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    Alaska
    Biden administration moves to restrict oil and gas leases on 13m acres

  • Taylor Swift fans take selfies at a pop-up for the singer’s new album The Tortured Poets Department in Los Angeles

    Taylor Swift
    Fans and critics react to new surprise double album The Tortured Poets Department

    • Tesla
      Nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks recalled over faulty accelerator pedal

    • Columbia University
      Ilhan Omar’s daughter among over 100 arrested at protest

    • Live
      Man arrested in Paris after police cordon off Iranian consulate due to reported bomb threat

    • Abortion
      California readies itself as ‘sanctuary’ while Arizona gears up for ban

    • Environment
      Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds

    • Shakespeare
      Questions over authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims

In focus

  • Debbie Mucarsel-Powell<br>Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., speaks during a news conference at a drive-thru testing site for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, Friday, March 20, 2020, at the Doris Ison Health Center in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

    ‘This is a violent attack against women’
    Florida Senate candidate seeks to channel abortion outrage

  • A visual representation of bitcoin

    Explainer
    What is bitcoin halving – and will it affect the price?

    Process has coincided with a rise in price in the past and is due to take place again on Saturday
  • FEB 2024 - LONDON: Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants. Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams listening to the soil. (Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )

    Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants
    How scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil

    More than 50% of the planet’s species live in the in the earth below our feet, but only a fraction have been identified – so far

Spotlight

  • Hicks, looking superficially like Prince Harry, is mobbed by girls taking selfies with him

    ‘It taught me about brainwashing’
    How reality show stars fell for a fake Prince Harry

    A show in which women competed to date a royal lookalike was panned at the time as ‘fodder for the braindead’. But the contestants had been duped, as a new podcast reveals …
  • Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence, co-producers of Bread & Roses.

    ‘Why the silence? Why the inaction? It breaks my heart’
    Malala and Jennifer Lawrence take on the Taliban

    The Oscar-winner and the Nobel laureate have teamed up to make Bread & Roses, a new film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they warn that the west ignores its message at their peril
    • Claudia Winkleman

      ‘I had to sign a contract promising not to sing’
      Claudia Winkleman on swearing, success and secrets

    • Kyle MacLachlan stands at a podium with a microphone against a hazy orange background

      Television
      Success of Fallout proves video game adaptations have gone mainstream

    • Djimon Hounsou in Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

      Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel
      Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver review

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      You be the judge
      Should my sister help me challenge our brother’s sexist views?

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Opinion

  • NYPD police officers arresting students

    Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

    Moira Donegan
    • Donald Trump, an older white man with orangey skin and poofy hair, holds up what appears to be a pile of print-outs, with a picture of himself visible on the top one.

      The death of the Republican party is not a tragedy to be celebrated

      Robert Reich
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      Meghan’s gone from royal upsetter to tradwife in three short years. Given what’s out there, you’d do the same

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • vladimir putin

      Putin has a ‘factchecking’ operation, and so do other dictators – but they use them to twist the truth

      Maxim Alyukov
    • Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

      My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza

      Eva Ladipo

Sports

  • Jayson Tatum’s Boston Celtics are the betting favorites to take the NBA title

    NBA playoffs
    Our writers pick the winner, key players and dark horses

    Our writers pick the winner, key players and dark horses as the NBA postseason gets into full swing
  • Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia face off atop the Empire State Building on Tuesday ahead of their WBC super lightweight title fight.

    Boxing
    Garcia’s erratic behavior in spotlight before Haney showdown

  • From left: Luton manager Rob Edwards, Dominic Solanke of Bournemouth and Chelsea’s Mauricio Pochettino with Noni Madueke.

    Premier League and FA Cup semis
    Ten things to look out for this weekend

    Two big Wembley meetings await in the Cup, while a desperation derby looks to be in store at Goodison Park
  • Thousands of runners cross Tower Bridge during the 2023 London Marathon

    ‘No limits’
    How the marathon was overtaken in sprint to stretch horizons

    Race distance seen as pinnacle of human achievement since time of ancient Greece is no longer the finishing line for what the body can endure
    • FBL-USA-MLS-KANSAS-MIAMI<br>Inter Miami's Argentine forward #10 Lionel Messi (C) controls the ball during the MLS football match between Sporting Kansas City and Inter Miami CF at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Amy KONTRAS / AFP) (Photo by AMY KONTRAS/AFP via Getty Images)

      MLS power rankings
      New rules hand an edge to Messi and Miami

    • Emma Hayes walks past the League Cup after defeat by Arsenal last month

      Hayes’ Chelsea legacy is untarnished even if final season ends trophyless

      Suzanne Wrack
    • Jürgen Klopp salutes Liverpool’s travelling supporters following the team’s Europa League exit to Atalanta in Bergamo on Thursday

      Soccer
      Klopp says Liverpool are ‘too easy’ to play against

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      Chess
      Four in close contention as Candidates reaches weekend climax

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

  • Beef cattle in a field

    Exclusive
    UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts

  • People use a canoe to move across flooded land.

