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  • Woman wearing Statue of Liberty crown holds anti-Trump placard

    Analysis
    Trump the elephant in the room as supreme court hearing strays into the surreal

    Ed Pilkington
  • a banner reads "Encampment for Gaza! Divest now!"

    Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel
    What does that mean?

    Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in Gaza
  • a man in a blue suit speaks from behind a lectern

    ‘A political pawn to get Black votes’
    Morehouse students criticize Biden as commencement speaker

    Students react to the speaker announcement while school officials stands by the decision

Spotlight

  • three side by side images of apartment photos that might be seen on social media, with captions advertising rooms with disclaimers like "must be ok with rabbits", "must be ok with five other housemates if anyone asks please say you are my cousin visiting on a foreign exchange program", "very cheap deal as long as you can water my plants and do my laundry"

    ‘Must love dogs and rude roommates’
    The scramble to get around New York’s Airbnb crackdown

    Strict rules have led to a wild west of rentals, with visitors choosing between huge hotel bills or word-of-mouth deals
  • black and white photo of a big building with word hippodrome on sign

    Lost New York
    Remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks

  • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

    Well actually
    How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

    These stunning, extremely relatable women, with nuanced facial expressions and sensible shoes, helped me outline success on my own terms
  • ‘I learn a lot every single time I work’ … actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard

    Bryce Dallas Howard
    ‘I can’t be trusted around famous people’

    The actor on tricking her tear ducts, being entertained as a child by Tom Cruise and legging it from dinosaurs while wearing stilettos
    • ‘A changeable system’… the Study Pavilion at the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed by Berlin based Architects Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke.

      ‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’
      Radical study centre is named best building in Europe

    • A woman flexes her huge muscles before an audience

      Mixed doubles
      Why queer erotic sports cinema is enjoying a grand slam

    • Nas<br>American rapper and actor Nas, London, circa 2000. (Photo by David Tonge/Getty Images)

      Furious, funny and potentially fatal
      Hip-hop’s 20 greatest diss tracks – ranked!

    • ‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023.

      ‘The working class can’t afford it’
      The shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

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Opinion

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-WOMEN-BOOKS-MELANIA<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 04, 2019 US First Lady Melania Trump boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base for a three state overnight trip in Maryland. - Melania Trump has a White House suite of her own, is less than chummy with first daughter Ivanka, and uses her wardrobe to make statements, a new biography about the US first lady says. "Free, Melania," an unauthorized look at President Donald Trump's wife by CNN reporter Kate Bennett, is set for release on Tuesday, but official Washington is already buzzing about its contents. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Trump family’s latest side hustle: Melania’s selling $245 Mother’s Day necklaces

    Arwa Mahdawi
    With her husband on trial over hush-money payments – and desperate for cash – the ex-first lady isn’t worried about optics
  • Abortion rights supporters staging a ‘die-in’ protest

    The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

    Moira Donegan
  • Conan O'Brien

    Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

    Rebecca Shaw
    While other comedians spend more time complaining than cracking jokes, the former Late Show host remains gloriously unhinged and hilarious
  • On a lawn surrounded on three sides by buildings, dozens of tents with handmade protest signs in red and green.

    Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

    Judith Levine
    The safety and security of Palestinians and Jews are interdependent, so we should use language carefully
    • Gondolas by the Sospiri Bridge, near St Mark’s Square, Venice, on 2 August 2023.

      That sinking feeling: why long-suffering Venice is quite right to make tourists pay

      Simon Jenkins
    • Heritage Foundation: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss on Fighting the Global Left

      Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

      Emma Brockes
    • Old military vehicles arrive for a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, Portugal, 25 April 2024

      In Portugal, we’re celebrating 50 years of freedom. So why is the far right creeping back?

      Vicente Valentim
    • An aerial photo shows residents of Akwidaa fishing village in Ghana erecting a makeshift sea defence

      Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires

      Svenja Schulze, Fernando Haddad, Enoch Godongwana, María Jesús Montero and Carlos Cuerpo

Sports

  • An artist's rendition of new Chicago Bears lakefront stadium.

