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  • An aerial view of the heavily damaged buildings and damaged vehicle around the Al-Ittihad Tower 2 after the Israeli army attack on Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on July 18, 2024

    Israel-Gaza war live
    IDF investigating explosion in Tel Aviv; Netanyahu makes surprise visit to Rafah

  • Anthony Odiong delivering a homily in November 2023.

    US
    Roman Catholic priest jailed for child abuse images charged with sexual assault

    • US
      Money can buy you happiness, says study suggesting more is more

    • Extreme heat
      Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns

    • Media
      Lou Dobbs, renowned conservative cable news anchor, dies aged 78

    • Hunter Biden
      President's son asks for criminal cases to be thrown out, citing Trump case dismissal

    • UK
      Girl, 11, died on her birthday after London neighbour used bedbug poison

    • US
      Costco’s ‘emergency food bucket’ is a hit with apocalypse-minded shoppers

In focus

  • A woman with an 'I voted' sticker on her hand holds a blue sign reading 'Abandon Biden, Ceasefire Now.'

    Michigan
    In Dearborn, home of largest Arab American community, despair and apathy dominate

  • A wall formed from electronic circuits in Taipei. Taiwan is one of the world's major producers and exporters of semiconductor chips.

    Taiwan
    How Taiwan secured semiconductor supremacy – and why it won’t give it up

    Trump has accused Taiwan of ‘taking’ the US chip sector, but Taipei has been at the forefront of the industry for decades, and its future could depend on it
  • At the European Political Community meeting, Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, shakes hands with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, watched by the European Council president, Charles Michel, and France's president, Emmanuel Macron (3R), as they arrive at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Attack on Russian bases in Crimea

    Command centre and ammunition depot hit, says Ukrainian defence source; Ukraine’s army confirms pullout from Urozhaine. What we know on day 877

Spotlight

  • Portrait of Alan Sparhawk, who wears a dark denim shirt.

    Music
    Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’

    Sparhawk discusses finding his new, digitally-altered voice amid grief – and why he’s channelling Cher
  • ‘Altogether masterly’ … Natalie Portman and Mikey Madison in Apple TV+’s Lady in the Lake.

    TV review
    Lady in the Lake review – Natalie Portman’s TV debut is absolutely impeccable

  • Caroline Thomas

    Experience
    I’m an 81-year-old crash‑test dummy

    Why go to a bingo hall when I could be hoisted into a helicopter instead?
  • Painting: Politics in an Oyster House by Richard Caton Woodville

    Leading questions
    How people vote affects my life and relationships – how do I explain that to my apolitical friend?

    It would be weird to associate only with those who agree with us, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But we do eventually have to take responsibility for life’s editorial decisions
    • Two Arab men carry a crate of fish up a beach, as others wade into the sea to unload the catch from a fishing boat

      Global development
      DIY artificial reefs are boosting fish numbers in Yemen. But there’s a catch

    • Travis Kelce enjoys a dad bod day out at the golf.

      Sport
      Travis Kelce, Tyson Fury and the gentle rise of the sporting dad bod

    • Rieko Hirosawa performs the music of the goze – itinerant blind and visually impaired Japanese women who earned a living playing the shamisen

      Japan
      Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive

    • Judge 20th July - WEB

      You be the judge
      My boyfriend funds my lifestyle – should I work for him to pay him back?

Opinion

  • JD Vance, in suit and tie, speaking into a microphone.

    Trump’s pick of JD Vance is a clear signal: this is a fight over America’s identity

    Steve Phillips
    • 4 July 2024 Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, is attending the ongoing trial of Roger, Daniel, Cressie, Lucia and Louise today at Southwark Crown Court.

      Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why UK's Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws

      George Monbiot
    • Are things getting better or worse, quiz 2024 pixie

      Do you think things are generally getting better or worse? Are you a Pollyanna or a Misery Kevin?

    • Donald Trump, with his ear in a bandage.

