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  • Migrants at U.S.-Mexico border in California<br>Asylum-seeking migrant children from Ecuador play near the border wall while waiting to be transported by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, U.S. June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    ‘It will only cause suffering’
    Biden’s migrant order is recipe for chaos at US border

  • a man in a blue suit and blue tie sits in court

    Court queues, no internet
    I covered Trump’s trial – this is what it was like

    One minute before the verdict was read, wifi wasn’t working – such was a typical day covering the most atypical court proceeding most Americans will probably see
  • man wearing navy suit and red tie speaks in front of microphone

    The fake elector defense
    What Trump allies are saying to justify the 2020 scheme

    Wisconsin’s fake electors are claiming, like many others across the US, that they were misled

Spotlight

  • A graphic illustration in sepia tones of a light-skinned woman with long, dark hair, kneeling in a sexually suggestive manner wearing a bathing suit.

    Ask Ugly
    The state of the bush – how should I be styling my pubic hair?

    I polled thousands of women about their pubic hair. This is what they told me
  • Charley Hull of England smokes a cigarette on the ninth tee during the first round of the US Women's Open last week at Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

    ‘It’s a little surreal’
    How Charley Hull’s viral cigarette lit up the golf world

  • shrooms01two

    I have lifelong anorexia. MDMA and mushrooms showed me remission is possible

    The formidable disease affects every corner of my life. Working with these medicines hasn’t been a cure-all – but it’s yielded deep lessons
  • People use ropes to climb up the trunk of a giant sequoia against blue sky

    The end of the great northern forests?
    The tiny tree-killing beetle wreaking havoc on our ancient giants

    Forests across Europe, the US and Canada have been hard hit by drought, fires and bark beetles. Now scientists fear the northern hemisphere’s greatest carbon sink is nearing a tipping point
    • A teenage girl speaks into a megaphone in front of a crowd of people holding signs

      ‘It’s our duty to fight for freedom’
      The Los Angeles teen who fought for change and won

    • Five men in uniform stand shoulder to shoulder in front of Big Ben

      ‘They feared they had lost the war’
      Stories of D-day veterans

    • Composite illustration of a man clutching the back of his head, with first aid signs

      Sexual healing
      My husband and I haven’t had sex for months. I feel undesirable and ugly

    • Stephen Colbert on Biden’s Time Magazine cover: “That’s right, he’s courting the youth vote where they hang: print media.”

      ‘He’s side by side with his nemesis, time’
      Stephen Colbert on Biden’s Time cover

Opinion

  • Maya Hawke.

    Maya Hawke is honest about her privilege. Why are other nepo babies so defensive?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    • Indian PM Narendra Modi during an event to release his BJP party's manifesto on 14 April 2024.

      The Guardian view
      Modi’s election disappointment: the winner is democracy in India

    • A polling official in Varanasi

      The hidden story behind India’s remarkable election results: lethal heat

      Amitava Kumar
    • a dump full of rubbish

      Forget soft play areas. If you want to entertain your children, take them to a skip

      Nell Frizzell
    • Men on a stag do.

      High jinks, peer pressure, booze – and more booze: why do men behave so badly on stag dos?

      Rich Pelley

Sports

  • Ardi Ndembo, a boxer who died following a fight.

    The death of Ardi Ndembo
    Was a fatal boxing fight preventable?

    The father of two stepped into a ring in April for the last bout of his life. There are pressing questions about the events leading to his death
  • Charley Hull of England smokes a cigarette on the ninth tee during the first round of the US Women's Open last week at Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

    'It’s a little surreal’
    How Charley Hull’s viral cigarette lit up the golf world

    England’s top golfer, a newly minted cult hero after being snapped smoking at the US Open, has the whole-mood swagger of John Daly by way of Kate Moss – and the game to back it up
    • Chicag’s Angel Reese heads to the locker room after being ejected from Tuesday’s game against the New York Liberty during the second half.

      Angel Reese
      Star rookie ejected from Sky’s defeat to Liberty

    • Soccer: Internatioinal Friendly Soccer-South Korea at USA<br>Jun 4, 2024; St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; US Women’s National Team midfielder Lily Yohannes (6) celebrates her goal against the Korea Republic team during the second half at Allianz Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports

      Youth gets its chance
      What we learned from the start of USWNT’s Hayes era

    • Novak Djokovic receives medical assistance for his right knee during his fourth round match at the French Open.

      Wimbledon
      Djokovic set to be ruled out after reported knee surgery

    • India fans at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium.

      No grassroots but lots of scaffold
      A peek inside New York’s cricket scene

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Climate crisis

  • Deep blue ocean with beautiful sky.

