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  • protesters in Tel Aviv with sign in Hebrew in front of them

    Gaza
    Hamas reportedly agrees to release five living Israeli hostages for ceasefire

  • Dr Sophie Chandauka and Prince Harry

    UK
    Prince Harry accused of bullying ‘at scale’ by chair of charity he founded

    • Tesla
      Protests hit dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk

    • Trump administration
      Most employees at US Institute of Peace mass-fired via late-night email

    • Harvard University
      Two leaders of university's Middle Eastern studies center to step down

    • Turkey
      Turkey says Swedish journalist detained on terror charges and for ‘insulting the president’

    • The fight for democracy
      Wisconsin supreme court race a litmus test for Elon Musk’s political power

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

Trump presidency

  • IRAN-DEMO-ISRAEL-AHMADINEJAD<br>Escorted by his bodyguards, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) attends an anti-Israeli rally after Friday prayer in Tehran, 07 July 2006. A leading hardline Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, (not shown in the picture) today accused Israel of exploiting international public attention on the World Cup in order to commit "dastardly deeds" in the Gaza Strip. PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Iran
    Is Trump’s authoritarian lurch following Ahmadinejad's playbook?

  • 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

  • People in a hallway walking

    US military
    Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr

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

In focus

  • Ahmed Dababish and his two surviving children Aisha and Muadh

    Middle East
    ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killed

  • a road by the sea at night

    Crime
    ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

    The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix series
  • Illustration of Trump speaking as a red line portrays a distressing sound coming out of his mouth as a child, whose head is being held by their parent, recoils

    Vaccines
    My child has autism. Trump and RFK Jr linking it to vaccines scares parents like me

Spotlight

  • Carrie Coon wearing a leather jacket

    The White Lotus
    ‘I go for the jugular’: Carrie Coon on The White Lotus, female friendship and toxic politics

    Fearsomely authentic, Carrie Coon has dazzled in a host of roles, from The Leftovers to Gone Girl and Fargo. With the latest season of The White Lotus glueing us to our screens, she talks about US politics, freedom and finding her voice
  • Illustration by Lynsey Irvine/Observer Design of Donald Trump with film reels for hair and eyes.

    Film
    Visions of America: 25 movies to help understand the US today

  • ‘I even placed an outdoor bathtub and shower on the terrace, so I never lose the feeling of being outside’: Marcantonio.

    Homes
    Take the roof off: outside meets inside in a radically artistic Italian house

    A creative couple’s house in the Romagna countryside is where sculptural simplicity meets curated eclecticism
  • An older couple walking through the the picturesque village of Bibury

    Tourism
    The most beautiful village in England: how Bibury became a victim of its charm

    Once a tranquil haven in the Cotswolds, Bibury now grapples with overtourism as hordes of selfie-snapping visitors pour into its narrow lanes
    • Buying a stamp for a young man inspired Russell to do at least one kind thing for a stranger every day.

      Wellbeing
      Rewind and be kind: what happens if you do one act of kindness every day?

    • Graydon Carter.

      Interview
      Graydon Carter: ‘If there was another 9/11 this week, I don’t think the world would rush to support us’

    • Hands of an older person and a younger one

      Ask Philippa
      My much older lover keeps reaching out, then pushing me away

    • Young man packing suitcase in his bedroom

      The Filter
      Always roll your clothes! 13 travel packing hacks to save you space and money – according to seasoned travellers

Opinion

  • Joseph McCarthy gave his name to ‘one of the most severe episodes of political repression the US ever experienced’.

    Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets

    Kenan Malik
    Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America
  • Protestors calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil

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

    John Naughton
    US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary
  • 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
  • JD Vance leaves Greenland on Air Force Two after visiting the US Pituffik Space Base on 28 March.

    The Observer view
    JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice-president should resign

    His foolish foreign trip and the response to the Signal chat leak reflect the irresponsibility of White House team
    • Illustration by David Foldvari of US military emojis

      I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter

      Stewart Lee
    • 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
    • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment Cancer Survivor web version

      Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life

      Matt Forde
    • Man pointing

      This op-ed could lead to me being deported from the US

      Berna León

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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 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
  • Roberto Lugo

    Trump administration
    ‘It’s a scary time’: artists react to White House’s recent targeting of Smithsonian Institution

  • 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?’

  • A man in a blazer

    Presidential commutation
    Trump grants clemency to Ozy Media co-founder convicted of fraud

    • Oregon
      Judge blocks city from enforcing homeless camping ban

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

    • Los Angeles
      ‘God knows what’s in the water’: surfers in limbo as wildfire toxins linger

    • Move fast, kill things
      The tech startups trying to reinvent defense with Silicon Valley values

    • Florida
      College fires Chinese professor under state’s ‘countries of concern’ law

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

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

  • Ballal holds trophy outdoors against blue sky with earth and vegetation behind

    Oscars
    Academy apologises for failure to back Palestinian Oscar winner over attack

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Kyiv accuses Russia of war crime after attack on military hospital in Kharkiv

    • Afghanistan
      US citizen detained by Taliban released to Qatari embassy

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

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

    • Tesla
      ‘Love the car, not the CEO’: how Europe’s Tesla owners feel about their cars - and Elon Musk

    • Second world war
      ‘A common humanity’: the British families who tended graves of German soldiers

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

  • 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

  • Mike Waltz, the White House national security adviser, listens as Donald Trump speaks

    Politics Weekly America
    Trump’s ‘Signalgate’ blame game – 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

  • 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

    The former manchild’s performance as an industry suit in new series The Studio shows how far he has come in Hollywood
  • Pierce Brosnan as Conrad Harrigan and Tom Hardy as Harry Da Souza in the opening episode of MobLand (Paramount Plus).

    Television & radio
    MobLand review – Tom Hardy can pull off miracles! And this show needs a few

  • Psychiatrist Dr William Sargant sat in an armchair at his home in 1975.

    Books
    The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

  • Steve Jones performing on stage

    Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones: ‘I like to fart in front of people. You can tell if someone’s cool from their reaction’

  • George the Poet.

    On my radar
    George the Poet’s cultural highlights

  • 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

Lifestyle

  • Christopher Scanlon and Kasey Edwards

    The moment I knew
    I told him my life was too messed up for a relationship, and he said ‘I’ll wait’

  • 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

  • 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

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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Take part

  • Elderly man and woman embracing on outdoor bench

    Marriage
    Share your experience of being married five times or more

  • 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
    Share your thoughts on Trump’s second term in office so far

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From our global editions

  • Rachel Reeves and Donald Trump.

    UK
    Who is running Britain’s economy – Rachel Reeves or Donald Trump?

  • 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

  • McDonald’s on Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris

    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

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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    Protesters gathered outside Tesla showrooms around the world on Saturday as part of a global day of action against billionaire chief executive Elon Musk
  • A cat lazes on a William Morris fabric design.

    Textile art
    William Morris designs out in the wild

  • 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.

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