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  • An aerial view of Toronto, by the shore of Lake Ontario

    PFAS
    Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds

    PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater

    • Virginia
      Governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions

    • Alabama
      Poultry plant could be closed for 30 days for allegedly hiring minors

    • Artificial intelligence (AI)
      OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher

    • Missouri
      State Republican party fails to boot KKK-linked candidate from gubernatorial ticket

    • New York
      Man arrested in connection with assault on actor Steve Buscemi

Behind the magic

  • A truck trailer belonging to magician David Copperfield sits outside his warehouse in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    David Copperfield
    The FBI investigated him for two years. The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

  • David Copperfield.

    ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’
    Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

  • Epstein head Main Image

    ‘Magic David called’
    David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein

  • David Copperfield Slot Machine Unveiling At The MGM Grand<br>LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 26: A general view is seen of the video screen from the slot machine, "The Magic of David Copperfield," by Bally Technologies at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino on June 26, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

    Revealed
    Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women

In focus

  • woman speaks at lectern in front of american flag

    ‘She’s in the pantheon now’
    Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct

  • A man wearing a gray sweatshirt holds up a sign reading "Prefer Idaho? then move there"

    ‘We don’t have a democracy’
    Why some Oregonians want to join Idaho

    Proponents of the Greater Idaho movement have argued Democrats in Portland don’t understand their way of life
  • columned building stylised in red

    Red flag?
    Samuel Alito scandal casts further doubt on supreme court’s impartiality

    The court will play a crucial role in November’s election. Alito’s pro-Trump flag adds fuel to an already raging ethics debate

Spotlight

  • A mural depicting author Gabriel Gárcia Márquez in Aracataca.

    Gabriel García Márquez
    Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to late novelist's Colombian hometown

    Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism
  • Actor Emma Stone, director Yorgos Lanthimos and actor Jesse Plemons in a photocall for the film Kinds Of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2024.

    Sex, rape, cannibals
    What Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things

  • Screengrab from a video from Chinese state-backed group called Storm-1376 showing an AI-generated newsreader.

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda

  • Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis

    Film
    The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?

    Last year’s Barbenheimer was hailed as saving cinema. Now takings are down and even franchises are falling flat. Can Hollywood manoeuvre itself out of this disaster zone?
    • Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes raise their fists in a Black Panther pose in a photograph from 1971

      Protesters, pop stars and pioneers
      38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse)

    • Union members raise their fists outdoors in front of an arched building.

      ‘It felt like a historic moment’
      The Hollywood strikes one year on

    • Man wearing black jacket against purple background

      Elon Musk
      How a smear campaign against NPR led billionaire to feud with Signal

    • Man in apron prepares beef on hot grill with customers behind

      'I've never seen so many gringos'
      Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star

Opinion

  • football player kicks ball

    Harrison Butker’s misogynistic graduation speech shows the bigots are winning

    Arwa Mahdawi
    • The Olympic and Paralympic mascots, like red Phrygian caps on legs, pose on a quayside, with yachts in the background.

      You think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games

      Robert McLiam Wilson
    • Apple’s latest iPad ad, showing a hydraulic press crushing analogue devices.

      What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

      John Naughton
    • A man sits near his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, as smoke rises above the city after Russian shelling on 17 May.

      Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?

      Simon Tisdall
    • The European parliament in Brussels

      Political violence could benefit far right parties in the EU elections – if we let it

      Paul Taylor

Sports

  • Mike Sullivan has been named US coach for the 2026 Milan Olympics. USA Hockey announced the long-expected decision on Saturday while also saying the Pittsburgh Penguins coach will be behind the bench for the NHL's Four Nations Face-Off tournament next year.

    Ice hockey
    Penguins’ Sullivan named US men's coach for Milan Olympics

    Mike Sullivan was selected US coach for the 2026 Milan Olympics on Saturday and will also coach the team at next year’s Four Nations Face-Off
  • Scottie: free.

    Live
    US PGA Championship 2024: third round – live

    • Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers drives toward the lane during Friday’s Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semi-finals in Indianapolis.

      NBA playoffs
      Pacers force Game 7 with dominant home win over Knicks

    • Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates Liverpool’s stunning 4-0 victory over Barcelona in May 2019.

      Baggies to Barcelona
      10 standout moments of Klopp’s Liverpool reign

    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Harrison Butker’s misogynistic graduation speech shows the bigots are winning

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Kevin De Bruyne is embraced by Pep Guardiola

      Guardiola’s will to win takes City to verge of football history

      David Hytner

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Climate crisis

  • A sky completely taken up with fiery clouds, above a border of trees and dry fields.

