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  • watermelons on display at a store

    Pesticides
    Kale, watermelon and even some organic foods pose high risk, analysis finds

    Pesticides have contaminated the US fruit and vegetable supply – even some organics – a new analysis by Consumer Reports shows
    • A cloned black-footed ferret

      Endangered species
      Two black-footed ferrets cloned from frozen tissue samples

    • Larry Nassar
      Abuse survivors to be paid $100m over FBI failure

    • Massachusetts
      Man arrested for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple

    • Dickey Betts
      Allman Brothers Band co-founder and guitarist dies aged 80

    • Botched executions
      Black death row inmates suffer at twice rate of whites in US

    • Haiti
      France urged to repay billions of dollars to country for independence ‘ransom’

    • Nestlé
      KitKat owner fights off push to cut back on unhealthy products

    • Longer than a T rex
      Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India

In focus

  • Graphic illustration of a person holding a massive bag of Splenda and pouring it onto and overflowing a bowl of cut cucumbers.

    Death by Diabetes
    She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?

  • A guard checks the passport of a Palestinian women at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt

    ‘People are begging us to feed their children'
    Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help

    With no centralised relief effort in Egypt, Palestinians are relying on grassroots charities for food, rent and clothing
  • ‘It’s always strange in a virtual setting – it’s like you’re watching yourself take the test in the mirror.’

    Are your kids being spied on?
    The rise of anti-cheating software in US schools

    Remote proctoring tools have faced pushback at colleges over privacy and discrimination concerns, but their use in K-12 schools has attracted less scrutiny

Spotlight

  • Young woman screaming, close-up<br>GettyImages-200069807-001

    Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’?
    How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience

    Therapist Lindsay Gibson’s 2015 book has sold over a million copies and its message has soared on social media. What does it mean?
  • US Premier League fans are passionate, and thrive partly because of their distance from Europe

    A US Premier League game would be wildly popular – and demean everyone

    Aaron Timms
  • Pattern of slices citrus-fruit of Lemons, oranges, grapefruit, lime on beige background. Healthy food, diet and detox concept. Flat lay, top view

    Attention home cooks
    How to store half a lemon – and 17 other ways to keep leftover food fresh

    What should you do with opened tins, cut avocados and egg yolks that weren’t required in your recipe? Chefs and food experts tell all
  • Alisha Weir as Abigail in Abigail, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin &amp; Tyler Gillett.

    Abigail review
    Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror

    There’s some low-stakes pleasure to be had in the first half of the gory new film from the team behind Ready or Not and Scream but things fall apart disastrously
    • Corky Lee in Mask 2020

      ‘I’m practicing photographic justice’
      Corky Lee’s portraits of Asian American life

    • Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump’s Truth Social rant about him: ‘Rant-a Claus got up bright and early to post 165 venomous words about yours truly.’

      Kimmel hits back at Trump
      ‘The only person still talking about this joke is him’

    • Painting: On the Thames, A Heron by Jacques Joseph Tissot.

      Leading questions
      My close friend is a therapist but all she does is complain. Should I exit this relationship?

    • The German aviator Otto Lilienthal (1849 - 1896) demonstrating the first glider he invented.

      Shock of the old
      11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders

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Opinion

  • Nemat Shafik<br>Columbia University President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on "Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

    Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated

    Alisa Solomon, Marianne Hirsch, Sarah Haley and Helen Benedict
    • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

      The Guardian view
      The catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

    • An image of the NPR logo outside its headquarters in Washington DC

      NPR needs a serious critique not a politically charged parting shot

      Margaret Sullivan
    • Paul Daley's dogs Olive (left) and Ronda

      A life without my dogs seems imponderable. Yet we do keep going after losing the animals we adore

      Paul Daley
    • NGN privacy case<br>PABest Hugh Grant arrives at the Rolls Buildings in central London for the conclusion of News Group Newspapers (NGN) phone hacking hearing. NGN, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World, is bringing a bid to have claims by the Duke of Sussex and Hugh Grant over alleged unlawful information gathering at The Sun thrown out. Picture date: Thursday April 27, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Hacking. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

      It’s sad that Hugh Grant v Rupert Murdoch won’t go to court, but good can come of it

      Jane Martinson

Sports

  • Lewis Hamilton arrives at the track in Shanghai before this weekend’s race.

