Today in Focus
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Trump 2.0
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, Hugo Lowell and David Smith discuss what to expect from his first few weeks. Help support our independent ...
Finally, a ceasefire in Gaza
17 Jan 2025
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The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Bethan McKernan explains the pact reached between Israel and Hamas to halt fighting. Help support our indepen...
A golden age of cancer treatment?
17 Jan 2025
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The Guardian’s health editor Andrew Gregory explores the promises and challenges of revolutionary technology in the fight against cancer. Help suppo...
The resignation of Tulip Siddiq
16 Jan 2025
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Political correspondent Kiran Stacey traces the allegations of corruption against Labour MP Tulip Siddiq that caused her to resign from her ministeria...
‘The entire community is just gone’: inside the Los Angeles wildfires
15 Jan 2025
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Gabrielle Canon reports from Los Angeles on the wildfires destroying homes and communities. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com...
A new Facebook for the era of President Trump
14 Jan 2025
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Factchecker Jesse Stiller and technology journalist Chris Stokel-Walker explore why Mark Zuckerberg has announced dramatic changes to Meta’s social ...
Culture 2025: what to watch, read and listen to this year
13 Jan 2025
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Culture critics Lanre Bakare, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Catherine Shoard look ahead to the best of the year in film, TV, books and music. Help support o...
It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rew...
Elon Musk’s political evolution
09 Jan 2025
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Why is Elon Musk increasingly trying to influence UK politics?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Are private schools losing their grip on the British elite?
08 Jan 2025
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Professor of sociology Sam Friedman charts the enduring influence of private schools in the making of the British elite and asks whether the Labour go...
The month that changed South Korea for ever
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raphael Rashid and Haeryun Kang chart the turmoil that has engulfed the country over the past month, from a declaration of martial law to two impeachm...
Friendship across the parenting divide
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Pidd and Alexandra Topping have been close friends for almost 20 years. But struggles with fertility and new motherhood tested their bond to the...
How Britain fell in love with darts
03 Jan 2025
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Helen Pidd attends the PDC World Darts Championship to find out why the sport has grown in popularity in recent years. Help support our independent jo...
How to have a perfectly imperfect 2025
02 Jan 2025
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Instead of making grand new year’s resolutions, the smallest steps could lead to a more joyful life, says Oliver Burkeman. Help support our independ...
Revisited: Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed?
01 Jan 2025
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It’s a decade since the first same-sex marriages were performed in England and Wales. What have they meant for LGBTQ+ people?. Help support our inde...
Revisited: From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story
31 Dec 2024
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How does it feel to report on the refugee crisis when it’s also the story of your own family? Aamna Mohdin explains. Help support our independent jo...
Revisited: The mother who forgave her daughters’ killer – but not the police
30 Dec 2024
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Mina Smallman’s world fell apart after the murder of her two daughters. Then came a shocking revelation about the police’s behaviour. She explains...
Revisited: The man who fell to Earth
27 Dec 2024
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Twenty-three years after Mohammed Ayaz fell from the wheel bay of a plane coming in to land at Heathrow, his brother visits the car park where the bod...
Revisited: The birdwatcher fighting racism in public spaces
26 Dec 2024
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A Central Park birdwatching incident went viral after Christian Cooper filmed a white woman threatening him. Now he is using his platform to share his...
Revisited: Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit
25 Dec 2024
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Rory Carroll and Helen Pidd meet the Kabin Crew and the Lisdoonvarna Crew – creators of a song that has notched up more than a billion plays on TikT...
How the Guardian reported 2024
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was a year that saw multiple elections across the world, the war in Ukraine grind on and the conflict in Gaza spill over into Lebanon. Katharine Vi...
A radical way to teach contested history
23 Dec 2024
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Helen Pidd visits Lancaster Royal grammar school to see the work of Parallel Histories, an education charity which helps young people make sense of co...
Yasser’s story: the Syrian refugee who lived with me
20 Dec 2024
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Helen Pidd speaks to her former lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home. Help support our independent journalism at theguardia...
Can a steel town survive if its furnaces are turned off?
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Port Talbot in Wales is defined by its huge steelworks. But in January Tata Steel announced it was ending primary steelmaking there. George McDonagh c...
The prince and the ‘spy’
18 Dec 2024
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Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a businessman who has denied spying for China. Dan Sabbagh and David Pegg report. Help suppor...
The reformed jihadi? Al-Jolani, the new most powerful man in Syria
17 Dec 2024
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International security correspondent Jason Burke explores the life of Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, and asks whether he has genuinely re...
‘The most beautiful word in the dictionary’: Donald Trump’s tariff plan
16 Dec 2024
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Guardian US business editor Dominic Rushe explains why the president-elect wants to impose tariffs on imports, and the risks it poses to the economy. ...
Revisited: Have open marriages gone mainstream?
13 Dec 2024
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From therapy sessions to bookshelves, interest in non-monogamous relationships seem to be soaring Because of industrial action taking place by members...
Revisited: The Unabomber and his ongoing influence
12 Dec 2024
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Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people, died in prison last year. But his manif...
The town that fears losing its high street to climate change
11 Dec 2024
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Flooding in Tenbury Wells used to be a once in a generation event, now it’s happening increasingly frequently. Jessica Murray reports. Help support ...
Inside Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
10 Dec 2024
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Foreign correspondent William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power, and asks...
How Trump’s victory sparked a crypto boom
09 Dec 2024
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Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery, explains what the US president-elect’s embrace of the cryptocurrency world might mean for his second term...
