Events in Denmark and Italy show geopolitical instability is creating opportunities for a centre-left response to the far rightIn the lead-up to Denmark's snap election on Tuesday, it was revealed that blood supplies were flown into Greenland in January in order to treat Danish military casualties in the event of a US invasion. Against that surreal backdrop, the country's Social Democrat primeminister, Mette Frederiksen, did not need to work too hard to justify a stick to what you know" message in uncertain times.Ms Frederiksen's surprise gamble in calling an early poll duly paid off, but only just. Donald Trump's threatsto annex territory belonging to a Nato ally handed her party a patriotic lifeline, after it had endured a historic humiliation in local contests last November. But in a campaign dominated by domestic issues, the hoped-for Trump bump was modest, meaning that any Frederiksen-led coalition will depend on centrist support. The Social Democratic party remains comfortably the biggest political force, but its vote share dropped markedly compared to the last general election, while rivals to the left and on the far right made notable gains.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Woman pleads not guilty to firing shots at Rihanna's home while the singer and her family were thereA woman from Florida pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the attempted murder of Rihanna.Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, of Orlando, also pleaded not guilty through her attorney to more than a dozen other felony counts in Los Angeles superior court. Continue reading...

Arizona State's head coach has turned around a losing program. Unsurprisingly, much of the discourse on the internet was not based on her leadership skillsIn March 2025, the Arizona State women's basketball team were looking for a coach who could end a drought that had seen them go without a NCAA Tournament appearance - or even a winning season - since 2019-20.The choice was Molly Miller, a proven and successful head coach at Grand Canyon. Miller had led the Lopes to their first NCAA Tournament appearance and a 32-3 record in her final season with the team - a benchmark for the program and an important accomplishment within the broader scope of college basketball. She soon turned around Arizona State, leading them to a 24-11 record and a first appearance at the NCAA Tournament in six years. (Their season ended in the First Four.) Continue reading...

CCTV footage showed the moments before an Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport. The pilot and co-pilot were killed in the collision. The crash injured dozens of passengers and led to hundreds of flight cancellations.

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Solange Tremblay was ejected over 100 metres from the plane after collision at LaGuardia airport, her daughter says

Trump teased a deal could soon be reached to end his war on Iran, which Tehran denied - key US politics stories from Monday 23 March at a glanceDonald Trump has claimed there have been talks between the US and Iran over the past day in which the two sides had major points of agreement", appearing to avert a potentially severe escalation of the conflict.Tehran has denied the claim in which Trump also speculated that a deal could soon be done to end the war. Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said no talks had been held with the US since the bombing campaign began 24 days ago. Continue reading...

Oklahoma senator, confirmed in 54-45 vote, replaces Kristi Noem to lead president's immigration crackdown

Attorney general decries outrageous federal overreach' after government restarted pipeline closed over 2015 spillCalifornia attorney general Rob Bonta said he has sued the US energy department to stop it from using a cold-war era law to restart the long-disputed Sable Offshore pipeline system linking the Santa Ynez offshore platform to California refineries.US energy secretary Chris Wright earlier this month restarted the pipelines using powers granted to him by Donald Trump through an executive order that invoked the Defense Production Act to supersede state laws. Continue reading...

NTSB says investigation under way as nine people remain hospitalized after plane hit fire tuck on runway

Authorities in Independence say store security contacted them about a suspicious powder substance' in the packagesFentanyl has been discovered inside the packaging of five Barbie dolls sold at a Missouri discount store, local authorities said.Police in Independence, Missouri, said in a statement on Saturday that store security at Cargo Largo, a local discount store, contacted authorities regarding a suspicious powder substance located in the packaging of a Barbie Doll". Continue reading...

Monument made from shattered pieces of original statue tossed into Baltimore's inner harbor by protesters in 2020

Former head of the FBI who investigated Russia's involvement in the 2016 US presidential electionRobert Mueller, who has died aged 81, led an investigation, as US special counsel, into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election and alleged collusion with Donald Trump's campaign team. Trump was enraged by the two-year-long investigation, which dominated much of his first term as president. He repeatedly dismissed it as a witch-hunt".Mueller's report, published in 2019, was inconclusive. He found links between Russians and those around Trump, and that his bid for the presidency had benefited from Russian leaks that undermined the Democratic campaign. But he failed to establish collusion on the part of the Trump campaign. Continue reading...

