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    California wildfires live
    Los Angeles fire crews make progress as taskforce formed to tackle looting and arson

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    Media
    ‘Deeply alarmed’: Washington Post staff request meeting with Jeff Bezos

    • Italy
      Italian police accused of making female activists remove underwear and do squats

    • South Korea
      Yoon Suk Yeol arrested after police cut wire fences to break into compound

    • Archaeology
      Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests

    • Italy
      Italy seeks to protect restaurants and hotels from fake and paid-for reviews

    • Joe Biden
      Joe Biden says ‘soul of America’ still at stake in farewell letter as president

    • New York
      Carrie Bradshaw’s famed Sex and the City stoop to get gate to stop fans gathering

News in focus

  • An industrial plant spews pollution.

    Exclusive
    ‘A trash can for the US’: anger in Mexico and Canada over toxic waste shipments

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    California wildfires
    Clothes, toiletries – and a free stylist: the LA teen creating a space for peers amid the fires

  • a man in a suit speaks at a podium

    Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules

    Mohamad Bazzi
    The Biden administration has repeatedly undermined international institutions and law to shield Israel. This will come back to haunt them

Spotlight

  • Impossible to contain … firefighters battle the Eaton blaze.

    Architecture
    ‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild

    A century of foolhardy development hugely contributed to this tragedy, writes our architecture critic
  • An illustration where three figures are discernible - a man and two women, one of whom is wearing a green hat

    Well actually
    Can’t stop thinking about your partner’s ex? You’re not alone

  • Timothée Chalamet on a Lime bike at the premiere of A Complete Unknown at London’s BFI Southbank.

    Film
    A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?

    The actor’s choice of transportation to the premiere of A Complete Unknown give him a fresh everyman spin. Yet there was a distinct lack of puddle to his trousers
  • Nicole Kidman drinking milk in Babygirl.

    Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Nicole Kidman’s Babygirl, which features an erotic dairy-based scene, is the latest reminder of the debate about mature milk-drinkers
    • Three Happy Siblings Smiling Outside, Two Little Girls, One Boy

      Pass notes
      Middle children: are they just straightforwardly better than everyone else?

    • Phillipa Perry photographed for Observer Magazine Styling; Jo Jones. Make Up: Juliana Sergot.

      Psychology
      As an agony aunt, I know the biggest cause of unhappiness: other people. Here’s the secret to better relationships

    • In high spirits … Maria, from the series Defying the Myth.‘Defying the Myth’ is a personal photographic project which I have been working on for the last 10 years. It chronicles the untold stories of three families headed by single mothers, who are the prime carers, creating safe and enduring worlds for their progeny living with severe disabilities. Their world is little known nor understood by the general public.

      My best shot
      Maria at the beach on a perfect summer day: Carol Allen-Storey’s best photograph

    • A man wearing glasses, a suit, and tie frowns on a late-night television set

      Culture
      Stephen Colbert on Trump’s legal immunity: ‘A president should be bound by the same laws as everyone else’

Opinion

  • Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, celebrate the announcement of a ceasefire deal on Wednesday 15 January 2025.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on a ceasefire in Gaza: far too late, but desperately needed

    Editorial: As officials report that a deal has been agreed, a precarious pause in hostilities and the release of hostages could only be welcomed
  • house debris outside after a wildfire

    What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars?

    Judith Levine
  • Two billboards on grassy verge

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes

  • A pair of Extinction Rebellion protesters holding a pair of giant eyes, with a group of police in the background.

    Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’

    Adrienne Buller
  • A view of a burned house and car in Los Angeles

    I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real

    Benjamin Hamlington
  • Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

    I owe Alaa Abd el-Fattah my life, which is why I am going on a hunger strike to help free him

    Peter Greste

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Climate crisis

  • A firefighter monitors the spread of the Auto Fire in Oxnard, North West of Los Angeles, California

    Climate crisis
    Climate ‘whiplash’ events increasing exponentially around world

  • white foam and scum gathers and swirls at the muddy edge of a river

    Pollution
    3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show

  • a person wearing neon jacket stands in a creek

    ‘I applaud the EPA’
    US agency launches formal review of five toxic chemicals

  • Nigel Farage speaking to a group of people in an opulent club

    Climate denial
    Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group

Around the world

  • A composite image showing Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos

    Trump inauguration
    Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg may sit together at Trump inauguration

    President-elect would cut taxes for richest 5% of Americans and increase them for everyone else, according to thinktank
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    Space
    SpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon

  • Micheál Martin, left, with Simon Harris in the Dáil chamber

    Ireland
    Ireland’s two main centre-right parties to form coalition government

  • A healthcare worker prepares a shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in La Paz, Bolivia.

