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  • Joe Biden at the White House on Sunday night.

    White House
    Biden urges US to reject ‘extremism and fury’ after Trump assassination attempt

  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by US Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

    Photography
    ‘The job is all about anticipation’: behind the lens of the defining photo of the Trump rally shooting

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    Security
    Ex-Secret Service agents say ‘massive realignment’ warranted after Trump rally shooting

  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

    Donald Trump
    Will Trump call for healing – or rub salt in wounds – in wake of rally shooting?

Headlines

  • View of destruction following an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, Gaza. Follow live for latest updates in the Israel-Gaza war.

    Israel-Gaza war live
    Deadly weekend of strikes draws condemnation with fate of senior Hamas commander unclear

    Saturday’s attack on Khan Younis that left more than 90 dead draws criticism; Hamas concealing fate of Mohammed Deif says IDF
  • A man wearing a white button-down looks at a crowd and points

    Venezuela
    Maduro rival promises ‘government for all’ if he wins Venezuela election

  • A doctor holds the hand of an elderly woman.

    Cancer
    Scientists make DNA discovery that could help find cure for pancreatic cancer

  • Trump points at his Maga hat while on stage.

    Donald Trump
    ‘This just isn’t going to add up’: experts warn Trumponomics would hurt US

    • TV
      Shannen Doherty, Beverly Hills 90210 star, dies at 53

    • Health
      War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns

    • Africa
      Paul Kagame expected to be re-elected president as Rwanda goes to polls

    • Gun violence
      Alabama shootings leave seven people dead including child, police say

    • Extreme heat
      Record-breaking heatwave shifts east as millions of Americans under heat alert

    • Denmark
      Copenhagen offers tourist rewards as other EU nations clamp down

In focus

  • A recruitment poster in Kyiv

    Ukraine
    ‘Be yourself’: Ukraine launches PR drive to attract recruits to weary army

  • Woman in a hijab trying to feed three tiny babies with bottles in a tent.

    Israel-Gaza war
    Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers

    Some women in Gaza have spent the duration of the war pregnant, but the constant bombing, death and chaos have cast a shadow over what should be a time of joy
  • Americans React To Possible Trump Assassination Attempt<br>MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - JULY 13: A Trump sign is covered outside the Fiserv Forum, which is scheduled to host the Republican National Convention (RNC), shortly after presumptive Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump was injured at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger, the suspected gunman is dead after grazing former President Trump with a bullet, killing one audience member and injuring at least one other. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

    Trump, Don Jr and Maga mania
    Your guide to the Republican convention

    The party will officially nominate Trump as its candidate – but there’s plenty else to watch out for at the gathering

Spotlight

  • ‘I got a call from Webster’s saying, we put your name in the dictionary, and it means outstanding, unbelievable’ … Beamon in South Carolina.

    Fascinating Olympians
    Abused, expelled, orphaned at eight months: how athlete Bob Beamon beat the odds – and became a legend

    He discusses pride, pressure and the politics of that momentous Summer Games
  • Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine sneak preview hints at a snarky satire on Marvel’s multiverse

    Ben Child
  • Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Roan

    Music
    Song of the summer 2024: writers pick their tracks of the season

    From Sabrina Carpenter to Kendrick Lamar, Guardian writers pick out the songs that will be soundtracking their barbecues for the summer
  • June Squibb is photographed at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

    Film
    June Squibb on getting her first starring role at 94: ‘I don’t have to prove myself any more’

    The Oscar-nominated character actor has landed her first leading role in the action comedy Thelma – she looks back on a career beside the likes of Nicholson, Scorsese and Pacino
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      Travel
      The renaissance of Venice’s favourite retreat

    • On the road … Richard Roundtree and June Squibb in Thelma.

      Film
      Thelma review – June Squibb is marvellous in sweet mobility scooter revenge caper

    • A hand squeezing a stress-relieving ball

      How to build a better life
      Face your anger and let it out. It’s the only way to stay healthy

    • Recycle and reuse … the Georges Vallerey pool, to be used for swimming training, has been fitted with a new retractable timber roof.

      Architecture
      Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

      Oliver Wainwright
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    Did Donald Trump just win the election?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    • Joe Biden<br>President Joe Biden speaks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, July 14, 2024, about the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

      Blue Maga: we need to talk about the cult-like turn of the Democratic party

      Mehdi Hasan
    • The lights flashing on the top of a police patrol car.

      Police bodycams are supposed to be tools for accountability. Are they?

      Mike McClelland
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      I couldn’t put a boring book down. Now I take pleasure in saying enough is enough

      Callum Bains
    • Taylor Swift joined on stage by her partner Travis Kelce, right, during her concert at Wembley Stadium in June.

      ‘Look at my husband’s lovely cagoule!’ – should I become a hype partner like Travis Kelce?

