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  • US-TEXAS-GUNS-NRA<br>Signage for the Newsmax conservative television broadcasting network is displayed at a broadcast TV booth at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022. - America's powerful National Rifle Association kicked off a major convention in Houston Friday, days after the horrific massacre of children at a Texas elementary school, but a string of high-profile no-shows underscored deep unease at the timing of the gun lobby event. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

    The fight for democracy
    What price are US media outlets paying for spreading election lies?

  • An apartment block in Beirut, Lebanon after being hit by an Israeli airstrike

    Analysis
    US looks unable to talk Netanyahu out of planned invasion of Lebanon

    An emboldened Israel appears to believe it can safely ignore a lame duck US president and grab the chance to reset the Middle East’s security dynamics
  • Side-by-side close-up portraits of JD Vance and Tim Walz speaking

    VP debate
    What we know so far about JD Vance and Tim Walz’s debate styles

    US vice-presidential candidates will be on their biggest debate stages of their careers for the CBS-hosted event

Spotlight

  • man in black shirt and pink shorts stands outside for a portrait

    Guns and lies
    Mass shootings upended their lives. Now survivors are making the gun industry pay

    In the absence of political change, victims and families are coming together to launch multimillion-dollar lawsuits
  • Nine people on Zoom wave to the camera.

    Television
    Veep cast reunites, with special guests, to raise money for Harris

  • Two people smile for a selfie in front of a brick building with a welcome sign

    Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people

    Veronica Esposito
    There are problems with the road trip documentary following the comedian and an old friend who is transitioning, but there’s honesty and messiness that people should see
  • graphic image of a labrador distorted with wavy colours

    US elections 2024
    Dog killings and pet-eating claims: the weird and disturbing ways animals are dominating US 2024 election

    Cuddly White House pets have been swapped out for stories of dog killing, whale decapitating and bear pranks
    • Complicated attitude to settling down … in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea.

      Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter

      Peter Bradshaw
    • Felicity Ward and Edith Poor in The Office

      Television
      ‘That’s a career killer’: the brutally high stakes of bringing The Office to Australia

    • Brown Hen stands on a chair.

      The pet I'll never forget
      Brown Hen, the eggless hero who loved us – and outsmarted all her predators

    • John Oliver: ‘The only way of undoing some of the harm that’s been done and preventing even more happening is by keeping Trump out of the White House and Republicans out of Congress in November.’

      Television
      John Oliver on Trump: ‘He’s reshaped the judiciary from top to bottom’

Opinion

  • Posters of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah hung on buildings in Tehran<br>TEHRAN, IRAN - SEPTEMBER 30: A portrait of Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in an Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital on Friday, is hung on a building in Tehran, Iran on September 30, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Iran has tried to avoid conflict with Israel and failed – which deterrent will it reach for next?

    Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
    • TOPSHOT-AUSTRIA-POLITICS-VOTE<br>TOPSHOT - Herbert Kickl, leader and top candidate of right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) is celebrated by supporters as he arrives at the party's election event after exit poll numbers where announced at the Stiegl-Ambulanz restaurant in Vienna, Austria on September 29, 2024, during Austria's general election. Austria's far right FPOe was ahead of the ruling conservatives in Sunday's national vote, according to projections published by public broadcaster ORF, setting them up for a historic win. (Photo by Alex HALADA / AFP) (Photo by ALEX HALADA/AFP via Getty Images)

      How did the far right win in Austria? To understand, look to its global networks

      Julia Ebner
    • Cucumbers packaged in plastic.

      Is it any wonder our kids don’t eat their greens when the veg we provide is so insipid?

      Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    • Ascheberg, Germany, a foal gets a vermifuge<br>D2BH32 Ascheberg, Germany, a foal gets a vermifuge

      I took a common sense test – and my result appalled me

      Emma Beddington
    • A woman takes a picture with her phone of rubble in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut

      With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions?

      Nesrine Malik

Sports

  • Bournemouth's Francisco Evanilson celebrates after opening the scoring against Southampton.

    Live
    Bournemouth v Southampton: Premier League

    Minute-by-minute report: Two south coast outfits collide as the Cherries host the winless Saints. Join Michael Butler
  • Patrick Mahomes launching huge throws has become a rare sight this season

    NFL review
    The Kansas City Chiefs are at a perfect 4-0. But are they any good?

    The Super Bowl champions are off to an unbeaten start. But turning Patrick Mahomes into a checkdown artist seems reductive at best
    • Former quarterback Tom Brady, left, talks to Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen before an NFL football game between the Buccaneers and the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

      ‘If I want fun, I go to Disneyland’
      Brady hits back at Mayfield intensity jabs

    • Thibaut Courtois stands in front of the Atlético fans

      Soccer
      Atlético Madrid set for stadium closure after derby chaos

    • Bryan Mbeumo, Cole Palmer, Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola.

