The Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility for plunging the legal world into chaos.

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Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki hold rival rallies as polls show them tied ahead of June 1 vote

We explain the ideology behind a recent attack.

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Virginia Giuffre, the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking victim who accused Prince Andrew, has been laid to rest in a private funeral. The mom-of-three, who was pictured in an infamous photograph with the prince and Ghislaine Maxwell, was found dead at her home in Western Australia last month age 41. Evidence photo of Virginia Giuffre (then...

The actress wore a sheer, beaded cream gown for the premiere.

Federal prosecutors should seek the death penalty for Elias Rodriguez, accused of a calculated double murder in D.C., with substantial forensic and video evidence, writes former prosecutor.

Sharing Champions League success with former academy teammates made it even sweeter for revitalised forward

Chloe Kelly can’t stop grinning. It almost looks painful to hold your mouth so wide, but this is a pain she will willingly bear and keep bearing. Four months ago the forward was on the ropes, her love of football gone and her chance of making England’s Euro 2025 squad slim. An impasse with Manchester City meant she had started one game all season and, despite their staggering injury crisis, it seemed there was no way back. Now, she is a European champion at club and country level, after a deadline-day loan to Arsenal was forced, in part, by a bold decision to go public with the way she was feeling on social media.

“I was ready to take a break from football completely,” Kelly says. “I’m just grateful. As soon as I stepped foot in this club, I found happiness. Renée Slegers, as soon as she got on the phone to me, to give me the opportunity to represent this badge, I wanted to repay her. From being in such a dark place to now, it’s crazy.”

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A competitive chef shares his top five side dishes for a perfect Memorial Day weekend barbecue, including stuffed mushrooms, bruschetta and watermelon salad.

More than 22 U.S. states and immigrants' rights groups sued the Trump administration to block the birthright citizenship executive order. To date, no court has upheld it.

Five years after being vilified for exploiting the migrant experience in her bestseller, the author reveals how the backlash inspired her latest novel

When Jeanine Cummins logs in to our video call, I am surprised to see that the profile picture that pops up before her video loads is the Spanish-language cover of her book American Dirt. I had assumed, given the vitriol that novel attracted when it was published in 2020, that she would be trying to distance herself from it.

For the first year after its publication, that was the case, she tells me from a light-filled, bookshelf-lined room in her New York home. “My husband would ask me every week: ‘Knowing what you know now, would you still write it?’” she says, and the answer was consistently: “No, I would not.”

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Minneapolis site where Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin in 2020 faces tense debate over how best to honor his legacy

Last May, Roger Floyd and Thomas McLaurin walked the lengths of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, passing a roundabout with a garden, and a vacant gas station with a large sign that read: “Where there’s people there’s power.” Though it had been four years since the murder of George Floyd, their nephew and cousin, respectively, concrete barriers erected by the city to protect the area still cordoned off the corner of the street where he was killed by the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on 25 May 2020.

Behind those barriers stands a memorial with a black-and-white mural of George Floyd on the side of a bus stop shelter. “That’s my blood that was laying there taking his last breath. What was he going through?” McLaurin recalled thinking as he stood in front of the mural. Flowers and stuffed animals from visitors surrounded the memorial. Roger said he was struck with a range of emotions from sadness to peace. “You think about the racist demeanor that these individuals had toward him, and it was just like his life did not matter,” he told the Guardian. “The entire space to me is just sacred.”

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Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson issue a stinging verdict on a cover-up that may have cost Democrats the 2024 election

Joe Biden mistook his victory in 2020 for a sweeping, FDR-like mandate. Officially, that was before age and decay caught up. Horrifically, for Democrats, in June 2024 a debacle of a debate against Donald Trump confirmed what Washington insiders had only dared whisper but what most voters had known: Biden should not have sought re-election.

Less than a month later, he was out, replaced as Democratic nominee by his vice-president, Kamala Harris. Now, Trump runs wild and Biden’s legacy is buried beneath a heap of unkind reporting – and bouquets of sympathy, after news of his cancer.

Original Sin is published in the US by Penguin Random House

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From the phallus on a Welsh hillside, to a huge portrait of Chappell Roan, these Strava runners, riders and skaters have been busy …

In 2013, I was in the worst shape of my life. Though I functioned well day to day, I was a heavy binge drinker and smoker. Unfit, obese and unhappy, on impulse I signed up to a white-collar boxing fight. I trained six days a week for three months, shifting three stone by fight night. Winning that fight was great, though turning my life around had been my main goal. After that, I started challenging myself regularly while raising money for mental health charities.

