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• ‘Armed agents nearly turned up at my house’: fired DOJ attorney on defying Trump – podcast

  01-05-2025 15:28 via theguardian.com
  The US justice department says it did not fire a former pardon attorney, Liz Oyer, after she refused to recommend reinstating Mel Gibson’s gun rights.But Oyer tells Jonathan Freedland a different story, one she believes points to a wider crackdown by the Trump administration on the rule of law in AmericaArchive: ABC News, Face the Nation, CBS News, CNN, PBS, NBC News, Fox News, WHAS11 Continue reading...
  
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• A belter in Barcelona turns up the power: Football Weekly Extra - podcast

  01-05-2025 13:54 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen, Mark Langdon and Sid Lowe to discuss all the big European actionRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today: a brilliant semi-final in Barcelona as they draw 3-3 with Inter. Lots of brilliant goals and another world-class performance from the frighteningly young Lamine Yamal. Inter will take the draw, especially
  
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• Why unlimited green energy is closer than people think – video

  01-05-2025 13:39 via theguardian.com
  Most countries have no fossil fuel reserves, but no country in the world is without renewable energy resources. For a country such as Iceland, the world leader in renewables, this statement is clear to see. The island nation has made good use of its volcanoes and glaciers, which help provide 100% of its electricity and almost all its heat energy. But what about other countries that don't have Iceland's unique geology to rely on. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how the world has managed to reach
  
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• I know how global aid works. Here’s how Britain can do the right thing – and make its money count | David Miliband

  01-05-2025 12:32 via theguardian.com
  The politics of aid may be toxic, but the UK must realise that supporting the world’s poorest people is both a moral and pragmatic thing to doDavid Miliband is president and CEO of the International Rescue CommitteeIn more than 10 years working in the aid sector, I have seen extraordinary innovations, from childhood education programmes for refugee children, to AI-driven flood warnings that alert farmers in some of the most vulnerable places on earth. Many of the initiatives I’ve see
  
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• Freakier Friday cast and crew criticise ‘hurtful’ Asian stereotypes in 2003 film

  01-05-2025 12:32 via theguardian.com
  Director Nisha Ganatra said she felt they ‘owed audiences to make it right’ in the new filmThe director and leading cast member of Freakier Friday, the soon-to-be-released sequel to Disney’s 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, have criticised the “hurtful” Asian stereotypes of the older film and said they “owed audiences to make it right”.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, director Nisha Ganatra, a Canadian whose parents were first generation immigrants
  
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• Trump shrugs off economic woes as Harris attacks his ‘self-serving’ vision of America – US politics live

  01-05-2025 12:30 via theguardian.com
  US president claims economic slowdown ‘nothing to do with tariffs’ as his former challenger attacks his record and backers in major speechKamala Harris says ‘courage is contagious’ in major speechProtesters are expected to rally nationwide on 1 May with a focus on workers’ and immigrants’ rights in the latest round of demonstrations against Donald Trump and his administration.May Day, commemorated as international workers’ day, comes after two massive da
  
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• Trump tariffs cause fastest slump in British factory export orders in five years – business live

  01-05-2025 12:15 via theguardian.com
  Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as UK manufacturers report falling export orders and China signals openness to US trade talks Fhaheen Khan, senior economist at Make UK, a lobby group for British manufacturing, said:UK manufacturers are caught in the eye of a perfect storm, with rising costs and international trade uncertainty undermining growth prospects. While actual changes in trade have been limited, the unpredictability, particularly around US tariff polic
  
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• Local elections: voters head to the polls across England – UK politics live

  01-05-2025 12:13 via theguardian.com
  Labour face first electoral test since general election with more than 1,600 council seats up for grabsThe Metropolitan police has confirmed that counter-terrorism police are investigating footage that appears to show Irish language rap band Kneecap calling for politicians to be killed, and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”.In a statement, the Met said:On April 22, we were made aware of an online video believed to be from a music event in London in November 2024. Following this, we w
  
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• England local elections 2025: is your council up for election and what’s at stake?

