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Terrified families flee Rafah as Israel set to open all-out assault
Gaza  
Terrified families flee Rafah as Israel set to open all-out assault
Leaflet instructs Palestinians to leave southern Gaza city as Benjamin Netanyahu shuns pressure from Joe Biden
‘You have to pick fights’  
One path for Biden to lure blue-collar voters: find the economic villains
Wisconsin  
Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border
Target  
Pride merchandise only available at select stores after rightwing backlash
Afghanistan  
Flash floods kill more than 300 as torrents of water and mud crash through villages
In focus
A survivor explores the backstory to a Mother’s Day mass shooting
‘You have to see it in context’  
A survivor explores the backstory to a Mother’s Day mass shooting
Almost 20 years before the 2013 New Orleans shooting, a baby was nearly beaten to death in an enduring cycle of violence
‘You say you are a musician, they beat you more’  
The Ukrainian sax player who survived Putin’s torture prisons
Wide Awakes  
The young Americans who marched the north to civil war
 

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Editor, Guardian US

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Spotlight
Life as a stunt double
Risk and reward  
Life as a stunt double
From Bond to Barbie, behind every Hollywood film or television drama is an unsung hero doing the scary stuff. Meet the doughty men and women willing to take big risks to be part of the magic
‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’  
Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life
Roger Corman  
Cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel
The rage epidemic  
Is our modern world fuelling aggression?
No Going Back  
Kristi Noem and other Trump veepstakes also-rans
Jon Ronson  
‘A society that stops caring about facts is a society where anything can happen’
Opinion
Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan
Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan
With its new iPad Pro ad, Apple is offering us the thin end of the wedge
Sports
Boxing  
Ruthless Lomachenko stops Kambosos to win IBF lightweight title in Perth
Ruthless Lomachenko stops Kambosos to win IBF lightweight title in Perth
MLS  
Chaotic melee breaks out after NYCFC hold on to beat Toronto
Culture
‘I want to be where the energy’s at’  
Photographer Ryan McGinley on youth culture, creativity and being collected by Elton John
Photographer Ryan McGinley on youth culture, creativity and being collected by Elton John
Deborah Levy  
‘Writing and swimming help each other’
In case you missed it
Firms’ anti-woke offerings soak consumers
Poor reviews, missing product  
Firms’ anti-woke offerings soak consumers
A thriving retail niche caters to the performative masculinity of the right wing, oftentimes bilking its chauvinistic client base
‘So much at stake’  
Kerry Kennedy on the family political split
Accused of 'deepfake' video of teen cheerleaders, arrested and condemned  
The problem? Nothing was fake
‘When to pull the trigger’  
How prepared are we for human bird flu?
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