8 h. ago Women let Liverpool county lines operation use homes as 'safehouses' for drugs

Five women who helped run a drug ring by turning their homes into 'safehouses' where drugs for a county lines operation were stored were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court

Society

42 h. ago Misinformation, fear and politics – how a South Dakota county drove away millions in solar energy

Colton Berens was looking forward to the added income from his farm, but armed with rightwing falsehoods, other Selby residents opposed the moveLike most of South Dakota, Walworth county is built on farming. To the east of Selby, the county seat, vast fields of soybeans and wheat grow between roads that run straight to the horizon. To the west, beyond the county line, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation spreads across miles of rumpled green prairie studded with creamy erratics and dark clumps of trees.Like many farming regions, Walworth’s deeply conservative population has been steadily declining and aging, from roughly 8,000 in the 1960s to 5,200 today. The grain elevator that towers over Main Street in Selby is among the busiest in the region, but most of the squat brick buildings in its shadow are weathered and lifeless. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago New Chicago immigration campaign prompts confusion as city braces for federal intervention

The Department of Homeland Security is trumpeting the start of a new immigration operation in Chicago that's stirring up fresh confusion and anxiety

Politics

7 d. ago World Boxing accused of gender test ‘betrayal’ by French federation

France’s women were excluded from the World Championships in Liverpool after eligibility testing could not be performed under national law.

Politics

1 week ago Your Guardian sport weekend: Liverpool v Arsenal, Women’s Rugby World Cup and more

Here’s how to follow along with our coverage – the finest writing and up-to-the-minute reports Continue reading...

Sport

2 w. ago Home Office minister praises joint EU operation to smash drug smuggler gangs

Operation White Sea has led to the seizure of cocaine worth £66 million from reaching the UK and EU.

Politics

2 w. ago ‘You had to fend for yourself’: Hurricane Katrina haunts New Orleans as Trump guts disaster aid

As survivors and experts reflect on the storm 20 years on, fear is growing that the US is just as unprepared to take on extreme weather amid cuts to FemaDarren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. When Hurricane Katrina struck 20 years ago this week, he watched his neighborhood wash away. From his second floor apartment, he saw flood waters rise up to his window.“I had no food at all, no water, no electricity,” he recounted one rainy day this month, while taking a break from his job leading home restoration in the neighborhood as field operations director of the non-profit lowernine.org. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Inspectors find decomposing bodies behind hidden door at Colorado funeral home

Colorado authorities say they are investigating a funeral home operated by a county coroner where inspectors found several decomposing bodies

Events

3 w. ago Vienna announced as host city for Eurovision song contest 2026

Final of 70th edition of competition to be held on 16 May at the Wiener Stadthalle, Austria’s largest indoor arenaVienna has been chosen to host the Eurovision song contest 2026, the world’s biggest live televised music event, Austria’s public broadcaster announced, with the final set for 16 May.Austria’s JJ won this year’s competition, held in Basel in Switzerland, with his song Wasted Love, which blends techno beats with operatic vocals – making his home country the 2026 host. Continue reading...

Culture

4 w. ago Dale Webster, surfer who rode waves for 14,642 consecutive days, dies aged 77

Surfer rode waves daily for over 40 years straightStreak reached 14,642 consecutive surfing daysGuinness record-holder dies at age 77 in CaliforniaDale Webster, the Northern California surfer who paddled out every day for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 77. News of his death was shared on social media by friends and fellow surfers. No cause of death was given.Known as Daily Dale and Daily Wavester, Webster holds a Guinness world record for the longest streak of consecutive days surfed: an extraordinary 14,642, a stretch that began in 1975 and ended in 2015. His feat required him to surf at least three waves a day, rain or shine, in sickness or in health, through frigid Pacific waters and the shark-rich lineup off Sonoma County. Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago Children as young as 13 'groomed by county lines gangs' arrested for drug dealing in London

Exclusive: Scotland Yard are arresting an average of fourteen under-18s a week for drug dealing offences

Events