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  • a band performs on stage

    US immigration
    Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US

  • An octopus rides on a shark.

    'Sharktopus'
    Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israel to ‘seize more ground’ and warns Hamas it will annex parts of Gaza

    • Heathrow airport
      Counter-terror police leading inquiry into ‘unprecedented’ Heathrow fire

    • US bridges
      Baltimore bridge was 30 times above acceptable risk of collapse, officials say

    • California
      US judge shares firearm tutorial video in dissent against gun control ruling

    • Ukraine
      Russia continues strikes on Ukraine as drones hit Odesa overnight

    • New York
      Pirate booted out: popcorn mogul’s coup in New York village falls flat

Trump presidency

  • four people sit on stage and listen to an audience member

    Opposition
    Democrats’ US tour gathers support in fight against Trump: ‘Get angry, man’

  • Experts in child safety say the policy is fostering a climate of fear.

    Law
    ‘People will die’: alarm as Trump’s DEI rollback hits anti-trafficking efforts

  • two men and a child stand outside next to a red car

    Tesla
    Elon Musk tells Tesla employees to hold on to their stock amid harsh selloff

  • Three photos of young Venezuelan men proudly showing their tattoos

    Venezuela
    ‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art?

In focus

  • Graphic

    Pollution
    Mysterious bags of ‘hazardous’ materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

  • A polar base on a sheer cliff, seen from above

    Science
    Crisis in Antarctica: can science teams ever prepare for isolated assignments?

    Alleged assault at polar base shows the importance of research on cabin fever – including on future Mars missions
  • Eggs and a sign that says Due to limited supply please limit 3 eggs

    US-Mexico border
    ‘Eggflation’ sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await

    ‘Egg interceptions’ are up more than 150% at some ports of entry as a US avian flu outbreak fuels shortages

Spotlight

  • Toy figures of people are seen in front of the displayed Apple TV+ logo

    Television
    Big stars, little shine: is anyone actually watching Apple TV+ shows?

    The service might boast A-listers like Natalie Portman and Colin Farrell but in a competitive streaming landscape, it’s struggling to be heard
  • A young woman in a summer dress and trainers sitting on a grassy bank

    Experience
    I’m allergic to nearly everything

  • Caitie Cornford, 22, at Thirroul Service Station in New South Wales, Australia

    Cars
    Female mechanics take the wheel: ‘I was sick of paying old, grumpy men to fix it’

    Sick of being overcharged and underestimated, women are steering towards female mechanics to fix their vehicles and learn basic car maintenance
  • a composite image showing Jerry Lee Lewis and Henry Ford

    This Guy Sucked
    A scholar and a hater: new podcast focuses on historical figures that suck

    Claire Aubin’s podcast This Guy Sucked explores the viler actions of ‘great men’ for a more holistic view of history
    • Friendship Breakdown - woman woman-01

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      I am insanely jealous of my husband’s ex-colleague. How can I move on?

    • Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez.

      Film
      Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco: I Said I Loved You First review – besotted but bland

    • two women in gowns and a man

      Film
      How did Snow White become the year’s most cursed movie?

    • Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence

      Television
      ‘Watch closely and you see the camera operator’: seven things you didn’t know about Adolescence

Opinion

  • FILE PHOTO: Senate weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill<br>FILE PHOTO: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks with reporters following the Senate Democrats weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 25, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

    Politics have changed but the Democrats haven’t – they are old and out of touch

    Moira Donegan
    Leading Democrats vainly hope for a return to the politics of the past – they must engage with the realities of the present
  • protesters at columbia

    The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism

    Thomas Anthony Durkin and Bernard Harcourt
  • Shaima Al-Obaidi

    I spoke to children in Gaza this week and here’s what they told me: they just want to live

    Shaima Al-Obaidi
  • kids laugh in a library

    Trump’s attack on libraries was predictable. Its consequences could be devastating

    Leo S Lo
    The president wants to eliminate the agency backing libraries and museums. But the institutions do far more than lend books
    • Jonathan Freedland

      Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Illustration of workers using abstract AI. The AI projects windows of profiles and figures. The figures are ambiguous and cannot be identified by race or ethnicity but only as human.

      Could AI help us build a more racially just society?

      Sanmi Koyejo
    • Marina Hyde

      So it’s victory for Kirsty Coventry in the IOC elections. Who says cards with a rigged deck isn’t an Olympic sport?

      Marina Hyde
    • Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller and Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence.

