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  • Trump and Zelenskyy at a meeting in New York in September.

    Explainer
    What are Ukraine’s critical minerals – and why does Trump want them?

  • a person holds a sign that reads 'resist'

    US immigration
    ‘It comes from racism’: immigrant workers on Trump’s deportation push

  • Aerial view of solar panels in a green field

    US
    Solar has taken off in red states. Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic

  • a stack of organic buffalo tomatoes on sale in a shop with a green price ticket saying  $3.49 a pound weight

    US politics
    Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz

In focus

  • Vance standing in front of an autocue

    Analysis
    ‘It’s Trump’s world’: European leaders divided on how to navigate ‘cacophony’

  • Lachlan Murdoch, James Murdoch, Anna Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch in New York City in 1987

    Media
    James Murdoch lays bare his relationship with ‘misogynist’ father amid succession fight in rare interview

    Rupert Murdoch’s second son reveals bitter details that set the scene for court battle for News Corp empire
  • Vadim Stroykin

    Russia
    Friends of Russian anti-war singer cast doubt on official version of his death

    Vadim Stroykin reported to have killed himself by jumping from a ninth-floor window during visit by security services

Spotlight

  • Laeni Geiseler in What Marielle Knows.

    Review
    What Marielle Knows review – teenager’s telepathic powers reveal parents’ secrets and lies

    In this fantasy-satire of bourgeois family life, a girl is suddenly able to see everything her messed-up parents are up to
  • An image from the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special

    Saturday Night Live recap
    Star-packed 50th special brings laughs and emotion

  • ‘All the great love stories are sad’ … Jean-Claude Vannier conducts his vast mandolin orchestra.

    Music
    ‘Serge Gainsbourg pretended to be an alcoholic’: Jean-Claude Vannier on making a masterpiece with the louche legend

    He has influenced everyone from Beck to De La Soul to Arctic Monkeys. As the great musical ‘disruptor’ unveils his new murder-and-mandolins epic, he looks back on his most famous collaboration
  • Ethan Herisse, left, as Elwood and Brandon Wilson at Turner in Nickel Boys.

    Film
    Why Nickel Boys should win the best picture Oscar

    In the first of our annual Oscar hustings, here why RaMell Ross’s incredibly tender film of Colson Whitehead’s novel should take the top prize
    • Q Lazzarus.

      Film
      ‘It was like she was possessed’: how Q Lazzarus made Silence of the Lambs’ most bewitching song – and then vanished

    • Woman speaking to doctor while sat on a sofa

      Cancer research
      Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission

    • Lawyer Elizabeth Barbour, photographed in Roanoke, Virginia

      A new start after 60
      I got divorced, became a lawyer – and began fighting for other women

    • Ace of bass … Orin O’Brien.

      Film
      ‘I never let a man carry my double bass’: Oscar-hopeful Orin O’Brien on making music – and history

  • Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leader Alice Weidel answers questions in the ZDF programme ‘Klartext’ in Berlin, Germany, February 13, 2025. United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the audience during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.

    The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?

    Zoe Williams
    The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams
  • Grads at ceremony

    Trump and Musk want people to think college is not worth it. They are wrong

    Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti
  • Exterior closeup of Macron and Starmer looking at each other

    ‘Allo ‘Allo! Europe’s leaders get together dans Paris for emergency sommet

    John Crace
    Emmanuel Macron, Kier Starmer and others discuss Trump, Russia and Ukraine at hastily arranged conference
  • Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka in 2019, during Mr Trump’s first presidency.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on the US, China and the rest: Trump is opening doors for Xi

    The US president’s bullying of allies and partners is short-termist and will boost Beijing’s power, not Washington’s
    • Ben Jennings on the victors and victims of Donald Trump’s early second term

      Cartoon
      Ben Jennings on the victors and victims of Donald Trump’s early second term

    • man wearing coat and tie points finger while standing in front of lawn

      It’s never been more important to stay tuned in

      Margaret Sullivan
    • The City of London financial district, 13 February 2025

      The US led the charge against global corruption. Now Trump is clearing the way for kleptocrats

      Oliver Bullough
    • Jordan's King Abdullah meets with Donald Trump in the Oval Offie of the White House, 11 February 2025.

      Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice

      Nesrine Malik
  • Kansas City Chiefs v Buffalo Bills<br>ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 17: Josh Allen #17 of the Buffalo Bills greets Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 30-21 at Highmark Stadium on November 17, 2024 in Orchard Park, New York. (Photo by Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images)

    NFL
    The NFL’s next dynasty: from the Bills to the Eagles to post-imperial chaos

    Some believe Kansas City’s reign at the top of the NFL is over after they were thrashed in the Super Bowl. Who will dominate the league next?
  • Canada’s Cale Makar, left, turns with the puck as Finland’s Joel Armia skates on the forecheck during the first period of Monday’s game in Boston.