    Chicago
    Bears to seek public funding in $5bn plan for new lakefront stadium

    The Chicago Bears unveiled a nearly $5bn proposal Wednesday for an enclosed stadium next door to their current home at Soldier Field
  • (Left to right) North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye, Caleb Williams of the USC Trojans, LSU Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels.

    NFL draft predictions
    The stars, the needs and the lower-round gems

    • Adrian Newey

      F1
      Red Bull’s Newey to leave over Horner allegations

    • Rafael Nadal waves to the crowd from court.

      Tennis
      Nadal prolongs Madrid farewell by dispatching teenager Blanch

    • China and Olympic flags

      Wada
      Body hits back at bias accusations over handling of China case

    • Jürgen Klopp apologised for his side’s defeat to Everton.

      Injuries have deflated Liverpool – not Klopp’s early wave goodbye

      Andy Hunter

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Climate crisis

  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

    Environment
    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists
    They're getting in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Extreme weather
    Global heating and urbanization to blame for severity of Dubai floods, study finds

  • Sculpture of a giant tap, apparently hovering in mid-air without support, pouring out a stream of discarded plastic items on to the ground

    ‘Privileged access’
    Pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third

Across the country

  • Police tape in front of a police vehicle.

    West Virginia
    Man admits on deathbed to killing mother and daughter in 2000

  • A person's hand holds a phone showing the Meta logo

    Meta
    Value falls $190bn as investors react to plan to increase spending on AI

    • ‘Leftwing fascists’
      Senior Democrat calls for arrests of protesters urging Gaza ceasefire

    • 2020 fake elector scheme
      Arizona grand jury indicts Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani

    • Chicago
      City’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

    • McKinsey
      Company reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work

    • Exclusive
      US archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police

    • Evan Gershkovich
      American reporter’s appeal against his detention rejected by Moscow court

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Around the world

  • Friends and supporters of Hersh Goldberg-Polin outside Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem: a woman wears a red T-shirt with the words Bring Them Home Now across it and holds a placard reading Bring Hersh Home under a picture of the hostage; a crowd of people is gathered behind her, some others with placards and signs

    Israel-Gaza war
    Leaders of 18 countries urge Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza

    UK and US leaders among those calling for release, as families renew pressure on Netanyahu to restart negotiations
  • Polish Parliament meets For the 10th session in Warsaw - 24 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14449088i) W?adys?aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister of defence speaks during the 10th session of Polish Parliament in the Parliament building on Wiejska Street. The parliament discusses controversial issues of the rule of law. Polish Parliament meets For the 10th session in Warsaw - 24 Apr 2024

    Ukraine
    Poland and Lithuania pledge to help repatriate Ukrainians subject to military draft

  • Pedro Sanchez and Begona Gomez applaud as he addresses supporters during the general election campaign, in Madrid, 23 July 2023: they are both standing in front of a crowd on a raised platform behind metal railings. She has her hands raised and is wearing a bright red dress and high, wedge-heeled sandals; he is clapping and wears a casual blue shirt and jeans. People are waving red flags.

    Spain
    Madrid prosecutors ask judge to shelve investigation into Spanish PM’s wife

  • black and white portrait of a man wearing glasses

    Jean-Luc Godard
    Cannes to premiere film finished the day before director died

    • Birds
      Noise from traffic stunts growth of baby birds, study finds

    • Europe
      Macron criticizes Rwanda-style asylum schemes days after UK passes bill

    • Film
      Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63

    • ‘Recipe for disaster’
      Confusion and protests on first day of Venice tourist charge

    • Oil
      Price could exceed $100 a barrel if Middle East conflict worsens, World Bank warns

    • France
      National library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic

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Podcasts

  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

  • Arsenal

    Football Weekly
    Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

    Today in Focus
    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

  • Members of India’s Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a rally near Hyderabad. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart – podcast

