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  • Alejandro Mayorkas

    Alejandro Mayorkas
    House Republicans’ bid to impeach homeland security secretary fails in US Senate

    Senate Democrats dismissed the articles of impeachment as the charges failed to meet bar of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors'
  • White man clapping as white women look down, facing opposite directions.

    Arizona
    Republicans again block effort to repeal 1864 near-total abortion ban

In focus

  • ‘The ADA has a major say in how diabetes is managed globally.’

    Low-carb diets work
    Why does the American Diabetes Association push insulin instead?

  • People protest Arizona supreme court’s revival of a law dating to 1864 that bans abortion in virtually all instances.

    Arizona reinstated a near-total ban on abortions
    Providers are surprisingly optimistic

    There is hope for a different future for abortion in the state even as Republicans flounder in their response
  • Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York<br>Former US President Donald Trump sits beside his lawyer Todd Blanche on the second day of jury selection in his criminal trial in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, New York, U.S., April 16, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. Christine Cornell/Pool via REUTERS

    'This case has nothing to do with your politics'
    Surreal scenes as jurors in New York trial tell Trump what they really think

    Dozens indicated they could not be fair and impartial to the ex-president in his home town – others were even more expressive

Spotlight

  • Danielle Mckinney in her Jersey City Studio in 2024

    ‘Women are not usually seen to be resting’
    Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of repose

    The photographer turned painter specializes in images of Black female solitude, luxuriating in the importance of relaxing
  • Alex Pettyfer and Henry Cavill in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

    The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare review
    Guy Ritchie’s fun wartime romp

  • Chloe Guidry and Lily Gladstone in Under the Bridge

    Under the Bridge review
    Lily Gladstone leads respectful yet bland true crime drama

    The recent Oscar nominee plays a cop investigating the brutal death of a teen in this noble but clunky retelling of a horrifying crime on Hulu
  • A woman prepares to shoot an arrow from a large bow, in side profile. It is a dark and rainy day.

    'There’s so much tension it’s like a romantic comedy’
    My first time at an archery class

    In her fortnightly review of fitness and wellbeing activities, comedian Jennifer Wong finds that to succeed in life and archery, it helps to aim lower
    • Shelter Pets 1

      America’s animal shelters are overwhelmed
      Pets – and staff – are at breaking point

    • ‘In late 2020 the cumulative toll hit and, after six months of working almost around the clock, I broke down at my computer mid-sentence.’

      Why am I like this?
      Is it possible to break the cycle of burnout for good?

    • Ella Purnell, the vault-leaving protagonist of the TV series.

      Pushing Buttons
      The Fallout series doesn’t just look right – it feels like it was made by gamers, too

    • Stephen Colbert on Trump’s hush money trial: “We are reminded that though the wheels of justice may turn slowly, eventually a panel of impartial citizen jurors will do the indispensable public service of listening to testimony about Donald Trump’s mushroom dong.”

      Stephen Colbert on Trump’s hush-money case
      ‘The trial of what feels like a century’

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Opinion

  • Headshot AsnaTabassum

    Will the ‘cancel culture’ crowd speak up about the silencing of Asna Tabassum? Don’t hold your breath

    Arwa Mahdawi
    • U.S. President Joe Biden visits Scranton<br>U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with supporters and volunteers attending a campaign training event at the Carpenters and Joiners Local 445 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT

      As a Palestinian American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone

      Ahmed Moor
    • Narendra Modi holds up a mace during an election campaign rally in Agartala, India

      The Guardian view
      India’s election: fixing a win by outlawing dissent damages democracy

    • Pro-union protestors waving fists in the air and holding signs

      Trader Joe’s and Starbucks are helping Elon Musk undermine the US government

      Steven Greenhouse
    • An Adidas Telsta, made for the 1970 World Cup

      I slashed my unloved football – and 40 years later, I’m still living with the shame

      Adrian Chiles

Sports

  • Real Madrid players race to Antonio Rüdiger after his successful penalty

    Champions League
    Real dethrone Man City after Rüdiger holds nerve in shootout

    Real Madrid won in the shootout as Manchester City had two penalties saved after a 1-1 draw on the night made it 4-4 on aggregate
  • Toronto’s Jontay Porter played just three minutes in a 20 March game against the Sacramento Kings at the Scotiabank Arena.

