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  • Gaby Hinsliff
    double quotation markEurope has even more reason to fear Vance than Trump

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Soundgarden
    Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain

    Kim Thayil plays a cream-colored electric guitar on a smoky stage wearing a beanie and t-shirt

  • Izakaya economics
    Japan’s traditional night out fights tooth and ale for survival

    a view of Tokyo’s trendy Shimokitazawa district

  • Bayern’s best ever?
    Harry Kane goes to World Cup in Ballon d’Or conversation

    Harry Kane celebrates his goal against New Zealand – his 67th of the season

  • The long read
    Secrets of the deep sea and its wondrous lifeforms

    Coral Jarvis Island, one of seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific.

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    Fossil fuels
    World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds

    JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
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    Profile
    ‘I love you, sir’: Todd Blanche, devoted Trump enforcer, tapped to do his bidding full time

  • Sections of an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) octagon rise from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC on 5 June 2026.

    Trump news at a glance
    Watchdog group sues to block president’s ‘deeply corrupt’ birthday party

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    Washington DC
    Kennedy Center removes Trump’s name from its website after US judge’s order

  • a man in tactical gear holds a taser as other men in tactical gear stand in a crowd of people on a street

    New York City
    Trump’s border czar threatens to send ‘more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen’ to New York City

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    Nigeria
    ‘We are familiar faces’: are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria’s bandit crisis?

  • a view of Tokyo’s trendy Shimokitazawa district

    Japan
    Izakaya economics: Japan’s traditional night out fights tooth and ale for survival

Features

  • Maxine in purple top and jeans sits in her house, by her patio doors, smiling at the camera

    Dementia
    ‘You’re treated like this is the end’: Meet the dementia rebels – diagnosed and determined to change people’s minds

  • Kim Thayil plays a cream-colored electric guitar on a smoky stage wearing a beanie and t-shirt

    ‘We were going off the cliff’
    Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain

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    How to start
    ‘Overconsumption isolates us’: how to start shopping less

  • Marilyn Monroe is seen in a ballerina satin dress sitting on a wicker chair

    Photography
    ‘The people made me a star’: 100 years of Marilyn Monroe – in pictures

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  • Three bluetooth sleep masks

    The Filter
    Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out

  • A man in a black jacket gestures toward a painted map above a shelf of books and a World Cup 2026 scarf

    Football
    ‘We are cheering on five teams’: how Rotterdam will turn more than orange for World Cup

  • M John Harrison.

    Book of the day
    The End of Everything by M John Harrison review – near-future visions from an SF master

  • Lil Nas X in a silver beaded bodysuit and mask with white pearls and jewels covering the face

    Biography
    Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular

  • Fighting Amazon made Chris Smalls a celebrity: 'My life changed'

    In 2022, Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Staten Island made history by voting to form a union. Kai Wright interviews former union leader Chris Smalls about his life since
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  • Coral Jarvis Island, one of seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific.

    Oceans
    Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the deep sea

    The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wildernesses
  • Steve Clarke gestures during Scotland training in Charlotte

    Scotland
    Team in war of words with Norway over cancelled training match

  • Andy Robertson applauds the Scotland fans

    ‘You nurtured a World Cup dream’
    Robertson shares emotional letter from Jota’s widow

  • Micheal Barwegen is now a fixture along MLS touchlines.

    Referees
    Semi-automated offside is coming for the World Cup. Here’s how one official uses it

  • A collage featuring Pele in a large white hat, Bobby Moore in red with a ball, and Alf Ramsey in blue tracksuit

    double quotation markPreparation isn’t everything at a World Cup – but it helps a lot

    Jonathan Wilson
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Sports

  • Donald Trump salutes during the national anthem at the NBA finals

    NBA finals
    Trump given hostile reception as New York crowd boos and jeers president

    Donald Trump was loudly booed when he was shown on the video screens at Madison Square Garden on Monday night before Game 3 of the NBA finals
  • Artist Wyland uses a paint sprayer on a large turquoise surface while standing on a platform

    World Cup
    ‘They picked the wrong artist’: How a Dallas mural cover-up led to a $25m lawsuit against Fifa

    Robert Wyland’s depiction of ocean life was covered up for a World Cup promotion – now he wants retribution

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    Fifa
    VP Victor Montagliani: ‘MLS can become the second-biggest league in the world. Maybe the biggest’

  • Denmark's and Ukraine's players gather in a huddle after Christian Eriksen had been taken away in an ambulance from Odense Stadium on Sunday.

