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  • People in Niamey last month demonstrating against the US military presence in Niger

    Niger
    US confirms Russian forces deployed to same airbase as American troops

  • a man in a suit points to a fence along a border

    Mass deportations, detention camps, troops on the street
    Trump spells out migrant plan

    • Florida
      State could have thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds

    • Economy
      US adds 175,000 April jobs as hiring slows and unemployment stays steady

    • ‘Sir, are you still there?’
      Biden was silenced by criticism from families of troops killed in Kabul, book says

    • ‘Grotesque’
      Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training

    • ‘We must not stop’
      Potential Trump VP Ben Carson touts national abortion ban

    • Franz Kafka
      Author's life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows

In focus

  • An exam room in a women's health clinic

    ‘This is life and death’
    Inside a Florida clinic after the six-week abortion ban

  • Nemat (Minouche) Shafik testifies before Congress Columbia University's response to antisemitism

    Minouche Shafik
    The Columbia president facing choppy waters over Gaza protests

    Ex-central banker Lady Shafik, the university’s president, now faces calls to resign due to her handling of campus unrest
  • A composite image of a woman and a man against a red and blue background.

    ‘Chaos will be created’
    Arizona court hears election-subversion case – with eyes on 2024

    Implications of the lawsuit could extend beyond Cochise county, if local officials try similar tactics in November

Spotlight

  • Zendaya leads a winning cast in Challengers

    Challengers got everything right about my sport – apart from the sexiness

    Andrea Petkovic
    I played on tour for 16 years and I was ready for Luca Guadagnino’s new movie to fail. But it’s the most accurate depiction of the tennis life I have seen on screen
  • three side by side photos showing, from left, Bernie Sanders with the subtitle 'donald trump must be defeated', joe biden with red laser eyes superimposed, and trump hugging a US flag

    Dark Brandon popping off
    Is Joe Biden’s ‘cringe’ TikTok helping or hurting him?

    His youth support declining, the president needs ‘to be where the people are’. His account regularly mocks Trump – but remains silent on Gaza
    • Park plaza

      ‘It’s like winning the lottery’
      The mobile home owners buying the land they live on

    • A black and white scan of the unfurled scroll

      Plato
      ‘Second renaissance’: tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co

    • Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

      Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
      Still terrible after all these years?

    • Back in the Tardis!

      Ranked
      The greatest Doctor Who

  • Black-and-white photo of man standing in front people holding a protest sign

    Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University

    Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones, and Barbara Ransby
    • ‘Women across Florida and the south rushed to find money, transportation, a doctor and an appointment before the law took hold.’

      Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US

      Moira Donegan
    • Illustration: Thomas Pullin

      A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

      Timothy Garton Ash
    • A horse heads back to a barn after an early-morning workout at Churchill Downs in the run-up to this year’s Kentucky Derby

      Twelve horses died around the Kentucky Derby last year. Little has changed since

      Elizabeth Banicki
    • a side-by-side image of Antony Blinken, Unrwa's damaged headquarters, and Benjamin Netanyahu

      Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies?

      Mehdi Hasan
  • A horse heads back to a barn after an early-morning workout at Churchill Downs in the run-up to this year’s Kentucky Derby

    Twelve horses died around the Kentucky Derby last year. Little has changed since

    Elizabeth Banicki
    I have spent long stretches of my life around the racetrack. The methods for training young horses in the US means fatalities are inevitable
  • Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard celebrates a basket during Thursday’s Game 6 of Indiana’s first-round series against the Milwaukee Bucks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

    NBA
    Pacers oust Bucks to celebrate first playoff series victory in a decade

    Obi Toppin scored 21 points and the Pacers won a playoff series for the first time in a decade, beating the Bucks 120-98 in Game 6 on Thursday night
    • Zendaya leads a winning cast in Challengers

      Challengers got everything right about my sport – apart from the sexiness

      Andrea Petkovic
    • Columbus Crew became the first MLS team to beat CF Monterrery over two legs in the Concacaf Champions Cup.