    Formula One
    Hamilton unwilling to justify Ferrari move in face of criticism

    Lewis Hamilton has insisted his decision to join Ferrari in 2025 does not need any vindication, as he bemoaned the continued discussion over whether it is the right choice
  • US Premier League fans are passionate, and thrive partly because of their distance from Europe

    A US Premier League game would be wildly popular – and demean everyone

    Aaron Timms
    Fifa is considering a policy change that would allow leagues to play domestic matches overseas, reopening one of football’s most squalid ideas
    • Tigist Assefa talks to the media before the London Marathon

      London Marathon
      Tigist Assefa targets women’s world record time

    • Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols prepare to testify before the US senate on Larry Nassar’s abuse.

      Gymnastics
      Nassar abuse survivors to be paid $100m over FBI failure

    • Caitlin Clark is coming off a record-breaking college career with Iowa

      ‘Written in 1971’
      Columnist apologizes after awkward interaction with Caitlin Clark

    • The Cray Valley Paper Mills manager, Steve McKimm, celebrates with a replica FA Cup after his side drew at Charlton this season to earn a replay.

      'Absolute disgrace'
      Decision to scrap FA Cup replays met with fury

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

  • Parched, cracked earth with dried-out irrigation tubes under sunny, blue sky.

    Environment
    US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Exclusive
    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard
    How a city brought back its birds

  • A hand holding shredded pieces of a thin blue material

    Clean energy’s dirty secret
    The trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom

Across the country

  • A stock image of a young hand in shadow holding an iron bar.

    ‘Really important to learn from what happened’
    How the US failed people in prisons during Covid

    Data reveals at peak of pandemic in 2020, people in prisons died almost three and a half times more frequently than those outside
  • House To Vote On Bill That Would Ban TikTok In U.S. Unless Its Chinese Owner ByteDance Sells<br>WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 13: Rep. Mike Gallager (R-WI) speaks to reporters outside of U.S. Capitol Building after the House of Representatives voted on legislation he co-sponsored to ban TikTok on March 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to ban TikTok in the United States due to concerns over personal privacy and national security unless the Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance sells the popular video app within the next six months. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

    Mike Gallagher
    House Republican cites threats and swatting of family as reasons for quitting

  • Collage of vegetables, fruits, money and a scale.

    Pesticides
    We found unhealthy levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know

  • Kanye West and Bianca Censori at Milan fashiuon week in February 2024.

    Kanye West
    Artist suspected of attacking man who allegedly sexually assaulted his wife

    • Google
      Company fires 28 staff after protest against contract with Israeli government

    • T-Mobile
      US man returns home from Europe to $143,000 bill for using phone overseas

    • Maine
      Legislature passes sweeping gun safety laws in all-night session

    • Columbia University
      President assailed at highly charged antisemitism Congress hearing

    • Los Angeles
      Officer who killed girl, 14, in department store will not face charges

    • NPR
      Editor who accused outlet of liberal bias resigns

Around the world

  • Nicola Sturgeon with her husband Peter Murrell.

    Scotland
    Husband of former first minister Peter Murrell charged over embezzlement

    Husband of Nicola Sturgeon had been rearrested as part of police investigation into party’s finances
  • Troops sitting in the back of military vehicles as they drive along a road

    Nigeria
    Woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok

  • Man in green hoodie being filmed by media near open car

    Russia
    Husband of jailed blogger signs up for Ukraine war to secure her release

  • Pouria Zeraati giving a V for victory sign from a hospital bed

    UK
    Eastern European mercenaries suspected of stabbing Iranian journalist in London

    • Dubai floods
      Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains

    • Germany
      Two arrested on suspicion of plotting attacks for Russia

    • Ireland
      All 48 victims of 1981 Dublin nightclub fire unlawfully killed, inquest finds

    • Bernard Arnault
      Two sons of world’s richest man join him on board of LVMH

