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  • a woman's hair is blown by the wind in a parking lot

    Analysis
    Rapid intensification of Hurricane Francine is a sign of a hotter world

  • Elon Musk in suit points a finger

    Bots v Ballots
    X’s AI chatbot spread voter misinformation – and election officials fought back

    When the Grok tool gave false information, a collection of election officials sprang into action to tamp it down
  • composite illustration: the UK Serious Fraud Office doorplate, dollar bills floating around, the skyline of the City of London, mining drills and ore, and the eyes of Alijan Ibragimov, Patokh Chodiev and Alexander Mashkevitch

    The long read
    How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won

    It began as a routine investigation into a multinational called ENRC. It became a decade-long saga that has rocked the UK’s financial crime agency. Now new documents illuminate a case that has rewritten UK law and is set to end with a huge bill handed to taxpayers

Spotlight

  • illustration - concentric circles of meat

    Meat
    ‘Plants are trying to kill you’: why carnivore influencers claim we should eat only meat

    A growing crowd is hawking ‘beef lattes’ and chomping on sticks of butter, with some touting anti-vegetable conspiracy theories. Experts warn their diet is unsustainable
  • Writers, actors, and comedians gather in the dressing room of a television set in the 70s

    Review
    Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire

  • Painting: The Glass of Wine by Johannes Vermeer.

    Leading questions
    My wife’s drinking is way over guidelines but she never loses control. What do you suggest?

    Drinking can be hard to talk about but trying to subtly change your wife’s behaviour without explaining why will likely make her bristle
  • Jude Law

    The reader interview
    Jude Law: ‘Playing Henry VIII messed up my back. I’m still trying to sort it out’

    The actor answers your questions about football-spectator stress, playing down his good looks, and why he’d like to play Dickie Greenleaf in his 50s
    • a red feather cloak photographed from four different angles

      Brazil
      ‘A beacon of hope’: Indigenous people reunited with sacred cloak

    • Lily Collins as Emily in Emily in Paris.

      Television
      ‘Delightfully delulu’: in defense of Emily in Paris

    • Matthew and Virginia.

      How we met
      He seemed very nice and kind – and I really liked his hands

    • Ofm jay Rayner sept 24 final (1)

      Happy eater
      Toasted nori on Pot Noodle, sea salt on supermarket mousse… behold, I am the king of snacks

      Jay Rayner

Opinion

  • Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a presidential debate with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Kamala Harris was great in the debate. Will that be enough to win?

    Bernie Sanders
    It is important that Kamala Harris continues to define and expose Trump. But it may not be enough to secure a victory
  • Boy walks through rubble of bomb damaged buildings

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: a nightmare that does not end

  • Teacher from Gaza teaches students in the tent school<br>KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - SEPTEMBER 03: Students do homeworks after the lessons at their tent school, in which their teacher Alaa Abu Mustafa, whose house was destroyed in the Israeli army's attacks, gives them education in Khan Yunis, Gaza on September 03, 2024. The tent school was built on the rubble of the destroyed house of the teacher. Despite the limited and difficult conditions, teacher Alaa strives to ensure that primary school students are not deprived of education. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    By bombing Gaza’s schools, Israel is taking aim at my future. But it will not succeed

    Manar Al Khodari
  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump wearing a blue suit and a Trump supporter wearing a T-shirt that reads 'rope. tree. journalist. some assembly required'

    Why is our so-called democratic society suppressing freedom of speech?

    Laura Flanders
  • A sign declaring CANCEL STUDENT DEBT placed by activists near the US supreme court building.

    Americans over 60 are the fastest growing group of student debtors. That’s awful

    Gail Gardner
  • Sorry written in a clear blue sky

    Sure, I’ll hear your apology. That doesn’t mean I have to accept it

    Isabelle Oderberg

Sport

  • Nacho Fernandez of Real Madrid lifts the UEFA Champions League Trophy after his team's victory during the Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid at Wembley Stadium on 01 June 2024 in

    European football in rude health but Uefa should not rest on its laurels

    Nick Ames
    Report reveals eye-catching attendance figures and a thriving sport, but Ligue 1’s poor TV deal suggests nobody should get complacent
  • Lamine Yamal and Raphinha dance in celebration on the pitch

    Flick quietly getting it right in perfect start at Barcelona

    Sid Lowe
  • Erik ten Hag and Cristiano Ronaldo

    Football
    ‘He is far away in Saudi’: Ten Hag hits back at Ronaldo’s comments

  • Champions League draw

    Hate the new Champions League? Time to open your mind

    Max Rushden
    • Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes is looking to guide the Chiefs to the first run of three straight NFL titles in the Super Bowl era.

