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    Scott Bessent tries to clean up Trump's mess

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    The woman growing her own dress

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  • Black US culture
    Why spades dominates Black gatherings

    Four African-American senior citizens sit outdoors around a table, playing cards together

  • Blind date
    ‘One of the easiest people to talk to I’ve ever met’

    Composite of Mike and Caterina, both smiling, him on left with hand on chin wearing a pale shirt, her with hands in pockets wearing a cream waistcoat

  • Colombia
    Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

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  • The Saturday read
    Faster, higher, funnier: what we learned from China’s robot games

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    Trump administration
    Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’

    Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
  • Emergency service workers respond to a Russian strike on a warehouse where black smoke billows

    Ukraine
    Russian drone strike on Kyiv warehouse storing weapons kills at least 37

  • Technicians observe the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's solar panels in a cleanroom

    Science
    Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts

  • The FBI seal.

    FBI
    FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

  • A yellow boat cutting through ocean water near a beach.

    Swimming
    US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths

  • Donald Trump speaks at a lectern.

    White House
    Ex-White House teleprompter operator fined $172,000 for Trump speech bets

  • The practice courts at the US Open venue in New York

    US Open tennis
    Keep off the grass: British tennis players complain of marijuana smell at US Open

Special report

  • A photo composite of a retro robot running on an athletics track whilst sparks fly from it.

    The Saturday read
    Faster, higher, funnier: what we learned from China’s robot games

    Five-day showcase reveals leaps Beijing has made in humanoid tech, but also its limitations as US rivals come up from the rear
  • An older man gestures while speaking at a lectern.

    Michigan
    Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not

  • A man with a keffiyeh around his neck stands in dramatic sun and shadow against a wall.

    Building power
    Democrats ignored the uncommitted movement for Gaza in 2024. Now, it’s winning elections

  • Trump holds white architectural arch models beside a similar model on a table

    Donald Trump
    Trump arch will alter sightlines of many Washington DC landmarks, report says

  • cows eat hay

    Beef imports
    Trump pledges to allow cattle ranchers to process own food amid beef imports backlash

In focus

  • President Trump dances with raised fists before a cheering crowd holding MAGA signs and flags

    US midterm elections
    Is Donald Trump’s bid to brand Democrats as ‘radical’ communists working?

    In deep red South Carolina, the president helped stoke apprehension of a deeper red surge ahead of November’s US midterm elections
  • A gray-haired man in a suit and tie speaks into a microphone

    Trump administration
    ‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess

  • Tattoo of a former combatant in the ZUT

    Colombia
    Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

Features

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    Fashion
    ‘It gives Shein’: how did polyester become the world’s most-hated material?

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    The Filter
    We tried 15 lotions over three weeks. Here’s which our testers loved – and which left them high and dry

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  • Eve Ogden Schaub smiles, holding a pitchfork beside a basket of flax fiber she grew

    Sustainability
    ‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

  • Laurie Anderson leans against a wall.

    Books
    Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

  • Four African-American senior citizens sit outdoors around a table, playing cards together

    Black US culture
    Why spades has dominated Black gatherings for generations – it’s more than just a card game

  • Headshot of British politician Gordon Brown in pale shirt against burgundy background

    UK politics
    ‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’: former UK PM Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and a better Britain

  • The BEAR HR 1

    My cultural awakening
    I avoided restaurants after a disastrous job as a waitress. Then I watched The Bear …

  • Five old friends who used to be showgirls, on the seafront in Eastbourne, UK

    UK
    The showgirl sisterhood: five former variety stars look back at their wild careers – in pictures

Opinion

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025The rebranding of ‘Lake America’ is Trump’s desperate attempt to distract us

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Ignore Iran, the Epstein files, and your wallet – not to mention Trump’s plummeting approval ratings
  • Phoebe Greenwood

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025Sunsets, disasters, dinners: we now record them all with our phones. But what is that doing to our souls?

    Phoebe Greenwood
    As a war correspondent, I worked with photographers who said the camera was a buffer between them and reality. It is much the same now as we snap and scroll, says journalist and author Phoebe Greenwood

More opinion

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    The hill I will die on
    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025The barbecue is fundamentally unenjoyable. Please, put a lid on it

    Max Liu
  • Stephen Bates

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025There is clearly trouble ahead for Harry and Meghan on their return to the UK. Here are five ways to avert it

    Stephen Bates
  • Jonathan Freedland

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025An $18bn settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked. The tech titans must be stripped of their power, and soon

    Jonathan Freedland
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    Becky Barnicoat on millennial life
    With the kids back at school, I finally get a break – back at my desk

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    The loan of the Bayeux tapestry: a manifestation of soft power

Sports

  • Filip Hrgovic flexes his arms while shirtless under a leather jacket as Moses Itauma looks on during the Natural Born Thriller press conference ahead of the IBF world heavyweight fight at the O2

    Boxing
    Itauma chases Tyson’s history and fights to save his soul in first world title bout

  • Lando Norris celebrating

    Formula One
    Lando Norris agrees new deal until at least 2030 with ‘second family’ McLaren

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  • The FBI arrested Daejon Love, 35, and Taylor Jamie Chan, 18, in Boise, Idaho, on 24 August over an alleged $1.3m romance and investment scam.

