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  • Satellite view of an area of land with cutouts of portraits of three people and the buildings in which they are being held.

    ‘Detention Alley’
    Inside the Ice centers in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

    Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
  • People hold large sign that says Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy.

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

Trump presidency

  • 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

  • A man in a blazer

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

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr

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

In focus

  • 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

  • Roberto Lugo

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

  • 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

Spotlight

  • Young person with basketball

    ‘We play for Indian country’
    How the Bilingual Basketball league is preserving Indigenous languages

    Despite drastic cuts by the Trump administration, Native American coaches are teaching and defending traditions
  • Alysa Liu won a gold medal on Friday in only her second appearance at a world championships.

    Figure skating
    Alysa Liu left figure skating behind. She came back better than ever

Opinion

  • 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
    In his final column, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator says America under Trump is not the first time it has caused trouble for allies
  • Protestors calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil

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

    John Naughton
  • Snowcapped mountains appear through the clouds above Nuuk, Greenland.

    A tip for JD Vance: Greenland doesn’t care about your frail human ego

    Sarah Ditum
    My own trip to Nuuk showed me you can’t just rock up and attempt to bend all that bleak, rugged terrain to your will
  • 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
    • Man pointing

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

      Berna León
    • cartoon drawings of humorous satirical government officials

      Uncivil service: meet Trump’s new bro-eaucracy

      Adam Bessie and Jason Novak
    • miller speaks in front of white house and batch of reporters

      The Signal chat exposes the administration’s incompetence – and its pecking order

      Sidney Blumenthal
    • Wellbeing CreativityandAI *WEB VERSION*

      AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world?

      Joseph Earp

Sports

  • Aryna Sabalenka poses with the trophy after her Miami Open triumph

    Tennis
    Sabalenka dominates Pegula to cruise to Miami Open title

  • Barbra Banda celebrates scoring against Kansas City Current in a playoff match in November 2024

    Banda stuck in swirl of double standards and misinformation

    Suzanne Wrack
    We should be talking about how we help everyone enjoy sport, but instead players are being targeted in a dehumanising way
    • Novak Djokovic acknowledges the applause from the crowd.

      Miami Open
      Defiant Djokovic on verge of making more history against teenage star

    • Ryan Yates (right) celebrates with Elliot Anderson after scoring the winning penalty

      FA Cup goes back to the future as Nottingham Forest do an FAR Rabat

      Jonathan Wilson
    • Head coach Bruce Pearl of the Auburn Tigers celebrates with his players after defeating the Michigan Wolverines 78-65 in the South regional semi-finals on Friday night.

      NCAA Tournament 2025
      Top seed Auburn claw back to join MSU, Tennessee and Houston in Elite Eight

    • a man looking at the camera

      ‘A dangerous epidemic in boxing’
      The tragic, cautionary tale of Paul Bamba

      Thomas Hauser
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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 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?’

    Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage
  • person under a bridge

    Oregon
    Judge blocks city from enforcing homeless camping ban

  • a view of a college campus

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

  • Planes on tarmac

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

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

    • Andrew Tate
      Andrew Tate’s ex-girlfriend accuses him of sexual assault and battery

    • New York
      Student loan startup founder found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175m

    • Florida
      ‘Among the worst conditions’: Florida theme park raided after dolphin deaths

    • Politics briefing
      Vance stakes US claim for Greenland as island’s new coalition insists it ‘belongs to us’

    • Columbia University
      Columbia’s president steps aside for new leadership at embattled university

Around the world

  • Giorgia Meloni speaking on Saturday

    Italy
    Italian PM calls for ‘reasoned’ approach to escalating tariff war between EU and US

    Giorgia Meloni says it is her responsibility to defend transatlantic unity in face of looming US levies
  • 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

  • a protest in Istanbul with lots of flags and demonstrators

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

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

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

    • 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

    • TikTok
      ‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study

    • UK
      Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Russian drone attack kills four in Dnipro as Zelenskyy cautious on new US minerals deal

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

  • 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’

    The punk guitarist on the ideal length of gigs, stealing from David Bowie’s trucks and dealing with an ornery Jerry Lee Lewis
  • 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

  • Man speaking into microphone

    Film
    From campus to police state: a new documentary goes inside the Columbia university protests

  • Author Vincenzo Latronico photographed in Milan, Italy on 18th March 2025

    Books interview
    Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’

  • Toby Jones as Philip Burton and Harry Lawtey as Richard, Burton.

    Film
    ‘His genius is elusive’: Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones on bringing Richard Burton back to the screen

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

  • A McDonald's sign

    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

  • Three women sit in a pink bath, their heads and bodies covered with red fabric

    Australia
    Inside the luxury Melbourne retreat where women pay $6,500 to get in touch with their vaginas

  • A black and white photo-style mural of Richard Burton on the side of a three-storey building

    Wales
    ‘A beloved figure’: Welsh village ready for tourists as Richard Burton biopic opens

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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    Global protests against Tesla CEO Elon Musk – video

    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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    Cate Blanchett, Heston Blumenthal, FKA twigs: best original Observer photography

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