  01-05-2025 12:06 via theguardian.com
  County councils across England are being elected on 1 May, along with four regional mayors. Find out which areas are voting and search for your ownIn many other years, the first set of local elections with a new government and prime minister in place would be scrutinised keenly as a judgment on the PM’s performance so far. This year the runes will be harder to read because so many of the councils that are up are Conservative councils in Conservative areas. Few of the big cities are up, alt
  
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• Studio3 review – triple whammy of comedy is ferociously funny

  01-05-2025 12:05 via theguardian.com
  Tron theatre, Glasgow
  A quick-witted trio star in three plays, in roles ranging from an Ulster unionist Homer Simpson to a pandemic prophetIf you were the gambling kind, you would have hedged your bets on A Play, a Pie and a Pint. What chance of survival would a lunchtime theatre have, especially one committed to staging 30 new plays a year, not to mention throwing in food and drink for the price of a ticket? But survive it has. On the go since 2004, the company has become a Glasgow West End ins
  
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• Kneecap row: police assessing ‘kill MP’ and ‘up Hamas, up Hezbollah’ footage

  01-05-2025 12:02 via theguardian.com
  News comes as artists including Pulp, Paul Weller and Primal Scream defendIrish rap trio from criticismCounter-terrorism police are investigating footage that appears to show Kneecap calling for politicians to be killed, and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”, while dozens of artists – including Pulp, Paul Weller and Primal Scream – have defended the Irish rap trio from staunch criticism from politicians on both sides of the Commons benches.On Thursday, detectives said vid
  
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• Trump’s tariffs: ‘It feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted’

  01-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Pittsburgh residents, workers and business owners react to the increasingly fraught trading reality now upending supply chains and hitting prices“In a lot of ways it feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted so quickly.” Like so many businesses across Donald Trump’s America, Matt Katase’s craft brewery, Brew Gentleman, is having to contend with a bafflingly uncertain trading environment.The brewery’s chief operating officer, Alaina Webber, says: &ld
  
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• The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone for US media | Margaret Sullivan

  01-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  What has happened with 60 Minutes is a high-octane version of what’s happening everywhere in Trump 2.0There have been so many red alerts for press freedom in the United States over the past few months that it can be hard to know which ones really matter.The one at CBS’s 60 Minutes really matters.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...
  
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• Prince Andrew should never be allowed to return to public life | Polly Hudson

  01-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The death of Virginia Giuffre - who accused the Duke of York of sexual assault - surely makes his desire to resume royal duties out of the questionEveryone talks about Prince Andrew’s “fall from grace” but that raises an awkward question. When exactly was his grace period? Admittedly, even the most cynical among us aren’t immune to royal wedding fever, and when he married Fergie the nation was still high on the fumes from Charles and Diana’s nuptials, so perhaps he
  
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• Dachshunds, kangaroos and a tortoise on the loose – take the Thursday quiz

  01-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?On Tuesday, the Thursday quiz celebrated its fourth birthday. Four whole years of this nonsense! What a joy it is to share the quiz with those who gather underneath it in the comments every week. But there is no time to get carried away with self-congratulations when there are questions to be asked. Fifteen of them, in fact, in their usual ridiculous configuration of topical news, general knowl
  
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• ‘A ruthless agenda’: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environment

  01-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Guardian reporters map out how Trump is eviscerating efforts to protect the natural world – from ‘drill, baby, drill’ to mass firings100 days of Trump: inside Trump’s whirlwind start to his second termDonald Trump has never been mistaken for an environmentalist, having long called the climate crisis a “giant hoax” and repeatedly lauding the supposed virtues of fossil fuels.But the US president’s onslaught upon the natural world in this administration&rsq
  
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• ‘It gets me cackling like nothing else!’ Your favourite YouTube TV shows

  01-05-2025 11:53 via theguardian.com
  From a very-not-safe-for-work cartoon to a drag queen fever dream and a puppet show that’s like Horrible Histories for grownups – networks wouldn’t dare air these online hitsHazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, made by the same team, are as funny as anything on mainstream TV. Despite being animated, Hazbin Hotel is very much a show for adults, with both the comedy and plot lines often very not-safe-for-work. It has queer-friendly, gut-busting laughs, with surprisingly moving storylin
  
