Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Headlines

  • Crowd of people behind red banner that says 'Google stop fueling genocide'

    Google
    Gaza protesters block entrance to conference over Israel contracts

    Google I/O attendees were redirected to another entrance as protesters denounced company’s ties to Israeli military projects
    • Children in New York City signal to people in Dublin through the livestream Portal

      Ireland
      Dublin video portal to New York shuts temporarily due to unruly behaviour

    • Baltimore bridge collapse
      Ship lost power hours before leaving port - report

    • Abortion
      Louisiana moves to add pills to list of controlled dangerous substances

    • Ukraine
      Blinken delivers message of US support to Kyiv as thousands flee Kharkiv region

    • Hunter Biden
      Gun trial to begin next month after judge denies bid to delay

    • Texas
      US court hears case that threatens to erode Black and Latino voters’ rights

    • Google
      Company rolls out AI-generated, summarized search results in US

In focus

  • Canadian prizewinning author Alice Munro, at the Sebel Town House. March 9, 1979. (Photo by Paul Stephen Pearson/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).

    Alice Munro obituary
    Titan of the short story often likened to Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant

  • Two boxes of Ozempic stacked on top of eachother against a white background, with a pen and caps in front

    Science
    Can weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic also treat addiction and dementia?

    Studies show active ingredient semaglutide can reduce the risk of heart attack, improve fertility and help treat diabetes
  • Someone holding a phone in their left hand, with a message on the screen reading: 'Go ahead, I'm listening …'

    Analysis
    OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model offers promise of improved smartphone assistants

    System can operate directly in speech, speeding up responses and noticing voice quirks, but it still needs the power of Siri

Spotlight

  • title illustration colored

    Where’s the best place to raise a small child
    New York City, or literally anywhere else?

    In New York City, you get culture, diversity, mayhem and street smarts. In Tucson, where I live, you have space to breathe
  • Film still: The Second Act (2024) directed by Quentin Dupieux, starring Lea Seydoux

    The Second Act review
    Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives

  • Liz Carr in her documentary about assisted dying, Better Off Dead?

    ‘I’m fighting for the right to live’
    Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying

    The star of Silent Witness and The Normal Heart was ‘the popular kid’ until an autoimmune condition turned her life upside down. She talks about her lonely childhood, her flourishing career and the battle she can’t abandon
  • Black-and-white image of wedding cake with bride and groom figurine against a blue background

    Weddings can be overwhelming
    Here’s how to navigate the cost, clothing and carbon footprint

    From plus-size gowns to debt, eloping and guest etiquette, these stories can be a guide for us – through good times and bad
    • Alice Munro.

      Alice Munro
      A life in quotes

    • ‘Will our baby be on the show? Never!’ … Rafe Spall.

      ‘It’s great!’
      Rafe Spall on having a baby with his co-star in Trying, the infertility sitcom

    • illustration of bride and groom in a box with a shadowy hand reaching towards them

      ‘People literally lost their lives’
      Inside the rise and fall of Ashley Madison

    • Oleksandr Budko in The Bachelor Ukraine

      A hunky ballet dancing war hero!
      Is this the most desirable Bachelor ever?

Opinion

  • Man wearing blue suit and blue tie walks in front of people

    Trump’s hush-money case has proved he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

    Margaret Sullivan
    This is likely the only Trump trial before the election – and the only hope for a shred of accountability for his endless misdeeds
  • Emergency workers walk among debris in front of a residential building damaged as a result of a missile attack in Kharkiv on 14 May.

    The Guardian view
    Russia’s new offensive: Ukraine’s allies must renew their focus

  • Russell Brand Me, Bear Grylls, The River Thames and of course, The Holy Spirit.

    So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose

    Marina Hyde
    His journey to Christianity was very moving, and infinitely more spiritual than his trip to the police station to deny criminal allegations, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • Pro-Palestinian protesters at University of Michigan in the US, May 2024

    My Palestinian keffiyeh is a symbol of my identity. I should not be afraid to wear it in public

    Arwa Mahdawi
    I wear the traditional black and white scarf to celebrate my heritage. That’s enough to make you a target in the US today, writes Arwa Mahdawi
    • People are handed food at a public kitchen in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

      Rafah refugees are pouring into our starving, overcrowded city – and we hope they keep coming

      Eman Mohamed
    • The Open AI CEO, Sam Altman.

