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  • Moira Donegan
    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนThe death knell of Trumpism has finally sounded

    Moira Donegan

  • US midterms
    Election night across the US – in pictures

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    APTOPIX Election 2026 Georgia GovernorDr. Theopia Johnson Tate, of Atlanta, poses for a portrait at an election night event for Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

  • Women
    Why tradwives are fleeing the movement

    A woman in a checked dress drops a red Maga cap into a bin filled with retro household items

  • New Zealand
    The night-sky image so incredible it was said to be AI

    A composite image shows countless satellite trails streaking above Mount Taranaki, New Zealand

  • Diana Berg
    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนIn Kyiv, we hardly noticed 'nuclear apocalypse' alerts

    Diana Berg

  • Stick review
    You need Owen Wilson’s beautiful golf comedy in your life

    Rhea Seehorn (Amanda)and Owen Wilson (Pryce) smile, sitting facing each other in a car boot

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Senate

Democrats*Democrats*54+7

RepublicansRepublicans44-7

*includes independents

33/35 races called

House

DemocratsDemocrats228+25

RepublicansRepublicans139-25

367/435 races called

Full results
  • People cheer

    Full report
    US voters rebuke Trump as Democrats win control of Congress in ‘blue wave’

  • Abdul El-Sayed

    Michigan
    Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wins Senate race to become first Muslim US senator

  • People cheer at election party

    Explainer
    Key takeaways from the US midterms

  • James Talarico celebrates with supporters after beating Ken Paxton in his Senate race.Democratic US Senate candidate and Texas State Representative James Talarico speaks after his victory in the US midterm elections during an Election Night rally in Austin, Texas, US, November 3, 2026. REUTERS/Mike Segar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Analysis
    Resounding wins for Democrats a wholesale rebuke of Trump’s Maga movement

  • Moira Donegan

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนThe death knell of Trumpism has finally sounded

    Moira Donegan

  • Politics Weekly America
    A blue tsunami wipes out Republicans

    Podcast31:03
  • U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol.

    Explainer
    What can Democrats actually do now they have won Congress?

  • James Talarico speaks at a microphone with supporters onstage

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนDemocrats need to not blow it

    Our panel responds to historic midterms

News

  • Election posters on lamp-posts in Pretoria

    South Africa
    ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections

  • Schools minister Georgia Gould poses with students and staff outside a Ukrainian school.

    Exclusive
    UK apologises to Ukrainian child refugees who were told to study Russian

In focus

  • New Zealand
    The night-sky image so incredible the NZ man behind it has been accused of using AI

    Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand
  • The three pose with arms around each other in the office

    Norway
    ‘We are a threat to Putin’: the small Norwegian news outlet with half its staff on Russia’s wanted list

  • A family harvests potatoes in northern Kashmir. But long-established farming practices may not be passed on.

    Environment
    Kashmir’s potato pits are vanishing – and generations of knowledge could be buried for ever

Features

  • A woman in a checked dress drops a red Maga cap into a bin filled with retro household items

    Women
    Why tradwives are fleeing the movement: ‘I can’t undo my past – but I can warn other women’

  • CJ Reay's Anarchist Prayer Quilts hang in a workshop, their bold slogans amid craft tools

    Art and design
    ‘May every data centre crumble to dust!’ How can we stop the tech bros, tyrants and tycoons? With quilts!

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  • James Bond and M stand on a misty hillside road in a scene from Skyfall.

