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  • A Black man with frameless glasses wearing a suit, Chinese wooden bead bracelet, and gold watch, points forward as he speaks into a microphone.

    Antisemitism
    US public school officials push back in congressional hearing

  • Man in air force uniform stands in front of American flag and blue background

    Florida
    Police shoot and kill Black US airman in home

    • Climate crisis
      World’s top scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

    • AI
      Digital recreations of dead people need urgent regulation, ethicists say

    • Exclusive
      Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’

    • Havana syndrome
      Congress hears testimony on Russia’s sonic attacks on US officials

    • Kristi Noem
      Peta unveils ‘ghoulish monster’ Halloween costume

    • Macklemore
      Rapper performs pro-Palestine song for first time at New Zealand concert

In focus

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet

    ‘Hopeless and broken’
    Why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

  • Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears at court in New York<br>Stormy Daniels is questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger before Justice Juan Merchan during former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 7, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

    Donald Trump
    He's yet to decide his VP pick – and it’s turning into a pageant of its own

    It’s less than six months until election day, and Donald Trump is choosing his running mate. It’s quite the spectacle
  • In Lviv, an honour guard fires a salute on the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, when Ukraine commemorates the victory over Nazism in the second world war

    Ukraine war briefing
    Russia’s foreign earnings to pay for Ukrainian defence

    UK expels Russian military officer and shuts diplomatic properties; Ukraine says its drone output matches Russia. What we know on day 806

Spotlight

  • man playing a guitar

    Steve Albini was a button-pushing musician of uncompromising brilliance

    Alexis Petridis
    The alt-rock producer and music legend leaves behind a legacy of controversial provocation but uniquely daring music
  • Vinícius Júnior dribbles past Joshua Kimmich

    Champions League
    Vinícius Júnior lights up Real Madrid to give Joshua Kimmich nightmares

  • Marilyn Carkner and Jesse Inoncillo 's Halloween wedding.

    Gen Z says weddings should be cheaper
    Here’s how to make that happen

    Couples are holding smaller events, choosing alternative venues, or just running away together
  • Indigo Girls.

    ‘Coming out, it was like a veil was lifted’
    Indigo Girls on homophobia, hope and their big Barbie moment

    With Margot Robbie belting out one of their songs on screen and an inspiring new documentary, It’s Only Life After All, the folk rock duo are gaining new recruits to their fiercely devoted fanbase
    • Taylor Swift on stage

      Cupcakes and ticket warnings
      Paris ready for sellout Taylor Swift shows

    • Composite photo of two men

      Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline

      Tayo Bero
    • Stores with smells

      ‘It’s the brand speaking to you’
      The scent firms making smells for businesses

    • Flannery O'Connor<br>American writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) with her book 'Wise Blood' 1952 (Photo by APIC/Getty Images)

      ‘Acid humour was a big part’
      The life and legacy of Flannery O’Connor

Opinion

  • ‘The job, of course, has a few downsides. As Mike Pence found out on 6 January 2021, being Trump’s VP could result in … violent rioters calling for you to be hanged.’

    Just how low will Republican politicians stoop to be Trump’s running mate?

    Margaret Sullivan
    • As a woman living with ongoing domestic violence the federal government’s new policy to support women falls dangerously short.

      Ten years after ending an abusive relationship my ex-partner is still trying to destroy me financially

      Anonymous
    • ‘There don’t seem to be any life lessons in Peppa Pig: she just calls her dad fat all the time and jumps in muddy puddles.’

      I hoped Peppa might be a role model for my daughter. But that little piggy is just a brat

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Man in a dinner jacket, adjusting his bow tie

      Standing in my boxers, blindfolded and full of shame, I remembered why I hate getting dressed up

      Adrian Chiles
    • Jemima Olchawski

      After 200 years, women can join the Garrick. Now for the task of making it share power, not hoard it

      Jemima Olchawski

Sports

  • Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, right, jogs on to a practice field with his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara before news of the scandal broke

    Shohei Ohtani
    Interpreter to plead guilty to stealing millions from Dodgers star

    Ippei Mizuhara faces up to 33 years in jail after agreeing to plead guilty to stealing millions of dollars from his former friend
  • Patrick Beverley of the Milwaukee Bucks reacts to a score during a first-round playoff game last month against the Indiana Pacers.

    NBA
    Police open investigation into Bucks’ Beverley hurling ball at fan

  • Grigor Dimitrov uncorks his gorgeous trademark backhand at the Australian Open this year

    ‘Baby Fed’ no more
    Dimitrov has grown up and is in form of his life

    Bulgaria’s best shares his feelings on Federer comparisons and how finding his identity on court has fuelled his resurgence
  • Joselu celebrates scoring Real Madrid’s second goal against Bayern Munich

    Real Madrid 2-1 Bayern (4-3 on agg)
    Joselu's late double sends Real to final

    • Larry Sanders during his short-lived return with the Cleveland Cavaliers

      NBA
      Larry Sanders had a $44m contract – and walked away

    • Utah coach Lynne Roberts said she was concerned for her team’s safety in Idaho.

