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Headlines

  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R), who are expected to meet in Pyongyang on Tuesday during Putin’s first visit to North Korea in 24 years and amid growing concerns over deepening security ties between the two nations.

    Live
    Putin praises North Korea’s ‘firm support’ for war ahead of Pyongyang visit

    Visit is Russian president’s first to North Korea in 24 years as he seeks continued military support from Kim Jong-un
    • Anouk Aimée in La Dolce Vita.

      Anouk Aimée
      Star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman dies aged 92

    • Israel-Gaza war live
      17 Palestinians reportedly killed by double Israeli strike on refugee camp

    • ‘Evacuate immediately’
      New Mexico villagers told to flee fast-moving fire

    • Virginia
      US House Freedom caucus chair faces tough primary after Trump endorses rival

    • India
      Engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave

    • Germany
      Fan’s hand broken by wayward Niclas Füllkrug shot at Euro 2024

    • Mexico
      Avocado inspectors for US stop work over ‘security situation’

    • California
      Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during Biden fundraising trip

In focus

  • Abortion rights activists in Phoenix, Arizona, on 17 April 2024.

    ‘Terrified of losing their rights’
    Abortion is a leading issue for Arizona’s Latino voters

  • Smiling woman wearing grey suit looks at someone with tables, a computer and chairs in the back

    ‘Our commitment is strong’
    As Wall Street pulls away from DEI, Goldman Sachs backs Black women

    The firm, expanding its diversity initiative, zeroed in on data that shows the economic case for investing in Black women
  • Tung Nguyen in combat fatigues holding a rifle.

    ‘This country gave me a lot’
    The Vietnamese people staying in Ukraine

    People across Ukraine have united in the face of the Russian threat and its Vietnamese community is no exception

Spotlight

  • Enjoyably silly … Russell Crowe in Sleeping Dogs.

    Sleeping Dogs review
    Not quite total recall for Russell Crowe in over-the-top pulp-noir

    Crowe plays an ex-cop receiving treatment for dementia who revisits one of his old cases, only to unearth some uncomfortable but entertaining memories
  • ‘An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion’ … Joni Mitchell circa 1972.

    ‘I had a lot of questions about myself’
    Joni Mitchell’s psychological 70s quest and the ‘Me’ decade

    An extract from new book Travelling follows the Canadian songwriter’s restless adventures in psychoanalysis and psychedelia from Hejira to Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
    • ‘Even with this freedom I feel lost'.

      Sexual healing
      I want love and intimacy – but I am struggling with my sexual identity

    • The iPhone 15 Pro is shown after its introduction on the Apple campus, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

      TechScape
      Does what happens on your iPhone still stay on your iPhone?

    • Old Buildings on the Graslei quay, Ghent

      Paris can wait
      How we dodged the summer crowds by Interrailing to Europe’s smaller towns

    • Displaced Palestinian children carry water in a makeshift camp in Khan Yunis on the Gaza Strip, May 2024.

      In pursuit of peace
      What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh review

Opinion

  • Donald Trump, in suit and tie.

    Trump’s enablers in Congress are a fascinating case study of political amnesia

    Sidney Blumenthal
    • A group of immigration activists holding a banner that reads WE ARE ALL DREAMERS.

      Biden is lurching right on immigration. Democrats must be the party of Dreamers

      Chris Newman
    • Coco Khan

      ‘Genny lec’ and ‘cozzie livs’. And who can afford ‘savvy b’? British slang is daft, but it is breaking taboos

      Coco Khan
    • Protesters hold anti-Brexit placards calling for the UK to rejoin the EU during

      Good riddance is Europe’s message to the Tories – but Labour shouldn’t expect any favours

      Paul Taylor
    • Rishi Sunak wearing a blue top, stepping out from the back seat of what appears to be a blue SUV.

      I went looking for the few remaining Tory voters. They don’t want Farage, but they don’t want Sunak either

      Polly Toynbee

Sports

  • Jayson Tatum celebrates as his Boston Celtics make their way to victory over the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA finals

    NBA finals
    Superb Celtics dominate Mavericks to win record 18th title

    The Boston Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night to claim a record 18th NBA title, one more than their old rivals the Los Angeles Lakers
  • Kylian Mbappé broke his nose after colliding with Austria’s defender Kevin Danso in France’s 1-0 victory.

    Euro 2024 live
    Mbappé to wear mask for France after breaking nose

  • Katie Ledecky celebrates after winning the 200m freestyle on Monday at the US Olympic trials

    Swimming
    Ledecky wins 200m free at US Olympic trials with best events to come

    Ryan Murphy, Lilly King and Katie Ledecky booked their places at Paris 2024 on a strong night for the veterans at the US Olympic swimming trials
  • Rory McIlroy shows his disappointment at Pinehurst

    ‘Build myself back up’
    McIlroy to take a break after US Open agony

    Two missed short putts cost Rory McIlroy victory at Pinehurst, with the Northern Irishman now set for ‘a few weeks away from the game’
    • Tyler Adams, Piero Hincapié and Endrick

      From Endrick to Adams
      10 players ready to shine at Copa América

    • Phil Foden of England runs with the ball against Serbia.