    Weather tracker
    Rains bring deadly flash floods to Afghanistan and Pakistan

  • 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

Across the country

  • police arrest a protester

    Columbia University
    Police arrest students protesting Israel’s war on Gaza

    Students set up encampments to demand Columbia divest from Israel while those at USC gathered in support of Asna Tabassum
  • Joe Biden

    ‘Lost for words’
    Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents

  • Graphic illustration of black-and-white image of white woman with long wavy hair smiling in portrait, surrounded by red, dark blue and light blue images of state seals and voter receipts.

    Exclusive
    Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

  • Britain's Prince Harry, right, and wife Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex

    Prince Harry
    British royal confirms he is now a US resident

    • 2024 election
      Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

    • Netflix
      Profits surge as streamer adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter

    • New Orleans
      Mental competency hearing delayed for priest charged with raping teen

    • Artificial intelligence
      Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3

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

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

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Around the world

  • Artist sitting on sofa in living room wearing colourful psychedelic jumper

    London
    Artist evicted by landlord cuts rent by commuting from Argentina

  • Leonid Volkov in front of shelves of books.

    Poland
    Two detained over hammer attack on Navalny ally

    • Italy
      Crew of migrant rescue boat acquitted after seven-year ordeal

    • Prince Harry
      Judge rejects Sun publisher’s bid to delay phone-hacking case

    • Amazon
      Tech firm could be forced to recognise UK union as GMB gets right to hold ballot

    • China
      Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from country's App Store

    • Exclusive
      India seeks UK carbon tax exemption in free trade deal talks

    • Haiti
      US resumes deportation flights despite continuing bloodshed

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Illustration: Dakarai Akil/The Guardian/Getty/Timestamp Media

    The Audio Long Read
    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery? – podcast

  • A woman and child hold hands as they walk on a street in the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, with red buildings, the sea and snowy mountains in the background

    Today in Focus
    The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate

  • 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

Culture

  • Pearl Jam press photo

    Pearl Jam: Dark Matter review
    The faithful will rejoice

    With superproducer Andrew Watt working his magic, the Seattle grunge veterans sound on point and full of energy in their 35th anniversary year
  • Jimmy Carr on stage

    Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer review
    A moral vacuum laughing at his own jokes

  • Andrew Scott

    1984 by George Orwell audiobook review
    A starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation

  • Brick Lane

    Books
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

  • Amor Towles.

    Amor Towles
    ‘When I reread Ulysses I found it insufferable. Don’t @ me’

  • He won’t be back … Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man, 1987

    Week in geek
    Can genre-buster Edgar Wright breathe new life into The Running Man?

Lifestyle

  • An illustration of a man with crossly folded arms, with a seated female figure in the background.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My friend ranks his friendships in a league table – and it worries me

    You need to consider why this bothers you so much and if you should bring it up. Without asking directly, it’s hard to know his motivation
  • Two female models sit together, with dour expressions. One has long brown hair and wears a black, white and lilac print dress. The other has brown coils and wears a voluminous dress with a multicoloured print.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Ignore the fashion naysayers – you can still wear a floral dress for spring

  • Common Crane (Grus grus) in flight against sunset cloudy sky and trees, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, Europe

    ‘A water world teeming with wildlife’
    Readers’ favourite national parks in Europe

  • 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

  • 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
    Transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders

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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

  • Illustration of book titled Liz Truss: 49 Days to Make a Mess with a grotesque yellowy-green caricature of Liz Truss

    ‘Five-year-old on acid’
    Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace

  • People sitting on the edges of planters in front of a wooden walkway inside a building

    Pub shrub
    British landlords asked to plant up their patios to help wildlife

  • A blood donation in Lodwar town, Turkana county.

    Kenya’s ‘blood desert’
    Doctors hope walking donor banks and drones will help national blood deficit

  • The audience at the Complexe Culturel Leopold Sedar Senghor watches the film in Pikine, Senegal.

    Moving pictures
    Travelling cinema takes stories of ‘departures and dreams’ to Senegal

In case you missed it

  • Pastel sketch of glowering man with lips pressed tight together.

    Trial day three
    A silent Trump glowers and stares in court

  • 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?

    Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor
  • ‘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
  • 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

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

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

  • 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

  • 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?

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  • Los Angeles, US Uma Thurman and John Travolta

    Photos of the day
    Go Phish and Gold Beach sunrise

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • A jackal surrounded by doves leaps for a meal, South Africa

    The week in wildlife
    A hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger

  • 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

  • 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

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

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