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  • wind turbines

    'It's working'
    Increasing use of renewable energy in US yields billions of dollars of benefits

  • Biden and Harris at the White House earlier in May.

    Live
    Biden-Harris campaign accuses Trump of ‘anti-Black agenda’ ahead of Philadelphia rally

    • 'There’s this constant stalking feeling’
      Atlanta police surveil people opposing ‘Cop City'

    • Titanic
      Ohio real estate tycoon plans to take new submersible to shipwreck

    • India
      Delhi temperature hits 50.5C as capital records hottest day

    • US
      White House says Israel’s latest actions in Rafah do not cross red line

    • Texas
      Curriculum overhaul would increase biblical content in elementary schools

    • Baseball
      Gibson passes Cobb as MLB career batting leader after Negro Leagues baseball records incorporated

In focus

  • Young people in matching uniforms march in formation

    ‘He couldn’t wait to join’
    Thousands of Russian youth die in Ukraine war

  • Composite photo of ripped up 100-dollar bill in black and white, red and blue

    The confidence question
    This Michigan county voted for Trump, then Biden. Now voters are weighing inequality, age and prices

    Democrats try to connect the dots of Bidenomics as some in Saginaw wonder if Trump is ‘just a better fit with the economy’
  • Rishi Sunak pointing a finger in front of a Vote Conservative placard

    UK's 4 July election
    Why has prime minister Rishi Sunak chosen this date and why does everyone think he'll lose?

Spotlight

  • ‘Almost a mugshot’ … Billy by Jack Pierson, taken in 2020.

    Jack Pierson’s best photograph
    ‘Billy does an act called Scream Along With Billy’

    ‘He is the ultimate outlaw, one of the most brash and sparkling acts I’ve ever encountered, performing rock albums in a cabaret style. But I wanted this image to be clean, simple and free of narrative’
  • Keynote Speakers During Canva Create<br>The Canva Create event in Inglewood, California, US, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Canvas platform has gained popularity among smaller companies and Gen Zs since its inception in 2013, and more recently sought to attract larger enterprise customers. Photographer: Alisha Jucevic/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    ‘A fine line between humor and flopping’
    Tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe

    A Hamilton-esque performance extolling the virtues of design software was exactly the wrong kind of corny
    • Portrait with collar turned up, scarf

      From Sherlock to Nathan Barley
      Benedict Cumberbatch’s best ever TV roles

    • Burlesque dance instructor Evana De Lune gives a lesson to students at Tropical Soul Dance, Annandale, Sydney, Australia, 26 May 2024.

      ‘Could I thrust with a force that could kill a man?’
      My first time at a burlesque class

    • man in a baseball cap and a pale grey jacket

      Ron Howard on Jim Henson
      ‘You could see there was nothing to hide’

    • Sweating man with sweat band round his head.

      Sweat wisely!
      22 etiquette rules for exercise – from swimming lanes to selfies

Opinion

  • palestinian flag flying alongside eu and ukraine flag outside a grand building

    The US must recognize Palestine as a state. It’s time to look to the future, not the past

    Jodi Rudoren
    • A man wearing a blue suit and yellow tie speaks at a podium

      Louisiana’s move to criminalize abortion pills is cruel and medically senseless

      Moira Donegan
    • A small group of women who look shocked and upset. In the foreground, two women embrace next to a young girl who is crying.

      My family has fled Rafah for yet another ‘safe’ area. By now we know there is no such thing

      Mohammed Al Khatib
    • Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on 13 May 2024.

      By attacking and undermining the ICC, Israel has proved again it is a state gone rogue

      Simon Tisdall
    • Lily Allen and David Harbour at the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

      Should we follow Lily Allen – and let our partner control our smartphone?

      Arwa Mahdawi

Sports

  • Karsten Warholm

    Karsten Warholm
    I’m the world’s biggest hypocrite over super spikes

    The 400m hurdles Olympic champion talks to Sean Ingle about footwear, world records and why only gold matters
  • Hansi Flick

    Soccer
    Flick named new Barcelona head coach on two-year deal

    Barcelona have appointed the former Germany and Bayern Munich manager Hansi Flick as their head coach on a two-year contract
    • Josh Gibson slides into home during the 12th annual East-West All-Star Game of the Negro Leagues in Chicago in 1944.

      Baseball
      Gibson passes Cobb as MLB batting leader as Negro Leagues records incorporated

    • Emma Hayes arrives in the US after a successful career as Chelsea manager

      Emma Hayes’s USWNT in-tray
      From tactics to a wildly talented teen

    • Caitlin Clark is congratulated by Aliyah Boston (7) and Kelsey Mitchell (0) during the second half of the team's loss to the Los Angeles Sparks

      WNBA
      Clark scores 30 but Fever slump to seventh loss in eight games

    • Jürgen Klopp gives one of his famous fist-pumps at his farewell evening.