      Laughing, chatting, singing, GPT-4o is AI close to human, but watch out: it’s really not human

      Chris Stokel-Walker
    • ‘I’ve never been 100% sure what “emeritus” means, but if he is the model, it’s something like “Highlander”’.

      My stepfather-in-law is still happy at work aged 90 – what’s his secret?

      Zoe Williams
    • Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning in Netflix’s Baby Reindeer.

      Should Baby Reindeer’s creator have written about his alleged stalker? I did the same thing – and it helped me heal

      Paul Burston

Sports

  • Emma Raducanu plays a shot

    French Open
    Raducanu overlooked for wildcard and may have to qualify

    Emma Raducanu will likely have to drop down to play in the French Open qualifying draw next week if she wants to compete in the tournament
  • Rudy Gobert is a four-time NBA defensive player of the year

    NBA playoffs
    Gobert fined $75,000 for ‘money’ gesture directed at officials

    The center was fined $75,000 for an ‘inappropriate gesture’ that suggested a lack of integrity among the league and its game officials
    • Tiger Woods tees off the second hole during a practice round prior to the the PGA Championship tournament at Valhalla on 14 May 2024

      Cancellations and chaos
      Thunderstorm adds to mayhem of US PGA buildup

    • Oleksandr Usyk talks during a media day in Riyadh before his fight with Tyson Fury.

      ‘It’s bad behavior’
      Usyk to use Fury incident as motivation for title clash

    • Valeri Nichushkin leads the Colorado Avalanche with nine playoff goals this season.

      NHL
      Colorado’s Nichushkin banned for six months just before playoff game

    • AC Milan's Olivier Giroud celebrates after scoring his side's third goal during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Genoa, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

      Milan to MLS
      Giroud to join LAFC on free transfer after Euros

Play the Guardian's daily word game and share your score with your friends

Play Wordiply" Play
Wordiply composition

Climate crisis

  • A man wearing only shorts pours water over himself at the side of a road

    Philippines
    ‘Impossible’ heatwave struck in April, scientists find

  • A woman with a red unbrella takes shelter from the sun as people in the city of York, North Yorkshire endure the hottest day on record as the temperature in the UK passes 40 degrees Farenheit on July 19th 2022 as the UK continues to endure the heatwave and a period of extreme weather conditions.

    Climate crisis
    Heat exposure of older people across world to double by 2050, finds study

  • Silhouette of plane flying with yellow moon in background

    ‘Magical thinking’
    Hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds

  • Man in suit and red Maga hat holds campaign rally

    Environment
    Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency

Across the country

  • A graphic illustration of four colorful book covers.

    Revealed
    US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house

    Guardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’
  • a person holds a sign that reads "Defend DACA"

    US elections 2024
    Latino lawmakers urge Biden to extend work permits for undocumented people

  • Emergency crews respond to a bus crash

    Florida
    Eight killed after bus carrying migrant workers crashes

  • Red-coloured robotic arms work on the car assembly line of new energy vehicles at a factory

    International trade
    Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles

    • ‘Most people don’t know it’s available’
      New law helps people in states with bans get abortion pills

    • Rust film set shooting
      Armorer appeals conviction in fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin

    • Business
      GameStop and AMC shares surge amid volatile market frenzy

    • Elon Musk
      Law professor says Tesla threatened to fire law firm over billionaire's huge payout

    • Los Angeles
      County probation department puts 66 officers on leave

    • Senate race
      Pressure on Democrats as Republicans look to flip Maryland seat

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Around the world

  • Björn Höcke next to an official wearing a shirt with the word 'justiz' on the back

    German far right
    Court fines senior AfD politician €13,000 for using banned Nazi phrase

  • Pile of polymer £5 and £10 notes

    Tax havens
    Nearly 40% of dirty money is laundered in London and UK crown dependencies

    • Iran
      Talk about change in nuclear weapons policy must stop, UN expert says

    • UK
      More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine

    • Ukraine
      Zelenskiy calls for more air defenses as Blinken arrives in Kyiv

    • Canada
      British Columbia to bar those guilty of serious crimes from changing names

    • Thailand
      Political activist held in jail dies after spending 65 days on hunger strike

    • Niger
      Prime minister blames US for rupture of military pact

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
The Guardian Newsletters logo