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• FA to ban transgender women from playing women’s football in England

  01-05-2025 11:44 via theguardian.com
  Decision by FA comes after supreme court rulingRuling comes into force from 1 JuneThe Football Association has announced that it will ban transgender women from playing in women’s football from 1 June. It follows the ruling from the supreme court that the term “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman.The decision comes barely a month after the FA ruled that transgender women could continue to play in the women’s game as long as they kept their testost
  
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• Lloyds Banking Group profits slip 7% amid Trump tariffs concern

  01-05-2025 11:21 via theguardian.com
  Chief finance officer says it remains ‘vigilant’ as it sets aside more money than expected to cover possible bad debtProfits at Lloyds Banking Group have fallen as the high street bank set aside more money than expected to deal with possible bad debts arising from Donald Trump’s trade war.The group, whose brands include Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland, reported a 4% increase in net income to £4.39bn compared with the same period last year, but its pre-tax profit
  
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• Rust review – tragedy-marred Alec Baldwin western is a tough slog

  01-05-2025 11:11 via theguardian.com
  The late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died on set, shows herself to be the saving grace of an otherwise poorly acted and overly long messLet’s put this upfront: the cinematography by the late Halyna Hutchins is gorgeous. Hutchins died in a horrific accident on the set of the movie Rust, when a prop gun, improperly checked before it was given to star and producer Alec Baldwin, shot a real bullet – prompting the reasonable question of whether the movie itself should ever be fin
  
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• What kind of chatbot do you want? One that tells you the truth – or that you’re always right? | Chris Stokel-Walker

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  ChatGPT’s embarrassing rollback of a user update was a warning about the dangers of humans placing emotional trust in AINobody likes a suck-up. Too much deference and praise puts off all of us (with one notable presidential exception). We quickly learn as children that hard, honest truths can build respect among our peers. It’s a cornerstone of human interaction and of our emotional intelligence, something we swiftly understand and put into action.ChatGPT, though, hasn’t been s
  
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• Trump’s bid to host golf tournament in Britain could violate US constitution, experts warn

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  British government’s push for tournament to be at Trump-owned venue in Scotland is likely to seek favor with USThe British government’s attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump by nudging golf executives to host one of the world’s most prestigious golf tournaments at a Scottish venue owned by the US president could ultimately lead to a violation of the US constitution, ethics experts have warned.The Guardian reported this week that officials in British prime minister Keir Star
  
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• Tortured over a tweet: how the war between Kenya’s Gen Z and their president has moved online

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Young Kenyans have aired their disappointment in President Ruto by posting satirical images of him on X – leading to some being abducted, beaten and torturedBilly Mwangi is a 24-year-old student who lives in Embu, 125km north-east of Nairobi. He loves watching football with his dad, likes to hang out with his friends and enjoys playing video games with his brother. He also ran a popular account on X which he used to post about politics from time to time. “I like to defend people&rdqu
  
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• ‘Oh, you’re a woman!’ Why are more than 90% of pilots still men – and can anything narrow the gender gap?

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Get on a plane on either side of the Atlantic and you’re vastly more likely to find a man at the controls. Is it because of prejudice, the problems the job poses for family life – or something else?Sometimes passengers congratulate Maria Pernia-Digings, 61, on her parking. When she tells me this, she tries to laugh it off as a tiny slight, barely worth commenting on. Others don’t bother to hide their shock, and greet her as they leave the plane with blunt amazement: “Oh,
  
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• Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge roleOne hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior adviser and the de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Tesla CEO has left little of the federal government unscathed. Over the course of just a few months, he has gutted agencies and public services that took decades to build while accumulat
  
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• Lazarus Lake, the ‘Leonardo da Vinci of pain’ behind the world’s cruelest race

