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  • Wreckage in rubble of Israeli airstrike in Gaza

    Gaza
    'Every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging war for political gain – Biden

  • 3d illustration of sperm cells over black background

    'Spermageddon'
    Stable sperm counts in Denmark cast doubt on male fertility fears

    • North Dakota
      Three boys ‘completely speechless’ after finding T rex bone

    • India
      Modi expected to lose parliamentary majority in election

    • UK election
      Sunak and Starmer scrap over tax and immigration in heated first TV debate

    • Michigan
      Clerical error behind man’s viral suspended license hearing

    • ‘Enormous potential’
      Weight-loss drugs cut cancer risk by a fifth, research shows

    • The-Dream
      Singer and producer for Beyoncé and Rihanna accused of rape

In focus

  • Independence Airport, California. County Seat Inyo County. USA<br>S2YTX1 Independence Airport, California. County Seat Inyo County. USA

    Revealed
    A century-old water war is leaving this rural California county in disrepair

  • Nigel Farage speaks to supporters

    ‘Vile’ … ‘Charismatic’
    Voters react to Nigel Farage and his button-pushing rhetoric

    Campaign launch for Essex seat reveals people there are as divided about him as anywhere else
  • Three young Latino people in black and white.

    ‘I’ve waited 10 years’
    What the US asylum process is really like, in applicants’ own words

    As Biden launches the strictest border crackdown of his presidency, five asylum seekers share their battles to secure protection in the US

Spotlight

  • This image released by Sony Pictures shows Will Smith, left, and Martin Lawrence in "Bad Boys: Ride or Die." (Frank Masi/Columbia Pictures-Sony via AP)

    Bad Boys: Ride or Die review
    Will Smith bromance goes big on Pointless Action Explosions

    Smith and Martin Lawrence may be in the wilderness but they're back with a winning cop comedy
  • Francisca, 42, and Lupe, 52. Guadalupe, Arizona

    Where the magic happens
    Americans let you into their bedrooms

  • Jon Stewart on Republicans’ reaction to Trump’s guilty verdict: “What planet do you live on? For it’s clearly not ours.”

    ‘What planet do you live on?’
    Jon Stewart on Republican reaction to Trump verdict

    Late-night hosts discuss the fallout from Trump’s guilty verdict, the media’s spectacle-laden coverage and Republicans’ denial
  • illustration of person at table with ghostly outlines of a person pouring a drink for another person and two outlined people sitting on a red couch

    Adult ‘after-school clubs’ and AI lovers
    My search for a fix to modern loneliness

    I waded through the deluge of academic and Silicon Valley offerings for connection – here’s what was most appealing
    • A woman and child's hands make pizza dough from scratch

      'Cost-saving kitchen staples'
      Amid rising US food prices, what should we be cooking from scratch?

    • Billie Eilish, centre, with clockwise from bottom left: King Princess, the Japanese House, Peach PRC and Girli.

      ‘I could eat that girl for lunch’
      The sexually explicit queer female pop topping the charts

    • A sunscreen’s SPF, or sun protection factor, indicates how much protection a product offers.

      The experts
      What is SPF and how much sunscreen do you really need?

    • A still from Lumberjack the Monster by Takashi Miike.

      Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!

      Stuart Heritage

Opinion

  • People walk by the One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, in downtown Washington DC, 21 February 2019.

    If the Washington Post is to fly again, its journalists must share the cockpit

    Margaret Sullivan
    • A composite image showing Donald Trump standing in front of a microphone and Elon Musk smiling.

      Elon Musk is cozying up to Donald Trump. Haven’t we suffered enough?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Stormy Daniels

      Stormy Daniels has never been cowed. And now, she is vindicated

      Zoe Williams
    • Composite image of Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak’s faces cut into a collage

      Keir wins the applause in the TV debate while the audience openly laughs at Tetchy Rish!

      John Crace
    • Electric candles from a vigil for nurses who died during the Covid-19 pandemic, Washington DC, January 2022.

      Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger

      Rebecca Solnit

Sports

  • Major League Baseball permanently banned Tucupita Marcano on Tuesday for betting on baseball and suspended four other players for one year after finding the players placed unrelated bets with a legal sportsbook.

    Baseball
    Marcano’s ban puts fine point on MLB’s alliance with gambling

    Alex Kirshner
    Baseball’s partnerships with sportsbooks inundate viewers with ads for sports betting. Is it any wonder the San Diego Padres infielder ended up getting hit with a lifetime ban?
  • Coco Gauff celebrates her victory

    French Open
    Gauff sets up Swiatek semi-final after comeback win against Jabeur

  • Grayson Murray was 30 at the time of his death

    Golf
    Scheffler in tears as fellow pros remember life of ‘kind’ Murray

    Dozens of golfers gathered on Tuesday for a solemn celebration of the life of Grayson Murray
  • Mbappé will be paid an annual salary of between €15m (£12.8m) by Real Madrid.

