89-year-old man arrested over Athens double shooting
Multiple people injured when gunman opened fire inside a social security office and later an appeals courtAn 89-year-old man has been arrested on susp...
Justice department files new criminal charges against ex-FBI director Comey
Subject of charges remains unclear, after earlier case over congressional testimony was dismissedUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Brea...
US soldier pleads not guilty to charges of betting on Nicolás Maduro’s ouster
Prosecutors allege Gannon Van Dyke won $400,000 using insider information to bet on Maduro raid on Polymarket The US army soldier charged with winning...
No 10 dismisses Reeves’s reported plan for freeze on private rents
Downing Street says focus to remains on cutting bills, backing renters and lowering energy pricesDowning Street has dismissed a freeze on private sect...
Trump hails ‘special relationship’ during ceremonial welcome for King Charles’s state visit
US president says Americans ‘have had no closer friends than the British’ amid recent tensions between both nationsDonald Trump has praised the “speci...
Teen mariachi trio detained by ICE to open for Kacey Musgraves in Texas
Gámez-Cuéllar brothers were arrested alongside parents in February and later released after bipartisan backlashThree teenage mariachi musicians who we...
Virginia Giuffre’s brother criticizes King Charles III for not meeting survivors of Epstein abuse
Sky Roberts said survivors ‘still fighting to be heard’ after king, whose brother Andrew was accused of assault by Giuffre, did not meet with themThe ...
Starmer sees off Tory calls for inquiry into Mandelson role after No 10 flexes muscle
Vote goes PM’s way but he faces anger from his own MPs who accuse him of creating perception of ‘cover-up’UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starme...
Trump and King Charles’s clashing climate views are one schism the royal touch can’t heal
King will probably press his passion for nature during US state visit, but his advocacy will fall on dead earsOf the many clashes in worldview between...
Russia claims its Africa Corps group prevented coup in Mali after rebels seize towns
Kremlin-controlled paramilitaries also alleged it inflicted ‘irreplaceable losses’ on insurgents avoiding civilian casualtiesRussia’s defence ministry...
Google reportedly signs classified AI deal with US Pentagon
Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee oppositionGoogle has reportedly signed a dea...
GM expecting $500m Trump tariff refund, boosting its 2026 earnings outlook
Companies are now seeking refunds on tariffs after supreme court ruled Trump’s emergency levies were illegalSign up for the Breaking News US email to ...
US gas prices surge to highest level in four years, averaging $4.15 a gallon
Oil prices surged after negotiators remained gridlocked over reopening of strait of Hormuz, sending prices $1 higher than last yearUS gas prices rose ...
Palestine Action ban created ‘culture of fear’, UK appeal court hears
Home secretary is challenging high court decision that PA’s proscription interfered with freedom of speechThe ban on Palestine Action has created a “c...
Federal agents again target Minnesota amid alleged fraud crackdown at daycares
Federal raids unfold in Twin Cities amid ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and Minnesota officialsSign up for the Breaking News US ema...
Hezbollah drone strikes target Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon
Ceasefire frays further as Israel also carries out airstrikes and issues new displacement orders for south Lebanon Hezbollah launched several drones a...
Fears of resurgence in Somali piracy after three vessels hijacked in past week
Pirates appear to be taking advantage of international naval strength being diverted elsewhere in regionThree vessels have been hijacked off the coast...
Opening arguments begin in Elon Musk and Sam Altman courtroom showdown
Trial is culmination of a years-long feud between Musk and Altman that has become increasingly viciousThe trial pitting Elon Musk against Sam Altman a...
Texas Democrat Talarico leads senator Cornyn and AG Paxton in Senate race poll
TPOR poll of 1,018 likely voters puts Talarico ahead of John Cornyn by three percentage points and Ken Paxton by fiveUS politics live – latest updates...
UK’s new ambassador to US said Starmer had been ‘on the ropes’ over Mandelson scandal
Mandelson’s replacement made comments in February, with diplomat also saying Israel has special relationship with USThe UK’s new ambassador to the US ...
US tells visa applicants to deny fear of return or risk visa refusal
Refusal or silence would increase denial risk under new US guidance requiring applicants to confirm no fear of returnApplicants seeking a temporary vi...
Singing activists disrupt NatWest meeting over ‘climate backtracking’
Shareholder agm briefly adjourned after protesters wearing T-shirts labelled ‘No more big oil’ burst into songThe chair of NatWest was forced to defen...
Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’
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Guardian Essential poll: more Australians approve of Hanson’s party leadership than Albanese or Taylor’s
One Nation outperforms the Coalition for the first time, while the rightwing populist party’s leader has a positive rating among all age groupsGet our...
Brittany Higgins criticises federal inaction as Victoria moves to protect victim-survivors’ counselling records
Exclusive: State government commits to strengthening laws as Higgins labels Albanese government’s response to women’s safety issues ‘disheartening’Get...
‘It feels like a betrayal’: anger as Apple to close US’s first unionized store
Tech giant accused of ‘cynical attempt to bust the union’ in decision to shutter location in Towson, MarylandWorkers at the first Apple store to union...
John Hinckley Jr calls Trump shooting at same hotel he shot Reagan ‘spooky’
Hinckley says ‘bad things keep happening’ at Washington Hilton and it was ‘not a secure place to hold big events’US politics live – latest updatesThe ...
Journalist Katie Phang sues acting attorney general Todd Blanche over Epstein files
Lawsuit alleges DoJ breached transparency law by withholding records on Jeffrey Epstein and over-redacting disclosuresTodd Blanche, the acting attorne...
Russian oligarch’s superyacht allowed through strait of Hormuz, source says
Billionaire Alexei Mordashov’s vessel, Nord, reportedly able to cross blockaded strait with US and Iranian approvalA superyacht owned by the Russian ...
Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap deal
Sakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivatedThe Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Po...