      NFL
      A three-peat should be impossible. But with Mahomes there is no such thing

    • Oscar Piastri (left) and Lando Norris before the Azerbaijan Grand Prix

      Formula One
      Norris does not expect Piastri to hand him wins after McLaren back title hope

    • Brighton &amp; Hove Albion v Manchester United - Adobe Women's FA Cup Quarter Final<br>CRAWLEY, ENGLAND - MARCH 09: Nikita Parris of Manchester United celebrates scoring her team's second goal during the Adobe Women's FA Cup Quarter Final match between Brighton &amp; Hove Albion and Manchester United at Broadfield Stadium on March 09, 2024 in Crawley, England. (Photo by Charlie Crowhurst - The FA/The FA via Getty Images)

      Football
      Brighton hope to secure Parris signing on WSL deadline day

    • Mikel Arteta

      Football
      ‘I want to do much more’: Arteta signs new Arsenal contract to 2027

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Climate crisis

  • A bronze dinosaur outside the Natural History Museum

    UK
    Natural History Museum plans revamp to become climate ‘catalyst for change’

  • the Pentagon

    Environment
    US lawmakers push to exclude lucrative chemicals from official PFAS definition

  • Oil refinery and petrochemical plant

    Environment
    Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds

  • A child carries a surfboard, the ground is strewn with rubbish

    Global development
    ‘Waste has value’: how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem

Around the world

  • Jared Isaacman peeking out to space from a hatch on the Crew Dragon capsule

    SpaceX
    Polaris Dawn astronauts complete first commercial spacewalk

    Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX’s Sarah Gillis exit capsule in slimmed-down spacesuits hundreds of miles up
  • In this his handout photo taken by Stephanie Branchu for Netflix on April 2, 2024, in Paris, Lily Collins, left, French President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte Macron, center, and Brigitte Macron poses for a selfie during shooting of Emily in Paris with Lily Collins, left, and Thalia Besson, right.

    France
    Brigitte Macron awarded €8,000 in damages over false trans claims

  • A woman wearing a black shirt and gold paisley scarf smiles on stage

    US
    Linda Ronstadt slams ‘rapist’ Trump for holding Arizona rally in her namesake hall

  • A bee on a flower

    Environment
    Scientists hopeful antidote can help protect bumblebees from pesticides

    • Business
      ECB cuts interest rate to 3.5% and warns of weak eurozone growth

    • Americas
      Peru declares three days of mourning after death of ex-president Alberto Fujimori

    • Health
      Junk food TV ads to be banned pre-watershed in UK from October 2025

    • Paris
      Notre Dame bells returned and blessed before cathedral’s December reopening

    • Italy
      Production of electric Fiat 500 halted for lack of European orders

    • UK
      Lucy Letby conspiracy theorists ‘should be ashamed’, inquiry told

Culture

  • James Earl Jones, actor, who is appearing in an all black version of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at Novello Theatre. Commissioned for Arts

    Film
    ‘It was a true privilege to witness his talent firsthand’: readers on James Earl Jones

    From memorable meetings to seeing him on stage, and learning late that he had voiced Darth Vader, Guardian readers remember a great and generous actor
  • Frankie Beverly performing at Wembley Arena in 1997.

    Maze’s Frankie Beverly united Black America with his everyman brilliance

    Alexis Petridis
  • Morrissey in 2018.

    The Smiths
    Morrissey claims Johnny Marr blocked new Smiths greatest hits album

  • Patti Labelle circa 1989.

    Ranked
    Glam, gospel and glorious grooves: Patti LaBelle’s 20 best songs – ranked

  • Ahir Shah, a thirty-something man, wearing glasses and a white shirt with a light brown sleeveless jacket over it, stands at a microphone looking upwards, with a blue-and-red-lit curtain behind him.

    TV comedy
    Don’t judge Ahir Shah’s Netflix special by its trailer – it’s among the best comedy out there

  • ‘Iconic gateway’? … the redesigned Old Street roundabout in east London.

    Architecture
    Total bollards: the iconic ‘eco-Blade Runner’ roundabout that became a grim £132m ‘abomination’

Lifestyle

  • Anna Wintour, centre, with Steven Kolb and Thom Browne in the Fashion for Our Future march on the first day of New York fashion week.