    NFL
    Man posed as 49ers player to scam women out of $1.3m, FBI says

  • Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, in November 2019.

    Penn State sexual abuse scandal
    Judge grants hearing over bid to recant Sandusky sexual abuse allegations

  • Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz smile on stage after their mixed doubles win

    Tim Joyce
    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025The hollowing out of Tennis.com is a warning for US sports journalism

    Tim Joyce
  • Texas offensive lineman Nick Brooks hoists the Lone Star Showdown trophy after the Longhorns’ 27-17 victory over rivals Texas A&M in Austin in November 2025.

    College football
    America’s second most popular sport is booming, chaotic and more confusing than ever

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    Ratko Mladić
    ‘The butcher may be gone, but to many he is a hero’: victims condemn glorification of Mladić

    Architect of Srebrenica genocide is dead but those scarred by his atrocities say his ideology is still shockingly pervasive

Climate crisis & environment

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    Datacenters
    ‘It’s all you can hear’: New Jersey lawsuit takes on datacenter’s noise pollution

  • Illustration of a person holding on to a giant balloon that looks like the Earth

    Inside the Guardian
    The Guardian climate pledge 2026

  • Aerial view of the Meta El Paso Data Center under construction at sunrise in the desert

    Environment
    Is the environmental impact of datacentres finally cutting through?

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  • A grey wolf stands on rocky terrain, watching a raven perched nearby in Yellowstone

    Forests
    Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species

US news

  • Los Angeles
    Los Angeles fire survivors face record wait for federal disaster aid under Trump

  • ICE
    Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator, detained by ICE

  • Media
    A conservative strategist called for ‘getting rid of Trump’ three years ago. Could he be his next press secretary?

  • Economy
    Fed chair says delivering ‘stable prices’ is central bank’s job as inflation persists

World news

  • UK news
    Sarah Ferguson to return to UK after relocating amid Epstein revelations

  • Music
    ‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Yorkshire

  • Gas
    ‘Winter panic’: EU gas stores at their lowest level in 13 years

  • Nepal
    ‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

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Culture

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    Publishing
    How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade

  • Russell Dykstra and Ryan Panizza in Dalliance.

    The week in reviews
    From Dalliance to Billy Strings: the week in rave reviews

What to watch

  • Chris Cantrill grimaces while standing at a microphone on stage

    Review
    Chris Cantrill: Rewilding – a rural whodunnit told with midlife mirth

  • Michael Fassbender, lit in teal, examines a small robotic device in a scene from Alien: Covenant

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash

    Ben Child
  • Louis Garrel

    Interview
    ‘I don’t care if I look good’: French heartthrob Louis Garrel on fashion, fatherhood and his radically dorky new role

  • A woman and a man in suits on the front desk in a courtroom, looking very very serious, the young man stroking his chin thoughtfully

    TV review
    The Rainmaker review – please don’t hurt your eyes trying to find anything good in this legal drama

What to listen to

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    ‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’
    Inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @

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    Autumn arts preview 2026
    Best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more

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    Music
    Charli xcx, Reading Festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it

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    Music
    ‘I’m an ever-changing vessel’: Erykah Badu on defying definition, life as a birth and death doula and her first album in 11 years

What to read

  • Elizabeth Strout

    Audiobook of the week
    The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout audiobook review – brilliant portrait of an existential crisis

  • Hélène Carrère d’Encausse in 1983.

    Book of the day
    Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère review – intricate portrait of an elite French family

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    Books
    The rise of ‘biogossip’: Rachel Cusk’s Natalie Portman novel is the latest in a delicious literary lineage

  • Karnak temple, Egypt

    Books
    Passage by Colin Thubron review – mortality and memory in a gem of a novel

What to play

  • A screenshot showing a huge bird-like creature looming over a man in a corn field.

    Games
    The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past – Geralt of Rivia returns after a decade in the sun

  • A fierce woman warrior holds two curved knives, surrounded by ancient ruins and soldiers

    Games
    Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review – picture-postcard retelling of haunting Minoan myth

  • Trainwatch game

    Summer games previews
    Trainwatch – alone with your thoughts on a railway line to nowhere

  • Rear view of a young man wearing a headset, gaming at a computer in a neon-lit room

    Pushing Buttons
    With the end of physical media in sight, gamers have had enough

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More culture

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    Smart shot
    ‘The angle of the dog, the hat and the tattoo on her foot all come together’: Trace Meek’s best phone picture

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    Film
    Rob Reiner’s son Jake gives first interview after parents’ deaths: ‘I will never understand why this happened’

  • Stella Parton and Dolly Parton at the Red Tent Women’s Conference in 2014, Nashville, Tennessee.

    Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died

  • A man with slicked-back hair and glasses wearing a shirt, and a woman in a white patterned frock in an old-fashioned kitchen

    Film
    ‘It’s the story of what happens when the music stops’: bringing tormented jazz legend Bill Evans to life

Lifestyle

  • Two cyclists ride a gravel path through vineyards, with forested hills beyond in Slovenia's Vipava valley.

