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  • people walk amid concrete rubble and dust beside multistory buildings with blown-out walls, under clear blue sky.

    Revealed
    Repairing Israel’s destruction of Gaza will come at huge climate cost

    Reconstructing buildings destroyed in first four months of Israeli assault will generate nearly 60m tonnes of CO2 equivalent – study

    • Hunter Biden gun trial
      Widow of president’s elder son testifies about finding gun in truck

    • New York City Audubon
      Birding group changes name to distance itself from racist namesake

    • Google
      Tech firm to start permanently deleting users’ location history

    • 'The silent killer'
      Dangerous heatwave hits US from Texas to California with grim records expected

    • South Carolina
      Charleston bridge closed as out-of-control ship powers through harbor

In focus

  • a side-by-side image of Nikki Haley and her supporters

    Nikki Haley
    Former candidate's voters could decide the US election – but will they back Biden?

  • Pavlo Pimakhov and Yuriy Pikhota in Kyiv’s suburbs.

    ‘It’s emotionally very difficult’
    Mobilisation squads face hostility as Ukraine tries to boost army ranks

    Insults and arguments show the social divisions opened up by recruitment drive and years of war
  • a white man in a black suit and red tie scowls in dappled sunlight

    Florida
    How Ron DeSantis’s ‘chilling’ anti-immigration law hurts Florida workers

    A judge blocked the governor’s law making it a felony to knowingly transport undocumented people, ruling it exceeds state authority

Spotlight

  • woman in surgical mask leans over woman with eyes closed. they hold hands

    'You can’t manifest the birth you want'
    The reality behind the ‘natural birth’ obsession

    Self-help books and wellness culture celebrate the individual overcoming adversity. It sounds empowering – but you can’t think your way out of a broken system
  • A collage of three side-by-side images shows several cobs of corn, two women holding fresh onions and a construction site.

    'A sanctuary'
    How neglected Native American communities are organizing their own food hubs

  • A selection of ultra-processed foods – fries, pizza, hot dogs, burgers

    The man who warned us about UPFs
    Michael Pollan on his 25-year fight with the food industry

    His Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc exposed the horrors of industrial agriculture in the US. Now, a sequel shows that the corporate behemoths have no intention of loosening their grip
  • Dunne: ‘I tapped right back into my vengeful side.’

    ‘I’ll never forgive or forget’
    Griffin Dunne on the darkness that overtook his gilded Hollywood upbringing

    Griffin Dunne’s memoir is full of wonderful tales about Martin Scorsese, Carrie Fisher and Madonna. But the killing in 1982 of his 22-year-old sister – and the subsequent trial – overshadows everything
    • woman smiles in image surrounded by badges and pins saying "pride = power" and "old and proud"

      ‘We don’t disappear after 30’
      The Old Lesbians telling a century’s worth of raw, revealing stories

    • Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump: “Our one-time commander-in-thief scored the most guilty verdicts of every president ever.”

      Kimmel on Trump
      ‘Scored the most guilty verdicts of every president ever’

    • Charli XCX

      Charli XCX: Brat review
      Insecurity-obliterating anthems by pop’s most human superstar

    • Nigel Farage reacts as he is about to be hit in the face with the contents of a drinks cup, during his general election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea

      Nigel Farage
      The man who wants to be the UK’s answer to Donald Trump

Opinion

  • A man in a black suit and blue tie speaks into a microphone, with an Israeli flag hanging behind him

    Why are Democrats blindly embracing Netanyahu?

    Jo-Ann Mort
    • A woman's hands with lavender fingernails hold a glass trophy with the words "NYU Langone Health" and an indication the award was for 'compassionate care.'

      A US hospital fired an acclaimed nurse for talking about Gaza. Where’s the outrage?

      Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Protesters in Israel call on the cabinet to sign a hostage deal and hold elections, Tel Aviv, 1 June 2024.