My first 24-hour challenge involved ascending Pen y Fan – the highest peak in south Wales – 10 times in a row during the dead of winter. It was horrific, but it raised lots of money, so next time I wanted something even bigger. Having seen examples of Strava art online, I thought that might be a good way to get people’s attention. I decided on a big run in the Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly the Brecon Beacons), an hour from my home, and chose November to coincide with Men’s Health Awareness Month. A giant penis seemed the obvious way to represent this, plus it was undeniably eye‑catching. I researched previous examples made using GPS mapping, all created on foot in a single, continuous effort. Plenty of them were three or four miles long, but I was aiming for something on a much grander scale.

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© Photograph: courtesy of Terry Rosoman

The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent

There is a stereotype that the natural political activists in academia are the humanities professors: literary scholars, social theorists and critics of culture are the ones who speak truth to power and fight back against oppression.

Yet scientists also ought to stand up and organize against the Trump administration’s attacks – not only the attacks on scientific research and integrity, but also the attacks on immigrants, on political speech and on democracy. Scientists cannot see themselves as above the fray but rather in coalition with other workers resisting authoritarianism.

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The president’s hawking of $Trump memecoin has sparked a firestorm of criticism over potential influence buying

Donald Trump’s push to sharply ease oversight of the cryptocurrency industry, while he and his sons have fast expanded crypto ventures that have reaped billions of dollars from investors including foreign ones, is raising alarm about ethical and legal issues.

Watchdog groups, congressional Democrats and some Republicans have levelled a firestorm of criticism at Trump for hawking his own memecoin $Trump, a novelty crypto token with no inherent value, by personally hosting a 22 May dinner at his Virginia golf club for the 220 largest buyers of $Trump and a private “reception” for the 25 biggest buyers.

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Blinded, beaten or jailed, some protesters are still recovering physically and financially from speaking out

Five years ago, on 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. During an attempted arrest, Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, cutting off his oxygen supply. The gruesome killing was captured on video.

Floyd’s murder sparked global outcry, launching the largest protests seen in the US since the civil rights movement. During the summer of 2020, upwards of 26 million people protested nationwide to condemn police brutality and demand racial justice. Rallies also spread across the globe, with some 93 countries and territories participating in the uprisings.

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Can a jaded lifelong Tory agree with a Green voter on immigration, second homes and Brexit?

David, 47, Surrey

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Eaton Corp and a former Christian employee reportedly settled lawsuit over alleged religious discrimination after Cunningham wore Bible-themed shirts during Pride Month.

As AI chatbots gain popularity for mental health support, experts warn of risks due to their inability to provide personalized therapy and professional medical advice.

The incident occurred shortly before 7:00 p.m. near the football field, just as the commencement ceremony was coming to a close.

President Trump criticized foreign countries for paying "nothing" toward the education of their citizens at Harvard and other U.S. institutions.

Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang’s appearances at Build event reflect software giant’s grip on AI industry

The sphere, according to social media page @Truthpolex, was spotted March 2 flying over the town of Buga, Colombia, before it landed.

The Church of St. Luke in the Field’s plans to erect a 4,400-square-foot building on the iconic corner of Christopher and Hudson streets -- on the same block as a swanky school -- complete with Narcan kits and free meals, to serve up to 300 hobos and drug addicts.

A cow swept 11 miles by floodwaters to an Australian beach shows the scale of destruction as severe storms displace thousands across New South Wales.

Two Israeli Embassy staffers — Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim — were shot in cold blood outside a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The killer reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” and declared, “I did this for Gaza” before firing again and again at close range. Read More

Universities are ground zero for the most virulent strains of antisemitism that plague the West today. But within them, some clusters are more problematic than others. Above all, the widespread antisemitism in university faculties of medicine and affiliated hospitals. Read More

Apple's iOS 18 update introduces remote screen control in FaceTime, enhancing tech support and communication by allowing users to assist family members from afar.

Benji and Ava have overcome the age gap and discovered exciting ways to develop their sex life
How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously

We don’t call ourselves a couple. We value our own and each other’s freedom

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Democrats need to figure out how to elevate new voices.

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Last week I was on retreat with brother priests at St. Augustine’s Seminary, perched atop the Scarborough Bluffs in Toronto. Read More

From immigrant roots to online celebrity, Dr. Mikhail Varshavski shared how he uses his platform to educate millions on healthcare while still balancing patient care.

North Korea has detained shipyard officials responsible for a recent failed launch that left a 5,000-ton North Korean naval destroyer damaged.

Some in the opposition say the only way to protest is to abstain. Others say doing so will let the government “say they won without resistance.”

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The president and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.

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The Black Lives Matter movement, kicked into high gear after Mr. Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, has given way to the politics of “white grievance” championed by President Trump.

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The party’s standing is startlingly low after a defeat that felt like a cultural rejection. What comes next?

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Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello is betting yes.

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In Sunday’s election, President Nicolás Maduro has called to elect a governor of Essequibo — a region that actually belongs to neighboring Guyana.

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I have many guy friends. Why don’t we hang out more?