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    Five ways Americans are affected by deleted government data

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  • Shark or sea monster?
    Canadian mystery still intrigues experts 90 years on

    Image of the Naden Harbor whale carcass from 1937, with newspaper reports at the time in the background.

  • Religion
    The Amish who refused to use modern toilets

    Collage of Amish life scenes, farms, horse-drawn buggies, and groups of people, with a white silhouette of a toilet in the center

  • Lizzo’s greatest songs
    Flutes, freestyles and infectious fun

    Lizzo at the 43rd Brit awards, 2023.

  • Uar Bernard
    The ‘rarest specimen’ who exposes NFL scouting flaws

    2026 NFL Draft - Round 4-7Uar Bernard poses for a photo in the tunnel during third day of the NFL football draft at Acrisure Stadium on April 25, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images)

  • Russia
    Secret spy school teaches hacking and election meddling

    Bauman Moscow state technical university building on the banks for the Yauza River

News

  • Still of man following the nun down a pedestrianised path in Jerusalem

    Israel
    Israeli settler to go on trial over attack on French nun in Jerusalem

  • a man holds a microphone

    Florida
    Rapper Kodak Black due in court in Florida on felony drug charge

  • two men investigate a garage

    California
    Authorities search home linked to 1996 killing of college student Kristin Smart

  • a school library

    Books
    Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US

Special report

In focus

  • a man stands next to a globe

    CNN
    Ted Turner: the man whose 24-hour CNN network broke the news

    The brash mogul once known as ‘the mouth from the south’ took on established broadcasters and changed TV for ever
  • Bauman Moscow state technical university building on the banks for the Yauza River

    Exclusive
    Revealed: Russia’s top secret spy school teaching hacking and election meddling

  • The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.

    Mexico
    Up to 2cm a month: Nasa keeps track as Mexico City sinks into the ground

  • Man in T-shirt at mic reading from

    Los Angeles
    LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reposts scathing AI-generated ad

  • Person seems to sit or crouch near the ground in a park with lanes, grass, and palm trees.

    Los Angeles
    Federal authorities arrest 18 people in Los Angeles raid amid drug crackdown

  • A woman cycles past a curved brick wall sign reading 'UCLA Medical Center', with modern hospital buildings behind it.

    Education
    UCLA medical school illegally used race in admissions, justice department finds

  • gas prices are displayed at gas stations

    Oil
    Uncertainty looms as last oil tanker from Middle East arrives in California

Features

  • Collage of Amish life scenes, farms, horse-drawn buggies, and groups of people, with a white silhouette of a toilet in the center

    Religion
    The Amish who refused to use modern toilets – and the people who came after them

  • Image of the Naden Harbor whale carcass from 1937, with newspaper reports at the time in the background.

    Canada
    Shark or sea monster? The Canadian marine mystery that still intrigues experts 90 years on

More features

  • 2026 NFL Draft - Round 4-7Uar Bernard poses for a photo in the tunnel during third day of the NFL football draft at Acrisure Stadium on April 25, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images)

    Philadelphia Eagles
    Uar Bernard: the ‘rarest physical specimen’ who exposes the NFL’s scouting flaws

    The Philadelphia Eagles selected the Nigerian defensive lineman before he had even played a down of football. More teams should take risks on global talent
  • The Scottevest Best Travel Vest for Men

    The Filter
    This 26-pocket vest is my key to travel nirvana

  • Sir Ian McKellen wearing a navy blue and turquoise patterned shirt with a black cardigan leans on his hand

    The reader interview
    Ian McKellen: ‘Of course Gandalf would beat Dumbledore in a fight’

  • Code on various screens overlapping.

    Artificial intelligence
    ‘No one has done this in the wild’: study observes AI replicate itself

  • Lizzo at the 43rd Brit awards, 2023.