      Like a modern Barnes, Foden is at risk of being England’s conundrum

      Jacob Steinberg
    • Thomas Green of Australia cools down after the canoe sprint men's K1 1000m semi-final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

      Paris 2024
      Athletes warn ‘hottest Games on record’ could threaten lives at Olympics

    • Caitlin Clark was selected with the No 1 overall pick in this year’s WNBA draft.

      WNBA
      The right’s fury over Caitlin Clark is about everything except Caitlin Clark

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Climate crisis

  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah
    Climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

  • Thomas Green of Australia cools down after the canoe sprint men's K1 1000m semi-final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

    Paris Olympics
    Athletes warn ‘hottest Games on record’ could threaten lives

  • Pedestrians walk on the campus at Stanford University in California.

    Stanford
    University disappoints critics of fossil fuel donations by hiring PR firm with big oil ties

  • a bullet train passes through a city

    Transport
    ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

Across the country

  • Protesters outside courthouse

    Iowa
    Judge blocks law allowing police to charge people facing deportation

    Controversial law, due to go into effect on 1 July, is unconstitutional and cannot override federal rules, judge says
  • Colonel Edward Thomas Ryan.

    ‘I was gay all my life’
    New York military veteran comes out in obituary

  • Man wearing jail uniform looks into camera

    James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
    Accused lookout in murder sentenced to time served

  • a man in a suit and glasses looks ahead

    New York
    Brooklyn’s ‘bling bishop’ sentenced to nine years for defrauding parishioner

    • Texas
      Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser admits child sexual abuse

    • McDonald's
      Company ends AI drive-thru trial as fast food industry tests automation

    • Extreme heat
      Millions face record temperatures as heat dome intensifies

    • Donald Trump
      Ex-president looking for ‘fighter’ as Republican running mate

    • Biden
      Ad blitz targets Trump’s criminal conviction in pitch to swing voters

    • Washington Post
      Paper accuses incoming editor of using work of ‘blagger’

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Around the world

  • People holding a rainbow banner that reads: 'LGBTi rights = human rights'

    Thailand
    Country passes historic bill recognizing marriage equality

    Country on track to become third in Asia – after Taiwan and Nepal – to legalise same-sex marriage
  • A defendant in the case is led into court on Tuesday morning.

    Reichsbürger
    Trial opens of ‘esoteric’ wing of alleged German coup plotters

  • Dua Lipa

    Dua Lipa
    Singer says criticism of Israeli war in Gaza was for ‘greater good’

  • European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

    Europe
    EU leaders move closer towards giving second term to Ursula von der Leyen

    • Thailand
      Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra indicted, accused of insulting monarchy

    • Dario G
      Dance music producer known for No 2 hit Sunchyme dies at 53

    • Nato
      Row as chief hints at talks to increase availability of nuclear weapons

    • France
      Don’t vote for the far right, sports stars urge the electorate

    • Germany
      Prosecutors announce biggest ever seizure of cocaine

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Photograph: Sophie Harrow/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S7, Ep 2: Joanne McNally, comedian and podcaster

  • Sunrise over Walney Offshore Wind Farm off the Cumbrian Coast in the UK

    Science
    What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? – podcast

  • People in judges' wigs at a ceremony marking the opening of the legal year in Hong Kong

    Today in Focus
    The British judges ruling on the law in authoritarian Hong Kong - podcast

  • Nigel Farage

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Farage’s five-year plan – podcast

  • Nigel Farage

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Reform’s threat to the Conservatives – podcast

  • ‘If more people helped others, the world would be better’ … Stuart Potts at his flat in Middleton, Manchester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter – podcast

  • Keir Starmer smiles as he holds a copy of the Labour manifesto next to his election battlebus.

    Today in Focus
    The economy and Labour’s post-election dilemma - podcast

Culture

  • House of the Dragon.

    House of the Dragon season two review
    Unmissable TV … eventually

    The deathly slow opening episode, heavy with recaps and diplomatic chats, might not win over any new fans but it does ramp up spectacularly. You’ll be begging to watch more!
  • Still Wakes the Deep.

    Games
    Still Wakes the Deep review – The Thing, but on a Scottish oil rig in the 1970s

  • The space shuttle Challenger lifts off on 28 January 1986.

