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  • Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Libertarian Party's national convention,.

    ‘No wannabe dictators!’
    Donald Trump booed at Libertarian convention

    Jeers suggest Republican presidential candidate faces a challenge in broadening his appeal
  • Older man and woman.

    US supreme court
    Samuel Alito’s wife claimed upside-down flag was ‘international sign of distress’

  • Israeli police use a water canon to disperse anti-government demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Saturday.

    Israel-Gaza war
    Anti-government protesters clash with Tel Aviv police and demand hostage deal

  • Nicki Minaj at the Met Gala earlier this month.

    Nicki Minaj
    Rapper’s Manchester show postponed after Netherlands arrest

    • Joe Biden
      President warns new army officers to be ‘guardians of American democracy’

    • Richard Sherman
      Songwriter for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, dies aged 95

    • Golf
      Grayson Murray, two-time PGA Tour winner, dies aged 30

    • Cannes 2024
      Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme D’or

    • Mount Everest
      British climber and Nepali guide feared dead after reaching summit

    • D-day
      What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory

In focus

  • A Ukrainian firefighter at a hardware store following Russian strikes in Kharkiv.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskiy calls for more air defences after deadly strike on Kharkiv store

  • people taking selfies with a man

    'The polls haven't been right once'
    On the campaign trail with Joe Biden

    Veteran Democrat embraces a gruelling schedule in swing through Michigan and Georgia as he seeks to avoid joining ranks of one-term presidents
  • slot machines

    ‘Gambling addiction on steroids’
    Fears of betting crisis at heart of US military

    Service members are more likely than the general public to become problem gamblers, but screening – and help – is lacking

Spotlight

  • The,Journey,Of,A,Thousand,Miles,Begins,With,A,Single<br>The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step quote and girl going far away by dirty country road; Shutterstock ID 375538585; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

    Ask Philippa
    I have a dream job and family, but I really want to write novels

    Get up very early in the morning and just write. You will make mistakes but learn from them. Don’t be in a hurry and keep taking small steps
  • Maximilian Krah, in a shirt and suit jacket and holding a shopping bag printed with "AfD", poses with two young men as one holds up his phone for a selfie

    ‘They call us Nazis’
    Inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise

  • Composite image of buildings that have been sold off, for sale signs, and falling coins

    Spas, bars and luxury hotels
    How Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder

    From Churchill’s old War Office to Liverpool’s Municipal Buildings, national and local authorities have been selling off valuable assets to plug budget shortfalls
  • Opening Red Carpet - 62nd Monte Carlo TV Festival<br>MONTE-CARLO, MONACO - JUNE 16: Harlan Coben attends the opening red carpet during the 62nd Monte Carlo TV Festival on June 16, 2023 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/WireImage)

    Sunday with Harlan Coben
    ‘New York City is a great city for walking’

    The novelist takes us on a stroll to the Grand Bazaar, through Central Park and to Freeman’s on 72 Street for the best Reuben sandwiches
    • Across a range of health issues Black people experience worse outcomes – in many instances pseudo-scientific ideas and outmoded guidelines are to blame

      Medicine
      Is systemic racism putting Black people’s lives at risk?

    • Jeff Dodds at the Mexico City ePrix standing with arms folded in front of a car.

      Formula E
      Jeff Dodds: the racing boss planning a move into pole position

    • man smoking while holding a microphone

      Snoop Dogg
      Is memorabilia auction a model for cash-hungry music stars?

    • Malcolm and Simone Collins with their children Octavian George Collins, four, Torsten Savage Collins, two, and Titan Invictus Collins, one, at home in Pennsylvania.

      ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’
      America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world

Opinion

  • Garbage can full of empty orange boxes labeled 'mifepristone' and white cups.

    Louisiana descends into dystopia with historic law on abortion pills

    Arwa Mahdawi
    • Scarlett Johansson posing in front of a large group of photographers.

      If Scarlett Johansson can’t bring the AI firms to heel, what hope for the rest of us?

      John Naughton
    • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu next to the country's national flag.

      Call to prosecute Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes exposes the west’s moral doublethink

      Simon Tisdall
    • Eva Wiseman

      Pillows, playlists and a gentle push… My birth plan was a joke

      Eva Wiseman
    • ‘The security guard rushed the singer off the steps, blocking photographers’ view of Rowland while speaking to her in a way to which Rowland clearly took objection.’

      Kelly Rowland’s Cannes slight is typical for Black women in entertainment

      Tayo Bero

Sports

  • Celtics guard Jrue Holiday (4) celebrates near the end of Saturday’s Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Pacers in Indianapolis.