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  In an extract from his new book, Jared Beasley introduces the eccentric figure behind the Barkley Marathons, where runners are terrified and tested in equal measureFor over a century, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was the end of the line. Built in the shape of a Greek cross, the pale limestone structure had housed the worst of the worst – murderers, madmen, monsters – its bulk hunched beneath a crown of scarred mountains the guards called the fifth wall.Now it sits empty –
  
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• Jess Cartner-Morley’s May style essentials: life-changing jeans and the ultimate holiday shoes

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  May’s the best month of the year – and our fashion expert’s serving up her must-haves to match the mood• The best women’s underwear for every occasionMay is my favourite month. It looks great, for a start, with the best of the blossom and everyone wreathed in bank holiday smiles. If you’re in the market for a little treat to celebrate, look no further. I’ve got the just-loose-enough new-season jeans and the snap-up-now holiday shoes.I’ve also got an
  
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• Holding Fever: when club side Rishton signed the fastest bowler in the world

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Huge crowds turned out to watch Michael Holding play at Blackburn Road in 1981 – and to enjoy the club’s late barBy Scott Oliver from his book Sticky Dogs and Stardust 2To paraphrase Bishop Berkeley’s famous empiricist thought-experiment: if a legendary over is bowled in a game that isn’t televised, did it really happen? The answer is: yes, Bish, it happened. In fact, Geoffrey Boycott still remembers punching a 150kph throat ball toward Joel Garner in the gully. But, unle
  
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• Chelsea’s WSL title winners 2024-25: player-by-player ratings

  01-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Millie Bright and Aggie Beever-Jones have been among the stars, though it has not been a smooth season for allHannah Hampton The 24-year-old has made the No 1 shirt her own this season. Ever present in goal, she is second for clean sheets in the league and her distribution is a key asset. She might not always be the busiest given the team in front of her but, more often than not, she has stepped up in the big moments with memorable saves to ensure her side maintain their unbeaten run. 8 Continue
  
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• Man arrested in Japan after allegedly driving car into schoolchildren, say reports

  01-05-2025 10:54 via theguardian.com
  Seven children returning from school injured in suspected deliberate attack in Osaka, according to local mediaA man has been arrested in the Japanese city of Osaka after allegedly driving his car into seven schoolchildren in a suspected deliberate attack, local media said.The children, who were on their way home from school, were injured and taken to hospital but all seven remained conscious, according to the public broadcaster NHK and other outlets. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist’s works resurface nearly five decades after disappearing from Berlin studio

  01-05-2025 10:52 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: British Caribbean artist Winston Branch was distraught at loss of paintings – taken because he could not pay rentTwenty paintings by the Caribbean British abstract painter Winston Branch have been recovered after they disappeared without trace nearly five decades ago.“Those works were stolen from his studio because he wasn’t able to pay the rent back in the 1970s,” his agent, Varvara Roza, told the Guardian. “This is shocking, isn’t it?” Conti
  
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• ‘Jazz isn’t about perfection’: drummer Billy Cobham on Miles Davis, Massive Attack and still learning at 80

  01-05-2025 10:45 via theguardian.com
  After a grounding with genre greats, he fused jazz with rock to outrageously funky effect. Ahead of UK dates, he explains why two prosthetic hips aren’t slowing him downBilly Cobham speaks the way he plays drums. Words pour out of him in a great, rhythmic rush, every sentence alive with energy and ideas – and so interviewing him can be as overwhelming as his music sounds. I ask about a recent sojourn to his birth nation of Panama and he’s still answering 15 minutes later, altho
  
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• US and Ukraine sign minerals deal that solidifies investment in Kyiv’s defense against Russia

  01-05-2025 10:43 via theguardian.com
  Move seals a deal to create a fund the Trump administration says will begin to repay roughly $175bn provided to UkraineThe US and Kyiv have signed an agreement to share profits and royalties from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths, sealing a deal that Donald Trump has said will provide an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraine’s defense and its reconstruction after he brokers a peace deal with Russia.The minerals deal, which has been the subject o
  
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• Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

  01-05-2025 10:17 via theguardian.com
  Government to press ahead with net zero plans as Keir Starmer rejects Tony Blair’s criticisms of climate policyAlmost all new homes in England will be fitted with solar panels during construction within two years, the government will announce after Keir Starmer rejected Tony Blair’s criticism of net zero policies.Housebuilders will be legally required to install solar panels on the roofs of new properties by 2027 under the plans. Continue reading...
  
