinformation’ over spy claims

    • Panama
      Country to choose new president against backdrop of social unrest and drought

    • US
      Experts condemn tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’

    • Spain
      UN alarm over rightwing laws that could ‘whitewash’ Franco era

    • ‘We must not stop’
      Potential Trump VP Ben Carson touts national abortion ban

News in focus

  • The relatives of British journalist Dom Phillips and activists hold a large poster with his image, left, and that of Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, with the Portuguese message: "Justice for Dom and Bruno" at the one-year anniversary commemoration since their murders, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 5, 2023. The two were were killed in the Amazon's Vale do Javari area. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

    ‘It’s so frustrating’
    Two years on and still no justice for Bruno and Dom murders

  • a man in a suit points to a fence along a border

    Mass deportations, detention camps, troops on the street
    Trump spells out migrant plan

    Trump White House 2.0 would mean a vast, legally dubious roundup of up to 11 million people and pit state against state
  • Alexandra

    From excited to disillusioned
    Under-30s on politics and voting in UK elections

Spotlight

  • Katy & Garrett 3.4.16 (3) (1)

    Speak now: the truth about weddings
    There was no time for a wedding – so we eloped. Maybe you should too

    Financial pressure prevented a ceremony, and our families weren’t thrilled. But my wedding day was still beautiful
  • You be the judge illustration

    You be the judge
    Should my mum buy my brother a flat? She didn’t do that for me

  • three side by side photos showing, from left, Bernie Sanders with the subtitle 'donald trump must be defeated', joe biden with red laser eyes superimposed, and trump hugging a US flag

    Dark Brandon popping off
    Is Joe Biden’s ‘cringe’ TikTok helping or hurting him?

    His youth support declining, the president needs ‘to be where the people are’. His account regularly mocks Trump – but remains silent on Gaza
  • A black and white scan of the unfurled scroll

    'Second renaissance’
    Tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co

    Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to read what had long been thought unreadable
    • (l-r) Celeste O’Connor, Kumail Nanjiani, Finn Wolfhard and James Acaster in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

      ‘It’s about valuing their audience’
      Why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’

    • Shane MacGowan

      ‘It meant so much to him’
      Shane MacGowan’s wife on the hunt for his missing Easter Rising rifle

    • Kenny Wildes eating a half cheese and half pepperoni pizza

      Experience
      I’ve eaten pizza every day for six years

    • Back in the Tardis!

      Ranked
      The greatest Doctor Who

Opinion

  • Boris Johnson, then prime minister, pictured after voting in London during the local council elections on 5 May 2022.

    Did we really expect Tory MPs who fought for voter ID rules to follow them? Don’t be ridiculous

    Marina Hyde
    We have reached the stage where Sunak’s MPs seek empathy for their inability to comply with their own policies, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • Illustration: Thomas Pullin

    A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • opinion piece (multi byline) on results day

    After the local UK election results, how confident should Labour feel about the next election? Our panel responds

    Rafael Behr, Katy Balls, John McDonnell, Dal Babu, Sarah Longlands, Peter Kellner and Archie MacKay
  • Black-and-white photo of man standing in front people holding a protest sign

    Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University

    Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones, and Barbara Ransby
  • Image: Guardian Design/Alamy/Getty

    I have a cure for our ailing democracy: ban all donors, British and foreign. Run politics on membership fees

    George Monbiot
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Disappearing migrants and street revolts. Sunak’s Rwanda round-up is just the mess we knew it would be

    Gaby Hinsliff

Sport

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Climate crisis

  • Skyline of Brussels obscured by smog

    Pollutionwatch
    Belgian insurer urges politicians to strengthen low emission zones

  • Gaboon viper

    Snakes
    Venomous animals likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study

  • a woman files a lawsuit

    ‘Tragic and unjust’
    Court strikes down youth climate lawsuit on Biden administration request

  • Teesside Offshore Windfarm. About 30 licences for fossil fuel prospecting will be granted at future windfarm sites.

    UK
    PM to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind

Around the world

  • FILE PHOTO: Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing's 737 Max production facility sit in storage behind Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc headquarters, in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo

    Boeing
    Second whistleblower dies after short illness

  • Franz Kafka played by Joel Basman in Episode 4 of the new six part TV series.

    Franz Kafka
    Author’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows

    • US economy
      175,000 April jobs added as unemployment rate stays steady

    • Ukraine
      UK commits £3bn a year in aid ‘for as long as necessary’

    • Philippines
      Ruined centuries-old town re-emerges as dam dries up in heatwave

    • World Press Freedom Day
      Attacks on media around the world are intensifying, index reveals

    • ‘Sir, are you still there?’
      Biden was silenced by criticism from families of troops killed in Kabul, book says

    • ‘They don’t want immigrants’
      Biden calls Japan and India ‘xenophobic’

Culture

  • Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

    Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
    Still terrible after all these years?

