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  • Joe Biden and other world leaders attend a session of the Nato summit in Washington.

    Analysis
    Nato summit achievements overshadowed by looming US election

  • A stylized image of an old white man with a smirk on his face and holding a gas pump in his hand. In the background a part of the Stars and Stripes is visible.

    The election operators
    Meet Tim Dunn: the ultraconservative billionaire pastor spending millions to protect his oil – and elect Trump

    The Texas fossil fuel mogul has poured nearly $30m to drive the state legislature to the far-right, and now the evangelical Christian wants to spread his ideology to the federal government
  • collage of Black person's hand holding paper near box with elephant sitting on box

    Republican national convention
    Republicans to descend on Milwaukee – where they’ve been trying to dilute Black voting power

    The decision to hold the RNC in the city is a ‘slap in the face’ for Black voters who have come under attack by the party’s sweeping voter ID measure and move to limit early voting

Spotlight

  • FILE - Shelley Duvall is shown on Oct. 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

    Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw
    The unique and often misunderstood actor, who has died at the age of 75, was frequently at her best with Robert Altman and memorably terrorised by Stanley Kubrick
  • A bride and groom touch hands while the bride holds a bouquet of white lilies.

    Well actually
    Post-wedding anxiety is ‘really common’. Here’s how to cope

  • Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton, Victor Alli as John Stirling and Masali Baduza as Michaela Stirling in Bridgerton

    Television
    ‘Sorry, we don’t want lesbians’: Bridgerton’s problem with racism, homophobia and body-shaming

    From petitions against LGBT romances to actors being deluged with racist comments, the Regency drama has a huge toxicity problem in its fandom – to the detriment of some of its stars’ mental health
  • An illustration showing silhouettes of a man smoking, a woman drinking, hands holding a pot of sunscreen, a knife, fork and spoon and a white ribbon

    The experts
    Oncologists on the simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

    Cancer doctors know better than anyone how you can give yourself the best possible chance of avoiding a disease that one in two of us will get. Here, they share the tips that they live by
    • Jeremy Allen White as Carmy in The Bear.

      Lifestyle
      The unstoppable rise of ‘non-negotiables’

    • Stewart Copeland pictured in Milan, May 2024.

      The reader interview
      Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’

    • Joan Didion in 1977

      Books
      The Uptown Local by Cory Leadbeater review – exploding the Joan Didion myth

    • Seth Meyers to Democrats: ‘This melancholy, handwringing, woe is me bullshit is so exhausting.’

      Late-night TV roundup
      Seth Meyers to Democrats: ‘Don’t just mope around, do something!’

Opinion

  • President Biden speaking at a podium.

    Only one group can actually persuade Biden to exit the race: his rich donors

    Robert Reich
    This has become a game of chicken. If the biggest donors stop funding Biden and he stays in the race anyway, he’ll lose
  • Palestinians walk past houses destroyed during the Israeli military offensive in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 10 July.

    The Guardian view
    Gaza’s mounting pain: Netanyahu’s ‘complete victory’ looks no closer

  • England's Harry Kane celebrates in the arms of teammate Ollie Watkins at the end of the Euro semifinal match against the Netherlands.

    The Guardian view
    Southgate’s Euro squad: they embody a better nation

    Editorial: England has moved on from nostalgic pretensions of greatness to a patriotism rooted in equality and self-expression
  • Piles of black bin bags on a New York street

    There’s a ‘trash revolution’ in New York – exciting for everyone but the rats

    Emma Brockes
    NYC has lagged behind the UK in waste disposal. But with wheelie bins replacing bin bags, we’re finally catching up, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
    • Saima Mir

      I dared to leave my three young children and spend a month with strangers – and it was blissful

      Saima Mir
    • A man and a woman talking at a party.

