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  • people walking out of grocery store

    Business
    US grocery workers hit by rising prices: ‘We’re at the bottom of the food chain’

  • composite image of man wearing gray suit and black tie speaks while holding up index finger next to water dripping out of faucet

    Fluoride
    ‘The science of fluoride is starting to evolve’: behind the risks and benefits of the mineral

    With RFK Jr and a court ruling, conversation on fluoride, in about 72% of US community water supplies, has exploded
  • An image of shipping containers stacked at an airport.

    Explainer
    What are tariffs and why is Trump levying them on Canada, Mexico and China?

    Trump is now laying ground for a trade war with the country’s largest trading partners

Spotlight

  • An illustration of a girl reading a book titled 'Being That Girl'

    Ask Ugly
    I want to ignore beauty culture. But I’ll never get anywhere if I don’t look a certain way

    Beauty improves only some qualities of life and demands high investment of time, money and energy, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino
  • Shi Naseer for G2 - A moment that changed me "With my parents, on The Bund in Shanghai."

    A moment that changed me
    At seven, I saw the truth of China’s one-child policy – and felt my parents’ pain

  • Still from the Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

    Film
    ‘Don’t call me Shirley’: Watch five classic moments from Jim Abrahams comedies

    Writer-director was involved with a string of hits, including Airplane!, Hot Shots! and The Naked Gun. Here are some of the most famous scenes
  • A collection of images showing building work and how one of the beaches will look, with a huge cruise ship behind it.

    The real cost of cruises
    Paradise lost? How cruise companies are ‘eating up’ the Bahamas

    Another vast tourist resort project promising jobs and prosperity. But critics say such developments imperil the pristine environments they advertise
    • A loving young Asian couple sitting side by side by the window in a traditional Japanese style apartment, chatting and enjoying the beautiful nature Autumn scenics during the day

      Haruki Murakami
      The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a labour of love

    • Illustration portraying Alexandra McTeare

      The wait
      Bone-on-bone agony: the cruel reality of facing a three-year waiting list for a new knee

    • Margaret Moth (right) seen in Never Look Away.

      Film
      Never Look Away review – Lucy Lawless’s portrait of a fearless news camerawoman

    • black and white photo of a man aiming a gun

      Books
      ‘Most of these guys had never fired a weapon’: inside the FBI’s early hunt for gangsters

Opinion

  • A young child walks by a Google logo, in China.

    When will Democrats finally realize that big tech is not an ally?

    Zephyr Teachout
    • The US president-elect, Donald Trump

      Welcome to Trump’s trade war – where no one wins because everyone just pays more for things

      Greg Jericho
    • Gwyneth Paltrow, wearing a blue and white blouse, smiles for the camera in a head and shoulders shot.

      Can Gwyneth Paltrow save Goop with a bold new vaginal product?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • A woman in Beirut celebrates after the ceasefire with Israel comes into effect, 27 November 2024.

      The ceasefire in Lebanon doesn’t ensure a lasting victory for Israel, but does signal a strategic setback for Iran

      Bilal Saab
    • A wall of graffiti on a building, including an alien smoking cannabis, with several police officers in the distance.

      France has the highest cannabis consumption in Europe. It’s high time to tax it

      Alexander Hurst

Sports

  • Athletics - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 9<br>PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 04: Noah Lyles of Team United States celebrates winning the gold medal in the Men's 100m Final on day nine of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 04, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)

    Track and field
    Noah Lyles: ‘America has a winner’s mentality. That’s the good and the bad’

    The Olympic 100m champion plays a starring role in the second season of Netflix documentary Sprint. And he is still as outspoken as ever
  • Hunter Dickinson of the Kansas Jayhawks is guarded by Cooper Flagg of the Duke Blue Devils in the first half of Tuesday’s game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

    College basketball
    No 1 Kansas survive No 11 Duke after Dickinson ejected for kicking Brown in face

  • India’s Gukesh Dommaraju won the first world championship game of his career on Wednesday in Singapore.

    World Chess Championship 2024
    Gukesh levels match as Ding loses on time in Game 3

    Gukesh Dommaraju has scored his first win of the world chess championship over Ding Liren in the third game of their $2.5m showdown in Singapore
  • NFL: NFC Wild Card Round-New York Giants at Minnesota Vikings<br>Jan 15, 2023; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones (8) runs off the field after winning a wild card game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports

    NFL
    Can Daniel Jones be saved with the right team and offense?

