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  • Epstein head Main Image

    ‘Magic David called’
    David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein

    Phone messages and meetings suggest a friendship between Copperfield and the disgraced financier. His lawyers deny it
  • Samuel Alito

    Samuel Alito
    Upside-down US flag reportedly hung outside supreme court justice's home days after Capitol attack

Behind the magic

  • David Copperfield.

    ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’
    Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

  • David Copperfield Slot Machine Unveiling At The MGM Grand<br>LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 26: A general view is seen of the video screen from the slot machine, "The Magic of David Copperfield," by Bally Technologies at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino on June 26, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

    Revealed
    Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women

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    Behind the magic
    Former teen models accuse magician David Copperfield of misconduct

  • A Guardian US investigation is reporting allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour by illusionist David Copperfield. Testimonies from two women, both of whom are portrayed by actors, describe their alleged experiences and the impact it had on their lives

    7:39

    David Copperfield 'was in my nightmares'
    The women alleging sexual misconduct

In focus

  • Two people look at each other as they stand in front of a grey circular structure

    ‘People got carried away’
    The artist behind short-lived portal linking New York and Dublin

  • A group of young men carrying a banner showing two soldiers in front of a DRC flag, run through the streets

    ‘Bullet wounds are common’
    Crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma

    Robberies, shootings, extortion and rapes have surged since the Rwandan-backed M23 militia cut off the eastern Congolese capital
  • Smoke rises during riots in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday 15 May 2024

    ‘This isn’t a fantasy’
    Why is distant Azerbaijan being linked to deadly New Caledonia riots?

    Azerbaijani flags have sprung up at demonstrations in Pacific territory, while separatists from French territories have been invited to Baku

Spotlight

  • New York, USA. 19th Apr, 2024. Norman Finkelstein, political scientist and activist, speaks to a group of students on the lawn in front of Butler Library at Columbia University in Manhattan, NY on April 19, 2024. (Photo by Katie Smith/Sipa USA) Credit: Sipa US/Alamy Live News<br>2X2630B New York, USA. 19th Apr, 2024. Norman Finkelstein, political scientist and activist, speaks to a group of students on the lawn in front of Butler Library at Columbia University in Manhattan, NY on April 19, 2024. (Photo by Katie Smith/Sipa USA) Credit: Sipa US/Alamy Live News

    ‘We need to bring unity to this struggle’
    Norman Finkelstein on Gaza, ‘from the river to the sea’ and political messaging:

    New York University professor Nikhil Singh interviews the political scientist and longtime critic of Israel after his speech at Columbia University
  • The Ash Carter Exchange On Innovation And National Security<br>WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: (L-R) Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp, and Admiral Tony Radakin attend the Palantir booth during the AI Expo For National Competitiveness at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on May 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Palantir)

    ‘We’re the peace activists’
    My surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir’s first AI warfare conference

  • Cartoon still of nine poeple looking forward

    'A marvel'
    How did X-Men ’97 become one of the year’s best shows?

    What seemed like another lazy nostalgia cash grab became a favorite, with lessons that Marvel’s universe could learn from
  • Kaitlin Palmieri in the outfit she never got to wear.

    Experience
    My fiance died on our wedding day – and then I discovered his secret life

    It was like I was trapped in a movie – one with a hideous plot twist
    • Mohammad Rasoulof

      ‘Exhausting and extremely dangerous’
      Mohammad Rasoulof on his hazardous escape from Iran

    • Christmas Eve in Miller's Point.

      Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point review
      Charming hometown family study is extended party

    • Bangkok 2024

      Thai high
      The rise of a newfound cannabis culture – a photo essay

    • Man doing a headstanc

      Experts separate fact from fiction
      Can mindfulness really make you happy, lower your blood pressure and improve your sleep?

Opinion

  • man holding child's body covered by shroud

    I’ve never felt more disillusioned as a Palestinian

    Ahmad Ibsais
    • Robert Fico at a press conference with Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán, on 16 January.

      Robert Fico’s allies warn of political war – they will use it to justify the dismantling of our democracy

      Monika Kompaníková
    • A mass meeting called by the Communist Party in Union Square, New York.

      I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned

      Maurice Isserman
    • Gaby Hinsliff

      Sex education is now just another political football. For the children’s sake, the adults must grow up

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico visits Budapest<br>epa11082795 Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (L) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands during a press conference following their meeting in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, 16 January 2024. EPA/Szilard Koszticsak HUNGARY OUT

      Whether Robert Fico survives and resumes office or not, Slovakia stands on the brink

      John Kampfner

Sports

  • Tyson Fury poses on the stage before his fight with Oleksandr Usyk.

    Shifting sands and Tyson Fury’s £100m purse
    Boxing set for biggest fight of century

  • Christian Benteke is tied for the golden boot this season with 11 goals.

