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  • a man in a blue suit and yellow tie outside court

    ‘What have we done?’
    Lawyer who negotiated Stormy Daniels deal seemed shocked Trump won

  • Record number of sea lions swarm in San Francisco<br>SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 1: A view of sea lions at Pier 39 as officials say a record number of sea lions seeing the largest gathering in 15 years, in San Francisco, California, United States on May 1, 2024. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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

    • Business
      Sony and Apollo reportedly make $26bn offer for Paramount

    • Niger
      Russian troops enter airbase where US soldiers are stationed

    • ‘They don’t want immigrants’
      Biden calls Japan and India ‘xenophobic’

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

    • Kevin Spacey
      Actor hits back at docuseries alleging sexual abuse

    • NBA
      Sixers buy 2,000 tickets for own arena to shut out noisy Knicks fans

Campus protests

  • A large Black man folks up tent poles on a lawn completely covered with tents and debris, alongside a stone and red-brick building.

    ‘A lot of us are struggling’
    The morning after a protest at UCLA was met with violence

  • 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

  • a man in a blue suit and red tie speaks

    Joe Biden
    President defends right to protest but says ‘order must prevail’ amid college unrest

  • Police arrest protesters during pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the City College Of New York (Cuny) on Tuesday night.

    Explainer
    Where are the US college campus protests and what is happening?

In focus

  • lots of people with signs

    ‘Resist the state’
    Activists teach Floridians to ‘self-manage’ abortions in wake of ban

  • Two older women and one younger man in a nightclub surrounded by pink-purple lighting and colourful graphics. One of the women has both hands in the air.

    ‘We can live again
    Belgian nursing home residents hit the nightclubs

    Papy Booom runs outings for older people, and late-night dancing is proving a successful way of socialising and staying active
  • 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

Spotlight

  • 1968, PLANET OF THE APES<br>CHARLTON HESTON &amp; KIM HUNTER Film 'PLANET OF THE APES' (1968) Directed By FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER 08 February 1968 CTH27987 Allstar/Cinetext/20TH CENTURY FOX **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only

    Ranked
    Go ape! Killer simians in cinema

    As Kong continues to terrorise us in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we rate some chilling chimps
  • Composite of wedding menu, planes and flowers.

    How to have a sustainable wedding
    Six tips for a greener ‘I do’

  • Two people wearing blue aprons stand back-to-back in a kitchen washing dishes and handling kitchenware

    'A chop suey parlor filled with memories'
    Is America’s oldest Chinese restaurant in a tiny suburb of Sacramento?

    Researchers visited the Chicago Cafe to find out if it’s really 121 years old – and entered a chop suey parlor filled with memories
  • Bluey S2E13 Dad Baby

    The one where Bandit gives birth
    Is America ready for the banned Bluey episode?

    For years, Disney has stopped US viewers from watching Dad Baby, in which Bandit pretends to push out his daughter Bingo in a paddling pool. But it’s far from the only kids’ TV to face a ridiculous censor
    • ‘Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, and 100,000 die from the condition annually.’

      Death by diabetes
      Does the ADA work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask

    • Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy.

      The Fall Guy review
      Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

    • man in a suit on stage

      Stephen Colbert on Trump’s trial
      ‘He lasts only a few furious minutes and then nods off’

    • Screengrab of man with mustache, beard and necklace

      ‘Intense and insane’
      Was this the most unsettling reality TV show ever?

Opinion

  • 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
    • British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs for Prime Minister's Questions in London.

      The Guardian view
      On Rishi Sunak’s future: Britain needs a general election, not another Tory leadership contest

    • Messy old letters in a pile

      We know there are many benefits to writing by hand – in a digital world we risk losing them

      Nova Weetman
    • The luxury yacht Lady Moura, owned by Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego.

      Why are billionaires scared of Brazil’s plan to hit them with a global tax? Because it makes perfect sense

      Larry Elliott
    • Kristi Noem at an event in January this year.