      Biden wants an end to the Gaza war. But he is finally realising Netanyahu will block any attempts at peace

      Alon Pinkas
    • Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, 5 June 2024.

      Compared with the dark saga of Donald Trump, British politics looks like Beatrix Potter

      Emma Brockes
    • The RAF veteran Bernard Morgan, 100, from Crewe, visits the war graves at Bayeux cemetery in France on 5 June.

      Let’s commemorate D-day – but not how Nigel Farage wants us to

      Luke Turner

Sports

  • Ukrainian high jump athlete Yuliya Levchenko in Kyiv.

    Ukraine’s Yuliya Levchenko
    We need to have peace so we create our future

    With 50 days to go before the Paris Olympics start, the Ukrainian high jumper on preparation amid the turmoil of Russia’s invasion
  • Jack Grealish with England during training at Tottenham on Friday.

    Live
    England’s Euro 2024 squad – Grealish and Maguire out as final 26 revealed

    Join our writers for the latest news as England’s final 26-strong squad for Germany is unveiled
    • Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter (right) was approached outside the team hotel

      'Thank GOD for security'
      Man harasses Sky's Carter in wake of foul on Caitlin Clark

    • Eric Ramsay has led Minnesota to a strong standing in the MLS Western Conference

      Man Utd to Minnesota
      Eric Ramsay on adjusting to life in MLS

    • Pakistan's Captain Babar Azam plays a shot during the ICC men's T20 World Cup 2024 group A cricket match between the USA and Pakistan.

      Live
      USA v Pakistan – T20 Cricket World Cup updates

    • Arsenal’s game against Everton last month is halted for a VAR check.

      Soccer
      Premier League clubs vote 19-1 to keep VAR but insist on upgrades

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Climate crisis

  • A TransCanada Keystone pipeline facility

    Environment
    Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis

  • A sea otter with a purple sea urchin surrounded by water

    Save our seas
    Five ways to rewild and conserve the ocean

  • A brown trout swimming among rocks in clear water

    Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows
    Animals radically changed by human drugs – study

  • Aerial shot of a solar farm on a barren hill

    Business
    Investment in clean energy likely to be double figure for fossil fuels in 2024, IEA says

Across the country

  • A tree is downed next to a suburban home.

    Extreme weather
    Tornadoes strike Detroit and east coast as heatwave blankets US south-west

    Child killed and mother critically injured in Michigan when twister uprooted a tree and sent it crashing into their home
  • a woman in a red dress sits in court

    Trump
    Court pauses Georgia election case as it mulls disqualifying prosecutor

  • A man wearing a tan uniform speaks into a microphone, with several American flags hanging behind him

    California
    In a county where the sheriff is also the coroner, families seek change

  • An iPhone screen with icons for apps including Safari

    Apple
    Company to close years-old loophole that lets children bypass parental controls

    • AI
      Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia investigated over monopoly laws

    • Marjorie Taylor Greene
      George Floyd rant condemned by Black lawmakers

    • US Senate
      Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception

    • Arizona
      Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes

    • Michigan
      Tornado kills child and injures mother after tree slams into home

    • Eight-legged freaks
      Giant, invasive joro spiders to spread on US east coast – but pose no huge threat

Around the world

  • Rapid Support Forces screengrab p;osted on social media. The war between the RSF and the Sudanese army has wrecked devastated the country as clashes spread across multiple cities and pushed its population to the brink of famine.

