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  • Man in suit sits in front of screen, microphone and name plate

    California
    Rural Shasta county keeps ultra conservative official who pushed to upend voting system

    Shasta county’s Kevin Crye fought off a recall effort, but another far-right official who pushed election conspiracies lost the race for his seat
    • Woman in brown shirt stands in front of brown background

      Crystal Mason
      Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted

    • Puerto Rico
      US National Park Service sued over plan to trap famous stray cats

    • California
      Low-income Latinos at higher risk from Parkinson’s-linked weedkiller

    • Brazil
      Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

    • Russia
      Police detain journalist who filmed last video of Alexei Navalny alive

    • Ukraine war live
      Russian fighter jet crashes into sea off Sevastopol, Crimea

    • Bolivia
      Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’

    • Environment
      Why fears are growing of a ‘chocolate meltdown’

In focus

  • an air taxi on display on a street with tall buildings

    Rust to riches?
    Ohio city’s fortunes set to rise with flying taxi startup

  • A tank drives along a dirt road past yellow flowers

    ‘Ecocide in Gaza’
    Does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

    Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable
  • Election workers handle ballots during a recount

    Georgia
    The election deniers relentlessly hounding state officials

    A small but aggressive group of election deniers have been pressuring state officials on a weekly – sometimes daily – basis to investigate unfounded claims

Spotlight

  • room of people playing video games on screens

    ‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’
    How AI is affecting video game actors

    The increased use of AI to replicate the voice and movements of actors has benefits but some are concerned over how and when it might be used and who might be left short-changed
  • a man stands with his arms crossed in a glass cage

    ‘He’s not broken’
    A year later, Evan Gershkovich is still in Russian prison

  • ‘What I look for in a script is a feeling. A nervous feeling. But good nervous’ ... Shirley Henderson.

    Shirley Henderson
    ‘I start off thinking: ‘How will I ever be able to do this?’

    The Harry Potter and Bridget Jones star is a dazzlingly versatile performer, with a string of Michael Winterbottom films under her belt, as well as Star Wars, TV’s Happy Valley and an Olivier award. She explains how she keeps on top of it all
  • The artwork for Cowboy Carter

    Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter review
    From hoedown to full-blown genre throwdown

    The musician’s eighth album straddles the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the blues – and Becky with the Good Hair via Dolly Parton’s Jolene
    • Vivien Sansour at Hudson Valley Seed Co farm in Accord, New York on March 20, 2024.

      ‘They kept us alive for thousands of years’
      Could saving Palestinian seeds also save the world?

    • Hi diddly ho … Ewan McGregor as Count Rostov and Alexa Goodall as Nina in A Gentleman in Moscow.

      A Gentleman in Moscow review
      Ewan McGregor is almost as fantastic as his outrageous fake moustache

    • Black and white shot of Samantha Morton and Richard Russell behind them is a boat on a beach.

      ‘We’re in the business of wellbeing’
      Samantha Morton and Richard Russell on their new album

    • An Inuit mother and girls in traditional costume in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, in 2010.

      ‘I was only a child’
      Greenlandic women tell of trauma of forced contraception

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    ‘Wellness bro’ Andrew Huberman is accused of lying to women he dates. Does it matter to his millions of listeners?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    • man in a suit surrounded by people, one of whom has a badge reading police

      Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. The crypto industry isn’t any better for it

      Molly White
    • White man wearing blue suit and red tie speaks into microphone

      Want to make it in the Republican party? Pledge allegiance to the Big Lie

      Robert Reich
    • Donald Tusk

      Rightwing populists have many countries in their grip. Come to Poland: see how they can be pushed back

      Anne McElvoy
    • audience watching a performance with bright lights

      How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?

      Damon Krukowski

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  • 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

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • 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?

  • Alabama Crimson Tide forward Grant Nelson was a crucial factor in his team’s upset win over North Carolina

    NCAA Tournament
    Alabama beat No 1 seed UNC to make Elite Eight for just second time

    Grant Nelson converted a go-ahead three-point play with 38 seconds remaining, and Alabama beat top-seeded North Carolina 89-87 on Thursday night
  • Korbin Albert is an emerging star for the USWNT

    USWNT
    Albert apologizes after reports of anti-LGBTQ+ reposts

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  • Penguins watch the Noosfera, Ukraine’s Antarctic research vessel, which keeps the Ukrainian and Polish bases supplied.

    ‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’
    The double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists

  • Bushes and trees burn with a church and telephone poles in the background

    Weatherwatch
    Copernicus online portal offers terrifying view of climate emergency

  • Emissions from an oil refinery

    'It’s disappointing'
    Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

  • People walk on a dried-out riverbed

    Extreme heat
    Summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures

  • aerial photograph of big container ship with bridge collapsed over it

    Baltimore
    Workers were on break in cars when bridge collapsed, wife of survivor says

    ‘We don’t know if they were warned before the impact,’ says wife of one of eight construction workers who was on the bridge
  • man in a suit

    Biden
    Campaign raises $25m ‘money bomb’ at event with Obama and Clinton

  • U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) carries his luggage at the Cancun International Airport before boarding his plane back to the U.S., in Cancun, Mexico February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE

    Ted Cruz
    US senator mocked for flight to Cancún seeks airport police escorts

  • Orange plastic poles strung with yellow police tape along the cement entrance to a building, with a gold police star painted on a green background.

    Los Angeles
    Teen girl who died from gunshot wound after grabbing officer’s gun identified

    • ‘He knew it was wrong'
      Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison over FTX fraud

    • Race and ethnicity
      US is changing federal categories for first time in 27 years

    • 'We have babies'
      Punxsutawney Phil and partner Phyllis welcome two little groundhogs

    • Illinois
      Suspect charged with murder after four killed in stabbing attack

    • Al Sharpton
      Trump’s $60 Bibles ‘a spit in the face of people that really believe’

    • Chris Christie
      Republican won’t mount No Labels run in 2024 US presidential election

  • Palestinian families displaced from their homes make preparations for the iftar dinner in temporary tents in Rafah on Thursday.

    ‘Famine is setting in’
    UN court orders Israel to unblock Gaza food aid

    Judges issue unanimous decision and say Palestinians are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance
  • Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a road in Kandahar

    Taliban
    Edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

  • forest on side of road with a sign

    Canada
    Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature

  • two men in white shirts clutching hands closely on a boat

    'Family Christmas card'
    Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit

    • South Africa
      Forty-five dead as bus plunges from bridge into ravine

    • Health
      Obese children twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis, study suggests

    • ‘Resist this’
      Outrage as BBC replace Mamma Mia! star with AI voiceover

    • North Korea
      Russia criticised for blocking renewal of UN monitors

    • Russia
      US repeatedly warned Moscow ahead of concert hall attack, White House says

    • Canada
      School boards accuse social media firms of ‘rewiring’ how kids think

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Podcasts

  • Donald Trump.

    Politics Weekly America
    Can Bibles, sneakers and social media save Trump from financial ruin?

  • A datacentre on the outskirts of Dublin. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom – podcast

  • Tracey and Lisa

    Today in Focus
    Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed?

  • Arsenal Training Session<br>LONDON COLNEY, ENGLAND - MARCH 26: (L-R) Mo Elneny and Ben White of Arsenal before a training session at Sobha Realty Training Centre on March 26, 2024 in London Colney, England.  (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City v Arsenal: a potential title decider? – Football Weekly Extra

  • CT scan of the head of a young woman who has multiple sclerosis

    Science
    The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS – podcast

  • Wales v Poland - UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifying - Play Off Final - Cardiff City Stadium<br>Wales' Dan James dejected after missing a penalty in the penalty shoot-out following the UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifying play-off final at Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff. Picture date: Tuesday March 26, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Wales. Photo credit should read: David Davies/PA Wire.
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    Football Weekly
    Heartbreak for Wales, joy for Poland, Georgia and Ukraine – Football Weekly

  • Illustration: Dom McKenzie

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘Is anybody in there?’ Life on the inside as a locked-in patient – podcast

  • Snakes were used in early Christian ceremonies.

    Book of the day
    Heresy by Catherine Nixey review – book of revelations

    From Herod as the Messiah to a virginity test for Mary – the Christian story, but not as you know it
  • A shelf of DVDs for sale

    ‘This current phase sucks'
    Readers on fight to preserve DVDs and Blu-rays

  • still of an animated giant lizard creature with pink eyes and scales

    Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review
    Breezy, forgettable monster sequel

  • ‘Like a rock star’ … Liu Cixin

    The Three-Body Problem author Liu Cixin
    ‘I’m often asked – there’s science fiction in China?’

  • Nick Cave

    ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’
    Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons

  • One of Super Mario Maker's most fiendish levels, Trails of Death by ChainChompBraden.

    ‘I wasn’t sure it was even possible’
    The race to finish 80,000 levels of Super Mario Maker

  • Alessandro Michele at the Met Gala 2019

    Fashion
    Alessandro Michele announced as new creative director of Valentino

    The former Gucci designer, a favourite of Harry Styles, will replace Pierpaolo Piccioli at one of fashion’s big luxury houses
  • A woman checks the scent on her wrist.

