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  • Man in suit at desk with namplate speaks

    Louisiana senator and RFK Jr supporter balks at state’s anti-vaccine move

    Republican Bill Cassidy calls state surgeon general’s halt to promotion of mass vaccination a disservice to parents
  • A sign outside of a burned down property reads 'Altadena' circled by a pink spray-painted heart

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

  • A middle-aged woman in a ball cap and flannel shirts; a man stands in front of a stack of lumber; a younger woman stands near a river.

    In pictures: communities rebuild after devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene

  • An older man in a yellow shirt.

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

  • 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.

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

  • people standing outside hold signs that read 'stop Musk's crime spree' 'take a stand', 'this is a coup' and 'presidents are not kings'

    ‘A particularly heinous villain’: a disdain for Musk has sparked protests across US

  • How a faded New York hotel became a lethal political battleground

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

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

  • DeSantis urged to declare emergency over toxic red tide algae off Florida coast

  • Trump administration fires 20 immigration judges with no explanation

  • Trump administration backtracks on firing nuclear arsenal workers

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

  • Democrats in Congress see potential shutdown as leverage to counter Trump

Opinion

  • 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
  • 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
    The betrayal of Ukraine is a final warning to the UK and its continental allies to put a lot more energy and money into rebuilding their defences
  • a hand holding a marker signs a document

    Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Thanks to Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders attacking a number of terms, ‘women’ is literally being erased
    • pedestrians pass the US department of the Treasury building

      Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse

      Heather Stewart
    • Woman lies asleep on a sofa, remote control in hand.

      Why is it so hard to go to bed? Maybe science has the answer

      Emma Beddington
    • Salman Rushdie wears glasses with one eye shaded out as he speaks into a microphone.

      When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy

      Kenan Malik
    • Illustration by David Foldvari.

      A tale of two suckers: Donald Trump’s plastic straws and Keir Starmer

      Stewart Lee

US sports

  • 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

  • Napheesa Collier, right, drives past Aaliyah Edwards on her way to winning the Unrivaled 1-on-1 basketball final.

    Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 tournament was everything the NBA All-Star Game wants to be

  • Chile’s Joaquin Niemann tees off at Grange Golf Club

    Joaquin Niemann fires seven-under final round to snatch LIV Golf Adelaide title

  • The Warriors’ Draymond Green, center, talks with Chris Paul, left, and Victor Wembanyama of the Spurs ahead of the Kia Skills Challenge on Saturday night at Chase Center.

    Wembanyama and Paul disqualified for attempted hack of NBA Skills Challenge

US politics

  • Demonstrators hold signs as they gather outside a Tesla dealership in Decatur, Georgia. They are holding placards including slogans: 'stop Musk'; 'No Oligarchy!'

    Protesters target Tesla stores in US over Elon Musk’s cost cutting

  • a man wearing a hat and a suit jacket gestures in the Oval Office

    Elon Musk’s mass government cuts could make private companies millions

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    ‘They may be Russian some day’: was this the week that changed the war in Ukraine?

  • Woman waves trans flag and hold sign that says Trans people will always be here.

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

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US business

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    UK rushes forward plans for £2.5bn steel investment after Trump announces tariffs

  • President Trump Signs An Executive Order - DC, Washington - 10 Feb 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Pool/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (15144822aq) US President Donald Trump displays an executive order as Howard Lutnick, chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald LP and US commerce secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, watches in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Trump plans to impose 25% tariffs on all US imports of steel and aluminum, broadening his trade restrictions to some of the countrys top trading partners and seeking to protect domestic industries that helped him win battleground states last year. via Getty Images President Trump Signs An Executive Order - DC, Washington - 10 Feb 2025

    Why is Trump behaving like a bully over tariffs? Because he can

    Gene Marks
    • blue cranes at the Port of Liverpool's Seaforth dock

      Caught in the middle: UK firms brace for fallout from Trump’s global trade war

    • Green logo outside coffee shop

      Missouri sues Starbucks, claiming ‘systemic discrimination’ via DEI

    • Shelves holding bags and packs of Swedish Fish and Cheetos among other products

      Illegal imported sweets ‘flooding UK high streets’, councils say

Pictures & video

  • ‘I fear free speech is in retreat,’ JD Vance rebukes Europe’s leaders – video

  • The US vice-president and the Ukrainian president were locked in bilateral discussions at the Munich Security Conference as part of Donald Trump’s push for a negotiated peace agreement to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have 'good conversation' about Ukraine war – video

    The US vice-president and the Ukrainian president were locked in bilateral discussions at the Munich Security Conference as part of Donald Trump’s push for a negotiated peace agreement to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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    New York rejects Louisiana request to extradite doctor who prescribed abortion pills – video

    New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, has rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged there with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor. 'I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana,' Hochul said at a news conference in Manhattan. 'Not now, not ever'

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