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LA cleans up and takes stock after weekend of defiance
California leaders condemn 'authoritarian' president for sending in troops as protests over immigration raids spread to other cities
3 min |
June 13, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
THE KING OF YOUTUBE
His videos are like the crazed imaginings of an 11-year-old boy. But is Jimmy Donaldson (AKA MrBeast) merely clickbait savvy - or an avant garde genius?
10+ min |
June 13, 2025
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Never mind becoming the 51st state, could Canada join the EU?
Joachim Streit has never set foot in Canada. But that hasn't stopped the German politician from launching a campaign to have the North American country join the EU. \"We have to strengthen the European Union,\" said Streit, who last year was elected to the European parliament. \"And I think Canada - as its prime minister says - is the most European country outside of Europe.
2 min |
June 13, 2025
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Fortune tellers didn't see it coming ... but AI is muscling in
When Whan consulted her new fortune teller about her relationship with her boyfriend, she was told that one half of the couple tended to be sulky, while the other would over-analyse things. The fortune teller recommended that they try to be more open with each other.
3 min |
June 13, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
'Smash the gangs' Securing borders or just a slogan?
The British government is desperate to show it is preventing small boat crossings, but its PR-heavy approach may cause more problems with voters than it solves
4 min |
June 13, 2025
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'It's a trap' The story of a mother, killed in seach of food
Reem Zeidan was terrified of being separated from her children.
7 min |
June 13, 2025
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Chop and change: laying down the law for a proper coleslaw
What’s the trick to great coleslaw? Chris, Paignton, England, UK
2 min |
June 13, 2025
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Eight years on, troubled by a city's grim history
Author and Charlottesville native Deborah Baker revisits the devastating events of 2017 and examines how they speak to a difficult past
3 min |
June 13, 2025
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World Service An arm of soft power that UK can barely afford to lose
Hours before the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered her budget last year, government officials were still in tense negotiations with BBC bosses over how much the World Service would be given.
2 min |
June 13, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Wilders' walkout creates uncertainty for voters
Ataa Bodin is glad the Dutch government has fallen. “It’s good,” said the 34-year-old Syrian who lives in the Netherlands. “I have a passport, the father of my daughter is Dutch but for other people it’s difficult. They can’t just go back to Syria like counting to three.”
3 min |
June 13, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Forget luxury escapes: a break is much more fun in a youth hostel
I've never been in a band. But I have been to a youth hostel with four babies, which is sort of the same thing. Everywhere we turned there was singing, selfies, strangers coming up to us in the street and women getting their boobs out - it was the Small Faces, but with actual small faces.
3 min |
June 13, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
'Enemy within' Trump's military trampling of dissent was only a matter of time
Donald Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation as Kid Rock’s American Bad Ass boomed from the sound system. He watched martial artists slug it out behind a chain-link fence. A female champion let the US president try on her gold belt. It was a night of machismo, spectacle and violence.
2 min |
June 13, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
SLASH AND BERN
I' think what Trumpism is about is an understanding that the system in America is not working for working-class people,\" says Bernie Sanders. \"In a phoney, hypocritical way, Trump has tapped into that. His quote-unquote 'solutions' will only make a bad situation worse.\"
9 min |
June 13, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Income hides inequality at Casablanca's finance hub
For centuries, Casablanca was a significant trading hub for merchants, given its geographical position between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
2 min |
June 13, 2025
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Hooting common Owls thrive in London's suburbs
It is dusk, a short walk from the big Ikea in Croydon, south London, and a barn owl is emerging from its nest.
3 min |
June 13, 2025
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Alison's world The graphic novelist faces up to midlife in this playfully fictionalised memoir
Alison Bechdel emerged in the 1980s with Dykes to Watch Out For, a groundbreaking weekly strip that featured a group of mostly lesbian friends. Since then, her acclaimed graphic novels have focused mainly on herself and her family.
3 min |
June 06, 2025
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I need to drop everything and get on with doing nothing, quickly
I am sitting in my office shed, marvelling that an email from a car hire company I last used six years ago feels entitled to employ the subject line DROP EVERYTHING.
2 min |
June 06, 2025
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Fire starter Springsteen's anti-Trump broadside divides fans
As the lead singer of a Bruce Springsteen cover band, Brad Hobicorn had been looking forward to performing at Riv's Toms River Hub in New Jersey last Friday.
3 min |
June 06, 2025
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A new Syria: sanctions relief gives the shattered country a chance to rebuild
The startled joy that greeted Bashar al-Assad's fall six months ago was shadowed by the fear of what might follow.
2 min |
June 06, 2025
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I wanted us to finish our journey on a high'
Saint Etienne are calling it a day after 35 years. They discuss their final album, turning down Cher's Believe and a career defined by friendship and invention
3 min |
June 06, 2025
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The museum of absolutely everything
Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture... our architecture critic is wowed by the V&A's new east London outpost for 250,000 of its mind-boggling artefacts
5 min |
June 06, 2025
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Over a barrel Shortage of sugar shakes Cuba's rum industry
It is a crisis that would have sent a shiver down Ernest Hemingway’s drinking arm. Cuba’s communist government is struggling to process enough sugar to make the rum for his beloved mojitos and daiquiris.
3 min |
June 06, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Whiz up or wing it? Dips worth doing yourself and the ones to buy
Is it always better to make your own dips, or can I just buy them?
2 min |
June 06, 2025
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How a tiny village was engulfed by a mountain
It took a couple of minutes for 9m tonnes of rock to obliterate Blatten-but as glaciers melt, such disasters are more likely
4 min |
June 06, 2025
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Time warp Romance is beautifully drawn in a tale of two couples whose lives overlap, a century apart
Time is layered in Northern Irish writer David Park's latest novel.
2 min |
June 06, 2025
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This is the modern world
A new exhibition celebrates 50 women who bucked tradition by trading parochial Australia for European modernity to create 'subtly subversive' art
3 min |
June 06, 2025
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World-first judicial vote is 'a blind date with democracy'
On a heat-dazed afternoon in Culiacán, the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, a speaker by the cathedral was droning through an advert for the judicial elections on a loop when a plume of smoke appeared in the sky. A flicker of agitation ran through the plaza.
3 min |
June 06, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Tough at the top Do rapid Everest ascents increase risk?
Sherpas in Nepal say the use of xenon gas and hypoxic tents could encourage inexperienced climbers to take on the mountain
5 min |
June 06, 2025
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The secret 'prisons' for disobedient women
Daughters and wives describe facing floggings and abuse in 'care homes' after arguing with fathers or husbands
5 min |
June 06, 2025
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As Canada shows, Charles is pushing boundaries as king
It requires an effort to keep reminding yourself of the sheer oddity of monarchy’s healthy survival into the modern democratic age.
3 min |