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  • Older white man, dark blue suit, red tie, looking off from a stage lit in red.

    Oil industry
    Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

    Ex-president at Mar-a-Lago last month hosted more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum
  • Unrecognizable sad woman and man in silhouette.

    Domestic violence
    Critical fund for US victims faces major cuts

  • US Navy personnel construct a pier to assist aid to Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea.

    Live
    Israel-Gaza war: US completes floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza; five killed in Israeli friendly fire incident

  • aerial view of trees and sign with blue logo

    Exclusive
    Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticises Instagram

    • Live
      Zelenskiy says situation is ‘difficult’ on visit to Kharkiv; Putin calls China relationship an international ‘stabilising factor'

    • ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’
      Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

    • Live
      Slovak police charge man with attempted murder of PM; Robert Fico stable but in serious condition

    • Mitt Romney
      Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, senator says

    • New Caledonia
      Hundreds of French police deployed as thousands join deadly rioting

    • Oklahoma
      Clue unlocks missing 16-year-old girl’s name in BTK killer investigation

In focus

  • Man wearing blue suit and yellow tie stands between barriers with one person behind him and a crowd of people behind them

    The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot

    Robert Reich
  • A worker clears piles of spilled food parcels scattered across the ground in a lorry park.

    ‘Barbaric’
    Palestinian lorry drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

    Israeli soldiers escorting convoy accused of doing nothing to stop widely condemned incident
  • A child eating a meal at a table but also playing on a smartphone

    Fresh findings about obesity
    No screens at meals and insect food

    The European Congress on Obesity conference in Venice also hears about how financial incentives could help men lose weight

Spotlight

  • HISD First Day<br>HOUSTON, TEXAS - AUGUST 28: Anthony Singleton, dean of students, greets students as they arrive for the first day of school Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, at Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

    How US schools became a political battleground
    ‘These are proxies for a bigger clash in society’

    In They Came for the Schools, Mike Hixenbaugh looks at how a conservative agenda caused conflict in his Texas school system
  • Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga.

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review
    Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes

  • Antony Blinken performing in Kyiv.

    I’m with the band
    Who knew Antony Blinken could play rock classics?

    The US secretary of state, who performed with a Kyiv band in a bar this week, is the latest musically inclined politician to hit the stage
  • An artwork titled Australia in Colour by the artist Vincent Namatjira, which includes a portrait of Gina Rinehart is seen at the National Gallery of Australia

    Redone, hidden, burnt
    Seven famous subjects and the portraits they hated

    Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart has asked the National Gallery of Australia to remove her portrait, painted by Vincent Namatjira. Others have gone much further
    • detail from Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of King Charles III.

      A formulaic bit of facile flattery
      Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III review

    • Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Norway.

      ‘An incredible phallic landmark!’
      The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man

    • A middel-aged white woman sits on a rock by the sea, wearing a wetsuit and surrounded by other wetsuits

      The search for the perfect wetsuit
      Is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?

    • Composite of two photos each of an older white man in a suit.

      The Stakes
      Don’t panic about presidential polls – yet

Opinion

  • man in a suit photographed from behind giving a thumbs up

    We’re in a pivotal moment in American history. We cannot retreat

    Bernie Sanders
    Clearly, our job is not just to re-elect Biden. It’s much more than that
  • woman on a white horse holding an american flag and wearing a red, white and blue jumpsuit and a white cowboy hat

    Beyoncé’s display of the American flag raises questions for Black people

    Derecka Purnell
  • Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

    Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the plan

    Martin Kettle
    As Westminster prepares for power to pass from one party to another. It will affect everything in some way
  • Salvador Illa of Catalonia’s Socialist party speaking after Catalan elections in Barcelona, Spain, 12 May 2024

    Catalans once longed for freedom from Spain. Now that doesn’t look so appealing

    María Ramírez
    With most voters in Catalonia rejecting independence-seeking parties, the pro-separatist chaos of 2017 is a distant memory
    • ‘Visiting Dubrovnik, I was terrified of making a fool of myself with my poor Croatian.’

      I never thought of myself as shy. But there I was, all wibbly-wobbly in the legs as I waited to go on TV

      Adrian Chiles
    • A protest at the Cop27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 2022

      The 1.5C global heating target was always a dream, but its demise doesn’t signal doom for climate action

      Bill McKibben
    • UK chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis alongside others taking part in a march against antisemitism in central London last November.

      The 7 October Hamas attack opened a space – and antisemitism filled it. British Jews are living with the consequences

      Dave Rich
    • People in blue academic robes and a woman holding a sign reading 'ceasefire now' with a Palestinian flag.

      Are US campus protests antisemitic? Jewish students weigh in

      Theo Goldstine, Benjamin Kersten, Maya Ilany and Matan Berg

Sports

  • Lionel Messi was forced to leave the pitch for two minutes after being fouled against CF Montréal.

