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  • a side-by-side image of Eric Adams, construction at a hotel, and Weihong Hu and Adams

    Eric Adams
    A real estate mogul bought her way into the New York mayor’s inner circle – and then the favors started

  • an anarcho-capitalist with mutton chops who happens to lead a country dances on stage

    ‘I’m the king and I will destroy you!’
    Argentinian president stages frenetic stadium appearance

    Javier Milei stuns nation with book release party-cum-rock concert described as ‘pagan mass’ in famed Buenos Aires venue
  • composite photo of mountain range on the left and man wearing sunglasses and grey top on the right

    Fort Mohave, Arizona
    In one of the US’s hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar

    In Fort Mohave, Arizona, even Republican voters are fighting gas power plants as utilities try to lock in fossil fuels

Spotlight

  • Marching demonstrators hold up a painting of George Floyd's face

    ‘We don’t know how many George Floyds there are’
    How police killings are kept hidden

    Dr Roger Mitchell, former DC chief medical examiner, on how homicides are mislabeled as ‘accidents’ and how ‘we must hold the system accountable’
  • Graphic illustration of naked woman with one pant leg on, in shades of red, peach, light blue and olive.

    No sex drive and a ‘tanking libido’
    How I redefined intimacy in midlife

  • Patti LaBelle at home in Philadelphia

    ‘I thought I was going to drown Otis Redding!’
    Patti LaBelle at 80 on soul, sex, survival and superstardom

    She is still touring seven months a year – and loving it. The legendary singer discusses smoking, swimming, sweet potato pie and her phenomenally famous friends: Elton, Otis, Laura Nyro and the Stones
  • Illustration for Moustafa Bayoumi's piece on the origins of US Islamophobia

    Decades of spying and repression
    The anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia

    It’s often assumed that Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian bigotry. In fact, it’s the other way around
    • Katz’s Delicatessen Deli storefront in Manhattan.

      'No pickles? No deli’
      Archetypal American ‘secular Jewish space’ gains due regard

    • Bruce Joel Rubin holding an umbrella with pictures of birds and grassland on it.

      ‘Of course, one wants orgasmic life’
      Bruce Joel Rubin on Ghost, gay identity and goldfish

    • Stephen Colbert on stage

      ‘Exactly much worse than we could’ve thought’
      Stephen Colbert on Trump’s classified documents trial

    • Dachshunds fighting over canapes, Barbetta restaurant, 1990

      Dachshunds, debutantes and Donald Trump
      Capturing the glitzy, bizarre world of 80s high society

Opinion

  • FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, file)

    Trump’s ‘unified reich’ video was a message not a mistake

    Margaret Sullivan
    You’ll hear no apology, no disavowal, no expression of regret for what he did. And certainly no promise that this will never happen again
  • FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, June 25, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

    The ICC arrest request is a fire alarm for Israel. Will it take heed?

    Jo-Ann Mort
  • Keir Starmer at a Labour general election campaign event at Gillingham football club, Kent, on 23 May 2024

    Memo to Keir Starmer: say change, change, change all you want, but soon our problems will be yours to fix

    Simon Jenkins
    Labour’s pitch is basically ‘elect us, we’re not Tory’, but people will quickly demand real improvements, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • ‘What is perhaps most shocking about this scandal is not that it happened, but that it happened in plain sight.’

    Corporations are forcing Americans to pay more for less – in their own words

    Matt Stoller
    Companies in the oil, hotel, meat and other sectors are price-gouging the US public. They’re not hiding it, either
    • Person holding three ice cream cones

      Eating out with a food allergy is stressful enough – but with a rare one, it’s a nightmare

      Hannah Fearn
    • Burning candle on stack of books near window indoors, while tea is poured

      The tiny rituals that bring comfort and joy in times of fear and uncertainty

      Paul Daley
    • Buying London. 20230211 NETFLIX SUPER PRIME GROUP 0729 RT2.jpg,20230211 NETFLIX SUPER PRIME GROUP 0729 RT2

      Buying London is grotesque TV – but it shows the capital’s property market for what it is

      Elle Hunt
    • Taiwan pearl milk tea with bubble at ximending in Taipei, Taiwan.<br>2AFJYPW Taiwan pearl milk tea with bubble at ximending in Taipei, Taiwan.

      Bubble tea is expensive, sugary and, as my kids have discovered, causing tween warfare

      Emma Brockes

Sports

  • Fan protests against the Glazer family are a regular sight at Old Trafford

    An A for Villa to an F for Man Utd
    How US owners have fared in European football

    American billionaires and investment firms now control teams across Europe. Their stewardship varies wildly in quality
  • Lucas Paquetá

    Soccer
    West Ham fear Paquetá’s career may be over if guilty of betting breaches

  • Scottie Scheffler speaks during a news conference after the second round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club on Friday.

    Golf
    Officer who arrested Scheffler reprimanded for not activating bodycam

    The Louisville Metro Police Department has taken ‘corrective action’ against an officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler at last week’s US PGA Championship
  • Max Verstappen (left) and Lando Norris pose before the Monaco Grand Prix.

