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  • The Digger disaster
    What an epic flop means for Tom Cruise and movies

    Tom Cruise digs a hole with a shovel beside a pile of dirt containing a buried Oscar statuette

  • ‘You can’t make this stuff up’
    Why Elizabeth Holmes still fascinates

    Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything

  • Muscles and male tears
    The pictures that changed the way we see men

    A Frenchman weeps as historic French battle flags are taken out of Marseille for safekeeping in 1941.

  • Rokhaya Diallo
    double quotation markFrench children have been treated like enemies for telling the truth

    Rokhaya Diallo

  • ESPN
    The producer who quit over gambling speaks

    The ESPN BET sports betting app displayed on a smartphone. ESPN launched the platform in 2023 as part of a partnership with Penn Entertainment.

  • Blind date
    double quotation markI accidentally called her Melissa

    James & Michelle

News

  • a man stands by a microphone

    Far right
    Key player in false Talarico rumor has history of online posts invoking Nazi Germany

    Ryan Amacher, who played role in bid to damage campaign, has also made antisemitic and racist posts on social media
  • A large crowd of young people gather to protest

    US universities
    ‘Is this too little, too late?’: Cornell students on school’s response to gang-rape allegations

    Students say the school is more interested in scapegoating fraternities than in committing to institutional change
  • A vehicle and a masked person seen from behind a car windscreen

    West Bank
    Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in West Bank

  • A woman in a headscarf.

    Ilhan Omar
    Ilhan Omar’s attorneys say federal search of her home was ‘neither justified nor lawful’

  • Police on the scene where a person drove a vehicle through a soccer field during a game in Wichita, Kansas.

    Kansas
    Two people, including child, killed after person drives through soccer game in Kansas

  • River in a canyon seen from above.

    Colorado river crisis
    Arizona joins Nevada to fight proposed cuts to their shares of Colorado River

  • Two police officers at the top of a sidewalk-level subway entrance.

    New York City
    New York City police seek suspect in fatal subway station shooting

  • A woman in shadow holds her cellphone up to a lighted image of Grace Kelly.

    Art theft
    Art dealer who sold forged Warhols sentenced to nearly four years in prison

Special report

  • Sunset over California town

    California
    Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California

    A modern-day prospector promised rural Imperial thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue – but his plan has set off a firestorm of resistance
  • Donald Trump holds a red cap in front of his face

    Donald Trump
    Insults, odd obsessions and rambling thoughts: a week in Trump rallies

    President has hit red states to drum up Republican support – and his increasingly strange performances are on full display
  • Jon ossoff

    Midterms
    Jon Ossoff’s rise to US Senate was meteoric – how high can he go?

  • Rev William Barber II speaks at a microphone beside a 'Vote Early' sign outside the US supreme court.

    Building power
    ‘Too big to rig’: No Kings movement heads to the polls to boost early voting

In focus

  • Two people sit close together holding lit candles during a vigil crowd at night

    Oregon school shooting
    After the unimaginable happens, an Oregon town mourns: ‘You can’t stop thinking about the kids’

    A shooting at an elementary school in Bend on Thursday left three children and one teacher dead
  • Clockwise from top left: Kimberly Guilfoyle, Katie Zacharia, Lori Chavez-Deremer, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard

    Analysis
    All the president’s women: a familiar downward trajectory on Trump’s team

  • Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara rests his hand on his head amid his blue-inked drawings

    Miami
    ‘I spent five years with criminals’: dissident Cuban artist embraces new life in US after prison release

Features

  • Charles Burnett rests his head on his hand, with a younger man standing behind him

    Film
    ‘Sometimes it’s not perfect, but it works’: film-maker Charles Burnett on his chronicling of Black working-class life

  • people stand in a garden

    Philadelphia
    The people who are transforming Philly’s vacant lots into green spaces

More features

  • Sophie Cunningham on a basketball court as a fan holds a sign reading "Protect Trans Kids"

    Building power
    The right is pushing its anti-trans fury on the WNBA. Players and fans are loudly pushing back

  • A vintage plane in a cloudy sky above a mountain range

    Fasten your seatbelts
    Hiding in plane sight: the invisible turbulence that can strike out of a clear blue sky

  • 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' TV show premiere, New York, USA - 23 Aug 2022Mandatory Credit: Photo by Photo Image Press/REX/Shutterstock (13154739m) Charlie Vickers 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' TV show premiere, New York, USA - 23 Aug 2022

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Charlie Vickers: ‘Tom Cruise cheated at freediving – that’s the headline’

  • Geddes sat in room working on laptop and looking a smartphone

    Cybercrime
    Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline

  • Wijdan Abu Matar poses with seven of her eight children, five girls and two boys of varying ages. The youngest is a girl of about five or six with three girls who appear to be from their mid to late teens.

