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  • a woman and a man sit at a table in front of a moderator

    The fight for democracy
    Wisconsin supreme court race a litmus test for Elon Musk’s political power

    The high-stakes race will determine which party will control a court that will rule on abortion and voting rights
  • Satellite view of an area of land with cutouts of portraits of three people and the buildings in which they are being held.

    ‘Detention Alley’
    Inside the Ice centers in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Trump presidency

  • Pete and Jennifer Hegseth in Washington DC on 12 December 2024.

    US military
    Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials

  • Carlos Watson departs court in Brooklyn after being arrested and charged with fraud in New York City in 2023.

    Presidential commutation
    Trump grants clemency to Ozy Media co-founder convicted of fraud

  • Roberto Lugo

    Trump administration
    ‘It’s a scary time’: artists react to White House’s recent targeting of Smithsonian Institution

  • Row of cars plugged into Tesla-branded chargers

    Tesla
    ‘Love the car, not the CEO’: how Europe’s Tesla owners feel about their cars - and Elon Musk

In focus

  • a banner reads 'welcome to the people's university for Palestine'

    Columbia University
    ‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how school went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for Trump

  • A man stands among the enormous star-shaped construction of metal tubes of the Large Hadron Collider Atlas detector

    Science
    ‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider

    Ambitious project could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades, say opponents
  • Gerard Depardieu holds on to a man's arm for support as he arrives at court

    France
    Gérard Depardieu trial finally gives France its #MeToo moment

    Actor’s week in court seen as turning point as French film industry has been slow to take abuse claims seriously

Spotlight

  • Surfer on beach near sign that says Thank you Firefighters

    Los Angeles
    ‘God knows what’s in the water’: surfers in limbo as wildfire toxins linger

    In a city where surfing is a way of life, the wait to get back in the water has been agonizing. But new research offers a glimmer of hope
  • Alysa Liu won a gold medal on Friday in only her second appearance at a world championships.

    Figure skating
    Alysa Liu left figure skating behind. She came back better than ever

Opinion

  • miller speaks in front of white house and batch of reporters

    The Signal chat exposes the administration’s incompetence – and its pecking order

    Sidney Blumenthal
    The discussion revealed unserious people who don’t know when to keep quiet, with Stephen Miller as the real boss
  • Protestors calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil

    When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed

    John Naughton
  • cartoon drawings of humorous satirical government officials

    Uncivil service: meet Trump’s new bro-eaucracy

    Adam Bessie and Jason Novak
    From the Bureau of Burning Man to the Department of Altered States, fiction is barely stranger than reality these days
  • a women holding a child

    The anti-women ‘fertilization president’ who wants to have it both ways

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Trump’s executive order supposedly expanding IVF access offered nothing concrete beyond a weird nickname for himself
    • TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-TRUMP-HABBA<br>TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for Alina Habba as US Attorney General for New Jersey, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 28, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

      This op-ed could lead to me being deported from the US

      Berna León
    • a woman smiles as she holds an apple at an orchard

      The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide

      Moira Donegan
    • Keir Starmer speaks at the UK ambassador's residence in Paris after a meeting with European leaders on strengthening support for Ukraine, 27 March 2025.

      Trump is upending everything. The world’s leaders must tell the truth about what that means

      Jonathan Freedland
    • people protesting

      The resistance is alive and well – and our research shows it

      Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam

Sports

  • Novak Djokovic acknowledges the applause from the crowd.

    Miami Open
    Defiant Djokovic on verge of making more history against teenage star

    Novak Djokovic is proving his resilience once again but faces huge test against Jakub Mensik if he is to become third man to win 100 Open era titles
  • Chloe Kim of United States reacts in the finish area after winning her third snowboard halfpipe world championship on Saturday in St Moritz, Switzerland.

