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Chaos as Trump cuts to Noaa lead to staffers receiving deluge of spam emails
Environment  
Chaos as Trump cuts to Noaa lead to staffers receiving deluge of spam emails
US climate agency upended as Doge efforts to slash federal government compromise weather operations and security
US politics live  
Democratic senator Cory Booker holds marathon speech to highlight ‘recklessness’ of Trump policies
Trump tariffs  
Large majority of Europeans support retaliatory tariffs against US, poll finds
Politics  
Wisconsin and Florida voters head to polls in test of Trump’s popularity
Middle East  
Palestinian teenager dies in Israeli jail after being held six months without charge
Trump presidency
US lawmakers to vote on bill targeting noncitizen voting: ‘There would be extensive uncertainty’
Democracy  
US lawmakers to vote on bill targeting noncitizen voting: ‘There would be extensive uncertainty’
The Save Act is aimed at cutting rare instances noncitizens vote – by making voter registration more difficult
At a glance  
Doge access to federal payroll and Trump’s third term comment spark alarm
Universities  
Pro-Palestinian British Cornell student says he will leave US citing fear of detention
'Real danger in this moment'  
More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
In focus
Play therapy for young disaster survivors can be ‘extraordinarily helpful’ – but often inaccessible
Childhood  
Play therapy for young disaster survivors can be ‘extraordinarily helpful’ – but often inaccessible
In North Carolina, children affected by Hurricane Helene are putting this proven method to the test
Canada  
‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
‘Beyond description’  
Bodies pile up in mass graves as Myanmar grapples with quake toll
Spotlight
Nine lives: how Saraya survived alcohol, abuse, injury and a leaked sex tape
Wrestling  
Nine lives: how Saraya survived alcohol, abuse, injury and a leaked sex tape
At 18, Saraya-Jade Bevis had a rags-to-riches signing that took her from Norwich to the largest wrestling promotion in the world. A few years later, she hit rock bottom. Here is how she started over
Environment  
‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work
Online shopping  
‘Please leave feedback’: how constant online reviews are changing our brains – and our lives
Architecture  
A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien … and the pandemic
Media  
‘I can’t cope with it any more’: newsrooms scramble to retain audiences amid the big switch-off
Sport  
Torpedo bats: a destroyer of worlds or baseball’s long-awaited savior?
Opinion
Who actually runs Columbia University?
Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock
Who actually runs Columbia University?
Democrats still misunderstand working class voters – to their peril
Dustin Guastella
Sports
NCAA Tournament  
Bueckers scores 31 points to fire UConn into Final Four
Bueckers scores 31 points to fire UConn into Final Four
The A’s settled into their new home in Sacramento. The result was familiar
Tom Dart at Sutter Health Park
Culture
Music  
‘I feel as though I’ve been in chains’: the bittersweet life of lovers rock legend Mari’ Pierre
‘I feel as though I’ve been in chains’: the bittersweet life of lovers rock legend Mari’ Pierre
Television  
Adolescence: drama schools hit out at ‘stars from nowhere’ narrative
In case you missed it
Oregon abandoned its radical drug law. Then came the mass arrests
Oregon  
Oregon abandoned its radical drug law. Then came the mass arrests
Last year, the state ended a trailblazing law decriminalizing possession. Drug users in some counties are now in and out of jail, without lawyers, struggling to get treatment
Analysis  
A Wisconsin state supreme court race will test whether abortion can still tip an election
‘This is what dictators do’  
Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term
Mexico  
How hurricanes Otis and John exposed Acapulco’s big divide and left residents ‘scared for our lives’
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