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Sat Oct 3 2026
Correction Commissioner Frank Strada speaks at a podium with microphones, people standing behind him
Death penalty
Prison chief in Christa Pike case oversaw five ‘botched’ executions, lawyers say
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The price we pay
‘It’s enraging’: lawmakers call for action after Guardian investigation into convenience store overcharges
An older man with a downcast expression
North Carolina
Republicans pull funding of Trump-backed Senate candidate in critical North Carolina race
Pilot Smit Machchhar smiles in uniform inside the flydubai aircraft cockpit
Flydubai plane incident
Flydubai co-pilot used crash axe to attack captain, says UAE
Kathy Hochul speaks into a microphone next to Letitia James
Cornell University
Woman in alleged Cornell gang-rape case was ‘failed’ by system, New York governor says
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In focus

In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. What does he make of Andy Burnham's plans to 'rewire' the UK economy? Radical Thinking will be published every Saturday in the Politics Weekly feed
Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
'There’s no such thing as democracy' – Yanis Varoufakis
  Video | 52:08
 
Brazil
Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc
US military
‘It’s been hard’: families await the return of the USS Abraham Lincoln
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Features

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Trump administration
‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington
California
The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden
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Opinion

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quote  We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like
Rebecca Solnit
quote  Christa Pike survived her execution attempt. Tennessee must not try again
Austin Sarat
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Sports

Toy footballers in blue hoist a trophy-holding figure, with cash held above them
The Saturday read
Manchester City’s guilty verdict brings football’s great sell-off crashing to earth
Clay Travis
Inside the Maga permadad’s world of sports bros, trans panic and mortgages
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Culture

Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) and Angie Watts (Anita Dobson) behind the bar at the Queen Vic
Television
‘Happy Christmas, Ange’: why we have always loved a dramatic TV divorce
Second world war
‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026
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Lifestyle

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Tim Dowling
quote  Nobody’s laughing – is the joke on me?
Life and style
Feeling wired? The truth about ‘nervous system resets’
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