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  • White man wearing black suit and red tie next to US flag

    Ron DeSantis
    Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law

    Governor Ron DeSantis’s challenging of a ‘continuous eligibility’ rule has booted over 22,000 children off insurance since January
  • vials labeled with a bunch of science jargon and also "PFAS"

    Health
    PFAS increase likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, study shows

  • Antony Blinken, left, and Prince Faisal bin Farhan sit at a table in front of their nation's flags

    Live
    Ceasefire ‘most effective’ to address humanitarian suffering, says Blinken

    US secretary of state says Iran is biggest source of instability in region but adds many nations interested in ‘path of greater peace’
    • Humza Yousaf during a press conference in which he resigned as the SNP leader.

      Scottish politics
      Humza Yousaf steps down as first minister

    • Live
      Ukraine says it has foiled 55 Russian attacks after admitting worsening situation on frontline

    • Financial Times
      OpenAI to use FT journalism to train artificial intelligence systems

    • UCLA
      Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters clash

    • Elon Musk
      ‘Watershed moment’ for Tesla as CEO’s visit to China reaps quick reward

    • California
      Activist wins Goldman prize for effort to clean up trucking and railway sectors

    • Kenya
      Dozens of people killed as dam bursts

    • Germany
      Hamburg’s sex workers persecuted under Hitler to be commemorated

In focus

  • FILE - CBS News anchor Dan Rather reads from cue cards during a dress rehearsal of CBS News' election night 2000 coverage Friday, Nov. 3, 2000, in New York. Rather returned to the CBS News airwaves Sunday, April 28, 2024, for the first time since his bitter exit 18 years ago, appearing in a reflective interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” days before the debut of a Netflix documentary on the 92-year-old newsman's life. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

    ‘I’ve missed it since the day I left’
    Dan Rather on life after CBS News

  • Dan Osborn, a Senate candidate in Nebraska.

    He led a strike at Kellogg’s
    Now he’s aiming for a Nebraska Senate seat

    Dan Osborn is challenging incumbent Deb Fischer in a ‘long shot’ bid to prove the state still has an ‘independent spirit’
  • Lift operator Mzia Sabanadze in her room next to the elevator she operates.

    Cats, cuddly toys and a portrait of Stalin
    The last lift lady guarding Tbilisi’s brutalist skybridge

    In the Georgian capital, 70-year-old Mzia Sabanadze manually operates the pay-as-you go elevator to the bridge connecting the once-futuristic Nutsubidze apartment blocks

Spotlight

  • Illinoise on Broadway

    ‘A silent film of dance underscored by an album’
    Inside the audacious Sufjan Stevens musical

    Illinoise sees the artist’s 2005 album transform into an ambitious and eye-opening modern dance show like nothing else on Broadway
  • Someone's knees with faces drawn on, which are looking at each other through the corners of their eyes in comedic fashion.

    ‘Don’t push into pain!’
    How to rescue your knees from everything from torn ligaments to injured tendons

  • A man in military uniform in a forest clearing

    ‘My example can change minds’
    Roma fighting for place in postwar Ukraine

    Campaigners across Europe call on Kyiv to recognise contribution of marginalised community
  • Melanie Cantor, Author, A New Start at 60<br>Melanie Cantor, author, Fuck It, photographed with her dog Mabel in East Stour, Dorset by Millie Pilkington for the Guardian, A New Start after 60

    A new start after 60
    After a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!

    After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion.
    • A sign warning visitors not to pee into the canal in the Red Light District of Amsterdam

      ‘Urination equality’
      Amsterdam women win fight for more public toilets

    • Keza MacDonald and her lutino budgerigar, Brighton Yellow

      The pet I'll never forget
      Brighton Yellow, the budgie that interrupted dinner parties chirping, ‘Right! That’s enough!’

    • Elia Barbieri - The Guardian Saturday - Big Idea - 27th April 2024 - NIghtlife-01

      The big idea
      What would culture look like without nightlife?

    • ‘For all the anonymous outlaws’ … Dean Sameshima, Anonymous Homosexual (2020).

      Police busts, porn cinemas and glory holes
      The wild art of sexual outlaw Dean Sameshima

Opinion

  • Supporters of Israel wave the country’s flag

    Zionism can – and must – be about liberation of Jews and Palestinians

    Jo-Ann Mort
    • two police officers arresting a young woman

      Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America

      Joan Donovan
    • An art installation outside the UN plastic treaty talks in Ottawa, Canada, on 24 April 2024.

      The world has a chance to end plastic pollution – the petrochemical giants mustn’t spoil it

      Steve Fletcher
    • Woman makes dangerous jump over gap between two tall buildings<br>Female with bare feet runs and jumps from one tall building to another. She looks down as she is right a above the gap between the buildings. Big city in the background with skyscapers. Concept of taking a change even though there is a big risk.