    Music
    Flutes, freestyles and infectious fun: Lizzo’s greatest songs – ranked

  • Uma Thurman and Patrick Bergin as Maid Marion and Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1991)

    Film
    ‘The aim was to give Kevin Costner’s version a good kicking’: director John Irvin on his anti-Thatcher Robin Hood

  • Jimmy Kimmel

    Late-night TV roundup
    Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: ‘His list of threats is now longer than Kash Patel’s bar tab’

Opinion

  • Paul Taylor

    double quotation markTrump’s tantrums over Nato are prompting European leaders to think the unthinkable

    Paul Taylor
    Europeans must urgently seek to close their security gaps in case Russia attacks – and the US refuses to defend its allies, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre
  • Cas Mudde

    double quotation markTrump may be a liability and Orbán is gone, but Europe’s far right is not in decline

    Cas Mudde
    Let’s not draw the wrong conclusions from Hungary’s election or the US president’s troubles

More opinion

  • Emma Brockes

    double quotation markMy kids are taking their first big exams – and revealing my own anxieties about AI and long division

    Emma Brockes
  • Illustration of young people talking to each other with speech bubbles.

    double quotation markImagine a technique that can heal Britain of division and keep out the hard right. I call it ‘radical listening’

    George Monbiot
  • Adrian Chiles

    double quotation markNostalgia and regret are pointless. So why can’t I shake them?

    Adrian Chiles
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markNine dollars for a Starbucks is an ‘affordable luxury’? CEOs need to wake up and smell the coffee

    Arwa Mahdawi

Sports

  • Arsenal and PSG celebrate their semi-final victories.

    Soccer
    Champions League review: a punch for Arteta and are PSG and Arsenal really that different?

    The teams for the final in Budapest are set. We look at how they got there and the factors that could determine the champion
  • Rachel Entrekin approaches the finish line of the 2026 Cocodona 250

    Ultramarathon
    Rachel Entrekin becomes first woman to win Cocodona 250 – and pets dogs along the way

  • Jamie Vardy

    Soccer
    ‘If you asked me to go and do it all again, I wouldn’t’: Jamie Vardy on his rollercoaster career

  • 2026 NFL Draft - Round 4-7Uar Bernard poses for a photo in the tunnel during third day of the NFL football draft at Acrisure Stadium on April 25, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images)

    NFL
    Uar Bernard: the ‘rarest physical specimen’ who exposes the NFL’s scouting flaws

  • Jonas Vingegaard at the Giro d'Italia presentation

    Cycling
    Jonas Vingegaard targets Grand Tour slam as Giro d’Italia begins in Bulgaria

More sports

  • Khvicha Kvaratskhelia runs at the Bayern Munich defence
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    double quotation markKvaratskhelia is perfect attacking scalpel for PSG’s surgical brilliance. Arsenal, beware

    Barney Ronay
  • Computer-generated visual of e-racer competing in MyWhoosh cycling app ride.

    Exclusive
    Virtual cyclists face random drug tests to compete on MyWhoosh app

  • Barend Verkek, Director of Recruitment at Como Calcio, at the Stadio Sinigaglia. ITALY. Como, 2026.

    Soccer
    ‘We bring in hungry, humble players’: How Fàbregas is leading the incredible rise of Como

  • Arnaud De Lie at the Paris-Roubaix last month

    Cycling
    ‘Half the peloton is ill’: cow dung blamed as riders fall sick after race in Belgium

More top stories

  • A classic car drives past a pile of burning rubbish in a smoke-filled street

    Cuba
    ‘An epidemic of flies, rats, waste and foul odours’: health fears in Cuba as US oil blockade halts rubbish collection

    As Trump ramps up pressure by cutting off fuel to the island, Havana’s refuse is rarely collected, forcing residents to burn it in the streets despite the pollution
  • Severe Weather MississippiIn this frame grab from video taken by WDAM, damaged trees and a house or structure following a storm that tore through part of Lamar County, Mississippi, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (WDAM via AP)

    Mississippi
    Nearly 500 homes damaged in Mississippi as multiple tornadoes reported

  • people hold signs in support of climate justice and affordable renewable energy

    Business
    Powerful US utilities secretly fund ‘grassroots’ groups to sway cities away from switch to public power

  • a school building

    New York
    Woman aged 28 pretended to be 16 and enrolled at New York high school before arrest

  • Detail of new wasp species apparently in flight

    David Attenborough
    Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday

Climate crisis & environment

  • An installation by Greenpeace activists shows an SUV that is seemingly rammed into the pavement in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

    The slow lane
    ‘At a crossroads’: will piling-up crises force Europe to put brakes on SUV culture?

  • a Shell petrol station in the UK

    Shell
    Climate campaigners attack Shell over ‘windfall’ profits from Iran war

  • An elephant with long tusks curls its trunk while standing in grassland under an overcast sky.