      College basketball
      Prosecutors won’t charge man over racist slurs directed at Utah

    • Luis Rubiales speaks to members of the media as he leaves a court in Majadahonda, Spain, 29 April 2024: journalists are thrusting microphones at him and he is speaking; he wears a dark blue suit and tie with white shirt, and is a man in his mid-40s with a shaven, bald head

      Luis Rubiales
      Former Spanish FA chief to stand trial for Hermoso kiss

    • Rory McIlroy during the final round of the Classic of New Orleans

      PGA Tour
      McIlroy not returning to board after ‘old wounds’ reopened

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Climate crisis

  • People on boats move through floodwater on a flooded street in Porto Alegre

    Climate crisis
    Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

  • Aerial view of the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela

    Glaciers
    Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field

  • Workers installing solar panels in India

    Environment
    Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply

  • David R Boyd, United Nations special rapporteur for the environment and human rights.

    Climate crisis
    UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet

Across the country

  • Man wearing suit and tie

    Technology
    Inquiry into child sexual abuse on Meta platforms leads to arrest of three men

    New Mexico attorney general highlights real-world consequences of online dangers prevalent on firm’s Instagram and Facebook apps
  • Man wearing black glasses, grey suit and purple tie

    Business
    Archegos founder Bill Hwang heads to trial over collapse of $36bn fund

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks in Brooklyn, New York, on 1 May.

    Robert F Kennedy Jr
    Presidential candidate says health issue caused by dead worm in his brain

  • A person holds a sign that reads 'GOP guns over people'

    Tennessee’s new, extreme laws
    From arming teachers to corporate tax breaks

    • Steve Albini
      US alt-rock musician and producer dies aged 61

    • Pete McCloskey
      Republican who tried to unseat Richard Nixon dies aged 96

    • Trump
      Georgia will allow Trump to challenge order keeping Fani Willis on case

    • Georgia
      Suspect in killing of student Laken Riley charged with murder

    • Elon Musk
      Lawyers succeed in challenge to remove OpenAI case judge

    • Cold Stone Creamery
      Company sued over ‘pistachio’ ice-cream with no pistachios

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Around the world

  • two men pose for picture, one with a suitcase

    UAE
    US crypto entrepreneur arrested in Dubai alleges torture by police

    Edel Hsieh, who is linked to HyperVerse CEO, alleges police tortured him into signing a false confession
  • David Cameron walks out of a building holding a red folder.

    David Cameron
    West has not learned lesson of Ukraine and must get tougher

  • Graffiti on concrete that reads 'No canal'

    Nicaragua
    Government cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on

  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the agreement.

    Russia
    EU reaches deal on using profits from Moscow's frozen assets for Ukraine

    • Hong Kong
      Court bans protest song, prompting further fears for free speech

    • Spain
      Luis Rubiales to stand trial for World Cup kiss of footballer Jenni Hermoso

    • Fiji
      Former PM Frank Bainimarama sentenced to year in jail – reports

    • UK
      Medicine shortages in England ‘beyond critical’, pharmacists warn

    • Boeing
      Cargo plane forced to land at Istanbul without front landing gear

    • UK
      Shadow foreign secretary says he can find ‘common cause’ with Trump

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • People flee the eastern parts of Rafah in Gaza. Photo by Aaed Baker/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

    Today in Focus
    Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge

  • Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Action Press/REX/Shutterstock (14468424le) Nico Schlotterbeck #4 (Borussia Dortmund), Paris Saint-Germain vs. Borussia Dortmund, Football, Champions League, semi-finals Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Dortmund delight as PSG’s Champions League woes return – Football Weekly

  • Donald Trump in court

    Donald Trump
    Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

  • Illustration: Guardian Design/Christophe Gowans

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis: how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing – podcast

  • Picture of Marc Conway with beard against dark background with shaft of light running through

    Today in Focus
    The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years

  • Head coach of Chelsea Emma Hayes waves at the fans with her son Harry during the Barclays FA Womens Super League game between Chelsea and Bristol City.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Chelsea reignite WSL title hopes after City slip up – Women’s Football Weekly

  • An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. (Photograph by Kemal Jufri for The Guardian)

    Science
    Why are the world’s cities sinking? – podcast

Culture

  • Phedon Papamichael on the set of Downsizing in 2017.

    ‘We were the magicians’
    Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael on 40 years of film-making

    He has collaborated with an array of star directors, and is currently at work on James Mangold’s Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. He explains why US film-making is like the army, and British cinema is more like a factory job
  • Mohammad Rasoulof at the 70th Cannes film festival.