    Soccer
    ‘I am feeling good’: Eriksen back home after collapsing on pitch again

  • Nelly Korda holds the US Open trophy after her win on Sunday

    Golf
    Korda wins US Open ahead of Hull to claim second consecutive major

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    Gymnastics
    Biles resting after serious health scare: ‘Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card’

Opinion

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    double quotation markLet this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance

    Gaby Hinsliff
    His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become president, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Joseph de Weck

    double quotation markIs Switzerland tired of prosperity? I can think of no other reason for our next foolish referendum

    Joseph de Weck
    Capping the population at 10 million is a far-right fantasy. It would dismantle the openness that has made the country rich, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck
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    double quotation markRepublicans in Congress are defecting from Trump over Iran. Will more follow?

    Rajan Menon and Daniel R DePetris
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    double quotation markThe hill I will die on: Marmite is an insipid English imitation. Vegemite is the true Aussie hero

    Kathy Lette

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  • Mehdi Hasan

    double quotation markThose who championed free speech in the UK and US now wage war on it. And here’s why: Palestine

    Mehdi Hasan

  • double quotation markBernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better

    Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier
  • Lea Ypi

    double quotation markLook at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe

    Lea Ypi
  • Emma Beddington

    double quotation markYes, Michelle Obama knows a lot about resilience. She still shouldn’t be lecturing gen Z about it

    Emma Beddington

Editorials

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    Climate equality: a richer life and real public abundance, not just more stuff

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    US politics
    Federal judge rules Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas unlawful

    President dramatically raised cost of visa for highly skilled workers in executive order last year
  • ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan in a dark suit and blue tie looks directly at the camera

    International criminal court
    ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan suspended amid sexual misconduct inquiry

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    Business
    Levi’s sues Australian clothing brand Globe over ‘blatant copying’ of tabs on pockets

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    US foreign policy
    BYD and Alibaba among big names aiding China’s military, Pentagon says

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    Art
    Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years

  • Ulmer on stage in 2002.

    Music
    James Blood Ulmer, adventurous US guitarist and vocalist, dies aged 86

  • GSK offices in London

    Pharmaceuticals industry
    GSK to buy US cancer treatment firm Nuvalent for $10.6bn

Climate crisis & environment

  • A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, 11 Jan 2025, in Los Angeles.

    Los Angeles
    Trial begins for man accused of sparking LA’s deadly Palisades fire

  • Waves crashing over Tynemouth pier on the North East coast of England

    Environment
    ‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

  • A large four-engine aircraft flies across a blue sky, leaving four white contrails behind it

    Airline emissions
    Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely

  • A person in a red and yellow sari sits under an umbrella selling leafy greens at a street market

    Environment
    Weather tracker: Monsoon season brings vital rainfall to parts of Asia

US news

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    US confirms three new cases of flesh-eating screwworm in livestock

  • US
    Two US pilots killed after plane bound to pick up former MLB star crashes

  • Nancy Guthrie
    Savannah Guthrie makes new plea for missing mother as search surpasses four months

  • New York
    Six people stabbed in attack at Penn Station in New York

World news

  • Science
    Muscle growth drug ‘could reduce loss of lean tissue’ when using slimming jabs

  • Italy
    ‘Wasn’t even good’: US tourist says she was charged €44 for two ice creams in Rome

  • Nigeria
    Bandits in north-west Nigeria abduct villagers they invited to discuss peace talks