    MLS power rankings
    Christian Benteke has Zlatan-ified DC United

    The managerial merry-go-round has started to spin, there are concerns in Atlanta and the rich keep getting richer in Miami
    • Thomas Tuchel

      Live
      Tuchel to leave Bayern, final days buildup – weekend countdown

    • Jürgen Klopp at his first Liverpool game in 2015, with the European Cup in 2019 and showing his affection for club and fans this February.

      ‘We get punched hard, get up and go again’
      Jürgen Klopp on love, leadership and Liverpool

    • Lionel Messi also has lucrative off-field earnings in addition to his MLS salary

      Inter Miami
      Messi’s $20.4m income exceeds payrolls of all but four MLS teams

    • Harrison Butker said women have been told ‘diabolical lies’ about their place in the world

      Don’t tell Butker working women helped him win three Super Bowls

      Melissa Jacobs

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Climate crisis

  • Silhouette of nodding donkey pumping oil with buildings in background

    Environment
    Cop29 at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance

  • A Chevron gas station sign

    Chevron
    US energy giant to sell off its remaining North Sea oil and gas fields

  • DeSantis in front of US flag.

    Florida
    Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from state laws

  • Older white man, dark blue suit, red tie, looking off from a stage lit in red.

    Big oil uncovered
    Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

Across the country

  • Pay Day Loan Operations Tend to Have More Offices in Urban Areas<br>GAITHERSBURG, MD FEB 12: A customer leaves a payday loan store on Frederick Rd. in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The check cashing and payday loan services industry has thousands of branch offices all over the U.S. There are more payday lenders in the U.S. than McDonald's restaurants. There are various companies that offer payday loans for recurring expenses, unexpected expenses and paycheck cashing. The stores tend to be in urban and/or lower income areas. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    US supreme court
    Justices side with agency curbing predatory lending despite conservative challenge

    Court upholds funding design of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was under challenge by payday loan industry
  • Middle-aged white man in white shirt with Texas emblem on left breast gestures and speaks into microphone with rows of people in casual uniform standing behind him.

    Texas
    Governor pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester in 2020

  • Michael Cohen departs his apartment building on his way to Manhattan criminal court on 16 May.

    Donald Trump hush-money trial
    Michael Cohen admits to prior lies under cross-examination at hush-money trial

  • White man wearing blue suit and striped tie stands at podium

    Georgia
    Morehouse College faculty votes to give Biden honorary doctorate in split vote

    • West Virginia
      Candidate in hospital after snake bite as he removed election signs

    • California
      University president on leave after agreeing to campus protesters’ demands

    • Climate crisis
      Biden proposes end to new leases in US’s largest coal-producing region

    • Missouri
      Tiny fire department using 1980s gear surprised by $500,000 donation

    • Joe Biden
      President asserts executive privilege to block release of special counsel interviews

    • Florida
      Former T-Mobile chief denied bid to dismiss $100m defamation suit from Trump ally

Around the world

  • Vladimir Putin (L) and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands wearing navy suits, ties and white shirts

    Russia
    Putin and Xi announce plans to strengthen military ties in Beijing

  • Members of the Brazilian delegation celebrate after Fifa awarded them the 2027 World Cup.

    Women’s World Cup
    Brazil to host 2027 tournament after seeing off European bid

    • China
      Beijing to cut mortgage rates as part of plan to prop up property market

    • UK
      Man jailed for life after Israel-Gaza ‘revenge’ murder in Hartlepool

    • Germany
      Protesters vow to keep up pressure on Tesla as it expands gigafactory

    • China
      Social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’

    • US
      Museum curator held in Turkey over spider and scorpion samples is freed

    • Rishi Sunak
      UK prime minister rises up rich list as fortune increases by £120m

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Podcasts

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast

  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

  • Manchester United v Newcastle United - Premier League<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United celebrates during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Newcastle United at Old Trafford on May 15, 2024 in Manchester, England.(Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

  • TOPSHOT-FBL-ENG-PR-TOTTENHAM-MAN CITY<br>TOPSHOT - Manchester City's Norwegian striker #09 Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring his team first goal during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on May 14, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City have one hand on trophy and Villa into the Champions League: Football Weekly - podcast

Culture

  • Cartoon image of man wearing black glasses whispering to a pink unicorn

    ‘World domination is a big thing for me’
    Sunny Netflix cartoon offers simple pleasures

    Directors Jared Hess and Lynn Wang craft a solid piece of family fun with the tale of a pony aiming for success in disguise
  • Actor Tom Burke photographed at the Guardian offices, March 2024. First use film &amp; music

    ‘I did a lot of yelling’
    Tom Burke on socks, controversy and Mad Max

  • 2010, INCEPTION<br>JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Film 'INCEPTION' (2010) Directed By CHRISTOPHER NOLAN 08 July 2010 SSX92401 Allstar/WARNER BROS. (USA/UK 2010) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Hollywood should look beyond Star Wars and Lord of the Rings retreads for sequels

    Ben Child
  • Ian Hislop and Paul Merton pictured on the set of Have I Got News for You

    TV
    Have I Got News for You to launch in the US in autumn

  • Having survived gulags and concentration camps, Ludwik and Mirjam met and married in Britain.