      To his supporters, Trump is a martyred messiah, resurrected after crucifixion

      Sidney Blumenthal
    • Viola Di Grado

      My queer friends in Italy are so worn down by discrimination, they don’t notice it. Here’s why

      Viola Di Grado

Sports

  • Ralf Schumacher came out in a post on social media this week, one of only four former Formula One drivers to have done so in 74 years.

    ‘It liberates others’
    Hamilton hails Ralf Schumacher coming out

    F1 is still a male-dominated space, says Lewis Hamilton, who believes his on-grid protests have helped force change
  • Shoko Miyata is one of Japan’s most decorated gymnasts

    Paris Olympics
    Japanese gymnastics star Miyata reportedly sent home for smoking

    The captain of Japan’s Olympic women’s gymnastics team has been sent home from Europe after allegations she was caught smoking
    • Hugo Lloris.

      Soccer
      Lloris says video is ‘attack on French people’ as Argentinian minister sacked

    • The Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark celebrates during the second half of Wednesday’s game against the Dallas Wings in Arlington, Texas.

      Basketball
      Clark breaks WNBA single-game assists mark in Fever defeat

    • An emotional stage winner Victor Campenaerts shares a video call with his partner and young child.

      Tour de France
      Campanaerts denies Ineos elusive stage win with late surge

    • A new deal should greatly increase the salaries of players such as Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson

      WNBA
      Players union chief fears $2.2bn media deal undervalues league

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Climate crisis

  • Installing photo voltaic solar panels onto the roof of a domestic house within Washington, North East England, UK<br>BY4Y3K Installing photo voltaic solar panels onto the roof of a domestic house within Washington, North East England, UK

    UK
    Solar power becoming standard even in UK’s soggy summer

  • a person walks across a flooded street

    America's dirty divide
    ‘It is devastating’: unprecedented floods in US strain small businesses

  • A man and a woman look into her destroyed bedroom in a house that is missing its roof

    Extreme weather
    Caribbean leaders call for ‘Marshall plan’ to help rebuild after Hurricane Beryl

  • The five defendants smiling in a group pose in a church yard

    UK
    Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block key highway

Across the country

  • A Secret Service agent stands by

    Trump rally shooting
    Secret Service decries rightwing blame on female agents over Trump shooting

    Secret Service official says it is an ‘insult’ to imply women unqualified to be agents based on gender
  • white man wearing black suit and bowtie

    1929-2024
    Bob Newhart, famed comedian and sitcom actor, dies at 94

  • A man wearing a suit smiles at he stands at a podium.

    Democrats
    Some progressives stand behind Biden as he pushes policies for working class

  • illustration of back of person's head morphed in front of yellow, blue, green, pink, red and blue background

    Exclusive
    AI is overpowering efforts to catch child predators, experts warn

    • US Capitol attack
      Prosecutors retool January 6 plea deals after supreme court ruling – report

    • Pennsylvania
      Hundreds mourn man killed in Trump assassination attempt

    • Stock markets
      Nasdaq losses deepen amid market jitters over US policy on chipmakers

    • ‘Fight Fight Fight’
      Donald Trump offers supporters $299 assassination attempt-themed sneakers

    • Civil rights movement
      Bernice Johnson Reagon, US civil rights activist and singer, dies aged 81

    • Trump rally shooting
      Gunman searched for images of Trump and Biden but motive still unclear

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Around the world

  • Screen grab taken from an AFPTV footage shows Itamar Ben-Gvir speaking at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem

    Israel
    Extremist Israeli minister makes provocative visit to al-Aqsa mosque

    Itamar Ben-Gvir, who seeks to disrupt ceasefire talks, makes video at contested holy site in Jerusalem
  • Yaël Braun-Pivet applauds the national assembly vote

    France
    Macron ally wins surprise re-election as national assembly speaker

  • A horse car passes through streets flooded with leaked sewage in Deir al Balah, Gaza on July 16, 2024. An Israeli blockade and the war has brought infrastructure services in the city to a standstill