      Soccer
      Klopp drops City charges hint as he bids farewell to Anfield

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Climate crisis

  • US map of this summer's forecasted temperatures from the National Weather Service.

    US weather
    Millions face extreme-heat threat as experts urge better protections

  • insecticide being sprayed

    PFAS
    EPA accused of ‘egregious’ misconduct in testing of pesticides

  • A large pollution-spewing oil refinery.

    Big oil
    Majority of US voters support climate litigation, poll shows

  • Urban motorway rush hour traffic in Birmingham.

    Environment
    Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds

Across the country

  • A row of cows stand close together at a farm

    Bird flu
    As virus hops to cows and at least two humans, migrant farm workers are at risk

    Officials are now incentivizing testing, but experts say workers need protective equipment and paid sick leave to prevent further spread
  • ConocoPhillips is Alaskas largest oil producer and has<br>ALASKA, UNITED STATES - 2009/06/18: ConocoPhillips is Alaskas largest oil producer and has been a leader in oil and gas exploration and development. (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    ConocoPhillips
    Oil giant to buy Marathon Oil in $17.1bn deal

  • man leans head on hand in court room

    Harvey Weinstein
    Disgraced movie mogul to attend hearing at same courthouse as Trump’s trial

  • A large group of people hold signs and Palestinian flags.

    Harvard
    University will no longer take positions on issues that don’t affect its ‘core functions’

    • California
      Ex-official pleads guilty in heist to steal and sell water with secret pipe

    • UCLA
      Academic workers go on strike in support of pro-Palestinian protests

    • ‘A coward’s violence’
      Robert De Niro trolls Trump outside hush-money trial

    • Donald Trump
      Ex-president sells private jet to Republican donor amid cash squeeze

    • FTX
      Former executive gets over seven years for making illegal political donations

    • Rudy Giuliani
      Bankruptcy trustee should take over assets, creditors’ attorneys say

Around the world

  • European flags fly outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg where an employee’s office was raided.

    Russia-Ukraine war: police search European parliament over possible Russian interference

    A parliamentary employee’s home and offices raided amid accusations they were ‘paid to promote Russian propaganda’
  • Sepia image of a very young Manfred and Hermann Goldberg

    ‘Every piece of evidence is vital’
    Holocaust survivor calls for victims’ shoes to be salvaged

  • A woman walks past piles of uncollected trash in the township of Alexandra

    South Africa elections
    Voting under way amid grim national mood

  • A volcano spews lava in Grindavik, Iceland.

    Iceland
    Fresh volcanic eruption triggers evacuation

    • Spain
      New research raises hopes of exhuming foreign civil war dead

    • 'Dirty things'
      North Korea accused of sending balloons carrying excrement into the South

    • Bangladesh
      Alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in water near garment factories

    • Singapore Airlines
      Plane dropped 54 metres in seconds, flight data shows

    • Italy
      US returns stolen Italian art worth $65m in vow to put loot back ‘where it belongs’

    • Papua New Guinea
      PM blames extraordinary rainfall for deadly landslide

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Illustration: Valerie Chiang/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war – podcast

  • Rishi Sunak playing football during a campaign visit to Chesham United FC

    Today in Focus
    Why is Rishi Sunak’s election campaign so chaotic?

  • Barcelona's Aitana Bonmatí walks past the Champions League trophy with her medal

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Barcelona reign and retain Champions League title – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Mats Hummels gives the thumbs-up

    Football Weekly
    Dortmund off to Wembley as Kompany heads for Bayern – Football Weekly

  • Cement mortar

    Science
    Concrete without CO2: can our biggest building material go green? – podcast

  • Ozempic

    Today in Focus
    A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic

  • Manchester City v Manchester United - Emirates FA Cup Final<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 25: Manager Erik ten Hag of Manchester United lifts the Emirates FA Cup trophy after winning the Emirates FA Cup Final match between Manchester City and Manchester United at Wembley Stadium on May 25, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Ash Donelon/Manchester United via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Glory for Manchester United as Saints march on and up – Football Weekly

Culture

  • Dua Lipa performing at the Country Music Awards earlier this month.

    Dua Lipa
    Singer denounces ‘Israeli genocide’ in Instagram post

    Singer calls for 88 million followers to ‘show your solidarity with Gaza’ following Israeli attack on Rafah
  • Jhumpa Lahiri

    Jhumpa Lahiri
    Our obsession with origin is a global danger, says author

  • Tracey Emin, June 2023, South of France Studio, taken by TE creative director Harry Weller.

    Radical rebirth of Tracey Emin
    ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

  • Margaret Thatcher with Ronald Reagan in 1981.