    Snowboarding
    Chloe Kim wins halfpipe world title and books spot on 2026 Olympic team

    Chloe Kim won her third snowboard halfpipe world championship Saturday in St Moritz, Switzerland, and secured a spot on the 2026 US Olympic team
    • Barbra Banda celebrates scoring against Kansas City Current in a playoff match in November 2024

      Banda stuck in swirl of double standards and misinformation

      Suzanne Wrack
    • Head coach Bruce Pearl of the Auburn Tigers celebrates with his players after defeating the Michigan Wolverines 78-65 in the South regional semi-finals on Friday night.

      NCAA Tournament 2025
      Top seed Auburn claw back to join MSU, Tennessee and Houston in Elite Eight

    • a man looking at the camera

      ‘A dangerous epidemic in boxing’
      The tragic, cautionary tale of Paul Bamba

      Thomas Hauser
    • Illustration of Gianni Infantino

      Infantino’s $1bn prize: act of commercial disruption disguised as benevolence

      Barney Ronay
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Climate crisis

  • Many screens showing images of the sea bed and a robot, being watched by three men who sit at a control panel.

    Environment
    Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed

  • Stockholm’s waterfront and skyline in winter

    Environment
    ‘The heat you need at a reasonable price’: how district heating can speed the switch to clean energy

  • aerial view of smog over a city

    Climate crisis
    Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests

  • damaged trees in a forest

    Pollution
    Acid rain could return to US due to Trump rollbacks, says scientist who discovered it

Across the country

  • a composite image of Ron DeSantis and high school students waiting in line outside

    Florida
    Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’

    Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage
  • a women walking

    New York
    Student loan startup founder found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175m

  • a view of a college campus

    Florida
    College fires Chinese professor under state’s ‘countries of concern’ law

  • Andrew Tate speaking to reporters

    Andrew Tate
    Andrew Tate’s ex-girlfriend accuses him of sexual assault and battery

    • Florida
      ‘Among the worst conditions’: Florida theme park raided after dolphin deaths

    • Politics briefing
      Vance stakes US claim for Greenland as island’s new coalition insists it ‘belongs to us’

    • Columbia University
      Columbia’s president steps aside for new leadership at embattled university

    • Elon Musk
      Elon Musk’s xAI firm buys social media platform X for $33bn

    • Trump administration
      US judge temporarily blocks Trump from firing Voice of America staff

    • Measles outbreak
      Nearly 500 confirmed cases of measles across 19 US states, says CDC

Around the world

  • Three people stand by the grave of Georg Eid, a Bavarian officer who died in May 1917 while being held as a prisoner in Altrincham, Greater Manchester

    Second world war
    ‘A common humanity’: the British families who tended graves of German soldiers

  • An adolescent boy looking at a phone screen showing the TikTok logo

    TikTok
    ‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study

    • UK
      Hyundai facing legal action over car that can be stolen ‘effortlessly in seconds’

    • Anglicanism
      Justin Welby was too ‘overwhelmed’ by scale of abuse in Church of England to take action

    • European Space Agency
      Europe’s first Mars rover will have UK-built lander

    • Myanmar
      Fears for Bagan’s towering Buddhist temples after Myanmar earthquake

    • Analysis
      Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order

    • Venice
      ‘A great big nuisance’: Venetians divided over plans to host Jeff Bezos wedding

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Large image of Carlo Acutis in 2020 in the St Francis Basilica, Assisi, Italy

    Weekend
    Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process – an Audio Long Read podcast

  • Mike Waltz, the White House national security adviser, listens as Donald Trump speaks

    Politics Weekly America
    Trump’s ‘Signalgate’ blame game – podcast

  • Helen Garner at home in Melbourne. Photograph: The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’ – podcast

  • Wes Streeting in conversation with Pippa Crerar at the Guardian Live event

    Politics Weekly UK
    Wes Streeting’s plan to fix the NHS – Politics Weekly Westminster

  • Ballal poses in sunlight with Oscar with earth and vegetation behind

    Today in Focus
    From the Oscars to Israeli detention: the attack on Hamdan Ballal – podcast

Culture

  • Mahmoud Khalil in The Encampments.

