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US headlines

  • Closeup of a purple-gloved hand holding a chunk of metal.

    US family sues Nasa for $80,000 in damages after space debris hits home

    Debris was from a pallet released from space station that did not burn up in atmospheric re-entry
  • A fat sunbather on the beach, covered in tattoos.

    New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves

  • A bullet-scarred window and a police officer.

    Families, grocery workers hid in freezer to survive Arkansas mass shooting

  • Trump in prayer at an Evangelicals for Trump meeting in Miami in January 2020.

    In Trump we trust: religious right on crusade to make their man president

  • A partly sunny sky is almost completely blocked by plumes of smoke rising amid fire from a low hillside, with homes in the foreground.

    ‘Multiple disasters all in one day’: New Mexico’s brutal week of fire and flood

  • people hold signs calling for gun control

    Both sides of gun issue seek to stir up US voters as NRA influence wanes

  • Ancient Mayan vase purchased by US woman for $4 returned to Mexico

  • No props, no notes, no audience – but Trump-Biden debate will have ad breaks

  • Will ‘sigh of relief’ after US supreme court gun ruling be short-lived?

  • Trump announces Teamsters union chief to speak at Republican convention

  • Mysterious shiny monolith removed from Nevada desert

  • Three people dead and 10 injured in mass shooting at Arkansas grocery

  • Texas Republican vows to pass bill on Ten Commandments in public schools

  • Judge dismisses fake electors charges against Trump allies in Nevada

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

  • Protesters in western Jerusalem on 20 June demand the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu.

    The Middle East is drifting leaderless to catastrophe. War is just an airstrike away

    Simon Tisdall
    • A tall white woman wearing a white, yellow and green basketball jersey throws her very long arms into the air and grimaces, in a stadium filled with people.

      Caitlin Clark’s name has been used to push bigotry – and she finally pushed back

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Kylian Mbappe wears a protective face mask after breaking his nose.

      Liberté, égalité, Mbappé! Footballer fights France’s extremists

      Agnès Poirier
    • Keir Starmer and Baroness Lawrence meet south London residents at the Lilian Baylis Technology School as the UK marks Windrush Day on 22 June.

      No way is Britain’s general election a done deal. Polls disguise huge uncertainty

      Pat McFadden
    • The exterior of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters with the company's logo partly removed.

      Could big tech eventually face its USSR moment and collapse completely?

      Alex Hern

US sports

  • Harry Brook

    ‘Got to win’: England battle USA with eye on T20 World Cup semi-final

  • Mexico have left some of their most capped players out of their Copa América squad.

    Copa América: Mexico’s struggles a symptom of an insular approach

  • Darnell Nurse of the Edmonton Oilers celebrates after scoring a goal against the Florida Panthers during Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final on Friday.

    ‘Unshakable belief’: Oilers rip Panthers to force Game 7 of Stanley Cup final

  • Andrea Piccolo took part in this year’s Giro d’Italia, but crashed out on the 19th stage.

    Italian cyclist Andrea Piccolo suspected of transporting human growth hormone

US politics

  • Mary Kay Holthus, who dismissed the indictment.

    Judge dismisses fake electors charges against Trump allies in Nevada

  • FILE - Steve Bannon appears in court in New York, Jan. 12, 2023. A federal appeals court panel on Thursday, June 20, 2024, rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon's bid to stay out of prison while he fights his conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol attack. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, File)

    Steve Bannon asks US supreme court to delay his prison sentence

  • a man in a suit and glasses looks off to the side

    Manhattan district attorney asks judge to extend gag order against Trump

  • a man in a suit and tie speaks into a microphone

    Missouri attorney general to sue New York over Trump prosecutions

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US business

  • American Airlines planes

    American Airlines CEO hopes to ‘rebuild trust’ after Black passengers wrongly removed

  • Passenger jet of mostly bright blue, with stripe of orange and red on tail.

    FAA investigating after Southwest plane flies 525ft above Oklahoma town

    • a man arrives in front of people holding up images of their loved ones who were killed in plane crashes

      Boeing expected to escape charges for violating 2021 crash settlement – report

    • FILE PHOTO: People work near the door of a 737 Max aircraft at the Boeing factory in Renton, Washington, U.S., March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo

      Families of Boeing crash victims demand prosecution for ‘deadliest corporate crime in US history’

    • Close-up of female hand packing cardboard boxes

      DS Smith’s £5.8bn takeover by US rival going ahead despite competition

Pictures & video

  • Donald Sutherland in Kelly’s Heroes

    Donald Sutherland: a life in pictures

  • People in colorful costumes holding white umbrellas

    Juneteenth celebrations across the US: in pictures

    The Juneteenth National Independence Day marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they had been freed two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation
  • Aerial footage shows the scale of a wildfire in Colusa County, northern California, covering an area of roughly 10,000 acres, according to the California forest protection department

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    Aerial footage shows 10,000-acre wildfire in northern California – video

    Aerial footage shows the scale of a wildfire in Colusa County, northern California, covering an area of roughly 10,000 acres, according to the California forest protection department

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