    The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison review
    Neoliberalism’s ascent

  • Erling Haaland and others in EA Sports FC 24.

    Games
    If Fifa is about to make an EA Sports FC competitor, that’s great news for gamers

  • Natasha Khan, AKA Bat for Lashes.

    ‘It’s a hallucinatory experience!’
    Musicians on the awesome creative power of motherhood

Lifestyle

  • Top view of a scientific looking contraption that holds a container of ground coffee beans

    ‘Like drinking a music festival’
    This is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?

    Australian scientists have developed a method of brewing coffee by blasting ground beans with sound waves – and it produces a powerful cup
  • Michelle Spencer in a padded jacket, hat and scarf in the snow in Alberta, Canada

    A moment that changed me
    I cured my 3am terrors with the help of a therapist – and a moose

  • Felicity Cloake’s Vietnamese summer rolls.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make Vietnamese summer rolls – recipe

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    You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to buy sperm
    My $17,000 journey

  • Three cans of Liquid Death in different flavours: 'Squeezed to death', 'Cherry obituary' and 'Grave fruit'

    Liquid Death
    The viral canned water brand killing it with Gen Z

  • Maybe just buy a postcard instead?

    Be a better tourist!
    28 ways to have a fantastic holiday – without infuriating the locals

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Take part

  • A man reading a book in bed at home.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

  • 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

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From our global editions

  • Unknown assailants killed Celaya's mayor candidate Gisela Gaytan, in San Miguel Octopan<br>A forensic technician works at a scene where Celaya's mayor candidate for the ruling party Morena, Bertha Gisela Gaytan, was killed by unknown assailants during a campaign rally, in San Miguel Octopan, Guanajuato state, Mexico, April 1, 2024. REUTERS/Juan Moreno

    ‘It’s become a battleground’
    Mexico’s local candidates face deadly violence

  • Balloons hang on electric wires as soldiers stand guard

    Fighting dirty
    From Scythia to South Korea: a potted history of poo in warfare

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

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

  • Neutered positivity … Dua Lipa.

    Camden review
    Dua Lipa’s TV show is less informative than a five-minute Google

In case you missed it

  • Composite design image of Benjamin Netanyahu, Fatou Bensouda and Yossi Cohen

    Revealed
    Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

  • hand holding a red card that says moviepass

    ‘This sounded a little fishy’
    The dramatic rise and fall of MoviePass

    A new documentary looks back at the discount moviegoing subscription model that went from industry disruptor to joke
  • Money is exchanged at a food stand while workers wear face masks inside Grand Central Market on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. Falling gas prices gave Americans a slight break from the pain of high inflation last month, though the surge in overall prices slowed only modestly from the four-decade high it reached in June. And even as gas prices fall, inflation in services such as health care, rents and restaurant meals is accelerating. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

    ‘It breaks an employer’s control’
    The tragic disappearance of the American lunch hour

    Americans are spending less on weekday lunches, opting instead to save for weekends. Is a once-cherished meal in its death throes?
  • HARD MILES, Matthew Modine, 2023. © Blue Fox Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WTNG76 HARD MILES, Matthew Modine, 2023. © Blue Fox Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection Film still

    Hard Miles review
    Matthew Modine takes troubled teens on a 700-mile cycle marathon

  • man in a dirty shirt holding a gun

    ‘The daddy of them all’
    Readers on their favorite movie franchises

  • a hand wearing yellow band touches a blue phonebox

    ‘I may lose my voice soon’
    The US might restrict social media in prisons and inmates are worried

  • Video game characters sitting on couches watching a film in The Sims

    Sim-ply unfilmable?
    Inside The Sims movie that never was

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In pictures

  • A person in a red hat stands in a voting booth

    South Africa
    Country goes to the polls

    South Africa’s national and provincial elections are being held to elect a new national assembly and legislatures in each of the nine provinces
  • A man wearing a green ANC shawl around his waist and tricorn stands outside a building marked 'Lacoste hair salon'

    Photos of the day
    Voters in South Africa and Robert De Niro gets angry: photos of the day

  • A volunteer distributes drinking water to train passengers on a hot summer day at the Jalandhar Cantonment railway station in Jalandhar

    India
    Record breaking heatwave hits Delhi as country swelters

  • A woman walks past piles of uncollected trash in the township of Alexandra

    South Africa elections
    Voting under way amid grim national mood

  • A woman with a paddle in her hand looks out from her small boat to the misty water with trees at its edge

    ‘Without them, the city would be lost’
    The art of preserving Mexico City’s ancient floating gardens

  • Locals dig in search of survivors and bodies. Survivors have been hesitant to allow heavy machinery to be used in rescue efforts, because they do not want the bodies of their relatives harmed.

    Papua New Guinea landslide
    The search for survivors

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