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  • A bumblebee collects pollen from a flower

    Well actually
    How a plant identification app helped me find happiness and satisfaction

  • CAMERON, LOUISIANA, USA — APRIL 10TH, 2024 A man in a cap looks at a bare stretch of land with a large LNG plant in the background.

    The other petrostates
    The US’s quiet rise to the world’s biggest fossil fuel state

  • A person learns how to use a glucometer at Childrens National Hospital in Washington, DC

    The FDA chief is right: we are failing people with diabetes

    Neil Barsky
    The $400bn in diabetes-related annual expenditures is breaking the back of our healthcare system. But there is an alternative

Spotlight

  • image of a woman in a housedress that appears to be from about the 1950s. the image is altered with concentric rings over it, as if a drop of water fell in a puddle

    Life and style
    Sundresses and rugged self-sufficiency: ‘tradwives’ tout a conservative American past ... that didn’t exist

    The aesthetic, which celebrates homesteading, milkmaids and ‘the feminine urge to take care of your husband’, hinges on a history today’s Republicans would fiercely oppose
  • three side by side images of flowers

    Interactive quiz
    Butterfly weed or butterfly bush: can you identify these 10 plants?

  • man and woman wearing plaid shirts and glasses

    Project 2025
    A Jewish couple was rejected as foster parents because of their religion. This is the future Project 2025 envisions

    The conservative blueprint envisions ‘a biblically based’ definition of marriage and wants to protect adoption agencies that only work with Christians
  • a young man being hugged by a middle-aged man

    Documentary
    ‘Greed, power and fame’: inside pop music’s biggest Ponzi scheme

    A new Netflix docuseries spotlights Lou Pearlman, the man behind the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync – and a criminal mastermind
    • Vice President Harris visits DC record store<br>epa10607512 US Vice President Kamala Harris shows records she bought at Home Rule Record store in Washington, DC, USA, 03 May 2023. EPA/Ken Cedeno / POOL

      Kamala Harris
      Mingus, Blige, Beyoncé: Black Twitter celebrates Kamala Harris’s pop-culture cred

    • Man wearing glasses, suit, and tie talks to camera on a television set

      Late-night TV roundup
      Stephen Colbert to Trump: ‘If you want to steal Biden’s thunder, all you have to do is drop out’

    • A very heavily made-up person, with painted-on eyebrows, bright pink lips and eyelids, and outrageously large eyelashes, with long brown hair.

      Mexico
      Transfemicide becomes a crime in a ‘watershed’ moment for Mexico City

    • ‘There is something fun and funny for everyone’ … Apple TV+’s Time Bandits.

      TV review
      Time Bandits review – the gloriously fun return of a fantasy classic

West coast

  • An impressive gray cloud seemingly miles long and high, above a smoky hillside.

    Wildfires
    Oregon wildfire creates its own weather after growing to nearly 245,000 acres

  • Extreme close up of fire ant

    Montecito
    A true California hot spot: fire ants invade town loved by celebrities

  • A bold mural with black-and-white images of people, including Kamala Harris, among rays of color.

    Berkeley
    Kamala Harris’s home town cheers historic White House run: ‘She’s going to do it’

  • Solano county and Rio Vista residents protest outside an event unveiling California Forever's plan for a new city after being shut out of the event in January 2024

    California
    Ballot measure to build billionaire-funded city in California withdrawn

Opinion

  • Side-by-side portraits of Trump and Musk.

    Elon Musk is spending millions to elect Trump. Let’s boycott his companies

    Robert Reich
    Musk is determined to help Trump win. Perhaps it’s no surprise that both men believe democracy can be bought off
  • close-up of white man wearing suit

    A genocidal war criminal will address Congress. As a congressman, I’m outraged

    Jamaal Bowman
  • Eiffel tower Olympics

    I need to cheer instead of despair, to witness dreams come true. I need the Olympics

    James Colley
    We ask ourselves whether the world is too dark now for something so wholesome. Then the torch is lit, and there’s magic in the air
  • A climate activist at a protest in London against the Rosebank oil field project, 2023.

