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    Campus protests
    Gaza protesters occupying California university building arrested in crackdown

  • Debris covers the lawn of a home from Monday's standoff with police in Charlotte, N.C. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Police in North Carolina say a shootout that killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others began as officers approached the home to serve a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

    North Carolina
    Officers killed in shootout named as rifle found in suspect’s home

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Netanyahu vows to raid Rafah ‘with or without’ hostage deal

    • Technology
      Amazon sales soar with boost from AI and advertising

    • Health
      Perimenopausal women have 40% higher risk of depression, study suggests

    • New Orleans
      Archdiocese is target of child sex trafficking investigation, officials say

    • Ukraine
      Woman, 98, walks six miles alone to escape Russian-held territory

    • Marijuana
      Biden administration plans to reclassify substance as lower-risk drug

In focus

  • Students wearing masks link arms outside a building

    Columbia campus protests
    As students occupy building, what next?

  • apartment buildings

    $600 rent for a two-bedroom
    Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?

    Housing costs and homelessness are on the rise in California. In the Austrian capital, people of all income levels live in subsidised housing – and more is being built
  • A snorkeller above bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island

    ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’
    Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard

    Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Spotlight

  • illustration of a worried looking man and two brains

    Well actually
    I have OCD. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques made it worse

    Many practitioners consider CBT the gold standard of therapy, but does it work for everyone?
  • Man and woman standing on separate mountain peaks

    'Like the clouds opened'
    I’ve joined the sisterhood of divorced women. We’re happier set free

    Women initiate 70% of divorces. My separation was difficult – but friends and strangers reassured me it wasn’t a mistake
    • Messy bedroom with untidy elements

      I live in an uninhabitable ‘boy room’
      Can a comedian save me from myself?

    • illustration of man standing on bottle of wine spilling and throwing away two wine glasses

      Alcohol
      I spent 22 years as a problem drinker. Here are 10 things I’ve learned since I quit

    • man in a suit with his arm outstretched

      Late-night TV roundup
      Stephen Colbert: ‘If you like puppies, you’re not going to like Kristi Noem’

    • Lawrence Rothman in black clothing leaning on a black car

      ‘Bowie told me it’s OK to be messy’
      The starry life and strife of singer-songwriter Lawrence Rothman

Opinion

  • Students protesting against the war on Gaza

    Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’?

    Cas Mudde
    • Mark Zuckerberg in a statement shearling jacket

      It’s Mark Zuckerberg as we’ve never seen him! But what’s really behind the new look?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Thousands making their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's hometown in Kurdistan, in October 2022, to mark 40 days since her death.

      The Guardian view
      On the women of Iran: still resisting repression

    • From left; Protest over the then missing journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira; Commemoration of journalist Rafael Moreno; Mural of late Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh,

      Across the world, journalists are under threat for sharing the truth

      Jonathan Watts
    • Site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip<br>A Palestinian woman holds a child in a damaged house at the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 29, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

      Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza?

      Arwa Mahdawi

Sports

  • Nottingham Forest’s players appeal for a penalty during their game against Everton

    Soccer
    Webb admits VAR should have given Forest penalty at Everton

    Howard Webb has conceded VAR should have intervened to recommend that Nottingham Forest be awarded a penalty during their Premier League game against Everton
  • LeBron James and the Lakers pushed the Denver Nuggets hard in their playoff series but lost 4-1.

    ‘Not going to answer that’
    LeBron quiet on future after Lakers’ playoff exit

    The futures of LeBron James and Darvin Ham with the Los Angeles Lakers are murky after their first-round playoff exit to the Denver Nuggets was confirmed
    • The Portland Trailblazers have an annual game to promote sustainable initiatives.

      NBA
      Basketball wants to be part of solution to climate crisis

    • David Squires cartoon on … a Premier League referee grudge tracker

      David Squires on …
      A handy Premier League referee grudge tracker

    • Francis Ngannou

      Francis Ngannou
      Fighter confirms death of infant son Kobe in social media post

    • The US women’s team celebrate after winning the SheBelieves Cup this month.

