Searches for lorazepam surged after release of The White Lotus, data shows

14/11/2025 16:00 The Guardian

Third series of TV drama spiked interest in anti-anxiety drug amid warnings over illicit production of ‘benzos’In the third series of the hit TV show The White Lotus, the entitled North Carolina housewife Victoria Ratliff is often shown reaching for her lorazepam. Now researchers say internet searches for the anti-anxiety drug surged after the show’s release.Lorazepam, also known by its brand name Ativan, is a type of drug known as a benzodiazepine, or “benzo”. It is thought to work by boosting the effect of a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain. Continue reading...

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No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies

Backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’Downing Street has warned Labour MPs it expects them to back radical plans to make the UK less attractive to migrants and refugees, as some backbenchers said they expected fierce resistanc...

14/11/2025 17:12 The Guardian

Southern California braces for up to 5in of rain from ‘atmospheric river’

Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties prepare for deluge and possible landslides this weekendA powerful storm was making its way across California on Friday, prompting evacuation warnings as the state braced for the potential of floods, mudslides and even tornadoes over the weekend.Heavy r...

14/11/2025 17:00 The Guardian

Several dead and injured, police say, after bus crashes into bus stop in Stockholm – as it happened

Cause of crash near University of Technology not yet known. This live blog is closedWe have just had an update on the death toll from the overnight attack on Kyiv, via AFP, with authorities now reporting six people dead.in Brussels Continue reading...

14/11/2025 16:34 The Guardian

US Catholic bishops issue rare condemnation of Trump administration’s immigration enforcement – live

US Conference of Catholic Bishops calls for ‘meaningful immigration reform’ in first message of its kind in 12 years Overnight, Russia launched an attack on Kyiv, using 430 drones and 18 missiles, my colleague Jakub Krupa reports.The offensive killed at least four people, and wounded dozens more...

14/11/2025 14:08 The Guardian

National parks facing ‘nightmare’ under Trump, warns ex-director of service

Jonathan Jarvis, who led the agency from 2009 to 2017, laid out the dire consequences of not closing parks in shutdownAmericans should “raise hell” to protect US national parks through the “nightmare” of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to a former National Park Service director, amid...

14/11/2025 14:00 The Guardian

Special needs services in England face ‘total collapse’ from increasing demand

Councils say 59 authorities could go bankrupt by March 2028 without urgent structural reformSpecial educational needs services in England face “total collapse”, with councils on course to have run up debts of £18bn by the end of the decade as a result of increasing numbers of children requiring...

14/11/2025 12:39 The Guardian

Venezuela’s Maduro urges Trump to avoid Afghanistan-style ‘forever war’

Authoritarian leader calls for US to make peace amid military buildup and strikes against alleged drug smugglersExplainer: is US preparing to attack Venezuela?Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, has urged Donald Trump not to lead the US into an Afghanistan-style “forever war”...

14/11/2025 12:35 The Guardian

Weather tracker: US hit by exceptional early winter cold spell

Midwest struck by extreme snowfall and 80 southern weather stations tied or broke low-temperature recordsThe eastern half of the US has been gripped by an exceptional early winter cold spell this week, breaking a multitude of low-temperature records. Eighty weather stations across the deep south eit...

14/11/2025 12:11 The Guardian

Antisemitism watchdog slams ADL’s ‘hyperbolic and aggressive’ response to Mamdani win

Head of Nexus Project says ADL’s plan to ‘monitor’ mayor-elect for antisemitism deepens divisions and plays into far-right agendaThe head of an antisemitism watchdog has come out against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other groups for their “divisive, hyperbolic and aggressive response...

14/11/2025 12:00 The Guardian

Pound and UK bonds slide as Reeves ditches plans for income tax hike – business live

Jitters over the UK’s autumn budget grow as chancellor Rachel Reeves abandons plans to raise income tax on 26 November The chancellor’s income tax rate hike reversal may be interpreted as the Labour government prioritising their public popularity ratings, and stability of the political party, ab...

14/11/2025 09:09 The Guardian

Storm Claudia: torrential rain expected in parts of England and Wales

Amber warnings in place as a month’s-worth of rain could fall in a day, along with strong winds and thunderstormsStorm Claudia is expected to bring up to a month’s-worth of rain in a day as heavy downpours batter parts of England and Wales..Amber warnings for “persistent and heavy” rain come...

14/11/2025 08:06 The Guardian

Former Liberal MPs deride net zero dumping as ‘nail in the coffin’ that may prolong pain in urban seats

Ex-politicians and candidates warn the decision will likely cause a loss of votes from younger peopleGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least three former Liberal MPs have derided the opposition’s decision to dump net zero by 2050 as an “existential crisis” and “an...

14/11/2025 07:19 The Guardian

Resident doctors begin five-day strike in latest walkout over pay

Thirteenth action since March 2023 will put further pressure on stretched budgets, say NHS groupsThousands of resident doctors have begun strike action across England in a dispute over pay.The five-day action, which began at 7am on Friday, is the 13th walkout by doctors since March 2023 and health l...

14/11/2025 07:00 The Guardian

Bondi Sands recalls two sunscreens due to formulation concerns – as it happened

This blog is now closedFormer Liberal MPs deride net zero dumping as ‘nail in the coffin’ that may prolong party’s pain in urban seatsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSome ACT schools partially closed, with preschools also affected over asbestos warning for play sandT...