    Gaza
    ‘I cannot carry all of this alone’: the couples kept apart by the war in Gaza

  • Will and Garrett Huxley in Granada, Spain in 2008

    The moment I knew
    For Valentine’s Day he gave me a heart covered in fake blood. I was appalled – and thrilled

Opinion

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markMove over, pervert glasses – the latest toxic trend is robogroping

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women
  • Rokhaya Diallo

    double quotation markFrench schoolchildren have been treated like enemies to be crushed – for telling the truth

    Rokhaya Diallo
    To protest against shameful conditions in schools is entirely legitimate. The government’s response is not, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo
  • Two metal film reels with unspooled film strips rest together against a red background

    double quotation markThe hill I will die on: Cinemas have been getting away with lies. Films should begin on time

    Jeffrey Ingold
  • Phillip Inman

    double quotation markWhy Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI

    Phillip Inman

More opinion

  • Emma Beddington

    double quotation markWomen just want to work out in peace. Why all the thigh-rubbing lechery?

    Emma Beddington
  • Jonathan Freedland

    double quotation markOf course Trump is helping Russia in Ukraine – he’s a master of the art of betrayal

    Jonathan Freedland
  • A flag reading "Reparations Now!" flies above buildings during a Windrush commemoration event

    double quotation markAs King Charles heads to the Caribbean, he should know what Winston Churchill admitted to 90 years ago

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • Mark McDonald

    double quotation markThe Letby public inquiry will lead to more blame and suspicion in the NHS – and patients will be less safe

    Mark McDonald

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    Banks: too big to fail cannot mean too big to tax

  • The Guardian view
    Winnie-the-Pooh: now we are 100

Sports

  • COLLEGE FOOTBALL: OCT 17 Auburn at GeorgiaKicker Alex McPherson #38 of the Auburn Tigers celebrates following the college football game between the Auburn Tigers and the Georgia BulldogsAuburn kicker Alex McPherson celebrates after kicking the game-winning field goal in the Tigers’ 27-24 upset of No 1 Georgia at Sanford Stadium in Athens on Saturday on October 17, 2026, at Sanford Stadium in Athens, GA.

    College football
    Auburn stun No 1 Georgia on last-gasp field goal as top-ranked teams fall in successive weeks

  • Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts speaks to reporters after last Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London.

    Philadelphia Eagles
    Hurts placed on injured reserve after quarterback diagnosed with blood clot

  • The ESPN BET sports betting app displayed on a smartphone. ESPN launched the platform in 2023 as part of a partnership with Penn Entertainment.

    US sports media
    The ESPN producer who quit over gambling – and the stories she says went untold

More sports

  • Daniel Dubois lands a blow on Fabio Wardley at the O2 Arena.

    Boxing
    Dubois delivers devastating second-round stoppage of Wardley to retain WBO title

  • AFC Champions League Elite - Al Nassr v Neftchi FerganaSoccer Football - AFC Champions League Elite - Al Nassr v Neftchi Fergana - Al Awwal Park, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - October 12, 2026 Al Nassr's Cristiano Ronaldo walks out with a young mascot before the match REUTERS/Stringer

    Saudi Arabia and sport
    Houthi conflict casts shadow as Saudi Arabia scales back sporting pipe dreams

  • Javier Tebas

    Soccer
    Real Madrid demand La Liga president resign over Goebbels comparison

  • Mikel Arteta

    Arsenal
    Arteta defends job cuts to help club ‘evolve and create success’

More top stories

  • Rubble of a home under a clear sky.

    California
    Six homes burned and two firefighters injured in fast-moving California wildfire

  • Two older men in front of a US flag

    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk agrees to settle lawsuits over 2024 election lottery

  • Pope Leo waving from the window of a car

    Pope Leo XIV
    Pope discharged from hospital after cancer operation

  • A woman in a white hoody and sunglasses surrounded by people.

    New York
    Selma Blair ‘did not intend to harm anyone’ during airplane incident, representatives say

Climate crisis & environment

  • A puffin sitting on a cliff with daisies and grass

    Birds
    How the quirky puffin became a symbol of the climate crisis – and hope

  • People participate in typhoon survival training in Hangzhou

    China
    China’s tourists flock to experience a pretend typhoon as ‘dark tourism’ flourishes

  • Split image: storm waves damage a seaside home; a man walks past a "Vote Here" sign

    Climate
    US voters want more action on global heating. Why are Democrats and Republicans staying silent?

  • A tawaki sitting on a rock

    Wildlife
    Uncovering the secrets of New Zealand’s elusive ‘jungle penguins’

US news

  • Pennsylvania
    CDC to send ‘disease detective’ to help tackle Pennsylvania measles outbreak

  • New Mexico
    Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge

  • Trump administration
    Trump administration threatens California officials if noncitizens vote in midterms

  • Georgia
    Trump in Georgia falsely claims election of Jon Ossoff was illegitimate

World news

  • Yemen
    UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains

  • Not cool
    Who hacked France’s supermarket fridges?