Aerial video shows floodwaters around Oahu's North Shore and Waialua in Hawaii's worst flood in more than 20 years.Officials urged people in hard-hit areas to LEAVE NOW' after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier.Muddy floodwaters covered streets and farmland. On Maui, authorities upgraded an evacuation advisory to a warning for some parts of Lahaina, which is still reeling from a deadly 2023 wildfire, because of retention basins nearing capacity

About 65% of US firefighters are volunteers, as New York state says number has fallen to lowest level in 40 yearsOfficials have warned of serious consequences after the number of volunteer firefighters, the bedrock of firefighting in the US, plunged, leading to entire departments closing in some states.About 65% of American firefighters are volunteers, serving in their free time alongside their regular jobs. In 2008 there were 827,000 volunteers nationwide, but that figure dropped to 635,000 in 2023, the last year data is available. Continue reading...

Web domain added to government registry a month after president directed agencies to release files relating to UAPsIt was a gift to conspiracy theorists.Last week, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the alien.gov and aliens.gov web domains, adding both to the official government website registry. Continue reading...

Actor who rose to fame after starring in Bruce Lee's The Way of the Dragon also became a TV fixture with Walker, Texas RangerChuck Norris, the former world karate champion who used his fight prowess to become the star of a string of low-budget but financially successful action movies, has died aged 86.His family posted a message on social media saying Norris had died on Thursday, adding: While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace." Continue reading...

Three weeks into the US-Israeli war of choice in Iran, Labor is warning of financial pain. But the economic cost isn't the only risk here

The Reform UK leader has belatedly clocked that most British people really don't like the US president on whose coat-tails he has spent the past decade ridingAt last, the culture has thrown up a split more nauseatingly up itself than Gwyneth Paltrow's from Chris Martin. It is Nigel Farage's attempt to consciously uncouple from Donald Trump, a man up whose backside he's spent the past decade most firmly lodged. Nigel's made such a massive, self-satisfied show of his real estate in the presidential large intestine for 10 years now that I actually don't think non-surgical extraction is possible at this stage. He doesn't just get to walk away whistling. The only way out is a full Faragectomy. I'll give the president a piece of drone fuselage to bite down on.Anyway: conscious uncoupling. Back in the day, you'll remember, Gwyneth and the Coldplay singer deployed this particular phrase when announcing their marital split. Did the public love it? They did not. The general vibe - as with so much of Her Vajesty's output - was that she would do even marriage failure more smugly and unachievably than mere plebs could ever. The pivot from gushing about her perfect marriage to gushing about her perfect divorce felt like mere days.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Cheerleader-in-chief demands more enthusiasm for US-Israeli assault that is helping Russia pay for its war on UkraineWhen even your mother calls you out as a cheat and a liar, then it's probably fair to assume you're a wrong un. Not that this stopped Donald Trump from appointing Pete Hegseth as his defence secretary. Or as Trump prefers, his war secretary. After all, there's no point in having all this shiny military hardware if you're not going to use it. For most of the past two weeks, Hegseth has been the president's cheerleader-in-chief for the war on Iran, and at the weekend he decided to have a pop at the media for not being enthusiastic enough. It seems we've been concentrating on trivial matters like asking what the overall plan for the war is. We heard the president talk about regime change and then change his mind when it was clear that, though he had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime was still in place. We heard the president say he wanted to neutralise Iranian nuclear facilities when he had already claimed to have done so last year. We heard Trump say that the war was already won though he fancied winning a little bit more, while the Iranians were insisting they were not beaten. Continue reading...

