US politics stories from Wednesday 18 February at a glance ...

Avalanches have caused deaths in Lake Tahoe area in six of past 10 years but latest slide is fourth deadliest in US history ...

Lawsuit is first by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over workplace DEI in Trump’s second term ...

Detectives are seeking two men as investigations continue. No arrests have been made ...

After crew on flight 543 reported smoke in the cockpit, passengers and crew exited Airbus A320 via slides ...

Former minister helped develop Australia’s first Aboriginal education policy in the 1980s and brings decades of expertise to embattled university ...

PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misogyny ...

NYU Langone’s decision comes amid Trump administration threats to cut funds to providers who treat trans youth ...

Join James Wallace for all the action and latest news from day 12 of the Games, with nine more golds up for grabs ...

Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court ...

Coalition of refugee support groups says board’s ‘traumatic’ and ‘flawed’ processes are putting children at risk ...

William tells radio panel that talking about emotions and mental health should become ‘second nature to us all’ ...