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  • People protest against Donald Trump on 17 February in Los Angeles, California.

    Trump administration
    ‘Heinous actions’: opposition to Trump, slow to energize, shakes off its slumber

  • US President Trump meets governors at the White House<br>epa11913660 US President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a working session with governors in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 21 February 2025. EPA/FRANCIS CHUNG / POOL

    Donald Trump
    Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama

  • Two men, one holding a chainsaw

    Elon Musk
    Chain, chain, chain: political theatre confirms Elon Musk’s Maga hero status at jubilant CPAC

  • Man in stage

    Sketch
    Party of one: Donald Trump’s 75 minutes at CPAC talking about himself

In focus

  • Protesters demonstrate in Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday to mark the third anniversary of the large scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

    Trump administration briefing
    Zelenskyy rejects US minerals demand; bomb threat sent to anti-Trump conference

  • A black and white photograph of a Black family standing on their front porch

    Society
    ‘Fixing a problem we didn’t cause’: the Black Appalachian activists cultivating community power

    Robust group of organizers – including midwives, environmental justice advocates and urban gardeners – rewrite what it means to be from the US mountain region
  • Barbed wire and two people walking across the Friendship bridge over the river on the Thailand-Myanmar border near Mae Sot

    Myanmar
    ‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid

    Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts

Spotlight

  • Victoria Miro’s Galleries Together booth at the Frieze 2025 in Los Angeles.

    Los Angeles
    ‘An ode to Altadena’: LA arts community bands together to support fire-ravaged neighborhood

    The eclectic neighborhood was devastated by the wildfire last month; galleries and artists are now working to protect its legacy
  • Naked young woman lying on floor

    The Filter
    ‘It could get an orgasm out of a cabbage’: the best vibrators, tested

  • Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Designer JW Anderson went straight to Glinda’s garden to create a custom Loewe look for Grande.

    Screen Actors Guild awards
    Sag awards red carpet 2025: Wicked drama and men without ties – in pictures

    On a fairly subdued red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild awards, the cast of Wicked stood out in full fantasy regalia
  • Pamela Anderson photographed by Venetia Scott in London for the Observer New Review, February 2025.

    Pamela Anderson
    ‘I stripped away this caricature that I created’: Pamela Anderson on makeup, activism and gardening

    The star of Baywatch and The Last Showgirl answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Stella McCartney, Liam Neeson, Ruby Wax and Naomi Klein
    • Demi Moore on stage with her award

      Sag awards 2025: Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win major categories

    • Joan Didion in a black and white photograph, sitting in a leather armchair, wearing a long-sleeved shirt and draped skirt, looking serious

      Books
      Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield

    • blood is taken from a pinprick wound on a patient's finger by a clinician in surgical gloves – close up

      Dementia
      When is the correct time to diagnose it?

    • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

      Books
      ‘Royal authority’: Jeffrey Toobin explores the US presidential pardon in his new book

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees

    Stewart Lee
    For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokerati
  • Donald Trump sits at his desk,  looking less than happy as he watches the child picking his nose.

    Elon Musk’s four-year-old son blended in perfectly in the Oval Office with all the other bogeymen

    Catherine Bennett
    Regardless of anxiety by most parents about over-sharing, the president’s aide brought one of his children to the White House
    • Biden and McCarthy agree to raise the US debt ceiling<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - MAY 27: The National Debt Clock is seen in midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States on May 27, 2023. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reach an agreement to raise the federal government's $3.4 trillion debt ceiling. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

      Consumers don’t have a debt problem. The US government does

      Gene Marks
    • a man gestures while speaking

      All the president’s friends, from Natalie Harp and Daniel Penny to Andrew Tate

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Close up of Donald Trump behind a microphone.

      From saviour to Judas… How Trump’s pivot on Russia also endangers his own country

      Simon Tisdall
    • 'Good Morning Britain' TV show, London, UK - 10 Jul 2023<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock (14003654ae) Konstantin Kisin 'Good Morning Britain' TV show, London, UK - 10 Jul 2023

      Can a brown Hindu be English? Most Britons say yes. Why do so many on the right say no?

      Kenan Malik
  • NCAA Basketball: Brigham Young at Arizona<br>Feb 22, 2025; Tucson, Arizona, USA; Arizona Wildcats guard KJ Lewis (5) attempts to grab the ball from BYU Cougars guard Dallin Hall (30) during the second half at McKale Center. Mandatory Credit: Aryanna Frank-Imagn Images

    NCAA basketball
    Arizona apologize for anti-Mormon chants after loss to BYU

    Arizona have apologized after some of the team’s fans directed abuse at BYU after the Cougars’ upset victory over the Wildcats on Saturday
  • Mikaela Shiffrin is the first skier, male or female, to reach 100 World Cup victories.

