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  • Man in navy suit and gold tie raises fist

    Donald Trump
    Trial to continue after vivid testimony from Stormy Daniels lawyer

  • A portion of the Florida wildlife corridor

    Florida
    State could have thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds

    • ‘Sir, are you still there?’
      Biden was silenced by criticism from families of troops killed in Kabul, book says

    • Boeing
      Second whistleblower dies after short illness

    • ‘Grotesque’
      Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training

    • Chang’e-6
      China launches ambitious mission to far side of the moon

    • ‘We must not stop’
      Potential Trump VP Ben Carson touts national abortion ban

    • Franz Kafka
      Author's life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows

In focus

  • Nemat (Minouche) Shafik testifies before Congress Columbia University's response to antisemitism

    Minouche Shafik
    The UK peer facing choppy waters over Gaza protests at Columbia

  • Park plaza

    ‘It’s like winning the lottery’
    The mobile home owners buying the land they live on

    Residents of manufactured housing parks typically own their homes – but not the lucrative parks themselves. Cooperatives are changing that
  • A composite image of a woman and a man against a red and blue background.

    ‘Chaos will be created’
    Arizona court hears election-subversion case – with eyes on 2024

    Implications of the lawsuit could extend beyond Cochise county, if local officials tried similar tactics in November

Spotlight

  • Katy & Garrett 3.4.16 (3) (1)

    The truth about weddings
    There was no time for a ceremony – so we eloped. Maybe you should too

    Financial pressure prevented a ceremony, and our families weren’t thrilled. But my wedding day was still beautiful
  • three side by side photos showing, from left, Bernie Sanders with the subtitle 'donald trump must be defeated', joe biden with red laser eyes superimposed, and trump hugging a US flag

    Dark Brandon popping off
    Is Joe Biden’s ‘cringe’ TikTok helping or hurting him?

  • Man on stage in front of Arizona and American flags

    Boxing, tacos and TV
    Democratic Senate contender aims to win back Latino voters

    Ruben Gallego, taking on Kari Lake in key Arizona race, focuses on ‘community events’ to reach those who have slipped away
  • Shane MacGowan

    ‘It meant so much to him’
    Shane MacGowan’s wife on the hunt for his missing Easter Rising rifle

    A widespread search has been sparked after Victoria Mary Clarke noticed a rifle owned by the late Pogues frontman was gone. She explains why this piece of history was one of the few possessions he cherished
    • Kenny Wildes eating a half cheese and half pepperoni pizza

      Experience
      I’ve eaten pizza every day for six years

    • Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

      Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
      Still terrible after all these years?

    • You be the judge illustration

      You be the judge
      Should my mum buy my brother a flat? She didn’t do that for me

    • Back in the Tardis!

      Ranked
      The greatest Doctor Who

Opinion

  • Black-and-white photo of man standing in front people holding a protest sign

    Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University

    Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones, and Barbara Ransby
    • ‘Women across Florida and the south rushed to find money, transportation, a doctor and an appointment before the law took hold.’

      Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US

      Moira Donegan
    • Illustration: Thomas Pullin

      A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

      Timothy Garton Ash
    • A horse heads back to a barn after an early-morning workout at Churchill Downs in the run-up to this year’s Kentucky Derby

      Twelve horses died around the Kentucky Derby last year. Little has changed since

      Elizabeth Banicki
    • a side-by-side image of Antony Blinken, Unrwa's damaged headquarters, and Benjamin Netanyahu

      Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies?

      Mehdi Hasan

Sports

  • Lucas Paqueta, Rodri, Elijah Adebayo

    Premier League
    Ten things to look out for this weekend

    Wolves seek another City shock and Isak eyes golden boot
  • Zendaya leads a winning cast in Challengers

    Challengers got everything right about my sport – apart from the sexiness

    Andrea Petkovic
    I played on tour for 16 years and I was ready for Luca Guadagnino’s new movie to fail. But it’s the most accurate depiction of the tennis life I have seen on screen
    • Lewis Hamilton speaks in Miami before this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix.

      Formula One
      Hamilton: it would be privilege to work with Newey at Ferrari

    • Iga Swiatek took just 70 minutes to defeat Madison Keys in a one-sided semi-final.

      Tennis
      Swiatek and Sabalenka set up Madrid final rematch

    • Ukrainian wrestler Oksana Livach holds a ticket for the Paris Olympic Games in Lviv last month.