      Emma Beddington
  • Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams pose with the trophy after Spain's win at Euro 2024

    Euro 2024
    Spain’s new generation match golden forefathers and make own history

    Luis de la Fuente’s side were manifestly superior and had a sense of togetherness that took them to glory at Euro 2024
  • Travis Bazzana hit 28 home runs at Oregon State this season.

    MLB draft
    Australian Travis Bazzana selected No 1 by Cleveland Guardians

    Bazzana became the first second baseman to be selected with the top pick in MLB history and the first Australian drafted in the first round
    • USA coach Steve Kerr and Stephen Curry speak during a training camp last week in Las Vegas.

      USA basketball team
      Kerr and Curry call Trump assassination attempt sad day for America

    • Jude Bellingham

      Euro 2024 live
      Reaction to Spain’s final win over England and more

    • Jacoby Jones was an All-Pro returner and All-Pro selection in 2012.

      Jacoby Jones
      Ex-NFL receiver who caught Mile High Miracle dies aged 40

    • A jubilant Robert MacIntyre celebrates victory on the 18th green

      Golf
      MacIntyre's late surge earns emotional Scottish Open title

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    Environment
    Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution

  • Flamenco dancer El Yiyo and guitarist Rafael Andújar perform at the Sala de las Musas hall in the Prado Museum in Madrid this week.

    Spain
    ‘Beat the heat’: Madrid looks to cool off with culture amid climate crisis

  • A man sitting at a desk with piles of multicoloured paper on the ground beneath.

    Environmental activism
    Artist punches holes in UN climate report six hours a day for Dutch installation

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    Insects
    Climate crisis has impact on insects’ colours and sex lives, study finds

  • Animated graphic of Trump holding a red cup and throwing a ball at a stack of blue cups.

    US elections 2024
    Top Democratic donors revolt as ‘odd and off-putting’ Joe Biden struggles post-debate

    In tony Democratic stronghold, campaign merchandise sales track same trend with Trump outselling Biden 10 to one
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    PFAS
    ‘Forever chemicals’ used in lithium ion batteries threaten environment, research finds

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    Life and style
    Richard Simmons, celebrated fitness instructor, dies aged 76

  • The OpenAI logo on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model

    Technology
    US financial watchdog urged to investigate NDAs at OpenAI

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      Collectible Lego sets fuel growing black market

    • Sex
      Legendary sex therapist Dr Ruth dead at age 96

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      Alec Baldwin trial dismissed after lawyers say evidence was withheld

    • RNC 2024
      Will the Republican convention be good for Milwaukee businesses?

    • Taylor Swift
      Singer's candid talk about body image inspires fans, US study finds

    • Extreme weather
      Houston swelters in punishing heat as 800,000 without power after Beryl

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds at the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 11, 2024

    Asia Pacific
    China’s economy growing slower than expected as leaders meet for third plenum

    The world’s second-largest economy is grappling with a real estate debt crisis, weakening consumption, an ageing population and geopolitical tensions
  • Keir Starmer watches the Euro 2024 final in Berlin

    UK politics live
    Starmer faces test of Labour discipline after SNP proposes vote on ending two-child benefit cap

  • Turkey fans making the 'wolf salute' with their hands at a Euros 2024 match in Berlin.

    Germany
    German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign

  • Kaja Kallas

    Europe live
    Estonia PM Kaja Kallas resigns to take up EU foreign policy role

    • Environment
      Climate plans of Australian companies would be exempt from private litigation for three years under proposal

    • Cyprus
      ‘Turkish troops fired on our hotel, the invasion had begun’: 50 years after Cyprus was torn apart

    • Environment
      First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

    • Australia
      Police investigating after 40-year-old man found dead in car park on Sydney’s northern beaches

    • UK
      Labour to fight 2029 election ‘like an insurgent’ as preparations begin

    • Space
      ‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • The Great Ouse in Bedfordshire after bursting its banks earlier this year. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way – podcast

  • Orlando Whitfield

    Today in Focus
    Inside the biggest art fraud in US history - podcast

  • England's Phil Foden looks dejected after Spain scored their second goal

    Football Weekly
    Heartache for England again as Spain take Euro 2024 crown – Football Daily

  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surround by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Today in Focus
    The attempted assassination of Donald Trump – Politics Weekly America

  • REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Butler

    Politics Weekly America
    Republicans elevate Trump to ‘living martyr’ status after shooting – podcast

  • US vice-president Kamala Harris speaks with President Joe Biden on a White House balcony