    Conservation
    Rewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuary

  • Harbor seal on ice floe at South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska

    Climate crisis
    Alaska’s 2025 mega tsunami highlights risk to cruise lines as glaciers retreat

US news

  • Jeffrey Epstein
    Alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein unsealed by federal judge

  • Los Angeles
    LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reposts scathing AI-generated ad

  • Georgia
    Justice department can keep 2020 ballots FBI seized from Fulton county, judge rules

  • California
    Federal authorities arrest 18 people in Los Angeles raid amid drug crackdown

World news

  • India
    Tensions high in West Bengal after BJP aide shot dead and hundreds arrested

  • Spain
    Spain awards UN legal expert Francesca Albanese one of its highest civilian honours

  • Airline industry
    Airlines still have to pay compensation if flights cancelled due to fuel crisis, EU says

  • UK
    Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to be asked to isolate back in UK for 45 days

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Culture

  • Linda Perry in fur coat and hat on desert landscape

    Music
    ‘The best gift Mom gave me was a peaceful death’: Linda Perry on cancer, abuse and her intense documentary

  • The cast of Legends stand in a row on barren ground in front of industrial structures under an overcast sky.

    TV review
    Legends review – Steve Coogan takes on Britain’s biggest drug gang

What to watch

  • A black hen perches on a handrail overlooking the sea.

    Film
    ‘Somehow you become the chicken’: inside the film about people-smuggling told through the eyes of a hen

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    Review
    Mortal Kombat II review – junky game-to-movie sequel offers more of the same

  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal smiling in a car from FX's The Bear.

    Television
    The best show on TV again (for one glorious scene): The Bear’s surprise new prequel

  • A woman in a white dress and a man in a white shirt and black waistcoat dancing together surrounded by other dancers

    Film
    ‘We laced Nicole into her corset and her rib broke again’: Moulin Rouge at 25 – an oral history by cast and crew

What to listen to

  • Aldous Harding in profile wearing a dark textured coat looks to the right in black and white.

    Music
    Aldous Harding: Train on the Island review – even whimsy-resistant listeners will love these lucid, luminous songs

  • Tyla performing at the MTV EMAs in 2024, in Manchester.

    Music
    Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tyla and more took African pop global. So why don’t they tour Africa itself?

  • Les Rallizes Dénudés in 1976.

    Rock
    ‘My body ached from the volume’: the mystery and majesty of Japanese noise-rockers les Rallizes Dénudés

  • ROSTAM - musician. Press handout image shot by Matthew Weinberger 002294280037

    Indie
    ‘My generation have deluded themselves’: ex-Vampire Weekender Rostam on pop, protest and life as an Iranian-American

What to read

  • An illustration of Lambert Simnel, pretender to the throne of England.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Pretender by Jo Harkin audiobook review – sprightly historical political skulduggery

  • Will Maclean.

    Fiction
    Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist

  • a a black and white photo of a man speaking into a microphone

    Books
    Young King: revealing book shines light on Martin Luther King Jr’s early days

  • Polly Barton.

    Fiction
    What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton review – shyness, obsession and the joy of karaoke

What to play

  • Two animated characters with shocked expressions push another in a shopping trolley.

    Review
    Mixtape review – tongues, trolleys and classic 90s tracks celebrate teenage misadventure

  • Moomintroll on a bridge under the northern lights in a winter scene

    Moomins
    ‘We’re remixing her library for a new medium’: the video games capturing the happy-sad spirit of Tove Jansson’s Moomins

  • A first look at 007 First Light.

    Pushing Buttons
    Licence to thrill: could 007 First Light be the best Bond game since GoldenEye?

    Newsletter
  • Title screen for Daley Thompson's Super Test video game showing various Olympic events

    double quotation markI touched a ZX Spectrum for the first time in decades – and I liked it

    Dominik Diamond

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    Photography
    Twiggy, Bella Freud and more: Steven Meisel’s masterly London portraits

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  • South African-Australian author, JM Coetzee

    Books
    JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’

  • Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe sit in the back seat of a car

    Exclusive
    Arthur Miller opens up about marriage to Marilyn Monroe in newly unearthed recordings

  • A young woman with beads around her neck in a forest

    James Cameron
    Indigenous actor sues James Cameron for ‘stealing’ her facial features for Avatar character

Lifestyle

  • The Hare & Hounds Inn at Bowland Bridge in Cumbria, which closed its doors in November 2025. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Abandoned Britain
    ‘Now the village is dead. It’s awful’: why was one of Britain’s best pubs forced to close?

  • Standing on an exercise mat, she holds a weighted barbell at her waist

    Fitness
    Do women need to exercise differently from men – and ease up on cardio after 40?