      Does shooting her puppy rule out Kristi Noem as Trump’s running mate? Don’t bet on it

      Emma Brockes

Sports

  • Trevoh Chalobah celebrates Chelsea’s opener with Nicolas Jackson

    Chelsea 2-0 Spurs
    Jackson delivers big blow to Tottenham's top-four hopes

    Headers in either half from Trevoh Chalobah and Nicolas Jackson gave Chelsea a 2-0 victory against Tottenham at Stamford Bridge
  • Brittney Griner was interviewed by ABC’s Robin Roberts in an interview broadcast on Wednesday night in the US

    ‘I felt like leaving so badly’
    Griner considered suicide in Russian prison

  • New York Knicks fans try to distract Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid (21) as he attempts a free throw during the second half in Game 1 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Saturday, April 20, 2024, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    NBA
    Sixers buy 2,000 tickets for own arena to shut out noisy Knicks fans

    The team will hand out tickets to the Philadelphia community after Knicks fans took over Wells Fargo Arena early in the series
  • FBL-EUR-C4-ASTON VILLA-OLYMPIAKOS<br>Olympiakos' Moroccan striker #09 Ayoub el-Kaabi celebrates after scoring his third goal from the penalty spot during the UEFA Europa Conference League semi final first leg football match between Aston Villa and Olympiakos at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England, on May 2, 2024. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Aston Villa 2-4 Olympiakos
    El Kaabi hat-trick stuns English side in Conference League

    Aston Villa will need a big turnaround after losing the first leg of their Uefa Conference League semi-final 4-2 at home to Olympiakos
    • Goals from Florian Wirtz and Robert Andrich give Leverkusen the advantage over Roma in a commanding performance at the Olympic Stadium.

      Roma 0-2 Bayer Leverkusen
      Alonso's side take huge step towards European final

    • Ryan Garcia reacts after a knockdown of Devin Haney during their April fight at Barclays Center.

      Boxing
      Garcia tested positive for ostarine before and after Haney fight – report

    • LeBron James has an in-depth knowledge of wine

      Vintage performance
      What’s behind NBA stars’ wine obsession?

    • Jayson Tatum is congratulated by teammates as the Celtics make their way towards victory over the Heat

      NBA playoff roundup
      Celtics blow out Heat to advance as Doncic stars for Mavs

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Climate crisis

  • a woman files a lawsuit

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

  • Rows of white wind turbines in rows stretch back across a seascape partly lit by sunlight

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

  • Emissions rise from a smokestack

    Climate crisis
    New US rules for pollution cuts ‘probably terminal’ for coal-fired plants

  • Grangemouth oil refinery

    Methane
    Emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors

Across the country

  • Kristi Noem

    Kristi Noem
    Republican governor calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal

    ‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing a goat
  • Kristen Clarke speaks during a news conference at the justice department in Washington DC in August 2022.

    Biden administration
    Top US justice department official says she is domestic abuse survivor

  • Man in suit and glasses raises hand

    Apple
    Company reports slumping iPhone sales as global demand weakens

  • FILE - Joie Henney hugs his emotional support alligator named Wally, Jan. 22, 2019, inside their home in York Haven, Pa. Henney credits Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade, says he's searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia. (Heather Khalifa/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)

    Georgia
    Wally the emotional support alligator is missing, owner says

    • Amazon
      CEO broke US law with anti-union comments, judge rules

    • Baltimore bridge collapse
      Body recovered of fifth worker who died

    • Technology
      Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem

    • Dollar General
      Investors push to rein in CEO pay and perks

    • John Hostettler
      Pro-Israel groups target Republican House candidate they deem antisemitic

    • Revealed
      Emory University investigated over alleged anti-Muslim discrimination

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Around the world

  • Close up of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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

    Israeli foreign minister strongly criticises decision by President Erdoğan, accusing him of acting like a ‘dictator’
  • Two children and a women walk past a burned-out car.

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

  • Boris Johnson.

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

  • Orangutan pulling Fibraurea tinctoria leaves towards itself, with a leaf hanging out of its mouth.

