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After decades locked alone in small cages in California’s San Quentin prison, men sentenced to die are now being moved off death row. Sam Levin investigates

A conference run by a rightwing American thinktank attracted Tory MPs and influencers this week. Is its Trumpish populist philosophy a taste of where the Conservative party is heading?

The former prime minister has blamed the country’s powerful military for his arrest last week, and his supporters have attacked military buildings. With Khan’s home surrounded by police yesterday, has he picked a battle he’s destined to lose?

Ukraine claims its forces have retaken land around Bakhmut and shot down Russian missiles targeting Kyiv. Luke Harding reports on the state of the war

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, has moulded the country in his image during his two decades in power. Now he faces a run-off election to stay in power

Prices in the UK are continuing to rise on everything from groceries to energy bills and mortgage costs. Meanwhile, some companies are reporting record profits. Richard Partington reports

Hannah Moore reports from Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena where Britain is preparing to host the Eurovision song contest on behalf of last year’s winners Ukraine

A year ago the journalist was shot. It was not the only news story in Palestine that day. Kaamil Ahmed looks into the stories Abu Akleh never got to report

In November 2021 a dinghy crossing from France to the UK overturned, and at least 27 people drowned. Questions are being asked over whether distress calls were effectively ignored in run-up to worst Channel disaster in 30 years

In an interview with the Guardian’s Alex Hern, Hinton says he now fears the advances he helped usher in could pose an existential threat to humankind

Cotton Capital editor and Guardian journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson looks at the subject of reparations. What do reparations mean for the communities and descendants of transatlantic enslavement – and what is the Guardian planning to do in its own programme of measures?

Charles III will be crowned in Westminster Abbey on Saturday in a ceremony steeped in centuries of history. Jonathan Freedland examines what the event means to the modern-day UK

Maeve McClenaghan and the reporting team reach the end of their investigation and make the calculations that reveal the vast personal fortune of King Charles III

Documents recently unearthed by historians have shown how the British royal family had ties to transatlantic slavery. Maeve McClenaghan reports

Maeve McClenaghan sets off to uncover what is held by the crown and what belongs to the royal family privately

Maeve McClenaghan sets off on the trail to uncover how much public money is spent on the royal family – and what they do in return

This week, Prince Harry’s case over alleged phone hacking by the publisher of the Sun and News of the World reached the high court. Jim Waterson reports

Just a few months ago the SNP, with Nicola Sturgeon at the helm, looked almost untouchable. Now a fraud investigation into the party has caused that image to dramatically unravel

London schools in areas such as Lambeth and Camden are having to close their doors as pupils leave. Why are numbers dropping so fast – and why does it matter so much?

The former deputy prime minister may have resigned but he remains defiant after an inquiry into bullying allegations. What does the scandal tell us about the relationship between ministers and Whitehall?

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Capital punishment
Why California is dismantling its death row

Conservatives
National Conservatism: a Tory fringe or the party’s future?

Pakistan
Can Imran Khan really take on the Pakistani army and win?

Ukraine
Has Ukraine’s spring offensive begun?

Turkey
Erdoğan survives, but will Turkish democracy?

Inflation
Is the UK in the grip of ‘greedflation’?

Eurovision
Hosting Ukraine’s Eurovision party

Middle East and north Africa
The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh – and another ordinary day in the West Bank

Migration
Did distress calls go unanswered in the run-up to a fatal Channel disaster?

Artificial intelligence (AI)
Why ‘godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton thinks humanity is at a crossroads

Race
Cotton Capital: the Guardian and reparations

King Charles coronation
Cost of the crown part 5: the coronation of Charles III

King Charles III
Cost of the crown part 4: calculating the king’s wealth

King Charles III
Cost of the crown part 3: the hidden history of the monarchy and slavery

Monarchy
Cost of the crown part 2: duchies, diamonds and Dalís

King Charles III
Cost of the crown part 1: valuing the royal family

Prince Harry
Prince Harry and the return of the phone-hacking scandal

Scottish politics
Funding, forensics – and a fridge freezer? The investigation into the SNP

Schools
Why are London’s inner-city schools disappearing?

Politics
A bullying politician or snowflake civil servants? The downfall of Dominic Raab