      Premier League
      10 talking points from the weekend’s action

    • Christian Wade of Gloucester runs towards the try-line to score against Bristol

      NFL
      Christian Wade: ‘I see myself in Rees-Zammit, he’s facing the same challenges’

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Climate crisis

  • The exterior of an oil refinery surrounded by trees

    Environment
    EPA will withdraw approval of Chevron plastic-based fuels likely to cause cancer

  • Cattle in a field

    Food
    Scientists criticize UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report

  • aerial view of trees and flooded town

    Hurricane Helene
    Hurricane Helene’s ‘historic flooding’ made worse by global heating, Fema says

  • The Matterhorn peak

    Climate crisis
    Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

Across the country

  • Chopped Money

    Exclusive
    Kamala Harris’s economic policy slate more popular than Trump’s – poll

    Exclusive: Harris Poll for Guardian finds Democrat put forward four of top five most popular economic proposals
  • Smoke billows from a fire at the BioLab facility in Conyers, Ga., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

    Georgia
    Atlanta issues warnings about chemical plant fire with smoke visible miles away

  • Tim Walz campaigns in Superior, Wisconsin, on 14 September 2024. JD Vance campaigns in Traverse City, Michigan, on 25 September 2024.

    US military
    Walz and Vance’s medical files viewed illicitly by veterans department staff

  • Man in T-shirt and shorts knocks on shaded door on sunny street.

    Nevada
    In Las Vegas, housing could make or break the battle for the White House

    • Music
      Oasis announce dates in the US, Canada and Mexico – and no dynamic pricing

    • Technology
      Epic Games accuses Samsung and Google of scheme to block rivals

    • Donald Trump
      HR McMaster on Trump claim he could end Ukraine war: ‘I don’t really buy it’

    • Florida
      Feud erupts between Florida officials over proposed trash incineration plant

    • Television
      Baby Reindeer was wrongly billed by Netflix as a ‘true story’, judge finds

    • Music
      Kris Kristofferson, US country singer and actor, dies aged 88

Around the world

  • A woman walks through muddy water

    Nepal
    More than 200 dead in Nepal floods, as parts of Kathmandu left under water

    At least 30 stranded or missing and hundreds injured after heaviest monsoon rains in two decades
  • Man in suit outside.

    Mexico
    Triumph and a broken promise: Andrés Manuel López Obrador vowed to transform Mexico, but did he?

  • Four parrots on a cable in the sky.

    Argentina
    Parrots overwhelm Argentinian town with screeching, poo and power outages

  • Moscow city court

    Russia
    American man pleads guilty in Moscow court to charge of fighting for Ukraine

    • Austria
      Austrian parties to begin talks on forming government after far-right win

    • Italy
      Milan police arrest 19 people in operation against football ultras

    • Nato
      Mark Rutte takes charge of Nato at a perilous moment for Ukraine

    • Arms trade
      Activists say they have proof UK ministers tried to influence police over Israeli arms firm protests

    • France
      Marine Le Pen to stand trial over EU ‘fake jobs’ allegations

    • Business
      Murdoch-backed REA abandons attempt to take over Rightmove

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • A train passes the cooling towers of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station

    Science
    End of an era: Britain finally says goodbye to coal – podcast

  • The Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch speaks at the Tory party conference at Birmingham ICC Arena

    Politics Weekly UK
    Kemi Badenoch dominates as Tory conference starts – Politics Weekly Westminster

  • Manchester United's Diogo Dalot reacts during the 3-0 defeat by Tottenham

    Football Weekly
    What now for Manchester United after another new low? – Football Weekly podcast

  • Colonies of volvox, a phytoplankton. Photograph: Natural Visions/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth – podcast

  • Blisters of medicines are seen on a table as a person sits on a couch clutching their stomach.

    Today in Focus
    The mysteries of IBS – podcast

  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

  • Composite: Getty Images/Guardian design

    The Audio Long Read
    No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship – podcast

Culture

  • Singer Kris Kristofferson performing in 1971.

    Kris Kristofferson: the soldier turned star made a tough life into tender poetry

    Laura Barton
    No other musician could have landed a helicopter in Johnny Cash’s yard to deliver a new tune, or renounced a debut in praise of the Vietnam war with decades of activist songs
  • Appealing simplicity … CDs in cars are officially a thing of the past.

    Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms

    Laura Snapes
  • Dame Maggie Smith during filming of the Graham Norton Show at the London Studios, south London.

    Culture
    ‘She told me you shouldn’t put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow’: readers on Maggie Smith

  • ‘I now sing it with a more Twin Peaks vibe’ … Alison Moyet at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1986.

    How we made
    ‘It was a really lonely time’: Alison Moyet and Dave Stewart on making Is This Love?

  • Truman Capote.

