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Democrats scored major victories in 2025 elections despite brand challenges. DNC chair sees silver lining as party prepares for crucial midterms ahead.

From campus protests to deadly attacks, antisemitic violence becomes the new reality. Analysis reveals how Western governments must act to protect Jews.

Harvard professor leaves after 40 years, alleges woke policies destroyed academic standards and excellence in scathing 'Why I'm Leaving Harvard' critique.

Nearly half of seniors quit GLP-1 weight-loss drugs within a year. Experts reveal why older Americans abandon medications like Ozempic and Wegovy despite results.

Learn how to set up Google Maps and Apple Maps on your phone to automatically remember where you parked. Step-by-step instructions for enabling location services and parking detection.

Did you know that the sun converts about 4 million tons of mass to energy every second, and that Koala fingerprints evolved to resemble human fingerprints?

A Georgia police officer shot his girlfriend dead before turning the gun on himself — as worried friends discovered the couple’s bodies days after they were last seen at a Christmas party.

They were contentious, unprecedented and among the policies that drove long-haul truckers from across Canada to overtake Ottawa’s downtown core for nearly a month. Read More

Tom Christie believed he was doing his job when he waded into a crowd of drunken, rowdy teens at a Calgary park. Read More

"I was reading my book and you know this boy - man - attacked me, and I did fight back."

The Issue: President Trump’s efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine. The United States’ approach to brokering a peace settlement in the Russia-Ukraine war can best be described as bias-based diplomacy, with Russia the beneficiary and Ukraine the strategic victim (“Zel scoffs at Don’s Vlad view,” Dec. 30). The policy’s inherent flaws, stemming from...

Join our live coverage as we cross the globe to enter the new year

Some community events have been cancelled across New Zealand’s North Island due to forecasts of rain and possible thunderstorms.

Auckland has welcomed in the new year with a colourful fireworks display over the Sky Tower.

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© Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

© Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

Even if Carter and Dart do not win any awards, they clearly have emerged as two of the main building blocks for the Giants' future.

The towering obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, DC, will feature patriotic projections telling the story of America starting on Wednesday.

The United States has a political violence problem to which the Trump administration is responding with a focus on domestic terrorism. Unfortunately, and not for the first time, federal officials define “terrorism” broadly enough to include protected activities, and they’re once again going after adherents of specific ideologies that are out of favour with the powers that be. This isn’t a new problem; presidents from both major parties have engaged in the persecution of political opponents in the name of fighting extremism and violence. The result is always the same: the violation of constitutionally protected rights. Read More

Montreal — On New Year’s Eve 250 years ago, Brig.-Gen. Richard Montgomery of the Continental Army, headquartered here in Montreal at the Château Ramezay, ordered a multi-pronged attack on Quebec City. The future existence of Canada hung in the balance; Quebec may have become the 14th state at the conclusion of the American Revolution. Read More

My name is Harley Finkelstein. I am a proud Jewish-Canadian, an entrepreneur and the grandson of Holocaust survivors. Read More

Reiterating the liberal ideals behind the revolution may be tricky when they are out of favour in the White House

• Gabonese FA president was voted on to Caf exco in 2023

• Caf chief allegedly failed to act on reports of sexual abuse

The general secretary of the Confederation of African Football (Caf), Veron Mosengo-Omba, ignored a recommendation that Pierre-Alain Mounguengui was ineligible for election to its powerful executive committee because he had been accused of covering up widespread sexual abuse in Gabonese football, it can be revealed.

Mounguengui, the president of the Gabonese football federation (Fegafoot), has been accused of failing to act on reports of sexual abuse and rape of young footballers in a series of stories that were first published by the Guardian in 2021. He has denied the allegations and there is no suggestion Mounguengui has been accused of sexual abuse himself. Although he has not yet been formally charged, Mounguengui spent six months in custody awaiting a decision from the authorities in Gabon and was visited by the Caf president, Patrice Motsepe, with a final ruling on his case still pending almost four years on.

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Despite reviews of the district as a raucous tourist trap, improved policing has restored safety and an eclectic vibe

When Ireland redeveloped a swathe of central Dublin in the 1990s, the idea was to create a version of Paris’s Left Bank, a cultural quarter of cobbled lanes, art and urban renewal.

Planners and architects transformed the run-down Temple Bar site by the River Liffey into an ambitious experiment that drew throngs of visitors and won awards.

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© Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

Scale of Europe’s narcotics crisis ‘not even possible to imagine’, says EUDA director Alexis Goosdeel

The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed

Death and taxes are supposed to be the things we can depend on in this life. But in 2025, the American entrepreneur Ben Lamm sold much of the world on the idea that death did not, after all, need to be for ever.

This was the year the billionaire’s genetics startup, Colossal Biosciences, claimed it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that disappeared at the end of the last ice age, by tweaking the DNA of grey wolves. According to the company, it had also edged closer to bringing the woolly mammoth back from the dead, with the creation of genetically engineered “woolly mice”.

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© Illustration: Joe Plimmer/Guardian pictures/Colossal Biosciences

© Illustration: Joe Plimmer/Guardian pictures/Colossal Biosciences

Whether you go for an easy jog or actively limit your screen time, studies show there are tried and tested ways to wind down and be sure of a good night’s sleep

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After a hard day at work, the last thing you want to do is fritter away your precious downtime slumped on the sofa in a dazed doomscroll. Yet, in the absence of a better plan, it happens with depressing ease. How we spend the hours between shutting down the laptop and slipping under the duvet affects sleep quality, mood and how restored we feel the next day. So, how can we reclaim those lost evenings?

According to Jason Ellis, a professor of psychology at Northumbria University and director of the Northumbria centre for sleep research, establishing a regular end-of-day routine sends a signal to your brain that you are making a shift between work mode, and rest and recreation. “It’s about putting the day to bed before you go to bed,” he says. Gretchen Rubin – an author, podcaster and creator of the Happiness Project – agrees. “Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life,” she says.

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© Illustration: Spencer Wilson/The Guardian

© Illustration: Spencer Wilson/The Guardian