    Ice hockey
    Canada beat Finland to set up USA rematch in 4 Nations Face-Off final

  • Bill Russell is congratulated by coach Arnold "Red" Auerbach after scoring his 10,000th point in the NBA

    Race and sport
    Does Boston deserve its troubled reputation around race and sports?

    A new book explores the nuanced history of a city in which Black athletes have been revered and discriminated against in equal measure
  • Shaq’s OGs guard Stephen Curry (30) of the Golden State Warriors holds up the MVP trophy on Sunday night at Chase Center.

    NBA All-Star Weekend
    Hometown hero Curry named MVP of revamped All-Star Game

    An All-Star Game like none other – since it was three games, not one – still had plenty of flash and not a lot of fire on Sunday in San Francisco
    • PGA: The Genesis Invitational - Final Round<br>Feb 16, 2025; San Diego, California, USA; Tiger Woods addresses the fans at The Genesis Invitational golf tournament at Torrey Pines. Mandatory Credit: Denis Poroy-Imagn Images

      Golf
      Tiger Woods expects Trump talks to see LIV golfers back on PGA Tour in 2025

    • Composite photo of Sir Jim Ratcliffe on a Manchester billboard, Patrick Dorgu, Ruben Amorim and Dan Ashworth.

      Amorim’s United are a mess, but issues start at the very top

      Jonathan Wilson
    • Ryan Christie, Rasmus Højlund and David Moyes

      Soccer
      Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

    • Nascar Cup Series driver William Byron (24) does a burn out after winning the Daytona 500 on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.

      Nascar
      Byron wins second straight Daytona 500 after Trump takes laps

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  • Twila Little Brave, 47, a Barnardsville, North Carolina, resident who lost her home in the hurricane, along with flood-damaged homes and vehicles in Swannanoa, the town recently visited by Trump. David Carson, 75, a Barnardsville resident on his farm, where he hosts volunteers who help build tiny homes for hurricane victims.

    North Carolina
    ‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls

  • Chocolate shavings being added to cups of coffee

    Food
    Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles

  • A Being 747-400 jumbo taking off

    Exclusive
    Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body

  • Heavy traffic on the M1

    Automotive emissions
    Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

  • a hand holds a cup under a running faucet

    Health
    Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk, study finds

    Bladder cancer risk increased 33% and colorectal cancer by 15% in using chlorine to disinfect water
  • A photo of Sam Nordquist, wearing a hat and T-shirt outside

    New York
    Five charged with trans man’s murder after ‘repeated acts of torture’

  • FDA link on glass in front of red and pink building

    US
    Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices

  • George Washington's 1777 letter praising attacks by local militia of British forces during the Revolutionary War

    US
    Rare George Washington letter from key point in revolutionary war goes on sale

    • US politics
      Night Agent star who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns actors who get political

    • Martin Luther King Jr
      MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’

    • California wildfires
      The LA fires burned down a thriving Black community. Residents are afraid of being ‘erased’

    • US weather
      At least eight dead in Kentucky flooding with number expected to increase

    • North Carolina
      ‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls

    • Louisiana
      Republican senator who voted for RFK Jr balks at Louisiana anti-vaccine move

  • Pope Francis

    Pope Francis
    Pontiff to stay in hospital because of ‘complex clinical picture’

  • Alibaba’s Jack Ma pictured in 2019.

    Chinese economy
    Xi Jinping tells Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Chinese tech chiefs to ‘show their talent’

    • Asia-Pacific
      Singapore opposition leader, found guilty of lying to parliament, could face electoral ban

    • Cop30
      Brazil asks UN to ditch proposed levy on global shipping

    • Ireland
      Figures show €6bn drop in trade with Great Britain

    • New Zealand
      ‘Everyone must go!’ tourism campaign ridiculed as emigration hits record high

    • Canada
      Trump’s comments prompt surge of patriotism – in a Canadian way

    • UK
      John Major: Trump’s US isolationism threatens global democracy

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • James Maddison scores first during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on February 16th 2025. (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    Football Weekly
    Spurs stumble past United and Liverpool keep on keeping on – Football Weekly

  • Composite: Mike Segar/Reuters/Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age – podcast

  • Noland Arbaugh, the first human recipient of Neuralink's brain-computer interface implant, in Yuma,  Arizona for the Guardian Saturday on December 5, 2024.

    Today in Focus
    The man with Elon Musk’s chip in his brain – podcast

  • Rapper Drake at an NBA game, and Kendrick Lamar on stage during the Super Bowl half-time show

    Weekend
    Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents – podcast

  • Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau talking

    Politics Weekly America
    Oh, Canada! Can Trump just take it? – podcast

  • Ace of bass … Orin O’Brien.

