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  • Man in suit and glasses in Congress

    Mike Johnson
    House set to vote on Marjorie Taylor Greene effort to remove speaker

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

    'I’d have been arrested'
    Drake denies Kendrick Lamar's allegations of underage sex and harboring secret child

    • Live
      Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘nuclear blackmail’ after Putin orders nuclear weapons drills

    • Vaccines
      Scientists create immunization with potential to protect against future coronaviruses

    • Boeing
      Company hopes to polish its reputation with Starliner crew capsule launch

    • Mexico
      Missing surfers died from gunshots after attempted robbery, officials say

    • Campus protests
      Police dismantle Palestinian solidarity encampment at USC

    • Kristi Noem
      Governor says ‘I’m tired of politicians pretending to be what they’re not’

In focus

  • Black woman in crowd wearing matching red T-shirts.

    ‘We deserve more’
    US workers’ share of the pie dwindles

  • Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan hold up a protest badge that reads: ‘I oppose the mandatory hijab.’

    ‘I am ready to return whenever they say’
    Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran

    Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime
  • A banner hanging from the upper windows of building on a busy street in Amsterdam bears the message ‘fuck the housing market’. Pedestrians and cyclists pass by in the foreground

    ‘Everything’s just … on hold’
    The Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis

    Amsterdammers find themselves at the nadir of a Europe-wide housing shortage. But some bold initiatives offer hope

Spotlight

  • G2: How to build a better life - connect with your pain, you can't just cut it out

    How to build a better life
    We all want to cut out the bad parts of ourselves. It won’t work, and it won’t make us happier

    Trauma, vulnerability, dependency … like it or not, we can’t just wish them away
  • Laure Prouvost, The Hidden Paintings Grandma Improved, In Deepth, 2023, Oil on canvas, 200 x 175 x 3.5 cm, 78 3/4 x 68 7/8 x 1 3/8 in © Laure Prouvost

    ‘A wild cocktail of emotion, politics and desire’
    The history of breasts in art

  • Martin Kanja stands in a road, wearing sunglasses and a white top with the name of his record label, Haekalu, on the sleeve

    ‘People think it’s just for emo or gothic kids’
    The Kenyan metalhead leading a new wave of African rock

    Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, covers everything from colonialism to his grandmother in music that mixes African culture with metal. He hopes to help more artists like him break through
  • a young man and woman sit across from each other at a table, eating food

    Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court

    Mike McCahill
    Critics might have fallen for Luca Guadagnino’s erotic tennis romp but it’s a vapid string of disappointing choices
    • An illustration of two hands clasping each other, with Lady Justice carrying her scales beneath

      The big idea
      Why we need human rights now more than ever

    • Babyleaf the kitten

      The pet I'll never forget
      Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me

    • Dowsing with witch-hazel … Josh O’Connor and his gang in La Chimera.

      ‘You struggled with my film? Fantastic!’
      Alice Rohrwacher and her riotous new tomb-raiding tale

    • Murdered … Otti Berger, back right in a headdress, at a party in her home.

      The Bauhaus Nazis
      The collaborators – and worse – among the design icons

Opinion

  • A protester looks on as police stand guard near a pro-Palestine encampment in the grounds of Columbia University, 30 April.

    Don’t let the sound and fury over Gaza protests drown out what the students are saying

    Nesrine Malik
    • Botox Treatment<br>Young woman receiving a botox injection

      Vampire facials, under-eye fillers, ‘prejuvenation’: how did cosmetic tweakments get so extreme?

      Georgina Lawton
    • Gogglebox’s Ellie and Izzi Warner.

      I love Vogue’s idea of ‘British girl energy’. But what does it involve?

      Emma Beddington
    • Young women friends browsing vintage clothes in thrift store

      Why I quit
      I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free

      Radhika Sanghani
    • A middle-aged man running up concrete steps by a river

      I was a running addict – but pushing myself to the limit led to two knee replacements

      Rod Gilchrist

Sports

  • Japan’s Naoya Inoue, left, and Mexico’s Luis Nery meet for a staredown after Sunday’s official weigh-in in Tokyo ahead of their four-belt junior featherweight championship bout.

    Live
    Naoya Inoue v Luis Nery: undisputed junior featherweight championship

    Round-by-round report: Naoya Inoue looks to bolster his claim as the world’s best pound-for-pound boxer against Luis Nery. Follow along with Bryan Graham
  • Albert Sambi Lokonga (top) and Elijah Adebayo, Jacob Murphy and Mikel Arteta

    Premier League
    10 talking points from the weekend’s football action

  • McLaren driver Lando Norris receives a trophy after winning his first Formula One Grand Prix at Miami International Autodrome

    ‘I freaking love it’
    Norris proud to silence critics with first F1 win

    McLaren driver beat Max Verstappen to take out Miami Grand Prix and says he used doubters and family as motivation for a maiden F1 victory
  • Tom Brady was the main act in a three-hour comedy roast on Sunday

    Tom Brady
    Jokes about massages, OJ and Gisele divorce fly in comedy roast

    Tom Brady took his share of barbs from comedians, former teammates and his longtime coach on Sunday night during a comedy roast on Netflix on Sunday
    • Canelo Álvarez celebrates after defeating Jaime Munguia on Saturday night

      The world of boxing has changed. But Canelo endures

      Thomas Hauser
    • Roger Bannister becomes the first man to break the four-minute barrier for running a mile

      ‘Greatest sporting feat in last 100 years’
      Bannister’s sub four-minute mile

    • Donovan Mitchell celebrates after a basket.

