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  • A protester sprays pro-Palestinian slogans on a wall at the University of California Los Angeles

    'Such a shock'
    Israelis voice sadness and defiance over Gaza protests on US campuses

  • Mark Hamill<br>Actor Mark Hamill takes off sunglasses given to him by President Joe Biden, as he joins White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as she speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Friday, May 3, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Mark Hamill
    Star Wars star hails ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ after White House meeting

    • Canada
      Police charge three over killing of Sikh activist

    • Ukraine
      AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson unveiled

    • Henry Cuellar
      Texas congressman in court accused of receiving $600,000 in bribes

    • Alabama
      Supreme court declines to revisit frozen embryos ruling

    • Mexico
      Three bodies reportedly found where Australian brothers went missing

    • Joseph Goebbels
      Berlin keen to give away villa once owned by Nazi propaganda minister

In focus

  • The pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia

    How pervasive is antisemitism on US campuses?
    A look at the language of the protests

  • A cyclist rides past a polling station in London

    Analysis
    UK's local elections wipeout appears to be harbinger of doom for Conservatives

    With an estimated 25% vote share, Tory performance matches 1995 nadir reached under John Major
  • Man on stage in front of Arizona and American flags

    Boxing, tacos and TV
    Democratic Senate contender aims to win back Latino voters

    Ruben Gallego, taking on Kari Lake in key Arizona race, focuses on ‘community events’ to reach those who have slipped away

Spotlight

  • Park plaza

    ‘It’s like winning the lottery’
    The mobile home owners buying the land they live on

    Residents of manufactured housing parks typically own their homes – but not the lucrative parks themselves. Cooperatives are changing that
  • woman with her hand over her mouth

    Tarot review
    Disappointment is in the cards with silly supernatural horror

  • Dua Lipa.

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

    The British superstar has said her new album is influenced by Britpop, rave culture and Primal Scream, but you could go mad trying to find the evidence
  • Kenny Wildes eating a half cheese and half pepperoni pizza

    Experience
    I’ve eaten pizza every day for six years

    I’ve tried peanut butter and bacon pizza, and had a caviar one, too
    • You be the judge illustration

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

    • Sarah Coyte poses at home in Sydney, Australia

      The not-so-secret cost of being superhuman
      Elite sport’s problem with disordered eating

    • (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’

    • Seth Meyers on campus protests: “No matter how you feel about the protesters, we should spend less time arguing about college kids and more time focusing on what the protests are about.”

      Seth Meyers on campus unrest
      ‘The story is what’s happening in Gaza’

Opinion

  • ‘Women across Florida and the south rushed to find money, transportation, a doctor and an appointment before the law took hold.’

    Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US

    Moira Donegan
    • 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
    • Illustration: Thomas Pullin

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

      Timothy Garton Ash
    • A horse heads back to a barn after an early-morning workout at Churchill Downs in the run-up to this year’s Kentucky Derby

      Twelve horses died around the Kentucky Derby last year. Little has changed since

      Elizabeth Banicki
    • 240504 Punching down thumbnail

      Fiona Katauskas cartoon
      Not woke but still going broke? Maybe you’re just not funny

Sports

  • Darvin Ham went 90-74 during the regular season and 11-12 in the postseason, including two play-in tournament wins, during two seasons as the Lakers’ head coach.

    NBA
    Did Darvin Ham cost LeBron his last real chance at another title?

    Claire de Lune
    The even-keeled Michigan native was hired for his ability to manage personalities. Once he lost his players’ trust, it was only a matter of time
  • Zendaya leads a winning cast in Challengers

    Challengers got everything right about my sport – apart from the sexiness

    Andrea Petkovic
  • A horse heads back to a barn after an early-morning workout at Churchill Downs in the run-up to this year’s Kentucky Derby

    Twelve horses died around the Kentucky Derby last year. Little has changed since

    Elizabeth Banicki
    I have spent long stretches of my life around the racetrack. The methods for training young horses in the US means fatalities are inevitable
  • Bucks guard Patrick Beverley (21) backs down Pacers guard TJ McConnell during Thursday’s game in Indiana.

    Patrick Beverley
    Bucks guard hurls ball at fans near end of season-ending loss

    • Elijah Adebayo drives in Luton’s equaliser.

      Luton 1-1 Everton
      Adebayo strikes but frustrated hosts fail to conjure crucial victory

    • Jalen Brunson was a second-round pick in 2018 but has risen to become an All-Star

      Jalen Brunson
      Star has given the Knicks something they have lacked: hope

    • Oscar De La Hoya

      Oscar de la Hoya
      Canelo seems to have trouble remembering who made him a star

    • Chess 3918

      Leonard Barden on chess
      Carlsen calls Ding ‘broken’ as star Gukesh emerges

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Climate crisis

  • ‘It’s moving throughout our whole home much faster than we expected,’ said Rob Jackson, co-author of the study.