      MLS power rankings
      Columbus Crew continue to make history

    • Guenther Steiner in Miami with Frederic Vasseur,

      F1
      Netflix star Steiner enjoys life after Haas

    • Chess 3918

      Leonard Barden on chess
      Carlsen calls Ding ‘broken’ as star Gukesh emerges

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  • Gaboon viper

    Snakes
    Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study

  • Skyline of Brussels obscured by smog

    Environment
    Belgian insurer urges politicians to strengthen low emission zones

  • a woman files a lawsuit

    ‘Tragic and unjust’
    Court strikes down youth climate lawsuit on Biden administration request

  • Teesside Offshore Windfarm. About 30 licences for fossil fuel prospecting will be granted at future windfarm sites.

    UK
    PM to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind

  • Man on stage in front of Arizona and American flags

    Boxing, tacos and TV
    Democratic Senate contender aims to win back Latino voters

    Ruben Gallego, taking on Kari Lake in key Arizona race, focuses on ‘community events’ to reach those who have slipped away
  • a man kneels over a row of metal pieces near a neat line of white bowling pins

    ‘An emotional day’
    Maine bowling alley reopens months after shooting

  • FILE PHOTO: Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing's 737 Max production facility sit in storage behind Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc headquarters, in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo

    Boeing
    Second whistleblower dies after short illness

  • People walk to the Senate gallery to watch the proceedings, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Democrats secured enough votes in the Arizona Senate to repeal a Civil War-era ban on abortions that the state's highest court recently allowed to take effect. (AP Photo/Matt York)

    Arizona
    Governor signs into law measure to repeal 1864 abortion ban

    • Pier pressure
      More than 1,000 sea lions assemble at San Francisco dockside

    • Campus protests
      Schools start to reach resolutions with protesters

    • Kristen Clarke
      Top US justice department official says she is domestic abuse survivor

    • Apple
      Company reports slumping iPhone sales as global demand weakens

    • Abu Ghraib
      Mistrial in case of US military contractor accused of abuse

    • California
      Boat captain sentenced to four years over fire that killed 34

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  • A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 mission lunar probe lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Hainan Province.

    Chang’e-6
    China launches ambitious mission to far side of the moon

    The launch of the uncrewed Chang’e-6 is part of China’s effort to put a human on the lunar surface by 2030
  • Red carnations left on small stone tablets with the names and ages of those killed

    Spain
    UN alarm over rightwing laws that could ‘whitewash’ Franco era

  • a man with grey hair wearing a suit jacket

    Panama
    Voters to choose new president against backdrop of social unrest and drought

    • World Press Freedom Day
      Attacks on press freedom around the world are intensifying, index reveals

    • Philippines
      Ruined centuries-old town re-emerges as dam dries up during heatwave

    • Haiti
      Residents flee as gangs launch new gun and arson attacks in capital

    • Turkey
      Country stops all trade with Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy’ in Gaza

    • Boris Johnson
      Ex-PM turned away from UK polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID

    • UK
      David Cameron commits £3bn a year in aid to Ukraine ‘for as long as necessary’

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Illustration: Daniel Liévano

    The Audio Long Read
    Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

  • People inspect damage and recover items from their homes after Israeli airstrikes

    Today in Focus
    Are we on the brink of a ceasefire deal for Gaza?

  • FBL-EUR-C1-DORTMUND-PSG<br>Dortmund's German forward #14 Niclas Fuellkrug (R) celebrates with Dortmund's English midfielder #10 Jadon Sancho (L) and Dortmund's German midfielder #19 Julian Brandt scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg football match between Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on May 1, 2024 in Dortmund. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Advantage Dortmund in Champions League semis? – Football Weekly Extra

  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    Science
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

  • A transport vehicle carries three Tesla Cybertrucks on a freeway in California

    Today in Focus
    Has Elon Musk driven Tesla off track?