    NBA playoffs
    Holiday’s late flurry lifts Celtics past Pacers to brink of finals

    The Celtics rallied from an 18-point deficit to beat the Pacers 114-111 on Saturday night for a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals
  • Kansas City kicker Harrison Butker made his first public comments on Friday since his controversial recent commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

    ‘I regret nothing’
    Chiefs’ Butker makes first comments since controversial speech

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Climate crisis

  • Climate protesters outside the French asset manager Amundi headquarters on Friday to denounce its holding in energy company TotalEnergies

    France
    Nearly 175 arrested as climate protesters target TotalEnergies and key investor

  • debris from the aftermath of a tornado

    ‘Kitty cat’ storms
    Smaller secondary storm hitting US heartland are growing threat to home insurance

  • Small boats carry people up and down a flooded street

    ‘I’ve seen things no one should go through’
    The overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil’s floods

  • The orchid Encyclia candollei, native to Central America, at the Chelsea flower show this week

    Orchids
    Scientists transplant soil fungi in race to save the world’s threatened plants

Across the country

  • Very large metal Mercedes Benz symbol, a three-pointed star inside a circle, under partly cloudy sky.

    Unions
    UAW seeks new election at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama after losing vote

    United Auto Workers filed petition Friday, accusing company of ‘relentless’ campaign including firings and captive-audience meetings
  • Older white man wearing black suit and yellow tie, speaks and gestures.

    Donald Trump
    Judge in Mar-a-Lago case asked to curb ex-president's speech after false FBI claim

  • police officers arrest a protester

    Revealed
    US cities have paid out nearly $150m to settle police brutality lawsuits since George Floyd killing

  • The Caribbean spiny lobster leaves the reef at night to feed.

    ‘Knight in spiny armor’
    Could lobsters help save Florida’s dying corals?

    • California
      Hospital hosts wedding so ailing dad can walk daughter down aisle

    • Uvalde shooting
      Families sue Instagram and Call of Duty maker over deadly attack

    • 'Our most fundamental rights disappeared'
      RFK Jr attacks Trump and Biden as he makes 2024 pitch to Libertarian voters

    • Taylor Swift
      Singer's cats have condition that causes constant pain, say experts

    • Trump
      Lawyers seek to block US release of biopic The Apprentice

    • Morgan Spurlock
      Super Size Me director dies aged 53

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Around the world

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer with Jackie Baillie, deputy leader of Scottish Labour

    UK general election 2024
    Scottish Labour taking ‘nothing for granted’ as SNP support crumbles

    Keir Starmer makes Scotland ‘central to the mission’ as polls indicate an election meltdown for beleaguered nationalists
  • Firefighters stand in front of an ‘Epicentr K’ hypermarket after a Russian air attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

    Ukraine
    Russian strikes on Kharkiv DIY store kill six and injure 40

    President Zelenskiy says attack on Ukraine’s second largest city is ‘terrorism’ and pleads for more air defence systems
  • A Palestinian woman writes slogan over a map of Israel painted with an Arab keffiyeh imposed over it.

    Rafah
    Israel continues Rafah operation as hostage bodies are recovered

  • Firefighters at the scene in Rajkot in the western state of Gujara

    India
    At least 27 people killed in huge fire at amusement park in India

    • Iran
      Tehran jails father of young man executed over 2022 protests

    • UK news
      World’s largest food awards move judging panel from UK to Ireland to avoid Brexit red tape

    • ‘Die now, pay later’
      Funerals are pushing grieving Australian families into debt as the cost-of-living crisis hits

    • ‘We didn’t fight for this’
      ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election

    • ‘A catastrophe’
      Greenpeace blocks planting of lifesaving golden rice

    • ‘It’s totally broken down’
      Tourism surge forcing Ibiza’s workers to live in car parks

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Podcasts

  • Stephen Merchant doing a high kick and looking into the camera

    Weekend
    Stephen Merchant on his ‘preposterous’ trajectory; the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app; and when does drinking become a problem? – podcast

  • Andy Burnham speaking into a microphone

    Contaminated blood scandal
    Andy Burnham on the infected blood scandal - Politics Weekly UK – podcast

  • A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City. Photograph: Peter Casolino/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption – podcast

  • A student writes with a pink pen in an exercise book at a school desk in a classroom

    Today in Focus
    What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?

  • Atalanta v Bayer Leverkusen - UEFA Europa League Final - Aviva Stadium<br>Atalanta's Ademola Lookman celebrates with his Auntie and the match ball after the UEFA Europa League final at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday May 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Final. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Atalanta’s huge night and Mauricio Pochettino moves on – Football Weekly Extra

  • A Singapore Airlines airplane in the sky

    Science
    Why is air turbulence getting worse? – podcast

  • Photograph by REUTERS/Toby Melville

    Politics Weekly UK
    UK general election called – Politics Weekly UK – podcast

Culture

  • Portrait photo of Rachel Cusk taken in 2012

    A brilliant and unsettling feat
    Parade by Rachel Cusk review

    With this freewheeling examination of creation, gender and art, the bold and original Cusk is ever more determined to write about life precisely as she finds it
  • Nicki Minaj

    Music
    Nicki Minaj says sorry to fans as Manchester gig cancelled after arrest

  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    ‘I want people to wake up’
    Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

  • USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2X0RXFY USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review
    Renegade warrior Anya Taylor-Joy ignites thunderous action prequel

  • Anne Enright in Sandycove, Dublin

    Anne Enright
    ‘Give me Moby-Dick over Persuasion anytime’

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Cannes
    Anora is a vivacious Cannes victor and a fitting end to a radically romantic festival

    Peter Bradshaw

Lifestyle

  • A woman holding a young girl and standing in a kitchen with yellow toxic stickers on fruit in the bowl, bottles of cleaning products and saucepans hanging from the ceiling

    They’re in pans, fruit, dust – and even tap water
    Can I eradicate toxic forever chemicals from my home?