      As a stunt performer, I lived on the edge of danger – but I had to step back from the precipice

      Janine Parkinson
    • Fratelli d'Italia Programmatic Conference in Pescara, Italy - 28 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse/REX/Shutterstock (14453512i) Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the Brothers of Italy party Programmatic conference in Pescara, Sunday, April 28, 2024 Fratelli d'Italia Programmatic Conference in Pescara, Italy - 28 Apr 2024

      There’s a hard-right tidal wave about to hit Europe – and it will only make the economic crisis worse

      Gordon Brown

Sports

  • Candace Parker became the only player in WNBA history to win a championship with three different teams last season with the Las Vegas Aces.

    ‘It’s time’
    Candace Parker, two-time WNBA MVP, announces retirement

    Three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Candace Parker announced Sunday she’s retiring after 16 seasons
  • Rory McIlroy celebrates winning the Zurich Classic with Shane Lowry on Sunday.

    PGA Tour shunning McIlroy would be epic embarrassment

    Ewan Murray
    • Jeffrey Schlupp, Erling Haaland and Sean Dyche

      Premier League
      10 talking points from the weekend’s football action

    • Carlos Alcaraz, with his protective sleeve, in action against Thiago Seyboth Wild

      Tennis
      Alcaraz passes ‘litmus test’ with third-round win at Madrid Open

    • Bukayo Saka celebrates with William Saliba, Declan Rice and Thomas Partey.

      Tottenham 2-3 Arsenal
      Nick Ames' player ratings from the north London derby

    • Lionel Messi scored twice in Inter Miami’s 4-1 win over New England Revolution.

      MLS
      Lionel Messi makes league history in front of 65,000

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Climate crisis

  • Kenyan workers collect plastic waste for recycling in Nakuru. A pile of plastic items, including colourful buckets and pots, dominates the foreground of the image

    Environment
    Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years

  • Woman with black curly hair and adorned with feathers stares into camera

    Murrawah Johnson
    First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

  • A gardener using bowl of washing up water to water garden plants.

    Environment
    Rain gardens and bathwater reuse becoming trends, UK gardening charity says

  • a flood sign during a storm

    Environment
    Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

Across the country

  • A large white man stooped over a wheeling walker in a suit flanked by other men.

    Harvey Weinstein
    Disgraced former Hollywood producer hospitalized

    Ex-movie mogul is at New York City department of correction for tests, his lawyer said, and will be transferred to Rikers Island
  • Two people walk among debris on an RV park in Fort Myers beach, Florida, US, in 2022 after Hurricane Ian swept across the area.

    Weather tracker
    US experts predict one of most active hurricane seasons on record

  • Students Maintain Encampment At City College, CUNY, New York, New York, United States - 26 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jesus King/REX/Shutterstock (14452059f) Pro-Palestinian protesters maintain their encampment on the lawn on the campus of CUNY City College, while barricades were being offloaded on the sidewalk by the NYPD's barrier unit. Widespread encampments in support of Palestinians have popped up across the U.S. on college campuses, resulting in arrests and academic repercussions for some students. Students Maintain Encampment At City College, CUNY, New York, New York, United States - 26 Apr 2024

    ‘Do not bow’
    Ex-Black Panther praises pro-Palestinian student protesters from prison

  • Hands wearing blue gloves holding needle pointed at person's lips

    New Mexico
    Three women diagnosed with HIV after getting ‘vampire facials'

    • Robert F Kennedy Jr
      Independent dismisses Trump as ‘unhinged’ after being called a ‘Democrat plant’

    • Abortion
      Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a US national ban

    • Oklahoma
      Tornadoes kill at least four people and leave dozens injured

    • 'He really should not be a politician'
      The culture war in North Carolina plays out in the race for governor

    • ‘Like a war zone’
      Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

    • Kristi Noem
      South Dakota governor defends killing dog: ‘Cricket had shown aggressive behavior’

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Around the world

  • Pedro Sánchez stands at a lectern

    Spain
    Pedro Sánchez to continue as PM despite ‘bullying’ campaign

    Sánchez calls for end to ‘mud-slinging’ after spending five days reflecting on his future over ‘harassment’ by enemies
  • An aerial view of destroyed and damaged buildings after a tornado hit Guangzhou, in Southern China’s Guangdong province.

    China
    Extreme weather in Guangzhou kills five and brings destruction to industrial heartland

  • A 'barker' (C), a person who calls passengers to ride jeepneys, guides drivers along a street in Manila.

    Philippines
    Jeepney strike under way as deadline to modernise nears

  • Robert Fico

    Press freedom
    Media ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries

    • Middle East
      Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure grows over Rafah and Gaza ceasefire talks

    • David Cameron
      UK foreign secretary under fire for hiring £42m luxury jet for central Asia tour

    • Trinidad and Tobago
      British tourist injured in shark attack is ‘aware and can communicate’

    • Spain
      Opposition step up Sánchez attacks as PM decides on his future

    • Omar Sy
      It’s hard being black in France, says Lupin star after Aya Nakamura racism row

    • Iraq
      Human rights groups and diplomats condemn anti-LGBT law

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Podcasts

Podcasts

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    The Audio Long Read
    The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ – podcast

  • Molly Roden Winter

    Today in Focus
    Have open marriages gone mainstream?