  • Alcohol
    ‘Bartenders love it’: 10 top-rated tequilas in the US — taste-tested by a pro

    A bottle of Laelia Añejo tequila
    Whether you’re mixing margaritas or pouring a nightcap, the best tequila starts with a few small clues on the label
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    Spring cleaning
    ‘Stores an ungodly amount of stuff’: 11 products our writers rely on to organize and declutter

  • A collection of gifts for Mother's Day

    Mother's Day
    The 23 best Mother’s Day gifts, according to moms, grandmas and one great-grandmother

  • photos from The Devil Wears Prada 2 x What Goes Around Comes Around event

    Fashion
    ‘If you know, you know’: I styled the Devil Wears Prada 2 press junket entirely from one designer resale site

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    Kitchenware
    Ultra-light yet indestructible, our favorite cast-iron pan is finally on sale

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  • A backpack, keepsake box, baby carrier, and stroller organizer

    Gifts
    The 10 best gifts for new moms, according to a new mom

  • A senior woman with golf clubs; a wilted flower against a pink background

    Mother’s Day
    We asked grandmas for their favorite gifts: ‘A can of salmon with some cottage cheese and a banana’

    Newsletter
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    Deals
    The 17 best Mother’s Day deals for when she says ‘don’t spend too much’

  • Elemind Headband, Jabees Peace Pillow Speaker, loop earplugs, a sleep mask, and the soaak app displayed together

    Sleep
    I tried everything to get better sleep. These five items actually helped

Well actually

  • A barbell with ChatCPT logos as weight plates.

    Fitness
    From ‘it helped me stick to a routine’ to ‘I despise it’: 11 people explain how they’re using AI for fitness

  • a short video clip showing various foot scrubbing tools and nail tools in front of a blurred images of a foot

    Wellness
    Sole searching: how a medical pedicure saved my feet from the point of no return

  • A graphic illustration that appears to show a woman's legs, overlaid on a separate image of larger legs.

    Health
    Puffy legs, heavy aches, rippled skin: what is lipedema?

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    Wellness trends
    Wellness culture is trying to sell you products your vagina doesn’t need

Relationships

  • Person in yellow shirt holding phone with loads of messages illustration

    You be the judge
    double quotation markShould my roommate stop using my details to sign up for free trials?

  • A 2016 study estimated that more than one in five single adults engage in consensual non-monogamy at some point

    Polyamory
    Polyamorous Americans are celebrating new laws establishing their ‘inherent worth and dignity’

  • Drawing of a naked woman holding a red book, open at arm's length. Surreally, a man's head emerges from the pages, eyes closed, making to kiss her forearm

    This is how we do it
    double quotation mark‘An intimacy menu reignited my sex drive after early menopause

  • Illustration of a person ripping up a parking ticket, a man tying laces, a water bladder, two happy people sharing a meal, and plant cuttings

    You be the judge
    From shared toothbrushes to mid-sex water bladders

Health & fitness

  • A man holds an ice pack to his head and a woman administers chest compressions as part of CPR.

    The experts
    How to save a life: paramedics on emergency first aid – from cardiac arrest to burns to seizures

  • Science Weekly
    Hantavirus explained: how does it spread and who is most at risk?

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    Weight training
    Put those weights down! How ‘eccentric’ exercise opens up a whole new world of fitness

  • Cartoon illustration of two happy dancing lungs showing regeneration

    Life and style
    Is it true that … your lungs regenerate when you quit smoking?

Fashion & beauty

  • Model Fu sitting on a chair wearing Uniqlo t-shirt, M&S skirt and Charles + Keith shoes.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Missed Love Story? It’s not too late to embrace 90s minimalism

  • A woman in a sparkly dress with a skeleton cutout and a long feathered cloak walks toward a staircase

    Met Gala 2026
    Met Gala 2026 red carpet: the best looks in pictures

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  • Composite of the three women in figure-hugging outfits with false nipples

    Met Gala
    Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala

  • a man and a woman sitting outdoors

    Building power
    Activists stage fashion show before Met Gala in rebuke to Bezos and Amazon: ‘The people behind the smile’

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    Leading questions
    double quotation markMy son is moving out. I’m happy for him but I’m bereft. How can I stop feeling so terrible?

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    Life and style
    ‘It’s a tiny bit of joy!’ How trinket swapping is making the world a happier place, one china sheep at a time

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    A moment that changed me
    double quotation markI was wary of men – then I found out I was having a baby boy

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