    F1
    Norris confident of cutting Verstappen’s title lead

    The McLaren driver, who is currently 60 points behind the three-time world champ, said: ‘There are plenty of opportunities … we can start to come back’
    • Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Dončić (77) celebrates after in the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.

      NBA playoffs
      Dončić closes strong as Mavericks steal Game 1 of West finals

    • Left to right: Caroline Garcia, Iga Swiatek, Jelena Ostapenko and Katie Boulter.

      Ones to watch at Roland Garros
      French Open 2024 women’s form guide

    • Thomas Tuchel

      Soccer
      Tuchel the favourite for Manchester United job if Ten Hag sacked

    • Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev.

      French Open
      Nadal handed tough test against world No 4 Zverev in first round

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Climate crisis

  • A view shows Anemones at the Jan Mayen Vent Fields on the Arctic Mid-Oceanic Ridge at a depth of around 500m, in this undated handout picture. University of Bergen, Centre for Deep Sea Research

    Environment
    Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans

  • Bright orange streams flowing in the middle of a vast mountain range

    Alaska
    Rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds

  • A combine harvester in a field

    Greenhouse gases
    Can ‘rock weathering’ help tackle the climate crisis and boost farming?

  • Donald Trump at a rally in New Hampshire in January 2024.

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president attends Houston lunch to ask oil bosses for more campaign cash

Across the country

  • People stand near the border wall at Ciudad Juárez in Mexico

    Immigration
    Senate Democrats to force second vote on border bill that Republicans blocked

    Legislation has next to no chance of passing but Democrats hope to show Republicans are not serious about solving border issue
  • a man with a large mustache gets into a car

    Donald Trump
    Ex-lawyer says classified documents case delays show judge’s incompetence

  • A man sits in front of a computer.

    New Hampshire
    Consultant behind deepfaked Biden robocall fined $6m as new charges filed

  • people with their faces obscured hold guns

    US elections 2024
    Two out of three in US worried political violence could follow a Trump v Biden election

    • 'A gentle giant'
      Romeo was saved from slaughter. He’s now the world’s tallest steer

    • Iowa
      Five dead and at least 35 injured as tornadoes rip through state

    • Michael Richards
      Seinfeld star ‘not looking for a comeback’ 20 years after racist outburst

    • Charlie Colin
      Founding member of Train dies aged 58 after slipping in shower

    • Try our interactive quiz
      Do you know how the US economy is actually doing?

    • Nikki Haley
      Rival says she will vote for Donald Trump in 2024 election

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Around the world

  • Chinese military helicopters fly over Pingtan island, the closest point in China to Taiwan's main island, in Fujian province on 19 May.

    Taiwan
    China launches ‘punishment’ drills after inauguration of new president

  • Maximilian Krah

    European Union
    EU’s far-right parties expel Germany’s AfD from their group

    • Greece
      Police detain nine Egyptians despite dismissal of shipwreck charges

    • Spain
      Police recover Francis Bacon painting worth €5m

    • New Caledonia
      Macron arrives and says troops will remain for as long as necessary

    • Syria
      Children and elderly people tortured at military prison, Paris court told

    • UK
      British man charged with helping Russian intelligence

    • Mikheil Saakashvili
      Former Georgian president had fair trial, Strasbourg judges rule

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Atalanta v Bayer Leverkusen - UEFA Europa League Final - Aviva Stadium<br>Atalanta's Ademola Lookman celebrates with his Auntie and the match ball after the UEFA Europa League final at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday May 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Final. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Atalanta’s huge night and Mauricio Pochettino moves on – Football Weekly Extra

  • A Singapore Airlines airplane in the sky

    Science
    Why is air turbulence getting worse? – podcast

  • Photograph by REUTERS/Toby Melville

    Politics Weekly UK
    UK general election called – Politics Weekly UK – podcast

  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak making a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London

    Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble

  • Potesters rally as Vice President Mike Pence visits the Fraternal Order Of Police, Philadelphia, USA - 09 Jul 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Amy Harris/REX/Shutterstock (10707257ca) A group from the "Proud Boys" orginization rally as Vice President Mike Pence visits the Fraternal Order Of Police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Thursday, July 9, 2020. Potesters rally as Vice President Mike Pence visits the Fraternal Order Of Police, Philadelphia, USA - 09 Jul 2020

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Trump’s useful thugs: how the Republican party offered a home to the Proud Boys – podcast

  • A young person jumps while black smoke rises in the background

    Today in Focus
    Inside Kharkiv as Russia advances

  • Chelsea WSL Winners Photoshoot<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 18: Sophie Ingle, Maren Mjelde, Fran Kirby, and Jess Carter of Chelsea pose for a photograph with the Barclays Women's Super League Trophy during a Barclays Women's Super League Winners Photoshoot at Cloud 23 on May 18, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Harriet Lander - Chelsea FC/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Chelsea win fifth WSL title in a row – Women’s Football Weekly

Culture

  • The cover of Renaissance, the Beyonce album featuring Break My Soul.