    Book of the day
    Challenger by Adam Higginbotham review – chronicle of a disaster foretold

  • Ian McKellen

    UK
    Ian McKellen expected to make ‘speedy recovery’ after falling off stage

  • INSIDE OUT 2 - press film still

    Inside Out 2
    Joy v Anxiety, puberty, and the big secret – discuss with spoilers

  • man wearing glasses, suit and purple tie sits at table and gestures with graphic on his right of US flag on the floor with man's back and 'Trump's second term' at top

    ‘Really does promise to be far, far worse’
    John Oliver on a second Trump term

Lifestyle

  • An illustration of a newlywed couple posing for photographs at their wedding as guests look on.

    Wedding wars
    How photographers took over – and vicars fought back

    While once there would be a lone photographer taking pictures of the happy couple, now videographers and ‘content creators’ are also invited to document the big day, and even the clergy have had enough
  • OM Nigel Mango Passionfruit

    Nigel Slater recipes
    Mango and passion fruit fool

  • High angle view photo of positive smiling grandfather lying floor with money millionaire isolated on blue color background<br>2FP026N High angle view photo of positive smiling grandfather lying floor with money millionaire isolated on blue color background

    Pass notes
    Geriatric millionaires: why boomers keep getting wealthier

  • Thomasina Miers' smoky caesar with fried croutons.

    Thomasina Miers recipes
    Summer salads

  • A model in short shorts carrying a handbag walks the runway at Gucci men’s spring/summer 2025 show during Milan Fashion Week.

    Brief encounters
    Short shorts in the spotlight at Gucci’s Milan menswear show

  • Better Life - illustration for Moya Sarner

    Angry? Disappointed? Heartbroken?
    Think twice before you call the feelings police

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  • Tell us your nomination and why you like it below.

    Culture
    Tell us about your favorite podcasts of 2024 so far

  • 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?

  • Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in Challengers.

    Culture
    Tell us your favorite film of 2024 so far

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

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

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From our global editions

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’
    How a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • BYD electric cars at the 2023 Munich Auto Show

    BYD
    China’s electric vehicle powerhouse charges into Europe

  • A worker at a factory in Pyongyang, North Korea

    North Korea
    How the lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions

  • A house built to be dismantled quickly … Under the skin of the ocean, the thing urges us up wild, by Whittle.

    Wild ting
    Why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn

In case you missed it

  • Caitlin Clark was selected with the No 1 overall pick in this year’s WNBA draft.

    WNBA
    The right’s fury over Caitlin Clark is about everything except Caitlin Clark

  • Derrick Hamilton, second from right, with his wife Nicole, center, their daughter Maya, 2, and supporter Kevin Smith, far left, speaks during a news conference outside a courtroom after his exoneration Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, in New York. Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson vacated the conviction of Hamilton served 21 years in prison before being paroled in 2011. Smith, who served 27 years in prison, says his case is currently being reviewed for exoneration in D.A. Thompson's conviction review unit. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

    'We weren’t being heard'
    He was falsely convicted of murder. So he studied law in prison – and freed himself

    Derrick Hamilton was part of a crack team of jailhouse lawyers. What they lack in academic credentials, they make up for in time and determination
  • A woman wearing a necklace with a camera instead of a pendant

    The big idea
    Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?

    The science of epigenetics suggests we can pass on trauma – but trust and compassion too
  • The capitol building in Oklahoma City in 2016.

    Analysis
    Oklahoma law to allow resentencing for incarcerated domestic violence survivors

  • A protester holds a sign painted in the Ukraine national flag and reading 'Stop Putin Stop War'.

    Between hollow rhetoric and war
    How sanctions work – and why they often don’t

  • A beach surrounded by trees

    Kenya’s first nuclear plant
    Why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise

  • Seahorse survey being conducted by Neil Garrick-Maidment in diving gear.

    Why I'm obsessed with...
    Seahorses, I had 26 tanks full of them in my home

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In pictures

  • The swimmer Béryl Gastaldello stands in the Fountain of Apollo at the Palace of Versailles

    Paris 2024
    The history and architecture – in eye-catching images

    Agence France-Presse have matched up sporting disciplines with historical sites in Paris, resulting in these fascinating and quirky photographs
  • Women in traditional dress celebrating the summer solstice in Maloyaroslavets, Russia

    Solstice
    Celebrating the return of light

  • Raymond Zhang, Walking on the Palette, 2024

    ‘A distressing reality’:
    Our beautiful planet under threat

  • Serena and Venus Williams attend the Gucci men's spring/summer 2025 fashion show in Milan

    Photos of the day
    Gaza holiday and Gucci

  • Maleah Joi Moon and the cast of Hell’s Kitchen perform onstage during the 77th annual Tony awards at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Sunday

    Tony awards
    Red carpet looks and best of the show

  • A girl dressed up in a pink hat stands in a field with rubbish behind her

    Photoespaña
    The exhibition where the staging is as impressive as the art

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