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  • Jury Duty returns
    ‘Our lead actor doesn’t know he’s in a TV show!’

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  • Buzz kill
    US breweries are shuttering as craft beers' fanfare fade

    Two men tap beer barrels underneath a board listing the different types of brew.

  • Robert Reich
    double quotation markDear US allies, please don’t confuse Trump with us

    Robert Reich

  • The long read
    Inside China's race to build AI-powered robots

    An engineer at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China, where the 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot had rolled off the production line
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    Japan
    Trump mocks Japan about Pearl Harbor in response to question about Iran war

  • Nuku'alofa, Tonga.

    Pacific islands
    Reliant on imported fuel, Pacific islands appeal for help as oil prices surge

News

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    Donald Trump
    Trump-appointed panel approves 24-karat-gold coin featuring his face

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    Spain
    Body of missing Illinois student found in waters off beach of Barcelona

  • A pill is held in a patient's hand.

    Abortion
    Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion

  • VCU guard Terrence Hill Jr celebrates after scoring in overtime against North Carolina on Thursday night.

    March Madness
    Coach lashes out at elite programs as High Point shock Wisconsin

  • A man walking in front of a building.

    Cuba
    US military is not preparing for Cuba takeover, top general tells lawmakers

  • Claudio Latorre taking notes at the Monte Verde archaeological site

    Archaeology
    Archaeological site in Chile upends theory of how humans populated the Americas … again

Trump presidency

  • Trump in gilded office in suit with yellow tie.

    Trump news at a glance
    President claims ignorance of Israel’s plan to strike Iranian gasfield, exposing rift

  • A man in a blue suit sitting at a table looking down at notes.

    Explainer
    Why is the FBI buying people’s location data and how is it using the information?

  • a man in a suit points while speaking into a microphone

    Trump administration
    Independent autism committee that challenges RFK Jr’s overhaul draws criticism

  • Danish soldiers during shooting practice at an undisclosed location in Greenland.

    Denmark
    Denmark reportedly flew blood bags to Greenland in preparation for a US attack

In focus

  • Worker assembling electric road sweepers at a manufacturing facility in Wuhu, China

    Analysis
    China has been preparing for a global energy crisis for years. It is paying off now

    As other Asian economies race to conserve energy, China has huge reserves of oil and gas as well as alternative energy sources like wind and solar
  • A composite picture of Guardian US immigration reporter Maanvi Singh in front of speech bubbles

    Reader Q&A
    'Will this fracture last a generation?' – your ICE crackdown questions answered

  • Two men tap beer barrels underneath a board listing the different types of brew.

    Beer
    Buzz kill: US breweries shutter as fanfare over craft beers appears to fade

Features

  • Painting: Tavern Scene (Cardsharps and Fortune Teller) 1626 by Nicolas Regnier

    Leading questions
    I’m tired of always paying for my friends on nights out. What can I do about it?

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    Design a better world
    Meet the Seattle families living communally to bring down costs

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  • Graphic illustration of an eye doubling as a sun over perhaps an ocean, with the iris transformed into a blinking heart.

    Well actually
    double quotation markI asked my husband for five minutes of uninterrupted eye contact. It was harder than expected

  • Two human hands hold each other with a glowing hand on top, with grass and sky around them

    AI for the people
    I asked AI to explain my mother to me. It translated her worldview

  • Dianne Weist in Independence Day.

    Ranked
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  • Snowball sealed in an evidence bag

    New York
    ‘Criminal’ or ‘kids throwing snowballs’? How a viral snow fight provoked Mamdani’s schism with NYPD

  • An engineer at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China, where the 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot had rolled off the production line

    Technology
    Are robots about to have their 'ChatGPT moment'? I went inside China's factories to find out

    How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out

Opinion

  • Robert Reich

    double quotation markDear allies of America, please don’t confuse our president with us

    Robert Reich
    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 patience
  • Dave Schilling

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    Dave Schilling
    The two-and-a-half centuries of American life have all been building to this, the natural evolution of our culture
  • Emma Brockes

    double quotation markIs anyone as ill-suited for great office as Donald Trump? Yes, Pete Hegseth – that’s why Potus likes him