    Fashion
    What does the American dream mean in 2024? New York fashion week had thoughts

    Designers this season went beyond the Ralph Lauren version of preppy to reimagine American style
  • An illustration of a young child hugging her mother

    Halfway there
    Oily skin, body parts misbehaving: how perimenopause feels like puberty

  • Alex Karol eats oysters, holding a bottle of hot sauce, at an outdoor restaurant table

    Food
    ‘I’ll have them with hot sauce’: should vegans eat oysters?

  • A kitten stares at the camera

    Thursday quiz
    New kittens, new statues and Taylor’s Trump signoff

  • Madhu and Robert

    Dining across the divide
    ‘The UK rioters are career thugs, but I do feel some sympathy’

  • Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold review stood up partially open on a table.

    Technology
    Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold review: the ideal foldable phone design

Take part

  • people eat and drink at a restaurant while watching the debate on TV

    US swing state voters
    Share your reaction to the presidential debate

  • We would like to hear your memories of James Earl Jones.

    Culture
    Share your tributes and memories of James Earl Jones

  • Aerial view of Saginaw, Michigan.

    Saginaw voters
    Tell us which issues will decide the US election

  • Library with rows of books on shelves and empty chairs

    Books
    Share your experience of how libraries shaped your life

From our global editions

  • Single man in yellow shirt seen from back on top of hill looking at clouds of smoke.

    US
    Burned-out firefighters are fleeing the US Forest Service amid labour disputes: ‘We are decimated’

    As increasingly explosive fire seasons ravage the country, federal firefighters say their employer is exacerbating exhaustion by misclassifying their jobs
  • Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew.

    Ireland
    ‘They put Cork on the map!’: what the kids behind rap sensation The Spark did next

  • Simone and her brother Ugo

    Global development
    That’s me, Mum! The Nigerian author who wrote a book about her children … and joined a publishing revolution

  • Brown bear in forest

    Environment
    Why is Europe killing thousands of bears, wolves and lynx?

  • Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris during the presidential debate with Republican nominee Donald Trump.

    The US politics sketch
    Prosecutor Kamala Harris put Trump on trial, but the court of public opinion can be fickle

  • a man in a suit and tie and glasses speaks with his hands gestured

    US elections 2024
    Europe watches Harris-Trump debate for clues on direction US may take

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  • A view of a Tu-22M3 bomber of the Russian air force seen from the cockpit of another such plane

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  • Beef cattle standing in a field

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  • Arsenal Training Session<br>LONDON COLNEY, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 03: (L-R) Leandro Trossard, Raheem Sterling and Ben White at Sobha Realty Training Centre on September 03, 2024 in London Colney, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Tottenham v Arsenal, plus Pochettino going stateside – Football Weekly Extra

  • Illustration by Ben Jennings shows Keir Starmer holding an elderly man upside down by the ankles. The man's coins fall from his pockets – and they are swiftly collected by Rachel Reeves

    Politics Weekly UK
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  • Yellowing, transparent skin on a hand and forearm

    Science
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    Why Brazil is taking on Elon Musk – podcast

  • Nations League - League B - Group 2 - England v Finland<br>Soccer Football - Nations League - League B - Group 2 - England v Finland - Wembley Stadium, London, Britain - September 10, 2024 England's Harry Kane celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Toby Melville

    Football Weekly
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    Politics Weekly America
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    The Audio Long Read
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  • Models present Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's creation for the 2025 Spring/Summer Season in Madrid: a model wears large glasses, a white turban-style hat and striped shift dress, and holds a fan made up of big, colourful fabric flowers like a child's drawing

    Photos of the day
    Firefighting, floods and fashion

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Pope Francis waves to the crowd on the day of the Holy Mass at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu in Dili, East Timor.

    In pictures
    Pope Francis tours Asia and the Pacific

  • Shroomadelic sights … Mushrooms and Friends by Phyllis Ma.

    The Guardian picture essay
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  • 2024 MTV Video Music Awards - Arrivals<br>ELMONT, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: Taylor Swift attends the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage)

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  • Argyll, UK ‘One late summer afternoon near Crinan Ferry, flowering grasses were as high as a sheep’s eye.’

    Readers' best photographs
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  • Three African men with plastic basins search for gold in orange/red sand and water in Haut-Uélé province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Global development
    Scorched earth: how the search for gold has scarred DRC’s Haut-Uélé province

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