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Thu Oct 15 2026
Shoppers at a Costco checkout unload groceries like bananas, juice and water onto the belt
Exclusive
Key US voters say economy is getting worse ahead of midterms, exclusive poll finds
Vucic in close-up, with Trump, Kushner and Trump Jr pictured behind him
Exclusive
Revealed: Serbian ruler’s secret role in ‘illegal’ effort to help Trump business
A man on his phone stands amid rubble of house destroyed by a Russian air strike
Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine resume energy strikes despite Trump warnings
Afrikaner refugee families wave small American flags while arriving at the airport
Exclusive
US officials considering ad campaign to urge South African Afrikaners to emigrate
Ken Paxton and James Talarico, side by side, each speaking into a microphone
Texas
Democrat James Talarico faces grilling from voters at town hall in tight Senate race
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Special report

An Afghan girl shells pistachios on the floor of her mud home.
‘I am still a child, it cannot be good to be married’: how drought forces Afghan families to sell girls as brides
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In focus

Kai Wright and Carter Sherman enlist Guardian columnist and former labor secretary Robert Reich to take your affordability questions
Stateside with Kai and Carter
Why are prices so high? Robert Reich answers your questions
  Video | 33:55
 
As the midterm elections loom, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to rural West Virginia, a Republican party stronghold, to explore how soaring gas prices, war in the Middle East and datacenter expansion are affecting Donald Trump's popularity among his base. Although the state remains staunchly Republican, there are signs of a new politics emerging – and local Democrats are looking to capitalize on it
Anywhere but Washington
Why one of the US's reddest counties is losing faith in Trump
  Video | 12:10
 
Explained
Trump’s ambassadors: the loyalists and allies at the center of controversy
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Features

A hand reaching for a slice of pizza in a delivery box
Food
Gen Z wrestle with shame from ordering delivery food: ‘This economy is not for the weak’
Film
Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!
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Opinion

Shoshanna, Hannah, Marnie and Jessa in the original Girls.
quote  Can Lena Dunham’s new Girls do for 40-year-olds what she did for 23-year-olds? I know it can
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
quote  Trump should fear the BBC – these are the people who made Noel’s House Party
Emma Brockes
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Sports

Paige Bueckers walks off court in a blue Dallas jersey after a playoff game
Basketball
Bueckers broadsides to Lady Magic’s spice: the greatest trash talkers in WNBA history
NLCS
Brewers go one win from World Series as back-to-back homers sink Dodgers
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Culture

Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Daryl McCormack, Jay Lycurgo and Lola Petticrew dance and cheer under 'Happy Birthday' balloons in a bar in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.
Film
‘To succeed meant to leave’: inside the jolting film about Brummie estate kids knocked flying by demolition
A person in a frilled pink dress and headscarf stands near uniformed military personnel outdoors
Photography
Pretty in pink: the best of PhotoMonth 2026
 
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Lifestyle

Guardian writer Paula Cocozza on Worthing Beach, as she revisits the locations that were meaningful to her at 18 years old in Worthing, where she grew up.
The year I turned 18
quote  I returned to my life in 1990. Who – and what – would I find there?