    • ‘Poorton coin hoard’
      Dorset couple find 17th-century treasure hoard while renovating kitchen

    • Panama
      Presidential frontrunner vows to ‘close’ Darién Gap

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Podcasts

  • Bayern Munich v Arsenal - UEFA Champions League - Quarter-Final - Second Leg - Allianz Arena<br>Bayern Munich's Harry Kane celebrates with team-mate Eric Dier at the end of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final, second leg match at the Allianz Arena, Munich. Picture date: Wednesday April 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Arsenal. Photo credit should read: Nick Potts/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City and Arsenal crash out of Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Science
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

  • Close-up of a person smoking a cigarette

    Today in Focus
    Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

  • 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

Culture

  • ‘Forced the decisions on to authors’ … PEN America

    PEN America
    Writers withdraw from literary awards in support of Gaza

    Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation
  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at the Cannes film festival in 2023.

    Frank Sinatra biopic
    Martin Scorsese to revive film with Leonardo DiCaprio

  • Fontaines DC, with Carlos O’Connell and Grian Chatten at the front.

    Fontaines DC
    We can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years

  • Tom Ripley ‘in disguise’

    ‘Like a stray Bee Gee!’
    Does Andrew Scott’s Ripley have the worst wig in TV history?

  • ‘Nothing’s passed me by’ … Sheila E pictured at home

    ‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples ...’
    Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1649933a) Woman Times Seven, Shirley Maclaine Film and Television

    Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine
    Her 20 best films – ranked!

Lifestyle

  • Runner Beans Club Press publicity image Credit: Adrian Varzaru

    ‘When I wear this shirt, I feel part of a tribe’
    How running club merch became a marker of cool

    Casual running clubs that give members the chance to exercise and socialise are popping up all over the UK. And each one is developing a style of its own
  • Steve and Lisa sitting in a coffee shop

    How we met
    It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time

  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

    Happy eater
    Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie

    Jay Rayner
  • Anna and Phil

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’

  • 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

  • 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

Take part

  • 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
    Share your experiences

From our global editions

  • Liz Truss raises her left hand while speaking during prime minister's questions in the Commons

    Trussonomic lessons
    What can be learned from former PM’s book?

  • The shortages have made one patient feel he has ‘no choice’ but to stockpile medicine by taking less than the intended dose.

    ‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’
    The stress caused by UK drug shortages

  • cockatoo and lorikeet

    Love nest
    How a musk lorikeet fell for a red-tailed black cockatoo

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’
    The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

In case you missed it

  • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson delivers remarks on the upcoming foreign aid package to supply emergency funding for Israel and Ukraine.

    Explainer
    What is the US speaker’s plan for Ukraine and Israel, and will it pass Congress?

  • A man stands at a podium reading from a script. Behind him hangs a large image showing a seated woman, her head bowed in grief, holding the body of a child completely wrapped in a winding-sheet

    War, grief and hope
    The stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners

    Images from Gaza, Ukraine, Madagascar and the US border chosen by global jury from more than 60,000 entries
  • A display of fresh fish of different sizes lying on a bed of ice

    Goodbye cod, hello herring
    Why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

    In the first of a new series, we look at why people reject so much of the bountiful catches from our seas in favour of the same few species, mostly imported – and how to change that
  • Gadd portrait

    ‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’
    Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer

  • Narendra Modi

    2024: Year of elections
    Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black.

    ‘The house was small, the life was big’
    How Amy Winehouse’s homes were recreated for Back to Black

  • People watching a film at The Cinema Museum, Kennington, London

    ‘David Lynch had to personally approve the screening’
    The film clubs driving the celluloid revival

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In pictures

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

    Oriol Maspons’s humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era
  • Ellen Geddes, a wheelchair fencer

    Photos of the day
    Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers

  • Danielle Mckinney in her Jersey City Studio in 2024

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

  • From the series Soon Will Summer be Over, 2023.

    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra
    Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph

  • Takkunen Hong Kong3

    All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

  • Counting Boxcars in the Cajon Pass, 2010

    ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
    America by rail

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