    Film
    ‘I never let a man carry my double bass’: Oscar-hopeful Orin O’Brien on making music – and history

    She caused a sensation in 1966 when she joined the New York Phil and its 103 male musicians. Now the double bassist is the star of The Only Girl in the Orchestra, a documentary nominated for an Academy Award
  • Person putting Bible into ballot box in front of American flag

    Cross Purposes by Jonathan Rauch review
    Crises for Christianity and democracy

  • A figure carries a mural past a dilapidated building

    Film
    A Picture to Remember review – memories of a Donetsk happy childhood before the war

  • A bombed-out room with curtains blowing in the wind

    Film
    Intercepted review – phone taps are a chilling glimpse into Russian soldiers’ minds in Ukraine

  • a man in a red tux singing into a microphone

    My feelgood movie
    ‘It has it all’: why The Wedding Singer is my feelgood movie

  • Family dysfunction … L to r, Liu Haocun as Tian Tian and Wen Qi as Fang Di in Girls on Wire.

    Girls on Wire review
    Chinese behind-the-scenes stunt drama is a spectacle

  • Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy baked trout with beetroot, lentil and pomegranate salad.

    Food
    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy baked trout with beetroot, lentil and pomegranate – recipe

  • Rachel Roddy's hazelnut ragu

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for hazelnut and mushroom ragu with pasta

    Its origins may be a mystery, but what is certain is that this luxuriant alternative to meat ragu is totally delicious
  • Retinols

    Is it true that …
    Is it true that … retinol thins the skin?

    Side effects from using the vitamin A derivative may give people the wrong impression about how it works
  • 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

  • A person with a blanket draped over their body holds a mug and looks out the window

    Well actually
    ‘Mother Nature thinks people should shut down’: why we’re so unmotivated in winter

  • illustration of computer screen

    Well actually
    Are typos lethal in a work email? Nine digital communication tips from an expert

  • A headshot of a blonde woman smiling overlayed with peachy pink tones

    Well actually
    Prolapse, tearing, pain: a urogynecologist on what you should know before giving birth

Documentary link

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

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    Childcare
    US parents: how much do you spend on childcare?

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  • A woman with a covered head and mouth looks directly at the camera. Behind her another woman  sits on a bed comforting a small child, while another woman sits beside her, looking towards the camera.

    Global development
    Young, old, refugees and returnees: thousands fleeing violence cross border into South Sudan

  • An illustration of a naked woman with long luxuriant brown hair and eyes closed sitting crossed legged with her hands in her lap with a huge bunch of roses and foliage in her arms

    Menopause
    The unspoken agony of vaginal dryness: ‘I had to give up four jobs in four years’

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    Global development
    ‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping

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In case you missed it

  • An older man in a yellow shirt.

    Louisiana
    ‘It is going to be terrible’: a senior in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ prepares for Trump’s dismantling of hard-won environmental progress

  • Affectionate mother reading book with adorable toddler daughter<br>A loving mother of Pacific Islander descent sits on the windowsill and reads a storybook to her preschool age daughter. The adorable Eurasian child is sitting on her mother's lap and is pointing with curiosity at the book's pages. Parent reading book to child

    Babies
    Why can’t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?

    Memories emerge earlier in some cultures than others, but researchers have long puzzled over our inability to recall events before two or three years of age
  • Robbie Robson with partner Kristie Graham, her daughter Willow and their son Sefa in 2022 pictured in a field of sunflowers

    Oil rigs
    Offshore worker Robbie Robson was bludgeoned to death on an oil rig. Was it a random attack or does the industry have questions to answer?

    When the contractor started a two-month job in the Persian Gulf, he said it was his final lengthy posting. Six weeks later, he was dead, and a co-worker charged with his murder. What happened?
  • Actresses Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan in a scene from season three of The White Lotus, which is shot in Thailand

    The White Lotus
    ‘A little win for us’: Thailand basks in excitement around show's season three

  • Collage shows a woman with braids surrounded by people at a white table and marchers walking in  aline, with one holding a Black Lesbians sign

    Black, atheist and unapologetic
    The rise of secularism in African American communities

  • composite image of a man in black and white pointing and a woman with her head crossed out with an X, set against the background of a cloister

    US universities
    ‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics

  • A camera covered in tape stationed on a utility pole

    ‘Cop City‘
    Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?

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

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  • A Palestinian boy wanders between makeshift shelters for displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza

    Photos of the day
    A breakdancer, a prize bull and a displaced boy

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Backstage … Adrien Brody, winner of the best actor award for The Brutalist and Mikey Madison, winner of the best actress award for Anora.

    Baftas
    =Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison among big winners – in pictures

  • A photograph in water of a person

    In pictures
    Project helps Spain’s flood survivors restore family photos – in pictures

  • A face looks up and smiles from the centre of a gold, glittering sun mask

    The weekend in pictures
    A parade and an aid convoy

  • A black and white image of child with their hand in a bubble gum machine.

    The big picture
    Hope within reach in 1970s New York

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    Art and design
    Swing time: playgrounds at their most artful

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