14/11/2025 06:57 The Guardian

Multiple ACT schools shut after alert over asbestos in coloured sand products

Testing and remediation to take place in 16 schools after a consumer safety recall was issued for coloured sand used in sensory play and arts and craftsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a dozen primary and presc...

14/11/2025 04:43 The Guardian

Plan for Australia’s largest carbon capture project near Darwin criticised as creating ‘dumping ground’

Climate advocates fear the project, proposed by Japanese oil and gas giant Inpex, would turn the area into the ‘world’s largest carbon dumping ground’Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereOil and gas giant Inpex has proposed Australia’s larg...

14/11/2025 04:29 The Guardian

Russia attacks ‘every district’ of Kyiv, sparking fires across Ukrainian capital

Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildingsRussia unleashed a massive combined attack on Kyiv early Friday, sparking fires and scattering debris across many districts of the capital, mayor Vitali Klitsc...

14/11/2025 03:12 The Guardian

Hegseth announces military operation to remove ‘narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere’– live

A massing of forces in the region have prompted widespread speculation that military action against Venezuela are imminentIs US preparing to attack Venezuela and how has Maduro regime responded?Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela riseTrump news at...

14/11/2025 02:53 The Guardian

Cop30: ‘We will exterminate ourselves’ if we keep extracting fossil fuels, activists say – as it happened

Climate Action Tracker report finds pledges made in past year have not cut the forecast for global heatingMore than half of all delegation members at Cop30 have withheld or obscured details of their affiliations, potentially concealing conflicts of interest and undermining trust in the Cop process,...

13/11/2025 20:39 The Guardian

Canada says Russia and China are ramping up spy efforts in Arctic region

Canada’s spy agency says it has observed intelligence threats targeting country’s government and private sectorCanada’s domestic spy agency says Russia and China have a “significant intelligence interest” in Canada’s Arctic, and are targeting both the country’s government and its priva...

13/11/2025 20:21 The Guardian

Tenured professor sues University of Kentucky for banning him from law school over comments on Israel

Exclusive: Ramsi Woodcock, who calls for an ‘end’ to Israel and military intervention against it, says the university violated his first amendment rightsA tenured law professor sued the University of Kentucky on Thursday after he was banned from teaching and from the law school for comments he m...

13/11/2025 18:55 The Guardian

Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan

Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilersHundreds of thousands of homeowners will lose their right to subsidies for eco-friendly heat pumps as a result of government plans to bring down energy bills at the b...

13/11/2025 16:59 The Guardian

Ukraine’s PM announces plans to audit public companies: ‘corruption is unacceptable’ – as it happened

Yulia Svyrydenko says government will conduct major audit of Energoatom and other state-owned firms in bid to fight corruption allegationsA bitter battle over the future of a Chinese-owned chipmaker in the Netherlands that threatened to cripple the global car industry is a “wake-up call to Europe...

13/11/2025 15:30 The Guardian

Weather warnings as Spain’s Storm Claudia reaches UK on Friday

Risk of flooding in parts of England and Wales as storm that has battered Canary Islands makes landFlooding could hit parts of the UK with forecasters issuing an amber warning for rain.Storm Claudia, which was named by the Spanish meteorological service, will bring heavy downpours and strong winds o...

13/11/2025 14:19 The Guardian

State-sanctioned fuel smuggling cost Libya $20bn over three years – report

Policy body calls for western-backed investigation into oil officials known to be at heart of illegal enterpriseA surge in state-sanctioned fuel smuggling between 2022 and 2024 cost the Libyan people about $20bn (£15bn) in lost revenue – an alarming sum that demands decisive international sanctio...

13/11/2025 14:02 The Guardian

SA attorney general refers anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe’s fundraiser ‘game’ for investigation

Bingo card-style game, where supporters encouraged to ‘buy’ words and phrases linked to contentious abortion bill, condemned by crossbench MLCs as a ‘grift’ that trivialised debateFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcas...

13/11/2025 14:00 The Guardian

Alan Rickman’s personal scripts and mementoes up for auction

Lots include the annotated shooting script for Die Hard and a hand-drawn Halloween card from his Harry Potter co-star Rupert GrintAlan Rickman’s obsessive attention to detail is revealed in the copious annotations he made on all his scripts, as a number of film-related items from the late actor’...

13/11/2025 13:21 The Guardian

Surrey services failed to act on warning signs before Sara Sharif’s murder, finds review

Children’s services did not identify Sara, 10, was at risk of abuse, did not question bruising and overlooked father’s previous violenceServices failed to identify Sara Sharif was at risk of abuse, did not question unexplained bruising and almost all professionals overlooked her father’s viole...

13/11/2025 10:35 The Guardian

Ed Miliband urges Labour to move on after Starmer apologises to Streeting for hostile briefings from No 10 – UK politics live

Fallout from extraordinary briefing operation against Wes Streeting continues as calls grow for Starmer to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeneySeverin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor.Scotland’s auditor general has warned that the Scottish government can spend far less tax than it r...

13/11/2025 09:31 The Guardian

‘I’d do it all again,’ says Dutch minister at heart of car chip standoff with China

Exclusive: Vincent Karremans says row with Beijing that threatened global car production is ‘wake-up call’ to westA bitter battle over the future of a Chinese-owned chipmaker in the Netherlands that threatened to cripple the global car industry is a “wake-up call to Europe and the west”, the...

13/11/2025 08:00 The Guardian

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