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  • Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps walking off a plane

    Rishi Sunak
    Tories must let PM ‘get on with the job’, says minister, as election rumours grow

    Defence secretary says MPs must give the PM space as Tory figures appear to be vying for leadership
  • Sadiq Khan

    Housing
    Leaseholders should have the right to withhold service charges, says Khan

  • Head and shoulders shot of Rageh Omaar

    Rageh Omaar
    News presenter receiving care after becoming unwell on air, ITV says

  • A sunny empty coast in Tobago with palm trees, beach, boats and huts

    Tobago
    British man in critical care after shark attack

    • Carers' scandal
      Ministers told to 'immediately' fix carer’s allowance issues

    • Live
      Middle East crisis: infant girl dies from extreme heat in Rafah, says UN, as fears grow over Gaza conditions

    • London
      Four Vietnamese nationals arrested over people smuggling

    • US politics
      Conservatives condemn Trump VP hopeful's ‘twisted’ admission of killing dog

    • Iraq
      TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home

    • And now for the pinchline
      Competition crowns world’s funniest crab joke

News in focus

  • A soldier stands in a dilapidated building looking at the camera

    Azov brigade
    Elite force bucks trend of Ukrainian losses on eastern front

  • A mash-up of mobile phones with emojis.

    Politics
    What happens when an ex-Daily Star journalist applies clickbait tactics to running for election?

    Keane Duncan is trying to win the mayorship of North Yorks with policies such as nationalising a hotel. But is there substance behind the headline-grabbing stunts?
  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Donald Trump

    ‘A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose’
    Can Allan Lichtman predict the 2024 election?

    The professor on his famous 13 ‘keys’ to the White House, a method for predicting election results that’s been right nine times out of 10

Spotlight

  • Jeremy Clarkson photographed at his farm, March 2024, surrounded by goats

    ‘Dismissing global warming? That was a joke'
    Jeremy Clarkson on fury, farming and why he’s a changed man

    The former Top Gear presenter claims his controversialist persona was just a caricature, and he’s really a reformed character living the good life. But do old habits die hard?
  • Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths

    ‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’
    Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed

  • Mishal Husain, wearing a green headscarf and coat, and standing next to her mother, Shama, who is also wearing a coat and headscarf, and sitting on an upholstered bench outside a domed and decorated mausoleum

    ‘A sense of wonder enveloped my mother and me’
    Mishal Husain on her eye-opening journey through Uzbekistan in search of an ancestor

    The broadcaster knew she had a link to the central Asian country she first visited on her gap year 30 years ago. But retracing her steps, this time with her mother in tow, she made a big discovery about their family
  • Trisha and Neil

    Blind date
    ‘I warned him if he was less than complimentary, my girls would hunt him down’

    Trisha, 61, a yoga teacher, meets Neil, 65, a meditation teacher
    • Michelle Collins

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      ‘When I was 45, I was told I was too old to work in Hollywood’

    • Emily Henry - credit Emily Henry

      ‘My favourite stories are love stories’
      Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction

    • Minor characters for the win! … Knuckles, voiced by Idris Elba.

      Knuckles review
      Idris Elba’s Sonic spin-off is ludicrous, hilarious and actually rather moving

    • Arthur Hughes in Shardlake.

      Shardlake
      Murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this

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Opinion

  • National Trust scones

    ‘Woke’ isn’t dead – it’s entered the mainstream. No wonder the right is furious

    Gaby Hinsliff
    When even the Met police and National Trust scones are apparently ‘peak wokerati’, it’s become the establishment norm, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds weekly Cabinet meeting<br>16/01/2024. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds his weekly Cabinet meeting in 10 Downing Street. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

    Tories have always had a fear of political extinction. After the next election, they could be right

    Samuel Earle
  • Freddy McConnell

    We may have equal marriage – but LGBTQ+ people are still locked out of equal parenthood

    Freddy McConnell
  • Charcoal sketch of a large white man in a suit in a wheelchair, with a person in a blue uniform standing behind him.

    The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

    Moira Donegan
    #MeToo’s real legacy may not be ending predators’ impunity so much as highlighting the tenacity of that impunity
    • Former TOP 09 MP Dominik Feri, centre, who was given a three-year prison sentence for raping two women and attempted to rape another.

      A celebrity politician has been jailed for rape. Will Czech women be listened to now?

      Apolena Rychlíková and Jakub Zelenka
    • Restaurant

      Edith Pritchett on millennial life
      They were very attentive: eating in an empty restaurant

    • Harvey Weinstein leaves a court in New York after a bail hearing in December 2019.