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully? – podcast

  • COMBO-FBL-EURO-2024-MATCH51-ESP-ENG<br>(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 12, 2024 shows Spain's midfielder #17 Nico Williams (L) during the UEFA Euro 2024 round of 16 football match between Spain and Georgia at the Cologne Stadium in Cologne on June 30, 2024; and England's forward #07 Bukayo Saka during the UEFA Euro 2024 Group C football match between Denmark and England at the Frankfurt Arena in Frankfurt am Main on June 20, 2024. Spain faces England during the UEFA Euro 2024 final football match at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on July 14, 2024. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ and Adrian DENNIS / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Spain v England: who will win? And the Southgate verdict – Football Daily

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    Film
    Shannen Doherty – a life in pictures

    Best known for her roles in Beverly Hills, 90210, Heathers and Charmed, the former child star has died aged 53. We look back at some of her key roles
  • FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2012, file photo, Shannen Doherty participates in a panel for the television show "Shannen Says" on WE tv during the AMC Networks portion of the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. Doherty, the "Beverly Hills, 90210" star, has died, Saturday, July 13, 2024. She was 53. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

    US television
    Shannen Doherty obituary

  • Asha Puthli posing for a portrait in a pink patterned dress

    Music
    ‘I sexed it up’: 1970s disco queen Asha Puthli on Warhol, Dali and influencing Donna Summer

  • The cast of The Years photographed for the Observer New Review: Deborah Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Romola Garai, Gina McKee and Harmony Rose-Bremner.

    Annie Ernaux
    ‘I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Ernaux’s memoir to the stage

  • Jung Yu-mi on the sofa looks over her shoulder

    Review
    Sleep – deviously twisty new parenthood-themed Korean thriller

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    Books
    The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson – love in a fractured city

  • Jenny Knight shot for OM

    Wellbeing
    How returning to competitive sport after 25 years taught me resilience – and the joy of new friends

    Jenny Knight, an author who was a teen world rowing champion, is rediscovering the benefits of exercise after joining a local netball team
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    The beauty Q&A
    Which mascara won’t give me ‘panda eyes’?

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    Ruth Westheimer obituary
    American therapist, author and broadcaster

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    Ask Philippa
    My brother’s mental illness hovers over my family life

  • A wheelchair beside a ramp at an airport

    Consumer rights
    American Airlines crew filmed my distress after wheelchair failed to arrive at Heathrow

  • A children’s birthday party. ‘Babies are so undiscerning, you could simply walk around until you found another baby’s birthday party in the park and join in.’

    There’s nothing like a big cake and local park for a stress-free child’s birthday party

    Séamas O’Reilly
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    Tell us your bridesmaid confessions

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    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

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  • A man talks on his mobile phone as he walks a deserted street backdropped by newly built apartment buildings in Seseña

    Housing
    ‘Huge scars’: novelist finds a fractured Spain in its half-built houses

  • Renée DiResta poses outdoors in a pink fleece with strawberries on it

    Technology
    Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’

  • A middle-aged woman sits in a tidy kitchen and show off her passport from when she was an infant.

    Chile’s stolen children
    A new effort offers hope to Pinochet-era international adoptees

  • Period colourised photograph of agricultural labourers in a field, including two sitting on a piece of horse-drawn agricultural machinery

    Agriculture
    ‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say

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    Amazon
    ‘Let’s make history!’: Amazon staff at UK warehouse vote on union recognition

  • Actor Alec Baldwin, left, reacts as his wife Hilaria hugs him during a break in his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie "Rust," Friday, July 12, 2024, at Santa Fe County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool)

    ‘A botched prosecution’
    Alec Baldwin’s trial gets shock ending fit for Hollywood

    The high-stakes case, which saw the actor charged in the death of Halyna Hutchins, fell apart in a matter of hours
  • Happy smiley face helium yellow balloons for happiness feature in Observer New Review

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    Why are 91% of small business owners so darned happy?

    Running your own company is full of stress, frustration and headaches. But most owners wouldn’t have it any other way
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    ‘Rule of the lawless’
    What does the authoritarian playbook look like?

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    Cuba
    Members of the revolutionary generation feel abandoned by the society they created

  • A contractor surveys a home for structural damage

    Climate crisis
    After Hurricane Beryl’s destruction, climate scientists fear for what’s next

  • Joe Biden at the Nato summit on Thursday.

    The US politics sketch
    Gaffes, stumbles and missteps – for Biden, the cracks were showing

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    Trump shooting
    Dramatic images capture assassination attempt

    Former US president Donald Trump is reportedly ‘fine’ after he was rushed offstage by the Secret Service after gunshots were heard during a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump has said he was hit by a bullet that pierced his ear.
  • England’s Jude Bellingham looks dejected as Spain’s players celebrate at the final whistle.

    Football
    Spain reign, England pain: Euro 2024 final

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    In pictures
    Japan’s LGBTQ+ photo weddings

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    Photography
    Joy, trauma and identity: themes from Kuala Lumpur’s photography awards

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    Euro 2024, Trump shooting and Bastille Day

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