    MLS
    Messi is frustrated with MLS’s time-wasting rules. And they could go global

    Efforts to cut down on time-wasting are laudable. But there are flaws in the new scheme that need to be tweaked before a worldwide rollout
  • Callum McGregor, the Celtic captain, leads the title celebrations after their 5-0 win at Kilmarnock

    Celtic’s title-winning season of paradox leaves room for improvement

    Ewan Murray
  • Netflix will have the exclusive rights to the NFL’s Christmas game through 2026.

    NFL
    Fans must pay $1,600 a year to watch every game after Netflix addition

    The streaming giant has picked up the rights to broadcast the league’s Christmas Day games through 2026
  • The Ipswich players and coaching staff celebrate their promotion to the Premier League.

    Football
    How switching off fired Ipswich into Premier League promised land

    Turning off the TV when rivals were in action helped in focusing on promotion for a club – and town – that has been reborn
    • Augusta National is one of the world’s most famous golf courses

      Golf
      Man who made $5m in Masters thefts pleads guilty in federal court

    • soldiers watch a football game<br>Albania. Tirana. Tribune of a football match in Tirana.main stadium, Albanie under the communist regime. 08 May, 1986

      Football in Stalinist Albania
      ‘The only 90 minutes when people could be themselves’

    • Nikola Jokic sees off the attentions of Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns

      ‘I just laugh’
      Opponents in awe as Jokic stars in Nuggets’ win over Timberwolves

    • Frank Warren

      Frank Warren: ‘Fury has overcome demons most people would never have’

      Donald McRae in Riyadh

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Climate crisis

  • Man in red tie, suit and overcoat

    Donald Trump
    Top ethics watchdog investigating Mar-a-Lago dinner with oil bosses

  • A European bison in a snowy scene

    Romania
    Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, experts say

  • Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and George Monbiot.

    Books
    More than 200 authors renew call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

  • A woman with a red unbrella takes shelter from the sun as people in the city of York, North Yorkshire endure the hottest day on record as the temperature in the UK passes 40 degrees Farenheit on July 19th 2022 as the UK continues to endure the heatwave and a period of extreme weather conditions.

    Climate crisis
    Heat exposure of older people across world to double by 2050, finds study

Across the country

  • Jonathan Greenblatt

    Anti-Defamation League
    Group ramps up lobbying to promote controversial definition of antisemitism

    Federal records show a dramatic spending increase that critics say is primarily intended to punish criticism of Israel and target pro-Palestinian groups
  • woman running in a protective vest

    Missouri
    Outrage after Republican candidate tells voters ‘don’t be weak and gay’

  • women marching holding signs

    Abortion
    More than half of US Black women aged 15-49 live under bans – report

  • A moel ship is examined by people in a museum

    Manahahtáanung or Manhattan?
    Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York City

    • Utah
      US woman accused of killing husband before writing grief book sees hearing delayed

    • Opioids crisis
      More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023

    • Kristi Noem
      South Dakota governor banned from seven Native reservations in own state

    • US politics
      Interior department staffer is first Jewish Biden appointee to quit over Gaza war

    • OpenAI
      Co-founder who had key role in attempted firing of Sam Altman departs

    • Inflation
      US rate at 3.4% in April, dropping slightly from previous month

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Around the world

  • Yoav Gallant wearing ear defenders in front of a self-propelled howitzer in the desert

    Israel
    War cabinet split looms as defense minister demands post-war Gaza plan

    Yoav Gallant, who Benjamin Netanyahu tried to fire in 2023, says he will not allow Israeli rule of Gaza
  • Nigel Farage in mid speech with a microphone

    Nigel Farage
    WHO accuses politician of spreading misinformation about pandemic treaty

  • Starlink<br>ANKARA, TURKIYE - OCTOBER 31: In this photo illustration, logo of Starlink is displayed on mobile phone screen and photo of Elon Musk is displayed on computer screen in Ankara, Turkiye on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Global development
    Starlink internet shutdown in Sudan will punish millions, Elon Musk warned

  • Lucy Letby

    UK
    MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked

    • Argentina
      Activists blame government after three gay women killed in arson attack

    • Zambia
      Fresh allegation made against women’s football team head coach

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Fifty countries swing behind peace summit in Switzerland

    • France
      Prison officers killed in ambush named as hunt for gunmen continues

    • Keir Starmer
      Labour leader puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters

    • Netherlands
      Far-right Geert Wilders agrees deal for coalition government

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Podcasts

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

  • TOPSHOT-FBL-ENG-PR-TOTTENHAM-MAN CITY<br>TOPSHOT - Manchester City's Norwegian striker #09 Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring his team first goal during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on May 14, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City have one hand on trophy and Villa into the Champions League: Football Weekly - podcast

  • Musician Steve Albini at his recording studio, Electrical Audio, in Chicago. Photograph: Evan Jenkins/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’ – podcast

  • A woman holds a Georgian national and an EU flag in front of police blocking a street. (Photograph: Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo)

    Today in Focus
    The ‘foreign agents’ law that has set off mass protests in Georgia

  • Aoife Mannion (centre) celebrates after winning the Women's FA Cup

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Aoife Mannion on winning the FA Cup with Manchester United: Women’s Football Weekly - podcast

Culture

  • Curling at the 2018 Olympics.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Best podcasts of the week: The stone cold truth about the scandal that rocked curling

    How can one broom tear apart a Canadian curling community? John Cullen investigates in Broomgate. Plus: five of the best post-apocalyptic podcasts
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

    Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review
    Eerie visuals and a thrilling story

  • Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton and Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton.