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out

  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC on 28 August 1963. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast

  • Biden in bow tie and shades with sign behind him saying: White House Correspondents' Association

    Politics Weekly America
    White House Correspondents’ Dinner: is there still space for humour?

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    Today in Focus
    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

Culture

  • ‘He loathed injustice and had contempt for bullies’ said his agent … CJ Sansom.

    CJ Sansom
    Author of the Shardlake novels dies aged 71

    The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’
  • The boombox that appears on the artwork for Everyone Knows That.

    Everyone Knows That
    Internet music mystery solved via 1986 adult movie

  • Zoh Amba, Central Park, New York, NY.

    ‘Scalding emotional intensity’
    Geoff Dyer on the spiritual power of saxophonist Zoh Amba

  • Gabrielle

    ‘The song I wish I’d written? Wonderwall’
    Gabrielle’s honest playlist

  • Christos Papadopoulos’s Larsen C.

    Choreography
    Shortlist unveiled for dance’s answer to the Turner prize

  • A scuba diver descending a deep ocean reef wall.

    A compelling sea view of civilization
    Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley review

Lifestyle

  • Preprepared meals for the week ahead in containers

    Nutrition
    ‘Meal prepping’ is booming – but beware the health dangers

    Planning meals for the week and cooking and storing them all in advance is a growing trend to save time and money. But there are potential problems
  • Rachel Roddy’s chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives

  • A cartoon of a woman with red curly hair rubbing a scrub into her skin.

    The beauty Q&A
    Should I use an acid-based exfoliant – or a simple face scrub?

  • Taylor Swift<br>FILE - Taylor Swift arrives at the world premiere of the concert film "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2023. Swift’s Instagram message encouraging her 283 million followers to register to vote was nominated for a Webby in the best creator or influencer category. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Tiler swift

  • A composite image of elderly people in the foreground and a bright floral background

    A ‘longevity revolution’ is coming
    Here’s how those over 100 are making the most of their lives

  • Istanbul views, including Galata tower.

    Turkey’s melting pot
    A foodie break in Istanbul

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    Technology
    What’s your favourite everyday gadget?

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

From our global editions

  • Stacks of 100-yuan banknotes. China has signalled that it will slow the pace of its transition to a cashless society

    Cash is king — for now
    China signals it will slow transition to cashless society

  • ‘I’m still traumatised by Brexit’ … Ben Bradshaw.

    ‘I still think Tony was right on Iraq’
    Labour’s Ben Bradshaw on Blair, Brexit and battling homophobia

  • Gillian Slovo.

    ‘Brought up among giants’
    Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents – and her mother’s murder

  • Posters showing councilwoman Marielle Franco, whose murder has inspired a generation of journalists to probe Rio’s underworld and its ties to police and politicians.

    ‘My hands went cold’
    Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

In case you missed it

  • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

    ‘The science isn’t there’
    Do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

  • Close up white paper desk calendar with blurred bokeh background appointment and business meeting concept

    US small business
    Less work for the same pay won’t fly – but here’s a four-day week that might

    Don’t be deluded by media hullabaloo – but smart employers can get creative with schedules to attract and retain talent
  • Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in Challengers, sitting on a bed smiling

    Challengers review
    Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance

    Luca Guadagnino’s sizzling, sharply scripted drama, co-starring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, is such fun it’s almost indecent
  • n older Latina woman with black hair and glasses, smiling and lit with a microphone attached to her blouse as if on a stage.

    Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A commercial fisherman collects sockeye salmon

    Fish
    Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

  • Man in suit and glasses closes his eyes in prayer

    Mike Johnson’s busy week
    Ukraine aid and threats to protesters – what next?

  • Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, in March last year.

    They’re back
    Cohen and Avenatti return to spotlight at Trump trial

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  • A three-masted ship sails between steep cliffs on a canal

    Godzilla and Palm Sunday
    Photos of the weekend

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Robert Morat Galerie: Robert Morat Galerie is pleased to present works by British artist Lydia Goldblatt at Photo London 2024. Goldblatt considers themes of origins, transience and emotional experience through a lyrical harnessing of photography’s primary characteristics of light, time and surface. Her quietly powerful and beautifully crafted prints creatively fuse documentary and constructed photography approaches. Tenderly observed portraits and details of the human form are combined with enigmatic still lifes and abstract constructions suggestive of elemental forces.

    The big picture
    Lydia Goldblatt’s reflection on family and absence

  • Khanyisa Mtulu and her friend, Azasakhe Manxeba attend the Matric dance in Cape Town January 2018

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  • Some of the vibrant textile works created by British artist Ptolemy Mann.

    Dyeing art
    Ptolemy Mann’s vibrant thread paintings

  • Image of children playing by jumping off a boat in the Sunda Kelapa harbour, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, with the sun nearly setting. Entitled Break the Limit it was shot in 2023 on a Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE.Jelly Fabrian is shortlisted in the Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2024, exhibition at Somerset House 19 April – 6 May, worldphoto.org

    ‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’
    Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture

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