    Sudan
    At least 100 people killed after RSF paramilitary group attacks village

  • A brown booby perched on the end of a spinnaker pole of a sailboat

    Seabirds
    More intense, frequent tropical cyclones may devastate colonies – study

    • ‘Poo balloons’
      Activists fly K-pop USB sticks into North Korea as row intensifies

    • Czech Republic
      Four killed and dozens injured after two trains collide head-on

    • Scotland
      Man linked to viral dress jailed for domestic abuse

    • Bird flu
      Mexico man dies from first human case of strain H5N2

    • 'Morale booster'
      Fiji prime minister, 75, wins shot put bronze medal

    • UK
      Campaign launched to save ‘boringly ugly’ 1980s BT phone boxes

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • A scientist shows "Golden Rice" and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos<br>A scientist shows "Golden Rice" (L) and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Laguna south of Manila, August 14, 2013. Bruce Tolentino, Deputy Director of the International Rice Research Institute, said his team has been perfecting their decades-old research on “Golden Rice”, which consists of genetically-modified rice grains infused with beta-carotene, a chemical substance responsible in producing Vitamin A in the body. He also said,“ In a Vitamin A-enriched rice, what the scientists did was to select three genes out of roughly 30,000 genes in a rice plant. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: FOOD AGRICULTURE BUSINESS)

    Science Weekly
    Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast

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    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Taylor Swift: cultural icon or turbo-capitalist?

  • Jeremy Hunt hold up a pint

    Politics Weekly UK
    The ‘blue wall’ road trip: Tories jumping ship? Politics Weekly UK – podcast

  • Aamna Mohdin

    Today in Focus
    From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story

  • Rishi Sunak during the first head-to-head debate. (Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Sunak’s £2,000 ‘lie’ – podcast

  • ITV News's Julie Etchingham on a TV set

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate

  • Photograph: Adam Gasson/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football – podcast

Culture

  • Donald Sterling, V. Stiviano<br>FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, right, and V. Stiviano, left, watch the Clippers play the Los Angeles Lakers during an NBA preseason basketball game in Los Angeles. Sterling sued celebrity website TMZ and an ex-girlfriend over the recording of his off-color remarks that cost him ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers. Sterling's lawsuit filed Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, in Los Angeles Superior Court accused TMZ and V. Stiviano of violating his privacy and causing damage on a "scale of unparalleled and unprecedented magnitude." (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

    ‘Like a larger-than-life movie’
    The shocking true story of the Donald Sterling scandal

    In a starry new TV series, the controversy surrounding leaked racist footage of a basketball team owner is revisited
  • 2014, THE HUNGER GAMES - MOCKINGJAY<br>JENNIFER LAWRENCE Character(s): Katniss Everdeen Film 'THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1' (2014) Directed By FRANCIS LAWRENCE 19 November 2014 SAL45184 Allstar Collection/LIONSGATE **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of LIONSGATE and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To LIONSGATE is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. 1111z@yx

    Hunger Games
    Author Suzanne Collins announces fifth book

  • shark fin sticks out of water in front of upside down reflection of Eiffel Tower

    Under Paris
    Netflix has delivered one of the best shark movies ever made

  • A typically gonzo freakiness … Lumberjack the Monster.

    Lumberjack the Monster review
    An explosion of horror strangeness from a master of the art

  • Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson Diana Ross.

    From pillowy pop to foot-stomping beats
    The Supremes’ 20 best songs – ranked!

  • Stay woke … Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.

    The Matrix review
    Barnstorming sci-fi still calling our reality into question

Lifestyle

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me
    ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

    What happens when a woman’s monthly bleeding just won’t stop? Marjolein Robertson discusses her years-long fight to get help for her haemorrhaging and pain – and how she turned this into comedy
  • Ravneet Gill's mini bee-sting cakes.

    The sweet spot
    Ravneet Gill’s recipe for mini bee-sting cakes with raspberries

  • Tekla bedding from their new collection.

    Hot sheet
    The rise of aspirational bed linen

  • Patrons at Le Monocle in the 1920s.

    ‘But you hated these clothes!’
    The complicated history of ‘lesbian fashion’

  • Munkacsy Mihaly - in the Kitchen 1 - Hungarian School - 19th Century<br>Munkacsy Mihaly - in the Kitchen 1 - Hungarian School - 19th Century

    Leading questions
    My housemates leave dirty dishes lying around for days. How can I let go of my irritation?