    'Still unbearably sexy'
    Bridgerton season three review

  • Miranda July.

    'Larger than life'
    All Fours by Miranda July review

  • ‘Dave Mustaine and I love each other but it was time for me to leave’ … Marty Friedman.

    From Megadeth to Japanese make-up tutorials
    The bizarre life of guitarist Marty Friedman

  • an animation of a large purple furry creature

    If review
    John Krasinski’s so-so, sentimental family fantasy

Lifestyle

  • Volterra, Pisa - Tuscany, Italy<br>VOLTERRA. the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Volterra, with its double walls, the Etruscan and the thirteenth-century ones, is a medieval-looking city, Province of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

    From Ravenna to the coast of Tuscany
    A walk across Italy in Garibaldi’s footsteps

    A route tracing the hero’s flight across the peninsula in 1849 runs spectacularly over the Apennines then descends to the sea via a string of gorgeous Tuscan towns
  • Jennifer Wong attends a Sound Bath Yoga session at the Virgin Gym at 2 Bligh Street, Sydney. Australia

    My first time at a sound bath
    ‘As the music becomes louder, my first thought is, “Danger, danger”’

  • ‘A liberated rack isn’t ashamed, it does what it wants to do’ … Sarah Thornton at home in California.

    'Breasts are a serious political problem'
    One woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

  • Cath Hill, second from right, with the Manchester Survivor’s Choir in 2018.

    A moment that changed me
    I survived a terror attack – and found healing through a choir

  • Felicity Cloake's blondies.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make blondies – recipe

  • Spasia Dinkovski's crunchy potatoes with fried pepper cream.

    Cheesy pie and crunchy spuds
    Spasia Dinkovski’s Balkan favourites – recipes

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    Life and style
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  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

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  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

From our global editions

  • Graphic collage illustration featuring India’s minister of home affairs, Amit Shah, and the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

    ‘He likes scaring people’
    How Amit Shah, Modi’s right-hand man, runs India

  • 0Leonela Moncayo, 14, sitting in a red plastic chair.

    ‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’
    Schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares

  • Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday.

    Like a ‘civil war’
    Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

  • Fico stands in front of flags

    ‘He is borrowing from Trump’
    The rise of Robert Fico, Slovakia’s populist leader

In case you missed it

  • A painting of two older Black people, a man and a woman, dancing close with their foreheads touching, smiling at each other.

    Buffalo shooting
    Two years after mass killing, an art exhibit focuses on the victims

  • Graphic illustration of middle-aged white man with mostly bald head and red-gray beard, in suit jacket and collared shirt without a tie.

    This county undercounted 4,000 Biden votes in 2020
    Now the head of elections is looking to win back trust

    After a tabulation error led to felony charges against his predecessor, Eric Olsen almost quit, but stayed to rebuild trust
  • Soldiers test their ability to combat an opposing force at Fort Irwin National Training Centre

    ‘We’ve got drone swarms, dirty bombs, radar-jamming’
    The fake town where America practices for war

    In the middle of the Mojave desert, the US army has built a huge set to prepare its soldiers for combat, filled with actors, tanks, explosions – and even fake news
  • Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands while smiling

    China-Russia
    Putin and Xi’s ‘no-limits’ friendship will be put to the test on state visit

  • Adam Driver in a scene from the trailer for Megalopolis

    ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’
    Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

  • Tents are set up by displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi near the border with Egypt in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip .

    Desperation in Gaza's camps
    ‘No water, food, health care, toilet’

  • Charcoal sketch of long-face white man with white-gray hair in witness stand with screen in front of him, with man in suit facing him and gesturing.

    Trump trial key takeaways
    False invoices and why Michael Cohen flipped

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In pictures

  • ‘Creating space through trickery’ … Aisha Seriki’s Orí Inú, 2024

    Bowled over
    Photo London’s best emerging photographers

    From an AI that ‘creates’ family photos to images printed on glass – and then broken – these artists nominated for this year’s prize use radical methods to achieve groundbreaking results
  • Nadiya Neschcheryakovy at her post at a railway crossing station in the Kyiv region

    Ukraine
    The families risking everything to keep trains running – photo essay

  • Photographer Diop worked with The Anonymous Project, founded by Lee Shulman, a collection of nearly a million Kodachrome slides taken by amateurs, made from the 1940s onwards.

    Time traveller
    One Senegalese man’s journey to the past

  • A woman plays a cello in a garden in front of a washing line hung with blue nurses' uniforms

    Photo essay
    NHS nurses quit after working through Covid

  • Part of a bridge collapses during a controlled demolition.

    Photos of the day
    Displaced Palestinians and a controlled demolition

  • Meticulous re-creations … Plate 1, Astrup’s Horn by Tonje Bøe Birkeland.

    See things differently
    The best of Photo London

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