    Science
    Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals

    • Gazprom
      Kremlin-owned gas company slumps to first annual loss in 22 years as trade with Europe hit

    • Greece
      Prison release of Golden Dawn founder angers anti-fascists

    • UK
      David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers

    • Emmanuel Macron
      French president urges voters to ‘wake up’ as nationalist ‘lies’ sweep Europe

    • UK campus protests
      Jewish students condemn ‘toxic’ anti-Israel rallies

    • Italy
      2,000-year-old Greek statue can be reclaimed from Getty Museum, court rules

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • 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

  • 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?

Culture

  • They will survive, the message seems to be, because they are kind and adorable enough to … The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

    The Tattooist of Auschwitz review
    Proof that the Holocaust cannot be entertainment

    All the things you expect from a classic drama are here: heroism, suspense, stirring music. But against a backdrop of true horror, this well-intentioned show becomes utterly grotesque
  • Barry Keoghan topless in Saltburn

    Keeping it clean
    Hollywood sex scenes decline by 40%

  • lots of people on stage with man in the middle holding award

    Dan Schneider
    Ex-Nickelodeon producer sues makers of sex abuse docuseries for defamation

  • John Cleese

    John Cleese
    Actor cut N-word from Fawlty Towers West End revival because people ‘don’t understand irony’

  • Paul Auster.

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

  • Sea of Thieves.

    Sea of Thieves on PlayStation 5 review
    ‘You’ll laugh, you’ll sail, you’ll drink grog until you’re sick’

Lifestyle

  • Zendaya in an I Told Ya T-shirt in the film Challengers.

    ‘I couldn’t bear him pulling in it’
    Writers on the clothes they pinched from their exes

    As Challengers gives us a viral spin on the T-shirt poached from a former flame, we share our stories about clothes that survived long after the relationship ended
  • 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?

  • Models walk along a paved area of Cité Radieuse as people sit watching at the side

    ‘We need to take risks’
    Chanel gets gritty with Marseille show

  • Les and Anna

    How we met
    From the first moment I felt a sense of happiness

  • Bue Marino beach on Favignana’s east coast

    Where Odysseus threw a barbecue
    Exploring Sicily’s Favignana island

  • Three Kinder Surprise eggs in red and white foil with colourful lettering

    Junk food
    ‘Unethical’ packaging manipulates children into craving sweets, report claims

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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

  • 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’

  • Saudade Kaadan

    ‘I refuse to simplify Syria for western audiences’
    Director Soudade Kaadan on making a war movie without bloodshed

  • a pollution warning sign at Scarborough beach, north Yorkshire

    The right’s Brexit ‘bonfire of red tape’ was just wind and smoke. And even Tories want more regulation now

    Polly Toynbee
  • Two chimpanzees sitting in the forest

    'Fragmented and declining'
    Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

In case you missed it

  • Man in suit and red Maga hat smirks to crowd

    US elections 2024
    Trump trades New York worries for hit of adulation from his Maga faithful

  • A counter-protester strikes a barricade at a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus.

    'Terrifying’
    UCLA students describe violent attack

    Slow response from authorities left students shocked as people wearing white masks attacked pro-Palestine protesters
  • Screengrab of man with mustache, beard and necklace

    ‘Intense and insane’
    Was this the most unsettling reality TV show ever?

    In the new documentary The Contestant, a Japanese man is put through an astonishing TV experience for more than a year
  • Rooftop with path running through wildflowers and wild plants

    ‘On every roof something is possible’
    How sponge cities could change the way we handle rain

  • Deby speaks to a crowd on a microphone during an election campaign rally

    Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno
    Chad leader tries to step out of his battle-tested father’s shadow

  • Crowds at a funeral procession in the West Bank

    ‘They hide when Israelis come’
    Palestinians despair of leadership after killing of colonel’s son

  • The Kangei Maru’s range is fuelling speculation that Japan may be prepared to return to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

    Whaling
    The vast new ‘mother ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry

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In pictures

  • 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

    After major police raids on universities in New York and Los Angeles, students continue to demonstrate against the war in Gaza
  • Dancers perform in Circle Electric

    Photos of the day
    A dance premiere and bees on Broadway

  • 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

  • Pro-Palestine supporters climb a fence

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

  • Dzimiti, Georgia, 2023

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

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