    James Bond
    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนJudi Dench says Daniel Craig ordered her death. James Bond just got a lot scarier

  • The GreatestThe Greatest. Jaalen Best

    TV review
    The Greatest review – Amazon’s sturdy Muhammad Ali series is a tale told too many times

  • The CIA seal is embedded in the polished marble floor of the agency's headquarters lobby

    Books
    A Table for Fortune by William T Vollmann review – a hugely ambitious 3,000-page portrait of America’s decline

  • Two women in sport vests, wearing sunglasses and backpacks take a selfie with mountain peaks behind them

    A moment that changed me
    I was terrified of my own body – until a surprising 20-mile bike ride

  • Rhea Seehorn (Amanda)and Owen Wilson (Pryce) smile, sitting facing each other in a car boot

    TV review
    Stick review – you really need Owen Wilson’s beautiful golf comedy in your life

  • RemofiloeMayisela Lipservice

    Women behind the lens
    Women behind the lens: ‘I learned early what I was meant to become: a wife, a cook, a keeper of the home’

Opinion

  • Diana Berg

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนIn Kyiv, hackers sent fake alerts about a nuclear apocalypse. We hardly noticed

    Diana Berg
    As Europe erupts in furious protest we prep for a cold, dark winter. Rage and fear require energy we simply don’t have, says Diana Berg, a Ukrainian artist and writer
  • A farmed mink in a cage on an estate in Denmark.

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนThe next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it

    George Monbiot
    Mink farms are the perfect petri dishes for deadly flu strains to emerge. Yet officials appear to be protecting business interests over human lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

More opinion

  • An African couple getting married before a priest with other people standing nearby

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนCan an African feminist have a white wedding? It’s complicated

    Patience Akumu
  • Olivette Otele

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนBritish people don’t need to apologise for slavery – but the government does

    Olivette Otele
  • Rafael Behr

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนEven if US democracy can be salvaged from Trump, Europe is moving on

    Rafael Behr
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนDatacentres are deeply unpopular – so the geniuses at OpenAI are rebranding them

    Arwa Mahdawi

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    Apologising for slavery: a necessary process has at last begun

  • The Guardian view
    Labour’s growth obsession: a different economics is possible

More sport

  • Nations League trophies on display at the Tower of London

    Exclusive
    Qatar pulls out of hosting 2028 Nations Championship owing to Middle East crisis

  • Sergio Pérez driving for Cadillac in Mexico last weekend.

    Formula One
    Liverpool owner FSG holds talks over buying majority stake in Cadillac team

  • Tenerife footballer Jesús de Miguel

    Football
    Tenerife footballer Jesús de Miguel dies aged 30 after on-pitch collision

  • Noah Lyles smiles while carrying an American flag after winning Olympic 100m gold

    Olympic Games
    USOPC considering plan to sell stake in Team USA as LA 2028 looms

More top stories

  • A screengrab from a video shows a police officer and a sniffer dog inspecting a Ryanair airplane and its baggage

    Air transport
    Seven planes across Europe searched or diverted after ‘malicious hoax’ bomb threats

    Unclear if series of incidents affecting two UK departures and several Ryanair services, among others, were connected
  • Spain's transport minister Óscar Puente looks down with a solemn expression during an address to parliament.

    Spain
    Spanish transport minister resigns after deadly train crash

  • Russell Brand

    UK
    Jury in Russell Brand rape and sexual assault trial retires to consider verdicts

  • Gas flaring on an oilfield

    Fossil fuels
    Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels

  • Adult emperor penguins with their chicks

    Antarctica
    How penguin poo is making Antarctic snow melt faster

  • A herd of cows on their way to milking

    Farming
    Great Britain’s worst-ever bluetongue season ‘a major animal welfare crisis’

  • A man holds up a large fish at a market in Brazil

    Southern frontlines
    What a tropical fish can tell us about climate upheaval

UK news

  • UK
    ‘Well-known’ man fails in legal attempt to block Guardian and ITN publishing sexual allegations

  • Business
    Rogue UK energy bosses and brokers face crackdown on mis-selling

  • Media
    Broadcasters need content creators ‘more than creators need them’

  • Housing market
    Britain’s housing market unlikely to recover until 2028, says Savills

World news

  • Canada
    One dead and another missing in suspected grizzly bear attack in Canada

  • Stock markets
    US tech stocks recover after selloff spooks investors over AI spending

  • Donald Trump
    DoJ says Trump’s proposed 250ft arch would be completed after end of his term

