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  • Sketch of three white men looking at each other

    ‘Trump was my mentor’
    David Pecker to testify for fourth time in Donald Trump hush-money trial

  • Kristi Noem arrives onstage at a campaign rally ahead of remarks from Donald Trump in Vandalia, Ohio.

    Kristi Noem
    Trump VP contender writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book

    • Live
      Middle East crisis: it could take 14 years to clear Gaza Strip of rubble and unexploded bombs

    • Environment
      Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

    • Cancer
      ‘Real hope’ for cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled

    • ‘Selfless and strong’
      Memorial honours World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in Gaza

    • Pandabuy
      Police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses

    • Japan
      Town to block Mount Fuji view after tourists overcrowd popular photo spot

In focus

  • Abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion activists square off on the day the supreme court justices hear oral arguments over Emtala in April 2024.

    Analysis
    Arizona’s abortion U-turn points to Republican break from anti-abortion movement

  • Man in suit and glasses behind microphone

    The pro-Trump Arizona fake electors scheme
    What’s in the charging document?

    The indictment details the steps to push the concept of alternate electors in an alleged effort to overturn Biden’s victory
  • A mural of parachuters on the wall of a building.

    ‘We are with them’
    Support for Hamas grows among Palestinians in Lebanon

    Aspirations for statehood revived among younger generations in refugee camps where war has consumed daily life

Spotlight

  • ‘What Ryan has is a lack of insecurity about teasing himself, his stardom and his masculinity.’

    Evolution of man
    How Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society

    The actor’s feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Gosling’s auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024
  • A man paddleboards with his dog with kayaks in the background.

    A local’s travel guide to Austin
    What to eat, see and do in three days

  • a man and a woman kneeling on a bed on a stage

    The Great Gatsby review
    A literary classic becomes a Broadway dud

    F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel makes an underwhelming transfer to the stage in a bombastic yet misfiring new production
  • AG Cook

    ‘People think I hate pop’
    Super-producer AG Cook on working with Beyoncé and honouring his friend Sophie

    As the boss of PC Music, the godfather of hyperpop confounded critics but won over Beyoncé and Charli XCX. Now, with a supersized new solo album, he’s continuing his mission to make pop more unpredictable
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      Childbirth
      Postpartum depression soared in 2020. Four years later, has anything changed?

    • Harvey Weinstein at the Manhattan Criminal Court in 2020.

      First Thing
      Survivors may have to retestify after Weinstein rape verdict overturned

    • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

      Rights and freedom
      Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

    • A woman flexes her huge muscles before an audience

      Mixed doubles
      Why queer erotic sports cinema is enjoying a grand slam

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Opinion

  • People protest outside the supreme court

    Trump immunity case suggests new role for supreme court: kingmaker

    Martin Pengelly
    Oral arguments over former president’s claim of immunity seem to have left Trump happier than the justice department
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Is Connor Hubbard the most boring man on the internet?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Conan O'Brien

    Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

    Rebecca Shaw
    While other comedians spend more time complaining than cracking jokes, the former Late Nite show host remains gloriously unhinged and hilarious
  • woman looking through curtains

    We won’t stop violence against women with ‘conversations about respect’. This is not working. We need to get real

    Jess Hill
    Victims and their families are at their wits’ end. We owe it to them to throw everything at this national crisis
    • Emma Brockes

      Digested week
      Trump’s McDonald’s bill is big, but its prices have ballooned

      Emma Brockes
    • On a lawn surrounded on three sides by buildings, dozens of tents with handmade protest signs in red and green.

      Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

      Judith Levine
    • Abortion rights supporters staging a ‘die-in’ protest

      The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

      Moira Donegan
    • Gondolas by the Sospiri Bridge, near St Mark’s Square, Venice, on 2 August 2023.

      That sinking feeling: why long-suffering Venice is quite right to make tourists pay

      Simon Jenkins

Sports

  • The 76ers' Joel Embiid speaks during a news conference after Game 3 of Philadelphia’s first-round playoff series against the New York Knicks.

    NBA
    Sixers’ Embiid says he’s suffering from Bell’s palsy after hanging 50 on Knicks

    Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a form of facial paralysis he says has affected him for two weeks
  • Phil Foden applauds Manchester City’s fans after their win at Brighton.

    Live
    City turn up heat on rivals before big weekend – soccer news

    • Eddie Howe, Jarrad Branthwaite and Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Malo Gusto

      Premier League
      10 things to look out for this weekend

    • Arne Slot

      Arne Slot
      The overachiever and ‘good guy’ who can spark a revolution

    • Family of Will Smith arrive to Orleans Parish criminal district court ahead of the Cardell Hayes’ sentencing in the killing of former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith on Thursday.

      Will Smith
      Man who shot ex-Saints star gets 25-year sentence for manslaughter

    • Dommaraju Gukesh at the Candidates in Toronto

      Chess
      Gukesh, 17, shocks favorites to become youngest challenger for title

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Climate crisis

  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

    Environment
    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists
    They're getting in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Extreme weather
    Global heating and urbanization to blame for severity of Dubai floods, study finds

  • Sculpture of a giant tap, apparently hovering in mid-air without support, pouring out a stream of discarded plastic items on to the ground

    ‘Privileged access’
    Pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third

Across the country

  • A blond woman in sunglasses smiles broadly.