    Books
    Where to start with: Truman Capote

  • House ghost … Venkat Sai Gunda (Karter), right, with an unwelcome visitor in The Deserving

    Film
    The Deserving review – mute serial killer yarn takes cues from horror classics of the past

Lifestyle

  • G2: Joel Snape on electrolytes

    Fitness
    The electrolytes boom: a wonder supplement – or an unnecessary expense?

  • A model wears a sleeveless top with white doves on it

    Paris fashion week
    Stella McCartney preaches Peace and Dove in mission to save birds

    Designer launches campaign to banish real feathers from fashion industry as she shows latest collection in Paris
  • Patricia Swan New Start after 60<br>For The Guardian G2 New Start after 60. Pictured is Patricia Swan at her home in Bronington who has become a foster carer in her 70’s to young children. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    A new start after 60
    I became a foster carer at 75 – and it has helped keep me young

    Patricia Swan thought she might be considered too old to care for young children. But now she and her husband are looking after three siblings under seven

Well actually

  • An illustration of a mother holding her baby while looking out her window to see people doing yoga and playing guitar in a grassy area

    Parenting
    The mothers who regret having kids: ‘I wished I were holding a cat and not a baby’

  • A person at home holds a red light device to their chin

    Well actually
    Does red light therapy work? These are the benefits and drawbacks

  • side by side images of a woman's face and a book called the inner clock

    Sleep
    ‘I definitely got a little loopy’: the writer who spent a week underground studying sleep

  • An illustration of a person with four arms doing multiple tasks at once: dusting, typing on a laptop, looking at a cellphone, holding a pencil, and listening to music

    Productivity
    Help! It turns out breaks make you more productive

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Take part

  • petrol station with doors and windows boarded up

    Weather
    How have you been affected by Hurricane Helene?

  • A man reading a book in bed at home.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

  • Group of kindergarten kids lying on the grass at park and relax with smiling

    US parents
    What are the biggest challenges facing you and your children?

  • Which show did you use to learn a new language? Was it helpful?

    Television
    Have you learned a new language from a TV show?

From our global editions

  • An aerial view of the Ratcliffe power station near Nottingham, England.

    UK
    The deep history of British coal – from the Romans to the Ratcliffe shutdown

  • ‘Too much of a hot potato’ … Barbara Walker during preparations for her forthcoming solo show at the Whitworth in Manchester.

    Art and design
    ‘I’m pointing a finger’: Barbara Walker on her paintings about the Windrush scandal and her son’s victimisation

  • A smiling Herbert Kickl is surrounded by supporters who are holding up FPO placards saying 'Danke' (Thank you)

    Analysis
    Victory in Austria is another step in far right’s march across Europe

  • ‘Swiss made’ … The Trump Victory Tourbillon

    Pass notes
    Donald Trump’s $100,000 watches: his tackiest, most extortionate merchandise yet?

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    JD Vance
    ‘More Trump than Trump’: JD Vance becomes effective Maga messenger

  • a mural depicts a civil rights activist surrounded by flowers

    Immigration
    ‘Used as a pawn’: how the US election has poisoned Springfield, Ohio

    As Republicans spew lies about Haitian residents, the city is drawing armed strangers and opportunistic politicians
  • A shot looking upwards at a woman climbing a sheer wall of ice. She smiles at the camera and holds up an ice pick, while the wind blows her skirt, which has red and pink flowers on it and frilly bright pink petticoats underneath.

    Bolivia
    ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit

    As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
  • A man and a woman walk through rubble

    Lebanon
    Denial, terror and bravado in Beirut as residents await next Israeli air attack

  • Mourners beneath a placard of Hassan Nasrallah

    Analysis
    Deep intelligence penetration enabled Israel to kill Hassan Nasrallah

  • photos of two men in suits, surrounded by stars and red and blue shapes

    Walz v Vance
    Two midwesterners miles apart in politics ready for debate

  • Cooper Koch and Nicholas Chavez at the premiere

    Netflix
    Netflix hit crime drama rekindles debate over Menendez murders

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    News
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  • Kris Kristofferson in 2007

    Music
    Kris Kristofferson – a life in pictures

  • Bees form a cluster on the ground, with more flying through the air.

    Photography
    Honeycomb hunters and grief in Gaza: Siena Photo Awards

  • Crowds of people hold colourful umbrellas

    In pictures
    Ten-year anniversary of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement

  • Two men stand in front of a huge upended water tank blocking a road

    Photos of the day
    Urban sheep driving and Hurricane Helene: the weekend in pictures

  • International Cat Show SofistiCAT 2024 in Bucharest<br>epa11630820 Master judge Jurgita Gustaitiene, from Lithuania, evaluates a Russian Blue cat at the International Cat Show SofistiCAT 2024 in Bucharest, Romania, 28 September 2024. Around 250 cats of 15 breeds took part in the international contest organized by the SofistiCat feline owners national association, under the supervision of the International Feline Federation (FIFe). EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT

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