Defense secretary had said relatives of service members killed in refueling tanker crash told him do not stop until the job is done'

Mette-Marit says she did not know he was a sex offender', despite Googling him three years after his prison sentenceNorway's crown princess, Mette-Marit, has said she was manipulated and deceived" by Jeffrey Epstein as she spoke publicly for the first time about her years-long relationship with the late sex offender.She also claimed that she did not know he was a sex offender or an abuser" - despite telling him in an email in 2011, three years after he had been sentenced to 18 months in prison and pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from girls as young as 14, that she had recently Googled him. Continue reading...

Former ACIP members make contradictory statements following judge essentially invalidating panel and recent decisions

Though the president wields great power, the conflict in the Middle East is spiralling in unforeseen ways that he may not be able to controlWhat a pity Benjamin Netanyahu remains at large after an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza was issued in 2024. Had he been detained, as he certainly should have been, the peoples of Iran, Lebanon, the Gulf - and Israel itself - might have been spared much present-day pain and suffering.The Israeli prime minister's lifelong, passionate obsession with eradicating the real and imagined threats posed by Iran was reportedly a key factor in prompting Donald Trump's abrupt, unprovoked plunge into all-out war. Netanyahu should be in jail, not committing more crimes while the powerful but ego-driven US president negligently looks on.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentatorDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Record 171 million passengers are expected to fly this spring, even as TSA funding lapse risks longer airport linesSpring breakers in the US could see their long-awaited trips to party destinations disrupted by a trifecta of issues: airport security delays, high gas prices, and chaotic weather.The potential for flight delays comes as US airlines expect that they will see a record-shattering spring travel season. Airlines for America, an aviation industry group, said that 171 million passengers are expected to fly - a 4% increase from the 2025 spring travel period. Continue reading...

Dozens of volunteers, mostly over the age of 70, offer rides and serve as interpreters

Closure of strait of Hormuz - a key fertilizer production and transportation route - has squeezed farmers as prices jumpRodney Bushmeyer has been farming as long as he can remember. Bushmeyer's father was a farmer, as was his grandfather.The family-run Bushmeyer Farms in Illinois dates back more than 100 years, when his ancestors came to the US from Germany. They acquired the first 80 acres cost-free as homesteaders, cleared the land, and worked it. Continue reading...

The US president wanted an easy win, but the conflict is spiralling following Israel's attack on a gas field and Iranian retaliation across the regionShortly after the US and Israel began their illegal assault on Iran, with the US president still preening himself over the kidnapping of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro the previous month, a state department official joked that Donald Trump had a new foreign policy credo: Decapitate and delegate". It was a reversal of Colin Powell's invocation of the Pottery Barn rule" ahead of the invasion of Iraq: you break it, you own it.Gen Powell, then secretary of state, was warning that wars can escalate beyond expectation and are harder to exit than enter. It remains unclear what precisely the Trump administration expected from this conflict - perhaps not least to the White House itself - but it is certain that the president was not paying heed when people described the likely consequences.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

As Americans face a housing crisis, this development shows how communal living can bring homeownership within reach - and foster connection Continue reading...

Legislators propose designating 31 March as Farmworkers Day in light of allegations against late labor leader

Fed officials expected to lower capital requirements for banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase by 4.8%

Dozens said they weren't given chance to arrange care for their kids after being deported at short notice, study showsThe Trump administration is deporting a significant number of parents without asking them if they have children or allowing them to decide whether to bring their children with them, in apparent violation of its own policies, a major report has found.In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff at reception centers for deportees, researchers found that many parents were deported quickly after they were detained, without a chance to arrange for the care of their children. Continue reading...

Day 2 of our Guardian analysis of more than a million Epstein emails exposes the child sex offender's deep relationships with more high-profile figuresThe Epstein files have led to intense scrutiny over links between the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the rich and powerful. But the vast trove of information has made it difficult to assess the extent of some of those connections.In this second of a two-part series, The Guardian has focused on Epstein's links to high-profile people in business and the arts - including the renowned economist and former US treasury secretary Larry Summers, the New York film director Woody Allen and Jes Stalay, the former head of Barclays. Continue reading...