    Film
    ‘Campus turned into police state’: inside the Columbia university protests

    A new documentary embeds with pro-Palestine protesters, including Mahmoud Khalil, as they demand divestment from weapons manufacturers
  • The Villa Empain

    Gold leaf and Gatsby
    Brussels lays claim to birth of art deco with year of celebrations

  • Branford Marsalis, second right, with Eric Revis, Joey Calderazzo and Justin Faulkner.

    Jazz
    Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging review – a virtuosic take on Keith Jarrett’s seminal 70s album

  • Toby Jones as Philip Burton and Harry Lawtey as Richard, Burton.

    Film
    ‘His genius is elusive’: Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones on bringing Richard Burton back to the screen

  • Perfume Genius lying on his back in a kitchen with his feet on the open oven door

    Artist of the week
    Perfume Genius: Glory review – full of energy and biting nuance

  • John Harris with his son James at Camp Bestival in 2014.

    Book of the day
    Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – a father and his autistic son bond through music

Lifestyle

Well actually

  • A collage of black and white photos of disabled people protesting for their rights, including a wheelchair sit-in at the US Capitol, over a light blue backdrop

    Disability
    The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone

  • composite image of a man with hands on his shoulders and a black and white picture of a man's head upside down

    Manosphere
    ‘I know what it is to go down the rabbit hole’: the male coaches pulling young men back from the edge

  • a woman with hands on head with a rainbow distortion filter

    Health
    Migraines made life feel unlivable. It took years to find a doctor who believed me

  • Wholegrain and cereal on rustic wooden table.

    Food
    Are whole-grain foods really healthier?

documentaries
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    Marriage
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  • Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

    US news
    How has your work been affected by Trump’s policies?

  • Business man putting on/taking off wedding band<br>

    Life and style
    Did you end a relationship after being inspired by a certain song, book, TV show or film?

  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One before arriving at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., January 27, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

    Trump administration
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From our global editions

  • Two people sort through piles of discarded clothes in the Atacama desert

    Global development
    Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

  • Woman on bridge

    Cotton Capital
    ‘We live in both worlds’: how teachers of Gullah Geechee herbal medicine are cultivating tradition

  • Three women sit in a pink bath, their heads and bodies covered with red fabric

    Australia
    Inside the luxury Melbourne retreat where women pay $6,500 to get in touch with their vaginas

  • a school

    Unequal beginnings
    Schools in Puerto Rico are bracing for Trump cuts after gains made during the Biden years

In case you missed it

  • Scottee, Trina Nicole and Becky Scott in a composite image of them all working out in different ways

    Fitness
    ‘Plot twist - I’m still a fat person!’: meet the people proving you can be fit at any size

  • a man looking at the camera

    Boxing
    ‘There’s a dangerous epidemic in boxing’: the tragic, cautionary tale of Paul Bamba

    Paul Bamba was ambitious and loved by his friends and family. But his quest for success was built on dubious fights and a fatal disregard for his own health
  • A solar electric generating system in the Mojave desert. The book Abundance argues for sustainable energy ‘so clean it barely leaves a carbon trace’.

    US
    What is ‘abundance’ liberalism, and why are people arguing about it?

    A new book has sparked debate with its provocative claim that progressive public policy in the US is broken
  • aerial view of farm and rows of crops

    Silicon Valley
    The controversial California city backed by tech elite has a new plan: boats

  • A man wearing glasses speaks in front of a drum set on stage

    Profile
    Who is Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who broke the Signal leak scandal?

  • Amira Smajic ... still from The Black Swan

    The long read
    The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image

  • A man on a small yellow boat casts a fishing net into a waterway

    Colombia
    Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands

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    Solar eclipse
    From Greenland to Europe and Senegal: the partial solar eclipse

    The moon partly obscured the sun during an phenomenon that could be seen across the northern hemisphere
  • Pink-coloured building leans at an angle after earthquake

    Photos of the day
    An earthquake in Myanmar and elephants by the sea

  • Cate Blanchett photographed for the Observer magazine.

    Heston Blumenthal to Charlotte Church
    Cate Blanchett, Heston Blumenthal, FKA twigs: best original Observer photography

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    Art and design
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    The week in wildlife
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