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  • A young Black woman with long brown and white braids screams as two police officers in blue shirts and black hats hold her arms behind her.

    ‘Like a war zone’
    Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

  • a man speaks into a microphone

    The fight for democracy
    How one Wisconsin man plagued election offices and stoked mistrust

    Peter Bernegger has brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices over alleged fraud – now he faces criminal charges
  • Standing in a sort of rectangular cage of metal police gates, with an armed guard just outside of it, an older white man next to another white man, both in suits, appears to speak. It's all in a dim, narrow corridor.

    Sublime indifference, collective shrug
    How the Trump trial is playing in Maga world

    The hush-money criminal trial receives less prominence in conservative media, and when Trump-friendly networks do turn to the trial, they give viewers an alternative narrative

Spotlight

  • Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

    Like father, like son?
    The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child

    Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adults
  • Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths

    ‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’
    Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed

  • An image from Bad Faith

    ‘Demolishing democracy’
    How much danger does Christian nationalism pose?

    Documentary Bad Faith looks at the history of a group trying to affect and corrupt politics under the guise of religion
  • Piers Garrett with an old phone. London, 26/4/24

    The ‘boring phone’
    Stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones

    The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy
    • A soldier stands in a dilapidated building looking at the camera

      Azov brigade
      Elite force bucks trend of Ukrainian losses on eastern front

    • Jeremy Clarkson photographed at his farm, March 2024, surrounded by goats

      ‘Dismissing global warming? That was a joke’
      Jeremy Clarkson on fury, farming and why he’s a changed man

    • birds on a telegraph wire in Three images by Diana Matar of locations where people have died in encounters with police - one in Texas and two in New Mexico

      ‘These people matter’
      Why Diana Matar photographs the sites where US police have killed civilians

    • HI Res Dr Lisa Kaltenegger 1Q2A9195-Enhanced-NR-4

      ‘We live in a golden time of exploration’
      Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life

Opinion

  • n older Latina woman with black hair and glasses, smiling and lit with a microphone attached to her blouse as if on a stage.

    Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The liberal justice has been called the supreme court’s conscience but we can’t afford a repeat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Charcoal sketch of a large white man in a suit in a wheelchair, with a person in a blue uniform standing behind him.

    The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

    Moira Donegan
  • dinner table with 'reserved' sign

    What joy it is to have a friend with a superpower – getting a table at the hottest restaurants

    Rachel Cooke
    In New York, ‘reservation scalpers’ are making $80,000 a year, but I’m banking on a neighbour’s generosity
  • a woman holds a sign that reads "vote uncommitted"

    Uncommitted voters are not apathetic. The Democratic party is

    Camonghne Felix
    Americans are recognizing we must do more for Palestine and are signaling dissatisfaction with the party, as they did in 2008
    • National Trust scones

      ‘Woke’ isn’t dead – it’s entered the mainstream. No wonder the right is furious

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • Jesse Plemons plays a ‘paramilitary crazy’ in Civil War

      Civil War is a terrifying film, but Trump: The Sequel will be a real-life horror show

      Simon Tisdall
    • A group of people looking down at their smartphones.

      Silicon Valley’s business model is incompatible with the moderation of online horror and hatred

      John Naughton
    • Group of teenagers using mobile phones in hallway at high school.<br>High school student and her friends using their smart phones in a hallway.

      The Anxious Generation wants to save teens. But the bestseller’s anti-tech logic is skewed

      Blake Montgomery

Sports

  • Lazarus Lake attempts his third trans-continental trek.

    ‘I don’t smoke on the uphills’
    Lazarus Lake walks across America (again)

    Jared Beasley
    Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake or Laz, completed his first trans-continental trek in 2018. He’s now attempting his second, but this time against medical advice
  • An underwater view shows swimmers reflected in the lens of an underwater robotic camera

    Poison in the pool
    Why the latest Chinese doping row is proving so toxic

    • Sheffield United players look deflated after Callum Wilson’s strike to make it 5-1

      Premier League
      Sheffield United relegated after 5-1 thrashing at Newcastle

    • Indiana guard Tyrese Haliburton reacts to a made basket during Game 3 of the Pacers’ first-round playoff series against the Milwaukee Bucks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

      NBA playoffs
      Haliburton’s game-winner lifts Pacers to 2-1 series lead over Bucks

    • Conor Gallagher celebrates after scoring Chelsea’s second goal against Aston Villa.