      There’s nothing more excruciating than trying to talk to someone who isn’t interested. And I should know …

      Adrian Chiles
    • doubles pickleball

      Despite not involving eating pickles, pickleball proved a joyful surprise

      Nova Weetman
    • The aftermath of an Israeli strike on a house in Nusairat refuge camp in Gaza.

      I’ll be helping to clear unexploded bombs in Gaza, my home. But I dread what I will find there

      Haniya Albaioumy

Sports

  • Rory McIlroy at the Scottish Open

    Golf
    McIlroy shocked at Bradley’s Ryder Cup captaincy

    Rory McIlroy believes the United States will need to switch Ryder Cup captains if Keegan Bradley qualifies to play next year at Bethpage
  • Ollie Watkins celebrates scoring for Exeter against Carlisle in the League Two playoff semi-final in 2017.

    Euro 2024
    Once upon a time in the west country: the Watkins origin story

    • Biniam Girmay (front, centre) celebrates victory before Mark Cavendish (right) was relegated from his fifth-place finish.

      Tour de France
      Cavendish upset with penalty after Girmay seals hat-trick of wins

    • LeBron James of the United States drives against Dillon Brooks of Canada in the second half of their exhibition game ahead of the Paris Olympic Games at T-Mobile Arena on Wednesday.

      USA basketball
      USA see off Canada in Paris tune-up as Obama watches

    • Colombia celebrate a famous victory over Uruguay

      Copa América
      Colombia into final as Uruguay players confront fans

    • The NBA has agreed to terms on its new media deal, a record 11-year agreement worth $76bn.

      NBA
      League agrees to record 11-year, $76bn media rights deal – sources

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Climate crisis

  • a forest

    Environment
    BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

  • Wind turbines dot the coastline along a giant solar farm near Weifang in eastern China's Shandong province

    Renewable energy
    China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects

  • FILE PHOTO: Reuters interviews JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon in Miami, Florida<br>FILE PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., pauses as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

    Exclusive
    Senators accuse JPMorgan CEO of backtracking on climate commitments

  • An idle oil pumping unit is silhouetted against the setting sun in a field south of Oakley, Kansas

    Oil
    BP predicts global oil demand will peak in 2025, bringing to end rising emissions

Across the country

  • Target's stock shares slide as consumers buy fewer goods<br>epa11361866 People shop at a Target store in Los Angeles, California, USA, 22 May 2024. Target posted a year-over-year sales decline and missed Wall Street's earnings estimates as consumers faced with inflation are buying both fewer discretionary items and groceries. This marks the first time since November 2022 that Target missed earnings expectations. EPA/ALLISON DINNER

    Inflation
    US consumer prices unexpectedly fell in June, drawing Fed closer to cutting interest rates

    Joe Biden says in statement that falling prices and rising wages are ‘thanks to my economic plan’
  • Alec Baldwin's manslaughter trial for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie 'Rust'<br>Alec Baldwin arrives to attend his manslaughter trial for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie "Rust", in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S., July 11, 2024. REUTERS/Ramsay de Give/Pool

    Rust shooting trial
    Alec Baldwin jury views video of grim aftermath of Rust film set shooting

  • people hold signs in support of and against abortion

    Abortion
    Arkansas rejects initiative seeking to ease abortion ban despite over 100,000 supporters

  • Joe Biden and Keir Starmer shake hands at the White House in Washington DC

    UK
    Keir Starmer says Joe Biden was ‘on good form’ in first bilateral meeting

    • Louisiana
      One-year-old child survives two days on side of busy highway in Louisiana

    • Elections
      US House approves bill to ban non-citizens from voting in federal elections

    • New York
      NYPD recruit dies at training facility amid high temperatures

    • Hawaii
      Japanese man arrested at Hawaii airport for allegedly carrying inert grenades in luggage

    • Music
      Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist sued for wrongful death in alleged fatal collision

    • US elections 2024
      Peter Welch is first Democratic senator to publicly ask Joe Biden to withdraw

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Around the world

  • Taylor Casey has gone missing in the Bahamas.

    Bahamas
    Family of missing woman shielded trans identity over fears of bias

    Family of Taylor Casey, missing since 19 June, say Bahamian officials left them with ‘more questions than answers’
  • A crowded train platform in Mumbai, India

    Global development
    Global population predictions offer ‘hopeful sign’ for planet, UN says

  • Bones of a skeleton piled on a rough surface

    Bubonic plague
    Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers say

  • The output from a DNA sequencer, which looks like lots of various coloured blocks in rows

    Medical research
    Scientists uncover genetic disorder that may affect thousands around world

    • Science
      Mulleted mammoth called Chris Waddle helps scientists crack creatures’ genetic code

    • Whales
      Large pod of pilot whales almost wiped out after stranding on UK beach

    • Africa
      Kenyan president sacks cabinet after weeks of deadly protests

    • Italy
      Intruder climbs up to dome of Florence Cathedral overnight for selfie

    • UK
      Starmer raises hopes of extra bank holiday if England win Euros

    • Online shopping
      ‘A lazy solution’: Etsy sellers say ban on sex toys is a betrayal

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Seagulls

    Science
    ‘Lesbian’ seagulls and ‘gay’ rams: the endless sexual diversity of nature – podcast

  • A young man interviews a young woman in a Tim & Dee TV YouTube video

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    The ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl and the making of TikTok stars – podcast

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks from a podium

    Today in Focus
    The Conservative party: rows, resignations … and a tilt right? - podcast

  • England fans celebrate their team's victory during the Euro 2024 semi-final match between Netherlands and England at Football Stadium Dortmund on 10 July 2024 in Dortmund, Germany (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    Football Weekly
    Southgate’s supersub secures England’s spot in Euro 2024 final - Football Daily

  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer in the US, Badenoch and the PopCons - podcast

  • Simukai Chigudu. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes – podcast

  • President Joe Biden at the White House after campaigning in Pennsylvania. Photo by Pool/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock

    Today in Focus
    Joe Biden and the Democrats’ dilemma – podcast

Culture

  • Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Carsten Rehder/EPA/Shutterstock (8180184a) Thomas Hoepker Photographer and President of the Agency 'Magnum Photos' Sits Next to One of His Most Famous Pictures Showing Boxer Muhammad Ali in Hamburg Germany Wednesday 10 January 2007 the Museum Fuer Kunst Und Gewerbe (museum For Arts and Crafts) Presents 230 Examples of Hoepker's Work Spanning a Period of Five Decades (1955-2005) Until 18 March 2007 Hoepker is Among the Most Internationally Celebrated German Photographers and Refers to Himself As a 'Picture Maker' Rather Than an Artist Germany Hamburg Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007

    Photography
    Thomas Hoepker, renowned German photographer, dies at 88

    The photographer was known for defining images of Muhammad Ali, the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001
  • FILE - Actor George Clooney speaks to the media following a meeting at the White House in Washington, Feb. 23, 2009. Movie star and lifelong Democrat George Clooney is adding his voice to calls for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race. Clooney says in a New York Times opinion piece Wednesday that he loves Biden, but the party would lose the presidential race as well as any control in Congress with him as the nominee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

    Celebrities v Biden
    Will Biden’s loss of celebrity support make a real difference?

  • HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (right), 2022. © SRH / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WRAPN2 HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (right), 2022. © SRH / Courtesy Everett Collection

    Film
    Hundreds of Beavers review – Gold Rush-style spoof silent comedy fires gags at warp speed

  • Better resolution Yannick Nézet-Séguin Press publicity portrait Credit: George Etheredge

    Classical music
    Brahms: The Symphonies album review – less is more for Nézet-Séguin and the COE

  • Balenciaga Raver Bracelet in pink, black and blue polyester, metallized polyester, cotton and sterling silver 925 is from its 53rd couture collection.

