Tornadoes, shrinking ice and early syrup: how the hottest winter on record is affecting the US (www.theguardian.com)
The country saw rain in many regions instead of snow, a midwest heat patch, and ice receding from lakes and ponds...
Brett Kavanaugh knows truth of alleged sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford says in book (www.theguardian.com)
The US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh is not a “consummately honest person” and “must know” what really happened on the night more than 40 years ago when he allegedly sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, his accuser writes in an eagerly awaited memoir....
Massachusetts to pardon ‘hundreds of thousands’ with marijuana charges (www.theguardian.com)
The Massachusetts governor, Maura Healey, announced plans to pardon all simple marijuana possession charges from the state, which could affect “hundreds of thousands” who have faced charges....
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Furious Hungary summons US envoy over Biden’s ‘dictatorship’ comment (www.theguardian.com)
US president said Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is ‘looking for a dictatorship’ after Orbán met with Trump in Florida...
Playing thriving reef sounds on underwater speakers ‘could save damaged corals’ (www.theguardian.com)
Coral larvae more likely to settle on degraded reefs bathed in marine soundscapes, Caribbean study shows...
Thailand election body seeks to dissolve progressive party that won 2023 vote (www.theguardian.com)
Move comes after court found that efforts to amend lese majeste laws by Move Forward party were unconstitutional...
Aide tried to stop Trump praising Hitler – by telling him Mussolini was ‘great guy’ (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.
Dramatic rise in women and girls being cut, new FGM data reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Progress to prevent female genital mutilation needs to be ‘27 times faster’, says UN...
Andrew Tate and brother Tristan arrested in Romania on UK warrant (www.theguardian.com)
Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania after an arrest warrant was issued by UK authorities in relation to charges including “sexual aggression”, his representative has said....
Navalny ally Leonid Volkov vows to continue fight against Putin after hammer attack in Vilnius (www.theguardian.com)
Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum in case said to be unprecedented (www.theguardian.com)
Migrants mired in transit as Mexico becomes US’s immigration enforcer (www.theguardian.com)
Gray whale sighted off New England 200 years after species’ Atlantic extinction (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists have confirmed the presence of a whale off New England that went extinct in the Atlantic Ocean two centuries ago – an exciting discovery, but one they said that illustrates the impact of climate change on sea life....
‘They’re all high’: Louisiana police say rats eating marijuana in evidence room (www.theguardian.com)
New Orleans superintendent tells council committee that rodents have infested the building and requests to move headquarters...
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Treason charges after $50 for Ukraine: desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia (www.theguardian.com)
‘Idaho’s seen as a war zone’: the lone abortion activist defying militias and the far right (www.theguardian.com)
Jen Jackson Quintano is her region’s only abortion rights organizer. Faced with a ‘culture of silence’, she’s platforming women – and changing minds...
Andrew Tate and brother Tristan arrested in Romania on UK warrant (www.theguardian.com)
British-American online influencers facing charges dating to 2012-15 including sexual aggression, representative says...
‘Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine’: US braces for presidential election no one wants (www.theguardian.com)
“I think this is the worst election in my lifetime,” said George Argodale, a Nikki Haley supporter from Gainesville, Virginia. “It’s just terrible that we don’t have better candidates.”...
France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists and vets are urging the president to afford the world’s most traded species better protections...
Ibrahima Bah was sentenced to nine years for steering a ‘death trap’ dinghy across the Channel. Was he really to blame? (www.theguardian.com)
The young asylum seeker was forced into piloting the boat on which at least four people drowned. Under new ‘stop the boats’ laws, he’s responsible for their deaths – but others say he’s a victim
UK lawyer to oversee ICC investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestinian territories (www.theguardian.com)
US uses loophole to keep 100 arms sales to Israel under the radar amid Gaza war – report (www.theguardian.com)
The US is reported to have made more than 100 weapons sales to Israel, including thousands of bombs, since the start of the war in Gaza, but the deliveries escaped congressional oversight because each transaction was under the dollar amount requiring approval....
US airlifts embassy staff out of Haiti as gangs besiege political area (www.theguardian.com)
Haiti’s gangs began an offensive to topple the government on 29 February, storming and ransacking police stations, prisons and hospitals and laying siege to strategic locations, including the port and airport....
