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  • a felon speaks

    Donald Trump
    Analysis of Trump posts shows relentless focus on punishing enemies

    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documents former president’s threats against perceived political opponents
    • Zelenskiy leaving the Shangri-La Dialogue conference in Singapore

      Ukraine
      Zelenskiy accuses China of deterring countries from going to peace summit

    • Mexico
      Country votes in election certain to bring its first female president

    • Atlanta
      Water pipes burst in city, causing major outages and disruptions

    • Taiwan
      China’s defence chief repeats threat of force against independence

    • CNN
      Journalist says he was attacked at Turkish exile’s Pennsylvania home

    • Idaho
      Chad Daybell sentenced to death for murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s children

    • ‘Curiosity’
      World’s most prolific fossilized poop collector reveals what fuels him

    • Science
      Drug that ‘melts away’ tumours could replace surgery for bowel cancer, say doctors

In focus

  • Young white man wearing American flag hat holds up white sign beside busy street; back of sign says Load Your Muskets.

    ‘No way out without bloodshed’
    The right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing

  • A man wearing a baseball cap holds two salmon in his hands as he stands in front of a pile of more fish.

    US supreme court
    A case about fisherman is flying under the radar, but could soon ‘create chaos’

  • man in a suit sitting on red-carpeted stairs

    US election
    A Black pastor is preaching support for Trump – but can he win over voters?

    Darrell Scott, a Pentecostal minister from Cleveland, identifies himself as Trump’s ‘senior adviser’ – and has paid a high price for his allegiance

Spotlight

  • Léa Seydoux and George MacKay in period costumes.

    The Beast review
    Léa Seydoux mesmerises in wildly ambitious sci-fi romance

    Bertrand Bonello’s head-spinning Henry James adaptation set in 1910 Paris, 2014 LA and an AI-controlled 2044 casts a dreamlike spell
  • Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell standing on the side of a swimming pool, in black combat trousers, a pink vest and trainers

    ‘There’s a lot of bullying’
    The shocking life of a teenage elite swimmer

    Training to be a champion swimmer, Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell spent her teenage years locked in a punishing world of long hours, body scrutiny, racism and bullying. So can the rewards of elite sport ever justify the sacrifices?
    • David Robson writer

      Self and wellbeing
      How learning about the science of shyness helped me

    • Taylor Swift in the spotlight on stage in Paris as part of the Eras Tour

      ‘She dominates our age’
      How Taylor Swift became the greatest show on Earth

    • Creeping buttercup

      ‘A sign of hope’
      Why weeds are finally being embraced by gardeners

    • Ellie is white and has shoulder-length auburn hair in a centre parting, large glasses and a big smile. She is resting her chin on her hands which have tattoos and rings

      Avoid noise, play mini golf, cast your net wide
      Ellie Middleton’s neurodivergent dating guide

Opinion

  • Middle-aged white man with gray hair smiling broadly in shaded outdoors.

    Jerry Seinfeld’s lurch to the right now includes mourning ‘dominant masculinity’

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The comedian’s remarks on a podcast join his cheerleading of genocidal violence and jokes about suffering children in Gaza
  • ‘First, smartphones should not be allowed in the classroom, full stop.’

    Banning smartphones from school? What a brilliant idea

    Catherine Price
  • A young protester holding a placard saying 'A felon in the White Houe? Um... NO'

    The Observer view on Donald Trump
    Utterly unfit for office, he should quit the race for the White House

  • Clement Attlee, centre, after Labour’s landslide victory in the 1945 general election.

    Socialism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply about wanting to make a fairer society

    Will Hutton
    Labour’s leadership needn’t struggle to define the ideology; it’s in its very constitution
    • Kenan Malik

      The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well?

      Kenan Malik
    • Protesters during the Nakba Day protest in London

      Should academic institutions boycott Israel? Two scholars debate

      Flora Cassen and Ilan Pappé
    • Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after being found guilty over hush-money charges.

      The Guardian view
      Donald Trump’s conviction: a criminal unfit to stand or serve

    • A dinner plate filled with rocks, soil and pine comes

      Sure, Google’s AI overviews could be useful – if you like eating rocks

      John Naughton

Sports

  • Indiana’s Caitlin Clark finished with 11 points, eight rebounds and six assists in a 71-70 victory over the Chicago Sky.

    WNBA
    Indiana coach livid over ‘unacceptable’ cheap shot on Clark

    Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever earned their first home win of the season in a matchup with Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky that got spicy
  • Carlos Alcaraz faces a potentially tricky fourth-round tie against Félix Auger-Aliassime.