      Olympic Games
      Ukrainian athletes told to avoid Russians in Paris

    • Chess 3918

      Leonard Barden on chess
      Carlsen calls Ding ‘broken’ as star Gukesh emerges

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Climate crisis

  • Gaboon viper

    Snakes
    Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study

  • Skyline of Brussels obscured by smog

    Environment
    Belgian insurer urges politicians to strengthen low emission zones

  • a woman files a lawsuit

    ‘Tragic and unjust’
    Court strikes down youth climate lawsuit on Biden administration request

  • Teesside Offshore Windfarm. About 30 licences for fossil fuel prospecting will be granted at future windfarm sites.

    UK
    PM to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind

Across the country

  • Kristen Clarke speaks during a news conference at the justice department in Washington DC in August 2022.

    Kristen Clarke
    Top US justice department official says she is domestic abuse survivor

  • Record number of sea lions swarm in San Francisco<br>SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 1: A view of sea lions at Pier 39 as officials say a record number of sea lions seeing the largest gathering in 15 years, in San Francisco, California, United States on May 1, 2024. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Pier pressure
    More than 1,000 sea lions assemble at San Francisco dockside

    • Apple
      Company reports slumping iPhone sales as global demand weakens

    • Abu Ghraib
      Mistrial in case of US military contractor accused of abuse

    • California
      Boat captain sentenced to four years over fire that killed 34

    • Business
      Sony and Apollo reportedly make $26bn offer for Paramount

    • ‘They don’t want immigrants’
      Biden calls Japan and India ‘xenophobic’

    • Amazon
      CEO broke US law with anti-union comments, judge rules

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Around the world

  • PANAMA-ELECTION-OAS-CAMPAIGN-MULINO<br>Panama's presidential candidate for the Realizando Metas party Jose Raul Mulino arrive at a meeting with OAS members in Panama City, on May 1, 2024. Panama will hold presidential elections on May 5. (Photo by Marvin RECINOS / AFP) (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Panama
    Top court rejects bid to disqualify candidacy of presidential frontrunner

  • Funeral of Palestinian TV reporter Abu Hatab killed in Israeli attacks, Khan Younis, Gaza, 3 November 2023

    World Press Freedom Day
    Attacks on press freedom around the world are intensifying, index reveals

    • Philippines
      Ruined centuries-old town re-emerges as dam dries up during heatwave

    • Haiti
      Residents flee as gangs launch new gun and arson attacks in capital

    • Turkey
      Country stops all trade with Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy’ in Gaza

    • Niger
      Russian troops enter airbase where US soldiers are stationed

    • UK
      David Cameron commits £3bn a year in aid to Ukraine ‘for as long as necessary’

    • Boris Johnson
      Ex-PM turned away from UK polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Illustration: Daniel Liévano

    The Audio Long Read
    Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

  • People inspect damage and recover items from their homes after Israeli airstrikes

    Today in Focus
    Are we on the brink of a ceasefire deal for Gaza?

  • FBL-EUR-C1-DORTMUND-PSG<br>Dortmund's German forward #14 Niclas Fuellkrug (R) celebrates with Dortmund's English midfielder #10 Jadon Sancho (L) and Dortmund's German midfielder #19 Julian Brandt scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg football match between Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on May 1, 2024 in Dortmund. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Advantage Dortmund in Champions League semis? – Football Weekly Extra

  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    Science
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

  • A transport vehicle carries three Tesla Cybertrucks on a freeway in California

    Today in Focus
    Has Elon Musk driven Tesla off track?

  • A designed image with the words 'Politics Weekly UK'

    Politics Weekly UK
    Coming 5 May: Politics Weekly Westminster – an extra podcast episode to get your political fix

  • Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham, left, runs with Bayern's Harry Kane during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Christian Bruna)

    Football Weekly
    All square in Munich and Ipswich a point from Premier League – Football Weekly

Culture

  • Going for a song … Jude Rogers at Ty Newydd Writer's Centre in north Wales.

    ‘Push through the feelings of worthlessness’
    Can anyone learn to be a top songwriter?

    Everyone from Mark Ronson to Alicia Keys is running songwriting courses. On a retreat in north Wales, our folk music critic tries her hand
  • petrol station

    Review
    The best recent poetry

  • Paul Auster.

    ‘I remember Paul Auster’
    A tribute by Jonathan Lethem to his friend

  • Dua Lipa.

    Dua Lipa
    Radical Optimism review – ‘psychedelic pop-infused’? Pull the other one!