  • A designed image with the words 'Politics Weekly UK'

    Politics Weekly UK
    Coming 5 May: Politics Weekly Westminster – an extra podcast episode to get your political fix

  • Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham, left, runs with Bayern's Harry Kane during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Christian Bruna)

    Football Weekly
    All square in Munich and Ipswich a point from Premier League – Football Weekly

  • (l-r) Celeste O’Connor, Kumail Nanjiani, Finn Wolfhard and James Acaster in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

    ‘It’s about valuing their audience’
    Why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’

    The spooky comedy franchise may seem an unlikely place to find an ethnicity and faith adviser, but productions are increasingly aware of a duty to make sure communities are truthfully represented
  • Yaya Bey

    ‘I was sad in a way I never knew possible’
    Yaya Bey on grief, poverty and using music as therapy

  • Shane MacGowan

    ‘It meant so much to him’
    Shane MacGowan’s wife on the hunt for his missing Easter Rising rifle

  • Duane Eddy<br>American guitarist Duane Eddy. 29th November 1963. (Photo by Ashurst/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

    Duane Eddy obituary
    Guitarist whose string of hit records in the late 1950s and early 60s were noted for their twangy sound

  • Jerry Seinfeld as Bob Cabana, Cedric the Entertainer as Stu Smiley and Jim Gaffigan as Edsel Kellogg III in Unfrosted.

    Unfrosted review
    Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

  • Dua Lipa.

    Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review
    ‘Psychedelic pop-infused’? Pull the other one!

  • Liz de Aza at Milk

    All black is back – again
    Here’s how to wear it in 2024

  • SALI COLUMN SAT MAG Perfume: Prop Stylist: Yvonne Achato @yvonneachoto_stylist Assistant: Declan Slattery @decslattery

    Hate perfume?
    Even sceptics won’t turn up their noses at these subtle scents

  • Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe: view of the beaches of Cala Mitjana and Cala Mitjaneta, natural area of special interest in the southwest<br>G01J8B Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe: view of the beaches of Cala Mitjana and Cala Mitjaneta, natural area of special interest in the southwest

    ‘If I could be teleported to any beach, this would be it’
    Readers choose their favourite European beaches

  • Painting: Visit to a New Mother (1835) by Moritz Calisch.

    Leading questions
    My mother-in-law pushes to spend more time with our baby. How can I keep her at arm’s length?

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  • 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

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

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

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    Music
    Tell us your experiences of making a living from music

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

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From our global editions

  • Boris Johnson, then prime minister, pictured after voting in London during the local council elections on 5 May 2022.

    Did we really expect Tory MPs who fought for voter ID rules to follow them? Don’t be ridiculous

    Marina Hyde
  • A close-up black and white photo of Pedro Sánchez with white rips in the paper

    ‘A brutal business’
    Toxicity of politics takes toll on world leaders’ mental health

  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’
    The journalists in exile but still at risk

  • People entering Co-op Live for the opening test event on 20 April

    ‘Turn the building off and on’
    Social media schadenfreude over botched UK arena opening

In case you missed it

  • Police face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles early on May 2.

    Visual guide
    The pro-Palestinian US campus protests in maps, videos and photos

  • ‘Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, and 100,000 die from the condition annually.’

    Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?
    A lawsuit dared to ask

    The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes
  • woman's face in distress viewed between legs of police

    ‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’
    Student photographers’ best images of the campus protests

    Nine photojournalists from across the US tell the stories behind their most powerful shots, as pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns
  • Paul Auster.

    ‘I remember Paul Auster’
    A tribute by Jonathan Lethem to his friend

  • Olga Rudenko on the street, photographed for a protrait with her reflection also visible in a shop window

    Ukraine's fight for full press freedom
    ‘We can write what we want, but bad actors try to intimidate us’

  • An ice-cream mini-truck open for business, with colourful photographs and illustrations on display

    Cool solution
    How ice-cream saved drought-hit farmers in India

  • Going for a song … Jude Rogers at Ty Newydd Writer's Centre in north Wales.

    ‘Push through the feelings of worthlessness’
    Can anyone learn to be a top songwriter?

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  • People seek relief from a heatwave in Manila, the Philippines

    Photos of the day
    A Star Wars marathon and a heatwave in Asia

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A 'Maya' girl sits on an altar

    Photo essay
    Spring, fertility and an awakening with Spain’s Las Mayas

  • A field hamster looks out of its burrow in a field. in Euskirchen, Germany.

    Week in wildlife: a giant hamster, a mustachoied deer and a zebra on the run

  • Police face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.

    In pictures
    Police move in on protest camp at UCLA

  • A dog outside a polling station for the London mayor election

    Dog-whistle politics
    Pets at UK polling stations

  • Tony Dočekal Jurors Picks

    The eyes have it
    LensCulture portrait awards 2024

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