    Live
    French Open – Alcaraz and Tsitsipas on court, Gauff and Swiatek through

    Join Daniel Harris for all the latest from the eighth day of action at Roland Garros with Carlos Alcaraz taking on Félix Auger-Aliassime
    • Columbus Crew were the only MLS team to make the semi-finals of the Concacaf Champions Cup.

      Champions Cup final
      Heavy loss should not dampen Crew’s historically brilliant year

      Graham Ruthven
    • Aaron Jones celebrates after hitting the winning runs for the United States at Grand Prairie.

      T20 Cricket World Cup
      USA celebrate debut in style with stirring victory over Canada

    • The US women’s national team celebrates Mallory Swanson’s first-half goal at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

      USWNT 4-0 South Korea
      Emma Hayes makes winning debut as Americans romp

    • Vladimir Tarasenko of the Florida Panthers scores a goal past Igor Shesterkin of the New York Rangers during the third period of Saturday’s Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals.

      NHL
      Panthers oust Rangers to book return trip to Stanley Cup final

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Climate crisis

  • School students and activists taking part in the Global Strike for Climate rally as they march though the city centre in Edinburgh

    ‘It’s all we have’
    Young climate activists on the state of politics around the world

  • Aerial view of US Steel factory with smokestacks in Granite City, Illinois.

    Toxic air
    New US rules aim to crack down on pollution by steelmakers

  • Aerial view showing deforested areas near the Pira Parana River, Vaupes province, Colombia

    Carbon offsetting
    Market value of projects drops 61%, report finds

  • A police car with blue and red lights on an empty road. In the foreground, downed power lines dangle across the road.

    Weather tracker
    Severe storms in US as Delhi swelters in intense heatwave

Across the country

  • People line up on a summer day around a historic building.

    Kansas
    State supreme court rules state's constitution does not provide the right to vote

    Narrow decision says lower court failed to identify ‘fundamental right to vote’, drawing fiery dissent from three of seven justices
  • A man in a suit in front of a US flag speaks into a mic.

    Dean Phillips
    Minnesota Democrat calls on New York governor to pardon Trump

  • White planes with rolling stairways attached to them in massive hangar.

    Boeing
    Plane maker’s largest plant in ‘panic mode’ amid safety crisis, say workers and union officials

  • Hands hold small Pride flag in sunny crowd.

    Massachusetts
    Police investigate theft of more than 200 Pride flags

    • Louisiana
      Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement

    • Florida
      Deputy who killed Black air force member in his own home fired

    • Cybercrime
      Ticketmaster hit by data hack that may affect 560m customers

    • Environment
      Climate deniers like DeSantis hurt most vulnerable communities, scientists say

    • US supreme court
      America braces as court to hand down rulings on raft of key issues

    • US elections 2020
      Publisher of debunked voter-fraud film apologizes to falsely accused man

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Around the world

  • Open water and bog mosses in the ecologically vital region of the Flow Country in Forsinard, Scotland.

    Unesco
    Scotland’s remote land of bogs and bugs in line for world heritage status

  • An image taken from a video animation at Beijing Aerospace Control Center showing the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-6 probe landing on the far side of the moon.

    Space
    China’s Chang’e-6 probe lands on far side of the moon aiming to return samples to Earth

    • Germany
      Rescue worker dies amid flooding in south

    • Breast cancer
      Predictive blood test hailed as ‘incredibly exciting’ breakthrough

    • ‘We refuse to disappear’
      The Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown

    • Benjamin Netanyahu
      PM insists on Hamas ‘destruction’ as part of plan to end war

    • South Africa
      Country to embark on new political path after ANC loses majority

    • ‘She just says blah blah’
      Why Italy’s downtrodden are turning against Giorgia Meloni

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Jude Bellingham and Nacho

    Football Weekly
    Nice try Dortmund, but Real Madrid are kings of Europe again – Football Weekly

  • Malcolm and Simone Collins and three of their children sitting on a bench

    Weekend
    America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world, Marina Hyde on the election campaign trail, and is doing nothing the secret of happiness? – podcast

  • Newspapers with the headlines 'Guilty' and 'Injustice' on display at a bodega in Brooklyn. Photograph: AP Photo/Ruth Brown

    Today in Focus
    Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?