    Gaza
    Highly infectious poliovirus found in Gaza sewage samples

  • Aerial photo of people standing on the edge of a flooded street as others are carried over the water in the front bucket of a bulldozer

    Weather tracker
    Heavy seasonal rain causes widespread flooding in China

    • New Zealand
      Fears rightwing coalition will unwind NZ gun reforms brought in after Christchurch massacre

    • Volcanoes
      Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study

    • Ukraine
      UK will not help Ukraine hit targets in Russia, defence secretary says

    • Germany
      ‘Just missed’: German comedian loses job over Trump shooting joke

    • Europe
      Nato chief assures EU that alliance would survive second Trump presidency

    • Brazil
      Violence against women in Brazil reaches highest levels on record

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Podcasts

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    The Audio Long Read
    ‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police custody – podcast

  • Charli XCX

    Today in Focus
    The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast

  • Close-up image of Rapman in a zipped-up, shiny puffer jacket

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Writer-director Rapman on creating Netflix’s global smash hit Supacell – podcast

  • The hands of a woman holding a glass of water and a tray of vitamins

    Science Weekly
    Is there any point in taking multivitamins? – podcast

  • A Ukrainian serviceman and police officers check the documents of a man in Kyiv. A controversial mobilisation law aimed at boosting troop numbers has been introduced which toughens penalties on draft dodgers, incentivises conscription and obliges men to keep their military registration details with the authorities up-to-date. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty

    Today in Focus
    Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story – podcast

  • King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a carriage

    Politics Weekly UK
    The king’s speech: can Labour keep the optimism going? – podcast

  • Donald Trump and JD Vance laughing, in blue suits

    Politics Weekly America
    JD Vance: who is Donald Trump’s new vice-president? – podcast

Culture

  • Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child in Melbourne, 2005

    Ranked
    So good, so good, so good: Destiny’s Child’s greatest songs

    As their classic album The Writing’s on the Wall turns 25, we appraise the best of a girl group whose futuristic sound still sounds fresh – and who gave the world Beyoncé
  • ‘The cacophony of existential questions’ … Beyza Yazgan.

    Music
    Beyza Yazgan: Human Cocoon review – from Middle Eastern classical to American minimalism

  • A woman wearing a white dress stands next to a man wearing a black button-down, with fairy lights in the background

    Film
    Find Me Falling review – Harry Connick Jr heads to Cyprus in so-so Netflix romcom

  • Hungarian Filmmaker Bela Tarr Stars In A Season At The Filmoteca De Catalunya With A Large Part Of His Filmography<br>BARCELONA CATALONIA, SPAIN - JANUARY 09: Filmmaker Bela Tarr poses after giving a press conference at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, January 9, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. During the press conference, the filmmaker commented on his retrospective at the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr stars in a Filmoteca de Catalunya cycle with a large part of his cinematography during the month of January. (Photo By David Zorrakino/Europa Press via Getty Images)

    World cinema
    ‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

  • three side by side film stills

    Film
    From Twister to Titanic: writers on their favourite disaster movies

  • Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian in Those About to Die.

    Those About to Die review
    Anthony Hopkins’s Rome epic is disgustingly effective

Lifestyle

  • Demi Moore at Cannes with her dog, Pilaf, who has also attended fashion week.

    Fashion
    You’ve heard of nepo babies, but what about nepo dogs? The rise of the Very Important Pooch

    From hobnobbing with the Kardashians to brushing shoulders with the royals, celebrities’ dogs are having a busy summer. But what should they do if the high life gets too much?
  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

    I know how to improve the Olympics. First up, the burger-stacking contest

    Jay Rayner
  • Model wearing matching suit and shorts from French Connection

    Fashion
    Got a fear of shorts? It’s all about choosing the right shirt

  • Fishing village, Altja, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia.

