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    US politics
    Actor who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns stars who get political

  • 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

    • Middle East crisis live
      Israel sends negotiators to Cairo as Marco Rubio heads to Saudi Arabia

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

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

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

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

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

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    Trump administration
    ‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts

  • A balding man with a combover salutes a football field.

    Donald Trump
    ‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes

  • a person holds a sign that reads 'stop firing us'

    Politics
    Trump vowed to champion US workers - the reality has been a relentless assault

  • Eric Adams, in a suit and tie, stands near a red carpet and rope cordon, frowning

    Eric Adams
    How a faded New York hotel became a lethal political battleground

In focus

  • Vance standing in front of an autocue

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

  • 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
  • Close-up portrait of Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskyy waves away opening US bid for critical minerals

    President says draft deal did not guarantee Ukraine’s security; diplomatic chaos as US and Russia meet in Riyadh and Macron convenes Europe crisis talks. What we know on day 1,090

Spotlight

  • Q Lazzarus.

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

  • ‘People weren’t ready for it’ … Clément in Meetings With Anna, directed by Chantal Akerman.

    Film
    ‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando

  • Lawyer Elizabeth Barbour, photographed in Roanoke, Virginia

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

    After a spell as Isabella Rossellini’s hand model, Elizabeth Barbour went to law school at 54. Now, she is working on 50 domestic violence cases and says her career is a privilege, not a job
  • 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

    Makeshift hospitals and informal settlements deal with daily influx of those escaping the war in Sudan
    • Ethan Herisse, left, as Elwood and Brandon Wilson at Turner in Nickel Boys.

      Film
      Why Nickel Boys should win the best picture Oscar

    • 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

    • Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review showing the homescreen held in a hand above a table.

      Technology
      Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: still the superphone to beat

    • TOPSHOT-CANADA-CELEBRATION<br>TOPSHOT - A man wearing Canadian flags marches during Canada Day celebrations on July 1, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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

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    It’s never been more important to stay tuned in

    Margaret Sullivan
  • 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
    This mortifying dilemma goes to the very soul of the region - and its leaders have brought it on themselves, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
  • Trump

    Donald Trump has become master of the US Senate

    Sidney Blumenthal
    By voting in favor of nominees they knew should never be approved, Republican senators became Trump’s subjects
  • Donald Trump At Signing Ceremony - USA, Washington, United States - 20 Jan 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Pool/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (15110299o)
President Donald Trump, center, speaks to leadership in the President's Room (L-R) with Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Vice President JD Vance, First Lady Melania Trump, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise as he signs official documents and after being sworn as the 47th president of the United States during the 60th inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2025, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA.
Donald Trump At Signing Ceremony - USA, Washington, United States - 20 Jan 2025

    The courts separate democracy from autocracy. Will Trump defy them?

    Amrit Singh and David Cole
    Thus far, the administration has pursued appeals. But remarks from JD Vance and Elon Musk echo authoritarians worldwide
    • John Healey, the defence secretary, giving a speech

      Europeans are right to be angry with Donald Trump, but they should also be furious with themselves

      Andrew Rawnsley
    • Simon Tisdall

      As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer?

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

    The 15-times major winner Tiger Woods believes the reunification of golf may progress quickly after PGA Tour meetings with US president Donald Trump
    • 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

    • Canada fans cheer their team as they take to the ice ahead of their 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game against the United States in Montreal on Saturday night.

      Political tensions are redoubling Canada’s great hockey anxiety

      Colin Horgan
    • Baltimore Ravens v Houston Texans<br>HOUSTON, TEXAS - DECEMBER 25: Justin Tucker #9 of the Baltimore Ravens sits on the bench in the second half against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on December 25, 2024 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)

      NFL
      Seven more massage therapists Ravens' kicker Tucker of sexual misconduct

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

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

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

  • A bald eagle lands on a branch in Kachemak Bay State Park, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.

    Environment
    A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’?

  • A sign outside of a burned down property reads 'Altadena' circled by a pink spray-painted heart

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

    The Eaton fire destroyed nearly half of the Black households in Altadena, wiping out businesses and wealth
  • 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

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

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

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

    • Trans rights
      US civil rights agency seeks to dismiss gender-identity discrimination cases

    • Trump administration
      US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers

    • Missouri
      Judge strikes down license requirement for abortion providers

    • Brian Thompson shooting
      Man charged in killing of healthcare CEO responds to supporters on website

    • US crime
      Killings across three states shine spotlight on cultlike ‘Zizian’ group

    • Cleveland
      Trump threats to revoke status unsettle Ohio’s Ukrainians: ‘The stress is real’

  • Singapore's Workers' Party Chief Pritam Singh walks outside the State Courts in Singapore February 17, 2025. REUTERS/Edgar Su

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

    Pritam Singh’s conviction is a blow to the city state’s struggling political opposition, which is seeking to challenge the entrenched ruling party in upcoming elections
  • A grain transport barge on the Tietê River in Brazil.

    Cop30
    Brazil asks UN to ditch proposed levy on global shipping

  • Alibaba’s Jack Ma pictured in 2019.

    Chinese economy
    Xi Jinping meets Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Chinese tech chiefs amid economic slump

  • Pictures from the new NZ tourism campaign that is being ridiculed

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

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

    • Russia
      Alexei Navalny supporters visit grave on first anniversary of his death

    • Argentina
      Contraception for capybaras: Buenos Aires suburb’s rodent plan stirs debate

    • Syria
      ‘We live in constant fear’: Alawites in Syria’s Homs terrified of reprisals

    • India
      At least 18 people die in crowd crush at Delhi railway station

    • Austria
      Stabbing that killed teenager was Islamist attack, minister says

Podcasts

Podcasts

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    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

  • Assisted-dying patient Zoë after an interview at the Centre of Expertise on Euthanasia, March 2023. Photograph: Selma van der Bijl

    The Audio Long Read
    How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die – 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
  • A figure carries a mural past a dilapidated building

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

  • Posed portrait of James Longman.

    Books
    The Inherited Mind by James Longman review – a moving memoir of mental illness in the family

  • It would be better not to be that fly …

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    That by Rebecca Watts

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

  • Stars of the The White Lotus series three on a beach in Thailand.

    Television
    The White Lotus: everything you need to know before you watch season three

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    Italy vacations
    10 reasons to visit Italy in 2025: the best new holidays and cultural events

  • 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
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    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

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    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

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Is freezing my eggs the answer?

Sophia embarks on the gruelling journey of harvesting her eggs. She’s in her 30s and feels ambivalent about having kids, so will this safeguard her future? Remarkable documentary Harvest is her personal diary of this time.

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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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    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    Tell us: how has artificial intelligence affected your work?

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

  • A person with a rucksack and sunhat seen from behind on a very green mountain ridge with a range of hills in the background

    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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    First Dog on the Moon
    Living under the yoke of an authoritarian regime? Why not join the Raccoons of the Resistance!

  • Health workers roll out the vaccination campaign in the village of Tuanaimato on September 23, 2021 in Apia, Samoa. Samoa is in lockdown September 23-24, 2021 as the government conducts mass vaccination country-wide in an aim to administer first and second COVID-19 vaccine doses to the eligible population. The two-day effort will target over 32,000 people across the four islands of Samoa. (Photo by Chikara Yoshida/Getty Images)

    Pacific islands
    Explainer: what will the withdrawal of USAid mean for the Pacific?

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

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

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    ‘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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  • 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

    Highlights from 2025’s Bafta ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank
  • 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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    Photos of the day
    An Andean adventurer and banana art

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