Revisited: The Israeli negotiator who talks to Hamas
06 Dec 2024
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Gershon Baskin on his experience as a hostage negotiator in the Israel-Palestine conflict Because of industrial action taking place by members of the ...
Revisited: The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s the birthrate in Greenland was one of the highest in the world. Then it plunged. Decades later, women have finally begun speaking out abo...
The Syrian civil war and a stunning reversal for the Assad regime
04 Dec 2024
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Foreign correspondent Ruth Michaelson explains how President Bashar al-Assad’s government lost Aleppo, Syria’s second-biggest city, and who the Is...
Why Joe Biden pardoned his son
03 Dec 2024
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Hunter Biden was awaiting sentencing for gun and tax offences when, suddenly, his father pardoned him. Has family loyalty been put above presidential ...
New Zealand: the fight to protect Māori rights
02 Dec 2024
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In what could be the biggest protest march in New Zealand’s history, 42,000 people took to the roads over fears Māori rights are being dismantled. ...
Lebanon: a fragile ceasefire in a shattered nation
29 Nov 2024
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After two months of total war and terrible destruction, an uneasy peace has fallen on Lebanon. Will Christou reports. Help support our independent jou...
Assisted dying: a historic vote comes to parliament
28 Nov 2024
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Deputy political editor Jessica Elgot explains how the assisted dying bill came to the House of Commons this week, and how MPs are feeling about their...
The rise of ketamine addiction in the UK
27 Nov 2024
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Journalist Elle Hunt and recovered addict Jack Curran talk about the rise of ketamine use in Britain and its sometimes devastating impact. Help suppor...
The Israeli settlers preparing to move to Gaza
26 Nov 2024
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While Palestinians are fleeing the war, one group of Israelis are planning for beachfront homes on the strip. Bethan McKernan and Ruth Michaelson repo...
A mystery in Finnish Lapland, and what it means for the climate crisis
25 Nov 2024
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Biodiversity and environment reporter Patrick Greenfield travels to Finnish Lapland to investigate the disappearance of its carbon sink, and its impli...
Nigel Farage and his ‘historic mission’: on the ground with Reform UK
22 Nov 2024
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Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd goes out on the road – to Birmingham, Stalybridge and Clacton – to chart Nigel Farage’s bid to transform Ref...
An arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu – Today in Focus Extra
21 Nov 2024
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The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, his former defence minister and a Hamas leader. Julian Bor...
What’s behind the escalating situation in Ukraine?
21 Nov 2024
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From long-range missiles being launched to North Korean troops being drafted in, Dan Sabbagh looks at whether the rapid escalation could signal the be...
Starmer v farmers – will the government have to backtrack?
20 Nov 2024
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More than 10,000 farmers converged on Whitehall protesting against Labour’s plans for inheritance tax on farms. Heather Stewart reports. Help suppor...
Inside Port-au-Prince, Haiti: the capital where gangs have taken over
19 Nov 2024
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Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports from Haiti on the struggles of the government to reassert its authority over the capital, Port-au-Pri...
Assassins, spies and a superpower on the rise: the rift between Canada and India
18 Nov 2024
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A killing in a Canadian suburb has provoked an astonishing diplomatic breakdown between India and Canada. Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports. Help support ...
Hardliners, loyalists and a dog killer: Trump’s new White House team
15 Nov 2024
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Guardian US political correspondent Laura Gambino talks through Donald Trump’s likely next cabinet and what it tells us about his plans in power. He...
The fall of Justin Welby
14 Nov 2024
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After the publication of a damning report into a decades-long child abuse scandal, Justin Welby has bowed to pressure to resign as archbishop of Cante...
The briefcase, the Porsche and the collapse of the German government
13 Nov 2024
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Der Spiegel journalist Regina Steffens and author John Kampfner explain how Germany’s traffic light coalition came to an end, and the profound probl...
A week of tumult and triumph for Netanyahu
12 Nov 2024
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After dismissing his defence minister, Yoav Gallant – and with Trump back in the White House – Benjamin Netanyahu’s position is stronger than ev...
Finding one trillion dollars at Cop29
11 Nov 2024
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Will richer nations find the climate finance desperately needed by developing countries? Damian Carrington reports. Help support our independent journ...
Where do the Democrats go from here?
08 Nov 2024
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Lauren Gambino dissects what Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris means for the Democratic party. Help support our independent journalism at th...
What will Trump do in power?
07 Nov 2024
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The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, explains how Donald Trump won a second term and what he intends to do with it. Help support our...
The return of President Trump
06 Nov 2024
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Americans have made their decision and they’ve sent Donald Trump back to the White House. Guardian reporters tell the story of the night from around...
US election extra: what to look out for on election night
05 Nov 2024
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It’s the most consequential presidential election in decades. So when will we know the results? Michael Safi reports. Help support our independent j...
A road trip through Pennsylvania, the ultimate swing state
05 Nov 2024
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From traditional rural Republicans who won’t vote for Trump to Latino voters who will, Michael Safi finds voters taking surprising stances as he emb...
US election extra: the endgame
04 Nov 2024
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The presidential candidates are straining to cover as much ground as possible in key swing states. Oliver Laughland reports from Michigan. Help suppor...
Can Kemi Badenoch make the Tories electable again?
04 Nov 2024
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The Conservative party has elected a new leader – one with a combative reputation. Isabel Hardman reports. Help support our independent journalism a...