Poll shows US public support for LGBTQ+ protections falling for first time since 2015 (www.theguardian.com)
New survey suggests decline has strong correlation between Christian nationalism and opposition to inclusive policies...
‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)
Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...
‘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...
American dream of owning a home is dead, majority of renters say (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: most renters surveyed by Harris Poll say the areas they live in have become so unaffordable they are ‘barely livable’...
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....
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”.
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)
California officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening tool (www.theguardian.com)
Migrants mired in transit as Mexico becomes US’s immigration enforcer (www.theguardian.com)
Trump ‘will not give a penny to Ukraine’ if he wins, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán says (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said after a controversial meeting with Trump in Florida....
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...
‘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...
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...
Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions (www.theguardian.com)
Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method...
UK lawyer to oversee ICC investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestinian territories (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order (www.theguardian.com)
Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism...
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
‘We stand here as Jewish men who refute the Holocaust being hijacked’: Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars (www.theguardian.com)
Fifty people treated after ‘technical problem’ caused ‘strong movement’ on Latam flight from Sydney (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats...
Israeli human rights groups accuse country of failing to abide by ICJ’s Gaza aid ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
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....