    NBA
    League hits Raptors’ Porter with lifetime ban for violating gambling rules

  • The Golden State Warriors contemplate an abrupt end to their season during their loss to the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night

    NBA
    The Warriors are no longer on top – and may not have a way back

    Alex Kirshner
    The core of the Golden State team that won four NBA titles may hang around for a while longer. But there seem few options to reverse the decline
  • Joshua Kimmich flies in to head past Arsenal's David Raya

    Champions League
    Kimmich header books semi-final spot as Gunners fade

    Arsenal are out of the Champions League after Joshua Kimmich scored the decisive goal in Germany
    • Caleb Williams is almost certainly to go No 1 overall in this month’s NFL draft

      ‘Wait for my dresses’
      Williams is the Zoomer QB to shake up hidebound Bears

    • Tara Davis-Woodhall’s comments on Team USA’s Olympic uniforms attracted worldwide attention

      ‘The picture did no justice’
      US athletes retreat from criticism of ‘hoo haa’ uniform

    • Kevin Durant is one of four NBA MVPs on the USA roster for the Olympics

      Olympics
      USA Basketball names men’s team packed with All-Stars for Paris

    • Spain's Rafael Nadal

      Tennis
      Nadal’s comeback ends in second-round defeat by De Minaur

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Photo of six people sitting in a small open boat look ing over their shoulders at a three-masted wooden ship overlaid on an orange graphic of a woodcut from a slave ship

    ‘Hidden in plain sight’
    The European city tours of slavery and colonialism

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honor the Africans buried on St Helena

  • collage of imagery pertaining to Jamaica and slavery: landscapes, statues, postage stamps, vintage illustrations, the flag, plus some abstract figures and shapes

    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth
    Is there a right way to remember slavery?

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Climate crisis

  • Dried-up pond in Vietnam

    Climate crisis
    Average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050

  • Close up of an African elephant, Botswana.

    Botswana
    Europeans care more about elephants than people, says president

  • People walk outside the International Monetary Fund building hosting the climate talks

    Climate crisis
    Billions more in overseas aid needed to avert disaster, say economists

  • Richard Broughton has been monitoring and recording marsh tits in Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire, for 22 years.

    ‘These birds are telling us something serious is happening'
    The songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods

Across the country

  • Middle-aged white woman with thick dark hair and red-framed glasses, wearing red lipstick, speaks into a microphone.

    Columbia University
    President assailed at highly charged antisemitism Congress hearing

    Minouche Shafik appeared beleaguered as House members grilled her over reported upsurge in antisemitism on campus
  • Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California. (Photo by: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    ‘The ground is collapsing’
    California cracks down on farm region’s water pumping

  • a man in a black blazer and pink shirt and tie raises his hand in a courtroom

    Boeing
    Hundreds could die if company fails to handle quality issues, whistleblower says

  • Long row of laminated color photos of people, attached to a fence with white crosses and colorful ribbons, with sun peeking through clouds beyond mountain behind it.

    Maui
    Multiple communications failures hurt emergency response – report

    • Florida
      Nasa confirms metal chunk that crashed into home was space junk

    • St Louis
      Former undercover officer gets $23m after beating by police colleagues

    • US supreme court
      Justices back police officer in workplace sex discrimination lawsuit

    • Smartmatic
      Voting equipment company settles defamation lawsuit with far-right network

    • Mike Johnson
      House speaker moves ahead with foreign aid bills despite threats to oust him

    • ‘Danger to our democracy’
      Fears over Trump allies’ summit with far-right sheriffs

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Around the world

  • US marines take part in a joint amphibious assault exercise as part of the annual 'Balikatan' (shoulder-to-shoulder) US-Philippines war exercises in 2022.

    China
    Country sounds warning after Philippines and US announce most expansive military drills yet

    Exercises starting on Monday will be the first to be held outside Philippines’ territorial waters, and come amid a rise in tensions in the South China Sea
  • a man speaks from behind a lectern

    Toronto
    Six men arrested in gold heist that ‘belongs in a Netflix series’

    Dozens of firearms also seized after 6,600 gold bars worth C$21m and C$2.7m in cash stolen at Pearson international airport
  • Princess Amalia

    Netherlands
    Heir to throne spent year in Madrid amid safety fears, reports say

  • People duck for cover, and damage is shown, after Russian missiles hit Chernihiv

    Ukraine war briefing
    Don’t stockpile your Patriots, put Ukrainian needs first, allies told

    • Exclusive
      Israel has sped up settlement-building in East Jerusalem since Gaza war began

    • Hugh Grant
      Actor settles high court claim against Sun publisher for ‘enormous sum’

    • UK
      Experts warn doctors about prescribing antipsychotic drugs for dementia

    • Canada
      Elephant seal makes ‘epic’ trek back after officials relocate him

    • ‘She knew he was dead’
      Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan

    • UK
      Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, ‘may be of largest-ever marine reptile’

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Kylian Mbappé

    Football Weekly
    PSG and Dortmund thrill in two classic Champions League quarter-finals - Football Weekly

  • Flordelis dos Santos de Souza. Photograph: Andre Lucas/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed? – podcast

  • Memoir from former British PM Truss.