      A Villa 2-2 Chelsea
      Gallagher’s stunning strike salvages draw for Blues

    • Leicester City have returned to the top flight after a season that flitted between collapse and catharsis.

      Soccer
      Golden relief of Premier League is only certainty for Leicester

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Climate crisis

  • 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

  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

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

  • Series of trucks driving along a winding road at an open-pit copper mine

    Environment
    UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

  • a flood sign during a storm

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

Across the country

  • Crowd of people with one young women holding red and white sign that says Stop the Steal.

    A physician, a lawyer, a CEO
    The 84 fake electors who allegedly tried to steal the 2020 election

    With a new indictment this week, 36 have been criminally charged and 10 face a civil lawsuit – but seven hold office
  • Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York<br>Rhona Graff testifies as former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 26, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

    Hush-money trial
    Trump assistant’s testimony focuses on relationship with Stormy Daniels

  • Stock photo of yellow police tape

    Arizona
    Woman pleads guilty to stealing parts of corpses and trying to sell them

  • Middle-aged white man, suit, talking into microphone, seated.

    Suitless in San Francisco
    Thieves swipe bags from Adam’s Schiff’s car

    • California
      Crews battle fire threatening longest wooden pier on US west coast

    • Elijah McClain
      Paramedic convicted over killing sentenced to probation

    • American Airlines
      US flight attendant indicted in attempt to record teen in airplane bathroom

    • All burn, no bite
      Ohio company to sell a ‘flamethrower-wielding robot dog’

    • Ruby Bridges
      Civil rights pioneer rejects claim book makes white children uncomfortable

    • Baltimore bridge collapse
      First cargo ship leaves Baltimore via new channel

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Around the world

  • Om Fahed appears to be dancing holding a flag over her head

    Iraq
    TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home

  • Land crab in defensive posture

    And now for the pinchline
    Competition crowns world’s funniest crab joke

    • Iraq
      Country makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail

    • England
      Man who raped wife tried to convince court he was victim of domestic abuse

    • Ukraine
      US to provide Patriot missiles as part of fresh $6bn aid package

    • Tobago
      Briton, 64, in critical care after ‘unusual’ shark attack

    • Italy
      Towns split over moves to end honorary citizenship of Mussolini

    • Poland
      Border ‘pushbacks’ back in spotlight after pregnant woman’s ordeal

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out

  • 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
    White House Correspondents’ Dinner: is there still space for humour?

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

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

  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

  • 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

Culture

  • Arthur Hughes in Shardlake.

    Shardlake
    Murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this

    Set in a spooky Tudor monastery, Arthur Hughes and Sean Bean must solve a fateful crime while all the monks seemingly have secret affairs. It’s fun, knowing TV … I just hope you’ve all done A-level history
  • Lots of tourists using cameras and mobile phones take pictures of the Mona Lisa behind glass in the Louvre state room.

    Room of her own
    Mona Lisa could be moved, says Louvre

  • White woman with blond hair in early middle age, with lots of black mascara and dark peach-red dress smiles.

    Britney Spears
    Singer settles legal dispute with estranged father over conservatorship

  • Moses McKenzie is an author of Caribbean descent and grew up in Bristol, where his first two novels were set. His debut, An Olive Grove in Ends which Moses wrote at the age of twenty-one, was shortlisted as a Guardian Novel of the Year 2022. His second novel, Fast by the Horns will be published in spring 2024. Moses McKenzie is photographed in Nottingham, England.