      Women's World Cup
      US and Mexico withdraw joint bid to host 2027 event

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Climate crisis

  • power plant from a distance during sunset

    Climate crisis
    G7 agree to end use of unabated coal power plants by 2035

  • Red Exxon logo against the blue sky

    Big oil
    Companies privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds

  • people hold signs outside a home improvement store

    Environment
    EPA to ban most uses of chemical linked to dozens of deaths

  • a wild horse in an open field

    National parks
    ‘Incredible’ news for bears and wild horses as US shifts preservation plans

Across the country

  • A satellite map from Google Earth of a Tyson processing plant in Dakota City, Nebraska

    Revealed
    Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes

    Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years
  • woman in a blue blazer

    Kristi Noem
    Republican governor ‘had a shot’ at Trump VP slot before dog-killing boast, sources say

  • Man wearing glasses, suit and tie pushes door open with two men behind him

    Cryptocurrencies
    Binance founder sentenced to four months for money laundering

  • a bison stands next to a sign that says "danger do not approach wildlife" under an image of a bison

    Yellowstone park
    Man who allegedly kicked bison arrested for incident

    • Marjorie Taylor Greene
      Democrats vow to block effort to remove House speaker

    • Miami Grand Prix
      Organizers stop plans for Trump fundraiser in luxury suite

    • Technology
      Eight US newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

    • Oregon
      Man allegedly pours bleach into hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon

    • ‘Beautiful prize’
      Oregon man with cancer wins $1.3bn lottery jackpot

    • North Carolina
      Child’s ‘monster in the closet’ was in fact 50,000 bees in the wall

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Around the world

  • FILES-HAITI-POLITICS-TRANSITION<br>(FILES) The members of the new Haitian transitional council pose after being sworn in at the National Palace in Port-au-Price, Haiti, on April 25, 2024. A long-awaited transitional ruling council was sworn in in crisis-torn Haiti Thursday, an official told AFP, the first step to forming a new government after months of gang violence in the Caribbean nation. (Photo by Clarens SIFFROY / AFP) (Photo by CLARENS SIFFROY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Haiti
    New PM named but powerful gangs demand seat at the table

    Little-known former sports minister Fritz Bélizaire appointed as 90,000 flee capital in a month
  • Hermann Göring's derelict house in Wolf's Lair, surrounded by overgrown bushes and trees

    Second world war
    Five skeletons found under Wolf’s Lair home of Hermann Göring in Poland

  • Employees of the Louvre Museum hang the painting "Liberty Leading the People"

    France
    Delacroix’s Liberty shows her true colours after Louvre restoration

  • Man in suit and tie gestures in parliament

    Canada
    Opposition leader ejected from Commons for Trudeau insult

    • Ontario
      Grandparents and infant killed in wrong-way police pursuit crash

    • UK
      Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’

    • France
      Stop children using smartphones until they are 13, say experts in report

    • Central African Republic
      Arrest warrant issued for former president over crimes against humanity

    • Islamic State
      IS commander wanted for deaths of US forces in Niger killed in operation

    • France
      Paris regional leader suspends Sciences Po funding over Gaza protests

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Podcasts

  • Kadeisha Buchanan is sent off during the UEFA Women's Champions League semi-final, second leg match between Chelsea and FC Barcelona at Stamford Bridge on 27 April 2024. (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Chelsea’s Champions League dreams dashed – Women’s Football Weekly

  • 20240309-140 Plastic pollution and wildlife on Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, by Karen

    Science
    The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off the tap? – podcast

  • Humza Yousaf speaks during a press conference at Bute House

    Today in Focus
    Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf resigns

  • Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - April 28, 2024 Arsenal's Bukayo Saka celebrates scoring their second goal REUTERS/Dylan Martinez 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
    Arsenal and Manchester City set up a two-horse race – Football Weekly

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    The Audio Long Read
    The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ – podcast

  • Molly Roden Winter

    Today in Focus
    Have open marriages gone mainstream?

  • 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

Culture

  • two women in glamorous denim outfits

    Tony awards
    Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic lead 2024 nominations

    Alicia Keys musical and play both score 13 nominations as Jeremy Strong and Rachel McAdams also recognized
  • ‘We were in castles, on horses – and up to our necks in a bog!’ … Hughes as Shardlake.

    ‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’
    Shardlake star Arthur Hughes on playing CJ Sansom’s disabled Tudor sleuth

  • Ludmilla performing at Coachella 2024.

    ‘I wasn’t worried about what gringos wanted!’
    Ludmilla, Brazil’s next pop superstar

  • Relight the fire … Twilight in Concert.

    ‘Surrounded by the beauty of a thousand candles’
    Why Twilight is going live, loud and on tour in the UK

  • Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in Miami Vice in 1988

    Stream team
    Miami Vice is cheesy and brutally unsubtle – but it remains sexy as hell

  • Young adult books on display in Foyles bookshop.

    Books
    More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows

Lifestyle

  • Sexual Healing composite image – my partner won’t go down on me because I refuse to make concessions

    Sexual healing
    My partner hates my pubic hair but I refuse to shave. What now?

