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  • a federal prison

    California
    Federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close

  • Hannah Waddingham on Olivier Awards red carpet

    Hannah Waddingham
    Don’t say ‘show a little leg’, Ted Lasso actor rebukes photographer

    • Robert F Kennedy Jr
      Candidate claims Trump had asked him to be running mate

    • Canada
      Conman who swindled $175m in ‘massive’ psychic fraud scheme sentenced to 10 years

    • Boeing
      Employees’ use of safety concern service up 500% after panel blowout

    • Ohio
      Man charged with murder over shooting of Black ride-share driver

    • Idaho
      Supreme court allows state to enforce ban on treatment for trans youth

    • Belarus
      Prisoner smuggles out account of brutal jail written on toilet paper

In focus

  • a child uses a laptop

    Online child safety bills
    Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech

  • Palestinian children in Khan Younis queue for hot food.

    ‘It’s death there’
    Babies and children hit hardest as famine tightens hold on Gaza

    Estimated 27 children killed by famine, with fears many more will suffer lifelong effects, despite Israel’s promise of more aid
  • People protest outside court in New York on 15 April.

    Trump on trial
    The ordinary task of jury selection turns into the extraordinary

    Procedures that played out in New York courtroom were banal, but their significance was historic: the first US president facing a criminal trial

Spotlight

  • ‘The body knows. And the camera shows’ … Self-Portrait Lying Down, 1975.

    ‘A born member of the underground’
    How Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde

    His portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. As they go on show, his favourite subjects recall his genius
  • A young woman with dreadlocks and a gap-tooth smile grins widely.

    What does a death doula do?
    Alua Arthur on her ancient profession

  • two people in vests that say press

    Civil War is an empty B-movie masquerading as something of substance

    Charles Bramesco
    Alex Garland’s speculative and apolitical action film might be a box office hit but it’s a frustratingly weightless experience
  • 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 1 - Day 2<br>INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: (L-R) Gwen Stefani of No Doubt and Olivia Rodrigo perform at the Coachella Stage during the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 13, 2024 in Indio, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for No Doubt)

    Coachella 2024
    Women save the day as festival suffers an identity crisis

    Ticket sales might have lagged for the once-unbeatable double weekender but an array of crowd-pleasing female acts made it a worthwhile journey
    • Salman Rushdie.

      Knife by Salman Rushdie review
      A story of hatred defeated by love

    • Athletes pose at Nike’s showcase for its Olympic uniforms last week

      Nike’s ‘hoo haa’ Olympic uniforms reveal everything, including sexism in sport

      Melissa Jacobs
    • triptych crab

      Photo essay
      In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

    • man in a suit sits at a desk on stage

      John Oliver on Medicaid mess
      ‘Could the government blindside people with something beneficial?’

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Opinion

  • White man wearing suit and tie sits next to four other people at a table

    Trump used to scold felons who wanted to vote. Now he could be in the same spot

    Sidney Blumenthal
    • A giant billboard in central Tehran showing Iranian ballistic missiles

      The Guardian view
      On Iran and Israel: they need to step back from the brink of open warfare

    • Benjamin Netanyahu at a wartime cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 14 April 2024.

      Netanyahu faces tough questions on Iran – because we Israelis don’t need any more forever wars

      Dahlia Scheindlin
    • An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

      Iran’s missiles were shot down – but they still delivered what Tehran was hoping for

      Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
    • A protest against Donald Trump’s travel ban in Richmond, Virginia, 28 January 2020

      As a US diplomat, I helped circumvent Trump’s Muslim ban – then realised I was part of the problem

      Josef Burton

Sports

  • Athletes pose at Nike’s showcase for its Olympic uniforms last week

    Nike’s ‘hoo haa’ uniforms reveal everything, including sexism in sport

    Melissa Jacobs
    Girls are much more likely than boys to drop out of competitive sports. It’s little wonder when revealing kits are highlighted on the global stage
  • The 128th Boston Marathon <br>epa11280669 Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia (L) and Hellen Obiri of Kenya hold the Boston Marathon trophy after their win in the men's and women's race, respectivley, during the 128th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 15 April 2024. EPA/CJ GUNTHER

    Boston Marathon
    Repeat champion Obiri and Lemma surge to victory

    Kenya’s Hellen Obiri broke away from a large pack late to become the first woman to repeat as Boston Marathon champion since 2005
    • Boban Marjanović scored 13 points in 12 minutes of the fourth against the Clippers.

