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  • Immigrants are processed by US Border Patrol agents after crossing the border.

    US immigration
    Trump administration cuts off legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children

    • Music
      A$AP Rocky found not guilty in gun assault trial

    • Donald Trump
      Trump threatens 25% tariffs on foreign cars and semiconductor chips

    • US news
      Karen Read asks judge to block retrial on two charges in boyfriend’s death

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Hamas says it will hand over bodies of Bibas family and free six hostages

    • Vatican
      Pope Francis has double pneumonia as tests reveal ‘complex’ medical situation

    • Environment
      Wild fish can tell humans apart when they dress differently, study finds

  • Native American activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years<br>Native American activist Leonard Peltier poses for a photo following his release from federal prison, in Coleman, Florida, U.S., February 18, 2025. ANGEL WHITE EYES/NDN COLLECTIVE/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

    Justice system
    Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison: ‘Finally free’

  • A barge and crane lift debris from a river as a plane takes off.

    Air transport
    Trump administration firing FAA staff including safety workers despite recent crashes

  • men standing outside

    Immigration
    Immigrants detained at mandatory check-ins and court hearings

  • aa man in a hoodie looks ahead

    Analysis
    Fetterman flight: from Sanders-style progressive to Trump-adjacent senator

In focus

  • Background of line chart showing weekly polling averages of voting intention in the 2025 German federal election. A Euro coin with an eagle and surrounded by the stars of Europe is within a black silhouette of Germany.

    Germany
    The rise of the far right, global trade and Ukraine’s future: why the German election matters – visual explainer

  • Veiled women in a radio station studio.

    Women's rights
    Off air: One by one, the Taliban are removing women’s voices from Afghan radio

    As one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view of the crackdown on women working in the media
  • People who were rescued from scam centers cross from Myanmar to Thailand aboard a barge, at the Myanmar-Thai border of Phop Phra district, near Mae Sot, Tak province, northern Thailand, 12 February 2025.

    Gangs
    Thousands rescued from illegal scam compounds in Myanmar as Thailand launches huge crackdown

    Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for criminal syndicates operating online scam operations and tricking thousands into enslaved work

Spotlight

  • Steve Rose peering over a table top filled with non-alcoholic spirit bottles and vegetables

    Life and style
    ‘Gaba is the off switch of the brain’: Is it also the answer to better sleep, sobriety and less anxiety?

    Products that enhance the uptake of this neurotransmitter are burgeoning - including drinks that mimic the effects of alcohol, without the hangover. Here’s what happened when I tried them
  • Las Vegas Celebrates 70 Years As The Wedding Capital Of The World With Mass Marriage Vow Renewal Ceremony<br>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - SEPTEMBER 03: Singer Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers performs during the production "Las Vegas Will You Marry Me" before a wedding vow renewal ceremony for nearly 300 couples as Las Vegas celebrates 70 years as the Wedding Capital of the World at Caesars Palace on September 03, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clark County, Nevada, has held more than five million weddings since 1953, when the Daily Herald in London published an article referring to Las Vegas as the "Wedding Capital of the World." (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

    Music
    The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley: ‘I’ve had some real downs’

  • Kate Moss, by Glen Luchford, styled by Venetia Scott, March 1993, ©Glen Luchford

    In pictures
    Kate, Kylie, Kim … and a topless Iggy: faces of the Face magazine

    Through the 80s and 90s, the British style glossy defined pop and magazine culture – as a dazzling new exhibition shows
  • Polly Hudson and her husband Nick, photographed at their wedding

    A moment that changed me
    I took my husband for granted – until I met three single women at a party

    After 14 years of marriage, our relationship was comfortable, but slightly complacent. A sudden glimpse into the world of dating apps gave me a new appreciation for what I have
    • a boy wearing a brown shirt and jeans sits against a wall and looks ahead

      Oscars 2025
      ‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar-nominated Nickel Boys

    • illustration of smiley faces, hearts and a striped milestone marker with spots such as 'you have a match', 'meet the friends' and 'you're my life partner'

      How to start
      Take good pictures and embrace the apps: how to start dating

    • Aerial view of cropfields in the outskirts of the city of Giugliano, showing a road where rubbish has been illegally dumped.