    Travel
    A slow travel success story in Slovenia’s secret valley

  • Yotam Ottolenghi smiles while tossing a pancake

    Food
    Flipping marvellous: Yotam Ottolenghi on the joy of simple breakfasts – plus six exclusive recipes

  • Pets
    The best tools for removing cat hair from your clothing and home – from brushes to rollers

    I put a bevy of hair removal tools to the test and found the best options for keeping your home fur-free
  • Eufy Omni E28 Robot Vacuum and Deep Cleaner

    Cleaning
    I tested this robot vacuum for a month. It cleans like a pro – and comes with a secret weapon for spills

  • Three packages of counter culture coffee

    Coffee
    I tried 11 coffees from Counter Culture, the accessible small-batch roaster converting coffee slobs to snobs

  • A dog resting on dog bed in front of a fireplace

    Pets
    The best dog beds in the US: seven furry-friend tested and approved favorites for indoors and out

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    Bargains
    The best Labor Day sales on towels, cookware, travel gear and more

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    Containers
    ‘The perfect food storage finally exists’: I tried the new Anydeli plastic-free containers

  • A photo of Osprey Daylite Packing Cubes

    Travel
    I tested 26 packing cubes on 14 trips – here are best ones to travel smarter

  • Field Company No 5 cast-iron chef skillet.

    Kitchen essentials
    Field Company’s new No 5 chef skillet fixes everything I hated about cast iron

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    Gear
    The best camping chairs are like having a La-Z-Boy in a bag

Well actually

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    Postpartum psychosis
    What is the treatment for postpartum psychosis, the condition central to the Lindsay Clancy trial?

  • A patient gestures while talking to a doctor

    Deep dive
    How do you define good health – and achieve it – in a broken US medical system?

  • an illustration showing colorful human figure icons stand amid swirling black abstract paint brushstrokes

    Health
    People’s bodies are changing in the age of Ozempic. How are we meant to talk about it?

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    A day in the life
    ‘When I make a sale, I’ll sing a high note’: a day in the life of an opera singing car salesman

Relationships

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    Blind date
    ‘She’s one of the easiest people to talk to that I’ve ever met’

  • A 19th-century painting by Albert Chevallier Tayler showing family sitting around a table

    Leading questions
    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025I don’t get along with my sister-in-law. Should I try to address the dynamic?

  • An illustration of a man pulls a tablecloth so all the food slides off table into his mouth, while a dark shadow figure is under the table

    You be the judge
    Should my partner stop eating off other people’s plates?

  • Dog with unravelled toilet roll

    The pet I’ll never forget
    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: us - Kapook Update 2025Ernie the danger dog – who loves dicing with death

Health & fitness

  • Jam on toast

    Health
    Sweetener used in chewing gum and jam linked to strokes and heart attacks

  • Creatine has become the go-to supplement for anyone wanting to give their fitness a boost and build muscle. It’s even made it out of the gym, with influencers touting its cognitive benefits. But what’s the science behind creatine, and does the evidence stack up? Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Dr Justin Roberts, professor of nutritional physiology at Anglia Ruskin University

    Video
    Creatine: is there truth behind the hype?

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  • a couple practising tai chi outdoors

    Health
    Largest review of its kind confirms benefits of tai chi and other Chinese exercises

  • A woman reading a book to two children in a bed

    Health
    ‘My ability to cope was unravelling’: how I navigated ADHD and childbirth – and seven things I learned

Fashion & beauty

  • Pope Leo XIV in a baseball cap

    The pontiff
    Infallible style: Pope Leo appears in Vanity Fair’s ranks of most fashionable

  • Dolly Parton smiles broadly, wearing an ornate beaded jacket and statement earrings

    Dolly Parton
    Like a rhinestone cowgirl – Dolly Parton’s most glorious, joyful and meta looks

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  • Stephen Libby sits on a wooden stool, wearing a dark denim jumpsuit and boots

    Stephen Libby on men's fashion
    I’m on a mission to revive the jumpsuit – they’re practical and stylish

  • Young girl with red hair cut in a page boy style

    Hairstyles
    ‘My parents paid money for this’: 10 writers on their biggest hair disaster

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  • Author Adele Parks in red waistcoat and trousers against blue background

    The Q&A
    Adele Parks: ‘If I could ​edit my pas​t, I’d be fitter younger – I​ would have been hotter’

  • An illustration with three children around a cutout photograph of Tim Dowling kids, with a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes

    The Tim Dowling column
    My TV contract has run out – and so has my patience

  • Plates laid out on a table with a blue tablecloth, with the mozzarella and green bean salad on top

    Food
    Meera Sodha’s recipe for spicy mozzarella, green bean and edamame salad

  • Corinne Bailey Rae performing at the Southbank Centre in London in January 2025, wearing a sparkly silver and gold dress, and with the mic in her left hand and right arm outstretched, resting on the mic stand

    The quiz
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