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  • 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)

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

  • Madonna performs during a concert at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro

    Madonna
    Free concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach

    • Washington DC
      Motorist dies after crashing into White House gate

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

    • Kevin Spacey
      Actor hits back at fresh allegations in UK documentary

    • European elections
      EU at risk of ‘implosion’ as far-right seeks scapegoats, minister warns

    • ‘If there’s one record that should belong to us, it’s this’
      France tries to win back world’s largest baguette title

    • Frank Stella obituary
      Influential American abstract artists dies aged 87

In focus

  • 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

  • Three students united at the University of California, San Diego

    ‘Like family’
    Three women – two Palestinian, one Jewish – find peace amid campus chaos

    The protests sweeping US universities have brought intense division, but some students have treasured hope, unity, solidarity and love
  • Older white man, dark suit, aviator sunglasses, waves as he departs a white building.

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

    Biden’s call for order after on-campus clashes and mass arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters further threatens the youth vote

Spotlight

  • 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
  • composite of lots of photos of women in wedding dresses

    Something old
    Why six brides picked a second-hand wedding dress

  • Prisoner Polaroids all untitled / no captions. These are Sean's favourites / 5 are exclusive

    ‘My role was to be a truthful witness’
    Photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners

    In the 1970s, the photographer began teaching in a progressive US women’s prison and made moving portraits of many of the inmates. Looking back, he sees how many of them actually felt safer in prison
  • 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

    The singer takes on double duty and does a surprisingly effective job as a comedic actor but the writing mostly fails to match her ability
    • 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

    • 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?

    • Jennifer Connelly

      ‘I get a little stir-crazy’
      Jennifer Connelly on David Bowie, working with family and going back to college

    • Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News<br>2RX0AGH Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

      Cara Delevingne
      It’s a lot easier now I’m not the new hot young thing

Opinion

  • Nighttime view of police in helmets and riot gear on urban street.

    I remember the 1960s crackdowns against war protesters. This is a repeat

    Robert Reich
    The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of re-emerging as memories fade
  • Pro-Palestinian protesters wave flags on campus

    We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices

    Columbia College Student Council
  • A still from Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd.

    Baby Reindeer and how a compelling TV drama reflects the stalkers in us all

    Eva Wiseman
    Raised as we now are on social media and true crime, we need to fight the impulse to always find out more
  • Manahel al-Otaibi, pictured in 2019 in a Riyadh mall wearing ripped dungarees.

    With a bit of Saudi topspin, tennis fans can overlook its brutal repression of women

    Catherine Bennett
    The WTA finals host revealed its commitment to women’s rights by jailing a female activist
    • 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
    • Monty Panesar in Parliament Square

      Why sportspeople should stick to the pitch and stay out of politics

      Andrew Anthony
    • World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee beside a work station in the early 1990s

      The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

      John Naughton
    • FILE - As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

      I teach democracy at Princeton. Student protesters are getting an education like no other

      Razia Iqbal

Sports

  • Mo Salah celebrates scoring an early Liverpool goal in the Anfield sunshine.

    Live
    Liverpool v Tottenham – Premier League

    Minute-by-minute report: The two sides meet on the back of a poor run of games. Who will come out on top? Join Rob Smyth
  • Canelo Álvarez lands a right hand on Jaime Munguía during their super middleweight title fight on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

    Boxing
    Álvarez tames Munguía to keep undisputed super middleweight crown

  • Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi (10) passes during the second half against the New York Red Bulls at Chase Stadium on Saturday night.

    MLS
    Messi scores and adds record five assists in Inter Miami rout of Red Bulls

    Lionel Messi scored a goal and had five assists as Inter Miami trounced the New York Red Bulls 6-2 on Saturday night
  • Runners begin their training session in Kaptagat, Kenya, at dawn

    Sport and the climate crisis
    We may lose 20% of Olympic nations

    Athletics Kenya is worried about how the climate might shape the future of its country, let alone its sport. And it is not alone
    • Chelsea's Nicolas Jackson celebrates scoring their fifth goal against West Ham with teammates.

      Chelsea 5-0 West Ham
      Jackson’s double seals rout of hapless Hammers

    • The former Formula One world champion Mario Andretti.

      ‘I am an optimist’
      Why Mario Andretti is not ready to give up on his F1 dream

    • Mystik Dan, rear, with jockey Brian Hernandez Jr, crosses the finish line at Churchill Downs first ahead of Sierra Leone and Forever Young in the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

      Kentucky Derby
      Mystik Dan wins 150th running in epic three-horse photo finish

    • Will Ferrell, pictured at an NHL game between the LA Kings and Minnesota Wild

      Classy Leeds?
      Will Ferrell reportedly invests in soccer club

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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

  • Kristi Noem and Kim Jong-un

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

    As she tries to limit the fallout from her dog- and goat-killing anecdotes, factual inaccuracies in her book are coming to light
  • Two young-middle-aged white people in dark blue jumpsuits with white piping smiling broadly in obvious wind in front of a low white plane.