    The experts
    Perfumers on 20 ways to make you, your house and your laundry smell fabulous

  • woman puts cold pizza in the oven

    You be the judge
    Should my girlfriend preheat the oven before cooking?

  • A Scottish wildcat

    Thursday quiz
    Sporting leaders, racing waiters and lots of rescued cats

  • The medieval Swiss town of Gruyères

    Rail route of the month
    Cheese, chocolate and a magical ride to the Swiss town of Gruyères

  • Hartley (left) and Warren

    Dining across the divide
    ‘The Lords needs reform – people shouldn’t just be put there by Boris Johnson’

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  • A man holds multiple credit cards.

    People in the US
    Have you been borrowing more money recently than you used to?

  • Coverage during the total solar eclipse on 21 August 2017 near Hopkinsville, KY.

    US parents
    Tell us about your plans to watch the total solar eclipse with your kids

  • A view of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after it collapsed, in Baltimore, Maryland, US.

    US news
    Have you been affected by the Baltimore bridge collapse?

  • The aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, are seen in the sky above Kiruna, Sweden.

    Northern lights in the US
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From our global editions

  • Copies of the Daily Telegraph on display

    Daily Telegraph
    Inside the battle for ‘trophy asset’ – and the soul of Tory Britain

  • Using a photo of the right side eyepatch our team was able to confirm that T109A3, a 14 year old female Bigg's killer whale was the individual which stranded alive this morning and subsequently drown as the tide came in, despite the heroic efforts of Nuu-chah-nulth and Zeballos residents to roll her back to an upright position. In an effort to remain close to its Mum, her 2 year old T109A3A, navigated the shallows and slipped into the lagoon behind her at high slack where it began to call out repeatedly. It may find its own way out but will likely need some coaxing, as killer whales often do in such situations. Our team has remained on site to document and assist with further efforts by DFO. Any support provided through baycetology.org is much appreciated. Images and video acquired under marine mammal research license #42.

    ‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’
    Can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?

  • A band-aid on a person

    ‘People assume you’re crazy for doing it’
    The Melbourne clinic infecting healthy patients

  • Arvind Kejriwal in the back of a car being driven away from court.

    Arvind Kejriwal
    The Delhi chief minister jailed by Modi’s government

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  • An email inbox on a laptop computer screen

    Analysis
    Western governments struggle to coordinate response to Chinese hacking

  • A middle-aged Latino man with trim dark hair, wearing a dark suit and red tie, speaks into a microphone.

    Bernie Moreno
    Ohio Republican says he fled socialism in Colombia for the US in 1971. What does history say?

    The Republican challenger to Democrat Sherrod Brown for US Senate in Ohio has made dubious claims in his campaign
  • Flags fly at half mast outside a burnt-out concert hall

    Islamic State
    Advance of affiliates ‘could lay ground for new wave of terrorism’

    IS has stalled in Iraq and Syria but officials believe it has been planning new attacks on west for years
  • Are you inside or outside? … A Serra work in Seattle in 2007.

    Molten magnificence
    How Richard Serra’s giant steel sculptures bent time and space

  • A graphic illustration of a woman in bed wearing a bra, purple-and-black striped leggings, out of the red covers with one leg hooked over them.

    Halfway there
    Perimenopause has brought chaos to my life – but also peace

  • A meat stand.

    ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’
    German hospitals serve planetary health diet

  • A wolf under trees in the snow

    ‘We’d like to shoot them all’
    Growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

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  • Bears spotted enjoying a pedalo after heavy rainfall<br>Bears enjoying a ride on a pedalo at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire. Bears at a safari park were spotted enjoying a ride on a pedalo after heavy rain created a makeshift lake. Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire had a gigantic puddle form in the black bear enclosure - and staff were quick to take advantage of the new terrain. They borrowed a swan-shaped pedalo and left it by the edge of the makeshift lake - and the bears didn't take long to investigate. One by one, the group of bears - also known as a sleuth - began to climb into the boat as it floated on the lake, until all four seats were taken.

    Environment
    Pedalo hijinks and a raccoon doing a handstand

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Squirrels on a tree branch at a park in Ankara, Turkey, as temperatures rise with the arrival of spring.

    Photos of the day
    A pushy squirrel and Putin with night vision

  • Studio microphone

    Music
    Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study

  • Mick Jagger, USA

    Rare and raw
    Never before seen Rolling Stones

  • Pivotal pic … the shot taken at Glastonbury in 1992.

    Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s best photograph
    A naked man plays with bubbles at Glastonbury

  • Annemasse, France. Spring would not be complete without a picture of cherry blossoms.

    Readers' best photographs
    Signs of spring and a wily coyote

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