    Emma Brockes

  • double quotation markWe can tell you who will really get rich from this oil crisis – and how we can stop them

    Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk

More opinion

  • Owen Jones

    double quotation markTrump thinks brute force will arrest the US’s decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it

    Owen Jones
  • Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian

    double quotation markWe need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem

    George Monbiot
  • Larry Elliott

    double quotation markIran could be the US’s Boer war: a hollow victory that marks the beginning of the end of empire

    Larry Elliott
  • Giles Tremlett

    double quotation markDisgraced Juan Carlos wants to return from exile a hero. But Spain’s murky history still dogs him

    Giles Tremlett

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    The Iran war escalation: as Trump breaks things, who will pick up the pieces?

Sports

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    double quotation markIt’s a knockout: why are there so many goals in the Champions League?

    Jonathan Wilson
  • Luvo Manyonga sits on some steps

    Track
    ‘The only thing left for me was death’: meet the meth-addict long jumper who has been to hell and back

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  • MLS soccer ball on pitch before Columbus Crew versus Chicago Fire match

    Soccer
    The MLS ‘sprint season’ explained: 14 games, playoffs, cup qualifiers and more

  • Soccer 2026: Inter Miami 1:1 Nashville SC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA - 18 Mar 2026Inter Miami CF forward Lionel Messi (10) sits on the grass during a Concacaf Champions Cup Round of 16 leg 2 match between Inter Miami CF and Nashville SC at Inter Miami Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. Soccer 2026: Inter Miami 1:1 Nashville SC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA - 18 Mar 2026

    Soccer
    Inter Miami’s Concacaf exit is a reminder that time rolls on for Messi

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    Politics
    New bill would bar ICE raids near World Cup matches

  • Erling Haaland playing chess

    Chess
    Striking gambit: Haaland invests in new world championship

More top stories

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    Extreme weather
    Historic March heatwave in US west shatters high-temperature records

    Some highs in California, Nevada and Arizona recorded at 25-35F above normal, with widespread alerts and closures
  • AC/DC perform during their Rock or Bust world tour in Foxborough, Massachusetts in 2015.

    Music
    AC/DC guitarist Stevie Young hospitalised ahead of Buenos Aires concerts

  • A young man in a purple shirt flanked by a man and a woman.

    US
    Joseph Duggar, former reality TV star, arrested on child molestation charges

Climate crisis & environment

  • Smoke rises from Miami Fort Power Station stacks along the Ohio River

    Environment
    US states sue Trump EPA over decision to repeal bedrock climate finding

  • A woman carrying a water vessel after collecting from a tanker

    Climate crisis
    Women and girls bearing brunt of water shortages globally, UN warns

  • Aerial photo of a rusty vesell with a hole on the side.

    Environment
    Damaged Russian tanker carrying natural gas floats into Libyan waters

  • A Rolls-Royce Spectre

    Automotive industry
    Rolls-Royce scraps goal to go all-electric by 2030

US news

  • AI
    US startup advertises ‘AI bully’ role to test patience of leading chatbots

  • Meta
    Meta on trial over child safety: can it really protect its next generation of users?

  • Business
    PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns

  • US universities
    Efforts to shut down pro-Palestinian speech face series of setbacks in court

World news

  • Ukraine war briefing
    EU president von der Leyen vows to pay loan to Kyiv despite block by Hungary

  • Australia
    Tropical Cyclone Narelle hits far north Queensland as 250km/h winds tear off roofs and fell trees

  • Mexico
    Glamming up ‘dirty war’: teens in Mexico glorify 1970s secret police on TikTok

  • UK
    King opens world’s longest managed coastal walk – but much of it is still closed off

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Culture

  • Kim Gordon in a green outfit by window

    Music
    ‘The male ego is even more fragile than it ever was’: Kim Gordon on shyness, AI and Zohran Mamdani’s cool

  • portrait of Underscores on a rooftop

    Pop and rock
    Underscores: U review – ultra-imaginative auteur has pop’s most brilliant brain

What to watch

  • Film Review - Ready or Not 2: Here I ComeThis image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Samara Weaving in a scene from "Ready or Not 2: Here I Come." (Pief Weyman/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Review
    Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – comedy horror sequel goes big and you should stay home

  • A group of people sitting in rows of chairs listening to someone out of shot

    Jury Duty
    ‘Our lead actor doesn’t know he’s in a television show!’ The return of an unbelievable TV hoax

  • Detective duo Eddie and Dulcie, the odd couple at the centre of this ‘darkly comedic and wigged-out police procedural’.

