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  • a man in a blue suit and red Maga hat points while speaking

    Donald Trump
    Republicans call Trump’s move to distance himself from Project 2025 ‘preposterous’

  • 2023: Prime Minister of Hungary and Chairman of Fidesz Viktor Orbán shaking hands with Marine Le Pen, leader of the parliamentary group of the French National Rally party

    European Union
    Le Pen and Orbán join forces in European parliament far-right alliance

    • Ukraine
      Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine

    • Extreme heat
      Record-breaking heatwave grips many US states: ‘Avoid time outside of AC’

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Thousands of Palestinians flee amid heavy Israeli attack on Gaza City

    • Rust shooting trial
      Judge rules Alec Baldwin’s co-producer role irrelevant in Rust film set shooting

    • Science
      Autism could be diagnosed with stool sample, scientists say

    • Philadelphia
      Radio host resigns after admitting Biden aides gave her questions for interview

In focus

  • close-up of white columns frame US flag

    Analysis
    How might a rogue president use the US supreme court immunity ruling?

  • Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a podium, arms aloft, flanked by LFI members

    Explainer
    What is the New Popular Front, surprise winner of the French election?

    With a radical manifesto and an uneasy alliance, the left and green alliance has a difficult task ahead
  • Rescuers, volunteers and medical workers amid the the rubble of the Okhmatdyt hospital

    Ukraine
    ‘No words for this’: horror over Russian bombing of Kyiv children’s hospital

    Witnesses express shock and revulsion after deadly missile strike on Ukraine’s largest paediatric clinic

Spotlight

  • Family members of victims of Boeing Max 8 crashes hold up photographs of their loved ones

    Boeing
    ‘They can’t move on’: families of Boeing crash victims demand justice

    As Boeing’s safety crisis intensifies, relatives of victims of the 2018 and 2019 crashes are still fighting for accountability
  • A woman walks through the rubble of a collapsed building

    Gaza
    Essay: The Palestine-Israel nightmare won’t end until we accept these basic truths

    Ahmed Moor
  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    Film
    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

    An acclaimed movie spotlights a program offering a world of creativity to those living in a New York maximum security prison
  • Illustration of a person lying on their back with a ball between their knees

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    First my left knee, then my right: my middle-aged body’s betrayal

    I won’t ‘bounce back’ from my injuries. But it is a privilege to live – to walk, dance and even fall – in an ageing body
    • Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer -- From Dakota and Elle Fanning and director Abby Fuller comes unprecedented access to Dr. Ann Burgess, the mastermind behind the development of modern serial-killer profiling. A historical reenactment of Dr. Ann Burgess listening to tapes at Quantico in the 1970s, shown. (Courtesy of Hulu)

      Documentary
      ‘They couldn’t stop themselves’: what do we really know about serial killers

    • A computer illustration of Lactobacillus bacteria (depicted in red and orange), the main component of the human small intestine microbiome.

      Analysis
      Do gut microbes have a role in autism itself?

    • Large pink brain looks like a tree against a blue background. Two people in white suits hold a ladder that another person is climbing into the canopy. Another person sweeps up fallen debris

      The big idea
      Why your brain needs other people

    • A pen lies beside a notepad on which is written: 'Don't date a bartender'

      Women
      The memo: could one missed message have saved me a lifetime of regret?

Opinion

  • Joe Biden boards Air Force One to depart at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin.

    Democrats don’t just need a new candidate. They need a reckoning

    Osita Nwanevu
    Democrats will be impotent messengers on democracy as long as they remain beholden to the feudal culture this crisis has exposed
  • France's far-right National Rally supporters react after second round of legislative elections<br>epa11465873 Member of Parliament for the French right-wing party National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN), Marine Le Pen (R) smiles as she addresses journalists at the party's headquarters after preliminary results of the second round of the French parliamentary elections, in Paris, France, 07 July 2024. France voted in the second round of the legislative elections on 07 July. According to the first official results, the left-wing New Popular Front (Nouveau Front populaire, NFP) was ahead of President Macron's party and Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN). EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

    In a referendum on Le Pen, French voters said ‘non’. This opportunity must not be squandered

    Paul Taylor
  • An exterior view of the US supreme court building, a white structure with a row of columns in the center

    How the US supreme court shredded the Constitution and what can be done to repair it

    Laurence H Tribe
    Court’s troubling rulings on presidential immunity and regulatory power make it clear that change is an ethical essential
  • Joe Biden at an independence day celebration, Washington, 4 July

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Joe Biden’s re-election bid: democrats can’t go on like this

    • Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

      Do you struggle to accept rejection? We could all learn a lot from American cheerleaders

      Emma Beddington
    • Woman staring at her phone screen.

