More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation
Ohio, Maryland and Alabama among states to report new cases, with 378 confirmed in first few months of 2025
Melody Schreiber
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation
Alabama (exposure)
Alaska
California
Florida
Georgia
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
Texas
Vermont
Washington

Three killed and at least 15 injured in mass shooting in New Mexico
Authorities responded on Friday to reports of gunfire at a park and have asked for videos from bystanders to aid in investigation
Maya Yang
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/mass-shooting-new-mexico

Tribal land ruling undercuts marijuana law’s claims of undoing racial disparities
Hannah Harris Green
Chippewa member Todd Thompson sold cannabis after Minnesota legalized it, but police still seized all his merchandise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/minnesota-tribal-land-ruling-minnesota-racial-disparities-canabis-charges

Flow review – beguiling, Oscar-winning animation is the cat’s whiskers
Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’s enchanting eco-fable about a lone moggy in a flooded world is a triumph of imagination over budget
Wendy Ide
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/23/flow-review-gints-zilbalodis-oscar-winning-latvian-animation-eco-fable-flood

Ittsa hard, ittsa hard, ittsa hard quiz for you and me:
Trumpworld is failing this constitutional quiz. Can you pass it?
Lawrence Douglas
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/23/trump-us-constitution-quiz-satire

A great effusion of words:
Donald Trump’s imperial presidency is a throwback to a greedier, pernicious age
Simon Tisdall
His attempts to bully and exploit the weak hark back to an era when the US emulated the worst aspects of the British empire
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/22/donald-trump-peace-imperialism-ukraine-gaza

Egg prices have tripled, chicken has doubled: the cost of US inflation in 10 items
Egg prices are up 310% since 2005. But it’s not the only staple with soaring prices
Mona Chalabi
https://www.theguardian.com/business/datablog/2025/mar/22/egg-prices-us-inflation-cost

Rare Wright’s gardenia reappears in record numbers in Seychelles
Conservationists find critically endangered species thriving on Indian Ocean island of Aride
Patrick Barkham
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/22/wrights-gardenia-reappears-in-record-numbers-in-seychelles

Well! Could never happen here! Amiright?
‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn
The alarm has been raised by experts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown
Robin McKie Science editor
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/key-lessons-of-covid-are-being-forgotten-uk-scientists-warn