    It’s easy to blame petrostates – but self-proclaimed ‘climate leaders’ like the US and UK are driving the crisis

    Tessa Khan
    In thrall to the oil and gas industries, wealthy nations are backing calamitous projects. But the tide is turning, says Tessa Khan of the climate action organisation Uplift
    • Labourers in hi-viz jackets using their phones at a warehouse

      How do young people ever get any work done? They’re always so distracted

      Adrian Chiles
    • Authentic experience … just you, some locals, and a bunch of Gen Z influencers filming a TikTok.

      ‘Grocery store tourism’: why a country’s secrets can be found in the snack aisle

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • An image of Donald Trump

      Democrats are poised to win. But only if they make the election about Trump

      Michael Podhorzer
    • RUSSIA-POLITICS-ARMS<br>In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod, the country's main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Ramil SITDIKOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RAMIL SITDIKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

      Russia is lying about its economic strength: sanctions are working – and we need more

      Eight European finance ministers

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • The US is due to host the Summer Games in 2028 and the Winter Olympics in 2034.

    LA 2028
    Wada move after Chinese doping case could threaten US hosting Olympics

    Wada will take take the US anti-doping agency to an independent review in a move that could jeopardise the US hosting 2028 and 2034 Olympics
  • Tom Daley tests his cardboard bed at the Paris Olympic Village

    Olympic village
    Tom Daley tests out the ‘no-sex’ cardboard beds

    Athletes are checking in at the Paris Olympics and finding their accommodation leaves almost nothing to be desired
    • Katie Ledecky is heavy favourite to retain her 1500m crown

      Swimming
      Katie Ledecky hopes for ‘clean’ swimmers in Paris after Chinese doping row

    • Charlotte Dujardin

      Olympics
      Call for equestrian ban after video shows Dujardin whipping horse

    • Canada coach Bev Priestman was not involved in the drone scandal but will not be on the sidelines against New Zealand

      Soccer
      Canada ‘shocked’ after spying scandal hits Olympic women’s champions

    • Simone Biles alongside her teammates at this year’s US Olympic trials

      Gymnastics
      Opponents beware: this could be the best version of Biles we’ve ever seen

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Sports

  • Tadej Pogacar with his girlfriend Urska Zigart.

    Cycling
    Pogacar says decision not to select girlfriend Zigart helped sway Olympic no-show

    • Julián Álvarez ducks as a bottle (top left) is thrown at celebrating Argentina players by angry spectators during their match with Morocco in Saint-Étienne, forcing the Group A encounter to be suspended

      Soccer
      Fans invade as Argentina v Morocco ends in chaos

    • Taylor Walls is in his fourth year with the Rays

      MLB
      Rays’ Taylor Walls says Trump-inspired celebration was a tribute to ‘strength’

    • Charlie Woods attracted large crowds during his two rounds at the US Junior Amateur

      Golf
      Charlie Woods, son of Tiger, draws crowds but misses cut at US Junior Amateur

    • Mikel Arteta talks to an Arsenal squad containing a host of academy players in pre-season training.

      Soccer
      Arteta primes Arsenal after ‘tough moment’ for Saka and Rice

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Climate crisis

  • Sequoia in national park in California

    Environment
    Tree bark plays vital role in removing methane from atmosphere, study finds

  • Black smoke rises and flames billow from a wildfire seen behind a line of yellow school buses parked in a yard

    Climate crisis
    Sunday was world’s hottest ever recorded day, data suggests

  • Kamala Harris represents the US at Cop28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December.

    Climate crisis
    Kamala Harris could set ‘new high bar for climate ambition’, advocates say

  • person wearing white top, jeans and black shoes holds yellow and black machine above grass as smoke billows

    Environment
    PFAS widely added to US pesticides despite EPA denial, study finds

Across the country

  • A woman takes a picture of a flight tracking board that reports delays for more than half the flights

    Microsoft IT outage
    CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

    Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix
  • woman in a colourful jacket speaks at lectern in front of american flags

    ‘A fresh start’
    Hillary Clinton urges Americans to rally around Kamala Harris

  • A humpback whale breaches near Iguana Island, Panama, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

    New Hampshire
    Two fishers rescued off New Hampshire after whale capsizes their boat

  • Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two on 24 July 2024.

