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  • Donald Trump watches as prosecutor Joshua Steinglass questions David Pecker during Trump's criminal trial on 25 April.

    Live
    David Pecker testifies Michael Cohen said Trump ‘furious’ over refusal to pay Stormy Daniels

    Ex-National Enquirer publisher emphasizing in testimony that he refused to pay off any more people for Trump when Stormy Daniels looked to sell her affair

    • Haiti
      New government sworn in during secret ceremony

    • West Virginia
      Man admits on deathbed to killing mother and daughter in 2000

    • Meta
      Value falls $190bn as investors react to plan to increase spending on AI

    • ‘Recipe for disaster’
      Confusion and protests on first day of Venice tourist charge

    • Harry Potter
      Audible to turn book series into full-cast audiobooks

In focus

  • A water tower reads "Flint strong"

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

  • a man in a blue suit speaks from behind a lectern

    ‘A political pawn to get Black votes’
    Morehouse students criticize Biden as commencement speaker

    Students react to school’s invitation to president to speak while authorities crack down on campus protests across US
  • a child looks out from the doorway of a destroyed home

    'He doesn’t have any idea what to do'
    What would Trump’s Israel-Gaza policy be if he were re-elected?

    The ex-president unambiguously favored Israel while in office but recent statements have been inconsistent and evasive

Spotlight

  • three side by side images of apartment photos that might be seen on social media, with captions advertising rooms with disclaimers like "must be ok with rabbits", "must be ok with five other housemates if anyone asks please say you are my cousin visiting on a foreign exchange program", "very cheap deal as long as you can water my plants and do my laundry"

    ‘Must love dogs and rude roommates’
    The scramble to get around New York’s Airbnb crackdown

    Strict rules have led to a wild west of rentals, with visitors choosing between huge hotel bills or word-of-mouth deals
  • A woman flexes her huge muscles before an audience

    Mixed doubles
    Why queer erotic sports cinema is enjoying a grand slam

  • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

    How we met
    ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

    Beccy, 49, and Natalie, 60, became best friends after she visited Natalie’s rescue farm in Ontario, Canada. They now run events together on the farm and love travelling together
  • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

    Well actually
    How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

    These stunning, extremely relatable women, with nuanced facial expressions and sensible shoes, helped me outline success on my own terms
    • ‘I learn a lot every single time I work’ … actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard

      Bryce Dallas Howard
      I can’t be trusted around famous people

    • black and white photo of a big building with word hippodrome on sign

      Lost New York
      Remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks

    • ‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023.

      ‘The working class can’t afford it’
      The shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

    • man in a suit on a stage

      Jimmy Kimmel on Trump
      ‘He keeps his caps lock tighter than the door to Melania’s bedroom’

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Opinion

  • 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
  • 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
  • Conan O'Brien

    Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

    Rebecca Shaw
    While other comedians spend more time complaining than cracking jokes, the former Late Show host remains gloriously unhinged and hilarious
  • On a lawn surrounded on three sides by buildings, dozens of tents with handmade protest signs in red and green.

    Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

    Judith Levine
    The safety and security of Palestinians and Jews are interdependent, so we should use language carefully
    • Gondolas by the Sospiri Bridge, near St Mark’s Square, Venice, on 2 August 2023.

      Venice is leading the way with a tourist tax. Other great European cities should follow suit

      Simon Jenkins
    • 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
    • Old military vehicles arrive for a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, Portugal, 25 April 2024

      In Portugal, we’re celebrating 50 years of freedom. So why is the far right creeping back?

      Vicente Valentim
    • 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

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
  • An artist's rendition of new Chicago Bears lakefront stadium.

    Chicago
    Bears to seek public funding in $5bn plan for new lakefront stadium

  • Philadelphia Eagles offensive tackle Jordan Mailata, a 6ft 8in Australian who was deemed too big for rugby.

    NFL
    League to open academy in Australia to identify and develop young prospects

    The NFL will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy in rugby-mad Australia to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Jürgen Klopp apologised for his side’s defeat to Everton.

    Injuries have deflated Liverpool – not Klopp’s early wave goodbye

    Andy Hunter
    • tennis club staff at Wimbledon pose for a picture beneath the royal box on Centre Court

      Tennis
      Guaranteed Centre Court seats for Wimbledon? That’ll be £116,000 … each

    • 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

    • Rory McIlroy in action at the RBC Heritage event.

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

    • 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

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Climate crisis

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

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists
    They're getting in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Extreme weather
    Global heating and urbanization to blame for severity of Dubai floods, study finds

  • Sculpture of a giant tap, apparently hovering in mid-air without support, pouring out a stream of discarded plastic items on to the ground

    ‘Privileged access’
    Pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third

  • The Aedes albopictus mosquito on human skin

    Climate crisis
    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe, says expert

Across the country

  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

    Environment
    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

    New EPA directive will cut pollution equivalent to the emissions of 328m cars, but industry group decries it as a ‘reckless plan’
  • A Trump supporter holds a 'Trump Won' sign at a rally by the ex-president at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on 15 January 2022 in Florence, Arizona.