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Aoife Mannion (centre) celebrates after winning the Women's FA Cup

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Aoife Mannion on winning the FA Cup with Manchester United: Women’s Football Weekly - podcast

  • Rishi Sunak speaking at an AI safety summit

    Science
    Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast

  • Anti-immigrant protesters wave Irish flags while confronting line of police officers

    Today in Focus
    The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland

  • Rishi Sunak

    Rishi Sunak
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Rishi Sunak’s big security pitch – podcast

  • Manchester United v Arsenal FC - Premier League<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 12: Leandro Trossard of Arsenal celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Arsenal FC at Old Trafford on May 12, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    The Premier League title race goes to final day – Football Weekly podcast

  • Palestinians in residential buildings in Rafah, February 2024. Photograph: Fatima Shbair/AP

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine – podcast

  • Young girl using an iPhone

    Today in Focus
    Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones?

Culture

  • Alice Munro.

    Alice Munro
    Nobel-winning short story writer dies aged 92

    Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade
  • ‘My reality occupies the white space on paper’ … images from Baroud’s I Am Still Alive, on show at Palazzo Mora, Venice.

    ‘Instead of a scream’
    The Palestinian artist who does a Gaza drawing every day

  • Jon Stewart to Robert Menendez: ‘You don’t need to break the law so cartoonishly when the legal corruption in the Senate is so fucking lucrative.’

    ‘How dumb is you?’
    Jon Stewart on Senator Robert Menendez’s corruption charges

  • Grimm - 2011<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY Mandatory Credit: Photo by NBCUPHOTOBANK / Rex Features (1474308i) GRIMM -- "Bears Will Be Bears" Episode 102 -- Pictured: David Giuntoli as Nick Burkhardt Grimm - 2011

    Grimm: a paint-by-numbers cop drama
    With a magic detective and mythical beasts

  • Richard Gadd as Donny Dunn in Baby Reindeer

    Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd
    ‘If I wanted the real people to be found, I would’ve made a documentary’

  • (From left) Ebru Ceylan, Nadine Labaki, Greta Gerwig, Eva Green and Lily Gladstone at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    Greta Gerwig
    ‘The number of female directors has gotten better. We’re not done yet’

Lifestyle

  • Doreen Baingana.

    How to have a healthy menopause
    I feel the strongest I’ve ever been. Menopause hasn’t slowed me down

    Despite the physical signs of ageing, I am determined to stay fit, keep my mind sharp, share my knowledge and embrace new adventures
  • Caroline Eden food in the Baltics Riga central market 2

    Why I love Baltic cuisine
    Flavors as vivid as the scent of pine forests

  • ‘I long to get back the dominant top that I married.’

    Sexual healing
    I married a top – but now he wants to be a bottom

  • Pastels and checks at Gucci.

    ‘Englishness with an Italian accent’
    Gucci returns to its London roots

  • Chicken pilaf on a white plate on a table with a white tablecloth outdoors

    Chicken rice, chickpea bake and wheat salad
    Ella Mittas’ easy autumn recipes for a Mediterranean feast

  • I was at my desk thinking ‘what is my job?’ … the fog of work.

    ‘I felt like I was losing my mind’
    How to keep your career on track during menopause

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
documentaries
Documentary link

House No.30, Kabul

Can journalism survive the Taliban? Watch the remarkable video diary of an Afghan journalist as their newspaper struggles to report on turbulent times

Watch now25.56
Documentary House No.30, Kabul

Take part

  • Liverpool v Atalanta UEFA Europa League quarter-final 1st leg match<br>Jurgen Klopp the Liverpool manager is all smiles just before kick off during the UEFA Europa League quarter-final 1st leg match between Liverpool and Atalanta at Anfield on April 11th 2024 in Liverpool, England (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    Liverpool FC fans
    Share your views on Jürgen Klopp’s departure

  • 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?

  • 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

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

From our global editions

  • Rick de Blaby at the site of the Elephant central site in London.

    ‘It will take two decades to fix the housing crisis’
    The developer reshaping south London

  • Rajesh Maurya and Sumitra Maurya

    ‘Pressured to withdraw’
    BJP accused of intimidation tactics in India polls

  • Four African women talk in a dimly lit communal area

    Celebrate, remember and reframe
    The therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women

  • ‘It was a lousy situation’ … The Howl and the Hum, with Sam Griffiths, middle.

