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July 2024

  • Joe Biden in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday.

    US politics live
    Biden defends his campaign as swing-state Democrat calls for him to exit race – as it happened

    Angie Craig of Minnesota asks Biden to ‘step aside’, as California governor stumps for president in Pennsylvania. This blog is now closed

December 2023

  • Activists participate in a demonstration for a loss and damage fund at the Cop28 UN climate summit in Dubai.

    Cop28: highlights and lowlights so far

    An update on the first half of the UN climate conference in Dubai, including shock over the host president’s comments

November 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: Senators on Capitol Hill vote to proceed to the Inflation Reduction Act<br>FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), departs the Senate floor following a vote to proceed to the Inflation Reduction Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 6, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo

    Blumenthal: Democrats have ‘work cut out’ as Biden trails Trump in five swing states

    New poll shows Biden ahead in Wisconsin, but Trump leading in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan

September 2023

  • Thousands march in New York to demand that Biden 'end fossil fuels'<br>NEW YORK, US - SEPTEMBER 17: Thousands of activists marched in New York City on Sunday for the march to end fossil fuels. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells climate marchers to be ‘too big and too radical to ignore’ – as it happened

  • A mostly orange image, with the dark shape in the middle of a saguaro cactus - which has a straight middle arm, with two arms rising alongside it and slightly lower, with a burning sun in the top-right corner of the frame.

    Guardian reporter among winners of climate journalism awards

July 2023

  • Heatwave hits Southwestern US<br>epa10748749 A car moves by a thermometer showing 119 degrees Farenheit in Baker, California, USA, 15 July 2023. A heatwave is hitting the southwestern United States and is expected to bring temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 Celsius) in parts of California and Arizona in the coming days. EPA/CAROLINE BREHMAN

    Millions in US under warnings as record heat expected to continue next week

    South-west and parts of the west hardest hit amid warnings to ‘take heat seriously’ as Phoenix temperature to rise to 118F Sunday

May 2022

  • Firefighters put out a coffee kiosk which ignited as a result of shelling in Kharkiv

    Ukraine war live
    Zelenskiy complains about divisions inside the European Union over more sanctions against Russia – as it happened

  • Abortion rights protesters participate in nationwide demonstrations, in New York City<br>Abortion rights protesters participate in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., May 14, 2022. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

    US politics live
    Pro-choice demonstrators rally across the US over expected reversal of Roe v Wade – as it happened

April 2022

  • Joe Biden speaks at the White House.

    US politics live with Joan E Greve
    ‘We’re not attacking Russia,’ Biden says as he asks for $33bn in Ukraine aid – as it happened

    ‘We’re helping Ukraine defend itself,’ says president – follow all the latest news

March 2022

  • State of the Union: Joe Biden at the Capitol delivers his address.

    State of the Union live: Biden denounces ‘menacing’ Putin and vows to tackle inflation and Covid – as it happened

    President condemns Russia, outlines plans to deal with rising prices and promises ‘new moment’ in fight against coronavirus

February 2022

  • People hold American flags at the gathering of truckers participating in the ‘People’s Convoy’ prior to their departure in Adelanto, California, on 23 February.

    US trucker convoy gathers for cross-country trip to protest Covid rules

    Group calling itself the ‘people’s convoy’ is one of several due to arrive in capital, similar to the demonstrations in Ottawa
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of judges of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts of the Russian Federation via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

    US politics live
    White House confirms Biden-Putin call on Saturday – as it happened

    US national security adviser urges Americans to leave Ukraine while US officials say Putin has decided to invade
  • Members of the mob clash with police and security forces during the Capitol attack.

    US politics live
    Republicans call January 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’ as party censures Cheney and Kinzinger – as it happened

    Move was response to representatives’ involvement in House select committee investigating Capitol attack

January 2022

  • US-JUSTICE-politics-BIDEN-BREYER<br>US President Joe Biden, with retiring US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 27, 2022. - The exit of Breyer, who is 83, gives Biden a likely smooth opportunity to name a replacement to the lifelong seat on the Supreme Court while his Democratic Party retains control of the Senate. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

    US politics live
    US calls for UN security council meeting to discuss Ukraine crisis – as it happened

    The group has not been able to take any action in its previous meetings as Russia is a veto-wielding member of the security council – follow

November 2021

  • A house is seen surrounded by floodwaters on a farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia on Tuesday.

    Canada’s Trudeau deploys air force to help flooding effort– as it happened

    British Columbia premier declares a state of emergency amid the flooding which has killed one person with more deaths expected

October 2021

  • ‘We need images that viscerally depict how the emergency is affecting lives around the world’: a woman calling for help as a wildfire approaches hoiuses in a Portuguese village, 2019.

    Inside the Guardian
    ‘We’re all climate journalists now’: how the weather took over everything

  • Oil spill cleanup in Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach, California, United States - 10 Oct 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Allen J Schaben/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock (12533259aj) An aerial view of oil booms holding back contaminated water at the Talbert marsh in Huntington Beach Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. Environmental cleanup crews are spreading out across Huntington Beach and Newport Beach to cleanup the damage from a major oil spill off the Orange County coast that left crude spoiling beaches, killing fish and birds and threatening local wetlands. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Oil spill cleanup in Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach, California, United States - 10 Oct 2021

    California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill

September 2021

  • Remnants Of Hurricane Ida Move Through Northeast Causing Widespread Flooding<br>PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY - SEPTEMBER 02: A stranded car in flood water is seen on Lester Street on September 02, 2021 in Passaic City. Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Ida caused flooding and power outages throughout New Jersey as the Northeast was hit by record rain and tornadoes. At least 8 people were killed in New York and New Jersey. NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has also declared a state of emergency. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

    Death toll rises in US north-east after sudden heavy rains and flooding

  • Biden at the White House on Thursday. He called the supreme court’s refusal to block to Texas law ‘an unprecedented assault on women’s constitutional rights’.

    US politics live
    Biden vows to protect abortion rights after ‘devastating’ Texas ruling – as it happened

August 2021

  • Kathy Hochul in Brooklyn on 9 April.

    US politics live
    Kathy Hochul vows to change ‘toxic’ environment as New York’s next governor – as it happened

    Lieutenant governor promises ‘there will be turnover’ after Cuomo and anyone named in New York attorney general’s report will be out
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