    The former Giants quarterback had his career in New York cut short. But that doesn’t mean he can’t reinvent himself elsewhere
    • Ilona Maher in action on the rugby field, at the Paris Olympics, rather than on the dance floor.

      Olympics
      Ilona Maher, US rugby star, places second on Dancing with the Stars

    • Marta at the centre of Orlando Pride’s celebrations after they won the NWSL Championship title

      NWSL
      ‘Bring it home for Marta’: Moorhouse reveals what drove Orlando to title

    • Manchester City players look devastated after Feyenoord’s equaliser in Tuesday’s Champions League game.

      Champions League
      Gündogan says Manchester City's miserable form is 'inexplicable’

    • Tyreek Hill is one of the best wide receivers in the NFL

      NFL
      ‘Where all the internet cops now?’: Traffic citations against NFL star Tyreek Hill dropped

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Climate crisis

  • The Flame Towers in Baku, Azerbaijan<br>View of The Flame Towers and Caspian sea as seen Baku Boulevard at sunset day in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Environment
    Backroom deals and betrayal: how Cop29’s late $300bn deal left nobody happy

  • Protesters at Cop29 hold a large banner depicting a $100 note, on which Benjamin Franklin is wearing a gas mask. 'Pay your debt' is written across the note

    Cop29
    Cop29 deal fails to consider inflation so is not tripling of target, economists say

  • FILE PHOTO: COP29 climate summit in Baku<br>FILE PHOTO: COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev speaks during a closing plenary meeting at the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 24, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

    Here’s what I learned at Cop29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening

    Ed Miliband
  • hands adjust a small dish containing debris under a microscope

    Pollution
    PFAS and microplastics become more toxic when combined, research shows

Across the country

  • people with trump flags and cars on the side of a road

    US elections 2024
    Polls underestimated Trump support for third time in a row

    Chance, demographics or even people reluctant to voice support for Trump could all be reasons for discrepancy
  • Harvey Weinstein, center, appears in criminal court in New York, 18 September, 2024.

    US
    Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers file legal claim alleging substandard prison conditions

  • Anthony Odiong after his arrest in Florida on 16 July 2024.

    Texas
    Catholic priest accused of sexual assault fathered children of victims, court hears

  • a sketch of a men pointing his finger

    New York
    Rudy Giuliani tells judge he can’t pay his bills in courtroom outburst

    • California
      Dog who fell 50ft down abandoned mine shaft rescued by firefighters

    • US
      Trump announces more picks including US trade chief and health deputy

    • Immigration
      Trump border chief threatens jail for Denver mayor amid deportation dispute

    • US
      Terror suspect on FBI’s most wanted list arrested in north Wales

    • Georgia
      Car found in Georgia pond may contain couple missing since 1980

    • Organ donations
      New rule allows HIV-positive kidney and liver transplants in the US

Around the world

  • Gen Min Aung Hlaing

    Myanmar
    ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief

    Min Aung Hlaing accused of crimes against humanity over deportation and persecution of Rohingya minority
  • A customer hands over rouble banknotes and coins to a vendor at a market in Omsk

    Russia
    Russia’s rouble plunges to lowest rate since early weeks of Ukraine war

  • Joe Lynskey close-up in black and white

    UK
    Grave exhumed near Northern Ireland border in hunt for IRA ‘disappeared’

  • Ebola survivor Daddy Hassan Kamara outside his home in Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone
    Ten years ago Ebola tore through Sierra Leone. Can a vaccine drive stop history repeating itself?

    • Airline industry
      EasyJet boss denounces ‘illegal’ fines over hand luggage charges

    • Human rights
      British mother of Egyptian political prisoner to press UK foreign minister to take action

    • Germany
      Plan to cut Berlin arts budget will ‘destroy’ city’s culture, directors warn

    • China
      China’s CO2 emissions have peaked or will in 2025, say 44% of experts in survey

    • Brazil
      Bolsonaro allies nearly launched military coup in 2022, police report says

    • UK
      Mother who kept three-year-old locked in a drawer jailed for seven years

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq

    Today in Focus
    One man on his grief for Gaza

  • Manchester City v Feyenoord, UEFA Champions League, Group Stage, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 26 Nov 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Phil Oldham/REX/Shutterstock (14940173at) Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola dejected Manchester City v Feyenoord, UEFA Champions League, Group Stage, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 26 Nov 2024

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City trip up again as Arsenal shine at Sporting – Football Weekly

  • Illustration: Deena So Oteh/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda (2022) – podcast

  • Jack Curran sits on an outdoor bench

    Today in Focus
    The rise of ketamine addiction in the UK - podcast

  • Orlando Pride win the NWSL title.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    NWSL glory for Orlando and USA head to Wembley – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S8, E10: David Gray, musician

Culture

  • Fightmilk playing live at their album launch party.