      Keir Starmer praised Adolescence. Now he needs to show he’s learned from it

      Gaby Hinsliff

Sports

  • Artist's impression of the Aramco Stadium in the eastern city of Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

    World Cup
    First migrant worker dies building a Saudi stadium

    Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, was a foreman building Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar, one of 11 new venues for 2034
  • Los Angeles Lakers guard Bronny James, right, drives toward the basket as Milwaukee Bucks guard Ryan Rollins defends during the first half of Thursday’s game.

    NBA
    Bronny James sets new career highs in depleted Lakers’ loss to Bucks

    The oldest son of LeBron James set career highs with 17 points and five assists in his most extensive NBA minutes in a 118-89 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night
    • The Boston Banshees get down to work in training.

      Rugby union
      Women’s Elite Rugby: new league aims to boost US game and – finally – pay its players

    • England v Albania match programme

      Weekend soccer countdown
      Rogers pushing for England start, Club León kicked out of Club World Cup – live

    • Lewis Hamilton celebrates taking pole position with his father Anthony in Shanghai

      Formula One
      Hamilton takes first Ferrari F1 pole for Chinese GP sprint race

    • Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin celebrates after his goal during the first period of Thursday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers in Washington DC.

      NHL
      Capitals’ Ovechkin nets 888th career goal to move seven off Gretzky’s record

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Climate crisis

  • A chunk of ice floats past the Portage Glacier near Girdwood, Alaska

    Climate crisis
    Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN

  • A Galápagos yellow warbler

    Nature
    Traffic noise triggers road rage among male Galápagos birds

  • Rays of sunlight among trees in Savernake Forest

    UK
    New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050

  • A wooden bridge, covered in mud on the road to Waisai, surrounded by rainforest, Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua, Indonesia<br>2GDJ106 A wooden bridge, covered in mud on the road to Waisai, surrounded by rainforest, Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua, Indonesia

    Palm oil
    West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide

Across the country

  • a composite image showing a protest and and an oil refinery

    Democracy and justice
    Greenpeace loss will embolden big oil and gas to pursue protesters: ‘No one will feel safe’

    As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism
  • Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO, is escorted by police in December 2024.

    Brian Thompson shooting
    ‘Hannibal Lecter’ treatment of Luigi Mangione ‘backfired’, says fundraising organizer

  • Man in suit

    Donald Trump
    Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services

  • A Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner taxis past the final assembly building at Boeing South Carolina in North Charleston

    Boeing
    Boeing whistleblower’s family claims company’s conduct caused his suicide

    • Hawaii
      Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava

    • Pam Bondi
      US attorney general to bring charges for Tesla damage, citing ‘domestic terrorism’

    • US politics
      Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Department of Education

    • US immigration
      Judge demands answers from White House on deportation flights to El Salvador

    • Menendez brothers
      Family of Menendez brothers rebuke claims made by LA district attorney

    • Elon Musk
      Tesla chief's daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’

Around the world

  • Alexander Skobov is surrounded by security officers as he arrives for a court hearing last year

    Russia
    Soviet-era dissident given ‘draconian’ jail sentence in Russia for anti-war views

    Alexander Skobov jailed for 16 years over social media post and alleged involvement in opposition group
  • Arve Hjalmar Holmen looking at the camera

    Technology
    Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

  • Daily newspapers with covers, dedicated to the recent phone call of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, are laid out at a newsstand in a street in Moscow

    Analysis
    How Trump’s diplomacy resembles a game of broken telephone

  • An exterior of an AstraZeneca office with the logo on the outside of the building

    Business
    AstraZeneca to invest $2.5bn in drugs research and manfacturing in Beijing

    • World Cup
      First migrant worker dies building a World Cup stadium in Saudi Arabia

    • Serbia
      Calls grow in Serbia for investigation into claims ‘sound cannon’ targeted protesters

    • Law
      Witness statement by Prince Andrew aide should be made public, court rules

    • Africa
      Power struggle leads to coup in Tigray as war looms between Ethiopia and Eritrea

    • World news
      Major-power conflict ‘no longer unimaginable’, Australian intelligence review finds

    • France
      French investigators seek further victims of paedophile surgeon

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Chuck Schumer

    Politics Weekly America
    Why are Democrats so divided? – podcast

  • Composite: Alex Mellon for the Guardian : Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’ – podcast

  • Nicola Slawson sits on the arm of a sofa with Tom Hayes on the seat. (Credit: Fabio De Paola)

    Today in Focus
    Having a baby with your best mate – podcast

  • England Press Conference and Training - St George's Park - Tuesday March 18th<br>England manager Thomas Tuchel addresses players during a training session at St George's Park, Burton upon Trent. Picture date: Tuesday March 18, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER England. Photo credit should read: Mike Egerton/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to FA restrictions. Editorial use only. Commercial use only with prior written consent of the FA. No editing except cropping.