    The Stakes
    Kamala Harris is ascendant – but Republicans are now sharpening their knives

    • Wildfires
      Oregon wildfire creates its own weather after growing to nearly 245,000 acres

    • Minnesota
      World’s oldest bus driver stays behind the wheel in part to donate to charity

    • Illinois
      Sonya Massey killing: family accuse police of attempted cover-up

    • US elections 2024
      Trump files complaint against Harris for taking over Biden’s campaign funds

    • Environment
      Hydrothermal eruption in Yellowstone National Park sends sightseers fleeing

    • Elon Musk
      Elon Musk denies report he will donate $45m a month to Trump Super Pac

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Around the world

  • PANAMA-COLOMBIA-US-MIGRATION<br>Migrants walk by the jungle near Bajo Chiquito village, the first border control of the Darien Province in Panama, on September 22, 2023. The clandestine journey through the Darien Gap usually lasts five or six days, at the mercy of all kinds of bad weather. More than 390,000 migrants have entered Panama through this jungle so far this year, far more than in all of 2022, when there were 248,000, according to official Panamanian data. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images) FTAMIGRANTS

    World news
    Ten people drown in Darién Gap while trying to cross swollen river

    People were probably on their way to US, Panama’s border force says, highlighting perils of jungle
  • Children walking past dirty water in Gaza

    United Nations
    Discovery of poliovirus in Gaza ‘incredibly alarming’, Unicef executive director says

  • Close-up of Prince Harry

    UK
    Prince Harry: decision to take on tabloids contributed to family ‘rift’

  • Putin looking at documents

    Russia
    Putin ‘peddling lies’ about ailing Russian economy, say EU ministers

    • Migration
      At least 150 people missing after boat capsizes off coast of Mauritania

    • Animal behavior
      Hens appear to blush when scared or excited, researchers find

    • Italy
      Tourists evacuated from Italian camping village as wildfire spreads

    • Italy
      Freedom safeguards for Italy’s public service media ‘urgently needed’

    • Italy
      Italian town joins mayor on walks to lose weight blamed on his ‘convivial obligations’

    • Luxury goods
      Shares in LVMH and Kering down as shoppers rein in luxury spending

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Football Weekly

    Football Weekly
    Revisited: The life and times of Troy Townsend – Football Weekly

  • Illustration: Julia Kuo

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’: China, the US and me – podcast

  • Smoke rises from buildings in southern Lebanon

    Today in Focus
    In southern Lebanon on the brink of war – podcast

  • Photograph: Olivia Mansfield/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S7, Ep7: Bimini, drag queen

  • Protest march in support of jailed Just Stop Oil activists outside the houses of parliament

    Science
    George Monbiot on the record jail terms given to Just Stop Oil activists – podcast

  • Kamala Harris smiles.

    Today in Focus
    Mehdi Hasan on Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump – podcast

  • Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Delaware in August 2020

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Biden drops out and Starmer enjoys a honeymoon period

Culture

  • Two demonstrators hold up a sign that says, "Viva Palestina"

    Television
    Pro-Palestinian activists protest TV show’s fake encampment in New York

    Demonstrators at Queens College called the film shoot for CBS drama FBI: Most Wanted ‘propaganda’
  • Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in a car in A Complete Unknown

    Film
    First trailer for Bob Dylan biopic shows Timothée Chalamet as the star

  • blonde woman performs

    Cher
    ‘A life too immense for only one book’: Cher announces two-part memoir

  • Surface tension … The Champion Single Sculls by Thomas Eakins, from 1871.

    Art
    It’s the art Olympics! The 20 greatest ever sporting artworks

  • 'NSync in Netflix’s Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam.

    TV review
    The Boy Band Scam review – the shocking, surreal swindle behind ‘NSync

  • ‘I saw the door handle turn. Standing at the mouth of the corridor, I stared at the front door, narrowing my eyes in the dark.’

    For 18 months my stalker persisted. I moved, changed jobs but nothing worked – so I wrote a book

    Ella Baxter

Lifestyle

  • Ben Aitken surrounded by senior footballers stretching

    A moment that changed me
    I made a life-altering decision in a toilet in New Malden

    It was awkward. I had just mistaken some hand cream for soap. But when I was asked to join a veterans’ football team, aged 35, I surprised myself
  • Couple at Palais Chaillot with Golden Figurines and Eiffel Tower

    Travel
    Step away from the Games: five unsung Paris museums to visit during the Olympics

  • Takeru Kobayashi after winning the Nathan’s hotdog contest in 2006

    Food
    The godfather of competitive eating on secrets, success and physical stress: ‘I am always close to danger or death’

  • Facing financial problems when a controlling partner refuses to let a house be sold.

