Republican-led efforts to restrict abortion rights are set to be major target for Democrats in general election

This new video shows what happened when NYPD entered Hamilton Hall to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University. Police, wearing helmets and carrying zip ties and riot shields, massed at the Ivy League university’s entrance, before ...

1 May 1899: The Guardian’s weekly cycling column questions a police officer’s evidence in a speeding cyclist case and reassures riders that brake blocks cause little damage to rims

A two-week standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters and college administrators at Columbia University in New York is coming to a head

In the run-up to the local elections this week, the Guardian columnist John Harris is in Thurrock where the council has amassed more than £1.5bn in debt since 2022. He speaks to people facing swingeing cuts and asks whether the vote on Thursday wi ...

Hundreds of police swarm the campus after protesters occupied a college hall, the latest escalation amid weeks of demonstrations that have spread nationwide

Councillors, mayors and police commissioners across England and Wales are facing voters this week. What’s at stake? Helen Pidd reports

Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Keith Davidson detailed the urgency to bury damaging allegations involving Trump after the tape’s release in the weeks before Election Day in 2016

The former president had sought a delay for several reasons, including that presiding Judge Juan Merchan had refused to recuse himself from the case

Elon Musk said two senior executives would also be leaving the company

Florida spring breakers were caught on camera dumping full trash cans into the ocean on Sunday, 28 April. Footage from WavyBoats shows the vessel's occupants picking up the containers brimming with litter and tipping them into the water off the Boca ...

The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 63, previously revealed that she had undergone biopsies after having a mammogram last week

Follows warning the scheme will damage business confidence and increase the cost of the weekly shop

The TUC said that millions of workers are in the midst of the longest pay squeeze in more than 200 years

Critics argue that the PM is using mental health as a political culture war ahead of local elections this week

Monday’s clashes mark second time in less than a week state police called to campus

Hundreds of students have refused to disperse from pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University after the school set a deadline for them to leave or face suspension. Columbia University’s president said on Monday (29 April) that talks with protest ...

Critics argue that Rishi Sunak is using mental health as a political culture war ahead of local elections this week

It’s shaping up to be another tumultuous week for Britain’s major political parties

It's not been the best end to April, and the beginning of May isn't looking much better, but there's hope on the horizon