    Moses McKenzie
    I was thinking about the predicament of the Black British diaspora

  • Minor characters for the win! … Knuckles, voiced by Idris Elba.

    Knuckles review
    Idris Elba’s Sonic spin-off is ludicrous, hilarious and actually rather moving

  • Headshot of Carol Decker in 2024

    T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back
    ‘We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams’

Lifestyle

  • Sebastian and Teresa

    This is how we do it
    Since having prostate cancer I can’t get an erection, but I still get just as much pleasure

    With penetrative sex no longer an option, Sebastian and Teresa have found different ways to satisfy one other
  • Rick Astley by the Thames River in Hampton, west London.

    Rick Astley
    I’m boring away from the spotlight – that’s why my life works

  • 24SS SP Select Ottolinger 005 x Puma

    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  • Man and woman in wedding attire

    The moment I knew
    He kissed me goodnight – then rang to make sure I saw the moon

  • Acid-green notes: the main bedroom.

    All play and no work
    A fun renovation in Mexico City

  • Trisha and Neil

    Blind date
    I warned him if he was less than complimentary, my girls would hunt him down

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Take part

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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
    Share your experiences

  • 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?

  • Tony and June

    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

  • Wildside Exotic Rescue’s Lindsay McKenna with a rescued wallaby.

    Animals
    ‘It was wet. It was filthy. It was aggressive. I said, I’ll take the racoon. But keeping exotic pets is cruel’

  • A man places a ring on a woman’s hand

    ‘I didn’t expect anything to change’
    What makes long-term de facto couples decide to marry?

  • Martin Paul works on a violin in his Melbourne workshop

    ‘Always respond to what the instrument is doing’
    The Melbourne shop showcasing the rare craft of restoring violins

  • Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss is led away after dawn raids by police in December 2023.

    The prince, the plotters and the would-be putsch
    Germany to try far-right coup gang

In case you missed it

  • Emily Oster

    ‘Why has my uterus fallen into my vagina?’
    Emily Oster’s new book demystifies common pregnancy complications

  • three side by side images: a woman with glasses; a sign reading to resist is to love; a woman speaking into a microphone

    'Urgency'
    Four students on why they’re protesting

    Students demonstrating and hunger-striking face arrests and hospitalization – but they think they can make a difference
  • illustration of woman cradling baby as she sits on what looks like a tiny island under her

    Becoming a mother was impossibly hard during Covid
    Has anything changed since?

    Rates are improving in the US as healthcare organizations take steps to confront the continuing crisis. Still, new mothers often feel alone: ‘People don’t know what to do’
  • a woman looks at computer screens

    Election officials in the US are under threat
    A key county just faced a major test ahead of November

  • a woman smiles and gives a thumbs up while standing on stage in front of multiple logos for the national rifle association

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

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

    ‘A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose’
    Can Allan Lichtman predict the 2024 election?

  • John Cleese sits in an armchair

    Secret to eternal youth?
    John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment

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In pictures

  • Marcia Hines performs with her band at Melbourne University in 1977

    Australia
    A look into Melbourne’s live music scene over 50 years – in pictures

    Photographer Brian Carr has spent 50 years documenting the notable and not so well-known musos who make up Melbourne’s vibrant live music scene
  • Image of children playing by jumping off a boat in the Sunda Kelapa harbour, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, with the sun nearly setting. Entitled Break the Limit it was shot in 2023 on a Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE.Jelly Fabrian is shortlisted in the Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2024, exhibition at Somerset House 19 April – 6 May, worldphoto.org

    ‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’
    Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture

  • A person slumps on a beach

    Twenty photographs of the week
    War, election, clouds and a marathon

  • Hamad Abu Aliah stands in his torched home at al-Mughayier&nbsp;village in&nbsp;the&nbsp;West Bank.

    From murals to food shops
    Original Observer Photography

  • David Cameron stands behind the saddle of a horse

    Photos of the day
    D-day veterans and an Indian election

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

    Portugal
    Portugal commemorates the Carnation Revolution

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