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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Maanvi Singh |Matthew Pearce |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
Kilmar Ábrego García was 16 when he came to the US, after his family were targeted by criminal gangs in his home of El Salvador. He joined his brother in Maryland and started a new life. In 2019, he was arrested by immigration officials and accused of being a gang member, but his lawyers argued there was no evidence for this, pointed out he had no criminal convictions and insisted he should not be sent back to a country where he was himself at risk from criminal gangs.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Jessica Murray |Alex Atack |Priya Bharadia |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin
“It’s been absolutely unbelievable,” William Timms, a pest controller, tells Hannah Moore. “Since March, calls have gone up 50%. Usually, I’m dealing with about three or four rodent jobs a day this time of year. And then I’ve got my insect jobs on top. “But I’ve had to put my insect jobs on the back burner, because I’m just being inundated with rat calls. I’m doing about nine or 10 a day at the moment.”Birmingham’s rubbish collectors have been on an all-out strike since early March.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Phoebe Weston |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
The UK is known for its national parks: areas of outstanding natural beauty with rolling hills and crystal-clear streams and lakes. But research has shown that England’s most protected rivers are full of pharmaceuticals.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Rebecca Ratcliffe |Eli Block |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
“It took around four to five minutes for the earthquake to shake and then it stopped and shook again. It is the most severe earthquake I have experienced in my life.”Esther J is a reporter based in Bangkok, Thailand, more than 600 miles (966km) away from her home country of Myanmar – the epicentre of last week’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Rachel Porter |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
While other diet fads come and go, the ultra low carbohydrate Keto diet seems to endure. But as scientists begin to understand how the diet works, more is also being discovered about its risks. To find out more, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Javier Gonzalez, professor in the department of health at the University of Bath, with a special interest in personal nutrition.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Peter Walker |Lucy Hough |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
Rachel Reeves had said that her government was all about growth. But as she stood up to give her spring statement it was clear that green shoots could not yet be seen. The UK’s growth forecast for this year had been halved, leaving the chancellor with a problem. It was a new world of global insecurity, she said, but her response was not to raise taxes or break her fiscal rules. Instead, she would make big cuts – including to welfare.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Sami Kent |Ruth Michaelson |Hannah Moore |Lucy Hough |Joel Cox | +1 more
It has been more than two decades since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became Turkey’s president. Over the years, Erdoğan’s regime has become increasingly authoritarian, eroding press freedoms and removing checks to his power. But in the last week mass protests have erupted. Pouring on to the streets of Istanbul, thousands have defied government warnings and a crackdown by riot police to ensure their voices are heard.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Madeleine Finlay |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
It’s a mystery that has long puzzled researchers. Why can’t we remember our early childhood experiences? Freud called the phenomenon infantile amnesia, and for many years scientists have wondered whether it’s a result of failure to create memories or just a failure to retrieve them. Now new research appears to point to an answer. To find out more, Ian Sample talks to Nick Turk-Browne, a professor of psychology at Yale University.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Chris McGreal |Tom Glasser |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
This month Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who had worked with human rights groups and even the UK government, was detained in New York. His wife, who is eight months pregnant, said her husband was not told why he was being detained and that officers assumed he was on a visa – but actually he has a green card, allowing him to stay in the US and protecting his constitutional rights.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Homa Khaleeli |Helen Pidd |Patrick Butler |Lucy Hough |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox
On Tuesday the welfare secretary, Liz Kendall, set out her plans to save £5bn from the government’s welfare bill. The current situation is unsustainable, the government says. With the numbers of people claiming disability benefits soaring, it was time for a fairer system, she said. For many disabled people, who have felt the effects of successive governments’ attempts to reform the welfare system, it was a stressful moment.