    ‘People are forfeiting meals’
    Musicians on the struggle to financially survive

In case you missed it

  • Defence Minister Andrei Belousov speaks during a meeting with a Russian flag to his left

    Andrei Belousov
    Putin picks trusted technocrat to run defense ministry

  • collage of pictures showing ricky, kelsey and lauren davis

    Is it right to force someone into rehab?
    The man whose life inspired a landmark law

    Ricky Klausmeyer-Garcia’s friends struggled to get him addiction treatment, leading to a law in his name. Profound questions remain about how best to help those with substance use disorder
  • Sikh men with with flags and placards.

    India, gangs … or both?
    Who is behind assassinations of Canadian Sikhs?

    Arrests in killing of Canadian Sikh activist offer glimpse of the nexus of underworld crime and alleged Indian hit squads
  • abstract illustration of a smudged face with a melancholy expression

    A teenager was jailed for assault and theft.
    That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?

  • Architect's drawing of a cooperative housing project in Amsterdam called De Torteltuin

    ‘What if we built our own?’
    Young Amsterdammers fight housing crisis with cooperative build

  • Views her work as defying a state that condones a war against women ... Cristina Rivera Garza.

    ‘The only healing will be through justice’
    Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico

  • Sketch of two men and a woman looking at man in suit and tie

    Key takeaways
    Trump knew about the sham repayment scheme

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Newsletters

  • The Stakes newsletter image

    Sign up for The Stakes
    A free newsletter on the 2024 US presidential election

  • Stay up to date on all of Donald Trump’s trials with Trump on Trial.

    Trump on trial
    Sign up for our free newsletter on all the latest court developments

  • Well actually newsletter artwork

    Sign up for Well Actually
    A free weekly newsletter about health and wellness

  • Jonathan Wilson sign-up page

    Soccer with Jonathan Wilson
    Sign up for a free weekly newsletter from our soccer expert

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

In pictures

  • A woman plays a cello in a garden in front of a washing line hung with blue nurses' uniforms

    Photo essay
    NHS nurses quit after working through Covid

    Hannah Grace Deller photographed several of her fellow nurses as they decided to leave the NHS after their experiences during the pandemic
  • Part of a bridge collapses during a controlled demolition.

    Photos of the day
    Displaced Palestinians and a controlled demolition

  • Meticulous re-creations … Plate 1, Astrup’s Horn by Tonje Bøe Birkeland.

    See things differently
    The best of Photo London

  • Joe Lycett attends the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards

    Bafta TV awards 2024
    On the red carpet with Brian Cox and Claudia Winkleman

  • Valérie Belin, Study #7, 2013 (Black-Eyed Susan II series)

    More than meets the eye
    Valérie Belin, master of mirage

  • Intrepid boys rafting in Hoboken in 1972

    The big picture
    Huck Finn in 1970s New Jersey

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Tip us off
Share stories with the Guardian securely and confidentially

Most popular

Most viewed

What readers are clicking on

  1. Israeli tanks reach residential areas as IDF pushes further into Rafah

  2. Tottenham 0-2 Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened

  3. House Democrats launch investigation into Trump’s alleged offers to oil executives

  4. Michael Cohen admits he wants to see Trump convicted in hush-money cross-examination – as it happened

  5. So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose

  6. Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house

  7. Caitlin Clark will earn 2% of the median NBA salary. Is that as ridiculous as it sounds?

  8. Trump’s hush-money case has proved he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

  9. ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

  10. Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar

Deeply read

What readers are spending time with (Learn more)

  1. Three men strike plea deals over prison killing of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger

  2. Michael Cohen tells hush-money jury of phoney invoices to cover up payment

  3. Colorado’s Nichushkin banned at least six months just before playoff game

  4. My stepfather-in-law is still happy at work aged 90 – what’s his secret?

  5. Where’s the best place to raise a small child: New York City, or literally anywhere else?

  6. Eurovision organisers defend decision to disqualify Joost Klein

  7. Manhunt under way after two guards killed and inmate freed from French prison van

  8. Dublin video portal to New York shuts temporarily due to unruly behaviour

  9. Inside the rise and fall of Ashley Madison: ‘People literally lost their lives’

  10. Judi Dench on trigger warnings: if you’re that sensitive, avoid the theatre