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• Chris Eubank Jr says he needed surgery after ‘headbutt’ by Conor Benn

  01-05-2025 10:01 via theguardian.com
  Boxer spent two nights in hospital after points victoryPotential fight with Saul ‘Canelo’ Álvarez mentionedChris Eubank Jr says he underwent surgery after his gruelling points victory over bitter rival Conor Benn after being “headbutted”.Eubank Jr spent two nights in hospital after his victory at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday evening, with his promoter Ben Shalom rejecting Benn’s claims the 35-year-old had suffered a broken jaw. Shalom said Eubank
  
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• Text messages in lead-up to deadly mushroom lunch revealed as Erin Patterson’s estranged husband testifies

  01-05-2025 09:02 via theguardian.com
  Murder accused urged Simon Patterson to change his mind about not attending ‘special meal’, Victorian court hearsErin Patterson trial – live updatesErin Patterson said she spent a “small fortune” on buying eye fillet steak for her “special meal” of beef wellingtons, and was really disappointed that her estranged husband cancelled the night before the lunch, a Victorian court has heard.Simon Patterson has started his evidence in Patterson’s murder t
  
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• ‘You can see affection, love, respect, rivalry’: what happens when artists paint each other?

  01-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Ever since Raphael included Leonardo and Michelangelo in a crowd scene of one of his works, painters have had a fascination with depicting their peers, as a new exhibition revealsAs with all genres of art, portraiture has its own set of subgenres. Aside from the standard configuration of artist and model, there is the double portrait, the group portrait, the self-portrait and so on. But one other strand habitually draws freely on all the others to create its own unique sub-subgenre: when artists
  
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• You be the judge: my husband returned a gift my sister gave us. Should he confess?

  01-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Ruby gave Elodie and Max a bowl that wasn’t their style. He exchanged it, but Elodie lied and said he’d smashed it. Should they tell Ruby the truth? You decide
  Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a jurorThe present was a caring gesture whether we liked it or not. Returning it was rude – Max should fess upWe both hated it, so why should we feel obliged to keep an ugly gift? I wasn’t ungrateful – just practical Continue reading...
  
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• The truth is finally dawning on Britain: toadying to Trump has got us nowhere | Emma Brockes

  01-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Jolly humouring and kind words guarantee nothing from this White House. Right now Walmart has more clout than the UKIt’s not funny, of course – livelihoods if not actual lives depend on reaching a workable accord. But the news that President Trump has probably stiffed the UK into a second- or third-tier boarding group for trade talks, behind South Korea and Japan, triggers at least a snort of recognition for anyone who has experienced versions of that dynamic. The phrase “Briti
  
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• Iñaki Williams: ‘It’s belonging. For the people and for us, Athletic is a religion’

  01-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  The Ghana international on how recent successes and his club’s feeling and culture fuel hope for their semi-final with Manchester UnitedIñaki Williams, the fastest footballer in town, is accelerating again. The more the images come, the quicker he goes, flying through faces, flashbacks and feelings, everything they did and can still do. “It’s madness,” he says, eyes sparkling, the words chasing each other out, emotion building. And then the Athletic Bilbao winger p
  
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• Family owners of Bet365 weigh up potential £9bn sale of gambling empire

  01-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Company headed by Denise Coates holds talks with Wall Street banks about full or partial sale of assetsThe billionaire Coates family behind Bet365 are weighing up a sale of their online gambling empire that could value the business at £9bn, the Guardian has learned.The company, headed by Denise Coates, has held talks with Wall Street banks and US advisers in recent weeks about a full or partial sale, sources familiar with the matter said. Continue reading...
  
