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US elections 2024
Trump rejects Harris call for second debate, saying ‘it’s too late’
Tim Ryan, former Ohio Democratic representative, says Trump is avoiding debate because ‘he is scared’

Marco Rubio
Activist with far right ties fronts anti-immigration effort linked to Florida senator

Middle East
Israel strikes targets in Lebanon as Hezbollah launches deepest rocket attacks since start of Gaza war
Israeli military says its jets targeted hundreds of Hezbollah sites on Saturday, while Hezbollah says it launched dozens of missiles at an airbase in northern Israel

In focus

America's dirty divide
‘Even the breeze was hot’: how incarcerated people survive extreme heat in prison

Saginaw, Michigan
The swing county in the swing state that could decide the election
Voters picked Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Winning Saginaw is key to securing Michigan – and the White House

‘Everything is left behind’
As Russians close in on Ukrainian city, families agonize whether to flee
In Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, residents have clung on to hope until the bitter end. Now many are saying goodbye to their homes

Spotlight

Donald Trump
Is Trump a fascist?
The US presidential election is neck and neck. But only one candidate has been compared to Adolf Hitler. Is it an exaggeration or based in fact?

Sean Combs
The staggering fall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs – from music mogul to criminal charges

North Carolina
A school banned Indigenous students from using their language. A century later, it’s teaching Cherokee
A precursor to Duke University once stripped students of their culture. Cherokee teachers are leading the change

Wildlife
Biologist Diane Boyd: ‘Wolf and human societies have intriguing parallels’
The grey wolf expert on the incredible distances the predators travel, why dogs are a kind of dumbed down wolf – and her most hair‑raising close call

China
Xi Jinping’s ‘gunboat diplomacy’ risks driving his bullied neighbours into enemy hands
Simon Tisdall
Chinese aggression in the South China Sea forcing countries such as Japan to increase defences and talk up an ‘Asian Nato’

Trump says he’s the ‘leader’ on IVF, but Republicans are blocking national access

Arwa Mahdawi

Thanks to Donald Trump, Apple’s new AirPods will make America hear again

John Naughton
The tech firm’s federal approval to turn its earbuds into hearing aids is one in the eye for the monopolistic US healthcare agency

Zelenskyy has a gamechanging plan to win peace. For it to work, Biden must back it – fast

Timothy Garton Ash
In besieged Kharkiv, I saw how Ukraine is approaching a perilous moment. It needs to decisively knock back Russia, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Boxing
Dubois demolishes Joshua in blistering display
Daniel Dubois will keep his IBF heavyweight title after a brutal fifth-round knockout of Anthony Joshua at Wembley

Premier League
Crystal Palace 0-0 Manchester United: Henderson and Onana make big saves in stalemate

F1 Singapore GP
Norris holds nerve to beat Verstappen to pole
Max Verstappen squared up to the FIA with a barbed and very public protest by all but refusing to answer questions in the press conference after qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix

Basketball
WNBA playoff predictions: can Clark lead the Fever to a shock title?

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Just Stop Oil
Retired priest speaks of ‘painful’ treatment by church over her climate protests

Environment
‘Catastrophe region’: Austrian city faces up to scale of damage left by deadly flooding

Big oil uncovered
Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds

Emissions
Sweden cuts tax on flying despite admitting it would increase emissions

US elections 2024
Republicans step up effort to change Nebraska voting rules to help Trump
Key figures seek to bring about winner-takes-all allocation that would give Trump all five electoral college votes

Ronald Reagan
Did Reagan pave the way for Trump? ‘You can trace the linkages,’ says biographer

US supreme court
Chevron decision adds ambiguity to cannabis law: ‘It’s a mess’

California
Cat lost in Yellowstone travels 800 miles to reunite with owners after two months

Japan
Heavy rain triggers landslides and floods
One person dead and several missing after deluge in Noto, still recovering from 1 January earthquake

Bipolar disorder
Metabolism and diet are linked to root of bipolar depression, say researchers

Naloxone
Australian demand for overdose drug naloxone more than doubles after spike in synthetic opioid deaths

Sicily
Fear of foreign actors prompts security request for wreck of luxury yacht

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Podcasts

Podcasts

Science
Live episode: will AI make a good companion? – podcast

Weekend
Janet Jackson on Michael and motherhood, Friends at 30, and Marina Hyde on the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen – podcast

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for a new season

Football Weekly
An episode from Women’s Football Weekly: NewCo, WPLL, and a WSL preview – podcast

Politics Weekly America
What will Donald Trump do if he loses the election? – podcast

The Audio Long Read
A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast – podcast

Today in Focus
How Lebanon’s pagers and walkie-talkies became deadly weapons – podcast

Music
Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music review – the racism that’s seen artists brutally ripped off for 100 years
Nile Rodgers, Ice T and Trevor Nelson join music historians to lay bare the horrific industry practices that have denied Black musicians millions. It’s just a shame it doesn’t offer more anti-capitalist analysis

Msuic
Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody: ‘20,000 people were giving me the finger’

Books
Isabella Hammad: ‘I heard Edward Said speak when I was seven’

Janet Jackson
‘I shouldn’t have listened to those around me’: Janet Jackson on Michael, motherhood and how she’s taking back control

Chappell Roan review
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Film
Streaming: the best biker movies

The moment I knew
On our second date he taught my son how to ice-skate – and my heart melted

Fashion
Shout about it: standout trends from the season’s key collections – in pictures

Food
Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for very easy cherry cake with pistachio cream

Ask Ugly
Ask Ugly: all of the ‘iffy’ comments about my gray hair bother me. Should I start dyeing it again?

Color perception
Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception

Well actually
‘I have a pretty carefree life’: four adults over 50 on being childfree

Sleep
Eating too much and working in bed: experts share 10 worst sleep mistakes

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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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From our global editions

France
‘Not all men, but a lot of them’: will Gisele Pelicot rape trial finally change country's attitude to sexual abuse?

UK
‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee

New Zealand
Jasper, garnet, sometimes sapphires: pocketfuls of treasure at Gemstone Beach

UK politics
Keir Starmer’s popularity ratings will bounce back, Angela Rayner insists

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Amazon rainforest
‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

Lebanon
‘We are isolated, tired, scared’: pager attack leaves Lebanon in shock
Anger and nervousness abound on the Lebanese-Israeli border as uncertainty surrounds Hezbollah’s next move

Food insecurity
Why unpaid US school lunch debt can prompt a call to child welfare services
Around the US, policies empower school staff to view an unpaid food tab as proof of possible abuse

Immigration
Is circular migration a solution to the crisis at the US border? Guatemala provides a clue

Donald Trump
With bombast and defiance, Trump stages first rally since apparent assassination attempt

A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at

Helen Sullivan

Ukraine
‘If they don’t die, our infantry will’: Ukraine’s pivotal battle for Donetsk

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Claude Monet’s views of the Thames
The artist’s series of London paintings are brought together for the first time in a new exhibition in the capital

Rural Australia
Harvest moon rises to meet canola season in Riverina

Photos of the day
Tennis legends, Naomi Campbell and autumn fog

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Portugal
Wildfires ravaging northern Portugal

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