    ‘Some people made me unhappy’
    Mbappé explains PSG exit for Real Madrid

    The French captain gave his first comments since announcing he will join Real Madrid in July, citing a tension-filled final season in Paris
    • Novak Djokovic is treated by the doctor during his fourth-round match against Francisco Cerúndolo.

      French Open
      Djokovic forced to withdraw from tournament after knee injury

    • Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani, walks with lawyer Michael G Freedman outside the federal court on Tuesday in Santa Ana, California.

      Ippei Mizuhara
      Former Ohtani interpreter pleads guilty to stealing millions from MLB star

    • Tucupita Marcano was injured while betting on games involving his former team, the Pittsburgh Pirates

      MLB
      Padres’ Marcano given lifetime ban for betting on baseball

    • Sophia Laulki excels as a skier and runner

      ‘I like the chaos’
      How Sophia Laukli became a world-class athlete in two sports

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Climate crisis

  • Deep blue ocean with beautiful sky.

    Environment
    Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification

  • A man walks through a flooded street past a partially submerged car

    Brazil
    Devastating floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees

  • Dr Alex Hearn and his colleagues in a boat in fading light tagging a shark in the Galápagos marine reserve.

    ‘Where do sharks hang out?’
    The race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

  • A woman speaks on a mobile phone as she walks past a Green party election poster reading Einigkeit gegen rechts für freiheit (Unity against the right for freedom)

    Green politics
    Why are Green parties polling badly for the European elections?

Across the country

  • Omar Barghouti

    Campus protests
    BDS founder hails demonstrations for taking Israeli divestment mainstream

    Omar Barghouti, who attended Columbia University in the 80s, says student solidarity with Palestine in US and elsewhere has educated the world
  • people speak to the media outside court

    Fearless Fund
    Trump-appointed judges strike down fund for Black female entrepreneurs

  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Donald Trump

    Trump conviction
    Biden calls ex-president ‘reckless and dangerous’ over claims trial was rigged

  • a person holds a sign with 'AI' crossed out in red

    AI
    OpenAI and Google DeepMind workers warn of industry risks in open letter

    • Hunter Biden
      Gun trial attorney says he will call president’s brother as witness

    • Wisconsin
      Attorney general charges three former Trump associates in plot to overturn 2020 election

    • Nebraska
      Funeral staff call 911 after discovering ‘corpse’ was still breathing

    • 'Threats go way up'
      Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him

    • South Dakota
      Former mayor of town charged with triple killing

    • 'A little disturbing'
      DC targeted with harassing messages for allowing non-citizens to vote in primary

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Around the world

  • Two second world war-era sailers pose onboard a ship.

    D-day
    Canadian veteran dies day before returning to France for commemoration of invasion

    William Cameron was an anti-aircraft gunner on a ship protecting American barges during the largest amphibious invasion in history
  • Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    Russia
    French military instructors in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate target’, Moscow says

  • Social media apps displayed on a mobile phone screen.

    Technology
    Internet addiction alters brain chemistry in young people, study finds

  • A black and a white horse touching heads.

    ‘Against all expectations’
    Three of the horses that bolted across London expected to troop the color

    • European Union
      Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says

    • Education
      Eight in 10 primary teachers in England spending own money to help pupils

    • Iran
      Nuclear issue looms over presidential election to succeed Raisi

    • UK
      Newborn baby found in London has brother and sister also abandoned

    • UK
      Ex-Royal Marines reservist held in Dubai on spying charges

    • Space
      China’s lunar probe on way back to Earth from far side of the moon

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Sunak and Starmer debate preview – podcast

  • Ancient beech covered in moss and illuminated by sunlight in a dark forest

    Climate science
    Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will teach us what we need to do’ – podcast

  • Faiza Shaheen holding flowers after speaking to supporters

    Today in Focus
    Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party?

  • Composite of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer headshots

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Ahead of the TV debates – podcast

  • A bristlecone pine tree, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Photograph: Piriya Photography/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? – podcast

  • A bald man in his sixties (Phil Daoust), wearing a T-shirt, shorts and trainers, sitting on the floor pulling on resistance bands around his feet

    Today in Focus
    How to live to 100

  • Jude Bellingham and Nacho

    Football Weekly
    Nice try Dortmund, but Real Madrid are kings of Europe again – Football Weekly

Culture

  • Jake Gyllenhaal in The Day After Tomorrow.