    ‘Triple threat’
    Oceans face extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification

  • A man walks through a flooded street past a partially submerged car

    Brazil
    Devastating floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees

  • Dr Alex Hearn and his colleagues in a boat in fading light tagging a shark in the Galápagos marine reserve.

    ‘Where do sharks hang out?’
    The race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

  • Laurence Tubiana gestures while speaking from a chair on a stage

    Climate finance
    Global rich must pay more to tackle emergency, says architect of Paris deal

Across the country

  • A patient prepares to take mifepristone

    Birth control
    US Senate to hold vote on protecting access in effective dare to GOP

    Passing the bill will be an uphill task for Democrats, who are daring Republicans to go on the record opposing the right to birth control
  • Man in suit and woman in shirt and sunglasses arrive at court

    Hunter Biden
    Ex-wife testifies in federal gun trial about his drug use

  • A river surrounded by mountains and forest.

    California
    Rock climber sentenced to life in prison for Yosemite sexual assaults

  • Scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

    Science
    AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study

    • New Jersey
      Deceased congressman wins primary

    • Columbia Law Review
      Board shutters website over article critical of Israel

    • 'People do want to help'
      Texas high school grad overcomes homelessness to earn full college scholarship

    • Capitol attack
      ‘Racial resentment’ a factor in violence of 6 January, study says

    • Maternal mortality
      US rate far higher than in peer nations – report

    • TikTok
      Hackers target Paris Hilton, CNN and other high-profile users

Around the world

  • Keir Starmer seen against a ship's mast in Portsmouth harbour, with a life-vest over his suit

    UK politics
    Starmer says Sunak broke ministerial code with £2,000 Labour tax claim

    Labour leader accuses PM of ‘resorting to lies’ in TV debate as election campaign turns bitter and personal
  • Narendra Modi sits with downcast eyes next to N Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar

    India
    Narendra Modi wins backing of allies to form government

  • Planes at Paris-CDG airport

    France
    Man arrested near Paris after burning himself in explosion

  • James Webb Space Telescope image of galaxies

    Exclusive
    Carbon detected in galaxy observed 350m years after big bang

    • UK
      London NHS hospitals revert to paper records in wake of Russian cyber-attack

    • Malta
      Criminal charges recommended in government corruption inquiry

    • South Africa
      ANC leaders propose government of national unity after losing majority

    • Iran
      Nuclear watchdog votes to censure Tehran for non-cooperation with inspectors

    • Amanda Knox
      Italian court upholds American's slander conviction

    • Sudan
      EU expected to impose sanctions on six military figures fuelling war

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Rishi Sunak during the first head-to-head debate. (Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Sunak’s £2,000 ‘lie’ – podcast

  • ITV News's Julie Etchingham on a TV set

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate

  • Photograph: Adam Gasson/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football – podcast

  • Donald Trump speaking into a microphone. US flags are displayed behind him.

    Today in Focus
    Donald Trump is now a convicted criminal. Do voters care?

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Sunak and Starmer debate preview – podcast

  • Ancient beech covered in moss and illuminated by sunlight in a dark forest

    Climate science
    Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will teach us what we need to do’ – podcast

  • Faiza Shaheen holding flowers after speaking to supporters

    Today in Focus
    Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party?

Culture

  • Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto in Blue Collar.

    Paul Schrader
    Cinema’s unfiltered, unsparing and uncompromised auteur

    New season of films on the Criterion Channel pay tribute to director’s dark and exacting work, from Blue Collar to Affliction
  • creature in a backdrop of dark clouds

    King of the streamers
    How Godzilla Minus One became a monster hit for Netflix

  • Covers and spine of book

    Albert Camus
    Handwritten ‘draft’ of L’Étranger sold in Paris for €650,000

  • Amandla Stenberg as Mae in The Acolyte

    The Acolyte review
    Star Wars gets a thrilling new hero

  • Johnny Depp at last yea’s Cannes film festival.

    Johnny Depp
    Actor to play Satan opposite Jeff Bridges as God in Terry Gilliam biblical comedy

  • Halsey at the amfAR Cinema Against Aids benefit at Cannes film festival, in May.