    He’s ashamed and embarrassed at his reaction – but he seems unable to get past it. And I am not going to change
  • US-FASHION-RALPH LAUREN<br>Models walk the runway during the Ralph Lauren Fall/Holiday fashion show in New York City on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

    Fashion
    Ralph Lauren hosts intimate affair to showcase new collection

  • Would you beleaf it? Tom Hunt's lettuce and pea gratin.

    Kitchen aide
    How to use up a whole head of lettuce without making salad

  • Spelt patties and marinated tomatoes.

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Recipe for spelt, ricotta and basil patties

  • Jose Pizarro's lentils wIth wIld garlic, goats cheese and honey.

    Spanish food and drink
    José Pizarro’s lentils with wild garlic (or spinach) and goat’s cheese

  • Fishcakes with green herbs and labneh

    Trout fritters, cured sardines and tuna pasta
    Ellie Bouhadana’s impressive fish recipes

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    Music
    Tell us your experiences of making a living from music

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

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

  • 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?

  • 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

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From our global editions

  • Reader’s Digest magazines from the 1980s.

    ‘It was instrumental to my early education’
    UK fans share their memories of Reader’s Digest

  • ‘Some Ibiza magic’ … ravers at The Trip in London in 1988.

    ‘We handed out raw fish to clubbers’
    The mind-bending acid house tour of London

  • Protesters at a weekly Monday night demonstration in Görlitz, Germany, speak to the Guardian's Ajit Niranjan

    Germany
    How climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks

  • Marina Hyde

    It seems certain Sunak will lead the Tories into the local elections. After that, regicide as usual

    Marina Hyde

In case you missed it

  • A mountain of raw sugar is stored in a warehouse in Santa Rosa, Texas, in 2005.

    Texas
    Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched borderland

  • ‘Baldwin discovered the cinema before he discovered books’ … the writer with Marlon Brando (centre) at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, with Charlton Heston (left) and Harry Belafonte (behind).

    ‘He craved an Oscar’
    James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood

    He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?
  • Láilá Susanne Vars

    ‘Collective trauma’
    Sweden’s Indigenous Sami people speak to truth commission

    Authorities have been hearing how historical wrongdoing against Sami people has affected their lives
  • Stuart Potts at his flat in Middleton, Manchester.

    The long read
    The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter

  • Sundarbans 22 __HL4366 Reshma Khatun, 38, stands on the riverbank outside her house in Koyra, southwestern Bangladesh, which lies opposite the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, where her husband Abdul Gazi was killed in a tiger attack. Location: Koyra, Khulna, Bangladesh. Farzana Hossen/The Guardian (April 2024) __HL4239 The boats of local fisherman anchored on the shore of the Shakbaria river in the village of Koyra, located opposite the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. Climate change is causing disturbances in fishing patterns resulting in disastrous consequences for fishing communities. Location: Shakbaria river, Koyra, Khulna, Bangladesh. Farzana Hossen/The Guardian (April 2024)

    ‘Husband eaters’
    The double loss of Bangladesh’s ostracised tiger widows

  • A pedestrian walks past a display showing the foreign exchange rate between Japanese yen and US dollar.

    Explainer
    Why has the yen fallen to a decade's low and what does it mean for Japan’s economy?

  • portrait of a man

    He led a strike at Kellogg’s
    Now he’s aiming for a Nebraska Senate seat

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  • Employees of the Louvre museum stand on ladders beside the painting Liberty Leading the People

    Photos of the day
    Liberty at the Louvre and waterfall smiles

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Fables reconstructed … Shaolin Monastery, Hunan Province, China 2004.

    Off the wall
    A miraculous Magnum print sale

  • Robert Morat Galerie: Robert Morat Galerie is pleased to present works by British artist Lydia Goldblatt at Photo London 2024. Goldblatt considers themes of origins, transience and emotional experience through a lyrical harnessing of photography’s primary characteristics of light, time and surface. Her quietly powerful and beautifully crafted prints creatively fuse documentary and constructed photography approaches. Tenderly observed portraits and details of the human form are combined with enigmatic still lifes and abstract constructions suggestive of elemental forces.

    The big picture
    Lydia Goldblatt’s reflection on family and absence

  • Khanyisa Mtulu and her friend, Azasakhe Manxeba attend the Matric dance in Cape Town January 2018

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    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead

  • Some of the vibrant textile works created by British artist Ptolemy Mann.

    Dyeing art
    Ptolemy Mann’s vibrant thread paintings

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