    2020 fake elector scheme
    Arizona grand jury indicts Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani

  • McKinsey & Company logo in airport lounge

    McKinsey
    Company reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work

  • 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

    • Exclusive
      US archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police

    • Meta
      Shares tumble as weak revenue guidance overshadows AI boom

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

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

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

    • Gateway Pundit
      Rightwing website known for election conspiracies declares bankruptcy

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Around the world

  • Friends and supporters of Hersh Goldberg-Polin outside Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem: a woman wears a red T-shirt with the words Bring Them Home Now across it and holds a placard reading Bring Hersh Home under a picture of the hostage; a crowd of people is gathered behind her, some others with placards and signs

    Israel-Gaza war
    Israeli hostage families renew pressure on Netanyahu for ceasefire talks

    Hamas video of hostage prompts protests, as Israeli authorities prepare for ground assault on Rafah
  • Emmanuel Macron speaking at La Sorbonne with the EU flag behind.

    Europe
    Macron criticizes Rwanda-style asylum schemes days after UK passes bill

  • Pedro Sanchez and Begona Gomez applaud as he addresses supporters during the general election campaign, in Madrid, 23 July 2023: they are both standing in front of a crowd on a raised platform behind metal railings. She has her hands raised and is wearing a bright red dress and high, wedge-heeled sandals; he is clapping and wears a casual blue shirt and jeans. People are waving red flags.

    Spain
    Madrid prosecutors ask judge to shelve investigation into Spanish PM’s wife

  • A black and a white horse bolt through the streets of central London, the white horse blood-stained

    Runaway horses
    Animals in ‘serious condition’ after bolting through central London

    • Paris
      Moulin Rouge windmill sails collapse

    • Oil
      Price could exceed $100 a barrel if Middle East conflict worsens, World Bank warns

    • France
      National library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic

    • Books
      Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

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

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

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  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

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

    Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

  • 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

  • Jennifer Aniston.

    A way to make a livin’
    Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

    Aniston’s production company will reportedly reimagine the hit 1980 Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton comedy about sexism in the workplace – with a script by Diablo Cody
  • Nas<br>American rapper and actor Nas, London, circa 2000. (Photo by David Tonge/Getty Images)

    Furious, funny and potentially fatal
    Hip-hop’s 20 greatest diss tracks – ranked

  • Tupac Shakur pictured in 1996.

    Tupac Shakur
    Estate threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

  • In the whacking trade … Liam Neeson as Finbar Murphy in In the Land of Saints and Sinners

    In the Land of Saints and Sinners review
    Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal

  • Back to black … St Vincent

    St Vincent: All Born Screaming review
    The unmasking of a great American songwriter

  • New York

    The lottery of life
    Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Lifestyle

  • 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
  • Harry Hunter seen on his own tackling an uphill slope in the sand

    ‘The heat is burning’
    76-year-old Harry Hunter becomes oldest Briton to complete Marathon des Sables

  • Topview of a pot of angel hair pasta tinged golden with saffron, and topped with cherry tomatoes, burrata and basil.

    Pot of gold
    Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for one-pan angel hair pasta with tomatoes and burrata

  • ‘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?

  • A man dressed as Sherlock Holmes in profile

    Thursday quiz
    Strange distances, surprise candidates and Sherlock Holmes

  • Sian (left) and Pam

    Dining across the divide
    ‘She felt our generation shouldn’t be held responsible for the massive imbalance between us and young people’

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Take part

  • 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)

    Ukraine
    Ukrainian men abroad: share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

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

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

  • 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?

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From our global editions

  • Looty’s Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor in front of the Benin brass plaques at the British Museum, London.

    ‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’
    How radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone

  • Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, with his wife, Begoña Gómez, voting at the general snap election in Madrid

    Pedro Sánchez
    Why is Spain’s prime minister considering resigning from office?

  • 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

  • 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

In case you missed it

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

    Uncle Vanya review
    Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

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

    Teacher and artist Isabel Manley reflects on how the modern world warped our relationship to time – and how we can begin to rethink it
  • 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
  • people with signs, some of them wearing medical coats

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    We need an exodus from Zionism

    Naomi Klein
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  • James Cleverly standing on a wooden step on a pier and holding onto a gangway that is being extended out to him from a boat

    Photos of the day
    Dancing in Haiti and a pink moon

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude
    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

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    Readers' best photographs
    A littler splash and a Cuban mystery

  • 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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    Storyteller
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