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  • Police on UCLA campus after night-time violence
    Police on UCLA campus after night-time violence
    Protesters gather outside Fordham University campus in New York
    Protesters gather outside Fordham University campus in New York
    Columbia professors outside campus, demanding release of students
    Columbia professors outside campus, demanding release of students
    Alvin Bragg holds press conference in New York
    Alvin Bragg holds press conference in New York
    Protesters circle tent encampment on campus in Madison, Wisconsin
    Protesters circle tent encampment on campus in Madison, Wisconsin

    Live
    Top New York prosecutor says 280 people arrested at campus protests; independent review into UCLA violence

    • Duane Eddy American guitarist December 1963<br>B505RF Duane Eddy American guitarist December 1963

      Duane Eddy
      Pioneering rock’n’roll guitarist dies at 86

    • Politics
      US House votes to pass antisemitism bill in response to campus protests

    • New York
      Harvey Weinstein faces retrial after 2020 rape conviction overturned

    • Climate crisis
      Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify

    • Canada
      Bitter clash in parliament over Trudeau ‘wacko’ jibe

    • US Federal Reserve
      Interest rates hold steady as inflation ticks up

    • Louisiana
      US judges reject new voting map with second majority-Black district

    • Claude
      ChatGPT’s chatbot rival to be introduced on iPhone

In focus

  • police clash with protesters

    In pictures
    Protests continue at university campuses across the US

  • woman in a red baseball cap outside

    Kristi Noem’s dog-killing embodies the cruel phoneyness of today’s Republicans

    Ryan Busse
    The South Dakota governor’s proud dog murder tells a lot about how posturing Trumpists like she and Greg Gianforte think
  • black and white picture of a man in a mustache holding up a trophy in a stadium

    Who is Stan Smith?
    New film uncovers tennis and footwear legend

    The former player, once a world No 1, also inspired a defining Adidas shoe and is the subject of a revealing new documentary

Spotlight

  • Kirsty Paterson poses as the sad Oompa Loompa at Willy's Chocolate Experience LA on 28 April 2024.

    ‘Yes, this is real’
    LA recreates Glasgow’s Willy Wonka disaster – sad Oompa Loompa included

    The viral Glasgow event made children cry and adults seethe. Could a California tribute provide some measure of absolution?
  • composite image of the same woman in two different wedding dresses

    Finding a wedding dress is hard
    It’s worse when you’re mid- or plus-size

    With limited sizes in bridal salons, it can be impossible to order a dress that works for you when you can’t even fit in a sample
    • Jimmy Kimmel onstage.

      Late-night TV roundup
      Jimmy Kimmel on Trump trial: ‘Why is this not on TV?’

    • Martin Myers

      UK justice system
      Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it?

    • ‘They’ve got the car, the hat, the T-shirt. The apartment is the natural progression’ … the Aston Martin Residences.

      A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella?
      Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses

    • Photo of Franz Kafka on his grave at the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague.

      Franz Kafka
      What we learn from his uncensored diaries

Opinion

  • Children near a camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah

    In Rafah I saw new graveyards fill with children. It is unimaginable that worse could be yet to come

    James Elder
    • UK five pound, ten pound, twenty pound and fifty pound notes with one pound coins.

      The Guardian view
      On the cost of a cashless society: the most vulnerable will pay

    • students sit on grass

      ‘I’m feeling paralysed’: they arrested my friends for protesting on campus

      Grey Battle
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      It’s not stranger danger you should be afraid of, it’s video doorbell derangement syndrome

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Adrian Chiles walking blindfolded with his guide Mike Moren

      How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath

      Adrian Chiles

Sports

  • Ayrton Senna

    Ayrton Senna
    Thirty years since F1 lost its uncompromising, complex genius

    Three decades after his death at Imola, the great Brazilian driver remains a revered but controversial figure in motor sport
  • Swimming will be one of the main attractions at this summer’s Olympics

    Usada
    US anti-doping agency attacks Wada’s ‘half-truths’ over Chinese swimmers

    Usada has criticised the World Anti-Doping Agency after the body published a document outlining its handling of a case involving Chinese swimmers
    • Guglielmo Vicario is put under pressure by Arsenal

      Soccer
      Postecoglou warns players not to copy Arsenal’s 'schoolyard' dark arts

    • A youth hockey coach is set to appear in a Canadian court charged with assaulting a child after being cleared of abuse for the same incident by Hockey Canada’s ‘independent third party’ that investigates abuse within the sport.

