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  • Out-of-focus blue 'Keep abortion legal' sign with a person holds a sign in the back

    ‘This is not a ploy’
    Abortion rights activists worry about Democrats piggybacking on the cause

  • Signs and flags are seen on the property of William Denby, Ontario, Canada on April 25, 2024. (Cole Burston)

    Canada
    Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just the latest Pretendian case?

    Local chiefs claim Kawartha Lakes First Nation is part of a wave of cases in which people falsely claim Indigenous identity
  • A man in a wetsuit emerges head and shoulders from the ice holding a camera

    Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters
    The man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk

    Andreas Heide has been shortlisted for a Shackleton award for his work in the far north, getting up close to nature to connect people emotionally with a fragile ecosystem

Spotlight

  • Kianna Znika, left, and Ione Dellos, right, are students at Cal Poly Humboldt.

    ‘A slap in the face’
    Students blast cancellation of commencements

    Universities across the US are dropping or shrinking graduation ceremonies as pro-Palestinian protests continue
  • Ian MchShane in 2019.

    Ian McShane
    ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’

  • Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever looks on during a preseason game against the Dallas Wings on Friday in Arlington, Texas.

    A whole new ballgame
    It won’t be easy for Caitlin Clark in the world’s most unmerciful sports league

    With only 144 roster spots, the WNBA may be the hardest league to make in all of sports. For a rookie class led by Caitlin Clark, it’ll be a whole new ballgame
  • Drake performs during the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Zilker Park on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

    ‘I bet Drake heard it and laughed’
    BBL Drizzy is the real winner of the Drake-Kendrick feud

    The comedian Willonius Hatcher’s parody song is a phenomenon in its own right, with artists around the world creating their own versions
    • Elizabeth Hurley and Pear Chiravara kiss in Strictly Confidential.

      Strictly Confidential review
      Elizabeth Hurley’s softcore sex drama directed by … her son

    • Dorie Greenspan's smoked salmon dutch baby.

      Dutch baby and ricotta crostata
      Dorie Greenspan’s New York-style brunch recipes

    • Jack Black performing with Tenacious D at the AO Arena in Manchester.

      Tenacious D review
      Jack Black’s daft duo are deeply schooled in rock

    • Steve Albini at his recording studio in Chicago.

      From Big Black’s noise to Joanna Newsom’s hush
      10 of Steve Albini’s greatest recordings

Opinion

  • ‘Daniels has described the sex that followed as a grim affair, performed out of a begrudging sense of obligation.’

    Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

    Moira Donegan
    • Emma Brockes

      Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

      Emma Brockes
    • Kendrick Lamar performing at Glastonbury in 2022.

      Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?

      Nels Abbey
    • ‘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
    • Composite photo of two men

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

      Tayo Bero

Sports

  • Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze will be part of a revamped Chicago Bears offense

    NFL offseason winners
    From Rodgers to the Bears, via Houston

    All 32 teams have been busy over the last few months. But which ones have significantly boosted their chances of success in 2024?
  • Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever looks on during a preseason game against the Dallas Wings on Friday in Arlington, Texas.

    It won’t be easy for Caitlin Clark in the world’s most unmerciful league

    Bryan Armen Graham
  • Nikola Jokić’s Denver find themselves in a 0-2 hole against the Minnesota Timberwolves

    Jokić is MVP yet again. So why are his Nuggets struggling in the playoffs?

    Alex Kirshner
    The brilliant center won his third MVP award on Wednesday night. But he has come up against a Minnesota team built to cause him problems
  • Mats Hummels scored the only goal of the second league between Borussia Dortmund and PSG.

    Champions League team of the week
    Joselu and Hummels steal the show

    Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund booked their spots in the final at Wembley thanks to a pair of unlikely match winners
    • Mark Coleman makes an appearance at UFC 300, weeks after narrowly escaping death

      MMA
      Mark Coleman survived alcoholism. Then came the house fire and coma

      Loretta Hunt
    • Vinícius Júnior dribbles past Joshua Kimmich

      Vinícius lights up Madrid to give Kimmich nightmares

      Barney Ronay
    • 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

    • 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

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Climate crisis

  • Researchers from Brazil's state-run Fiocruz Institute shine a light on a bat

    Environment
    Biodiversity loss is 'biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks'

  • Image of a wildfire with a temperature gauge graphic superimposed on it

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

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

    Latin America
    Disease and hunger soar 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

Across the country

  • Barron Trump stands between his mother, Melania Trump, and father, Donald Trump. Barron has been selected as a delegate for Florida to the Republican National Convention

    Barron Trump
    Son of former president chosen as Florida delegate to Republican National Convention