    Music
    I set up my own indie label. From Brexit’s brutality to the joy of DIY music, here’s what I learned

    After becoming disenchanted by pricey but middling gigs, I rediscovered the underground and became determined to champion it. But the obstacles are considerable
  • Taking a line for a walk … Dorothea Rockburne’s Domain of the Variable (Y), (Z), 1972/2018/2024.

    Review
    Dorothea Rockburne – New York great’s first big UK show all comes down to one long, mesmerising line

  • Annie Kenney smiles as she is arrested by police officers

    Steve McQueen
    Steve McQueen photography exhibition offers fresh take on history of protest in Britain

  • side by side photos of woman with long hair wearing black and man wearing tweed jacket and black top

    Music
    Marilyn Manson drops defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood

  • two men in a cockpit with an inflatable pilot in one seat

    Film
    From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy

  • Moana 2.

    Review
    Moana 2 review – vacuum-packed Disney ocean adventure that will leave you cold

Lifestyle

  • Karam Sethi's lasooni fish tikka.

    Food
    Karam Sethi’s recipe for garlic fish tikka with cumin raita

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's roast turkey with ancho chilli gravy.

    Kitchen aide
    How can I perk up Thanksgiving dinner?

    Our panel of expert cooks’ ideas include a spicy stuffing, punchy vinegar or mustard, and one great tip for cooking the ultimate turkey
  • A group of young people jogging in tracksuits through a sun-dappled autumn wood

    Pass notes
    Health, happiness … and romance? How running could help you find love

    It’s a well trodden fact that running with other people is good for camaraderie, safety and our physical and mental wellbeing – but now it seems it’s fertile ground for dating

Well actually

  • Illustration of women in various poses with colorful clothing

    Well actually
    How do I stay healthy in my 50s?

  • Person with shirt off and scar under nipple reclines on bed in black-and-white picture.

    All about breasts
    ‘My scars aren’t a finish line’: three trans and non-binary people on how top surgery changed their lives

  • shoppers hold armfuls of items in a store

    The Filter
    Black Friday 2024: how to find a deal and not get ripped off

  • a cow is milked

    Well actually
    Wellness influencers love bovine colostrum – but what is it?

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    Extreme weather
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From our global editions

  • A worker pushes newly-delivered pork, hanging on a large rack, into a wholesale butchers

    London
    ‘End of an era’: Smithfield traders absorb news that London market is to close

  • A pregnant woman in a stripy top holding her stomach

    IVF
    ‘Doing it with no partner is easier’: the single women using fertility treatments

  • School jumpers belonging to students at Dongduk women's university in Seoul are laid out on campus on 12 November in protest against the faculty's plan to introduce co-education.

    South Korea
    ‘We’d rather perish’: protests roil South Korean women’s university over plan to admit male students

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    Romania
    Romania election: what next after ultranationalist’s shock first-round victory?

In case you missed it

  • two white turkeys stand on a green lawn

    Environment
    The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

  • Packets of fentanyl and methamphetamine which US Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico.

    Fentanyl
    Is the China-US fentanyl pipeline really responsible for the US opioid crisis?

    Donald Trump’s additional 10% tax on Chinese imports said to be response to China’s failure to curb its flow into US
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    Analysis
    Trump’s talk of tariffs raises fears of hit to economies worldwide

    Tariffs on Mexican, Canadian and Chinese goods threaten not just those nations but global economic growth
  • Fa'aoso Tuivale, 30, holds a picture of her three children who died in the 2019 measles epidemic, while sitting on their grave

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    The real cost of cruises
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  • A group of Cinta Larga warriors meet the media in 2004.

    The long read
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    Femicide
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  • Pillar To Post<br>Travelling 0049 "Connor" – Connor wears a designer tracksuit while riding his horse, blending tradition and modernity. The horse symbolizes heritage and rural life, while the Armani tracksuit and Nike Shox represent contemporary style and urban culture.

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