  • This Is India
    The private creative world of Rabindranath Tagore, the man Yeats called ‘greater than any of us’

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Culture

  • Kathryn Hunter rests her chin on her fist, wearing a black and white striped tracksuit

    Culture
    ‘Every family has silences’: Kathryn Hunter on despair, desire, dislodgeable limbs – and her acting genius

  • A person in a red shirt lies draped over a large round hay bale, with a small dog nearby

    Photography
    Roll with it! This year’s best portrait photography – in pictures

    Gallery21

What to watch

  • Ella Lily Hyland (Bridget) and Casey Walsh (Paul) sit worried in a car as Aidan Gillen (Grinner) sleeps between them

    TV review
    Tall Tales and Murder review – this Irish version of The Wire makes for mile-a-minute TV

  • Hannah Walters, wearing a headset microphone and green jumper, looks thoughtfully to the side

    Film
    Amazing Grace review – blazing Hannah Walters struggles to save a lonely caller at the end of his tether

  • Omar Sy in Lupin season 4 on Netflix

    Stream team
    Lupin is back! Omar Sy is ridiculously watchable and effortlessly charming as a blindingly brilliant thief

  • Sissy Spacek in Carrie putting on mascara

    Film
    Carrie at 50: Brian De Palma’s fiery masterpiece still has the power

What to listen to

  • Charlotte Church. Credit- Elliot Cooper

    Music
    ‘Music is the most powerful way of connecting to what’s happening’: can this album change your mind about the climate crisis?

  • Juan Atkins in 1995.

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนJuan Atkins built a cybernetic future for music – but invested it with humanity

    Whitney Wei

  • Today in Focus
    Sheikh Tahnoon: the most powerful man you’ve never heard of

    Podcast43:16
  • Ashanti on a red carpet

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Ashanti: ‘I’ve had a bodysuit snap off on stage. That was not my coolest moment’

What to read

  • Alexander Litvinenko in hospital shortly before his death in 2006.

    Book of the day
    A Life in Fragments by Marina Litvinenko review – intimate testimony of Putin’s poisonous regime

  • Sarah J Maas

    Books
    Latest Sarah J Maas book becomes UK’s fastest-selling adult fantasy novel

  • Poet Grace Nichols, in a yellow blouse and headwrap, stands before lush garden foliage

    Books
    ‘A trailblazer in the truest sense’: poet Grace Nichols wins £10,000 Pioneer prize

  • Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Fiction
    Lords of Serendipity by Randy Boyagoda review – a campus satire for this moment of crisis

What to play

  • A later incarnation of Lara Croft leaping with guns.

    How we made
    Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’

  • Draga, protagonist of Black Tides Draga's Wake, played by Dominik Diamond

    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนAfter 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one

    Dominik Diamond
  • Night Plane game screen shows a figure in the aisle of a plane with text onscreen reading 'Hey Bestie You Gotta Run! Ruuun!

    Review
    Night Plane – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror game

  • A blocky Minecraft character glides with a large orange and white Fortnite-style glider over terrain

    Pushing Buttons
    Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?

    Newsletter

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  • Scene in a hamam, about 1809. Anonymous Greek artist © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

    Review
    Constantinople to Istanbul review – you won’t want to leave this lavish celebration of double imperial splendour

  • A screen shows the AI-made film 'Sanxingdui: Future Past' at a cinema in Beijing, China

    Film
    China’s first AI-generated film is a flop. Some still see it as the future of cinema

  • Louise Cansot portrait

    Prix Goncourt
    True crime novel about 1949 murder of Paris life model wins France’s biggest literary prize

  • Photograph of Duncan Grant as a Spanish Dancer taken by Vanessa Bell, copyright The Charleston Trust

    Art
    ‘The output of a lunatic asylum’: what the Bloomsbury group can tell us about mental health

Lifestyle

  • A near-empty metallic tube of eye cream lies next to its lid on a taupe background

    Beauty
    Sali Hughes on beauty: eye creams that are worth using down to the last drop

  • Two cherry-topped iced buns arranged like eyes above a drawn frowning mouth on blue background.

