Skinny Guardian — US edition. The latest 50 Guardian articles updated every hour. Last updated 07 Feb 2025 at 16:12 UTC.

Seth Meyers on Elon Musk’s US takeover: ‘A billionaire coup’

US-Panama relationship was ‘very strong’. Then Trump upended the diplomatic playing board

Trump administration will reportedly keep just 611 essential USAid employees

Tracking Trump cabinet confirmations – so far

US economy shows steady job growth in January amid Biden-Trump transition

Extremists who were targeted by FBI cheer Trump Maga pick to head agency

Detox your kitchen: three things you can do right now to avoid toxic chemicals

FBI gives in to justice department demand for list of January 6 investigators

Kendrick Lamar to hit Super Bowl stage as Taylor Swift and Trump set to attend

Pardoned January 6 rioter on run from solicitation of minor charge arrested

‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán

NBA trade deadline verdict: grading winners and losers after a chaotic week

‘Constitutional emergency’: senior US Democrat demands inquiry into Musk’s government blitz

‘This is Black hair’: technological advances are making waves in animation

Chiefs v Eagles Super Bowl questions: when’s kickoff? Who is the halftime performer? Are Taylor and Trump going?

Canada intercepts people trying to cross border in ‘incredibly cold’ conditions

Bukele-mania: El Salvador strongman’s crime clampdown excites regional right

Elon Musk’s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump

Trump’s blitz to expand his power is direct threat to democracy, experts say

The factors that will decide the Super Bowl: Barkley, blitzes, refs and a kickers’ battle

California city partners with US border patrol to surveil beach for migrant boats

Trump imposes sanctions on ICC, accusing it of targeting US and Israel

Government workers sue Trump and Rubio over ‘catastrophic’ USAid cuts

US Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead office of management and budget

Fema workers responding to LA fires reportedly told to say ‘alien’ instead of ‘immigrant’

LA school district directs $2.2bn towards repairing schools damaged by wildfires

Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic

Democrats call for investigation into potential security breaches by Elon Musk

Netanyahu gives Trump ‘golden pager’ in apparent reference to Lebanon attack

US state department fires security and personal services contractors

Aspiring autocrats are always more dangerous the second time they are in office | Jan-Werner Müeller

DoJ sues Chicago claiming city impedes Trump’s immigration policies

‘Silence is a very obscure sound’: Christine Sun Kim on her sound art

Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s buyout deadline for federal employees

‘Really scary’: rightwing watchlist found of mostly Black federal health workers

Trump repeats rightwing claim that USAid subscriptions to Politico were ‘payoffs’

Howie Roseman: from exile on Broad Street to the Super Bowl’s most important man

Trump interior department directive raises fears for national monuments

Oh, no! It takes 162,335 minutes a year to maintain my health and wellbeing

Panama accuses US of peddling ‘intolerable falsehood’ about canal

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: ‘It’s like our country is being run by the maniac from Saw’

Lara Trump to host new show on Fox News

One year to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics: Twenty athletes from Team USA to watch

All the executive orders Trump has signed so far

Same old stories: is this going to be Hollywood’s laziest year ever?

Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘For when humanity lets me down’

California fires destroyed or damaged nearly half of Black homes in Altadena

Patrick Mahomes and Olympic flag football star seek to bury the hatchet

Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung

What will Trump 2.0 mean for the global world order? | Stephen Wertheim