    UK
    People with Covid vaccine injuries not getting help they need, inquiry hears

    • Chagos Islands
      UK stalls Chagos Islands deal until Trump administration can ‘consider detail’

    • Germany
      German economy shrinks for second year in a row

    • European Union
      Europe must take responsibility for its own security, says Polish minister

    • Business
      US inflation ticks up in December and remains above Fed’s 2% target rate

    • Global health
      Suspected outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease kills eight in Tanzania

    • Meta
      Meta to fire thousands of staff as Zuckerberg warns of ‘intense year’

Culture

  • a black and white photo of a man playing the guitar and a woman looking up

    Music
    ‘I’m literally Joan Baez right now’: gen Z women relate to Bob Dylan’s toxic situationship

    The film A Complete Unknown has sparked interest in the folk singers’ doomed romance, and with it the realization that a similar dynamic is ‘happening to girls everywhere’
  • Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger's CONCLAVE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024 All Rights Reserved.

    Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Frank Auerbach in his studio.

    Art and design
    ‘Homecoming’ show for artist Frank Auerbach to be held at Berlin gallery

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    Review
    One of Them Days review – Keke Palmer and SZA take a bumpy but fun ride

  • Claudia Winkleman sitting on the shoulders of two masked men in costume.

    The Traitors UK
    Is there a secret murderer? Is Frankie Freddie’s mum? The wildest Traitors theories so far

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    Television
    ‘Absolutely heartbreaking’: the dark side of family vlogging

Lifestyle

  • Sam Pordale in a black top by an orange wall

    How we survive
    Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban

    In an instant, Sam Pordale went from a world of privilege to becoming a refugee in imminent danger. He talks about how he lost everything and began to rebuild his life
  • C Marina Marchese with her honeybees

    A moment that changed me
    I tasted honey so sublime, I gave up my career to keep bees

  • A yellow road bike and a Lime bike.

    Cycling
    ‘Please don’t hit me!’ The battle between ebikers and other cyclists

  • Mrs Keith Miller (aviatrix) prepares for national air tour

    Kindness of strangers
    I had a fear of flying – and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

  • Felicity Cloake's smashed cucumbers 04a

    How to cook the perfect ...
    How to make the perfect smacked cucumbers – recipe

  • Rhik Samadder wears a rap-style customised T-shirt.

    Fashion
    What’s in a name? The terrific, trashy rise of personalised fashion

Take part

  • Remnants of a homes in a neighborhood in Pacific Palisades flattened by the Palisades fire.

    Californians
    Have you been affected by the wildfires?

  • A general view of destroyed houses in a neighborhood that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire which remains without electricity or water on January 12, 2025 in Altadena, California.

    California wildfires
    Tell us about the financial consequences you are facing due to the California fires

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    Long Covid
    Share your experience of long Covid

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    US weather
    Tell us how you have been affected by Winter Storm Blair

From our global editions

  • A fistful of recently harvested vanilla crops in Bahía Solano, El Valle. They are harvested when they look ripe and green, and are then left to dry and mature over three to four months.

    Colombia
    ‘What joy! What damn joy!’: vanilla boom transforms fortunes of Colombia’s farmers

    In El Valle, the world’s second-most expensive spice is not just providing an economic lifeline but also helping to preserve rich biodiversity
  • The flag of Ambazonia, the anglophone breakaway state in north-west and south-west Cameroon.

    Global development
    ‘The fight is existential’: Cameroon’s anglophone leaders lead a revolution from behind bars

  • Two dead pelicans washed up at the water's edge next to a pebbly shore

    Environment
    Age of the panzootic: scientists warn of more devastating diseases jumping between species

  • Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol demonstrate in Seoul after he was arrested at his presidential compound.

    South Korea
    Ladders, noodle stations and K-pop: how the arrest of South Korea’s president unfolded

  • A woman holds a cable and a screwdriver

    Tanzania
    ‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar

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    Protest
    Stand up and be counted: six ways to protest that will make your voice heard

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    Photos of the day
    Marriage equality and a giant weather vane

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