      NBA
      Cavaliers sink Magic to progress in playoffs

    • Jadon Sancho on loan at Borussia Dortmund.

      Soccer
      Ten Hag: United have met with Sancho during loan

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Climate crisis

  • A man rides a rental bike in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the UN climate change conference will convene in November.

    Cop29
    Summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

  • The common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) spotted in West Yorkshire.

    The age of extinction
    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

  • Thai dancers keep cool with cold drinks and a fan during the heatwaves in Thailand, where 30 people have died from heatstroke this year.

    ‘Inside an oven’
    Sweltering heat ravages crops and takes lives in south-east Asia

  • ‘It’s moving throughout our whole home much faster than we expected,’ said Rob Jackson, co-author of the study.

    Gas stoves
    Appliances increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

Across the country

  • FILE - Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., speaks at a ceremony to award a Congressional Gold Medal to baseball player Larry Doby at the Capitol, Dec. 13, 2023, in Washington.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

    ‘Incredible but not surprising’
    James Clyburn hits out at Trump over Gestapo comment

    Democrat says country is going off track after Trump compares Biden administration to Germany’s fascist secret police
  • Christopher Gilbert

    Louisiana
    Man has brain damage, mother says, after allegedly being pushed into lake

  • FILE - The White House is visible through the fence at the North Lawn in Washington, on June 16, 2016. A driver died Saturday night, May 4, 2024 after crashing a vehicle into a gate at the White House, authorities said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

    Washington DC
    Man dies after crashing into White House gate

  • A woman reacts as she and others are evacuated by boat from their homes by Montgomery County Sheriff's Office deputies, Friday, May 3, 2024, in Conroe, Texas. Torrential rain is inundating southeastern Texas, forcing schools to cancel classes and closing numerous highways around Houston. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP)

    Houston
    At least 400 rescued from flooding in Texas as waters continue rising

    • South Dakota
      Governor Kristi Noem continues to be plagued by book controversies

    • US elections
      The Democrats lost the White House in 1968 amid anti-war protests. What will 2024 bring?

    • Dick Rutan
      Co-pilot of historic round-the-world flight dies aged 85

    • ‘They’re sending a message’
      Harsh police tactics questioned amid campus protest crackdowns

    • Hush-money trial
      Hope Hicks tells jury of Trump’s control over 2016 campaign

    • Dean Phillips
      Unsuccessful Biden challenger is first Democrat to call for Henry Cuellar’s resignation

Around the world

  • A drone view shows brown water surrounding multi-storey buildings

    Weather tracker
    Torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil

  • A pedestrian walks past a campaign poster of Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno in N'Djamena

    Chad
    Opposition cries foul over ‘dynastic dictatorship’ as polls open

    • Brazil
      Flooding death toll in south rises to 75 as over 100 people remain missing

    • Hungary
      Country tired of ruling elite, Orbán challenger tells large rural rally

    • UK
      Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out

    • Blue whales
      Researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence

    • Rishi Sunak
      UK PM to face pressure to shift right after disastrous election results

    • Bakers' delight
      France reclaims record after baking baguette measuring 140.53m

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • A woman breaking sandstone in Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Romita Saluja

    The Audio Long Read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast

  • Mark and Ros Dowey, the parents of Murray Dowey (Photo: Murdo MacLeod)

    Today in Focus
    How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?

  • Keir Starmer Votes in the Local Elections in London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 02: Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria leave a polling station after casting their votes in the local elections in London, United Kingdom on May 02, 2024. Millions of voters across England head to the polls today to decide on thousands of council seats, and also to choose the Mayor of London, London Assembly members and 10 mayors outside the capital. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Politics Weekly Westminster: local elections special

  • A polling station sign outside a polling station (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Election special – podcast

  • Sofie Hagen portrait

    Weekend
    Weekend Podcast: comedian Sofie Hagen on eight years of celibacy, the £5 coffee is coming, and Philippa Perry offers advice on reconnecting with a sibling

  • Illustration: Daniel Liévano

    The Audio Long Read
    Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

  • People inspect damage and recover items from their homes after Israeli airstrikes

    Today in Focus
    Are we on the brink of a ceasefire deal for Gaza?

Culture

  • That They May Face the Rising Sun.

    ‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’
    Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot

    That They May Face the Rising Sun, about a small rural community in Ireland, has little obvious drama. The director explains how that is exactly what’s winning it awards
  • Black metafiction illustration - American Fiction, A Strange Loop

    Confronting the audience and breaking the fourth wall
    Why Black drama is getting meta

  • Black and white portrait of Francis Bacon in his studio, surrounded by debris and materials, staring fixedly at the viewer

    Glimpses of a demon-driven genius
    Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt review

  • Sad view of a lonely red dog sleeping

    Poem of the week
    The Night Hunt by Thomas MacDonagh

  • BESTPIX: Saturday Night Live - Season 49<br>SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 1862 -- Pictured: Host &amp; musical guest Dua Lipa during Promos in Studio 8H on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 -- (Photo by: Rosalind O'Connor/NBC via Getty Images)

    Saturday Night Live
    Dua Lipa impresses in otherwise weak episode

  • Germany Arts - Sep 2012<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matthias Leitzke/EPA/Shutterstock (8235308b) Us Artist Frank Stella Poses in Front of One of His Works at the Art Museum in Wolfsburg Germany 06 September 2012 More Than 140 Exhibits Are Presented at the Stella Retropective in Wolfsburg Which is Open 08 September 2012 Until 20 January 2013 Germany Wolfsburg Germany Arts - Sep 2012

    Frank Stella obituary
    Influential US abstract artist who constantly reinvented his work

Lifestyle

  • Rachel Roddy's chestnut pasta with mushroom.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chestnut pasta with mushrooms and herbs

    Sweet chestnuts make a savoury flour that’s just perfect for this cracking, herby mushroom pasta
  • ‘I felt like a failure… when others seemed to find it easy’: Danyah Miller.

    Self and wellbeing
    Being diagnosed with dyslexia has made me happier

  • John Starbrook plays water polo. Hampton. London. Photograph by David Levene 28/4/24

    Fit for ever
    He’s 93, he’s run 52 marathons and he’s in the gym six days a week: can this man teach us how to age well?

  • Cardi B in a spectacular red dress with a long, wide, ruffled train making her way up the steps to the gala.

    The Big Apple blossoms
    From red carpet to Trump courthouse, New York lives again

  • Some teenagers were angry adults dodged uncomfortable conversations about sex.

    From doomscrolling to sex
    Being a boy in 2024

  • The view from the bedroom to a ‘junglette’ balcony.

    ‘It was a one-way journey’
    The couple whose flat changed with their life

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Take part

  • 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

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    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?

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From our global editions

  • Children’s toys lie abandoned in a playground after a missile strike in the city of Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, on Sunday

    Ukraine war briefing
    Russian attacks kill three during Orthodox Easter

  • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

    Higher costs, cramped conditions
    The impact of Europe’s housing crisis

  • a line of Swiss Guards in blue, red and yellow uniforms with metal breastplates and helmets holding halberds

    Rome
    Meet the Vatican Swiss Guards ready to sacrifice their lives for the pope

  • The whitewashed town of Cadaqués, with sea and green hills

    Travel
    Europe’s best beach holidays: Cadaqués, Spain

In case you missed it

  • Logos for Republican and Democratic parties

    Explainer
    What happens if a US presidential candidate dies?

  • A national guardsman patrols the US-Mexico border atop a shipping container.

    ‘Why doesn’t anybody care?’
    Texas-Mexico border devastated by anti-migrant operation

    Greg Abbott’s strategy to deter immigration isn’t just harming people and costing billions – it’s ruining the Rio Grande’s ecosystem
  • The TikTok office

    ‘It’s just not hitting like it used to’
    TikTok was in its flop era before it got banned in the US

    I used to be an avid user of TikTok, but the algorithm serves much less delight and serendipity than it used to
  • A covered stadium full of people, with multiple, giant side-by-side screens of an older white man in a suit speaking from what appears to be an office.

    Warren Buffett
    They wait in the rain to see him. Will they still flock to Omaha when he’s gone?

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

    Biden v Trump
    With six months to go, the US election is more unpredictable than ever

  • an "open" sign

    Difficult to define
    What is a US small business? One owner explains

  • A group of dozens of young white men and women, laughing and with hands raised, with two men wearing no shirt under coveralls designed like the American flag.

    University of Mississippi
    'Abhorrent’ counter-protesters condemned

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In pictures

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    From the agencies
    Snake catchers festival in Italy

    Each 1 May, the village of Cocullo in the Abruzzo region honours Saint Dominic of Sora with a procession of his statue draped with live snakes
  • US singer Madonna performs during a free concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Photos of the weekend
    Madonna in Rio and a battle between Greek churches

  • The singer/actor Lady Gaga wears a bright pink gown at the 2019 Met Gala event in New York City.

    The Met Gala through the years
    Lizzo’s flute, Billy Porter’s wings and Cher’s ‘naked dress’

  • A monochrome image of Paul Auster standing in his study with a cigarette in his hand and a number of objects on a table behind him, including a manual typewriter

    The big picture
    Author Paul Auster in his element

  • A girl stands next to a damaged car buried in mud at an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri

    The week
    20 pictures from around the world

  • Star Wars fans dressed as stormtroopers at a cinema in The Hague

    Photos of the day
    A Star Wars marathon and a heatwave in Asia

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