  • The Netherlands Women v Norway Women, Women's EURO 2025 Qualifiers - 09 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/REX/Shutterstock (14426990jc) BREDA - Victoria Pelova of Holland and Merel van Dongen of Holland after the European Championship qualifying match for women in group A1 between the Netherlands and Norway at the Rat Verlegh stadium on April 9, 2024 in Breda, the Netherlands. The Netherlands Women v Norway Women, Women's EURO 2025 Qualifiers - 09 Apr 2024

    Football Weekly
    An episode from Women’s Football Weekly – Fifpro exclusive interview

  • Barcelona v Chelsea in the Women's Champions League.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Fifpro exclusive interview and Chelsea stifle Barça – Women’s Football Weekly

Culture

  • man in a suit on a stage

    Jimmy Kimmel on Trump
    ‘He keeps his caps lock tighter than the door to Melania’s bedroom’

    Late-night hosts talk Trump’s all-caps rants, Kanye West’s new porn venture and Mike Johnson’s delayed Ukraine aid approval
  • Jennifer Aniston.

    A way to make a livin’
    Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

  • The audio versions of the Harry Potter books have racked up 1.4 billion global listening hours on Audible.

    Harry Potter
    Audible to turn book series into full-cast audiobooks

  • Tupac Shakur pictured in 1996.

    Tupac Shakur
    Estate threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

  • Laurent Cantet pictured in 2021.

    High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw
  • In the whacking trade … Liam Neeson as Finbar Murphy in In the Land of Saints and Sinners

    In the Land of Saints and Sinners review
    Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal

Lifestyle

  • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

    How we met
    ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

    Beccy, 49, and Natalie, 60, became best friends after she visited Natalie’s rescue farm in Ontario, Canada. They now run events together on the farm and love travelling together
  • Louis Vuitton NFT varsity jacket

    ‘Born cool’
    Why the varsity jacket is still leader of the pack

  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

  • Harry Hunter seen on his own tackling an uphill slope in the sand

    ‘The heat is burning’
    76-year-old Harry Hunter becomes oldest Briton to complete Marathon des Sables

  • Topview of a pot of angel hair pasta tinged golden with saffron, and topped with cherry tomatoes, burrata and basil.

    Pot of gold
    Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for one-pan angel hair pasta with tomatoes and burrata

  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound
    How could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

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Take part

  • 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)

    Ukraine
    Ukrainian men abroad: share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

  • We’re after things that are small, genuinely useful, and inexpensive to buy (nothing over £20).

    Technology
    Tell us: what’s your favourite everyday gadget?

  • Tony and June

    Sex
    Would you and your partner like to share the story of what you get up to in the bedroom?

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From our global editions

  • Looty’s Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor in front of the Benin brass plaques at the British Museum, London.

    ‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’
    How radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone

  • Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, with his wife, Begoña Gómez, voting at the general snap election in Madrid

    Pedro Sánchez
    Why is Spain’s prime minister considering resigning from office?

  • Lisboans march in the city’s streets in the aftermath of the 25 April 1974 coup d'etat which overthrew Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.

    ‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’
    Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

In case you missed it

  • a child looks out from the doorway of a destroyed home

    'He doesn’t have any idea'
    What would Trump’s Israel-Gaza policy be if he were re-elected?

  • Steve Carell and Alison Pill. Credit to Marc J. Franklin

    Uncle Vanya review
    Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

    The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity
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    Time is your most precious commodity
    Can you ever get it back?

    Teacher and artist Isabel Manley reflects on how the modern world warped our relationship to time – and how we can begin to rethink it
  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    ‘Waiting for Trump’
    Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

  • people with signs, some of them wearing medical coats

    US supreme court
    What’s at stake in emergency abortion care case?

  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’
    Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

  • Dr. Noa Lincoln with native Hawaiian sugarcane on the campus of the University of Hawai'i at HIlo. Undergraduate student Quinn Leggett is studying tropical ag plant production and management.

    Hawaii
    A scientist's quest to find and save the state’s native sugarcanes

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  • James Cleverly standing on a wooden step on a pier and holding onto a gangway that is being extended out to him from a boat

    Photos of the day
    Dancing in Haiti and a pink moon

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude
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  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Subways, sphinxes and the Stones
    Highlights from NYC’s Photography Show

  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk
    The 60th Venice Biennale

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