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Trump presidency

  • a building

    Ohio
    JD Vance’s home town is bouncing back – and it’s largely thanks to immigrants

  • silhouettes of people crowding around portrait of man wearing suit and bowtie

    Smithsonian
    Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for ‘improper ideology’

  • people standing by a sign

    Analysis
    The Signal fiasco is a political gift to Democrats but their power is limited

  • man in suit gestures as he speaks a a lectern

    US
    Trump targets another law firm over its ties to Robert Mueller

In focus

  • Woman on bridge

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

  • aerial view of farm and rows of crops

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

    California Forever is back with a proposal that has some on board: using the land it owns to create a shipbuilding hub
  • a nightclub

    Orlando terror attack
    Memorial plan for 2016 Pulse shooting on track after nearly a decade: ‘Like holding your breath’

    After the onePulse Foundation aimed too high and folded, the City of Orlando stepped in to get the process under way

Spotlight

  • In fairness to the French, there is actually very little data to support the benefits of flossing.

    Teeth
    ‘What the hell is this stuff?’: French people on the culture shock of flossing

    While preventative care has not traditionally been a priority in France, US dentistry is ‘very focused’ on it
  • a man looking at the camera

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

  • Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in Adolescence

    Men's health
    The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’

  • person wearing red bikini looks over while laying on chair and holding phone

    The White Lotus
    Off-season: has The White Lotus become a letdown?

    The third season of the buzzy resort-set comedy drama has had its moments, but it’s starting to feel like the show is running out of ideas
    • 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?

    • Will Smith, right, slaps Chris Rock on stage during the Oscars in 2022.

      Film
      ‘I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back’: Will Smith gets jiggy with the Slap

    • Premiere Of STX Films' "I Feel Pretty" - Arrivals<br>WESTWOOD, CA - APRIL 17: Michelle Williams attends the premiere of STX Films' "I Feel Pretty" at Westwood Village Theatre on April 17, 2018 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

      Television
      ‘I’ve never masturbated on film before’: Michelle Williams’ orgasm odyssey in Dying for Sex

    • Two of us … John and Paul.

      Books
      With a little help from my friend: John, Paul and the ‘romance’ that transformed culture

Opinion

  • flowers, crosses and candles adorn a memorial for victims of a mass shooting

    US government cuts imperil life-saving gun violence research. As doctors, we fear for the future

    Jessica Beard and Elinore Kaufman
    The jeopardy over our country’s work remains, and we’re bracing ourselves for a scary situation we know all too well
  • people protesting

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

    Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam
  • illustration

    AI may help us cure countless diseases – and usher in a new golden age of medicine

    Samuel Hume
    AlphaFold, which uses AI to find a protein’s structure, has only been around since 2020 but has already had a meteoric impact
  • In this photo illustration Bitcoin cryptocurrency coins appear in front of a screen displaying 'Binance' logo

    Cryptocurrency will not save the Democratic party

    Alex Bronzini-Vender
    The Democratic representative Ritchie Torres joined forces with a Republican to form the Congressional Crypto caucus. That’s a dangerous move
    • people protesting near construction site, one person holding a sign saying 'you can't eat money'

      I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking

      Steven Donziger
    • The US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, on 24 March 2025.

      So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start

      Marina Hyde
    • an 8 bit graphic of two Turtles characters

      Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hardest game I ever played – so why am I back?

      Dominik Diamond
    • A mother looking tired while on a sofa with her young baby

      New mums are being ‘strongly encouraged’ to take regular exercise and get more sleep. Hahahaha

      Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Sports

  • Creighton v Connecticut<br>UNCASVILLE, CONNECTICUT - MARCH 10: Paige Bueckers #5 of the Connecticut Huskies is introduced befpre the championship game of the Big East Women’s Basketball Tournament against the Creighton Bluejays at Mohegan Sun Arena on March 10, 2025 in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images)

    Why hasn’t middle America given Paige Bueckers the Caitlin Clark treatment?