    Today in Focus
    Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’

  • Manchester United v Chelsea - Adobe Women's FA Cup Semi Final<br>LEIGH, ENGLAND - APRIL 14: Hayley Ladd, Maya Le Tissier and Millie Turner of Manchester United Women celebrate the team's victory after the Adobe Women's FA Cup Semi Final match between Manchester United Women and Chelsea Women at Leigh Sports Village on April 14, 2024 in Leigh, England. (Photo by Charlotte Tattersall - MUFC/Manchester United via Getty Images)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    A new winner awaits after FA Cup semi-final drama – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Grace Dent

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S6, Ep 10: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, actor and comedian

  • A marsh tit perched on a rock (Photgraph: Lisa Geoghegan/Alamy Stock Photo)

    Science
    Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world – podcast

  • One hand with finger is pointing right. A second hand with finger is pointing to top left corner

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials? Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism – podcast

Culture

  • ‘An overnight sensation 11 years in the making’ … Lainey Wilson at the 2024 CMT music awards.

    ‘Maybe I wasn’t as crazy as people thought!’
    Country star Lainey Wilson on her long road to Grammy glory

  • Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney, announcing the song Primrose Hill.

    Music
    John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons team up for new single

  • Liz Truss

    Shamelessly unrepentant
    Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review

  • The Beatles performing on the Apple Headquarters’ rooftop in London 1969

    The Beatles
    Peter Jackson to release restored version of 1970 documentary Let It Be

Lifestyle

  • Young female primary school teacher working one on one with a schoolgirl watching her write at a table in a classroom, close up<br>RBNN6E Young female primary school teacher working one on one with a schoolgirl watching her write at a table in a classroom, close up

    Science
    Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds

    People in routine and repetitive jobs found to have 31% greater risk of disease in later life, and 66% higher risk of mild cognitive problems
  • Darren Edwards, pictured during an expedition across Iceland’s Vatnajokull Glacier in April 2023

    A moment that changed me
    I was paralysed on a climb. Then I made the 100-mile journey back to myself

  • A woman in a white bathrobe enjoying a luxury spa with a swimming pool

    The longevity vacation
    Why bar-hopping holidays are out and extreme wellness breaks are in

  • Cultivated sausage on piece of bread

    Slaughter-free sausages
    Trying the latest lab-grown meat creation

  • Tim Siadatan's Springtime Pasta.

    Food
    Tim Siadatan’s recipes for Italian springtime pasta

  • Felicity Cloake's risi e bisi

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make risi e bisi

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

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

  • Bryce Dallas Howard at Toronto international film festival.

    Film
    Post your questions for Bryce Dallas Howard

  • a child carrying a tray of food

    Parents in the US
    Are you happy with your child’s school lunch?

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

    Wedding photography
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From our global editions

  • Hugh Grant<br>FILE - Hugh Grant arrives at the premiere of "Wonka" on Dec. 10, 2023, at Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Calif. Hugh Grant says he received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

    Analysis
    Why has Hugh Grant settled his phone hacking claim against the Sun?

  • Liz Truss

    'Shamelessly unrepentant'
    Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review

  • The Sadiq Khan attack ad produced as part of the Conservative London mayoral election campaign.

    US politics is awash with crude and misleading attack ads. Now it’s the UK’s turn

    Jonn Elledge
  • Dina Asher-Smith

    Dina Asher-Smith
    ‘For the first time in 10 years, I can just kind of be’

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    ‘We need more shade’
    US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need

  • A large crater in front of a shopping mall with no external walls or interior fixings

    Exclusive
    Kharkiv at risk of becoming ‘second Aleppo’ without US aid, mayor says

    Residents of Ukraine’s second city tell of the impact of increasing Russian attacks targeting suburbs and power supplies
  • triptych crab

    Photo essay
    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

    For the women who pick and prepare Maryland’s famous crab, the once profitable work is far more uncertain – and the climate crisis has had a damaging impact
  • ‘The book was like a bomb dropping’ … Natasha Jayetileke and Dee Ahluwalia rehearse The Buddha of Suburbia.

    ‘Although I’m tetraplegic, I’ve started to feel normal’
    Hanif Kureishi on staging The Buddha of Suburbia

  • A view of the Colorado River looking into Cibola, Arizona, US, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Photographer: Caitlin O'Hara/The Guardian

    ‘Water is more valuable than oil’
    The corporation cashing in on America’s drought

  • Damon Albarn on stage at Coachella in California

    Tantrums of the rich and famous
    Nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur

  • Men standing on a platform lowering a wall panel

    ‘A roof over our people’s heads’
    The Indigenous tribe building hempcrete homes

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    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
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    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra
    Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph

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    A wild ride through Hong Kong

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    ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
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  • Derek Jarman’s home at Dungeness

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