    Skiing
    Shiffrin earns 100th World Cup win of career with slalom success

    Mikaela Shiffrin secured the 100th Alpine skiing World Cup victory of her career on Sunday, winning the slalom event in Sestriere
    • Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic laughs as he takes the court against the Denver Nuggets in the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

      NBA
      LeBron salutes ‘natural quarterback’ Dončić as Lakers rout Nuggets

    • San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich reacts to a call by an official during the second half of an October game in Salt Lake City.

      NBA
      Popovich not expected to return to Spurs this year – report

    • Alexander Isak of Newcastle United celebrates his team's fourth goal against Nottingham Forest at St James' Park

      Premier League
      Isak at double as Newcastle hold off Forest in seven-goal thriller

    • Dmitry Bivol, right, handed Artur Beterbiev his first professional defeat on Sunday morning in Riyadh.

      Boxing
      Bivol takes Beterbiev’s undisputed crown in Riyadh classic

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  • Powerful ocean wave exploding into the air in front of dark sky, at sea, 2022.

    Oceans
    Waves are getting bigger. Is the world ready?

  • scientists conduct research

    Environment
    Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’

  • blown-out windows on a high-rise building

    Climate crisis
    Hurricane-proof skyscrapers vulnerable to less powerful windstorms, study finds

  • cover

    Visualization
    Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much

  • Jasmine Crockett<br>FILE - Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, offers an amendment as the House Oversight and Accountability Committee holds an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Crockett recalled the palpable excitement among the Black community for Obama's reelection. With President Joe Biden, there's “a number of people who are concerned and scared” largely because of his age, while others are “indifferent and waiting," despite what she described as Biden's overall strong record of achievement. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

    Democrats
    US congresswoman ‘rooting’ for Canada and Mexico against Trump’s threats

  • A Las Vegas police vehicle.

    Las Vegas
    Woman charged in dating app druggings and one death of older men

    • Society
      ‘Fixing a problem we didn’t cause’: the Black Appalachian activists cultivating community power

    • Far right
      Proud Boys ex-leader Enrique Tarrio arrested for assault near US Capitol

    • The big bet
      US gambling giants face scrutiny over VIP programs: ‘Profits take priority over people’

    • New York
      Judge rejects DoJ call to immediately dismiss Eric Adams corruption case

    • California wildfires
      LA mayor Karen Bass removes fire chief after public rift over wildfire response

    • California
      Los Angeles DA opposes new trial for Menendez brothers over parents’ deaths

  • Two gold and gold/black coins

    Cryptocurrency
    Exchange seeks help in finding $1.5bn stolen from digital wallet

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    South Africa
    ‘Trump and Musk are gaslighting’: anti-apartheid artist on how US president and his billionaire ally are attacking South Africa

    • Vatican
      Pope Francis remains in critical condition, Vatican says

    • Russia
      People are hoping for peace talks and ‘universal joy’ – but will western brands return?

    • Australia
      More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows

    • France
      ‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients

    • France
      Man killed intervening in knife attack on police officers

    • Cambodia
      Two children killed by decades-old grenade

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Imam Muhsin smiling and petting a fluffy white cat

    Today in Focus
    The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam – podcast

  • MANCHESTER, 12 February 2024 - Esther Ghey poses for a portrait in Manchester the day after holding a vigil marking the first anniversary of the murder of her transgender teenage daughter, Brianna, who was attacked by two other teenagers.
Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Weekend
    ‘I forgive them for what they’ve done. If I didn’t, the hate would eat away at me’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of her daughter Brianna – podcast

  • Victor Pelevin circa 2000. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Alamy/AFP/UIG/Associated Press/Reuters/EPA/Anadolu/Shutterstock

    The Audio Long Read
    The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay – podcast

  • Election posters showing Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, and Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor. Credit: AP Photo/Michael Probst

    Today in Focus
    A German election road trip with the far right on the up - podcast

  • Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

    Politics Weekly America
    Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine? – podcast

  • Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva in I'm Still Here.

    Film
    I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

    When a former congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres
  • John Stoltenberg and Andrea Dworkin together at home in Brooklyn in 2003.

    Books
    ‘It feels like a vindication’: Andrea Dworkin’s widower on the radical feminist’s rediscovery

  • A Palestinian woman walks amid rubble during a search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, 25 October 2023.

