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  • Tommy Vietor (left), Jon Favreau (center) and Jon Lovett (right) at the Pasadena Convention Center in California, on 29 July 2017.

    From boosters to critics: how Pod Save America turned its back on Biden

    The leftwing media powerhouse, founded by ex-Obama aides, has become skeptical of the president’s ability to win
  • People wait to vote on Super Tuesday in the gymnasium at Cleveland Park Community Center, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Deadly overnight tornadoes delayed the start of the presidential primary voting in Nashville and another Tennessee county, spurring elections officials to redirect voters from some polling places to alternate locations. Voters from six precincts were combined to vote at Cleveland Park, where the wait could take up to an hour or more. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

    Tennessee elections chief accused of intimidation for telling 14,375 voters to prove citizenship

  • First Thing: Biden defiant despite gaffes as he battles calls to stand aside

  • FILE PHOTO: UPS Teamsters picket ahead of an upcoming possible strike in Brooklyn, New York<br>FILE PHOTO: Sean O'Brien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, speaks to UPS Teamsters during a picket ahead of an upcoming possible strike, outside of a UPS Distribution Center in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

    Teamsters boss faces backlash over ‘unconscionable’ GOP convention speech

  • An anti-Trump protester with organization Rise and Resist holds a sign with an image of former President Trump that reads 'STOP PROJECT 2025' at the entrance to Trump Tower on Fifth Ave on 10 July.

    Democratic billboards stress Trump link to rightwing Project 2025 manifesto

  • Detractors of the new rules say it will likely increase errors in the process of calculating votes.

    How Georgia state election board’s proposed rules make it easier to challenge results

  • Baltimore bridge collapse survivor says those responsible should pay damages

  • Biden makes verbal slips on Zelenskiy and Harris names – as it happened

  • Gaffes, stumbles and missteps – for Biden, the cracks were showing

  • Joe Biden defiant despite gaffes at Nato press conference as he battles calls to stand aside

  • Joe Biden: key takeaways from his Nato press conference

  • The Democrats who have called on Joe Biden to step down

  • Biden introduces Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin’ at Nato summit

  • California wildfires have burned five times the average area this year, officials say

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

  • Novak Djokovic responds to the crowd after beating Holger Rune at Wimbledon on Monday.

    Novak Djokovic, Elon Musk and others should grasp this: fame and public affection are not the same thing

    Mark Borkowski
    The tennis legend couldn’t be more famous, but seems puzzled that adoration eludes him, says PR consultant and author Mark Borkowski
  • A Delta airplane waits at an airport gate.

    Why did Delta Airlines tweet that the Palestinian flag is ‘terrifying’?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Thousands in Gaza are dying – but what’s really scary, apparently, is a flight attendant wearing a tiny flag pin
    • Joe Biden at the Nato summit on Thursday.

      US politics sketch
      Gaffes, stumbles and missteps – for Biden, the cracks were showing

    • Palestinians walk past houses destroyed during the Israeli military offensive in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 10 July.

      The Guardian view
      Gaza’s mounting pain: Netanyahu’s ‘complete victory’ looks no closer

    • President Biden speaking at a podium.

      Only one group can actually persuade Biden to exit the race: his rich donors

      Robert Reich
    • England's Harry Kane celebrates in the arms of teammate Ollie Watkins at the end of the Euro semifinal match against the Netherlands.

      The Guardian view
      Southgate’s Euro squad: they embody a better nation

US sports

  • ‘We talked two years ago in our strategic plan about the two biggest growth opportunities being the US and the women’s game,” Alan Gilpin says.

    ‘Journey starts in earnest’: DC begins countdown to US Rugby World Cups

  • Anthony Edwards, left, and LeBron James of the United States warm up ahead of Wednesday’s exhibition against Canada at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    The theory of everything: USA’s latest dream team is true basketball nirvana

  • Argentina v Ecuador - CONMEBOL Copa America USA 2024<br>HOUSTON, TEXAS - JULY 04: Lionel Messi of Argentina walks onto the pitch to take the first penalty in the penalty shoot out during the CONMEBOL Copa America 2024 quarter-final match between Argentina and Ecuador at NRG Stadium on July 04, 2024 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

    Copa América scrapped extra-time. Should other knockout tournaments?

  • Rory McIlroy at the Scottish Open

    Returning Rory McIlroy shares shock at Keegan Bradley’s Ryder Cup captaincy

US politics

  • Man half-smiles in front of microphone with American flag in background

    Joe Biden: key takeaways from his Nato press conference

  • white man wearing blue suit and red hat clasps hands together

    Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush-money conviction after supreme court immunity ruling

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

    Biden’s position tenuous amid reports campaign secretly testing Harris’s popularity

  • a man talks into a microphone

    Don Jr to introduce Trump’s vice-president pick at Republican convention

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US business

  • Target's stock shares slide as consumers buy fewer goods<br>epa11361866 People shop at a Target store in Los Angeles, California, USA, 22 May 2024. Target posted a year-over-year sales decline and missed Wall Street's earnings estimates as consumers faced with inflation are buying both fewer discretionary items and groceries. This marks the first time since November 2022 that Target missed earnings expectations. EPA/ALLISON DINNER

    US consumer prices unexpectedly fell in June, drawing Fed closer to cutting interest rates

  • A hand holding a phone screen displaying the Etsy logo, in front of the Etsy website on a desktop screen

    ‘A lazy solution’: Etsy sellers say ban on sex toys is a betrayal

    • Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang, founder and head of the private investment firm Archegos.

      Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury

    • FILE PHOTO: Reuters interviews JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon in Miami, Florida<br>FILE PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., pauses as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

      Senators accuse JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon of backtracking on climate commitments

    • man in suit and glasses speaks

      Cutting interest rates ‘too late or too little’ could hit jobs, Fed chair warns

Pictures & video

  • Keir Starmer talk to President Biden at the Nato Summit in Washington.

    Keir Starmer on the world stage – in pictures

  • A man in a fur jacket next to a thermometer

    Heatwave tourism in Death Valley – in pictures

    Hundreds of visitors are being drawn to Death Valley national park, even though the region known as one of Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heatwave, which was blamed for a motorcyclist’s recent death
  • Joe Biden misidentified vice-president Kamala Harris as Donald Trump during a press conference on the final day of the Nato summit in Washington

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    Biden calls Kamala Harris 'Vice-President Trump' at Nato press conference – video

    Joe Biden misidentified vice-president Kamala Harris as Donald Trump during a press conference on the final day of the Nato summit in Washington

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