  • PROM DATES - “Prom Dates” follows best friends Jess and Hannah, who made a pact at 13 to have the perfect senior prom. Despite the impending changes that college will bring over the next four years, the two are committed to honoring their prom pact. But with only 24 hours left before the big event, everything falls apart when they break up with each of their dates. Jess and Hannah are left with one night to find new dates and live out their middle-school fantasies. (Disney/Brett Roedel) JULIA LESTER, ANTONIA GENTRY

    Prom Dates review
    Grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster

  • Edward Wadsworth, Bright Intervals

    Beauty, filth, violence and death
    Why still life art is more subversive than you think

Lifestyle

  • Liz de Aza at Milk

    All black is back – again
    Here’s how to wear it in 2024

    Think about the silhouette – black makes a caped sleeve or wide-legged trouser feel more wearable
  • SALI COLUMN SAT MAG Perfume: Prop Stylist: Yvonne Achato @yvonneachoto_stylist Assistant: Declan Slattery @decslattery

    Hate perfume?
    Even sceptics won’t turn up their noses at these subtle scents

  • Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe: view of the beaches of Cala Mitjana and Cala Mitjaneta, natural area of special interest in the southwest<br>G01J8B Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe: view of the beaches of Cala Mitjana and Cala Mitjaneta, natural area of special interest in the southwest

    ‘If I could be teleported to any beach, this would be it’
    Readers choose their favourite European beaches

  • Painting: Visit to a New Mother (1835) by Moritz Calisch.

    Leading questions
    My mother-in-law pushes to spend more time with our baby. How can I keep her at arm’s length?

  • Models walk along a paved area of Cité Radieuse as people sit watching at the side

    ‘We need to take risks’
    Chanel gets gritty with Marseille show

  • Les and Anna

    How we met
    From the first moment I felt a sense of happiness

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Take part

  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    Music
    Tell us your experiences of making a living from music

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

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From our global editions

  • A close-up black and white photo of Pedro Sánchez with white rips in the paper

    ‘A brutal business’
    Toxicity of politics takes toll on world leaders’ mental health

  • An ice-cream mini-truck open for business, with colourful photographs and illustrations on display

    Cool solution
    How ice-cream saved drought-hit farmers in India

  • sickle cells in blood flow illustration

    Medicine
    ‘Life-changing’ drug for sickle cell disease to be offered by NHS in England

  • Olga Rudenko on the street, photographed for a protrait with her reflection also visible in a shop window

    Ukraine's fight for full press freedom
    ‘We can write what we want, but bad actors try to intimidate us’

In case you missed it

  • ‘Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, and 100,000 die from the condition annually.’

    Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?
    A lawsuit dared to ask

  • woman's face in distress viewed between legs of police

    ‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’
    Student photographers’ best images of the campus protests

    Nine photojournalists from across the US tell the stories behind their most powerful shots, as pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns
  • Zahra Joya poses for portrait on a bench in Elthorne Park, London.

    ‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’
    Passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

    Her family have been threatened and her team faces increasing risks in Afghanistan, but Zahra Joya knows she must keep reporting from exile
  • Man in suit and red Maga hat smirks to crowd

    US elections 2024
    Trump trades New York worries for hit of adulation from his Maga faithful

  • Screengrab of man with mustache, beard and necklace

    ‘Intense and insane’
    Was this the most unsettling reality TV show ever?

  • Deby speaks to a crowd on a microphone during an election campaign rally

    Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno
    Chad leader tries to step out of his battle-tested father’s shadow

  • Crowds at a funeral procession in the West Bank

    ‘They hide when Israelis come’
    Palestinians despair of leadership after killing of colonel’s son

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In pictures

  • A 'Maya' girl sits on an altar

    Photo essay
    Spring, fertility and an awakening with Spain’s Las Mayas

    Since 2014 Spanish photographer Daniel Ochoa de Olza has been portraying the girl participants in a spring festival held in Colmenar Viejo outside Madrid. His portraits bear witness to his fascination with the enduring nature of Spain’s rituals
  • A field hamster looks out of its burrow in a field. in Euskirchen, Germany.

    Week in wildlife: a giant hamster, a mustachoied deer and a zebra on the run

  • Police face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.

    In pictures
    Police move in on protest camp at UCLA

  • Dancers perform in Circle Electric

    Photos of the day
    A dance premiere and bees on Broadway

  • A dog outside a polling station for the London mayor election

    Dog-whistle politics
    Pets at UK polling stations

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    The eyes have it
    LensCulture portrait awards 2024

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