    A gripping tale of endurance
    Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein audiobook review

  • Shaznay Lewis.

    Shaznay Lewis: Pages review
    All Saints star returns with polished second solo album

Lifestyle

  • sad-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m happily remarried, but am haunted by my ex’s long-ago betrayal

    Your first husband robbed you of a lot, and you have some mourning to do. But there seems to be a part of you that thinks you don’t deserve happiness
  • Nicolas Seydoux arrives for the screening of the film ‘Le Deuxieme Acte’ at the 77th edition of the Cannes film festival.

    From capes to plunging necklines
    All the fashion fun of Cannes film festival

  • Isabella Blow in a hat shaped like a miniature Chinese garden

    Fashion
    Will fashion’s flamboyant powerhouse Isabella Blow finally get her dues?

  • Benjamin Ebuehi's blueberry halva loaf cake.

    The sweet spot
    Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for blueberry and halva loaf

  • Styling: Melanie Wilkinson; styling assistant: Sam Deaman; hair and makeup: Sophie Higginson using Hair by Sam McKnight and Osmosis skincare; cardigan, Sezane; jeans, by Topshop from ASOS. Loafers and earrings, Jigsaw. Model: Els Wright from Milk

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    How to give the humble cardigan a sexy French Girl vibe

  • Judge illo 18th May - WEB

    You be the judge
    Should my mum let me drive her new car after I dented her old one?

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    Life and style
    Share your wedding disaster stories

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

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    Share your best recent pictures with us

  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

From our global editions

  • Slovak town of Levice where the 71-year-old former security guard and amateur poet Juraj Cintula had lived for decades: images for picture desk of neighbour and his apartment bloc --

    ‘He was not radical’
    Slovakia tries to make sense of Fico shooting

  • A worker is seen during clearing work in front of the destroyed building of the country guest house 'Jaegerstuebchen' in Laach, part of the municipality of Mayschoss, district of Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 23, 2021.

    Environment
    I’ve seen how deadly floods are devastating Europe – we are not prepared for what’s next

  • A lawn full of tents, with a handmade sign in the foreground that says Divest, and red spray paint on a wall beyond the tents that says All Zionists.

    Washington is pushing policies to combat antisemitism
    Critics say they could violate free speech

  • Andy Evans posing against garden flowers

    ‘My mum had to tell me I had HIV’
    The former blood transfusion poster boy campaigning for infected victims

In case you missed it

  • aerial view of trees and sign with blue logo

    Exclusive
    Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticizes Instagram

  • Masked Haitian police officers carry rifles on patrol

    ‘The gangs are in charge’
    Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defense

    With violent insurrectionists in charge of 80% of the capital, Haiti’s police cling to their mission in the face of deadly odds
  • A weapon on an armoured vehicle with the Russian Volunteer Corps is fired in Vovchansk.

    Analysis
    How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming

    Shortage of munitions, fighters and air defences leaves Ukraine unprepared to repel attack
  • A worker clears piles of spilled food parcels scattered across the ground in a lorry park.

    ‘Barbaric’
    Palestinian truck drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

  • Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday.

    Like a ‘civil war’
    Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

  • A child eating a meal at a table but also playing on a smartphone

    Fresh findings about obesity
    No screens at meals and insect food

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In pictures

  • Women travel in – and three men on – a battered car as the smoke from airstrikes are seen in the distance

    A snapshot of Gaza
    ‘Smoke and chaos’

    One of the first foreign photographers in Gaza, Sean Sutton – who was travelling with UK-Med – met Palestinians on the streets of the destroyed city of Khan Younis, in hospitals and in the Israeli-designated ‘humanitarian zone’
  • Tokyo Lovers, 2016

    Gold, garages and gardens
    Celebrating the female photographers of Photo London

  • Green frog with inflated vocal sacs mate in a pond in Rosny Sous Bois near Paris, France.

    The week in wildlife
    Amorous frogs, battling stallions and an overaffectionate jaguar

  • A quinceañera gets help getting ready for her party

    Photos of the day
    Art in a Zürich park and Putin in Beijing

  • ‘Creating space through trickery’ … Aisha Seriki’s Orí Inú, 2024

    Bowled over
    Photo London’s best emerging photographers

  • Nadiya Neschcheryakovy at her post at a railway crossing station in the Kyiv region

    Ukraine
    The families risking everything to keep trains running – photo essay

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