  • UK
    Russell Brand’s trial: what we’ve heard and seen so far

  • Business
    'Countries are defying gravity at all income levels': how long can global economy resist chaos?

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Culture

  • Tom Cruise digs a hole with a shovel beside a pile of dirt containing a buried Oscar statuette

    The Digger disaster
    What an epic movie flop means for Tom Cruise and Hollywood

  • Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything

    Film
    ‘You can’t make this stuff up’: why we remain fascinated by Elizabeth Holmes

What to watch

  • Jonathan Glazer

    NAZA
    Jonathan Glazer was ‘shocked into silence’ by NAZA documentary

  • Billy Magnussen stars as tech billionaire Duncan Park in The Audacity.

    Television
    The Audacity: this witty tech-bro takedown from a Succession writer is packed with glorious one-liners

  • Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor discuss their documentary NAZA, which exposes the AI systems the Israeli military uses to rain down strikes on Gaza, killing thousands of civilians

    Today in Focus
    NAZA: the film Israel does not want you to see

    Video44:17
  • Poldark poster: a man's portrait towers above an embracing couple, framed by ships and foliage

    My cultural awakening
    Poldark’s resilience helped me turn round my business

What to listen to

  • Fontaines DC, with frontman Grian Chatten, centre.

    Fontaines DC
    ‘The mainstream has come to them’: how did Fontaines DC go from Dublin dive bars to headlining stadiums?

  • Pieces of me: Stephen Street, music producer. Records, Tamla Motown singles

    The Guide
    Your favourite record labels, from Motown to Flying Nun

    Newsletter
  • Shygirl, with red corkscrew hair and wearing a grey ribbed dress, reclines on the bare ground

    Shygirl
    ‘I need to prove my family’s sacrifice was worth it’: how pop auteur Shygirl slogged her way to the top

  • Superfan, AKA Kali Flanagan, sat in a kitchen with his hand over his face

    Add to playlist
    The buzzy bildungsromans of boy wonder Superfan and the week’s best new tracks

What to read

  • Elif Shafak.

    Books
    ‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis

  • A collage shows a frost-covered bearded man beside soldiers, a ship and shipping containers

    Five Great Reads
    Cocaine nation, a 28-year walk home, and Americans give their verdict on Trump

    Newsletter
  • John Green

    The books of my life
    John Green: ‘I devoured the Sweet Valley High books in the 1980s’

  • Overhead view of two amber glasses and scattered Omega-3 capsules on a green surface in sunlight

    Science
    Make Me Well by Xand van Tulleken – an eye-opening takedown of wellness myths

What to play

  • A penguin stands on snow near a glowing orb beside dark statue-like silhouettes in icy fog

    Games
    Penguin Colony review – an Antarctic odyssey of Nazis and Lovecraftian horrors

  • Rainbow Six Tactics art: four armoured soldiers with guns and a hammer advance through smoky rubble

    Games
    From Mario to machine guns: how Ubisoft Paris made Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Tactics

  • A boy reaches up to a glowing arcade machine in a row of retro video game cabinets

    Pushing Buttons
    Ready player one? Why the games arcade is having a rebirth

    Newsletter
  • Belmont's Curse screenshot: a warrior with orange hair and a teal cloak gazes intensely

    Games
    Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse review – every fantastical vampire-hunting vision is fulfilled

More culture

  • Isabel Allende smiles as she holds the Premio Planeta trophy while King Felipe VI shakes her by the hand and Queen Letizia looks on, applauding

    Books
    Isabel Allende wins €1m Spanish literary prize under pseudonym

  • Isabela Coracy and Ebony Thomas in Ingoma by Mthuthuzeli November from Ballet Black At 25 at Sadler's Wells

    Photography
    Always on pointe: the bold and beautiful Ballet Black

    Gallery19
  • A young shirtless boy in red shorts lies on grass with arms stretched above his head

    Smart shot
    ‘It feels like the light is pushing the darkness apart’: Gellért Gombai’s best phone picture

  • Lena Dunham has announced a surprise reboot of the cult TV show Girls, which had its finale 10 years ago, and which will now explore the lives of its four female leads as they enter their 40s. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian writer Rebecca Nicholson

    The Latest
    Why is Lena Dunham reviving Girls a decade on?

    Video11:25

Lifestyle

  • A Frenchman weeps as historic French battle flags are taken out of Marseille for safekeeping in 1941.