      Exclusive
      Youth coach facing assault charge was cleared by third-party firm investigating Hockey Canada abuse claims

    • A banner depicting Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds is displayed at the Racecourse Ground

      'Whole town could come'
      Reynolds and McElhenney want 55,000 capacity for Wrexham

    • black and white picture of a man in a mustache holding up a trophy in a stadium

      Who is Stan Smith?
      New film uncovers tennis and footwear legend

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Climate crisis

  • Heavily forested landscape in Ixtlán district, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico.

    Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity
    What is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?

  • Man fills a container of water from a tap outside the Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant in Hammanskraal in Pretoria

    Water
    Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts

  • Aerial view of white pelicans feeding during an algal bloom of cyanobacteria in Lake Elsinore, California

    Specieswatch
    Blue-green algae get a bad press – but we owe a debt of gratitude

  • power plant from a distance during sunset

    Climate crisis
    G7 agree to end use of unabated coal power plants by 2035

Across the country

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene at the US Capitol in Washington DC on 1 May.

    Marjorie Taylor Greene
    Far-right Republican to force vote on ousting Mike Johnson as speaker

    Extremist’s bid to remove House speaker appears certain to fail as Democratic leaders indicate they will table or kill motion
  • Mitt Romney on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on 13 September 2023.

    ‘I didn’t shoot my dog’
    Mitt Romney says his dog scandal doesn’t compare to Kristi Noem’s

  • johnson and johnson sign on a lawn

    Johnson & Johnson
    Company proposes $6.5bn settlement of talc cancer lawsuits

  • Acie Holland III.

    Wisconsin
    Teen averts tragedy by taking wheel after school bus driver falls ill

    • Gateway Pundit
      Workers at far-right site feared credibility issues, filing shows

    • 2024 election
      Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he’s re-elected unless he gets immunity

    • US-Mexico border
      US asylum app strands migrants and aids organized crime, rights group says

    • OnlyFans
      Website investigated over claim children accessed pornography

    • Paul Auster
      American author of The New York Trilogy dies aged 77

    • North Carolina
      Officers killed in shootout named as rifle found in suspect’s home

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Around the world

  • Police car parked behind police tape in residential street

    London sword attack
    Man, 36, charged with murder of 14-year-old boy

    Teenage boy died in attack by man armed with sword, while two police officers and two others were injured
  • Brown floodwater in green land and semi-submerged dwellings

    Kenya floods
    Tourists evacuated from Maasai Mara after river bursts banks

  • Sara Alhashimi

    UK
    Father of girl who died in Channel says family feared being deported to Iraq

  • View of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford

    'Violation of human dignity'
    UK auction house withdraws Egyptian human skulls from sale

    • China
      Number of writers jailed exceeds 100 for first time, says report

    • UK
      British students begin new wave of protests against Gaza war after US arrests

    • Indonesia
      Volcano eruption spreads ash to Malaysia and shuts airports

    • ‘Wall of Death’
      Astronauts could run round track to keep fit on moon, say scientists

    • Georgia
      EU condemns crackdown on protesters opposing ‘foreign agents’ bill

    • UK
      Boy attended same school as victim of Nottingham stabbing

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • 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

  • Illustration by Nathalie Lees

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The battle over dyslexia – podcast

  • A close up of a Labour rosette on a jacket

    Today in Focus
    Is Labour about to win a local elections landslide?

  • Kadeisha Buchanan is sent off during the UEFA Women's Champions League semi-final, second leg match between Chelsea and FC Barcelona at Stamford Bridge on 27 April 2024. (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Chelsea’s Champions League dreams dashed – Women’s Football Weekly

  • 20240309-140 Plastic pollution and wildlife on Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, by Karen

    Science
    The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off the tap? – podcast

  • Humza Yousaf speaks during a press conference at Bute House

    Today in Focus
    Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf resigns

Culture

  • Paul Auster.

    Paul Auster – a life in quotes
    ‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’

    The author of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 has died at the age of 77. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his life
  • Drake & Kendrick Lamar

    ‘You a scam artist’
    The most brutal moments in Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track

  • Daniel Radcliffe and J K Rowling

    Daniel Radcliffe
    Harry Potter star says rupture with JK Rowling over trans rights is ‘really sad’

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar. The two rappers have been releasing diss tracks about each other since March

    Kendrick Lamar
    Rapper responds to Drake with diss track Euphoria in escalating feud

  • Captain Grimm … Russell Crowe in Land of Bad.