  • Jane and Kristi in California in 2016.

    How we met
    She was so glamorous – I was terrified

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Take part

  • Women fill the hearing room during a senate committee on health hearing on "The Assault on Women's Freedoms: How Abortion Bans Have Created a Health Care Nightmare Across America" on Capitol Hill, in Washington DC.

    Roe v Wade
    How has your life changed since abortion law was upended?

  • Silhouettes of the 'Standing with Giants' installation at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France.

    Share your stories
    D-day landings 80th anniversary

  • Woman using smart phone on beach.<br>GettyImages-629639551

    Reclaim your brain
    Do you struggle to stay off your phone while on vacation?

  • A man reading a book in bed at home.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

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From our global editions

  • The harbour in Omoe, a fishing community on Japan's north-east coast. Aquamarine waters can be seen below small white fishing boats against the background of rich green trees and a blue sky

    Waves of change
    Japan’s female fishers fill the gap in a struggling industry

  • A man in glasses wearing camouflage, with a camera around his neck. He's standing outside in front of some shrubs.

    ‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’
    Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies

  • Chris Wiegand and two Taylor Swifts

    Music
    Taylor Swift is everywhere! Could I avoid her and her music for the whole month of May?

  • ∄ in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    Clubbing
    Inside ∄ – the secret Kyiv techno club that ‘does not exist’

In case you missed it

  • YORK, 08 March 2024 - Ken Cooke, 98, the last member of the York Normandy Veterans who stormed Gold Beach on D-Day, at St Lawrence’s church in York. Ken Cooke was just 18-years-old when his 7th Battalion The Green Howards waded ashore on the morning of 6 June 1944 in the first wave of landings. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    ‘It is gradually dying away’
    D-day veteran keeps story alive 80 years on

  • illustration: many people sitting on a train carriage, most of whom have huge muscles bulging through their clothes

    ‘Natty or not?
    How steroids got big

    Once upon a time, it was only hardcore bodybuilders who pumped themselves up with testosterone. Today it is no longer niche. But how dangerous is it?
  • ‘Rewilding teaches you to let go’ … Isabella Tree at the Knepp nature reserve in West Sussex.

    ‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’
    The film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding

    Knepp estate was £1.5m in debt. Now it thrums with wildlife, visitors flock there – and farmers are stampeding to copy its success. We meet the star of a captivating film about this amazing rebirth
  • A cherrypicker by a large sign reading 'European elections'

    Analysis
    The EU is braced for a rise in the hard right. What matters is how the centre responds

  • People use ropes to climb up the trunk of a giant sequoia against blue sky

    The end of the great northern forests?
    The tiny tree-killing beetle wreaking havoc on our ancient giants

  • Charley Hull of England smokes a cigarette on the ninth tee during the first round of the US Women's Open last week at Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

    ‘It’s a little surreal’
    How Charley Hull’s viral cigarette lit up the golf world

  • a man in a blue suit and blue tie sits in court

    Court queues, no internet
    I covered Trump’s trial – this is what it was like

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  • A girl pours a drink over her friend who laughs during end of term celebrations

    Photos of the day
    D-day commemorations and heatwave in US

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A muscular bare-chested young man seen from behind in this black and white photo almost seems to blend into the pile of tyres he is standing on as he lifts them out

    ‘In Nigeria, a tyre never quite dies’
    Reinventing the wheel in Lagos

  • President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk with President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron arriving at a ceremony in Colleville-sur-Mer.

    D-day
    80th anniversary

  • London, UK ‘Prince Albert alone with his thoughts in Hyde Park.’

    Readers' best photographs
    A pensive prince and petal power

  • Jair F Coll for My Best Shot only

    My best shot
    A celebration of a child who never got to be born – Jair F Coll’s best photograph

  • Morgan Otagburuagu, Bountiful, 2023 (courtesy of the artist and Doyle Wham)

    Flowered up!
    The best of Photo Basel

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