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    US immigration judges told to slash time given to people awaiting visas or green cards before being deported

    Exclusive: Mandatory training for judges also urged them to threaten attorneys who accept too many cases
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    Trump administration
    Trump’s ex-labor secretary drank on job and created ‘toxic’ work environment, report alleges

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    Maria Bartiromo’s lawyer denies she was fired from Fox News anchor role

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    Alcohol-related cancer deaths in US have more than doubled over three decades

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    Florida woman who fatally shot man to not face charges due to ‘stand your ground’ law

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    ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back

    In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?

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    Six people refused to get off ICE deportation plane – now they’re held in limbo in Equatorial Guinea

    Believed to be first US deportations to fourth country, six face ‘horrific conditions’ in Equatorial Guinea, say lawyers
  • Reform UK has suspended two senior officials after they were filmed in an undercover operation appearing to attempt to get around electoral laws on foreign donations, in a major blow to Nigel Farage as his party’s conference kicks off in Birmingham. Lucy Hough speaks to senior political correspondent Peter Walker

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    Such is the US president’s narcissism that he would see a Democratic victory as proof that he’s indispensable – meanwhile, his every decision spells calamity for voters, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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    double quotation markThe Trump White House’s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade

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    double quotation markWhen does rage help us, and when does it harm us? Ukraine has taught me the answers

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    Monfils takes final grand slam bow after US Open defeat to Learner Tien

  • Steve Ballmer shakes hands with Kawhi Leonard after a Clippers win at the arena

    NBA
    Will the Clippers’ $30m fine tame the NBA’s billionaire class? We’re about to find out

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    Germany urges EU to cut Russians’ holiday visas after sabotage attacks

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    Texas man sentenced to 20 years in prison over death of teen in 1980s

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    Cambridge University asks former chief crown prosecutor to open Arday review

Climate crisis & environment

  • Climate change denialists have found support in the highest office during the second Trump administration. The Guardian's fossil fuel and energy reporter Dharna Noor explains why such rhetorics could be dangerous for our planet

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    Environment
    Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan

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    Environment
    ‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching

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    US added 162,000 jobs in August, with unemployment rate holding steady

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    US military disables ad trackers on troops’ phones amid security fears

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    Missouri state legislative candidate accused of trying to plant cocaine on opponent

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    Health-tracking smart ring maker Oura to list on US stock market

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    Javier Milei: ‘winds of change’ support Argentina’s claim to Falkland Islands

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    Woman, 45, killed in Florence in seventh alleged femicide in Italy since mid-August

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    Man jumps out of first-floor window to escape kidnappers in Lincoln

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    ‘I didn’t know if I’d ever have sex again’: inside Sharon Horgan’s excruciating post-divorce comedy

  • Two boys and a woman sit on a mattress outdoors, playing cards near Jericho

    Film
    ‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza

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    Film
    ‘Like a tired boxer, battered by applause’: as Andrew Scott’s biopic premieres, Richard Eyre remembers Ian Charleson’s superb, near-death Hamlet

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    Film
    A remarkable documentary made by blind students: ‘We were stunned by the footage’

  • Several women lean close together, gazing out a train window with pensive expressions in 15/18 A Place to Heal.

    Film
    15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility

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    Week in geek
    double quotation markGal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of DC’s few successes. It’s a mystery why she got the chop

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    Music
    Katseye review – petulant hyperpop bops from a girl group in crisis

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    Music
    Chat Pile: Who Loves the Sun review – sludge metallers resurface with a slightly limiting alt-rock rebrand

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    Music
    ‘I want to go further’: Justin Broadrick on retiring Godflesh, playing with Phoebe Bridgers – and his new band

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    Music
    ‘Everything countercultural is doomed, isn’t it?’​ Sofie Royer, the bracingly brilliant pop star pondering life’s big questions

What to read

  • Louisa Young.

    Book of the day
    The Golden Hours by Louisa Young review – this continuation of the Cazalet Chronicles is a total delight

  • Simon Armitage.

    Audiobook of the week
    New Cemetery by Simon Armitage audiobook review – the poet laureate’s meditations take flight

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    Writers and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in August

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    Book of the day
    A Death of One’s Own by Terry Eagleton review – meditations on arriving at a full stop

What to play

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    Games
    ‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world

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    Pushing Buttons
    Grand Theft Auto VI is a phenomenon – but there is much more to the gaming world

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    Games
    Star Wars Zero Company review – joyfully absurd heroics with a tight-knit team of misfits

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    Autumn arts preview 2026
    Gems, ghosts and GTA VI: the biggest video games for autumn 2026

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    Film
    Latcho Drom director Tony Gatlif dies aged 77

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    Reader interview
    ‘I have an obsession with barber shops’: kd lang on her prairies upbringing, Patsy Cline and being shaved by Cindy Crawford

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    Ranked
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    Stage
    ‘The myth is constantly being told’: creating a live album on stage as tribute to New York

Lifestyle

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    Experience
    double quotation markI didn’t know I was pregnant until I gave birth

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    Samsung Frame Pro review: the art TV that lets you hang a Monet in 4K

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    Technology
    The six best e-readers in the US, for every kind of book lover

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    Beverages
    Making cafe-caliber java at home is possible with these six coffee-making upgrades

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

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    Travel
    I tested 26 packing cubes on 14 trips – here are best ones to travel smarter

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    Field Company’s new No 5 chef skillet fixes everything I hated about cast iron

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    Deep dive
    How do you define good health – and achieve it – in a broken US medical system?

Relationships

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    Blind date
    ‘She’s one of the easiest people to talk to that I’ve ever met’

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    The pet I’ll never forget
    double quotation markErnie the danger dog – who loves dicing with death

Health & fitness

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    Running
    Ultramarathon runners train for months, sometimes years. But what happens when they don’t finish a race?

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    Weight-loss drugs
    ‘Who knows what they’re taking?’: people risk the gray market for the newest weight-loss drug

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    Is it true that …
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  • Creatine has become the go-to supplement for anyone wanting to give their fitness a boost and build muscle. It’s even made it out of the gym, with influencers touting its cognitive benefits. But what’s the science behind creatine, and does the evidence stack up? Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Dr Justin Roberts, professor of nutritional physiology at Anglia Ruskin University

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Fashion & beauty

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    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
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    Fashion
    ‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

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    Fashion
    Infallible style: Pope Leo appears in Vanity Fair’s ranks of most fashionable

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    You be the judge
    double quotation markShould my girlfriend stop letting the recycling pile up?

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    The sweet spot
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