    Book of the week
    One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

  • Fatboy Slim 2025 press photo

    Music
    Fatboy Slim: ‘I was in the same class as Keir Starmer – he’s one up on me now’

  • Jony Ive

    Design
    iPhone designer still asks: ‘I wonder what Steve Jobs would do?’ – despite being told not to

  • Studio portrait of Shon Faye.

    Shon Faye
    On my radar: Shon Faye’s cultural highlights

  • Chef Paris Rosina with a selection of her dishes.

    Food
    30 things we love in the world of food, 2025

  • ‘I found myself in private miscarriage forums, in anonymous comment sections, sobbing while I typed’: Celia Silvani

    Psychology
    I became absorbed in strangers’ fertility journeys online

    What started as curiosity would turn into an emotional investment for Celia Silvani – and eventually, a lifeline
  • Fiona Franzmann and Trent Dalton

    The moment I knew
    I thought I was too cool for love. My rock idol knew better

    Trent Dalton had a crush on his sophisticated colleague Fiona. The lead singer of his favourite band helped him find the words to tell her
  • a person bends another person's hand back and examines their wrist

    Well actually
    What is nerve flossing and does it help with nerve pain?

  • Girl with hair in ponytail looks down with a background of red tomatoes on vines

    Ask Ugly
    When I blush, I get so red that people point it out. What should I do?

  • illustration of smiley faces, hearts and a striped milestone marker with spots such as 'you have a match', 'meet the friends' and 'you're my life partner'

    How to start
    Take good pictures and embrace the apps: how to start dating

  • black and white picture of a little boy with a big valentines card looking dejected

    Well actually
    ‘I’ve ended up in the ER twice’: when Valentine’s Day goes horribly wrong

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    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    Share your experience of using personified AI chatbots

  • Person plays with plastic letters

    Childcare
    How much do you spend on childcare?

  • U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House<br>U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 19, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

    Trump administration
    Share your views on President Trump’s approach towards Russia and Ukraine

  • an older person's hand in a hospital bed

    Nursing home patients
    Have you or your loved one experienced coverage denials from UnitedHealthcare?

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From our global editions

  • A brown bear in Slovenia.

    Environment
    Europe’s big carnivores are on the rise – but can we live with bears next door?

  • Xavier Ywaya as Tom Mboya in a play about the Kenyan statesman that is part of the Too Early For Birds series of shows staging diverse stories from Kenyan history.

    Kenya
    ‘We’re healing this common body we call a nation’: the plays assessing Kenya’s present by retelling its past

  • The entrance to the tomb of Thutmose II in Luxor in southern Egypt

    Egyptology
    ‘You dream about such things’: Brit who discovered missing pharaoh’s tomb may have unearthed another

  • An illustration showing a cat walking from inside a home into the outdoors

    Cats
    ‘You can’t ban compassion’: helping stray cats is illegal in much of Australia – but for some, it’s worth the risk

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  • Rupert Murdoch wearing a suit

    Media
    ‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang

  • Close-up photos of two people's eyes taped onto a backdrop of waters crashing over rocks

    National parks
    These people protected US forests and lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump

    Former federal employees devastated by president’s mass firings: ‘We’re at risk of losing our public lands to the billionaire agenda’
  • people in red shirts walk outside

    Extremist groups
    US white supremacist groups emboldened with ‘ethnic and racial hatred’ as Trump stokes immigration fears

    President’s anti-immigrant actions fuel a heartland battle between middle-ground Republicans and extremists
  • a photo of a building

    New York
    An unassuming building in New York City educated Black leaders. What will become of it?

  • three women sit on stage in front of a backdrop that reads 'principles first'

    Republicans
    Anti-Trump conservative summit charts alternative to CPAC Maga-fest

  • Man stands in office

    Donald Trump
    US judge temporarily blocks Trump’s anti-DEI purge

  • man in a blue suit sits at a desk and speaks

    Mass firings
    Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill, say experts

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    Breaking bad habits: what you told us about your new year buying intentions

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  • A street performer covered in silver paint takes a break to eat in Jakarta

    The weekend in pictures
    French lambs and a silver person in Jakarta

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Twice As Nice, The End, London, 2001.

    The big picture
    The jubilation of clubbing in 90s London

  • Passengers leave a Delta Air Lines CRJ900 jet that crashed at Toronto Pearson airport.

    Best photos of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • One of the photographs featured in Jochen Raiß’s Women in Trees.

    Women in trees
    A new branch of photography?

  • a seal swims towards the camera

    Environment
    Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025

  • Black and white photo of a man walking in a park with a plastic bag on his head

    Smart shot
    ‘It was so fleeting, yet weirdly they were almost posing’: Richard Chambury’s best phone photo

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