    Football Weekly
    Thomas Tuchel’s England era begins – Football Weekly Extra

  • A person holding an older woman's hands

    Politics Weekly UK
    A day on the frontline of England’s social care crisis – Politics Weekly UK

Culture

  • ‘I find I have a lot of resistance, that’s kind of how I roll.’

    Interview
    ‘Emotions? They’re no big thing, man!’ Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music

    As his lost 70s songs emerge, the Oscar-winner and musician explains how the magic of art keeps him upbeat even after losing homes to LA fires
  • David Heyman and Amy Pascal

    Film
    Harry Potter and Spider-Man producers lined up by Amazon to oversee Bond franchise

  • Fionnula Flanagan in Dublin this month.

    Film
    ‘Just wait until Trump takes away our unions’: Fionnula Flanagan on America, Ireland and acting silent

  • Jimmy Kimmel on the Trump administration: ‘Imagine how racist you have to be to be racist against Jackie Robinson today.’

    Late-night TV roundup
    Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s anti-woke onslaught: ‘It’s hard to wrap your head around’

  • Naomi Watts and David Lynch on the set of Mulholland Drive in 2001.

    Film
    David Lynch ‘wanted to go back to work’ before his death says Naomi Watts

  • The Filmhouse cinema in Edinburgh is due to reopen later this year.

    Culture
    How cinemas are shifting from multiplex to miniplex

Lifestyle

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    You be the judge
    Should my mum have booked a Christmas trip abroad without telling me?

  • A man sitting on a chair by a fence next to a wooded valley, holding the reins of a horse

    Travel
    On the hoof: readers’ favourite horse riding breaks in Europe

    From guided rides for beginners to adventurous multi-day treks, our tipsters share their top horseback holidays from Spain to Sardinia
  • Scarlett Johansson wearing a pink dress with white in-built bra at Cannes

    Fashion
    Bras on show as red carpet trend hits the high street

    With even M&S championing a sexier aesthetic, discretion is out and underwear in the spotlight

Well actually

  • An illustration showing a pixelated human-like figure on a digital watch slowly running into the world outside of the screen.

    Well actually
    ‘Listen to your body’: how to start running

  • an illustration of a cake with a bride and groom and a hand with a brush

    Ask Ugly
    I don’t wear makeup but my wedding is coming up – can I go bare-faced?

  • a painting of a woman looking up in ecstasy

    Well actually
    Romantasy, Bridgerton, audio porn apps: it’s a great time for horny ladies

  • A woman wrapped in towel after bath applying moisturizer on her arm.

    Well actually
    Why urea is the ‘unsexy’ hero of skincare

documentaries
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    US news
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    US immigration
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    Books
    Tell us about your favourite Jane Austen books

  • 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

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    Indigenous art
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  • The Solfatara crater in Pozzuoli, with the island of Nisida and the Sorrento peninsula in the background

    Italy
    ‘The ground keeps breaking and deforming’: life in Italy’s volcanic Phlegraean Fields

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    Art
    ‘I spent six years just repeating dots and lines’: the great painter Arpita Singh on a lifetime in art

  • Activists hold up letters that spell 'Abolish nuclear weapons'

    Nuclear weapons
    ‘Never forget’: Pacific countries remember nuclear test legacy as weapons ban treaty debated

In case you missed it

  • Distorted people laughing in the dark

    Comedy
    ‘This is not comedy! Pay attention’: from Cabaret to Trump rallies, why does audience laughter feel so sinister?

  • women hold signs depicting women who are either missing or murdered

    Native Americans
    ‘A slap in the face’: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report

    The Not Invisible Act Commission’s resource was historic for Native Americans. It’s now been scrubbed from federal websites
  • A bull elk with late-stage chronic wasting disease, which is always fatal and has no cure, in Wind Cave national park, South Dakota, US.

    Disease
    ‘Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US

    The contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose must be taken seriously, say experts as it takes hold in the US and reaches other countries. While it has not infected humans yet, the risk is growing
  • Kirsty Coventry after winning the IOC vote.

    Kirsty Coventry
    So who is Kirsty Coventry, who now has global sport’s most powerful job?

  • man wearing navy suit and white button-down speaks into microphone

    US politics
    Gavin Newsom’s podcast has featured Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. Is this the way to the White House?

  • View over Narsaq, Greenland. The Kvanefjeld/Kuannersuit plateau can be seen in the background.

    Greenland
    Greenland might open a vast uranium deposit to mining. Locals say it could alter their way of life

  • The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at Kitt Peak observatory in Arizona

    Explainer
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