    Invisible toxins that leach into the body are almost unavoidable. Could I get rid of PFAS from my kitchen, bathroom, wardrobe and more?
  • Will Stubbs and Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs in December 1994

    The moment I knew
    She left $50 on my bed and a note that said ‘buy yourself another bottle of wine’

  • Jacket potatoes with egg and tonnato sauce, from the book Simple, by Yotam Ottolenghi

    Ask Ottolenghi
    How to jazz up a jacket potato

  • fun and games!<br>two very happy dogs

    Dogs
    A crime has been committed, but don’t blame the dog

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Penelope Tree in 2024

    Penelope Tree looks back
    ‘I like to live a life that doesn’t depend on image or possessions’

  • missionary position, from the feet

    This is how we do it
    ‘I want missionary every night – but I’m trying to be more adventurous’

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Take part

  • A man reading a book in bed at home.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Life and style
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • elegant wedding cake with vintage bride and groom figurine

    Weddings
    Share your disaster stories

  • Young woman using DSLR camera<br>A young woman using a DSLR camera

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From our global editions

  • A man holding a papier-mache body, with photographers and one of the lions of Nelson's column in the background

    ‘Freedom was around the corner’
    How UK activists helped the exiled ANC to defeat apartheid

  • A selfie taken of four people in a row with arms around each other, with two young white people on the ends of two Black people in the middle, one young tall man, and one older small woman wearing glasses. Lawyers are smiling, mother is not smiling and looks like she's trying not to cry, tall man barely smiling.

    Brazil
    He was given 170 years for crimes he didn’t commit. His lawyers say it could happen again

  • William Walkley

    ‘Race suicide’
    Sir William Walkley’s unearthed report on apartheid South Africa reveals birthrate fears

  • Smoke billowing from orange and black molten lava which is flowing over a road with emergency vehicles parked on it and snow-covered fields beside it

    ‘There’s a volcano in our backyard’
    Life in the Icelandic town that keeps erupting

In case you missed it

  • Bottles of cleaning products on a kitchen counter with yellow toxic stickers on them

    What are PFAs?
    Everything you need to know about the ‘forever chemicals’ surrounding us every day

  • Jackson Hinkle and Haz al-Din

    ‘A deranged fringe movement’
    What is Maga communism, the online ideology platformed by Tucker Carlson?

    Two young men are promoting a grab-bag ideology celebrating ‘honor’ and condemning ‘global elites’ – and winning powerful friends on the right
  • Zoe Coles

    Experience
    I woke up with a Welsh accent

    My own family didn’t recognise me when I phoned them
  • Person wearing orange jacket sits at desk in front of stack of newspapers

    ‘We can’t let the Black Lens die’
    A Black newspaper in Washington state gets a second life

  • A young Asian woman speaks at a lectern while giving a clenched-fist salute

    ‘Unlock the door or we’ll kick it down’
    Why South Africa’s youngest politician is in a hurry for change

  • Supporters of the republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gather during a campaign rally in the South Bronx, in New York

    ‘Thrilled to be back’
    Trump swaps courtroom for Bronx in play for Hispanic and Black voters

  • The Portal, a public technology sculpture that links with direct connection between Dublin, Ireland and the Flatiron district in Manhattan in New York<br>A person waves to the Portal, a public technology sculpture that links with direct connection between Dublin, Ireland and the Flatiron district in Manhattan, which has been reopened after it had been temporarily disabled due inappropriate behavior, in New York City, U.S., May 21, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

    The New York-Dublin Portal is a testament to international idiocy. I couldn’t love it more

    Megan Nolan
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In pictures

  • Sectarian Murals by Gareth McConnell, published by Sorika

    Belfast
    Sectarian murals up close and less personal

    Photographer Gareth McConnell’s shots of Belfast’s street art turns the political into something more abstract
  • Winnie Harlow before the screening of The Apprentice at the 77th Cannes film festival

    Cannes
    Cowboycore, Catherine Deneuve and Bella Hadid: the red carpet part two

  • Woman in colourful dress standing with her back to the sea

    Forough Alaei’s best phone picture
    ‘I always aim to show the beauty, power and free will of Iranian women’

  • An aircraft on the tarmac of the flooded Salgado Filho international airport in southern Brazil

    Twenty photographs of the week
    Seven days around the world in 20 pictures

  • Closeup of the face of a smiling Adèle Exarchopoulos. Other people at the photo call can be seen in the mirrored lenses of her sunglasses, as well as a scrum of photographers

    Photos of the day
    Roman emperor and Cannes reflections

  • Three young parrots patiently wait for their parents to return with food in Chandigarh, India.

    Week in wildlife
    Dormouse gets a checkup, a lucky kingfisher and a waving seal pup

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