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  • Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and French far-right National Rally.

    France election live
    Marine Le Pen says National Rally should not try to form government without a majority

  • Building reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrike

    Israel
    Israel risking disastrous war against Hezbollah for political reasons, says former US official

    • World
      Cambodia jails 10 environmentalists in ‘crushing blow to civil society’

    • Caribbean
      Hurricane Beryl strengthens to category 5 storm as it ‘flattens’ island in Grenada

    • UK election live
      Starmer dismisses Tory claims about his work ethic as ‘desperate’ and ‘bordering on hysterical’

    • Greece
      Greece introduces ‘growth-oriented’ six-day working week

    • Migration
      Panama to shut down Darién Gap route in deal that will see US pay to repatriate migrants

    • Music
      Killer Mike will not face charges after Grammys arrest

News in focus

  • The Biden family walks on a lawn.

    Analysis
    After a disastrous debate, focus falls on Joe Biden’s inner circle

  • Close-up of Geert Wilders in dark blue suit and light blue tie

    Netherlands
    New Dutch government sworn in amid concerns over far-right ministers

    Questions over suitability of ministers from Geert Wilders’s Freedom party and populist Farmer-Citizen Movement
  • Broken Uni tory mortarboard illustration

    Tory Britain 2010-24
    How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster

    The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – driving some institutions close to bankruptcy

Spotlight

  • A color-tinted photo of three smiling white men wearing casual suits and standing in a row, looking in the same direction, in front of a pink rosebush and a white picket fence.

    Books
    ‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

    Maureen Callahan’s eye-opening exposé looks back at the Kennedy men and the women they ‘destroyed’, digging into a long and grisly history
  • Tourists at a viewing site beneath the Acropolis in Athens, Greece

    Travel
    ‘My escape is going north’: heatwaves begin to drive tourists in Europe to cool climes

  • Manizha Talash, Ray Bassil and Alexandra Ndolo

    Olympics
    In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

    In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen fields
  • An illustration showing computer mouse clicks on a female body.

    Pornography
    The secret lives of porn addicts: ‘I am meticulous about covering my tracks’

    As pornography use soars, some men feel their behaviour is moving from a compulsion to an addiction. They describe how this affects their health, happiness and relationships
    • Three states in Brazil banned Jeferson Tenorio’s book, ‘O Avesso da Pele,’ published in the UK as ‘The Dark Side of Skin.’

      World
      Brazil’s unparalleled spate of book bans is page out of US culture wars

    • Richard Forrest walks along Lyme Regis beach in Dorset, where he regularly hunts for fossils.

      Photo essay
      The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past

    • Just the ticket … audience interactions are propelling comedians to stardom

      Comedy
      How viral ‘crowd work’ clips are remaking standup for the social media age

    • ‘You’re faced with your mortality – that’s what the show is about”… Crazy Smooth, centre, performs In My Body.

      Dance
      Breakdancing in your 50s: ‘My body can still do everything – but it might take a year to heal an injury’

Euro 2024

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Sport

Opinion

  • An illustration of donald trump and the supreme court building.

    Was Donald Trump a king as president? The US supreme court thinks so

    Moira Donegan
    In ruling that Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, the court has set a disturbing precedent
  • Supporters of French far right leader Marine Le Pen react after the release of projections based on the actual vote count in select constituencies , Sunday, June 30, 2024 in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. French voters propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections Sunday and plunged the country into political uncertainty, according to polling projections. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

    The Guardian view
    France’s snap election: the unthinkable becomes plausible

  • Janelle Monáe in trousers with huge outsplayed fringes in pink

    The truth about vaginas: how I became a committed vulva-splainer

    Zoe Williams
  • Residents under watch of the police evacuate the Delmas 22 neighbourhood the morning after an attack amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2 May 2024

    Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

    Olivier De Schutter
  • Joe Biden at Andrews Air Force Base

    Gaza has turned into Biden’s most perplexing moral and foreign policy failure

    Mohamad Bazzi
  • An electoral poster featuring Marine le Pen and the defaced photo of Jordan Bardella of the far-right National Rally in Paris, France.

    French centrists must decide: support the left – or hand the keys of power to the far right?

    Cole Stangler
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Climate crisis

  • Man wearing fluorescent yellow vest and hat with stop sign

    Climate crisis
    Biden unveils rules to protect millions of US workers from extreme heat

  • A firefighter in protective clothing manages a fire line in Fresno County, California

    Weather tracker
    Scorching temperatures across US threaten heat records

  • Goats belonging to Sicilian farmer Luca Cammarata drink from a muddy water pond near his drought-stricken farm

    Italy
    ‘We can’t let the animals die’: drought leaves Sicilian farmers facing uncertain future

  • Thibaud van der Steen, co-founder of No Waste Army, says Dutch farmers are struggling in the face of extreme weather.

    Food
    ‘It’s not beautiful, but you can still eat it’: climate crisis leads to more wonky vegetables in Netherlands

Around the world

  • Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt on ITV's election debate.

    UK
    British female politicians targeted by fake pornography

    Leading politicians victimised by online material including AI deepfakes, investigation finds
  • Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2004.

