The Latest Breaking News from Barack Obama

The Star Trek actor is making his West End debut in a play about the 1968 US TV political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. But he fears the pair’s fiery exchanges may be partly to blame for today’s polarised politics

Federal grants are rebooting higher education behind bars, but the benefits aren't evenly distributed to all of the incarcerated.

COVID hospitalizations are rising in kids under 6 months, CDC Director Walensky says

The former first lady says ‘there is not a lot of conversation about menopause’

In the book, Obama tells how she steadies herself during these anxious times and how she works at overcoming her lifelong fear of change and doubts about herself.

Michelle Obama says she wrote another book because everyone from her daughters to her girlfriends to strangers who wrote her letters wanted to know how to cope in these anxious times

When things going less badly than planned is a small win, the lack of a revival of Trump-backed candidates is cheering , says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Was realising the dream of the Middle East’s first World Cup worth it? Qatar is about to find out

As surely as right-wing politicians and personalities were preemptively deploying disinformation to cast doubt on any losses in Tuesday’s midterm election, they can be counted on to overstate the implications of any victories. So it’s worth warding off the inevitable fiction about the developing congressional results with some factual context.