    The Day After Tomorrow at 20
    A strangely prescient ecological warning

    The disaster flick is riddled with inaccuracies, cliches and gusts of machismo. But with its global climate catastrophe, it feels more relevant than ever
  • Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders
    'No-holds-barred’ movie given Netflix green light

  • FILE: Alec And Hilaria Baldwin Welcome Fifth Child Together "West Side Story" Broadway Opening Night<br>FILE - SEPTEMBER 09: Actor Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin have welcomed their fifth child together, a boy, according to People. NEW YORK, NEW YORK -FEBRUARY 20: Hilaria Baldwin and husband Alec Baldwin pose at the opening night of the revival of Ivo van Hove's "West Side Story"on Broadway at The Broadway Theatre on February 20, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/WireImage)

    Alec and Hilaria Baldwin
    Actor and wife to share family life in reality show

  • Hot Dog Money cover

    Hot Dog Money
    Behind the bribery scandal that rocked college basketball

  • Mr Fib, a smiling, winking, round, green character in a blue top hat.

    Books
    Mr Fib and Little Miss Surprise join ranks of the Mr Men and Little Misses

  • Kanye West in Beverley Hills in February 2020.

    Kanye West
    Artist sued for sexual harassment by former assistant

Lifestyle

  • Three young people smiling

    ‘You can do anything here!’
    Why Lithuania is the best place in the world to be young

    University is free for most students, the economy is thriving and the club scene is hot. Is it any wonder young people in Vilnius are smiling?
  • A gentoo penguin on Wiencke Island, Antarctica, with a pebble in its beak.

    Pebbling
    The viral romance trend that humans have stolen from penguins

  • OM Nigel Pea Rice copy

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Recipe for peas, rice and basil

  • Keep pastry offcuts to make a pie topping.

    Kitchen aide
    Is there any use for cooked pastry offcuts?

  • Models walk through along a path between small hedges and purple flowers. Grey stone steps lead down a small grassy slope behind

    'Feistily gorgeous'
    Dior show renews auld alliance with Scotland

  • Harriet Mansell - Vegetarian Summer Spread 037

    Harriet Mansell’s vegetarian summer spread
    Stuffed flatbreads and butterbean dip

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Take part

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

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

  • 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

  • A man reading a book in bed at home.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

  • Two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass<br>Posed by models Asturias, Spain, two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass

    Best friends
    Tell us about yours and your favorite things about them

From our global editions

  • ‘Everyone just got stuck in’ … the build in progress.

    ‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’
    The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch

  • The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, arrives at the party headquarters to deliver a victory speech, in New Delhi

    India
    Modi loses aura of invincibility as predicted landslide fails to materialise

  • Debate Reality Check

    Reality check
    How do the leaders’ claims in TV debate stack up?

  • The junction of the Greenway and High Street South in Newham: a path and cycleway stretches into the distance under a sign which reads Greenway; there are strips of grass and small trees to either side.

    ‘This whole case is extraordinary’
    Survival of Baby Elsa and her siblings was a miracle

In case you missed it

  • Sienna Miller models clothes from her collaboration with M&S.

    ‘I felt self conscious and ashamed’
    Sienna Miller on tabloid intrusion – and why she can’t bear boho chic

  • Jacki Weaver, Ed O’Neill and Cleopatra Coleman in Clipped

    Clipped review
    Basketball scandal makes for captivating small screen drama

    Donald Sterling’s tapes, which aired a billionaire’s racist thoughts to millions, have been given the miniseries treatment with a powerhouse cast
  • Composite image of woman in red suit and ballot box

    Georgia
    Republican who refused to certify primary a member of election denialist group

  • Long read on carbon credit fraud

    'Fraud of the century'
    The warring conmen at the heart of a €5bn carbon trading scam

  • Sunset over the highway<br>Long-haul truck on the Interstate I-80 highway at sunset in Laramie, WYO, USA.

    ‘They’re a mystery’
    Inside the deadly world of serial killer truckers

  • Rachel Cusk.

    Where to start with
    Rachel Cusk

  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler

    The reich stuff
    What does Trump really have in common with Hitler?

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  • A serious-looking man in a suit speaks in the House of Representatives as a young ginger-haired boy sits behind with wide eyes and sticking out his tongue

    Photos of the day
    India election and a boy pulls a face

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Francisca, 42, and Lupe, 52. Guadalupe, Arizona

    Where the magic happens
    Americans let you into their bedrooms

  • A bunker at Løkken, western Denmark.

    Second world war
    The Nazis’ Atlantic wall that failed to prevent D-day

  • Steve Silver in his loft in Williamsburg, Virginia.

    New York
    Inside the last of artists’ lofts

  • A composite of different male models wearing a trainers

    Pounding the pavement
    25 of the best men’s sneakers – in pictures

  • Three Victorian cartes de visite showing two Welsh women in hats; a white cats wearing glasses; and Charles Dickens

    Vintage photos
    Portrait cards that sparked a Victorian collecting craze

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