    Gas stoves
    Appliances increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

  • A portion of the Florida wildlife corridor

    Florida
    State could have thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds

  • Gaboon viper

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

  • Skyline of Brussels obscured by smog

    Environment
    Belgian insurer urges politicians to strengthen low emission zones

Across the country

  • FILE PHOTO: A "now hiring" sign is displayed in Somerville<br>FILE PHOTO: A "now hiring" sign is displayed outside Taylor Party and Equipment Rentals in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S., September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

    Economy
    US adds 175,000 April jobs as hiring slows and unemployment stays steady

    April’s figure was lower than forecast and unemployment rate ticked up over the month but still market remains strong
  • 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 ‘dubious’ claim to have met Kim Jong-un

  • A wrecked vehicle in trees

    ‘Don’t die, I will be back’
    Oklahoma boy saves parents after tornado tosses truck

  • Heather Pressdee

    Pennsylvania
    Former nurse sentenced to life for killing three patients

    • Trump Media
      SEC charges auditor with ‘massive fraud’

    • Dreamers
      Biden administration expands healthcare coverage for Daca recipients

    • Trump's migrant plan
      Mass deportations, detention camps and troops on the street

    • ‘An emotional day’
      Maine bowling alley reopens months after shooting

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

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

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Around the world

  • Brazil floods

    Brazil
    37 killed and dozens missing in worst floods in 80 years

    More than 23,000 people forced to leave homes after heavy rains in southern Rio Grande do Sul prompt record-breaking floods
  • People in Niamey last month demonstrating against the US military presence in Niger

    Niger
    US confirms Russian forces deployed to same airbase as American troops

  • Kamila Shamsie.

    Society of Authors
    Gaza vote divides UK writers union after call to condemn Israeli military action

  • Close-up image of eruptions on the sun.

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    The sun
    Video of surface captures solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss

    • Leprosy
      Disease passed between medieval squirrels and humans, study suggests

    • Italy
      Country bans ‘puppy yoga’ after reports of alleged mistreatment

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

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

    • Cyber-attacks
      Germany summons Russian envoy over 2023 incidents

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

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • 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?

  • A designed image with the words 'Politics Weekly UK'

    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

Culture

  • 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

    Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and job
  • Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

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

  • Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year logo, and some of the titles on the longlist.

    ‘It really isn’t good enough’
    Crime novel of the year award criticized for entirely white longlist

  • Yaya Bey

    ‘I was sad in a way I never knew possible’
    Yaya Bey on grief, poverty and using music as therapy

  • Back in the Tardis!

    Ranked
    The greatest Doctor Who

  • Shane MacGowan

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

Lifestyle

  • Katy & Garrett 3.4.16 (3) (1)

    The truth about weddings
    There was no time for a ceremony – 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
  • Liz de Aza at Milk

    All black is back – again
    Here’s how to wear it in 2024

  • You be the judge special 1

    You be the judge
    Should my fiance agree to opening a joint account?

  • YBTJ money special cover image

    You be the judge
    From joint accounts to wealthier friends – why is money so hard to talk about?

  • SALI COLUMN SAT MAG Perfume: Prop Stylist: Yvonne Achato @yvonneachoto_stylist Assistant: Declan Slattery @decslattery

    Hate perfume?
    Even sceptics won’t turn up their noses at these subtle scents

  • 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

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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

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

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

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    Music
    Tell us your experiences of making a living from music

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

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

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From our global editions

  • Map graphic for data analysis piece

    Analysis
    Big Tory losses but no Labour landslide. What might happen at Westminster?

  • '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

  • Young people standing on a street, many wearing face masks and keffiyeh scarves, some holding a Palestinian flag

    ‘We’re infantilised or demonised’
    French students criticise Gaza protests crackdown

  • 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

In case you missed it

  • A black and white scan of the unfurled scroll

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

  • A composite image of a woman and a man against a red and blue background.

    ‘Chaos will be created’
    Arizona court hears election-subversion case – with eyes on 2024

    Implications of the lawsuit could extend beyond Cochise county, if local officials try similar tactics in November
  • 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
  • Nemat (Minouche) Shafik testifies before Congress Columbia University's response to antisemitism

    Minouche Shafik
    The Columbia president facing choppy waters over Gaza protests

  • ‘Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, and 100,000 die from the condition annually.’

    Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?
    A lawsuit dared to ask

  • Police face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles early on May 2.

    Visual guide
    The pro-Palestinian US campus protests in maps, videos and photos

  • woman's face in distress viewed between legs of police

    ‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’
    Student photographers’ best images of the campus protests

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  • Star Wars fans dressed as stormtroopers at a cinema in The Hague

    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 girl stands next to a damaged car buried in mud at an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri

    The week
    20 pictures from around the world

  • A 'Maya' girl sits on an altar

    Photo essay
    Spring, fertility and an awakening with Spain’s Las Mayas

  • A field hamster looks out of its burrow in a field. in Euskirchen, Germany.

    Week in wildlife: a giant hamster, a mustachoied deer and a zebra on the run

  • Police face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.

    In pictures
    Police move in on protest camp at UCLA

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

    Dog-whistle politics
    Pets at UK polling stations

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