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    Pope uses Spain speech to warn of global ‘spiritual and cultural crisis’

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    Games
    Summer Game Fest highlights: 34 new video games to look out for, from Alien Isolation to Crazy Taxi

  • Bedouine wearing an ornate blue silk dress with costume jewellery

    Music
    ‘You escape the slaughter. But there’s a long tail of sadness’: musician Bedouine on the strangeness of Arab life outside the Middle East

What to watch

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    My feelgood movie
    ‘It soothes me’: why The Blair Witch Project is my feelgood movie

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    Film
    A Murder Between Friends review – Joan Collins’s detective diva sparkles in trashy whodunnit

  • Antoni Porowski in a yellow jacket sits on a boat on the River Thames looking upward thoughtfully

    TV review
    Best of the World With Antoni Porowski review – the Queer Eye host’s travel show is daftly pointless

  • My Memory is Full of Ghosts Syria 2024, Anas Zawahri

    Film
    My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs

What to listen to

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    Music
    ‘In prison, I made a little studio in my head. It kept me sane’: Ibrahim Alfa Jr, British techno’s great survivor

  • Composer and viola player Sally Beamish portrait, Brighton, 14 July 2025

    Music
    ‘My diagnosis was a blessing’: composer Sally Beamish on tackling the condition that ruined every joyful memory

  • Merritt Mathias looks at moments when football has become embroiled in politics.

    Best podcasts of the week
    A fascinating history of the World Cup: best podcasts of the week

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    Music
    ‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist

What to read

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    Book of the day
    A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation?

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    Fiction
    Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun

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    Eating
    Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?

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    Books
    'Far right groups prey on it': Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness

What to play

  • Spyro: Realms Beyond video game screenshot

    Toys for Bob
    Spyro the Dragon returns with a new game after almost two decades

  • Laufey in medieval-style armor with long blonde hair stands amid fire and sparks with glowing embers around her hand

    PS5
    From God of War to Until Dawn – seven reveals from last night’s PlayStation event

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    Adventure games
    Mina the Hollower review – squeaky fresh fun full of vintage magic

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    Consoles
    Nex Playground: the family game-night gadget that revives the spirit of the Wii

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    Film
    How much does Sean Penn hate selfies? Enough to invoke the Holocaust

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    Late-night TV roundup
    John Oliver on New College’s Maga takeover: ‘More about political posturing than students’ lives’

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    How we made
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    AI
    Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’

Lifestyle

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    A job that changed me
    I was teaching in a juvenile detention centre when a repeat offender’s poetry moved me to tears

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    Money whisperers
    ‘I want to be other people’s cautionary tale’: how do you financially prepare for a parent’s death?

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    You break it, they’ll fix it: 11 outdoor brands that stand by their gear for the long haul

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    These jackets, tents, backpacks, and other outdoor gear are built to be repaired when the inevitable damage occurs
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    The Filter
    Piecework’s jigsaw puzzles are making ‘grandma hobbies’ cool

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    Dogs
    The best dog harnesses in the US: six pup-tested favorites for walks, car rides and adventures

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    Wash day
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    Cosmetics
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    Kindness of strangers
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    ‘My partner’s mum is cruel towards him and I worry how she’ll be with our future kids’

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    The moment I knew
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Health & fitness

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    Life and style
    Is it true that … sugar is ‘toxic’?

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    'I've lost my butt': how rapid weight loss can leave you with less muscle and more fat

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    The ideas interview
    The doctor who mends broken brains: why there is room for hope after a stroke or head injury

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    ‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions'
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Fashion & beauty

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    Men's fashion
    Fashion goals: World Cup’s style tournament has already kicked off

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    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
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    Weddings
    The return of the bridal suit: will Dua Lipa’s look change the face of weddings?

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    ‘The face doesn’t move’
    Hollywood’s obsession with cosmetic surgeries has led to stiffer looks – and performances

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    Pass notes
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    The pet I'll never forget
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