    New York
    Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump

  • Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha

    'Never just about Flint'
    Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty

    • Maryland
      US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio

    • New Orleans
      Police serve search warrant on archdiocese in child sex abuse case

    • US economy
      Stock markets fall after sharp US growth slowdown

    • West Virginia
      Man admits on deathbed to killing mother and daughter in 2000

    • Meta
      Value falls $190bn as investors react to plan to increase spending on AI

    • ‘Leftwing fascists’
      Senior Democrat calls for arrests of protesters urging Gaza ceasefire

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Around the world

  • Palestinians bring cement blocks to a pier that could be used to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza in March

    Gaza
    US troops begin construction of aid pier as questions remain over distribution

  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asia
    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east of continent

    • Cornwall
      New species of jumping spider found on university campus

    • Jean-Luc Godard
      Cannes to premiere film finished the day before director died

    • UK
      Foreign states targeting sensitive research at universities, MI5 warns

    • Microsoft
      Heavy bet on AI pays off as it beats expectations in latest quarter

    • Business
      Anglo American rejects £31bn takeover offer from mining rival BHP

    • Spain
      Madrid prosecutors ask judge to shelve investigation into Spanish PM’s wife

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  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC on 28 August 1963. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast

  • Biden in bow tie and shades with sign behind him saying: White House Correspondents' Association

    Politics Weekly America
    Is there humour left in the White House? – podcast

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    Today in Focus
    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

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    Football Weekly
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  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

  • Arsenal

    Football Weekly
    Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

    Today in Focus
    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

Culture

  • Nia Archives with union jack tooth and red, white and blue jumper

    Mad fer it!
    The young musicians flying the flag for Britpop

    Artists from Dua Lipa to Nia Archives are tapping the boisterous energy of mid-90s music – and even embracing the union jack. Can they avoid the genre’s laddish lows?
  • Jessica Lange and Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play (1)

    Mother Play review
    Jessica Lange anchors often aimless Broadway drama

  • Claire Kilroy

    Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy audiobook review
    A thrillingly blunt take on new motherhood

  • Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé of Justice.

    Justice: Hyperdrama review
    An uncertain return to the dancefloor

  • Jennifer Aniston.

    A way to make a livin’
    Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

  • man in a suit on a stage

    Jimmy Kimmel on Trump
    ‘He keeps his caps lock tighter than the door to Melania’s bedroom’

Lifestyle

  • Two models standing together. One has black curly hair and wears a grey sleeveless knit with red tracksuit bottoms. The other has long brown hair and wears a sage green sleeveless knit with a pale blue blouse and chinos.

    The new power sleeve?
    It’s the one that isn’t there at all

    Sleeveless knits work brilliantly over a sleeved dress or blouse – the conversation between the two pieces is where the magic happens
  • Mia Hansson with her tapestry

    Experience
    I’m making a lifesize replica of the Bayeux tapestry

  • Painting: Anthony van Dyck Wooing his Model (1827) by Gustaaf Wappers.

    Leading questions
    My partner concealed he had more than one ex-wife. Should I be nervous about our future?

  • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

    How we met
    ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

  • Louis Vuitton NFT varsity jacket

    ‘Born cool’
    Why the varsity jacket is still leader of the pack

  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

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    Ukraine
    Ukrainian men abroad: share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
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  • We’re after things that are small, genuinely useful, and inexpensive to buy (nothing over £20).

    Technology
    Tell us: what’s your favourite everyday gadget?

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    Sex
    Would you and your partner like to share the story of what you get up to in the bedroom?

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From our global editions

  • Looty’s Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor in front of the Benin brass plaques at the British Museum, London.

    ‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’
    How radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone

  • Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, with his wife, Begoña Gómez, voting at the general snap election in Madrid

    Pedro Sánchez
    Why is Spain’s prime minister considering resigning from office?

  • Lisboans march in the city’s streets in the aftermath of the 25 April 1974 coup d'etat which overthrew Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.

    ‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’
    Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

In case you missed it

  • a man in a blue suit speaks from behind a lectern

    ‘A political pawn to get Black votes’
    Morehouse students criticize Biden as commencement speaker

  • a child looks out from the doorway of a destroyed home

    'He doesn’t have any idea'
    What would Trump’s Israel-Gaza policy be if he were re-elected?

    The ex-president unambiguously favored Israel while in office but recent statements have been inconsistent and evasive
  • Steve Carell and Alison Pill. Credit to Marc J. Franklin

    Uncle Vanya review
    Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

    The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity
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    Time is your most precious commodity
    Can you ever get it back?

  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    ‘Waiting for Trump’
    Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

  • people with signs, some of them wearing medical coats

    US supreme court
    What’s at stake in emergency abortion care case?

  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’
    Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

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In pictures

  • A woman holds a red carnation during a military parade.

    Portugal
    Portugal commemorates the Carnation Revolution

    Thousands in Lisbon celebrated the 50th anniversary on Thursday of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, which toppled the longest fascist dictatorship in Europe and ushered in democracy. The almost bloodless revolution was conducted by a group of junior army officers who wanted democracy and to put an end to long-running wars against independence movements in African colonies
  • A giraffe walks through a rainbow at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.

    The week in wildlife
    A lazy leopard, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings

  • A woman in a tutu hangs by her arm from an open shipping container stacked among other closed containers

    Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper
    Photofairs Shanghai 2024

  • James Cleverly standing on a wooden step on a pier and holding onto a gangway that is being extended out to him from a boat

    Photos of the day
    Dancing in Haiti and a pink moon

  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude
    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

  • Hampshire, UK.

    Readers' best photographs
    A littler splash and a Cuban mystery

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