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

  • American artist Frank Stella

    Frank Stella
    Influential American artist dies aged 87

  • Old white man with a suit and cane on a golf cart

    Apple
    Warren Buffett backs company after firm sells millions of shares in iPhone maker

    • ‘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

    • Shug on the run
      Zebra running wild in Washington state for six days finally captured

    • Hawaii
      State to limit vacation rentals in response to tight housing market

    • ‘Don’t die, I will be back’
      Oklahoma boy saves parents after tornado tosses truck

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Around the world

  • Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, hold lit tapers in front of a large religious painting

    Ukraine
    Shadow of war hangs over Orthodox Easter as Zelenskiy and Putin mark holiday

    Russian president attends service led by one of his staunchest backers while Zelenskiy asserts God is on Kyiv’s side
  • Suella Braverman said Rishi Sunak’s plan is not working and called for him to change course.

    UK local elections
    Suella Braverman says no time to oust Sunak so he must ‘own this and fix it’

  • Long March-3B rocket carrying the Chang'e 4 lunar probe takes off

    The new ‘space race’
    What are China’s ambitions and why is the US so concerned?

  • People with goggles and gas masks wrapped in Georgia flags

    ‘I’m in awe of our young people’
    Gen Z take the initiative as Georgia protesters face down Tbilisi government

    • Brazil
      Death toll from rains rises to 57 as 69,000 people displaced

    • Australia
      Police shoot teenager dead after alleged attack that has ‘hallmarks’ of terror incident

    • France
      ‘Alarming’ number of lone children held in UK-run facilities

    • Mexico
      ‘High degree of probability’ bodies found in northern Mexico are missing Australian brothers

    • ‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’
      Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants

    • China
      Xi Jinping to visit France, Hungary and Serbia amid EU trade tariff row

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Podcasts

  • 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?

  • FBL-EUR-C1-DORTMUND-PSG<br>Dortmund's German forward #14 Niclas Fuellkrug (R) celebrates with Dortmund's English midfielder #10 Jadon Sancho (L) and Dortmund's German midfielder #19 Julian Brandt scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg football match between Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on May 1, 2024 in Dortmund. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Advantage Dortmund in Champions League semis? – Football Weekly Extra

  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    Science
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

Culture

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian leaning against a pick-up.

    Love Lies Bleeding review
    Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance

    Rose Glass’s follow-up to her acclaimed Saint Maud is a scorchingly sexy, darkly violent tale of a gym manager’s love affair with a bodybuilder
  • The US supreme court is seen at sunset in Washington.

    Minority Rule review
    Ari Berman's rich history of America’s undemocratic democracy

  • 1980s airbrush-style illustration of a man catching a drink can against a California landscape in silhouette

    ‘Every Dylan song could be improved’
    Is perfection possible, or even desirable?

  • Josh O'Connor in a striped top, holding one hand to his head

    ‘I love work but I also love tending to my plants’
    Actor Josh O’Connor on gardening, reluctant stardom and getting ripped for Challengers

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    Read me a story
    Why reading out loud is a joy for adults as well as kids

  • Hala Zein in Nezouh.

    Nezouh review
    Magic realism amid the ruins of Damascus under siege

Lifestyle

  • 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?

    Known to his friends as the Legend, John Starbrook is living, breathing proof of the power of exercise and enthusiasm. I tried to keep up with him – and barely survived
  • 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

  • Bare human steps<br>Steps of bare human feet on wet sand of sea beach

    Ask Philippa
    I have no children and have started to fear for my legacy. What can I do?

  • A huge sandy dune with the sun on the sea in the distance.

    Europe’s best beach holidays
    Arcachon, France

  • A man stands in the Thames by Tower bridge, he is holding a bucket

    ‘I see cocaine in wild shrimp’
    Meet the scientist who analyses wastewater

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  • 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

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

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

  • Dozens of statues by a park path, will father and toddler walking

    ‘Ghostly’
    The Taiwan park keeping 700 statues of late dictator Chiang Kai-shek as row rages over their fate

  • An audience listen to a sound archive by Ateef al-Jaffal during the 2023 festival.

    Doing the Baghdad walk
    Art tour highlights creativity in the heart of Iraq

  • People attend a rally to a call for action to end violence against women, in Canberra, Australia

    Horror and fury
    Epidemic of violence against women sweeps across Australia

In case you missed it

  • A brown hen and an egg isolated on a white background

    Chicken or egg?
    One zoologist’s attempt to solve the conundrum of which came first

  • A worker cleans a sidewalk during a heat wave

    ‘My body would tremble’
    Florida workers brace for summer with no protections

    Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed
  • A car with signs on it in front of people in masks holding up signs stand in front of building

    Domestic violence
    Victims are often criminalized. A California bill wants to change that

    Many say the bill would help survivors be heard, broadening the range of people able to petition to see their sentence reviewed
  • A Brood X cicada in Washington DC in May 2004 .

    ‘Be in awe’
    Everything you need to know about the US cicada-geddon

  • A man playing a piano

    New Orleans
    Musical spirit of city reminds African and Caribbean artists of home

  • Nemat (Minouche) Shafik testifies before Congress Columbia University's response to antisemitism

    Minouche Shafik
    The Columbia president facing choppy waters over Gaza protests

  • A black and white scan of the unfurled scroll

    ‘Second renaissance’
    Tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co

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  • US pop star Madonna performs in a free concert at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • 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

  • A field hamster looks out of its burrow in a field. in Euskirchen, Germany.

    The week in wildlife
    A giant hamster, a moustachioed deer and a zebra on the run

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