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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

  • Den San, 33, waits for news of her brother, Thailand
    Den San, 33, waits for news of her brother, Thailand
    People remain trapped under a collapsed skyscraper in Bangkok
    People remain trapped under a collapsed skyscraper in Bangkok
    The Maha Myat Muni Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar
    The Maha Myat Muni Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar
    A rescue worker in Bangkok, Thailand
    A rescue worker in Bangkok, Thailand
    Rescue workers dig for survivors in Myanmar
    Rescue workers dig for survivors in Myanmar

    Myanmar and Thailand earthquake live
    Death toll rises to 1,644 amid race to find survivors

    Myanmar’s military rulers have called for ‘any country, any organisation’ to help as concerns grow over how rescuers will reach affected areas
    • A protest outside a Tesla dealership in west London, UK, on Saturday.

      UK
      Protesters picket London Tesla showroom on global anti-Musk day

    • Atlanta
      Rapper Young Scooter dead after jumping fence in Atlanta police chase

    • Italy
      Italian PM calls for ‘reasoned’ approach to escalating tariff war between EU and US

    • HHS job cuts
      Gutting US health agency will allow for private sector takeover, experts warn

    • Turkey
      Opposition rallies in defense of jailed Istanbul mayor in mass protest

    • Robert F Kennedy Jr
      Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

    • Washington DC
      Close call between Delta plane and military craft at Reagan National airport

    • Solar eclipse
      Skygazers gather across northern hemisphere to glimpse partial solar eclipse

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

  • US vice-president JD Vance, left, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, centre, and national security adviser Mike Waltz in the Oval Office

    Signal group chat scandal
    Trump has managed to spin Signalgate as a media lapse, not a major security breach

  • 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

    The university had a history of being a home for cutting-edge discourse on Palestine – until it capitulated to the administration’s demands
  • 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

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
  • Dark-haired young woman in strapless black dress talks to a smiling Seth Rogen in white shirt and black bow tie at a dinner table

    Seth Rogen
    From Hollywood’s goofy stoner to serious satire: the reinvention of Seth Rogen

Opinion

  • In this 7 December 1941 file photo released by the US Navy, sailors stand among wrecked airplanes as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

    Britain has been paying a high price for Uncle Sam’s craziness. It’s time to turn to Europe

    Simon Tisdall
    In his final column, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator says America under Trump is not the first time it has caused trouble for allies
  • Protestors calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil

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

    John Naughton
  • Snowcapped mountains appear through the clouds above Nuuk, Greenland.

    A tip for JD Vance: Greenland doesn’t care about your frail human ego

    Sarah Ditum
    My own trip to Nuuk showed me you can’t just rock up and attempt to bend all that bleak, rugged terrain to your will
  • 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
    • cartoon drawings of humorous satirical government officials

      Uncivil service: meet Trump’s new bro-eaucracy

      Adam Bessie and Jason Novak
    • 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
    • a woman smiles as she holds an apple at an orchard

      The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide

      Moira Donegan

Sports

  • 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
    We should be talking about how we help everyone enjoy sport, but instead players are being targeted in a dehumanising way
  • 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
    • Novak Djokovic acknowledges the applause from the crowd.

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

    • 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
  • An unhoused person in in Grants Pass, Oregon, in 2024.

    Oregon
    Judge blocks city from enforcing homeless camping ban

  • 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

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

    • 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

Around the world

  • U.S. Vice President JD Vance tours the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on March 28, 2025. Jim Watson/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Greenland
    Denmark hits back at ‘tone’ of JD Vance’s criticism over Greenland

    ‘This is not how you talk to your close allies,’ says Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
  • 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

  • Relatives mourn for a civil defence official who was killed by the Israeli army in Rafah, Gaza

    Gaza
    Israel admits firing at ambulances after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah

    Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says
    • 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
      Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Russian drone attack kills four in Dnipro as Zelenskyy cautious on new US minerals deal

    • 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

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

  • George the Poet.

    On my radar
    George the Poet’s cultural highlights

  • 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

Lifestyle

  • Close-up of the faces of a man (on left) and woman, lips close, about to kiss

    Relationships
    ‘My patient was happy with her partner of 25 years – then started a torrid affair’: a psychotherapist on why people cheat

  • How we do it illustration for 29 March, Rory and Anna

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘I only have months to live but sex makes all my despair fall away’

    Rory recently received a terminal diagnosis, but he and his wife Anna are determined to keep enjoying the physical side of their relationship for as long as possible
  • Almond tree<br>Mountains of Asturias in the north of Spain in a sunny day

    Spain holidays
    Where cider houses rule in Spain: a tour of Asturias

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

  • A McDonald's sign

    France
    Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump

  • 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

  • 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

  • Woman on bridge

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

  • Grid of 54 different face emojis

    Emojis
    Emojis are now everywhere – but using them can be a minefield

    Born of our craving for nuance, these ubiquitous little icons are now causing confusion themselves
  • 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

    In the age of Ozempic and extreme dieting, slimness is still prized over any other body shape – but you don’t have to shrink your frame in order to be powerful, supple and healthy
  • a man looking at the camera

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

  • 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?

  • 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?

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  • A cat lazes on a William Morris fabric design.

    Textile art
    William Morris designs out in the wild

    A new exhibition celebrates the English textile artist’s enduring popularity
  • People look at the collapsed Maha Myat Muni Pagoda following an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar.

    In pictures
    ‘Our town looks like a collapsed city’: Myanmar earthquake

  • Pink-coloured building leans at an angle after earthquake

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

  • Statue in near darkness with crescent of sun in sky with moon partly covering

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

  • Cate Blanchett photographed for the Observer magazine.

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

  • Police officers use pepper spray on a demonstrator wearing a long dress and a tall headpiece. Beside them other police officers are wearing helmets and holding up shields

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