    Beyoncé
    Singer sued for alleged copyright infringement with Break My Soul

    Bounce quartet Da Showstoppaz claim track sampled on US No 1 hit infringes on the title phrase from their track Release a Wiggle
  • Beautiful Ionian Sea with clear turquoise water and morning summer coast view from beach, Ksamil, Albania.<br>W13T7N Beautiful Ionian Sea with clear turquoise water and morning summer coast view from beach, Ksamil, Albania.

    Virgin Island
    The bizarre dating show where celibacy is at risk

  • film still of man in a hat and child looking at something

    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at 40
    Spielberg’s hit-and-miss relic

  • Adria Arjona as Madison Masters and Glen Powell as Gary Johnson in a scene from Hit Man

    Hit Man review
    Richard Linklater’s thoroughly entertaining fake-killer caper

  • Party on … Beastie Boys in 1987.

    Rap-rock beasts and drive-by eggings
    Beastie Boys’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked

  • ‘Beyond misconceived’ … Saweetie with puppets in Sex: Unzipped.

    ‘I wanted to scrape it from my eyeballs’
    Critics on their zero-star savagings

Lifestyle

  • Painting: Au café, dit l’Absinthe by Jean Beraud.

    Leading questions
    My wife has put on weight and I’m no longer attracted to her. What should I do?

    It’s one thing to struggle with finding your partner attractive, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. It’s another to feel contempt for them
  • A composite of a jellyfish on the catwalk

    ‘Really weird and really beautiful’
    Why the jellyfish is 2024’s unexpected style icon

  • Flame-grilled whoppers (l to r): hispi in vinaigrette, mushrooms with pesto, leeks with pecorino sauce.

    Meat-free barbecue
    Ben Allen’s recipes for flame-grilled vegetables

  • The sun rises over the snow-covered statue of Joan of Arc in Orleans in 2018, but when was she captured?

    Take the Thursday quiz
    Rare feathers, trading insults and Joan of Arc’s arrest

  • Sarah (left) and Joanna posing with the flags of Antigua and Barbuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines respectively in London, 2021

    How we met
    ‘We went straight into sharing a bed and a bathroom with no door’

  • Jeremy (left) and Tom

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I thought we’d have a couple of Peronis – he launched into the Grey Goose’

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Take part

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

    Life and style
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • elegant wedding cake with vintage bride and groom figurine

    Weddings
    Share your disaster stories

  • Young woman using DSLR camera<br>A young woman using a DSLR camera

    Guardian Weekly readers
    Share your best recent pictures with us

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

From our global editions

  • Anwar Hussein and his sons, Samir and Zak, look at a photograph of Catherine, Princess of Wales, alongside one of Diana, Princess of Wales.

    ‘She knew how to convey a message’
    Diana exhibition opens in London

  • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

    Explainer
    What is the pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

  • Left to right: Julius Malema, John Steenhuisen, Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma

    South Africa elections
    What are the issues and will ANC lose its majority?

  • A line of people walk along the edge of a filed thickly planted with sunflowers. People can be seen among the flowers taking pictures.

    Nature’s ghosts
    How reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

In case you missed it

  • Graphic illustration of many slits of what look like printed paper, in mostly white, with a couple blue and a couple red.

    Exclusive
    Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden

  • A surgical team performs a kidney transplant in an operating theatre.

    ‘Although she was dead, I felt as if she was my friend’
    What it’s like to perform the last rites for an organ donor

    The long read: As an anaesthetist prepares a brain-dead patient for organ removal, he reflects on the need for compassion in a donor’s last hours
  • A man in a T-shirt stands in a kitchen with a chair on a table and mud on the floor

    Climate displacement
    Ageing Americans struggle to find housing

    Older adults face a shortage of affordable and accessible homes as climate change worsens
  • Babies in hospital nursery

    ‘I would prefer to know’
    Kerri has up to 600 siblings. They may finally learn the truth of their origins

  • Damien Hirst with a painting from The Currency collection.

    Exclusive
    At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed

  • A selection of junk foods

    I went a week without ultra-processed foods. Here’s what I learned

    Cecilia Nowell
  • Passengers of Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore, which made an emergency landing in Bangkok, greet family members upon arrival at Changi Airport in Singapore on May 2024. A 73-year-old British man died and more than 70 people were injuredduring severe turbulence.

    Screams, chaos, blood on the floor
    Passengers describe terrifying turbulence on flight SQ321

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In pictures

  • Angela Merkel at an outdoor event

    Photos of the day
    Hostages’ families and interstellar dust

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • Santorini, Greece ‘A sunny afternoon a few days before the busy season.’

    Readers' best photographs
    White heat and the scent of summer

  • Fulani families of semi-nomadic herders in a tent

    ‘I pray to you not to shoot us’
    Mali’s Fulani herders languish in camps after violence

  • sign saying el camino motel restaurant

    Roadside retro
    Steve Fitch’s American motel signs

  • Not for the faint hearted … an image from Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dear God, the Parthenon is Still Broken

    ‘We pushed each other’
    Yorgos Lanthimos’s alternate view of Poor Things

  • A fan reads a programme at Tottenham during a match in 1985

    The Third Element
    Fans, fathers and football – a photo essay

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