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• Europa League: previews and predictions for the semi-finals

  01-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  All the facts and figures as Tottenham host Bodø/Glimt and Manchester United travel to Bilbao to face Athletic ClubBy WhoScoredManchester United travel to the Basque Country for the second time this season. They can expect a tougher test in the semi-finals than they had against Real Sociedad in the last-16. United won that tie 5-2 on aggregate, Bruno Fernandes scoring a fine hat-trick at Old Trafford in one of their best performances of the season. In a season of many lows, the Europa Lea
  
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• Arctic plant study reveals an ‘early warning sign’ of climate change upheaval

  01-05-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
  A warming tundra has seen unexpected shifts, raising the alarm about fragile ecosystems and those who rely on themScientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems that host life in some of the most inhospitable reaches of the planet are changing in unexpected ways in an “early warning sign” for a region upended by climate change.In four decades, 54 researchers tracked more than 2,000 plant communities across 45 sites from the Canadian high Arctic to Alaska and Scandinavia. They d
  
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• Nature nurture: the Devon estate where rewilding and mental health go hand in hand

  01-05-2025 08:01 via theguardian.com
  A restoration project at Sharpham near Totnes aims to tackle the loss of the natural world while helping people build mental resilienceTwo landscapes separated by a wide sweep of river tell a story of change. On one side is traditional farmland, close-cropped grazing, uniform grasses, neatly tended hedges and a sparsity of trees, a farmscape ubiquitous across England. On the riverbank opposite, rougher, less uniform grasses grow unevenly between trees, thistle and brambles, in a chaos of natural
  
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• Sky Glass gen 2 review: the smart streaming TV levels up

  01-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Latest satellite-free Sky TV is ready for primetime with better picture, sound and much-improved serviceThe latest version of Sky’s Glass smart TV is faster and looks better than its predecessor and offers a level of all-in-one convenience that makes the satellite-free pay TV one of the best on the market.Sky Glass gen 2 is a straight replacement for the original model from 2021, which introduced Sky’s TV-over-broadband service that ditched the need for a satellite dish. The new TV c
  
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• Rebekah Brooks ‘took concerning interest’ in Tom Watson, court documents claim

  01-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Sun reporter also wrote that former MP ‘must die’, according to claims in newly disclosed documentRebekah Brooks, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s UK company, took a “deeply concerning interest” in the phone-hacking campaigner Tom Watson while one of her journalists wrote that he “must die”, according to claims in a newly disclosed court document.Referring to a potential place for Watson on a parliamentary committee looking into unlawfu
  
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• Cliff-divers, floating drinkers and billion-dollar flies: everyday moments on Earth – in pictures

  01-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From daredevil swimmers in Tunisia to a rope-tricking Mexican horseman and a family get-together at a Californian river bar, the magic of the everyday is celebrated in LensCulture’s New Visions awards Continue reading...
  
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• Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

  01-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The celebrated presenter warns of ‘modern day colonialism at sea’ as he highlights the destruction caused by overfishing and bottom trawlingWhen David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II documentary aired eight years ago, its impact was so strong it was credited with bringing about a revolution in the way people use plastics. Now film-makers are hoping he can do the same for other destructive environmental practices that the world’s best-known living naturalist describes as &ld
  
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• A luxury lighthouse stay in northern Spain: ‘Windows look east and west to sunrise and sunset’

  01-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A renovated lighthouse on the Bay of Biscay is the perfect base for exploring Asturias’s maritime delightsI have always longed to be a lighthouse keeper and now, at last, I am one. If only for the weekend. Look at my chunky-knit jumper! Feel the waterproof weave of my Donegal tweed cap! Truth be told, I am way too toasty in this quasi-nautical ensemble, having hoped and dressed for ominous fog, murderous gales and oceanic rainstorms. Instead, it is bright, calm and warm on an early spring
  
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• Kamala Harris says ‘courage is contagious’ in major speech excoriating Trump

  01-05-2025 07:43 via theguardian.com
  Democratic presidential candidate speaks in San Francisco in first significant appearance since election defeatKamala Harris delivered a searing indictment of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in power, warning in her first major address since leaving office that the nation was witnessing a “wholesale abandonment of America’s highest ideals” by its president.Speaking to an audience of Democrats in San Francisco, the former vice-president struck a defiant posture as she praise
  
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