    Festival wristbands are grubby badges of honour – so Balenciaga’s £3,000 version is cringeworthy

    Emma Garland
  • Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby at a party in The Great Gatsby film

    Books
    Five of the best novels about celebrity culture

Lifestyle

  • A 10-year-old girl hangs from the bars in a playground while her eight-year-old brother sits on the equipment behind her.

    How to be a Norwegian parent
    Let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail

    In Norway, children walk to school aged six, or even travel across the country – and no one bats an eyelid. Why do these kids have so much independence, while other countries are so risk-averse?
  • Painting: Hope in the Prison of Despair by Evelyn De Morgan

    Leading questions
    I feel despair about the state of the world. How can I find the courage to not abandon hope?

  • Pip and Steve in Chicago, on the Skydeck, 2022.

    How we met
    ‘We wobbled into each other for a hug and kiss. I always say I walk like a drunken camel’

  • Ravinder Bhogal's sticky five-spice sausages with cherries. 225

    Food
    Sticky sausages, soft cheese and crumble cake: Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for summer cherries

  • Georgina Hayden's crispy chicken, plums and star anise.

    Quick and easy
    Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for crispy chicken, plums and star anise

  • Meera Sodha's spelt with tomatoes. 111

    Food
    Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for spelt, tomatoes, pickled onions and tahini

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    Life and style
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    Weddings
    Tell us your bridesmaid confessions

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    Sweltering temperatures
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

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    Life and style
    Tell us: have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

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From our global editions

  • Rwanda's president Paul Kagame waves at crowds

    Africa
    ‘There will be no surprises’: Kagame set to sweep to fourth term as Rwandan president

  • Voters in Iran put their votes into red ballot boxes.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I feel betrayed by the west’: Iran’s freedom protesters react to their new president

  • A woman wearing Indigenous dress stands on a viewpoint above a lake

    In the footsteps of tigers
    The all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest

  • Herman Van Rompuy and Nigel Farage in the European parliament in 2010

    UK politics
    Will Nigel Farage behave in Commons after record as a ‘ranting’ MEP?

In case you missed it

  • Thomas speaks at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, in September 2021.

    Analysis
    How Clarence Thomas has provided a list of legal targets to ultra-right groups

  • Illustration with composite of images of oil workers and sites in Argentina

    The Latin oil rush
    Argentina’s future lies in the balance as vast oilfields poised for extraction

    If passed, a new bill would send the country headfirst into the Latin American oil rush and halt any meaningful energy transition
  • Viktor Orbán arrives at the Nato summit.

    Viktor Orbán
    A ‘peace mission’ and a likely Trump meeting: how Hungary’s PM became the spoiler of the Nato summit

    Viktor Orbán enraged most of the alliance by meeting with Putin and Xi, while shunning Biden, as he seeks to negotiate a Ukraine war settlement
  • a man in a suit and sunglasses looks ahead

    A running list
    The Democrats who have called on Joe Biden to step down

  • Woman kissing a man on cheek in night club

    Well actually
    Gen Z yearns for the pre-digital dating era – but don’t ask them out in person

  • Palestinians sit near a damaged tent

    Gaza
    A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on school

  • Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the alliance at a NATO event, in Washington<br>U.S. President Joe Biden attends a NATO event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the alliance, in Washington, U.S., July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Yves Herman

    US elections 2024
    ‘Blitz primary’: the scenario that could turn replacing Biden into a ‘riveting spectacle’

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    Photos of the day
    Desert blooms, Romanian blouses and Mr Afghanistan

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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    Photography
    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives

  • Title of photograph: 1.5% — 28/12/2021

    My best shot
    A giant crucifix on an Argentinian beach – Andreas Billman’s best photograph

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Photography
    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival

  • A sloping sliver building on a hilltop at sunset

    Architecture
    World Architecture festival 2024 shortlist – in pictures

  • ‘Amazing and often drunk’ … Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965

    In pictures
    Rebel riders: on the road with a 1960s biker gang

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