Brexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs now, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck

Finland, Sweden and Norway modernise underground infrastructure as Russia’s war in Ukraine revives fears of conflict on their soil

She’s been experiencing some trauma,” James Cook, an attorney for Wynnie Savageford, told HuffPost.

We are already paying a high price for the defense secretary’s purges and whims.

Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’ JD Vance has said he is “doing as much of God’s work as possible” and that he is OK “if that leads to the end times”, which he says “are coming”. The US vice-president made the comments during a Monday podcast interview with Bryce Crawford, a 22-year old evangelical host with over a million YouTube followers and videos featuring sensationalist headlines including “Preaching the gospel in Chicago’s deadliest neighborhood” and “Debating a ‘gay’ pastor”. Continue reading...

With each revelation about who this person is, how she got where she did, what she does daily, and how her control over the President of the United States has evolved, things look darker and darker.

Seriousness of remark made in New York on Friday, and whether it signaled new policy ​position, not clear

The president has not been looking well. Americans should get answers to these seven questions.

The extraordinary subterfuge was aimed at protecting an American president who has been in Iran’s cross hairs for years.

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If there's a way to spoil it, the FIFA Peace Prize winner will find it.

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The New York Times analyzed the president’s statements suggesting that the conflict was drawing to a close and compared them with the reality of the moment. Often, there was a wide disconnect.