      How much did #MeToo change for women? Let’s ask Harvey Weinstein today – or Donald Trump

      Marina Hyde
    • TGbooks126illusion

      Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
      The two authors illusion

Editorials & Letters

  • An inmate at a cell door window in HMP Portland

    The Guardian view
    Indeterminate sentences: the legacy of a bad law lingers on

  • The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Guardian view
    Patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms: time for a change

  • Justice statue on the Old Bailey law courts in central London

    Letters
    Gaza, Germany, justice and reconciliation

  • Ecstasy pills in a man's hand

    Letters
    MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine

Climate crisis

  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan
    London's mayor says he's green - so what has he achieved?

  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asia
    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east of continent

  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker
    Heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    UAE
    Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of floods, study finds

From the UK

  • Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin: close-up head and shoulders portraits of both. They are both blond women wearing dark-rimmed glasses; Elias has her hair tied back while Hopkin's hair falls across her forehead

    Wales
    Teachers injured in school stabbing speak of incident’s ‘enormous impact’

    Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin thank emergency services and NHS staff and pay tribute to colleagues and ‘wonderful pupils’
  • Gideon Falter speaking to a Met police officer

    Campaign Against Antisemitism
    Group cancels counter-protest against London pro-Palestinian march

  • Inga Rublite, right, with her twin sister Inese Briede, both smiling

    ‘It should have been safe’
    Twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable

  • a woman sneers after sniffing a laundry load straight out of the washing machine

    Consumer affairs
    Remote working and whiffy workout wear fuel laundry revolution

    • Liz Truss
      Book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold

    • Animals
      ‘It was wet. It was filthy. It was aggressive. I said, I’ll take the racoon. But keeping exotic pets is cruel’

    • Littler India
      Why Britain’s south Asian garment stores are struggling

    • Education
      Teaching assistants routinely cover lessons in England and Wales, survey finds

    • King Charles III
      Monarch to return to public duties while continuing cancer treatment

    • Peter Kay
      More gigs postponed amid opening week chaos at Manchester Co-op Live arena

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  • Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York<br>Rhona Graff testifies as former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 26, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

    Hush-money trial
    Trump assistant’s testimony focuses on relationship with Stormy Daniels

  • R Kelly arrives at the Cook county criminal court in Chicago, 13 June 2008.

    R Kelly
    US court upholds singer's 20-year prison term for child sexual abuse

    • US
      Columbia University calls for inquiry as student protests sweep 40 campuses

    • Andrew Tate
      Human trafficking trial can proceed, Romanian court rules

    • Australia
      Two people die after glider crashes near Mount Beauty airport

    • Tesla
      Autopilot feature 'involved in 13 fatal crashes in US'

    • India election
      Modi and rivals trade accusations as voter turnout slumps in second phase

    • California
      Crews battle fire threatening longest wooden pier on US west coast

Culture

  • Have You Got it Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd on Sky Arts

    TV tonight
    The trippy story of Pink Floyd’s lost member Syd Barrett

    An immersive documentary about the band’s founder, who left the group to live in solitude. Plus: more explosive drama in Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Emma Stone in Poor Things

    'I would like to be Emily'
    Emma Stone says she would like to be called by her real name

  • St Vincent in a white-lit stage set doorway in a yellow coat

    St Vincent: All Born Screaming review
    Magnificently dark, heavy and loud

  • Olivia Laing garden for Books

    Safe haven or symbol of injustice?
    What our gardens tell us about the world we live in

  • Net gains … Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in Challengers.

    From Challengers to Pet Shop Boys
    The complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • FILE: Ellen DeGeneres Tests Positive for Coronavirus<br>FILE - DECEMBER 10: Ellen DeGeneres has tested positive for Coronavirus. Filming of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has been put on hold. NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 08: Ellen Degeneres hosts 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' Season 13 Bi-Coastal Premiere at Rockefeller Center on September 8, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)

    Ellen DeGeneres
    I was ‘kicked out of show business’ for being ‘mean’, talkshow host says

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    Staying close to friends isn’t always easy. From calling out flakiness to singing together in a choir, experts share their advice on how to keep the spark alive
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    We’ve now finished our first week of testimony in former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial – and have one witness in the books.
  • A crowd is gathered in front of a detailed mural on the side of a building showing the police station being blown up.

    'It will be around for years to come'
    Questions in rocket-hit Sderot over whether IDF can ever destroy Hamas

  • Charles Guilloy cooking a kitchen.

    Bourguignon, burgers and beetroot
    Paris Olympics to make history with vegetarian offerings

  • visitors pore over an orange MG 4 EV electric sports car on display at the Beijing Auto Show.

    Why Elon Musk is right
    Once-booming electric car sales are starting to stall

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    ‘Injustice should not be accepted’
    Four US students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza

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