GOP backs Gorsuch’s LGBTQ decision after conservative blowback

Conservatives are seething over Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion that cemented new protections for LGBTQ people. The…

Inspectors general ask Congress for help in monitoring coronavirus relief payments

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images Federal watchdogs are asking lawmakers…

National Trust buys romantic landscape of Lorna Doone novel

It is a place of wooded valleys, tumbling rivers and rugged moorland that was immortalised in…

Australia has a problem with climate change denial. The message just isn’t getting through | Greg Jericho

An international survey of people’s news habits around the world reveals that Australians’ opinions on climate…

Senate unlikely to take up police reform bill until after July 4 recess

Demonstrators face off with New York City police officers. | Scott Heins/Getty Images The Senate is…

The Guardian view on natural history: children need to know

The lockdown edition of the BBC’s Springwatch ended on Friday, with a series of clips sent…

Reworking our economy for a post-coronavirus society | Letters

Your editorial (9 June) rightly calls for the post-coronavirus economy to be rebuilt in a fairer,…

Democrats oppose Pentagon policy nominee who called Obama a ‘terrorist leader’

Sen. Jack Reed. | Andrew Harnik, Pool/AP Photo By CONNOR O’BRIEN 06/15/2020 11:12 AM EDT Updated:…

Covid-19 pandemic is ‘fire drill’ for effects of climate crisis, says UN official

The coronavirus pandemic is “just a fire drill” for what is likely to follow from the…

Dems ask Bureau of Prisons for coronavirus update on staffers who manned protests

House Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie…