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  • Robert Fico being rushed to hospital
    Robert Fico being rushed to hospital
    Fico greets people before the attack in Handlová
    Fico greets people before the attack in Handlová
    Police guardian hospital where Fico is in surgery
    Police guardian hospital where Fico is in surgery
    Interior minister and defence minister at press conference
    Interior minister and defence minister at press conference
    Forensic officers at the scene of the shooting
    Forensic officers at the scene of the shooting

    Live
    Slovakia PM Robert Fico's surgery went well, says deputy PM, after ‘politically motivated’ attack

    Robert Fico taken to hospital after four shots reported to have been fired after government meeting in Handlova
    • The supreme court in Washington in April

      Louisiana
      State must use House map with second mostly Black district, supreme court rules

    • Israel
      War cabinet split looms as defense minister demands plan for post-war Gaza

    • BTK serial killer investigation
      New clue unlocks missing 16-year-old girl’s name

    • Abortion
      More than half of US Black women aged 15-49 live under bans – report

    • Ukraine
      Troops withdraw from parts of north-east as pressure mounts

    • Stormy Daniels
      Husband says they’ll likely leave the US if Trump is acquitted

    • Utah
      US woman accused of killing husband before writing grief book sees hearing delayed

    • Meryl Streep
      It’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters

In focus

  • A painting of two older Black people, a man and a woman, dancing close with their foreheads touching, smiling at each other.

    Buffalo shooting
    Two years after mass killing, an art exhibit focuses on the victims

  • Fico stands in front of flags

    ‘He is borrowing from Trump’
    The rise of Robert Fico, Slovakia’s populist leader

    The veteran politician shot and wounded on Wednesday, is a fan of Viktor Orbán and has embraced ever more extreme positions to retain power
  • Los Angeles, California— Beverly Lofton poses for a portrait in her garden in the View Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday, April 26, 2024. Mrs. Lofton turned her front yard into a microfarm with the help of Crop Swap LA, a local group that creates edible food gardens to combat food insecurity and food apartheid. Photographs by Gabriella Angotti-Jones

    The DIY Climate Changers
    I swapped my south LA lawn for a verdant microfarm - now I feed the neighborhood

    The 67-year-old’s switch was a bold move in a city ruled by cars and concrete, and where the impact of extreme heat and water shortages are acutely felt

Spotlight

  • Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga.

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review
    Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes

    Taylor-Joy makes a fantastic action heroine, facing down a hilariously evil Chris Hemsworth in signature high-speed fights
  • Four young people pulling faces while tasting red wine

    'Do you enjoy gossip?'
    Why are we so snobby about other people’s weddings?

  • ‘Dave Mustaine and I love each other but it was time for me to leave’ … Marty Friedman.

    From Megadeth to Japanese make-up tutorials
    The bizarre life of guitarist Marty Friedman

    The US musician went from homelessness to multiplatinum success with the thrash metallers – and then became a pop cultural icon in Japan. He explains the weirdest portfolio career in rock
  • an animation of a large purple furry creature

    If review
    John Krasinski’s so-so, sentimental family fantasy

    Ryan Reynolds leads an all-star cast in a sweet, if a little messy, tale of imaginary friends reconnecting with the grown-ups who once bid them goodbye
    • detail from Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of King Charles III.

      A formulaic bit of facile flattery
      Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III review

    • Antony Blinken performing in Kyiv.

      I’m with the band
      Who knew Antony Blinken could play rock classics?

    • Composite of two photos each of an older white man in a suit.

      The Stakes
      Don’t panic about presidential polls – yet

    • Man wearing suit, tie, and glasses speaking to the camera on a late-night show set

      ‘It’s been a real case of déjà eww’
      Stephen Colbert on Trump’s hush-money trial

Opinion

  • man in a suit photographed from behind giving a thumbs up

    We’re in a pivotal moment in American history. We cannot retreat

    Bernie Sanders
    Clearly, our job is not just to re-elect Biden. It’s much more than that
  • woman on a white horse holding an american flag and wearing a red, white and blue jumpsuit and a white cowboy hat

    Beyoncé’s display of the American flag raises questions for Black people

    Derecka Purnell
  • A protest at the Cop27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 2022

    The 1.5C global heating target was always a dream, but its demise doesn’t signal doom for climate action

    Bill McKibben
    Missing a target doesn’t mean the sense of emergency should fade. What it must do is stop politicians dithering – and fast, says Bill McKibben
  • ‘Visiting Dubrovnik, I was terrified of making a fool of myself with my poor Croatian.’

    I never thought of myself as shy. But there I was, all wibbly-wobbly in the legs as I waited to go on TV

    Adrian Chiles
    I discovered a new side of myself last week. And I didn’t much enjoy it, writes Adrian Chiles
    • People in blue academic robes and a woman holding a sign reading 'ceasefire now' with a Palestinian flag.

      Are US campus protests antisemitic? Jewish students weigh in

      Theo Goldstine, Benjamin Kersten, Maya Ilany and Matan Berg
    • A woman holding a blue and white flag in the middle of the street

      ‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans

      Jo-Ann Mort
    • Putin shown from the shoulders up, looking to his right. Sergei Shoigu is pictured just behind him looking straight to the camera. Both appear to be wearing white protective coats over their clothes.

