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    Donald Trump trials
    Stormy Daniels to return to stand for second day of testimony at Trump trial

    Adult film star will continue to be cross-examined by Trump’s legal team after prosecutors drew out details of alleged affair
    • A young Black woman wearing a black face mask and sweatshirt holds a white-on-black sign that says Black Voters Matter.

      Louisiana
      Black voters ask US supreme court to confirm congressional district

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

    • Florida
      Police shoot and kill Black US airman in home

    • Boeing
      Supplier regularly shipped parts with defects, whistleblower alleges

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

    • Music
      Man arrested for attempted break-in at Drake’s Toronto mansion

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

In focus

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

    ‘This is not a ploy’
    Abortion 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?

    Kawartha Lakes First Nation is claiming a large swath of Ontario territory. But is its chief a fraud, part of a trend of rightwing activists exploiting Indigenousness?
  • 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

  • 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 Willonious Hatcher’s parody song is a phenomenon in its own right, with artists around the world creating their own versions
  • Ian MchShane in 2019.

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

  • Barb Jungr and Julian Clary, pictured at The Café Carlyle in 2009

    Celebrity how we met
    How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met: ‘We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills’

    Comedian Julian Clary and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr met in 1985 on the same cabaret bill. Friends ever since, they have performed together and speak nightly on the phone, having helped each other through bereavement
  • 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

    Whether as an artist or working behind the mixing desk, from major-label megastars to drone-metal auteurs, here’s a selection of the late musician’s greatest work
    • 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

    • 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

    • Liao Yiwu in Paris in 2019.

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

    • Sculpted Dress composite

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

Opinion

  • Stephanie Clifford,Stormy Daniels,Susan Necheles,DonaldTrump<br>In this courtroom sketch, defense attorney Susan Necheles, center, cross examines Stormy Daniels, far right, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as former President Donald Trump, left, looks on with Judge Juan Merchan presiding during Trump's trial in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

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

    Emma Brockes
    • Moira Donegan

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

      Moira Donegan
    • 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

  • 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
  • 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 sports league

    Bryan Armen Graham
  • 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?
  • 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
    The former heavyweight and US Olympian has awoken from a coma after saving his parents from a fire that almost took their lives
    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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Climate crisis

  • 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

    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

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

    • Twilight Zone
      Story by creator Rod Serling published after 70 years

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

    • Kristi Noem
      Peta unveils ‘ghoulish monster’ Halloween costume

    • 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

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
  • Russian service members march in columns on Victory Day.

    Live
    Putin accuses ‘arrogant’ west of risking global conflict and says Moscow’s forces are at ‘combat readiness’

  • A large group of people in a refugee camp.

    Sudan
    Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

  • Two reddy brown orangutans handing from a perch

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

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

    • 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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Podcasts

  • 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

  • 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

Culture

  • 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
  • ‘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

  • Woman wearing patterned top looks at man wearing grey shirt

    Mother of the Bride
    Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush

  • Elizabeth Hurley and Pear Chiravara kiss in Strictly Confidential.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Shirley Bassey Live In Bristol<br>Welsh singer Shirley Bassey performs live on stage in Bristol, England in 1996. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)

    Diamonds up for offer
    Shirley Bassey to auction jewellery including ring from Elton John

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
  • 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

  • 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

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  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
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  • 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

  • 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

  • From left to right: Kaja Kallas, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Viktor Orbán.

    2024: Year of elections
    What are the EU elections and why do they matter?

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

    In 1971, photographer Alec Gill began documenting the lives of Hull’s Hessle Road fishing community, as the city witnessed the downturn of its main trade
  • 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
    Kraszna-Krausz book awards – longlist

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

    Readers' best photographs
    Bountiful blossom and food for the soul

  • 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

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    Then and now
    Flooding in Brazil

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