    Etan Thomas
    The UConn star has embraced Black America rather than being pitted against it. It means she has not been lionized in the same way as a similarly brilliant player
  • a man looking at the camera

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

  • Yuki Tsunoda

    Red Bull need to adapt fast and that is why they axed Lawson

    Giles Richards
  • Pep Guardiola

    Soccer live
    Guardiola on De Bruyne future, Bayern threaten legal action over Davies

    • Dani Alves leaves the Brians 2 prison in March 2024 on bail while he appeals his rape conviction

      Dani Alves
      Former soccer star has rape conviction quashed

    • Josh Giddey is mobbed by Chicago Bulls teammates

      NBA
      ‘Never done that before’: Giddey's 47-foot buzzer-beater stuns Lakers

    • Texas Tech's Elijah Hawkins (3) reacts after defeating Arkansas in overtime during their Sweet 16 game on Friday.

      March Madness
      Sweet 16 roundup: Texas Tech rally past Arkansas in first OT game of tournament

    • Ilona Maher scores a try for Bristol against Gloucester-Hartpury.

      Rugby
      Ilona Maher makes USA squad to face Japan before Pacific Four challenge

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Climate crisis

  • 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

  • Map of US wildfire risk

    Climate crisis
    Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

Across the country

  • chickens in cages

    Bird flu
    Bird flu reinfections at US poultry farms highlight need for vaccines, experts say

    Aggressive prevention including wider changes to poultry raising needed after at least 56 US farms doubly infected
  • a man in a suit

    Elon Musk
    Musk defends Doge and cuts on Fox News: ‘Almost no one has gotten fired’

  • A crowd at the posthumous ceremony for Selena on the Hollywood walk of fame in 2017 in Los Angeles.

    Texas
    Woman convicted of killing ‘Queen of Tejano’ Selena in 1995 denied parole

  • Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra picted at the Academy Awards, holding their Oscars.

    Film
    No Other Land co-director condemns Academy’s letter to members after Hamdan Ballal attack

    • Pete Hegseth
      Defense secretary's Arabic-language tattoo stirs controversy over ‘Islamophobia’

    • Explainer
      What is Signal, the messaging app at the heart of a US security leak?

    • Prisons
      Man suffocated to death after being hurt and neglected in Colorado jail, family says

    • Harvard
      Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport

    • US politics
      Trump withdraws Elise Stefanik’s UN nomination to protect GOP House majority

    • US wildfires
      Wildfires rage on in North and South Carolina as more firefighters arrive

Around the world

  • A protester holds up a cartoon of the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, wearing makeup

    Hungary
    ‘We won’t be deterred or scared’: Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community fights for right to march in Pride

    Some want to oppose ban, others are nervous, but all see it as a warning sign under Viktor Orbán’s government
  • Nepal police with shields fire tear gas

    Nepal
    Two killed in Kathmandu rally demanding return of Nepal monarchy

  • Police responded to an aircraft crash at Avalon airport in Victoria on Friday afternoon in which the pilot was injured

    Australia
    Aerobatic pilot critically injured after plane plummets to ground in front of shocked crowd

  • The shoe and clothing company Hoka has been accused of misappropriating Mãori culture by Indigenous intellectual property experts in New Zealand.

    New Zealand
    Running shoe brand Hoka accused of misappropriating Māori culture

    • Science
      Why the weasel testicles? Cambridge show explains medieval medicine

    • Wildlife
      Export of endangered eels to Russia ends after UK government ban

    • Japan
      Japan unveils first plan to evacuate 100,000 civilians from islands near Taiwan in event of conflict

    • UK
      King Charles undergoes hospital observation due to cancer treatment side effects

    • Trump tariffs
      End of an era for Canada-US ties, says Carney, as allies worldwide decry Trump’s car tariffs

    • Ukraine
      European leaders agree now ‘not the time’ to lift sanctions against Russia

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • 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

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

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

  • North Macedonia Wales WCup Soccer<br>Wales fans celebrate after Wales' David Brooks scoring his side's opening goal during a World Cup 2026 group J qualifying soccer match between North Macedonia and Wales at National Arena Todor Proeski in Skopje, North Macedonia, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

    Football Weekly
    Wales leave it late and farewell to Trent Alexander-Arnold – Football Weekly Extra

Culture

  • Jimmy Kimmel: ‘There’s no good excuse for what happened. And no one is going to be disciplined for it.’