    Eighteen-year-old will be among delegates to officially nominate his father, Donald Trump, as candidate for upcoming presidential election
  • Man in air force uniform stands in front of American flag and blue background

    Florida
    Police shoot and kill Black US airman in home

  • Daenerys standing in front of a dragon

    Streaming
    Disney and Warner Bros team up to bundle services in US

  • Woman in blue suit with blond hair wags finger

    Marjorie Taylor Greene
    House quashes far-right congresswoman's motion to oust Mike Johnson

    • Technology
      TikTok to auto-flag AI videos – even if created on other platforms

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

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

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

    • Kristi Noem
      Peta unveils ‘ghoulish monster’ Halloween costume

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

Around the world

  • Russian service members march in columns on Victory Day.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war: Putin accuses ‘arrogant’ west of risking global conflict and says his forces are at ‘combat readiness’

    Vladimir Putin marks second world war Victory Day as relations with west spiral towards crisis
  • Marius Gustavson

    UK
    Man known as ‘eunuch maker’ who streamed mutilations is jailed for life

  • Two reddy brown orangutans handing from a perch

    Malaysia
    Government plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

  • Close up of white stone grave in cross shape reading RIP in graveyard with other graves behind it

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

    • UAE
      US crypto entrepreneur arrested in Dubai alleges torture by police

    • Nicaragua
      Government cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on

    • 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

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    Football Weekly
    Real Madrid do it again in Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • G2: how to harness protein power

    Science Weekly
    How much protein is too much? – podcast

  • 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

Culture

  • Black-and-white photo of two people, one looking to the right and one looking forward

    ‘I come from community that’s been forgotten’
    Artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier prepares for a major survey of her work at the MoMA

    The photographer, one of Time’s most influential people of 2024, prepares for a major survey of her work at the MoMA
  • The Emily Blaster game inspired by Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

    Five of the best
    Books about video games

  • ‘The audience really give you the power and the energy and you give it back’ … alyona alyona and Jerry Heil perform at the first semi-final of the Eurovision song contest in Malmö.

    ‘Our children’s schools were bombed’
    The Eurovision stars fighting to rebuild Ukraine

  • Woman wearing patterned top looks at man wearing grey shirt

    Mother of the Bride
    Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush

  • Kristen Stewart in Love Lies Bleeding.

    Kristen Stewart
    Actor says Hollywood’s self-congratulation over gender equality ‘feels phony’

  • ‘No one ever knows what the world has in store for you’ … Rhee Kun Hoo in Seoul.

    'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy'
    What poverty, jail and war have taught author Rhee Kun Hoo

Lifestyle

  • G2 - The experts: Therapists on body confidence (inside) WEB

    Ditch the mirror and celebrate your strengths
    Therapists on 20 ways to boost your body confidence

    Do you want to love how you look but always compare yourself with others? There are plenty of ways to overcome this, from life drawing to CBT to social media detoxes
  • Sculpted Dress composite

    Dada meets dresses
    Why clothes that look like sculptures are all the rage

  • Marilyn Carkner and Jesse Inoncillo 's Halloween wedding.

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

  • 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

  • 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

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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

  • Liao Yiwu in Paris in 2019.

    Two poems, four years in detention
    The Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

  • Yevhen Miezientsev (left) and Mykola Misechko on top of a high-rise apartment block in Kyiv.

    Judges with machine guns
    The part-time drone hunters defending Kyiv

  • A women's road cycling event in Tigray

    ‘You need to be brave’
    Tigray’s female cyclists ride again in the aftermath of war

  • Macklemore gestures to the crowd as he performs on stage in Australia. The rapper performed his pro-Palestine track Hind’s Hall in New Zealand for the first time.

    Hind’s Hall
    Macklemore performs pro-Palestine song for first time at New Zealand concert

In case you missed it

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

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

  • 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
  • Nashville mayor Freddie O'Connell

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

    Freddie O’Connell is leading his progressive city in a heavily Republican state with equanimity and a spirit of cooperation
  • 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?

  • 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

  • Fake shops illustration

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

  • 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

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  • Russian service members march in columns past an honour guard during a military parade

    Photos of the day
    Parades, protests and pink clownfish

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • Two women, one carrying a child, wade through water with their belongings

    In pictures
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  • A black-and-white photo of a child standing beside a washing machine in a laundrette, with a baby in a pram just outside the window

    The last gasp
    Hull life during the fishing industry’s death

  • A composite image of a flag on the moon, a woman using a payphone and a blurred photo of a car driving under a crimson sky

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

    Readers' best photographs
    Bountiful blossom and food for the soul

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

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