    Review
    Deadloch season two review – every bit as wonky, devilish and potty-mouthed as the first

  • Standing in a garden setting, they listen intently to a third party

    TV review
    Imperfect Women review – lots of fun … if you lower your expectations enough

What to listen to

  • Kitty WhatelyKitty Whately 007 (2019), by Sara Porter

    Classical music
    Through the Centuries: Songs of Madeleine Dring album review – puts paid to any idea that she was not a serious composer

  • Portuguese record label Principe Discos: RS Produções Noite Príncipe

    Music
    Príncipe Discos: how Black DJs from Lisbon’s suburbs made Europe’s most exciting record label

  • Two men dressed in dark clothing and sunglasses stand in a field as bird fly in the distance behind them.

    Music
    ‘I woke up and couldn’t move’: Scottish rockers the Twilight Sad on birth, death and breakdown

  • Chalk photographed in New York, with Benedict Goddard left, Ross Cullen right.

    Music
    ‘There’s no flag for people like us’: electro-punk duo Chalk on spanning divides in post-Troubles Belfast

What to read

  • Jennie Godfrey.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Barbecue at No 9 by Jennie Godfrey audiobook review – secrets and lies in suburbia

  • Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West at Sissinghurst, Kent.

    History books
    A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall review – the National Trust’s LGBTQ history revealed

  • Rear view of woman walking with horse outside the barn during sunset

    Fiction
    Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth review – profound story of a woman’s love for a horse

  • Forestry scientist and conservationist Suzanne Simard.

    Books
    When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard review – the Indiana Jones of trees returns

What to play

  • Marathon video game screenshot

    double quotation markIn the killer world of online gaming, there are no hits any more – just survivors

    Joshua Rivera
  • Characters in the video game All Will Rise

    Pushing Buttons
    Why an up-and-coming indie developer is returning Microsoft’s money

    Newsletter
  • Mythmatch game

    Review
    Mythmatch review – a match-three game made in heaven

  • Cortical Labs' CL1 biological computer displaying the video game Doom on screen.

    Games
    A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

More culture

  • The Circulo De Bellas Artes Awards Its Gold Medal To Philosopher Judith ButlerMADRID, SPAIN - OCTOBER 27: Philosopher Judith Butler receives the Gold Medal of the Circulo de Bellas Artes, on 27 October, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Butler is considered one of the world's most influential intellectuals. Her contributions in the fields of feminist theory, queer theory and gender studies have had a notable impact on fields as diverse as political theory, literary studies, psychoanalysis and law. (Photo By Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images)

    Books
    PEN America announce 2026 World Voices festival with Judith Butler and Bill McKibben

  • Actor Motaz Malhees holds a photograph in a scene from 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'.

    Film
    Indian film board blocks release of Oscar-nominated Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Rajab

  • Guvna B looks upward on a city street in London

    Music
    ‘We keep secrets because we’re scared’: Guvna B on porn addiction and recovery

  • The polymath French director Ugo Bienvenu, director, co-writer, and producer of Arco, half-smiles at the camera.

    Animation in film
    ‘The world was hard – this movie was meant to be a hug’: Ugo Bienvenu on his heartwarming eco-fable Arco

Lifestyle

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    You be the judge
    double quotation markShould my boyfriend hold my hand in public?