      ‘Man of the people'
      Marjanović misses on purpose to win fans food

    • Martin Ødegaard, Mikel Arteta, Darwin Núñez and Jürgen Klopp.

      Premier League
      Why did it go wrong for Arsenal and Liverpool and is there still hope?

    • Scottie Scheffler celebrates on the 18th green after winning the Masters.

      Scheffler’s superpower ability to let things go was key to Masters romp

      Andy Bull
    • The Seine in Paris

      Yogurt and disinfectant
      Team GB’s plan for triathlon swim in Seine

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

  • A field of staghorn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef

    Global heating
    Coral reefs pushed toward worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record

  • A bull shark

    Environment
    Climate crisis increasing frequency of deadly ocean upwells, study finds

  • On a sunny urban street, a person rides a scooter past two storefronts, one with a red sign that says 'Checks Cashed' and the other with a blue sign that says 'Payday Loans'.

    'Heat-or-eat conundrum'
    Climate change driving demand for predatory loans, research shows

  • Emissions from three industrial chimneys

    Climate crisis
    ‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief

Across the country

  • Nighttime urban street with people standing in the street and red and blue fire and ambulance lights.

    US crime
    Homicides in major cities falling at ‘one of fastest rates ever’ – report

    Nearly all crime, including violent and property offenses, was down ‘a considerable amount’ in 2023 compared with 2022
  • Under-construction 747s at a Boeing facility

    Boeing
    Employees’ use of safety concern service up 500% after panel blowout

  • a woman in a grey suit stands in court

    Rust film set shooting
    Armorer sentenced to 18 months in prison

  • The funeral home in Penrose, Colorado.

    Colorado
    Owners of funeral home where 190 bodies were found charged with Covid fraud

    • Nikki Haley
      Republican takes new job at ultra-conservative thinktank

    • Trump Media
      Shares tank after company reveals plan to sell more stock

    • Clarence Thomas
      Justice absent from US supreme court with no explanation

    • Baltimore bridge collapse
      FBI reportedly opens criminal investigation

    • Arizona
      Democrat says enshrining abortion rights in constitution best remedy to 1864 ban

    • Maine
      Police officer accused of lying about missing man as search continues

Around the world

  • A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the suicide bombing at Kabul airport

    Afghanistan
    US review finds August 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul airport was unpreventable

    Findings also detailed how a ‘bald man in black’ thought by service members to be the bomber was misidentified
  • Closeup of children's feet wearing plimsolls in a PE class

    Health
    Teasing children about weight increases risk of self-stigma as adults, study finds

  • Mamuka Mdinaradze is punched in the face by opposition MP Aleko Elisashvili.

    Georgia
    Lawmaker punches opponent in face in brawl over ‘foreign agents’ bill

  • Woman drinks wine sat at a table

    Italy
    Restaurant offers free bottle of wine to customers who hand in phone

    • Lebanon
      Four Israeli soldiers injured by Hezbollah bombs

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Attacks on nuclear plant are Russian ‘false flag’, Kyiv tells UN security council

    • Belarus
      Prisoner smuggles out account of brutal jail written on toilet paper

    • Technology
      Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK

    • Prince Harry
      Royal loses initial attempt to appeal against security ruling

    • London
      Wrong couple get divorced after solicitor ‘clicks wrong button’

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Podcasts

Podcasts

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    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1 – podcast

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 2.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials out of affordable housing? Part 2 – podcast

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 3.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials out of affordable education? Part 3 – podcast

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 5.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Can millennials unscrew themselves? Part 5 – podcast

  • One hand with finger is pointing right. A second hand with finger is pointing to top left corner

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials? Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism – podcast

  • An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel

    Today in Focus
    Is the Middle East on the brink?

  • Manchester City players celebrate

    Football Weekly
    Advantage Manchester City in the title race? - Football Weekly

Culture

  • a woman with long blonde hair surrounded by dancers

    Doja Cat at Coachella review
    An electrifying tour de force

    Festival headliner delivered an A-game set, ignoring some of her mainstream hits yet bringing enough energy to power what some have called a middling year
  • Todd Howard, director of the Fallout game series, and Jonathan Nolan, director of the Fallout TV show.

    ‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’
    Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout

  • Magic Returns to Disneyland Park as Theme Parks Plan to Reopen April 30<br>ANAHEIM, CA - AUGUST 27: Mickey Mouse poses in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park on August 27, 2019 in Anaheim, California. Disneyland plans to reopen on April 30, 2021. (Photo Joshua Sudock/Walt Disney World Resorts via Getty Images)

    A Tarzan deathtrap and an 80ft Goofy
    Prepare for your tour of scrapped Disneyland rides

  • Cue jingle … Star Wars Cerveza Cristal beer edit, part of a 2003 campaign in Chile called Stop the Zapping

    May the fizz be with you
    How a $10 Chilean beer ad took on Star Wars

  • A memorial and a prophecy … A gas mask on a damaged tree on the road to Kreminna in Ukraine's Luhansk oblast.

    Geoff Dyer
    ‘A gas mask on a tree stopped me in my tracks – it shows the air itself can be toxic’

  • Akon

    Akon’s honest playlist
    The best song to have sex to? Smack That by Akon

Lifestyle

  • Kitchen scales with various sources of protein, including nuts, milk, fish and eggs

    The truth about protein
    How to get enough – at every age

    We need protein to build muscle, produce hormones, regulate mood and appetite, and strengthen bones. But how much, and what kind, should you eat every day?
  • Rachel Roddy’s scafata, or spring vegetable stew, with seasoned ricotta and garlic and oil toasts.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for scafata, or Roman spring vegetable stew

  • Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.<br>D1GRNK Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.

    Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

  • Gary Barlow portrait

    The boomer pause
    The sign that shows you should really get off social media

  • Kitty Coles' tonnato salad.

    Quick and easy
    Kitty Coles’ tonnato salad

  • Sculptor Ane Freed-Kernis posing with a block of stone she's set to carve

    A new start after 60
    There was no time to waste – so I gave up my job and started stone carving

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    People in the US
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From our global editions

  • Liz Truss

    The greatest mystery of modern politics? Liz Truss’s self belief

    Zoe Williams
  • Earthworm illustration

    UK invertebrate of the year
    Earthworm crowned by Guardian readers

  • Crowds at the Acropolis

    ‘It’s plain elitist’
    Anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis

  • A candlelit vigil outside St George’s Hall in Liverpool, the day after an inquest delivered the verdict of unlawful killing

    Hillsborough, 35 years on
    The pain of injustice remains raw as ever

In case you missed it

  • Alabama state representative Anthony Daniels

    Alabama
    Black voters seek chance to be heard after years of being silenced

  • A robot-powered fast food kitchen.

    ‘Eat the future, pay with your face’
    My dystopian trip to an AI burger joint

    If the experience of robot-served fast-food dining is any indication, the future of sex robots is going to be very unpleasant
  • black and white picture of sailors

    He led Brazil’s Black sailors in mutiny to resist abuse
    A hundred years later he may get justice

    João Cândido and other navy sailors radicalised in England held Rio de Janeiro hostage in a revolt over corporal punishment
  • Journalist Salah Al-Ejaili at his home in Sweden

    ‘Correct a black mark in US history’
    Former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

  • An octopus on an underwater mountain off the coast of Chile

    Dragons, sea toads and the longest creature ever seen
    Species found on undersea peaks off South America

  • An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel

    Visual guide
    How Iran’s attack on Israel unfolded

  • a side-by-side image of Ruben Gallego and Kari Lake

    Arizona
    Abortion ruling is a win Kari Lake didn’t need in key Senate race

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  • man in a suit and tie singing

    From No Doubt to Will Smith
    Big stars and surprise guests at Coachella

    This year’s Palm Springs-based festival brought together some of the industry’s biggest names, from headliners like Tyler, the Creator to Doja Cat, as well as a raft of shock guests, from Olivia Rodrigo to Shakira
  • Women in matching dresses take part in a rehearsal

    Photos of the day
    Olympics rehearsals and Kim statues

  • Olivier Awards 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall some members of the cast of Guys and Dolls

    Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards

  • A woman wearing a headscarf looks out of the side of a truck packed with people

    Global development
    Inside South Sudan’s worsening refugee crisis

  • A seven-month-old cheetah in the back of an SUV hisses at a rescuer’s outstretched hand, western Somaliland, 2020

    Photography
    Exploring why we photograph animals

  • A crowd of people throng around a purple and gold bull-shaped sarcophagus

    Photos of the weekend
    Coachella and a royal cremation

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