    Economies
    Damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

  • Yellow and red shell logo on white sign, with blue sky in the background

    Shell
    Oil company urged to clarify climate targets as it braces for shareholder rebellion

  • Los Angeles, California— Beverly Lofton poses for a portrait in her garden in the View Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday, April 26, 2024. Mrs. Lofton turned her front yard into a microfarm with the help of Crop Swap LA, a local group that creates edible food gardens to combat food insecurity and food apartheid. Photographs by Gabriella Angotti-Jones

    The DIY Climate Changers
    I swapped my south LA lawn for a verdant microfarm – now I feed the neighborhood

  • Silhouette of nodding donkey pumping oil with buildings in background

    Environment
    Cop29 at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance

Across the country

  • Tabby cat sits on wall in front of university building

    Master of litters
    Cat named Max given honorary degree by US university

  • Toddler wearing blue glasses and a green scarf can be seen resting his head against a fabric headrest, mouth ajar and looking to the right

    Gene therapy
    Argentinian couple moves to US to allow their toddler to trial

    • New Hampshire
      Daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin

    • Revealed
      Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show

    • Sean 'Diddy' Combs
      Video shows producer assaulting singer Cassie in 2016

    • California
      Graduate workers to strike over treatment of protesters

    • MTG v AOC
      House hearing dissolves into chaos over Republican’s insult

    • California
      Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked from Mexico

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Around the world

  • Leonid Volkov watches a session of the European parliament in Strasbourg, France

    Alexei Navalny
    Ally of late activist says he will ‘never give up’ in fight against Putin

  • A line of protesters hold Georgian flags as others behind them hold up phones

    Georgia
    President vetoes ‘foreign influence’ law

  • Climate activists sit near a Lufthansa plane as police stand nearby

    Germany
    Eight climate activists arrested in over airport protest

  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Afghanistan
    Fresh floods kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Russell Brand being baptised in the River Thames with Bear Grylls

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast

  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

  • Manchester United v Newcastle United - Premier League<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United celebrates during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Newcastle United at Old Trafford on May 15, 2024 in Manchester, England.(Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

Culture

  • a white building lit up at night

    The Darkness Has Not Overcome review
    Limp pro-Trump piety for a second coming

  • Ospina Cali Colombia

    Ospina Cali Colombia review
    Giant of Latin American activist cinema explains himself

  • Jasmine Myra.

    Jasmine Myra: Rising review
    Gently insistent jazz

  • Claire Messud.

    On my radar
    Claire Messud’s cultural highlights

Lifestyle

  • Lil Nas X wearing a vest made of gold disks, and brown shiny trousers

    The Q&A
    Lil Nas X: ‘Who do I most admire and why? I have to say myself’

    The singer on eating junk food in bed, a $100k holiday he didn’t even go on, and the perks of fame
  • Anona and Nadeem.

    Blind date
    ‘My shirt went straight in the wash when I got home’

  • A closeup of a tattooed eye

    Eye-tattooing
    Experts warn about risks of colour-changing surgery

  • Jasper and Ellen

    This is how we do it
    ‘We’ll put on our sex playlist and change the lights to purple. It ignites a fire inside us’

  • Meera Sodha: sweet and sour aubergine orzo.

    Garden-chair dining
    Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for sweet-and-sour aubergine orzo

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's shish barak with pine nut oil.

    Yotam Ottolenghi’s Lebanese-inspired recipes
    Savoury lamb pies and yoghurty flatbreads

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Take part

  • elegant wedding cake with vintage bride and groom figurine

    Life and style
    Share your wedding disaster stories

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

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

    Guardian Weekly readers
    Share your best recent pictures with us

  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

From our global editions

  • Artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Yeo's portrait in Buckingham Palace

    Too bald, too mad, too red …
    How royal portraits get it so wrong

  • A gardener is seen through a gap in flowering shrubs

    Gardens
    UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain

  • Robert Fico speaks at a conference in front of the Slovakian flag

    ‘The genie is out of the bottle’
    Robert Fico shooting highlights far wider crisis in Slovakia

  • Ekaterine Burkadze with her nephew Paata Kaloiani both wearing black rain jackets with goggles on their heads and she has a facemask. People in colourful rain jackets behind them

    ‘Georgia is now governed by Russia’
    How the dream of freedom unravelled

In case you missed it

  • aerial view of trees and sign with blue logo

    Exclusive
    Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticizes Instagram

  • Masked Haitian police officers carry rifles on patrol

    ‘The gangs are in charge’
    Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defense

    With violent insurrectionists in charge of 80% of the capital, Haiti’s police cling to their mission in the face of deadly odds
  • A weapon on an armoured vehicle with the Russian Volunteer Corps is fired in Vovchansk.

    Analysis
    How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming

    Shortage of munitions, fighters and air defences leaves Ukraine unprepared to repel attack
  • A worker clears piles of spilled food parcels scattered across the ground in a lorry park.

    ‘Barbaric’
    Palestinian truck drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

  • Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday.

    Like a ‘civil war’
    Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

  • A child eating a meal at a table but also playing on a smartphone

    Fresh findings about obesity
    No screens at meals and insect food

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In pictures

  • photo of a family overlaid on plant

    Mythology, heritage, identity
    Student work at New York’s International Center of Photography

    These images highlighting themes of climate resilience, personal trauma and identity are part of an exhibition of the work of students from more than 25 different countries
  • Some of the images created by Tal Danino. All images © Tal Danino/Rizzoli

    Mesmerising microbe
    Bacteria as you’ve never seen them before

  • A man appearing to row a wooden boat sitting on a large expanse of sand

    ‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’
    Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture

  • Girls Night by Eimear Lynch

    Girls’ night
    The teenage ritual of preparing to go out

  • Naomi Campbell arrives for the screening of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    The Cannes red carpet so far
    From Naomi Campbell in 90s Chanel to Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior

  • Children are evacuated from the district of Vovchansk due to the Russian offensive in Kharkiv

    War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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