Kennedy's appointees promoted treatments' like bleach enemas, but new committee has only one autistic memberThe first public meeting of US autism advisers - notably, since Robert F Kennedy Jr reshaped the committee - was cancelled recently with few details, coinciding with the creation of a rival organization that has prompted some questions within the autistic community about their focus.Kennedy, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who has long argued for a debunked link between vaccines and autism, chose entirely new members for the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) in late January, with fewer autistic people and several anti-vaccine advocates. Continue reading...

We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can. Thank you for your patienceDonald Trump is alone.That's different from the United States being alone.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now in the US and in the UK Continue reading...

Rulings in cases alleging antisemitism on US campuses say common pro-Palestinian speech is constitutionally protectedFew debates from the last few years have been more contentious than whether criticism of Israel and Zionism is antisemitic, threatens Jewish people or violates their civil rights. Allegations of antisemitism have cost people jobs, provided pretexts for censorship and fueled an unprecedented crackdown on protest over Israel and shows of support for Palestinian rights, especially at universities.Pro-Israel groups have filed hundreds of lawsuits or legal actions in an effort to silence some of this speech, with the vast majority filed since 2023 in response to the protest movement surrounding Israel's recent war in Gaza. The most important rulings to have come out of these cases, experts say, have found that speech and slogans at the heart of the controversies are protected by the first amendment. Continue reading...

US spent $11.3bn on bombs in the first six days of the US and Israel's joint attack on Iran - key US politics stories from 18 March 2026 at a glancePart of Donald Trump's pitch to voters was that, if he became president again, he would rein in government spending and not send US troops to war. He may have campaigned with promises, but he's governing with billions of dollars worth of bombs dropping on Iran.In the six days that followed the US and Israel's joint attack on Iran on 28 February, $11.3bn was spent on American taxpayer-funded bombs that hit the country and caused hundreds of deaths, the Pentagon has told lawmakers. This figure does not capture the full cost of the conflict, such as deployment of forces, and will now be far higher given the ongoing nature of the war. Continue reading...

Admission came during questioning at Senate intelligence committee worldwide threats hearingThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has started buying location data on Americans, Kash Patel, FBI director, said under oath at the Senate intelligence committee worldwide threats hearing on Wednesday.Patel's admission came in response to a question from the senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is a longtime opponent of the warrantless surveillance of Americans. Wyden told Patel that his predecessor, Christopher Wray, testified in 2023 that the FBI did not at that time purchase location data derived from internet advertising, although he acknowledged that it had done so in the past. Continue reading...

New York Times report leads to multiple cancellations of events meant to celebrate the late labor organizer

Exclusive: Republican congresswoman started negotiations with Saudi Arabia without informing the White House

After 17 months of negotiations, the WNBA and its players have agreed to a new CBA. From salaries to revenue sharing, here's what's changing and why it matters

National intelligence director says Iran's conventional military projection capabilities had been largely destroyed'

Thomas Abt, a researcher, says online taunts and barbs from songs can intensify shootings in underserved areasWhenever the US tries to make sense of a high-profile mass shooting, it inevitably turns to one source: the social media accounts of the suspect. Law enforcement, reporters and the public scrutinize these digital footprints, hoping to find clues about a possible motive.Less explored, however, is the role social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube play in shootings that happen in underserved Black and Latino communities and are scarcely covered outside of local crime news. These shootings, Thomas Abt, the lead author of a new Violence Reduction Center white paper on the topic told the Guardian, are increasingly being fueled by online disputes and barbs being traded back and forth in songs and music videos and shared online. Continue reading...

Beijing seeks to decipher effect of Iran war on US midterms and best way to apply pressure when Trump meets XiThe White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone Donald Trump's visit to Beijing, as war in the Middle East rages on, complicating the US president's position at home and abroad.China has not yet commented on the delay to the highly anticipated trip, in which Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will meet in person for the first time since October. Trump previously said he hoped to delay the trip, originally scheduled to run from 31 March to 2 April, for five or six weeks". Continue reading...

Prosecutors say Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that he drankA Utah woman was convicted on Monday of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and then self-publishing a children's book about coping with grief.Prosecutors said Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that her husband Eric Richins drank in March 2022. Continue reading...

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