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    The Audio Long Read
    ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’: Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey – podcast

  • The ICC prosecutor Karim Khan speaks at a lectern. He is holding up a booklet, Policy on Complementarity and Cooperation

    Today in Focus
    Exposing Israel’s secret ‘war’ on the ICC

  • Protestors holding signs that say "guilty" and "Trump is guilty". Jury Finds Former President Donald Trump Guilty On All 34 Counts In Hush Money Trial

    Politics Weekly America
    Trump guilty on all counts – so what happens next?

  • UEFA Conference League Football Match - Final - Olympiacos Vs ACF Fiorentina, Athens, Greece - 29 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stefanos Kyriazis/IPA Sport/ipa-agency.net/REX/Shutterstock (14514297at) President Of Olympiacos Piraeus, Eyaggelos Marinakis Lifts The Winners' Trophy As He Celebrates With Team Mates On The Podium Following The UEFA Europa Conference League 2023/24 Final Match Between Olympiacos Piraeus And ACF Fiorentina At Opap Arena On May 29, 2024, In Athens, Greece. UEFA Conference League Football Match - Final - Olympiacos Vs ACF Fiorentina, Athens, Greece - 29 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Olympiakos make history, while Wembley awaits for Dortmund and Real Madrid – Football Weekly Extra

Culture

  • Portrait of Charli XCX

    Charli XCX:
    Labels are desperate for artists to be liked, otherwise you’re bad, evil and wrong

    Straddling the underground and the mainstream, the pop star long felt like an outsider. She talks about finding her crowd, her ‘blunt’ new album, and complicated female friendships
  • A girl with ginger hair looks to her right.

    The big picture
    Robbie Lawrence’s search for the tartan spirit

  • Tom Hulce, as Mozart, seen conducting in front of a packed theatre, in Milos Forman’s Amadeus. The 1984 film won eight Oscars.

    Rock on, Shostakovich, Handel, Ravel
    Lives of great composers hit the screens

  • Miley Locke in A House in Jerusalem.

    Film
    A House in Jerusalem review – child-friendly but languid Israeli-Palestinian history lesson

  • Shabaka holding a Japanese shakuhachi flue, Corinne Bailey Rae holding a Marxophone, and Nilüfer Yanya holding an electric guitar

    ‘If I lost this flute, it would be pretty tragic’
    Shabaka, Corinne Bailey Rae and Nilüfer Yanya on their favourite instruments

  • Roxanne de Basion, with long hair and in a cardigan, sits on a leather arm chair and looks down at the guitar she is playing next to a photographer's light

    ‘Bringing his music back to life’
    The singer whose grandfather was silenced by the Holocaust

Lifestyle

  • Joe Cornelius as Trog in the 1970 film of the same name

    Readers reply
    Why do neanderthals have such a bad reputation?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
  • Phil Daoust sitting in Norwood Park.

    Never write yourself off!
    25 things I’ve learned about getting fit – after almost 60 years of sloth

  • Closeup of a woman whispering into another woman's ear

    Notes and queries
    Which language is the most beautiful?

  • Bride and groom statuetes for a wedding cake top<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sari Gustafsson / Rex Features ( 633293b ) A wedding cake top with a bride dragging the groom Bride and groom statuetes for a wedding cake top

    Ask Philippa
    I don’t want to invite my alcoholic dad to my wedding

  • brightly coloured socks

    A guide to ADHD and autism
    In a household with autism and ADHD, socks are meaningful

  • Over the shoulder view of senior Asian woman resting after exercising at home, looking at her smart watch, using fitness tracker app and measuring pulse. Maintaining healthy fitness habits. Elderly wellbeing, health, wellness and technology concept

    Why health trackers can push you off the road to wellness

    Eva Wiseman
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    Reclaim your brain
    Tell us: do you struggle to stay off your phone while on vacation?

  • Two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass<br>Posed by models Asturias, Spain, two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass

    Best friends
    Tell us about yours and your favorite things about them

  • A man reading a book in bed at home.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

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

    Life and style
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

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    The month's best pictures
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    From the veteran Modfather to a teenage pigeon fancier: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in May 2024
  • A composite of different male models wearing a trainers

    Pounding the pavement
    25 of the best men’s sneakers – in pictures

  • A model wearing a hot pink and orange crocket knit dress sitting down in front of a pale pink wall

    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  • Three Victorian cartes de visite showing two Welsh women in hats; a white cats wearing glasses; and Charles Dickens

    Cartes de visite
    Portrait cards that sparked a Victorian collecting craze

  • Cadets on military obstacle course

    ‘A younger me would have enjoyed doing this. Now? It makes me feel out of shape’
    Elliot Ferguson’s best phone picture

  • A line of lava launches upwards from bare ground with smoke filling the air above

    Art and design
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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