    Iran
    Director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging

  • man on a stage

    Late-night TV roundup
    Jimmy Kimmel on Stormy Daniels’s testimony: ‘Yes we do need to know the details’

  • In a scene from Let It Be, Paul McCartney plays the guitar next to John Lennon, also with a guitar, opposite Ringo Starr on drums and George Harrison, all of them seated

    Let It Be review
    Reissued Beatles film takes long and winding road to eventual acclaim

  • The journalist Scott Johnson on the scam trail in Indonesia in Hollywood Con Queen, Apple TV+.

    Hollywood Con Queen review
    A truly boring journey through an astonishing scam

  • Kevin Durand as Proximus Caesar in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review
    Future simians swing through cinematic jungle

Lifestyle

  • An event organised by the Offline Club at Café Brecht in Amsterdam, where no phones are allowed.

    ‘I feel more connected with humanity’
    The club where phones are banned – and visitors pay for the privilege

    Why are the Dutch so keen on digital detoxes – and are there any lessons for the rest of the world?
  • Sam Pyrah

    A moment that changed me
    I thought fitness was my superpower. Then I realised it was a ball and chain

  • Jeremy Strong wearing a baseball cap and a suit as Kendall Roy in HBO's Succession

    'A lot of the things we take for granted won’t be available'
    Why regenerative garments are the ultimate status symbol

  • Alice Zaslavsky Eggpant bake<br>Alice Zaslavsky prepares an eggplant bake. Melbourne. Australia

    Awe-bergine
    Alice Zaslavsky’s low-fuss recipe for stuffed eggplant parmigiana

  • Felicity Cloake's cheesecake topped with raspberries.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make American baked cheesecake

  • Venezia fans in the Curva Sud stand last Sunday.

    Italy
    How did I avoid paying Venice’s new ‘entrance fee’? By joining the local Venezia FC fans

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Take part

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

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

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

From our global editions

  • Reena Barai: she is standing in a doorway between shelves of medicines in packaging, and wears a black and white striped dress with black cardigan. She is Asian and has collar-length curly dark hair and glasses; she is smiling and resting one hand on a black desk

    ‘We’re firefighting in the background’
    The pharmacists coping with record drug shortages

  • Israel’s far right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in 2023.

    ‘Can’t you kill some?’
    Netanyahu’s political survival in hands of far right

  • An illustration of the Garrick Club, with some of it's members including King Charles

    Explainer
    Why UK gentlemen’s club the Garrick is accepting women for first time in nearly 200 years

  • An illustration of Marc Conway, who is serving an IPP sentence on licence

    Prison in Britain
    Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it?

In case you missed it

  • Nashville mayor Freddie O'Connell

    ‘Keep the door open’
    Nashville’s mayor on governing a blue island in a sea of red

  • Nighttime view of tents, students and walkways covered with pro-Palestine chalk signs.

    From Iran to California
    This professor protests for human rights – but at what cost?

    With their green card expiring soon, Rouhollah Aghasaleh of Cal Poly Humboldt has been suspended after joining a protest
  • Side-by-side photos of a white woman and a white man

    ‘Do you worry about STDs?’
    Stormy Daniels’ testimony in Trump trial gets off to lurid start

    The adult film star testifies in a hush-money trial that could land the ex-president and Republican frontrunner behind bars
  • Fake shops illustration

    Exclusive
    Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’

  • Princeton University students have been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza since 25 April, their goal being to get the US university to divest from Israel. The Guardian spoke to some of the students and faculty at the encampment to hear their reasons for being there, and how they feel they have been portrayed by the media

    4:01

    Hunger strikes for Gaza
    A look inside the Princeton student protests

  • Half the image shows a Chinese flag hanging from a building; the other half shows the Belgrade skyline and busy motorway

    ‘Countries are now forced to confront it’
    Rise in Chinese espionage arrests alarms Europe

  • Solomon Islands MP Cathy Nori.

    ‘I can rise above expectations’
    The woman breaking barriers in Pacific politics

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In pictures

  • Glasgow, UK ‘The war memorial in Victoria Park framed by cherry blossom.’

    Readers' best photographs
    Bountiful blossom and food for the soul

    A selection of Guardian readers’ photographs from around the world
  • Marseille, France People on boats accompany the Belem, a three-masted sailing ship, as it arrives in to Old Port carrying the Olympic Flame, ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024

    Photos of the day
    Olympic flame arrives and a horse takes a dip

  • ‘What made it was the fans outside’ … Schumacher photographed by Nicholson, from the book Macchina.

    Jon Nicholson’s best photograph
    Michael Schumacher on the phone in Japan

  • Satellite image

    Then and now
    Flooding in Brazil

  • TOPSHOT-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FASHION-METGALA-CELEBRITY-MUSEUM<br>TOPSHOT - US actress Zendaya arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2024 theme is "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Met Gala 2024
    Dresses made out of sand, corsets and power poses

  • ‘I was fascinated by the sheer volume of people’ … Street corner, Sydney, Australia

    ‘My monument to humankind’
    Earth, but not as you know it

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