    Land of Bad review
    Russell Crowe marches on in explosive action thriller

  • Fallout 4 – introducing the next gen.

    Fallout 4
    In the wake of the TV series, is it worth playing again?

Lifestyle

  • Illustration of woman in pink dress with hands on head surrounded by dresses, planners, invitations, hangers and cakes

    ‘It blew our budget by a massive amount’
    Four couples break down their wedding costs

    The average cost of a wedding in 2023 was $35,000 in the US and £20,700 in the UK – how are people spending that money?
  • ‘To the trained eye, it was littered with mistakes. But I forced mine to see the bigger picture’ … Kathryn Wheeler on her big day.

    A moment that changed me
    I made my own wedding dress – and learned to embrace imperfection

  • A Mulberry bag

    Fashion
    Mulberry sales decline as wealthy shoppers slow spending

  • BFFs? … Melissa McCarthy and Barbra Streisand together in 2016

    ‘Did you take Ozempic?’
    Barbra Streisand gives a masterclass in how not to pay a compliment

  • Jennifer Wong at her first tai chi class.

    My first time doing tai chi
    ‘It feels like my brain is solving a Rubik’s Cube’

  • Felicity Cloake's vegan meringues.

    How to cook the perfect ...
    Vegan meringues – recipe

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Take part

  • 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

  • Man in protective suit and others in high-vis jackets removing tents

    ‘This is cleansing’
    Dublin sends in police and buses to dismantle tent city

  • Jordan Bardella

    ‘A paradigm shift’
    Will Jordan Bardella finally normalize Le Pen’s far right in France?

  • A police officer points a finger at the photographer as a man and woman hug in a large crowd of protesters and police

    ‘White paper’ demonstrations
    China erases memory of protests in further threat to journalism

  • Cian Ó Cíobháin

    Station to station
    The European language DJs taking radio to new realms

In case you missed it

  • An abandoned akiya house is pictured in a small village in Miyoshi, Japan

    Akiya houses
    Why Japan has nine million empty homes

  • COLOMBIA-CONFLICT-PERFORMANCE<br>People take part in a performance consisting in getting buried up to their waists and staying in that position as much as their bodies resist as part of the commemoration of the VII National Week of Remembrance, to support the dignity of victims of the armed conflict, symbolic reparation, resistance and social reconstruction that contribute to the construction of historical memory, at 13 Comuna shantytown in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on Octuber 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)

    From Colombia to Syria justice is possible for survivors of sexual violence in war

    Clara Sandoval
    For the first time Ukraine had the right conditions to make reparations to those subjected to crimes such as rape and sexual slavery. What would it take to replicate this globally?
  • Older white man, orangey skin, poofy hair, blue suit, red tie.

    Trump trial key takeaways, day nine
    Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, a fine and a warning

    Keith Davidson takes stand as judge fines ex-president maximum financial penalty for violating gag order – and threatens jail time
  • illustration of a worried looking man and two brains

    Well actually
    I have OCD. Some cognitive behavioral therapy techniques were totally wrong for me

  • woman in a blue blazer

    Kristi Noem
    Republican governor ‘had a shot’ at Trump VP slot before dog-killing boast, sources say

  • blurry photo shows clash between officers and protesters, with one protester brandishing a water jug

    ‘This machine bonks fascists’
    US student protester’s water jug becomes symbol of resistance

  • Protesters at a weekly Monday night demonstration in Görlitz, Germany, speak to the Guardian's Ajit Niranjan

    Germany
    How climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks

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In pictures

  • Pro-Palestine supporters climb a fence

    Flares, arrests and a police ramp
    NYPD break up student protests at Columbia

    New York police moved on to the campus to clear out an academic building that had been taken over as part of a pro-Palestine protest
  • Silhouettes of morris dancers on a blue and pink sky

    Photos of the day
    May Day protests, frolics and a volcano

  • Dzimiti, Georgia, 2023

    Valery Poshtarov’s best photograph
    Sons, when did you last hold your father’s hand?

  • Paul Auster

    Paul Auster
    A life in pictures

  • Young Farmers’ Meeting, Brecon, Wales 1973.

    First class posts
    David Hurn’s Instagram highlights

  • Fables reconstructed … Shaolin Monastery, Hunan Province, China 2004.

    Off the wall
    A miraculous Magnum print sale

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