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  • UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets with US President Joe Biden<br>epa11471656 US President Joe Biden speaks during a bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 10 July 2024. Starmer stated he would publish a roadmap showing how the UK would spend 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product on defense as the prime minister faced calls from the British military and allies abroad to clarify his policy ahead of this week's NATO summit in Washington. EPA/TING SHEN / POOL

    Biden under renewed pressure to step aside as top Democrats make agonized appeals

    Senator Michael Bennet said Trump may win ‘by a landslide’ while two more senators echoed his concerns
  • People use umbrellas to block the sun

    Las Vegas sets record for number of days over 115F amid its ‘most extreme heatwave in history’

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    Democrat calls for congressional leaders to denounce Trump loyalist’s ‘target list’

  • Actor Alec Baldwin arrives for his hearing in Santa Fe County District Court with attorney Luke Nikas, left, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. Baldwin is facing a single charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a cinematographer. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Rust trial prosecutors say Alec Baldwin violated ‘cardinal rules of firearm safety’

  • President Joe Biden walks during an event commemorating the 75th anniversary of Nato on 9 July.

    Vulnerable House Democrat calls on Biden to end campaign ‘for the good of the country’ – as it happened

  • A memorial for best friends Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas

    MS-13 leader pleads guilty in New York case involving eight murders

  • Bearded JD Vance remains a contender for Trump VP – by a whisker

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

  • AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

  • Trash talk: New York City has finally discovered the wheelie bin – and it only cost $1.6m

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • George Clooney implores Biden to step aside in opinion article

  • Hurricane Beryl leaves 1.7m people in Texas without power amid extreme heat

  • Weekend Grand Canyon hiker death was third at park in last month

  • The Tulsa race massacre affected the ‘economic freedom’ of generations

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

  • A row of voting booths at a US voting station in a gymnasium.

    For US democracy to survive, it needs progressives like Sanders and AOC

    Judith Levine
    • Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin

      Why is Modi sucking up to Putin? It’s simple and cynical: China and oil

      Sergey Radchenko
    • Taylor Swift

      Let’s go after deepfake pornography sites – and the social media giants that peddle them

      Lucia Osborne-Crowley
    • ‘The sun. It rises and rises, and I’m looking up too, into its light.’

      After my husband’s death, looking down was all I could do. Then I saw a dragonfly

      Ailsa Piper
    • Protesters in Kenya hold signs reading COLONIALISM NEVER REALLY ENDED and KENYA AND HAITI ARE NOT FOR SALE.

      Why are the US and IMF imposing draconian austerity measures on Kenya?

      Fadhel Kaboub

US sports

  • A Uruguay fan waits for the start of the semi-final

    Live
    Uruguay v Colombia: Copa América 2024 semi-final – live

  • Gregg Berhalter was rehired as the US head coach in 2023.

    USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter sacked after dismal Copa América performance

  • FILE -Los Angeles Clippers' Kawhi Leonard plays during an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Philadelphia. Kawhi Leonard will not be part of the U.S. men's basketball team that will compete in the Paris Games after all. Kawhi has been ramping up for the Olympics over the past several weeks and had a few strong practices in Las Vegas,” USA Basketball said in a statement Wednesday, July 10, 2024. He felt ready to compete. However, he respects that USA Basketball and the Clippers determined it's in his best interest to spend the remainder of the summer preparing for the upcoming season rather than participating in the Olympic Games in Paris.”(AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

    Kawhi Leonard withdraws from USA basketball squad for Paris Olympics

  • Rory McIlroy looks rueful at a Scottish Open press conference

    Rory McIlroy takes pot shot at ‘unfair’ critics of late collapse at US Open

US politics

  • a man in a suit and tie leaves court

    Giuliani may face defamation and sexual harassment lawsuits if bankruptcy is dismissed

  • ‘He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,’ George Clooney wrote.

    George Clooney implores Biden to step aside in opinion article

  • A person holds a sign saying "Justices should not have sugar daddies" while holding a umbrella with dollars printed on it.

    Democratic senators call on DoJ to investigate Clarence Thomas

  • a side-by-side image of Ruben Gallego and Joe Biden

    Senate candidate Ruben Gallego could save Biden in Arizona, poll reveals

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US business

  • 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

    • File image of a United Airlines Boeing 757-200 as it approaches a runway at Manchester airport

      United Airlines flight loses wheel during take-off in Los Angeles

    • Family members of victims of Boeing Max 8 crashes hold up photographs of their loved ones

      ‘They can’t move on’: families of Boeing crash victims demand justice

Pictures & video

  • Drone footage shows roofs torn off after Storm Beryl hits Texas – video

  • Scientists warn Beryl’s strength is an 'ominous sign' for the hurricane season ahead

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    Beryl unleashes high winds, heavy rains and floods in Texas – video

    Scientists warn Beryl’s strength is an 'ominous sign' for the hurricane season ahead
  • The heatwave is expected to further dry out landscapes, adding to the threat of an active wildfire season in the months ahead

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    California firefighters battle huge blazes amid heatwave and dry conditions – video

    The heatwave is expected to further dry out landscapes, adding to the threat of an active wildfire season in the months ahead

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