    Jeffrey Epstein
    Florida prosecutors knew Jeffrey Epstein assaulted young girls years before plea deal

  • Twilight characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen entwined in a tree

    Streaming
    Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp launches Netflix rival Tubi in UK

  • Black man wearing black shirt and white and red hat speaks into microphone

    Music
    Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government

    • China
      Tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech in China after knife attack

    • Business live
      Eurozone inflation dips in June; UK supermarket sales slow despite Euro 2024 boost

    • New Zealand
      ‘Like the devil on meth’: New Zealand feral cat killing competition produces record haul

    • Hong Kong
      Jimmy Lai: son of detained media tycoon urges Hong Kong’s foreign judges to reconsider staying

    • Environment
      Brutal California heatwave to coincide with Fourth of July wildfire risks

    • Kenya
      At least 39 killed in Kenya's anti-tax protests, says rights watchdog

Culture

  • A color still of an older white woman and a younger white man appearing about to kiss in the vegetable section of a grocery store.

    Film
    From The Idea of You to A Family Affair: the summer of age-gap romances

    Anne Hathaway and Nicole Kidman are romancing younger stars in glossy new romcoms, adding texture to the dreaded cliche of the ‘cougar’
  • Positech's Democracy 4

    Games
    I simulated each UK party’s first years in government in a video game, and the results were awful

  • Three Tahitians, an 1899 painting by Paul Gauguin

    Paul Gauguin
    Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success

  • Composite for Tory years music piece

    Music
    Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

  • Mariel Franklin (credit Maxim Vinciguerra)

    Book of the day
    Bonding by Mariel Franklin review – a comprehensive vision of a devastated society

  • Orlando, My Political Biography

    Film
    Orlando, My Political Biography review – Woolf’s trans hero gets a 21st-century mashup

Lifestyle

  • OM Nigel Courgettes Butterbeans Ndju

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Recipe for courgettes, butter beans and ’nduja

    A hearty, spicy, meaty treat
  • rhiannon batten campwild scotland

    Travel
    ‘Walking away from the world in Scotland’: an easier way to plan long Highlands hikes

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman behind a DNA spiral

    This is how we do it
    It is routine in Iceland to check whether you are related to a romantic partner before you get serious

  • Deforestation in the Amazon - detail of an area.

    Sustainable fashion
    ‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose

  • ‘I feel privileged to do it’ … Fiona Burke

    A new start after 60
    I saw children caged on the US-Mexico border – and my life changed completely

  • Woman with sensitive skin illustration

    The beauty Q&A
    How do I find the right products for my sensitive skin?

Take part

  • Biden and Trump speak during the presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia.

    People in the US
    Share your reaction to the first US presidential debate

  • A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK<br>DRF2PB A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK

    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

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

    Culture
    Tell us about your favourite new podcasts of 2024 so far

  • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

From our global editions

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the London Stock Exchange

    UK politics
    ‘When power shifts, so does the money’: mega-donors fill Labour’s coffers

    Large financial backers are returning to the party after abandoning it during the Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn eras
  • Composite of false, AI generated images

    Explainer
    Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake

  • A graphic image of the columned, peaked, white-stone facade of the supreme court, on a red background.

    Case tracker
    US supreme court decisions: the biggest cases this term and their outcomes

  • An image of Kevin Roberts against the backdrop of a painting

    The election operators
    The force behind Project 2025: Kevin Roberts has the roadmap for a second Trump term

  • A paper boat showing Rishi Sunak's face and the message 'Stop the boats' against a blue background. Credit: Guardian Design Team/PA

    UK politics
    How the Tory war on immigration backfired

  • Rassemblement National supporters cheering and waving national flag

    Explainer
    French elections: far right wins first-round victory. What happens now?

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    Analysis
    Trump immunity ruling likely to gut parts of criminal prosecution trial

  • Chris Martin of Coldplay on the Pyramid stage on Saturday night

    Glastonbury
    The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top

  • One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo.

    Loneliness
    Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

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    Global health
    How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

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Podcasts

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    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S7, Ep 4: Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian

  • Caroline Lucas speaking in the House of Commons

    Science Weekly
    Caroline Lucas on climate, culture wars, and 14 years as the only Green MP - podcast

  • Keir Starmer

    Today in Focus
    The enigma of Keir Starmer – podcast

  • FILE - Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak, delivers a speech as part of a Conservative campaign event in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4, in Leeds, northern England, Thursday, June 27, 2024. The United Kingdom will hold its first national election in almost five years on Thursday, with opinion polls suggesting that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party will be punished for failing to deliver on promises made during 14 years in power. (Darren Staples/Pool Photo via AP, File)

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Is the race to replace Sunak already under way?

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: The final week of campaigning - podcast

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    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big – podcast

  • Boris Johnson standing in front of the Vote Leave bus during the EU referendum campaign with a fellow campaigner

    Today in Focus
    The 14 years that broke Britain, part 2 - podcast

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  • Wimbledon 2024 - Day One

    Photos of the day
    Wimbledon starts and Glasto ends

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A local resident walks past a burning building following shelling in Ukraine

    Ukraine
    Residents flee as war arrives in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine

  • From the series Rotting from Within, by Abdulhamid Kircher.

    The big picture
    Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

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    Fashion
    Splashing out: 10 swim brands to know – in pictures

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    Gallery
    Australia’s best photos of June

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