      Italy
      ‘Triangle of death’: will Italy finally tackle mafia’s toxic waste dumping?

    • US Presidential Inauguration, Liberty Ball, Washington DC, USA - 20 Jan 2017<br>Chrisette Michele (Photo by Clint Spaulding/Penske Media via Getty Images)

      Music
      Chrisette Michelle sang for Trump in 2017. The backlash lasted years: ‘I thought they’d never stop hating me’

  • Composite illustration of Keir Starmer and Bridget Jones characters.

    Afflicted with liberal angst in the age of Trump? Take a leaf from Bridget Jones’s diary

    Rafael Behr
    The new movie wasn’t conceived as an allegory of the current international crisis, but for a generation of fans it works on that level, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
  • Yair Wallach

    Trump’s Gaza takeover won’t happen. But it has already changed the face of Israeli politics

    Yair Wallach
  • Zoe Williams

    James Murdoch has spilled the beans, and the reality is more miserable than we – or Succession – ever imagined

    Zoe Williams
  • Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on 11 February.

    Musk’s rampage through government shows us how we can finally close the book on what Trumpism is all about

    Osita Nwanevu
    Trump, Musk and the Republican party are happily overriding parts of the constitution, and using means of questionable legality to cripple the federal government
    • María Ramírez

      Why is Spain’s economy booming? Thanks to migration – which proves xenophobia doesn’t pay

      María Ramírez
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • George Monbiot

      There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens

      George Monbiot
    • Steve Witkoff (left), Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz with Yuri Ushakov and Sergei Lavrov (right) in Riyadh.

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on Trump’s diplomacy: when the US knows the price and ignores values

  • Mark Price, right, of the Cleveland Cavaliers dribbles the ball while defended by Muggsy Bogues of the Washington Bullets during a 1987 game.

    NBA
    Too long, didn’t remember: stars that time (and the internet) forgot

    We look back at seven ex-NBA stars who contributed a great deal to the league, but whose stories also risk being lost to time thanks to vanishing modern attention spans
  • Christina Lustenberger

    Mountaineering
    Pioneering ski-mountaineer Christina Lustenberger on life in a ‘wildly dangerous space’

    The Canadian is known for her first descents in some of the world’s most hostile environments. She says confronting doubt is part of the process
    • Max Verstappen at a press conference for F175

      Formula One
      FIA's 'lost sight of what matters' – Verstappen on anti-swearing drive

    • Emma Raducanu on her way to defeat by Karolina Muchova

      Tennis
      Raducanu fights back tears during narrow Dubai loss to Muchova

    • Jude Bellingham trains for Real Madrid’s home Champions League playoff against Manchester City.

      Real’s referee conspiracies overshadow Man City’s visit

      Sid Lowe in Madrid
    • Italy's Jannik Sinner serves during the 2024 US Open

      Tennis
      Sinner case ‘a million miles from doping’, claims Wada official

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  • An American flag at the entrance to an oil lease

    Democracy and justice
    ‘The path forward is clear’: how Trump taking office has ‘turbocharged’ climate accountability efforts

  • 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

  • Men in military uniforms hold rifles and are surrounded by weapons

    Sudan
    Sudan paramilitary group kills more than 200 people in three-day attack, activists say

    The Emergency Lawyers network said the RSF killed civilians south of Khartoum, with hundreds more either wounded or missing
  • A Delta Air Lines plane lies upside down

    Canada
    New footage shows Delta plane flipping over in fiery crash landing in Toronto

  • A black couple riding bicycles in woodland

    Life expectancy
    Environment more crucial than genes in risk of early death, study suggests

  • a man relaxes in an indoor pool at a Japanese hot spring or onsen

    Japan
    Three resort workers die in suspected gas poisoning near hot spring in Japan

    • Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
      Drone squad ‘destroys rare North Korean howitzer’