  • Zendaya and Tom Holland smile meaningfully at each other at a public event

    Celebrity crib sheet
    Zendaya and Tom Holland: are the gen Z power couple married? Nine things you need to know

  • The Filter
    The best Irish beers that aren’t Guinness (but are still extremely Irish)

    close-up of person standing by bar with two pints of beer
    Guinness is great – but here are more top-notch Irish beers Americans should also know about, from a citrusy golden ale to a coffee-like stout
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    Screen time
    Put your phone down and focus: the four best ways to watch movies

    Newsletter
  • two images of person pouring a can of sparkling wine into glass and bottles of nonalcoholic wine

    Wines
    The 13 best nonalcoholic wines in the US in 2026 – taste-tested and reviewed by a pro

  • Cutting boards by Boardsmith and Asahi

    Cooking
    The six best plastic-free cutting boards in the US for 2026, tested

  • A model wearing a Drowsy Sleep Mask

    Sleep
    A perfect pillow, a ‘bargain’ Ikea mattress and more: the best sleep products on sale right now

Your Filter favorites

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    Home
    A new way to hang picture frames without leaving nail holes – tested

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    Kitchen
    The best blenders in the US: five favorites for smoothies, soups and frozen drinks

  • e-readers arranged together on a floor

    Reading
    The best e-readers, for every kind of book lover

  • A completed donut jigsaw puzzle and display box

    Analog life
    The six best jigsaw puzzles for adults and kids to soothe your screen-addled brain

Well actually

  • An image of a brain against a purple background

    Well actually
    ‘Strong evidence’ of lowered dementia risk: the benefits of shingles vaccination

  • woman in sweater looking to side

    Pain
    ‘I could barely think because it was so bad’: how pain changes us

  • Person looking out of a yellow-framed window in an illustration.

    Why am I like this?
    Try small steps and set the bar low: how to find the meaning of life

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    How to start
    ‘Dress for who you are’: how to start finding your personal style

Relationships

  • The Guardian’s Saturday magazine is looking for throuples to talk honestly about the experience of love and commitment.

    Callout
    Tell us your experiences of being in a throuple

  • Two hikers stand on opposite sides of a mountain ravine, one watching as the other exits the scene

    Relationships
    Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

  • Illustration of couple having sex clutching on to a rope

    This is how we do it
    ‘We’re more adventurous now – I’ve discovered my animalistic side’

  • An illustration of a woman sitting on the floor turned away with her hands around her knees.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    double quotation markMy life fell apart when my husband had an affair. How can I recover?

Health & fitness

  • Mel Bradman sitting in her front room, in front of a clock showing 6.29

    The one change that worked
    double quotation markI couldn’t stop worrying – until I learned about the 6.30pm rule

  • Couple with Cpap machine on side table with husband wearing Cpap mask sleeping

    Sleep
    How a ‘vacuum cleaner turned the other way’ became a popular solution to snoring disorders

  • Five progressively smaller Russian-style dolls in a row, representing various types of people with worried faces

    Psychology
    From childhood to midlife and beyond: how to handle anxiety at every age

  • G2: Secrets of the body - What happens when you smoke

    Secrets of the body
    Why is smoking so addictive – and what are the best ways to give up?

Fashion & beauty

  • Side shot of model wearing light blue shirt with red tank top and dark trousers. She's holding a brown leather bag over her shoulder

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Primary colors are back, but styling them isn’t child’s play

  • Rubberhose

    Fashion
    Why everything from pizzas to podcasts has a cartoon character on it

  • A South Asian woman standing in a nightclub type setting. She has hand on hip, wearing a low-cut top and a sari type of draping over her shoulder, wearing heavy goth like makeup with tattoos on her shoulder and arm

    A moment that changed me
    double quotation markI applied mucous-tinted mascara – and loved the reaction

  • Jessie Buckley arrives at the Oscars on Sunday.

    Red carpet fashion
    Oscars 2026 red carpet: Jessie Buckley, Chase Infiniti and more

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More lifestyle

  • Georgie Hayden’s spicy crab cake banh mi with quick pickles.

    Five ways with...
    Stir-fries, crab cakes and carbonara: Georgina Hayden’s crab recipes

  • smiling boy in ski gear, helmet and goggles in front of snow-covered trees

    Austria holidays
    Can an Austrian hostel give a luxury ski chalet a run for its money?

  • A cockapoo dog with light brown curly fur sits upright in a brown leather armchair in front of a window.

    Dogs
    Crossbreed dogs show more behavioural problems than pure breeds, study suggests

  • Woman in a red beret sitting at a cafe table in street and drinking coffee

    Pass notes
    French Sundays: should you dedicate a day each week to sex and a stroll?

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