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US headlines

  • Biden listens during a visit to the DC Emergency Operations Center on 2 July 2024.

    Biden to meet Democratic governors to assuage fears after debate performance

    President blames global travel for lacklustre debate as 25 House members reportedly prepare to call for him to step down
  • white man wearing black suit gestures

    Robert F Kennedy Jr brushes off sexual assault allegation: ‘I am who I am’

  • Donald Trump

    Trump hush-money sentencing delayed until September – as it happened

  • Man with long hair and moustache places hand on chin

    Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted over 1975 FBI killings, denied parole

  • The 50th Street subway station.

    ‘New York weirdness’: why did a mysterious bell ring in a subway station for weeks?

  • Students tap a tree for maple syrup in Randolph, Vermont, on 20 May 2024.

    ‘It’s the future of sugar’: new technology feeds Vermont maple syrup boom amid climate crisis

  • House Democrat pledges amendment to reverse Trump immunity ruling

  • Three coyotes killed in San Francisco park after five-year-old girl bitten

  • US white supremacists ordered to pay millions more for deadly 2017 rally

  • Republican congresswoman Victoria Spartz charged with weapons violation at Dulles

  • California to spend $12m on reparations in milestone move to address racist past

  • James Carville calls on Democratic party to ‘deliver change’ and replace Biden

  • First Thing: Supreme court hands big win to Trump in immunity ruling

  • ‘Waiting in the wings’: as Biden stumbles, Gavin Newsom’s name is on everyone’s lips

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

  • Joe Biden pictured giving a speech on 1 July.

    Joe Biden is taking advice from his son, Hunter. This does not inspire confidence

    Arwa Mahdawi
    • A man wearing a tuxedo stands on a red carpet. Behind him three dancers in saris kneel, smiling and making gestures with their arms, and behind them a group of people smile and throw rose petals.

      What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

      Shrayana Bhattacharya
    • An illustration of donald trump and the supreme court building.

      Was Donald Trump a king as president? The US supreme court thinks so

      Moira Donegan
    • Nigel Farage in an amusement arcade in Clacton-on-Sea on 21 June.

      Here’s what you need to know about Nigel Farage’s mastery of TikTok

      Sophia Smith-Galer
    • Residents under watch of the police evacuate the Delmas 22 neighbourhood the morning after an attack amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2 May 2024

      Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

      Olivier De Schutter

US sports

  • Colombia's Daniel Munoz and Brazil's Raphinha fight for the ball during the 2024 Copa America match at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California

    Copa América: Brazil to face Uruguay in quarter-finals after Colombia top Group D

  • Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have had impressive rookies seasons in the WNBA

    Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese named to WNBA All-Star team as rookies

  • Gregg Berhalter’s USMNT lost against Uruguay on Monday night, ending their Copa América challenge

    Gregg Berhalter hasn’t lost the US locker room. But he should lose his job

  • Woody Hedspeth

    As cycling boomed in 19th-century America, its Black stars shone bright

US politics

  • a man in a suit and red cap speaks

    Trump seeks to set aside hush-money verdict hours after immunity ruling

  • An older white man wearing a ball cap, glasses and bright yellow and purple LSU shirt and jeans, speaks and points on a small stage.

    James Carville calls on Democratic party to ‘deliver change’ and replace Biden

  • u.s. Biden Trump Election Debate - 28 Jun 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (14562651b) This image provided by CNN shows U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and former President Donald Trump taking the stage at CNN's Atlanta studio for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election on June 27, 2024. u.s. Biden Trump Election Debate - 28 Jun 2024

    Voters react to Biden v Trump debate: ‘Cynical and damaging to our country’

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg jabs his thumb in the air

    Rees-Mogg tells young Tories he wants to ‘build a wall in the English Channel’

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US business

  • 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

    • a close-up of a woman applying red lipstick

      What can lipstick and underwear sales tell us about the economy?

Pictures & video

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

    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
  • A vast sinkhole dramatically appeared in middle of an Illinois soccer pitch

    US soccer pitch partly collapses into huge sinkhole – video

    A vast sinkhole dramatically appeared in middle of an Illinois soccer pitch

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