    Late-night TV roundup
    Kimmel on ‘Signalgate’: ‘A perfect storm of incompetence, inexperience, dishonesty and hypocrisy’

    Late-night hosts discuss JD Vance’s trip Greenland and official efforts to downplay sending war plans to a journalist
  • Piper, an aspiring buddhist played by Sarah Catherine Hook, reads The Lonely City by Olivia Laing.

    The White Lotus
    Between the lines: what do White Lotus characters’ book choices tell us?

  • Dua Lipa performing in Melbourne, March 2025.

    Music
    Dua Lipa wins second copyright case over single Levitating

  • A woman looks at a DVD.

    Review
    The Life List review – overly neat Netflix weepie leaves dry eyes

  • Cynthia Erivo in Number One on the Call Sheet.

    TV review
    Number One on the Call Sheet review – a spectacular tribute to black excellence in Hollywood

  • Warfare film still - Will Poulter Navy SEALs overwatch the movement of U.S. forces through insurgent territory in Iraq in 2006. Release date: 18 April 2025 (UK) Directed by: Ray Mendoza; Alex Garland

    Review
    Warfare review – film-makers’ message gets lost in the deafening blizzard of battle

Lifestyle

  • Vincent Thurkettle Experience<br>For The Guardian Saturday Magazine Experience. Pictured is Gold Prospector Vincent Thurkettle, 69, who once found a £50K gold nugget. Vincent is pictured practicing panning for gold in the Little Ouse River near his home. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    Experience
    I’m a professional gold hunter

  • Concerned friend-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My boss treats me like a lazy teenager. How can I set some boundaries?

    The sad truth is that most people with ‘bad bosses’ leave the job, but it’s early days and you want to make it work, so here are some options you could pursue
  • 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

    Items taken from a mountain of discarded garments in the Atacama desert were sold for the price of shipping in a fightback against the ‘racist and colonialist’ dumping of unwanted clothing

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

    Well Actually
    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

    Well actually
    ‘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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  • Elderly man and woman embracing on outdoor bench

    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
    Share your thoughts on Trump’s second term in office so far

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From our global editions

  • Three participants sit in a bath, their heads and bodies covered with red sheer 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

  • A black and white photo-style mural of Richard Burton on the side of a three-storey building

    Wales
    ‘A beloved figure’: Welsh village ready for tourists as Richard Burton biopic opens

  • Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Aren B. Palik, vice president of the Federated States of Micronesia

    Analysis
    China looks south as it seeks to reduce reliance on a capricious United States

In case you missed it

  • 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

    The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?
  • 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

    A controversial landfill near Barrancabermeja has polluted protected wetlands, causing harm to people and the environment, claim local campaigners
  • a woman sitting on a sofa with two boys and a girl with her leg in a cast

    Israel-Gaza war
    There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world. What can the future hold for them?

  • a woman being arrested

    US immigration
    DoJ lawyers say detained Tufts student was sent to Louisiana before court order

  • Map of US wildfire risk

    Climate crisis
    Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

  • a person walking by another person sleeping on the sidewalk in front of a Rolex store

    Seattle
    Unhoused Seattle man runs for mayor from a tent: ‘It’s a humanitarian crisis’

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  • Lira, one of five rescue lions from Ukraine rehomed at the Big Cat Sanctuary in Ashford, Kent, UK.

    The week in wildlife
    Relief for traumatised lions, a shy deer and a stork doing yoga

  • Get your freak on … Missy Elliott, by Derek Banks, circa 2019.

    Music
    Chic, Missy and Bryan Ferry’s wallpaper: 75 years of Atlantic Records

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