    Men
    Muscles, metrosexuals and male tears: the 39 pictures that changed the way we see men (for good and for bad)

  • An illustration of alphabet letters and two pieces of paper around a cutout photograph of Tim Dowling, with a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes

    Tim Dowling
    double quotation markA literary festival in Greece doesn’t inspire much hope – and sadly, nor do I

  • Fitness
    Do ankle weights really do anything? I wore them for a week to find out

    Closeup photo of woman in sneakers strapping on light purple ankle weights, against a blue and green background
    When a knee injury forced me to change my fitness routine, I added Sportneer ankle weights – and got a decent workout
  • a group of four suitcases against blue wall

    Luggage
    The five best carry-ons for travel – tested and vetted

  • a photo of the Holcomb oil can

    No-drip tip
    This dripless oil can is the prettiest thing in my kitchen – and surprisingly practical

  • collection of several colorful tinned fish containers against light blue background

    Tinned fish
    I spent months taste-testing 15 tinned fish varieties. These are the ones I’d eat again

  • A list of the best mattress toppers

    Mattress toppers
    The best mattress toppers in the US, for every sleeper

Filter favorites

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    Containers
    ‘The perfect food storage finally exists’: I tried the new Anydeli plastic-free containers

  • colorful bath towels folded and stacked on a sofa

    Bathroom essentials
    'Like a luxury bathrobe': I tried the best bath towels that make every day a spa day

  • A close up of two Lola Blankets

    Home essentials
    Skip the $275 Lola blanket. What to buy instead

  • Field Company No.5 Cast Iron Chef Skillet against blue background

    Kitchen essentials
    It's nontoxic and PFAS-free. Why I love Field Company's ultralight skillet

Well actually

  • A graphic illustration of a hand and a pencil curled in on itself, with bubbles with letters inside.

    How to start
    ‘A powerful act of imagination and self-affirmation’: experts on how to start writing a book

  • Rows of silver serving domes against a green and blue background, with a knife and fork in the foreground

    Deep dive
    ‘Try to eat really well, 80% of the time’: nutrition expert says healthy eating is easier than you think

  • Close-up of a statue’s outstretched hand

    Memento mori
    ‘You’re honoring a life well-lived’: embalmers describe their work (in great detail)

  • hippain-effectapp

    Call the doctor
    Do we really ‘hold tension’ in our hips?

Relationships

  • James & Michelle

    Blind date
    ‘Most awkward moment? When I accidentally called her Melissa’

  • Elegant Company by Gillis van Tilborgh

    Leading questions
    double quotation markI’m in my late 60s and in a situationship with a man I really like. I want more but I’m scared of losing him

  • llustration of a woman peering nervously from behind a half-open door with a figure in shadow behind the door

    You be the judge
    double quotation markShould my husband stop looking up menus before we eat out?

  • An iIllustration of a man leaning in to kiss a woman's neck

    This is how we do it
    ‘At our age we get to wake up and say: What are we doing today? Let’s make love’

Health & fitness

  • Chris and Pumpkin

    The pet I'll never forget
    Pumpkin, the rescue cat turned social media star

  • An illustration of a muscle man in a vest with blond hair.

    Fitness
    Is it true that … muscle turns into fat if you stop working out?

  • An illustration of an injection spurting out liquid in the shape of a brain against a pink background.

    Healthcare
    ‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring

  • A woman tastes soup with a spoon beside a window where a deer stands outside

    Health
    My relationship with food was broken. Then I killed my own dinner

Fashion & beauty

  • Alexandra Shulman poses with wavy brown hair in a cream and beige floral patterned dress against a sage-green background

    Former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman
    ‘Which book am I ashamed not to have read? The whole canon of classic English literature’

  • Alcaraz hits a backhand shot with intense focus during a match

    Fashion
    Game, set and tache: Carlos Alcaraz joins growing trend for a stylish top lip

  • Jeremy Strong wears a blue sweater and headphones around his neck as he acts as Mark Zuckerberg

    Fashion
    How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution

  • Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

    Fashion Statement
    Victoria Beckham, ‘duck face’ and onesies: nine things Zoolander predicted about fashion

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More lifestyle

  • A seaside town on a cliffside.

    Travel
    A Greece for all seasons: my autumn roadtrip through the Peloponnese

  • Close-up of hands typing on a smartphone beside an open laptop keyboard

    Change by degrees
    Decluttering your online life: how to get your digital house in order and protect your data from AI

  • An espresso shot pours from the metal spout of an espresso machine into a small white cup of espresso

    The Saturday quiz
    Which coffee chain was founded in London in 1971?

  • Illustration of a red packet of ready salted crisps, against a white background

    The kids’ quiz
    Why does my crisp packet puff up when I climb up a mountain?

Documentary

  • Dream of Birds

    What happens when a forest loses its birdsong? Following clues hidden in the sounds birds make while asleep, Argentinian physicist Gabriel Mindlin uncovers a hidden extinction – not of species, but of memory – and sets out to revive vanished melodies before they disappear forever

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