    • Andrew Tate
      Andrew Tate’s alleged victims urge US to stay out of Romanian criminal proceedings

    • José Aprígio da Silva
      Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide

    • Italy
      Thousands of tourists flock to see Etna eruption, blocking rescue services

    • Democratic Republic of the Congo
      UN rights body accuses Rwanda-backed militia of killing children in eastern DRC

    • War crimes
      Syrian authorities arrest three men with suspected links to Tadamon massacre

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • A military facility destroyed by shelling near Kyiv, 1 March 2022. Photograph: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine – podcast

  • British prime minister Keir Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron shaking hands

    Today in Focus
    Will British troops be sent to Ukraine? – podcast

  • Arsenal FC v Tottenham Hotspur FC - Barclays Women's Super League<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 16: Chloe Kelly of Arsenal shoots towards goal during the Barclays Women's Super League match between Arsenal FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC at Emirates Stadium on February 16, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    North London is red again as WSL’s top four all win – Women’s Football Weekly

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    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep1: Gary Kemp, musician

  • Domestic cat with a bird in its mouth

    Science Weekly
    Should we ban cats? – podcast

  • Oscars composite 2025. Clockwise from top left: Anora, The Brutalist, The Substance, Nickel Boys

    Oscars 2025
    Best picture nominees – reviews, awards and where to watch

    What to know about the 10 films nominated for the Academy Award’s biggest prize, along with the reviews, interviews and the big prizes earned so far
  • Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why A Complete Unknown should win the best picture Oscar

  • Eilish on stage in Brisbane

    Billie Eilish
    Billie Eilish review – snarls, seduction and moments of sheer rapture

  • art of person walking through burned wreckage with flowers sticking out of their head

    California wildfires
    Their studios burned. Their art was destroyed. A new exhibit of more than 80 LA artists devastated by fire

  • Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller and Rick Buckler of The Jam.

    Culture
    Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam, dies aged 69 after short illness

  • Seagull (Sarf Coastin'), by Elaine Constantine, styled by Polly Banks, December 1997, © Elaine Constantine

    Art and design
    The Face Magazine: Culture Shift review – rebellious fashion photography with a raucous sense of fun

  • Brightly coloured 1970s style illustration of Gen Z’s love of lowercase type

    Society
    The death of capital letters: why gen Z loves lowercase

  • A man in a car holds a sign saying 'I love you'

    Pass notes
    Men say ‘I love you’ first – but are they really more romantic than women?

    New research suggests heterosexual men are far more given to shows of emotion – and earlier in a relationship – than women. But what is really behind this romance gap?
  • Riaz Phillips' sweet potato and coconut curry.

    Kitchen aide
    How to use up the remains of a can of coconut milk

    Dont be shy: use the last drops of that aromatic liquor in coconut rice, soup, curries and even your morning porridge
  • 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

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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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    Migration
    Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised

  • A woman wearing wellies stands ankle-deep at the edge of a large body of water

    Environment
    I’m obsessed with fish that clean other fish: they remember their clients, much like a hairdresser

  • A man stands holding a rubbish bag on top of a large pile of dumped rubbish in a field in Turkey.

    The long read
    Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish

  • A busy Barcelona street at night

    Spain
    How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar

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  • Workers in protective clothing work among a destroyed home.

    California wildfires
    ‘An unprecedented situation’: EPA plan for LA wildfire cleanup stirs protests over toxic dangers

  • a composite image showing Eric Adams and Donald Trump

    Eric Adams
    Eric Adams, Trump and a New York story that’s stress-testing the rule of law

    The Trump DoJ’s move to drop corruption charges against the US’s highest-profile mayor has caused alarm
  • An image from the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special

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

    A parade of ex cast members and celebrity hosts came together for a mammoth anniversary extravaganza celebrating the long-running comedy show
  • Trump and Zelenskyy at a meeting in New York in September.

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

  • 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?

  • 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
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    Photos of the day
    Protests, plum blossom and the Steel Heart of Azov

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

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    The big picture
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