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Hurricane Helene
Tennessee plastics factory staff killed in Hurricane Helene reportedly told not to evacuate
One worker said Impact Plastics managers would not let employees leave, which company denies

US unions
US ports brace for disruption as 45,000 workers strike for first time in decades

Walz-Vance debate: voters want to hear about immigration and economy, poll suggests ahead of TV clash

Vice-presidential candidates will go head to head in New York City in a crucial contest weeks before the US general election

In focus

Deadlocked: dispatches from an election battleground
‘This man is everything’: how devoted Trump supporters took over the Republican party in a Michigan city

Ohio
Overcharged for substandard housing: untold story of Haitians in Springfield
New arrivals in the Ohio city have been blamed for rising costs but reports suggest responsibility lies with landlords

Latin America
From pristine forest to prison fortress: why Ecuador is sacrificing fragile ecosystems to build jails
As murder rates soar, Daniel Noboa plans high-security jails in remote areas. But local communities are determined to save their ancestral lands and a fragile, unique ecosystem

Spotlight

Instagram
Dump, post, repeat: how Instagram became a social media junkyard
Our photo dumps used to be an aesthetic disruption. Now we’re just bending to the app’s will

TV comedy
Hello Hot Rabbi! Why Nobody Wants This is the TV romcom we can’t stop watching

Ukraine
‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning
Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, with deadly consequences for wildlife

Music
Kris Kristofferson: 10 of his greatest songs
From his most enduring hit inspired by Sinatra to the song that enabled him to stop working for a living, we pick some highlights from the late singer’s long career

Donald Trump is gaining on Kamala Harris in the polls. I have some theories why

Robert Reich

Daniels has changed the comical Commanders into a serious franchise

Doug Farrar
Washington’s first-round pick is having one of the best rookie quarterback seasons ever. And there are plenty of signs his success will continue

NFL
Perfect Goff makes history in Lions’ victory over Seattle

Pogacar delivers an alternative reality for the true believers

Jonathan Liew
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? With 23 titles in one rhapsodic year, the Slovenian has made an art of winning

MLB playoffs power rankings
Yankees and Dodgers are top of the pack
Every team in the postseason has flaws, which should lead to an open scrap for the World Series. We run down the 12 contenders in October

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Environment
EPA will withdraw approval of Chevron plastic-based fuels likely to cause cancer

Food
Scientists criticize UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report

Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene’s ‘historic flooding’ made worse by global heating, Fema says

Climate crisis
Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

Louisiana
Doctors issue stark warning as Louisiana reclassifies abortion pills
Officials class mifepristone and misoprostol as ‘controlled substances’ – which medics say could imperil women’s lives

Pollution
‘Pattern of negligence’: a chemical plant fire in Georgia forces tens of thousands to take shelter

Montana
US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting

Boeing
US officials say 40 airlines may be using Boeing 737s with suspect rudder parts

Julian Assange
Julian Assange says he ‘chose freedom over unrealisable justice’
WikiLeaks founder says he pleaded ‘guilty to journalism’ in deal for his release and calls for protection of press freedom

Italy
Harry’s Bar owner sues Venice city council over waves from speeding boats

Northern Ireland
Cruise ship stuck in Belfast for four months to return hours after leaving

Art and design
Painting found by junk dealer in cellar is original Picasso, experts claim

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Podcasts

Podcasts

The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
One-nil to the Arsenal, Manchester City and United – Women’s Football Weekly

The Audio Long Read
Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read – podcast

Today in Focus
Will Hezbollah survive Israel’s onslaught? – podcast

Science
End of an era: Britain finally says goodbye to coal – podcast

Politics Weekly UK
Kemi Badenoch dominates as Tory conference starts – Politics Weekly Westminster

Football Weekly
What now for Manchester United after another new low? – Football Weekly podcast

The Audio Long Read
Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth – podcast

Film
Fountain of youth: The Substance and movies’ obsession with fictional drugs
As the Demi Moore body horror shows, the made-up likes of melange, substance, black meat or adrenochrome reflect our preoccupation with staying young

Film
Fatal Instinct: the lewd, kitschy, erotic-thriller spoof that gets better as you get older

Games
Apartment Story review – an entrancing slice-of-life game about the monotony of modern adult life

Music
Las Vegas radio stations ban Green Day after frontman calls city ‘the worst shithole in America’

Film
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror

What we're reading
Writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Fashion
Unflappable Chanel in no hurry to find new designer amid continuity in Paris

Kitchen aide
Can you reliably scale recipes up and down?
Actually, the answer is not quite as straightforward as you might think …

Fitness
The electrolytes boom: a wonder supplement – or an unnecessary expense?
Everyone from triathletes to YouTubers is singing the praises of the super-hydrating mineral additives. Here are the benefits and disadvantages

Parenting
The mothers who regret having kids: ‘I wished I were holding a cat and not a baby’

Well actually
Does red light therapy work? These are the benefits and drawbacks

Sleep
‘I definitely got a little loopy’: the writer who spent a week underground studying sleep

Productivity
Help! It turns out breaks make you more productive

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Frozen in Time

As single women, Lei and Abu are banned from freezing their eggs in China, so they travel to the US to pursue their dreams of motherhood

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Electric cars
‘Huge losses’: Sweden fears for future of batterymaker Northvolt

Domestic violence
Paul and Jack were murdered by their abusive father. Why had the UK family courts granted him contact?

TechScape
TechScape: Why the fake news confidence trap could be your downfall

Environment
‘We look to the past to move forward’: the ancient method boosting cuttlefish numbers in the Mediterranean

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The long read
Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world

UK
The deep history of British coal – from the Romans to the Ratcliffe shutdown
With the last coal-fired plant closing on Monday, we chart the rise and fall of the once-indispensable fuel that powered modern Britain

Exclusive
Kamala Harris’s economic policy slate more popular than Trump’s – poll
Exclusive: Harris Poll for Guardian finds Democrat put forward four of top five most popular economic proposals

Argentina
Parrots overwhelm Argentinian town with screeching, poo and power outages

Mexico
Triumph and a broken promise: Andrés Manuel López Obrador vowed to transform Mexico, but did he?

JD Vance
‘More Trump than Trump’: JD Vance becomes effective Maga messenger

Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms

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Photography
Bodybuilders, gravediggers and a pile-up of pugs! Group outings

Fashion
The eyes have it: Elizabeth Olsen in pictures

Music
Kris Kristofferson – a life in pictures

Photography
Honeycomb hunters and grief in Gaza: Siena Photo Awards

In pictures
Ten-year anniversary of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement

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