      Putin’s war machine reshuffle reveals his deepest fear – the rise of Kremlin rivals

      Samantha de Bendern
    • PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT<br>People and health workers unearth bodies found at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

      I have worked in the world’s most dangerous combat zones. Never have I felt as unsafe as I did in Gaza

      Amy Neilson

Sports

  • Nikola Jokic sees off the attentions of Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns

    ‘I just laugh’
    Opponents in awe as Jokic stars in Nuggets’ win over Timberwolves

    The reigning MVP showed why he was voted the best player in the league for a third time after another dominant performance
  • Augusta National is one of the world’s most famous golf courses

    Golf
    Man who made $5m in Masters thefts pleads guilty in federal court

    • Frank Warren

      Frank Warren: ‘Fury has overcome demons most people would never have’

      Donald McRae in Riyadh
    • Indiana guard Caitlin Clark (22) dribbles the ball against the Connecticut Sun during Tuesday’s game.

      Caitlin Clark
      Fever rookie scores 20 points with 10 turnovers in WNBA debut

    • Aryna Sabalenka

      Tennis
      Sabalenka sweeps Ostapenko aside to reach Italian Open semi-finals

    • Sage, a miniature poodle from Houston handled by Kaz Hosaka, took top honors at the Westminster dog show on Tuesday night.

      ‘Perfect end’
      Miniature poodle Sage wins Westminster in handler’s swansong

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Climate crisis

  • Man in red tie, suit and overcoat

    Donald Trump
    Top US ethics watchdog investigating ex-president over dinner with oil bosses

  • A European bison in a snowy scene

    Romania
    Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say

  • Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and George Monbiot.

    Books
    More than 200 authors renew call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

  • A woman with a red unbrella takes shelter from the sun as people in the city of York, North Yorkshire endure the hottest day on record as the temperature in the UK passes 40 degrees Farenheit on July 19th 2022 as the UK continues to endure the heatwave and a period of extreme weather conditions.

    Climate crisis
    Heat exposure of older people across world to double by 2050, finds study

Across the country

  • Jonathan Greenblatt

    Anti-Defamation League
    Group ramps up lobbying to promote controversial definition of antisemitism

    Federal records show a dramatic spending increase that critics say is primarily intended to punish criticism of Israel and target pro-Palestinian groups
  • woman running in a protective vest

    Missouri
    Outrage after Republican candidate tells voters ‘don’t be weak and gay’

  • A person holds a packaged NARCAN naloxone nasal spray

    Opioids crisis
    More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023

  • A moel ship is examined by people in a museum

    Manahahtáanung or Manhattan?
    Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York City

    • Kristi Noem
      South Dakota governor banned from seven Native reservations in own state

    • US politics
      Interior department staffer is first Jewish Biden appointee to quit over Gaza war

    • OpenAI
      Co-founder who had key role in attempted firing of Sam Altman departs

    • Inflation
      US rate at 3.4% in April, dropping slightly from previous month

    • West Virginia
      Republicans hope for Senate majority after strong primary result

    • 'The world is my oyster'
      Chicago graduate makes history by earning doctorate at 17

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Around the world

  • Israeli tanks

    Rafah border crossing
    Israel and Egypt in diplomatic row

    Anger over Israel’s seizure of Palestinian side of crossing raises fears Cairo may downgrade relations
  • Nighttime photo of young people with cardboard signs and bullhorn marching in urban area lit by store lights.

    Argentina
    Activists blame government after three gay women killed in arson attack

  • Fabrice Moello and Arnaud Garcia

    France
    Prison officers killed in ambush named as hunt for gunmen continues

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    Jeremy Corbyn
    Labour begins candidate selection for MP’s Islington North seat

    • UK
      MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked

    • Keir Starmer
      Labour leader puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters

    • Netherlands
      Far-right Geert Wilders agrees deal for coalition government

    • Australia
      Country's richest woman demands National Gallery remove her portrait

    • Hong Kong
      YouTube blocks videos set to protest anthem

    • UK news
      Man pleads not guilty to felling Northumberland’s Sycamore Gap tree

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

  • TOPSHOT-FBL-ENG-PR-TOTTENHAM-MAN CITY<br>TOPSHOT - Manchester City's Norwegian striker #09 Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring his team first goal during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on May 14, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City have one hand on trophy and Villa into the Champions League: Football Weekly - podcast

  • Musician Steve Albini at his recording studio, Electrical Audio, in Chicago. Photograph: Evan Jenkins/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’ – podcast

  • A woman holds a Georgian national and an EU flag in front of police blocking a street. (Photograph: Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo)

    Today in Focus
    The ‘foreign agents’ law that has set off mass protests in Georgia

  • Aoife Mannion (centre) celebrates after winning the Women's FA Cup

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Aoife Mannion on winning the FA Cup with Manchester United: Women’s Football Weekly - podcast

  • Rishi Sunak speaking at an AI safety summit

    Science
    Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast

  • Anti-immigrant protesters wave Irish flags while confronting line of police officers

    Today in Focus
    The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland

Culture

  • Sounds hang in the air … Steve McQueen’s Bass in the concrete basement of Dia Beacon.

