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  • Man sits in court in navy suit and red tie

    Trump’s historic criminal trial enters second day as jury selection continues

    Trump charged with 34 felony counts over alleged payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal
  • Aerial view of lush valley floor with small, heart-shaped lake in the middle, under bright blue sky with white puffy clouds.

    New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

  • Protesters call for end to violence in Gaza

    Roads blocked as thousands protest in US against Israel’s attack on Gaza

  • Young middle-aged man with coifed, graying brown hair, tortoiseshell glasses, dark suit and red tie.

    Mike Johnson unveils complex plan for Israel and Ukraine aid as pressure rises

  • a federal prison

    US federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close

  • Donald Trump at the Manhattan criminal court in New York on 15 April 2024.

    Trump’s criminal trial for hush-money payments crawls to a start

  • Trump’s hush-money trial: key takeaways from the first day

  • Court adjourns after first day of Trump’s historic criminal trial – as it happened

  • Ohio man charged with murder over shooting of Black ride-share driver

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr claims Trump had asked him to be running mate

Opinion

  • White man wearing suit and tie sits next to four other people at a table

    Trump used to scold felons who wanted to vote. Now he could be in the same spot

    Sidney Blumenthal
    • A giant billboard in central Tehran showing Iranian ballistic missiles

      The Guardian view
      On Iran and Israel: they need to step back from the brink of open warfare

    • Benjamin Netanyahu at a wartime cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 14 April 2024.

      Netanyahu faces tough questions on Iran – because we Israelis don’t need any more forever wars

      Dahlia Scheindlin
    • An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

      Iran’s missiles were shot down – but they still delivered what Tehran was hoping for

      Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
    • A protest against Donald Trump’s travel ban in Richmond, Virginia, 28 January 2020

      As a US diplomat, I helped circumvent Trump’s Muslim ban – then realised I was part of the problem

      Josef Burton

US sports

  • US surfer Kelly Slater holds his board as he walks out of the water after competing at the Margaret River Pro surfing competition

    ‘It feels like the end’: Kelly Slater bows out after missing World Surf Tour cut

  • Caitlin Clark poses with the WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after she is selected with the No 1 overall pick to the Indiana Fever

    WNBA draft 2024: Caitlin Clark drafted as No 1 pick, Angel Reese goes seventh – as it happened

  • Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, left, poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after getting selected by the Indiana Fever with the No 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft on Monday night in Brooklyn.

    Indiana Fever select Caitlin Clark at head of ‘generational’ WNBA draft class

  • The 128th Boston Marathon <br>epa11280669 Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia (L) and Hellen Obiri of Kenya hold the Boston Marathon trophy after their win in the men's and women's race, respectivley, during the 128th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 15 April 2024. EPA/CJ GUNTHER

    Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma surge to victory at Boston Marathon

US politics

  • Nighttime urban street with people standing in the street and red and blue fire and ambulance lights.

    Homicides in major US cities falling at ‘one of fastest rates ever’ – report

  • Nikki Haley in Charleston, South Carolina, on 6 March.

    Nikki Haley takes new job at ultra-conservative thinktank

  • man talks at podium in front of american flags

    Arizona Democrat says enshrining abortion rights in constitution best remedy to 1864 ban

  • Joe Biden at the White House on Friday.

    Biden closes gap on Trump but third-party candidates pose danger, polls show

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US business

  • Qantas plane taking off

    Qantas pauses Perth to London route due to expected Iranian attack on Israel

  • Tall, pale yellow and rusted pump jack in industrial outdoors landscape.

    Oil and gas firms must pay more to drill on public lands under new Biden rule

    • Ben Bernanke

      Do better: Bernanke gets strict with Bank of England over handling of inflation crisis

    • Red car next to white charging station on blue carpet

      Driver in fatal Texas crash was using Ford’s auto driving system, officials say

    • Man wearing blue suit and striped tie in front of a building

      Sam Bankman-Fried appeals FTX fraud convictions and 25-year prison sentence

Pictures & video

  • Trump speaks before historic criminal trial over 'hush money'– video

  • Powerful storms have swept across parts of the US, with millions of people facing the threat of severe weather

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    Fierce storms trigger flash floods and tornadoes in parts of US – video

    Powerful storms have swept across parts of the US, with millions of people facing the threat of severe weather
  • OJ Simpsons wears the blood-stained gloves entered into evidence

    OJ Simpson’s life from NFL stardom to legal jeopardy – in pictures

    The NFL player was a star until he was charged with murder, and after his acquittal in 1995 he faced further legal troubles in the ensuing decades

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