    The much-derided film returns to cinemas for its 25th anniversary. Once a rare blot on the galactic landscape, these days it’s far from the only stinker in the canon
  • Rachel Chinouriri

    Rachel Chinouriri: What a Devastating Turn of Events review
    A debut that’s better than it thinks

  • Duane Eddy<br>American guitarist Duane Eddy. 29th November 1963. (Photo by Ashurst/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

    Duane Eddy obituary
    Few did more to encourage a new generation to take up the guitar

  • Lily Allen at the opening night of The Pillowman in 2023.

    Theatre
    Lily Allen to star in new version of Hedda Gabler ‘absolutely for now’

  • Dua Lipa.

    Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review
    ‘Psychedelic pop-infused’? Pull the other one!

  • Going for a song … Jude Rogers at Ty Newydd Writer's Centre in north Wales.

    ‘Push through the feelings of worthlessness’
    Can anyone learn to be a top songwriter?

Lifestyle

  • Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe: view of the beaches of Cala Mitjana and Cala Mitjaneta, natural area of special interest in the southwest<br>G01J8B Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe: view of the beaches of Cala Mitjana and Cala Mitjaneta, natural area of special interest in the southwest

    ‘If I could be teleported to any beach, this would be it’
    Readers choose their favourite European beaches

  • A cabin-style home in the Torridon area, a walker’s paradise in the Highlands of Scotland.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Remote coastal homes for sale in Great Britain

  • Cucamelons on vine

    Try growing a cucamelon
    They’re cute, citrussy and completely different

  • Crassula 'Buddha's Temple' in terracotta pot

    Houseplant of the week
    Crassula ‘Buddha’s Temple’

Take part

  • College students hold placards to create awareness for citizens to vote, in Varanasi, ahead of India's upcoming general elections.

    People in India
    Share your thoughts on the election

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

From our global editions

  • An exam room in a women's health clinic

    ‘This is life and death’
    Inside a Florida clinic after the six-week abortion ban

    State’s fall as the last bastion of access to the procedure in the deep south means women will have to travel farther for care
  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    'When you cover Iran from outside, there are always threats'
    Why reporting from exile can still be dangerous

  • The centre of the Milky Way galaxy, captured by the infrared cameras of Nasa’s Spitzer space telescope.

    ‘We’re in a new era’
    The 21st-century space race takes off

  • A close-up black and white photo of Pedro Sánchez with white rips in the paper

    ‘A brutal business’
    Toxicity of politics takes toll on world leaders’ mental health

  • A 'Maya' girl sits on an altar

    Spain
    Spring, fertility and an awakening with Las Mayas - photo essay

  • An ice-cream mini-truck open for business, with colourful photographs and illustrations on display

    Cool solution
    How ice-cream saved drought-hit farmers in India

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  • Crowds at a funeral procession in the West Bank

    ‘They hide when Israelis come’
    Palestinians despair of leadership after killing of colonel’s son

  • Two chimpanzees sitting in the forest

    'Fragmented and declining'
    Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

  • lots of people with signs

    ‘Resist the state’
    Activists teach Floridians to ‘self-manage’ abortions in wake of ban

  • The Kangei Maru’s range is fuelling speculation that Japan may be prepared to return to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

    Whaling
    The vast new ‘mother ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry

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  • Illustration: Daniel Liévano

    The Audio Long Read
    Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

  • People inspect damage and recover items from their homes after Israeli airstrikes

    Today in Focus
    Are we on the brink of a ceasefire deal for Gaza?

  • FBL-EUR-C1-DORTMUND-PSG<br>Dortmund's German forward #14 Niclas Fuellkrug (R) celebrates with Dortmund's English midfielder #10 Jadon Sancho (L) and Dortmund's German midfielder #19 Julian Brandt scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg football match between Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on May 1, 2024 in Dortmund. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Advantage Dortmund in Champions League semis? – Football Weekly Extra

  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    Science
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

  • A transport vehicle carries three Tesla Cybertrucks on a freeway in California

    Today in Focus
    Has Elon Musk driven Tesla off track?

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    Politics Weekly UK
    Coming 5 May: Politics Weekly Westminster – an extra podcast episode to get your political fix

  • Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham, left, runs with Bayern's Harry Kane during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Christian Bruna)

    Football Weekly
    All square in Munich and Ipswich a point from Premier League – Football Weekly

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  • People seek relief from a heatwave in Manila, the Philippines

    Photos of the day
    A Star Wars marathon and a heatwave in Asia

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A field hamster looks out of its burrow in a field. in Euskirchen, Germany.

    The week in wildlife
    A giant hamster, a mustachioed deer and a zebra on the run

  • A dog outside a polling station for the London mayor election

    Dog-whistle politics
    Pets at UK polling stations

  • Tony Dočekal Jurors Picks

    The eyes have it
    LensCulture portrait awards 2024

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    First class posts
    David Hurn’s Instagram highlights

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