    Steve McQueen: Bass review
    ‘Like an underground shooting gallery of dub’

    Defying narrative, the artist mixes LED lights and colour with ricocheting music inspired by West Africa, resulting in a throbbing show that sucks the air from your lungs
  • ‘I tried not to show her as a victim’ … a photograph of tea-seller Nguyen Thi Hong, from the Shifting Sands series.

    The village that fell into a river
    Sim Chi Yin’s best photograph

  • woman with chains of jewellery across her face

    Dune: Prophecy
    First trailer for female-led prequel TV series

  • Alice Munro.

    Alice Munro remembered
    ‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’

  • Agathe Riedinger looks in the mirror in Wild Diamond.

    Wild Diamond review
    French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy

  • LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024

    ‘Otherworldly’
    Spiked clay sculpture by unknown Mexican ceramicist wins Loewe Foundation craft prize

Lifestyle

  • Jennifer Wong attends a Sound Bath Yoga session at the Virgin Gym at 2 Bligh Street, Sydney. Australia

    My first time at a sound bath
    ‘As the music becomes louder, my first thought is, “Danger, danger”’

    In her fortnightly review of fitness and wellbeing activities, comedian Jennifer Wong comes for a session of gentle meditative yoga – and stays for the crystal singing bowls
  • ‘A liberated rack isn’t ashamed, it does what it wants to do’ … Sarah Thornton at home in California.

    'Breasts are a serious political problem'
    One woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

  • Cath Hill, second from right, with the Manchester Survivor’s Choir in 2018.

    A moment that changed me
    I survived a terror attack – and found healing through a choir

  • Felicity Cloake's blondies.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make blondies – recipe

  • Spasia Dinkovski's crunchy potatoes with fried pepper cream.

    Cheesy pie and crunchy spuds
    Spasia Dinkovski’s Balkan favourites – recipes

  • Apple M4 iPad Pro reviewed in an 11in size shown with keyboard and pencil stylus.

    iPad Pro M4 review
    Ludicrously good hardware that’s total overkill for most

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    Life and style
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  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

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    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

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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

From our global editions

  • a wildfire burns beneath the aurora borealis

    No internet, no phone
    Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure

  • Several lines of riot police stand in front of a vehicle

    Explainer
    Why has Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill caused so much protest and anger?

  • A gunman seen through the window of a vehicle

    Analysis
    Will prison van ambush put law and order at heart of EU elections in France?

  • A masked person points at three men over makeshift barricades

    New Caledonia
    Why are there riots against France’s voting change, and why does it matter?

In case you missed it

  • Graphic illustration of middle-aged white man with mostly bald head and red-gray beard, in suit jacket and collared shirt without a tie.

    This county undercounted 4,000 Biden votes in 2020
    Now the head of elections is looking to win back trust

  • Soldiers test their ability to combat an opposing force at Fort Irwin National Training Centre

    ‘We’ve got drone swarms, dirty bombs, radar-jamming’
    The fake town where America practices for war

    In the middle of the Mojave desert, the US army has built a huge set to prepare its soldiers for combat, filled with actors, tanks, explosions – and even fake news
  • Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands while smiling

    China-Russia
    Putin and Xi’s ‘no-limits’ friendship will be put to the test on state visit

    Russia, shunned from the world stage, and China, subject to new US tariffs, want to pivot further from the west
  • Adam Driver in a scene from the trailer for Megalopolis

    ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’
    Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

  • Tents are set up by displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi near the border with Egypt in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip .

    Desperation in Gaza's camps
    ‘No water, food, health care, toilet’

  • Charcoal sketch of long-face white man with white-gray hair in witness stand with screen in front of him, with man in suit facing him and gesturing.

    Trump trial key takeaways
    False invoices and why Michael Cohen flipped

  • A worker assembles an SUV at a car plant of Li Auto, a major Chinese EV maker, in Changzhou in eastern China. Joe Biden has announced huge new tariffs on the imports on Chinese electric vehicles.

    Explainer
    What’s behind the US tariffs on Chinese EVs and what do they mean for Biden’s re-election chances?

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    Photos of the day
    A parade in China, Glasgow protests and a New York dog show

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • Photographer Diop worked with The Anonymous Project, founded by Lee Shulman, a collection of nearly a million Kodachrome slides taken by amateurs, made from the 1940s onwards.

    Time traveller
    One Senegalese man’s journey to the past

  • A woman plays a cello in a garden in front of a washing line hung with blue nurses' uniforms

    Photo essay
    NHS nurses quit after working through Covid

  • Part of a bridge collapses during a controlled demolition.

    Photos of the day
    Displaced Palestinians and a controlled demolition

  • Meticulous re-creations … Plate 1, Astrup’s Horn by Tonje Bøe Birkeland.

    See things differently
    The best of Photo London

  • Joe Lycett attends the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards

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    On the red carpet with Brian Cox and Claudia Winkleman

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