    Well actually
    ‘The nipple touch of doom’: what is sad nipple syndrome and what causes it?

Food

  • Ravinder Bhogal's turnip sabzi.

    Food
    Tandoori celeriac, kale saag paneer and turnip sabzi: Ravinder Bhogal’s vegetarian recipes for Diwali

  • A skillet holds pasta sheets, mozzarella, and sausage ragù sauce, with a fork resting inside

    Kitchen aide
    Wanted: sausage dinners for autumn

  • Jose PIzarro's mussels with cider.

    Food
    José Pizarro’s recipe for mussels with cider, chorizo and apple

  • Georgina Hayden's sundried assassin's spaghetti.

    Quick and easy
    Georgina Hayden’s recipe for sun-dried tomato assassin’s spaghetti

Fashion & beauty

  • A model wearing a pink raincoat and black rain hat tilts her face upward in side profile amid colourful raindrops

    Dripping with style
    What fashion insiders wear in the rain – plus we pick the best raincoats and accessories

  • Four coats are displayed side by side: a green wool coat, orange hooded jacket, red patterned coat, and brown leather jacket

    The Filter UK
    Faux fur, funnel necks and timeless wool: the 47 best women’s coats for autumn and winter

  • Law Roach in a black suit and Zendaya in a blue dress and fascinator.

    Fashion industry
    A-listers and AI stylists: how high-street brands are staging a fashion comeback

  • Polow Lynn, 47, finishes the New York City Marathon in New York City on Sunday, November 1, 2026.

    The Filter US
    Sweaty, triumphant and decked out in neon: I asked NYC Marathon runners what they wore – in pictures

Relationships

  • Composite of a cat playing with a mouse

    The pest I’ll never forget
    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนThe cats who filled our house with live mice

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    Friendship
    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนI spent 11 years without my childhood friend. Finding our way back together was staggeringly simple

  • Illustration of crossed arms, hands touching wrists, against a pink background

    This is how we do it
    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนWe don’t have penetration – but it’s by far the best sex I’ve ever had

  • An illustration of a man with white hair turning away, arms folded, with a thought above his head

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    🔴 Hot News: preference/edition/int - ประเด็นร้อนMy wife and I are in our late 70s and have no children. Who can help us in our old age?

Health & fitness

  • Illustration of pink circles, turning red towards the centre, where a boy sits looking towards a crowd of people coming from the left

    Autism
    ‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds?

  • Man in blue jeans and white t-shirt, holding red and blue ball in his left hand.

    Health
    The truth about testicles: are we facing spermageddon?

  • A woman looking at herself in the mirror

    Science
    ‘Ferritin face’: are social media claims about iron deficiency fact – or fiction?

  • People sit at a bar with screens around them showing a weight-loss jab being performed

    Body positivity
    Everyone is thin and we’re not allowed to say so: the toxic legacy of body positivity

More lifestyle

  • Author Claire Ainsley, with wavy blonde hair and a black coat, gazes seriously at the camera

    The ideas interview
    ‘The world is out of control’: how political strategist Claire Ainsley is challenging the left to take it back

  • Bridge at Great Elm, over the Mells stream.

    Country diary
    This small bridge is becoming the site of so many stories

  • Wisconsin, US ‘An autumnal reflection. I was riding my motorcycle in the countryside when I spotted some fall foliage reflected in a pond. I had to stop and shoot it.’

    Readers' best photographs
    Autumn colours and ghostly mist

    Gallery15
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    Cluesletter
    Behold the rare, twisted beauty of the crossword setter’s mind

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Documentary

  • Dream of Birds

    What happens when a forest loses its birdsong? Following clues hidden in the sounds birds make while asleep, Argentinian physicist Gabriel Mindlin uncovers a hidden extinction – not of species, but of memory – and sets out to revive vanished melodies before they disappear forever.

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    Japan
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