      Netflix, Now TV and Disney+ not enough? Sofa-bound scrollers rejoice, there’s a new platform in town

      Lauren O'Neill
    • row of flags on grass in front of a building

      The Nato alliance should not invite Ukraine to become a member

      Open letter
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      Arriving in Hollywood with a dream to be a producer, I underestimated the toxic culture waiting for me

      Kate Wilson

Sports

  • Jesse Marsh, Alphonso Davies and Ismaël Koné.

    Copa América
    Are Canada now the best team in North America?

    With the US and Mexico falling flat at Copa América, Les Rouges have soaked up the Concacaf spotlight with a blend of star-power and full-throttle football
  • Emma Raducanu pauses for thought during her defeat to Lulu Sun

    Raducanu has long road ahead despite glimmers of genius

    Tumaini Carayol at Wimbledon
    While she has found a way out of the wilderness, 21-year-old still struggles in adverse conditions and has much work to do
    • Walker Zimmerman started three games for the US at the 2022 World Cup.

      Going for gold
      US men’s soccer names experienced roster for Paris Olympics

    • Michael Olise looks sideways at a bouncing ball

      How ambitious Olise mapped his path to Bayern Munich

      Ed Aarons
    • Lewis Hamilton celebrates holding a union jack flag alongside Peter Bonnington on the podium

      F1
      ‘Fairytale’ win inspires Hamilton to believe in more victories

    • Gareth Southgate and Harry Kane

      Euro 2024
      Kane not prospering but shouldn’t face England axe

      Paul MacInnes

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Climate crisis

  • With the San Francisco skyline behind them, people fish off a jetty

    Environment
    Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows

  • A person walks on the street protecting herself from the sun with a parasol and using a handheld fan in the late of afternoon on 5 July 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. The capital of Japan is swept by intense heatwave with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in Tokyo.

    Japan
    Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths

  • Emissions rise from smokestacks at a coal power plant

    Fertility
    Air pollution can decrease odds of live birth after IVF by 38%, study finds

  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    Renewables
    ‘There’s angry people out there’: inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

Across the country

  • a man wearing a black shirt rests his head on his hand

    Florida
    Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill

    Satanic Temple objects to governor’s push for more religion in schools and says members could act as student chaplains
  • white man wearing navy suit and light blue shirt sitting on a light yellow chair looks up with his hand raised

    Nato
    Biden’s health and threat of a second Trump term loom over Nato summit

  • Three people stand on stage and speak during an ADL summit, while a large crowd watches

    Politics
    Internal memo reveals Anti-Defamation League surveillance of leftwing activist

  • Protesters wearing yellow hats protest in favor of cancelling student debt, with one holding a sign

    US student debt
    Key plank of Biden student-debt relief plan can move forward, court rules

    • Airline industry
      Boeing will plead guilty to criminal fraud over 737 Max crashes

    • Georgia
      Georgia accused of stopping defense lawyers visiting ‘Cop City’ protest site

    • Lindsey Graham
      Senator calls for physical and cognitive tests for Biden and Trump

    • Rust film set shooting
      Alec Baldwin heads to trial for manslaughter over Rust shooting

    • Trump
      Peter Navarro defends himself in new book while still in prison

    • Hunting
      Outrage after Biden administration reinstates ‘barbaric’ Trump-era hunting rules

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Around the world

  • Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan

    UK
    Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan accused of being ‘serial tax evaders’

    Self-proclaimed misogynist ‘brazen’ about refusing to pay tax on revenue from online businesses, court told
  • ALICE MUNRO

    Books
    Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

  • a group of Palestinian men walk on the rubble and debris of a school destroyed by an airstrike; other damaged buildings and smoke can be seen in the background under a blue sky.

    Exclusive
    New UK government expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant

  • Man in green and blue T.shirt beside two other men, one in army camouflage jacket, outside building

    Africa
    Kenyan cult leader goes on trial on terrorism charges over 400 deaths

    • World news
      Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

    • Pakistan
      Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

    • Australia
      Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by Sydney council after threats of violence

    • Four-day week
      Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds

    • New Caledonia
      Historic win for pro-independence candidate in French elections

    • France
      Pistols Napoleon planned to use to kill himself sold for €1.7m

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Podcasts

Podcasts

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    Football Weekly
    England are somehow one game away from the Euro 2024 final – Football Daily

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer’s first week – podcast

  • A hedgehog in an urban garden in Manchester. Photograph: Whittaker Geo/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies – podcast

  • Keir Starmer holding a press conference

    Today in Focus
    Keir Starmer’s first weekend in power - podcast

  • Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates after scoring his penalty.

    Football Weekly
    England hold nerve to sink Swiss and set up Netherlands clash – Football Daily

  • Chris Buck Kevin Bacon DSF5424 V3

    Weekend
    Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich? – podcast

  • Mikel Merino of Spain celebrates scoring his team's second goal

    Football Weekly
    Spain end Germany’s dream and France squeeze past Portugal – Football Daily

Culture

  • Jack Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier<br>John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier sit together in the sunshine at Kennedy's family home at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, a few months before their wedding.

    Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

    The journalist’s sickening account of how generations of Kennedys casually abused the women around them with impunity is a timely reminder of the dangers posed by damaged men who crave power
  • Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise

    Film
    Hollywood studio Paramount agrees $28bn merger with Skydance

  • ‘A beautiful, bold and totally involving album’ … English Teacher.

    Music
    ‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far

  • ‘We bonded over John Waters films’ … the Grid in 1994, with Richard Norris front.

    How we made
    ‘We knew a banjo house record would annoy the techno bores’: how the Grid made Swamp Thing

  • A 1920s painting of a Dutch woman in traditional costume with a deep gash across her neck.

    Art
    Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Nazis

  • The XXX factor … Mia Goth and Ti West.

    Film
    ‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’: horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority

Lifestyle

  • Illustration of woman running past people waiting at a bus stop that is in front of big letters saying 5am

    Health
    The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?

    It has been called the morning miracle – getting up before everyone else and winning the day. But does it actually make you more productive and focused?
  • Rachel Thompson dressed in a bright pink top and blue leggings in a rehearsal suite.

    A new start after 60
    I started to dance at 63 – and was scouted to perform at Sadler’s Wells

  • An Apple iPhone 15.

    Buyer’s guides
    The best Apple iPhones in 2024 – tested, reviewed and ranked

  • The lesser-spotted Rachel Roddy flatbread.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for flatbreads with yoghurt

  • Calanoa Amazonas Birding Mocagua Lagoon

    Travel
    To the end of the Amazon in Brazil: ‘there are forms of life here that I never knew existed’

  • People standing in a room with a large image of a model in a white dress on the wall

    Fashion
    Immersive Vogue show lifts curtain on catwalks past and present

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Take part

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch party for the election results in central London.

    UK general election 2024
    Share your reaction to the election results

  • Closeup of eye with makeup<br>Closeup image of beautiful woman eye with fashion makeup. Makeup with eyeliner. Cosmetic Eyeshadow.

    Life and style
    Tell us: have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

  • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

    Sweltering temperatures
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

  • A pair of male adult hands cradles a pair of child's hands cradling a pink piggy bank

    Well actually
    US parents: tell us how much you spend on your kids a month

From our global editions

  • The British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

    Chagos Islands
    Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

  • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing orange overalls and a white hard hat, holds up his oil-covered hands to the camera.

    The Latin oil rush
    Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

  • Désirée Reynolds

    Culture
    The radical archives movement making art from forgotten histories

  • Busy street scene with cars, vans and a young man pulling a cart. A large banner with the Palestinian flag stands above buildings in the background

    Israel-Gaza war
    ‘I panic when my phone rings’: the plight of Palestinians in Jordan

In case you missed it

  • Two elephants with tusks walk in a dusty landscape at sunset

    The age of extinction
    Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

  • Nebraska

    US elections 2024
    This congressional district could be the key to the presidential election

    If the vote is close, swing states will matter less than a few hundred thousand voters in the middle of the country
  • A few bright blue river rafts full of people wearing life vests and holding oars, on a green river alongside a rocky cliff the expands high beyond the frame.

    Colombia
    Ex-guerrillas traded war for whitewater rafting. Now dissident rebels are forcing them out

    The 2016 peace deal ended the longest-running war in the western hemisphere and was expected to bring sweeping change, but the reality has been complicated
  • hands tied by a wire round a gaming console

    Games
    Totally wired: why are so many young people addicted to video games?

  • nancy-valverde3 (1)

    Los Angeles
    The Chicana butch lesbian who defied the LAPD – and won: ‘I couldn’t be someone else’

  • a woman smiles outside court

    Boston
    Karen Read saga set for sequel after mistrial in gripping murder case

  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso
    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis

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In pictures

  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    In pictures
    Tokyo’s oldest train line

    A reportage of the stations along the circular JR Yamanote line in Tokyo, capturing the hustle and bustle at the heart of the world’s biggest urban area. In service since 1885, the line is the city’s oldest, most important and most famous, with millions cramming on to the 35km (22-mile) route’s distinctive green cars every day
  • People stand in and around a damaged building

    Photos of the day
    A damaged hospital and a clogged canal

  • People sheltering from rain under a Wimbledon towel.

    In pictures
    Rain, set and match: a day at Wimbledon 2024

  • Revellers cheer as they are sprayed with water

    Photos of the weekend
    San Fermín festival, a wet dog and a young monk

  • Commuters, Evening Train, Penn Station, New York, 1958 (detail).

    The big picture
    Louis Stettner on commuters in 1950s New York

  • Orange Viscose Île de Ré Dress, £195 chintiandparker.com

    We Love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

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