    Money
    My abusive ex-partner won’t let me sell my home or buy him out

  • A potted pothos plant.

    Life and style
    No growing pains: the 20 houseplants that are hardest to kill

  • a woman performs with a hula hoop

    Olympians are super fit. That doesn’t mean we’re healthy

    Laura Zeng
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Take part

  • The 59-year-old Harris was endorsed by US president Joe Biden on Sunday, 21 July, after he stepped aside amid widespread concerns about the viability of his candidacy.

    US elections
    US voters: share your thoughts about Kamala Harris’s bid to run in the 2024 presidential election

  • 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?

  • What happened that forced you apart and what it was that brought you back together again?

    Family
    Tell us: have you rekindled a relationship with a close family member?

  • 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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From our global editions

  • Oleksandr Syrskyi

    Ukraine
    ‘I know we will win – and how’: Ukraine’s top general on turning the tables against Russia

  • Man cycling across a bridge over a river in desert landscape in Mexico.

    Mexico
    ‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons lives

  • A mother and her child sit inside an electric vehicle

    Environment
    ‘High quality, low price and dizzying variety’: how the Chinese switched to electric cars

  • PIC23 PIC23: From left to right, 17-year-old Ahmed Shahtout, 19-year-old Nour Shahtout, 57-year-old father Bassim Shahtout, 47-year-old mother Reem Shahtout, and 13-year-old Muhammed Shahtout. The family fled their home in Tel El-Hawa, Gaza, in October 2024 after it was bombed by the IDF and evacuated to Egypt in March, where they now live. (Hamada Elrasam for The Guardian)

    Egypt
    ‘Life has come to a standstill’: the Palestinian refugees struggling to survive in Egypt

In case you missed it

  • a composite image of Charli XCX and Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris
    ‘Kamala IS brat’: Harris campaign goes lime-green to embrace the meme of the summer

  • women flex their biceps

    Wisconsin
    ‘I’m extremely excited’: Kamala Harris inspires Milwaukee rally-goers

    Spirits were sky-high at the vice-president’s first rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee – and people were ready to mobilize
  • Veep - Series 2 - Ep 1 Midterms Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer ©Lacey Terrell / HBO

    Veep
    How Veep became the most influential political satire of this era

    The HBO comedy has provided us with a treasure trove of clips, memes and storylines as reality starts to mirror fiction
  • The Robertson family and Robin, who they picked up in Panama.

    How we survive
    ‘We pledged not to eat each other’: the family that was shipwrecked for 38 days

  • SS officer Gerhard Bast, scarred from duelling, in June 1944.

    The long read
    My family and other Nazis

    Martin Pollack
  • BESTPIX - President Biden Signs Two Bills That Combat COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fraud<br>*** BESTPIX *** WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 05: U.S. President Joe Biden signs two bills aimed at combating fraud in the COVID-19 small business relief programs at the White House on August 5, 2022 in Washington, DC. Biden signed into law two bipartisan measures to take action against those who commit fraud in abuse of COVID-19 small-business relief programs. (Photo by Evan Vucci - Pool/Getty Images)

    Analysis
    Can lame duck Joe Biden give legs to Harris campaign in final months?

  • Rocks called ‘polymetallic nodules’ on the seabed in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocea

    Oceans
    ‘Dark oxygen’ in depths of Pacific Ocean could force rethink about origins of life

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  • A surfer underwater holding his surfboard, heading upwards to break the surface of the water

    Photos of the day
    A surfer in Tahiti and floods in the Philippines

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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    Photography
    ‘Our own dirtbag Narnia’: hanging out with the trash people – in pictures

  • Joe Biden in 1988 standing and gazing out of a window

    In pictures
    Joe Biden’s political career across the decades

  • A boy touches a baby giraffe in western Kenya

    Animals
    Giraffe relocation in Kenya

  • A person examines a green emerald

    In pictures
    From trash to treasure: emerald hunters in Colombia

  • Thomas Hoepker's photograph of Gus the polar bear in Central Park Zoo, New York, 1993. Gus is suspended in blue water in his tank.

    The big picture
    Central Park Zoo’s star turn by Thomas Hoepker

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