    Halsey
    Singer says she is ‘lucky to be alive’ amid health struggles

Lifestyle

  • Close-up of Kathryn Tann in the sea – for A Moment that Changed Me

    A moment that changed me
    After seven years of hiding my skin, I washed my makeup away in the sea

    I had felt self-conscious for so long, but then I held my breath and put my head underwater. It was the start of a slow, determined journey back to my own body
  • Women wearing traditional blouses in white with rich embroidery, pose for a photo

    Louis Vuitton
    Brand accused of cultural appropriation of Romanian blouse

  • Lucy Keighley, a former gym owner whose life has become far more limited since contracting long Covid, photographed at home in Stockton-on-Tees

    Life with long Covid
    ‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’

  • Maya Hattenstone

    I’m autistic – and I couldn’t be happier than when I’m lost in a huge crowd

    Maya Hattenstone
  • Pottery goat made by King Charles at university 55 years ago

    King Charles’s goat
    Why did this small, ceramic trinket sell for £11,000?

  • Felicity Cloake's scrambled tofu.

    How to cook the perfect ...
    Scrambled tofu

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Take part

  • Women fill the hearing room during a senate committee on health hearing on "The Assault on Women's Freedoms: How Abortion Bans Have Created a Health Care Nightmare Across America" on Capitol Hill, in Washington DC.

    Roe v Wade
    How has your life changed since abortion law was upended?

  • Silhouettes of the 'Standing with Giants' installation at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France.

    Share your stories
    D-day landings 80th anniversary

  • Woman using smart phone on beach.<br>GettyImages-629639551

    Reclaim your brain
    Do you struggle to stay off your phone while on vacation?

  • A man reading a book in bed at home.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

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From our global editions

  • Jeremy Hunt

    ‘Elections are won from the centre ground’
    Jeremy Hunt warns against Tory lurch to right

  • People give the V sign and hold up a framed photograph of Rahul Gandhi

    ‘Bit of a moment for Rahul Gandhi’
    New dawn for India’s opposition, but where to now?

  • Stephen, Alice and Gerard Fay at home in their garden.

    ‘I thought I might have to go on without you’
    A love story told in 12 D-day letters

  • YORK, 08 March 2024 - Ken Cooke, 98, the last member of the York Normandy Veterans who stormed Gold Beach on D-Day, at St Lawrence’s church in York. Ken Cooke was just 18-years-old when his 7th Battalion The Green Howards waded ashore on the morning of 6 June 1944 in the first wave of landings. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    ‘It is gradually dying away’
    D-day veteran keeps story alive 80 years on

In case you missed it

  • A white water tower with the dark blue Paramount logo on it, of a mountaintop surrounded by stars, rises beyond a green hedge blurry in the foreground.

    Paramount Global
    Hollywood giant braces for new era as bidders circle

  • side-by-side images of a stack of doughnuts and a brain scan

    Your brain sees sugar as a reward
    But does that mean it’s addictive?

    Most scientists say no, but some want ultra-processed foods, with sky-high sugar amounts, to count as addictive substances
  • man wearing blue suit

    Mike Lynch
    Four key takeaways from the fraud trial of ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’

    Prosecutors called Lynch the ‘driving force’ behind Autonomy’s missteps as the tycoon tried to humanize himself on the stand
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Frances President Emmanuel Macron shake hands after a press conference on June 16, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Elections for MEPs are being held on 6-9 June.

    Analysis
    Ukraine is a dividing line in European election that centrists hope to exploit

  • illustration of person at table with ghostly outlines of a person pouring a drink for another person and two outlined people sitting on a red couch

    Adult ‘after-school clubs’ and AI lovers
    My search for a fix to modern loneliness

  • A sunscreen’s SPF, or sun protection factor, indicates how much protection a product offers.

    The experts
    What is SPF and how much sunscreen do you really need?

  • Group Of High School Students Wearing Uniform Running Into School Building At Beginning Of Class

    ‘He is thriving now; a different child’
    The battle to educate neurodivergent pupils

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  • Pictures are shown on a huge screen during the UK's national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, hosted by the Ministry of Defence on Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Hampshire

    D-day
    D-day commemorations begin for 80th anniversary

    Veterans and world leaders attend ceremonies to mark 80 years since allied troops landed in France during the second world war
  • A group of performers pose with their arms outstretched. One woman in the centre is facing forwards while the others are facing her. Their hair and outfits are in a traditional 1940s style

    Photos of the day
    D-Day events and rescued bears

  • London, UK ‘Prince Albert alone with his thoughts in Hyde Park.’

    Readers' best photographs
    A pensive prince and petal power

  • Jair F Coll for My Best Shot only

    My best shot
    A celebration of a child who never got to be born – Jair F Coll’s best photograph

  • Morgan Otagburuagu, Bountiful, 2023 (courtesy of the artist and Doyle Wham)

    Flowered up!
    The best of Photo Basel

  • A woman carrying a large tray of steaming dim sum enters a room with six other trays similarly loaded with dim sum delicacies in the foreground

    Photography
    Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year awards

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