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US headlines

  • Biden sits down with George Stephanopoulos for the taped interview.

    Live
    Biden says he’s best qualified to beat Trump, brushes off low polling and denies cognitive issues – live

    President says in occasionally tense ABC interview he is not dropping out and believes he’s the best candidate to win
  • Older white man wearing aviators in front of plane

    Biden calls debate ‘a bad episode’ in potential make-or-break TV interview

  • Older white man with orangey skin and poofy hair speaks into microphone in front of American flag.

    Donald Trump attempting to claim to ‘know nothing’ about Project 2025

  • The capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri.

    Intra-Maga row for Missouri’s attorney general seat reveals exaggerated résumé

  • Joe Biden attends a campaign event in Madison, Wisconsin, on 5 July.

    Warning signs: a history of Joe Biden’s verbal slips

  • a woman plays the guitar

    Hackers leak alleged Taylor Swift ticket data to extort Ticketmaster

  • Trump asks judge to gut classified documents case after immunity ruling

  • Biden dismisses age concerns and tells Wisconsin rally ‘I am running’

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr promises to not ‘take sides’ with respect to 9/11 if elected president

  • Leading neurosurgeon calls on Biden to undergo testing and release results

  • From a calamitous debate to calls to drop out: the week that left Biden’s re-election bid hanging by a thread

  • Powerful Democratic backers to pause donations until Joe Biden steps aside

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

  • Joe Biden set for media blitz as more lawmakers consider 2024 alternative

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

  • LOTY 19 ROB NEG 34

    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

  • Collage of Donald trump reflected in a crown

    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
  • Marina Hyde

    Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale

    Marina Hyde
  • Sir Keir Starmer seen from behind, facing the much smaller faces of a range of British political figures

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Labour’s landslide: becoming the change the country needs

    Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer has the Commons strength to be daring. That means fulfilling hopes he did little to excite
  • 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
    • Keir Starmer enters No 10 Downing Street.

      UK
      He won the votes, now Britain's new prime minister just needs to win over the people

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Biden on the phone

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

      Emma Brockes
    • 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
    • Screenshot of women celebrating

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

      Josephine Kamara

US sports

  • Jacob Shaffelburg of Canada celebrates after scoring his team's first goal during their Copa América quarter-final against Venezuela

    Live
    Venezuela v Canada: Copa América 2024 quarter-finals – live updates

  • Ryan Garcia has found himself in regular trouble in recent months

    Ryan Garcia apologizes for racist slurs and boxer says he will go to rehab

  • Serena Williams and Andy Murray during their mixed doubles campaign at Wimbledon in 2019.

    Serena Williams thanks Andy Murray for ‘speaking out for women’ in tribute

  • Emma Raducanu celebrates during her straight sets win over Maria Sakkari.

    Wimbledon 2024: Raducanu, Alcaraz, Sinner, Gauff win – as it happened

US politics

  • a man speaks from behind a lectern

    From a calamitous debate to calls to drop out: the week that left Biden’s re-election bid hanging by a thread

  • US president Joe Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris

    Powerful Democratic backers to pause donations until Joe Biden steps aside

  • Biden gestures in front of a US flag.

    Joe Biden set for media blitz as more lawmakers consider 2024 alternative

  • Woman with blond hair in front of American flag

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

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US business

  • People in field bend to pick bell peppers

    US economy adds 206,000 June jobs as labor market cools slightly

  • 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

Pictures & video

  • Shark bites two swimmers near Texas beach – video

  • During the interview Biden also defended his competency following his poor debate performance last week

    0:26

    Joe Biden accidentally says he is the 'first Black woman' to serve in White House – audio

    During the interview Biden also defended his competency following his poor debate performance last week
  • Vehicles on fire

    Thompson fire spreads in Oroville, California – in pictures

    Fire crews in California are battling a wildfire in Butte County that forced about 13,000 people to evacuate in and around Oroville

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