    Travel
    Baltic beauty: exploring Estonia’s northern coast

  • Stuart and Stephen sitting at a wooden table with plates of food and pints of beer on it, in a wood-panelled room

    Dining across the divide
    I think the electric car is going to be the most enormous white elephant

  • Margot Henderson's courgette, feta and red onion tart 090

    Food
    Cheesy tart and roast cauli salad: Margot Henderson’s picnic recipes

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Take part

  • Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs.

    Microsoft IT outage
    Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows pcs?

  • Do you earn more – or – less than your partner?

    Relationships
    Tell us: do you earn significantly more – or less – than your partner?

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    Life and style
    Tell us: what advice do you wish you had known when you were younger?

  • Young Woman Wearing Dress and Waiting Outside

    Weddings
    Tell us your bridesmaid confessions

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From our global editions

  • A visitor wearing a VR headset and using controllers

    UK
    VR show takes ravers old and new back to early UK acid house scene

  • A person leans against a phonebox while facing away from the camera

    Reform UK
    ‘Despair and anger’: minority groups in Reform seats adjust to life after its election success

  • Anna Meares at Homebush, Sydney

    Australia Olympic team
    Olympic chef de mission Anna Meares: ‘I’m getting the same almost physical response as when I was an athlete’

  • Two people stand before a long line of stranded whales on a deserted beach under a grey and cloudy sky

    Environment
    How to solve a mass stranding: what caused 77 healthy whales to die on a Scottish beach?

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    Donald Trump
    Christian right see God’s hand in Trump rally shooting: ‘The world saw a miracle’

  • Los Angeles, CA., June 06, 2023: Harmony, 5, wipes a tear from her 12-year-old Brothers cheek, Daron, June 06, 2023, during funeral services for their beloved older brother, Quincy Reese jr., who, at 16, was gunned down while attending a prom party in South Los Angeles earlier this year. FULL CAPTION TO FOLLOW Barbara Davidson/The Guardian

    The Guardian picture essay
    Gun violence is traumatizing LA’s youngest residents. Can a partnership between the police and community help?

    South LA has the highest levels of gun violence in the county – local organizations want to address how that affects kids
  • An older man wearing a blue suit hugs a child as a small group stands around him smiling.

    Analysis
    ‘Make Trump Human Again’ seems to emerge as Republicans’ new theme

    The campaign is hoping to erase Trump’s history of vitriol with the image of a ‘caring and loving’ family man
  • three side by side photos. at left: two people looking at a photograph of a woman next to flowers. center: man standing in front of tree. Right: exterior of storefront that says "SOIL"

    Black farmers
    ‘The beginning of Black liberation’: photographs tell the real story of the Mississippi Delta

  • Desert in Namibia

    The alternatives
    ‘People think they’ll smell but they don’t’: building homes from mushroom waste and weeds

  • Illustration of someone doing a one-handed handstand, blindfolded, while juggling two balls.

    Health & wellbeing
    The power of proprioception: how to improve your ‘sixth sense’ – and become healthier and happier

  • woman wearing grey looks up at man wearing blue suit

    Profile
    Who is Usha Vance, the Indian American lawyer married to JD Vance?

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  • A couple kiss on the Edge at Hudson Yards observation deck

    Photos of the day
    Trump supporters and a sky-high kiss: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A seagull

    The week in wildlife
    Warthog drama, a fox at the museum and our rarest whale

  • A dog sits half on a man's lap and half on a pub table amid a group of people

    The Guardian picture essay
    Crochet, drama and first dates: inside a community pub

  • ‘Some people tried it and made polite noises’ … an image from Bittersweet: A Story of Food and Yemen.

    My best shot
    A wild moment with date paste – Sayed Asif Mahmud’s best photograph

  • Inflatable pigs watch from the roadside during the Tour de France

    In pictures
    Costumed and colourful: 2024 Tour de France fans

  • Springfield, MA

    In pictures
    Feeling sheepish: Sergio Purtell’s American dream

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