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  • ***BESTPIX*** New York City Celebrates Independence Day With Macy's 4th Of July Fireworks<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 4: The Macy's 4th Of July fireworks show lights up the night sky as a backdrop to the Empire State Building on July 4, 2024 in New York City. The annual spectacle, lighting up the city since 1976, this time was launched from barges in the Hudson River, the first time in more than a decade not done from the East River. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***

    Two dead after truck strikes group on Fourth of July in New York City park

    Ford F-150 came down a street ‘at a high rate of speed’, went past a stop sign, onto the sidewalk and into a park
  • Keir Starmer waving in front of a cheering crowd.

    First Thing: Labour win landslide UK election victory

  • Woman with blond hair in front of American flag

    ‘The claims are just outrageous’: Republican ex-governor condemns Arizona election lies

  • people read books

    ‘It’s a snowball effect’: the generation Z book club making waves in New York

  • U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends the Constitutional Convention of UNITE HERE in New York<br>Members of UNITE HERE, the nation’s largest hospitality workers' labor union, react during a speech by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the union’s Constitutional Convention in New York City, U.S., June 21, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

    After pivotal 2020 voter drive, US union braces for another fight against Trump

  • US president Joe Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris

    Disney heir joins other Democrat backers to pause donations until Joe Biden steps aside

  • Biden says he ‘screwed up’ but vows to continue as polls show six-point lead for Trump

  • Hurricane Beryl barrels through Cayman Islands after battering Jamaica

  • Small cities in US Rust belt are leading an urban transformation charge

  • US swelters on Independence Day with over 150m people under heat alerts

  • Trump calls Biden ‘broken-down’ and claims he quit 2024 race in leaked video

  • A newly discovered letter by Thomas Jefferson shows ‘a regular guy with financial burdens’

  • First Thing: Biden says ‘I’m not leaving’ as cracks appear in support

  • Biden wins crucial support of Democratic governors to continue campaign: ‘We’re going to have his back’ – as it happened

Behind the magic

  • A truck trailer belonging to magician David Copperfield sits outside his warehouse in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    The FBI investigated David Copperfield for two years
    The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

  • Epstein head Main Image

    ‘Magic David called’
    David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein

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    David Copperfield
    Former teen models accuse magician of misconduct

  • David Copperfield.

    ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’
    Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

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Opinion

  • People protest before the US supreme court building, with one bearing a sign reading TRUMP IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW.

    The US supreme court utterly distorted the true threat to American democracy

    Lawrence Douglas
    According to the court, a rogue prosecutor is somehow more dangerous to US rule of law than a rogue commander-in-chief
  • Rishi Sunak in front of the black railings at No 10, with a downcast expression on his face.

    He’s beaten and humiliated, but Rishi Sunak has one final job to do – for party and country

    Simon Jenkins
  • A protest against the far right in Paris, France, 3 July 2024

    France can argue later – now everyone who cares about our democracy must unite to keep the far right out

    Rokhaya Diallo
    Time is running out, and only putting aside petty party squabbles will stop the disaster of the National Rally taking power
  • Biden on the phone

    Digested week: Biden’s travails and why the UK election isn’t big news in the US

    Emma Brockes
    Contest in Britain – between ‘the rich one, the “boring” one, and Trump’s buddy’ – has felt like a foregone conclusion
    • Illustration

      How will Labour change Britain – and what next for the shattered Conservatives? Our panel’s verdict

      Frances Ryan, Aditya Chakrabortty, Katy Balls, Tom Belger and Chris Skidmore
    • Nigel Farage<br>FILE - Nigel Farage, former leader of the Brexit Party and leader of the populist Reform UK party, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, on March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

      Eighth time lucky for hungry hound Farage. Now Labour and Tories must find a way to defang him

      Samuel Earle
    • Screenshot of women celebrating

      Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM

      Josephine Kamara
    • President Biden Holds Campaign Rally In Philadelphia<br>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - MAY 29: U.S. President Joe Biden stands on stage as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris introduces him during a campaign rally at Girard College on May 29, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden and Harris are using today's rally to launch a nationwide campaign to court black voters, a group that has traditionally come out in favor of Biden, but their support is projected lower than it was in 2020. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

      Who can we blame for Joe Biden’s gamble? Angry Democrats are starting to point the finger

      Emma Brockes

US sports

  • Spectators shelter from the rain on day five at Wimbledon.

    Live
    Wimbledon 2024: Alcaraz, Raducanu and Gauff in third-round action – live

  • Canada finished second in Group A at Copa América.

    Canada coach Jesse Marsch says the USMNT ‘lacks discipline’ after Copa América knockout

  • Alexi Lalas and Fox’s LED 360-degree virtual studio LA for Euros &amp; Copa.

    In a scary world, the calamity of Fox Sports’ soccer coverage offers a strange calm

  • Emi Martínez celebrates after helping Argentina beat Ecuador in the quarter-final

    Argentina 1-1 Ecuador (4-2 pens): Copa América 2024 quarter-final – as it happened

US politics

  • Donald Trump insults Kamal Harris on golf course.

    Trump calls Biden ‘broken-down’ and claims he quit 2024 race in leaked video

  • a black man wearing suit, white woman wearing light blue suit, and white man wearing black suit all with hands folded stand in front of microphones

    Governors admit worries but rally behind Biden after meeting: ‘We have his back’

  • white man wearing black suit and shirt

    Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor calls for Biden to step aside

  • woman wearing suit in front of microphone

    Kamala Harris: insiders rally behind VP to replace Biden if he bows out

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US business

  • A Hawksmoor restaurant at Canary Wharf in London.

    Hawksmoor for sale in deal that could value restaurant chain at £100m

  • Man wearing sunglasses leans out of driver's window in car

    Ford chief says Americans need to fall ‘back in love’ with smaller cars

    • Chewy logo at the New York Stock Exchange.

      Chewy shares stage short-lived rally as filing reveals ‘Roaring Kitty’ takes stake

    • Boeing 737 Max-10 lands over the Spirit AeroSystems logo

      Boeing to buy supplier Spirit AeroSystems in $4.7bn deal

    • man wearing suit and tie sits at table in front of rows of people holding up portrait photos

      US accused of offering Boeing ‘sweetheart deal’ over fatal crashes

Pictures & video

  • Vehicles on fire

    Thompson fire spreads in Oroville, California – in pictures

  • The liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision was a 'mockery' that makes a president a 'king above the law'

    3:20

    'No kings in America': Biden criticises supreme court decision on presidential immunity – video

    The liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision was a 'mockery' that makes a president a 'king above the law'
  • 'I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth,' the president said

    1:39

    Joe Biden addresses debate blunders but says he can beat Trump – video

    'I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth,' the president said

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