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  • Young middle-aged man with coifed, graying brown hair, tortoiseshell glasses, dark suit and red tie.

    Mike Johnson
    House speaker unveils complex plan for Israel and Ukraine aid amid rising pressure

  • Hannah Waddingham on Olivier Awards red carpet

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

    • Saudi Arabia
      FA and players union condemn whipping of player by spectator

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

    • Transgender
      US Supreme court allows Idaho to enforce ban on treatment for youth

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

    • Canada
      'Long overdue’ title over more than 200 islands handed to Haida Nation

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

News in focus

  • People protest outside court in New York on 15 April.

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

  • a child uses a laptop

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

    Nine states are hashing out bills to protect minors online. Tech companies are fighting the laws with everything they’ve got
  • 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

Spotlight

  • A young woman with dreadlocks and a gap-tooth smile grins widely.

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

    Death anxiety and end-of-life planning are all in a day’s work for a care worker who helps shepherd clients off this mortal coil
  • Donald Trump at the Manhattan criminal court in New York on 15 April 2024.

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president's criminal trial for hush-money payments crawls to a start

  • 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
  • Bluey Heeler from TV series Bluey

    Bluey’s blockbuster episode hit a nerve for my family by casting moving house as difficult and scary

    Chloe Booker
    Children go through all sorts of changes, along with moving. The show was a missed opportunity to help children navigate such events in their life
    • Alleged drone wreckage on the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, in a photograph provided to Reuters by the press service of the Russian-occupied power station in Ukraine.

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

    • ‘It didn’t feel dramatic, or particularly awful’ … Salman Rushdie.

      ‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’
      10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s Knife

    • 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
    • man in a suit sits at a desk on stage

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

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
    If criminally convicted in New York, Trump will face legal humiliations of the sort he loves when applied to other people
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • Liz Truss

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

    Zoe Williams
  • 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

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Climate crisis

  • Two fishermen onboard a trawler with nets full of shellfish

    'Hypocrisy'
    Conservationists condemn France’s protest over UK’s bottom-trawling ban

  • A bull shark

    Oceans
    Climate crisis increasing frequency of deadly upswells, study finds

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

    Climate crisis
    Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record

  • Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) leaping on upstream migration

    Environment
    Record number of river barriers removed across Europe in 2023

Around the world

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

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

    Findings also detailed how a ‘bald man in black’ thought by service members to be the bomber was misidentified
  • A Lebanese soldier and emergency responders survey an impact crater after an Israeli airstrike hit a road in the southern village of Alma al-Shaab

    Lebanon
    Four Israeli soldiers injured by Hezbollah bombs

  • Laura Farris.

    Deepfake
    Creating sexually explicit images to be made offence in UK

  • Warner Bros Discovery Announces Plans To Close Newshub In New Zealand<br>AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 28: In this photo illustration the Newshub homepage is displayed on a laptop, alongside a news article on the networks pending closure on an iPhone on February 28, 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand. Warner Bros Discovery announced plans to close Newshub in June with consultations to take place until a final decision is made in April. (Photo illustration by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

    New Zealand
    Parts of axed media outlet Newshub to continue in new deal

    • Rust film set shooting
      Armorer sentenced to 18 months in prison for fatal on-set shooting

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

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

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

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

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

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Two Black women stand in front of a house beyond a massive oak tree.

    'The overall goal is to run us all out'
    They’re fighting polluters destroying historically Black towns – starting with their own

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • 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 honour the Africans buried on St Helena

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Culture

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

    ‘He was a born member of the underground’
    How Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde

    He only published one book – and it was hardly noticed. Now his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. As they go on show, the photographer’s favourite subjects recall his genius
  • two people in vests that say press

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

    Charles Bramesco
  • a woman with long blonde hair surrounded by dancers

    Doja Cat at Coachella review
    An electrifying tour de force

  • 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

  • triptych crab

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

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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

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    Roberto Cavalli obituary
    Italian fashion designer dies aged 83

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  • People applaud as taoiseach Simon Harris looks on after receiving a majority parliamentary vote in Dublin, Ireland.

    People in Ireland
    What are your political hopes for new taoiseach Simon Harris?

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

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From our global editions

  • A robot-powered fast food kitchen.

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

    If the experience of robot-served fast-food dining is any indication, the future of sex robots is going to be very unpleasant
  • An octopus on an underwater mountain off the coast of Chile

    'It's beautiful'
    Dragons, sea toads and the longest creature ever seen found on undersea peaks off South America

  • Older white man, orangey skin, dark suit, white shirt, red tie, frowning, standing in front of multiple American flags.

    Donald Trump trials
    Who are the key players in ex-president's hush-money trial?

  • Black and white vintage photograph of four young people, three women in 30s era dresses, with a masked man at the back wearing a dinner suit. All of them are holding instruments: a guitar, ukelele, banjo or maybe a banjelele, and what could be a bouzouki.

    Wrestling the octopus
    The masked gang who fought to save England from urban sprawl

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

    South Sudan
    Inside a worsening refugee crisis – in pictures

  • black and white picture of sailors

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

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  • ‘For a moment, I believed she was a real victim’ … actor Saskia Pay is directed by Ukrainian refugees in Andrii Dostliev and Lia Dostlieva’s work.

    Bloodied, despondent, clutching a toy
    The Ukrainian artists savaging refugee portrait stereotypes

  • 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

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

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    What caused the civil war and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?

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  • 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    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
  • 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

  • Women in matching dresses take part in a rehearsal

    Photos of the day
    Olympics rehearsals and Kim statues

  • 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

  • Ignore The Kids ** Med res

    Fake ads, real politics
    The art of Foka Wolf, the ‘Birmingham Banksy’ – in pictures

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    Bling things
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