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  • Joe Biden in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday.

    Biden defends his campaign as swing-state Democrat calls for him to exit race – as it happened

    Angie Craig of Minnesota asks Biden to ‘step aside’, as California governor stumps for president in Pennsylvania. This blog is now closed
  • Extended Heat Wave Sets In Throughout California<br>PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA - JULY 05: People walk through sideway misters as the temperature reaches 119 degrees on July 5, 2024 in Palm Springs, California. The official temperature is 124 degrees at the nearby regional airport.The National Weather Service predicts similar daily high temperatures for the next several days and has issued an Extensive Heat Warning through July 10. Extreme heat is baking most of the state, threatening health and heightening the danger of wildfires. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

    ‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130m across US

  • Yellow police tape around home

    Four killed and three wounded in shooting at Kentucky party

  • White House resists calls for President Biden to drop out of presidential race<br>epa11459186 The White House is seen behind a maintenance worker cleaning up the National Mall during a heat wave in Washington, DC, USA, 05 July 2024. With rising calls from within his own party to drop out of the presidential race following his debate performance, US President Joe Biden is attempting to reinvigorate his campaign with events in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

    Biden’s doctor reportedly met with top neurologist at White House

  • White woman, pink blazer, holds up finger and speaks into clutch of microphones.

    Stormy Daniels gets more than $900,000 from GoFundMe after alleged threats

  • The Pine and the Palm along highway 99 in Madera, California.

    A beloved palm and pine tree mark California’s center. Now they’re being cut down

  • Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on

  • Heat-related deaths in Phoenix, Arizona, have nearly doubled this year

  • Two teenagers die while swimming at New York’s Coney Island

  • Democrats in disarray as Trump immunity ruling raises stakes

  • Chevron doctrine ruling a ‘gut-punch’ for US health and environment – experts

  • Biden says he’s best qualified to beat Trump, brushes off low polling and denies cognitive issues – as it happened

  • Joe Biden: key takeaways from the high-stakes ABC TV interview

  • Biden says only ‘the Lord almighty’ could make him drop out in pivotal TV interview

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

  • Trump on stage at a rally in front of microphone

    We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025

    Robert Reich
    The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more
  • Taylor Swift, a tall white woman with blond hair and bangs, wears an iridescent body suit on a stage with an orange and purple background.

    It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Tim Adams

    Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

    Tim Adams
  • An older white man in a suit wearing aviators waves from what appears to be the top of an airplane stairway on tarmac.

    Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?

    Rebecca Solnit
    Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016
    • Marine Le Pen arriving at the National Rally headquarters in Paris, France, 4 July 2024

      The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent

      Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others
    • Collage of Donald trump reflected in a crown

      The US supreme court utterly distorted the true threat to American democracy

      Lawrence Douglas
    • Marina Hyde

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

      Marina Hyde
    • 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

US sports

  • Bronny James is due to play his next Lakers game on Sunday

    Bronny James scores four points in Los Angeles Lakers debut

  • Caitlin Clark recorded her triple-double in front of home fans at Indiana Fever’s Gainbridge Fieldhouse

    Caitlin Clark makes WNBA history with first-ever rookie triple-double

  • Khyree Jackson (left) alongside fellow Vikings rookie JJ McCarthy at a May training camp

    Vikings’ rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson killed in car crash at age 24

  • Canada's players celebrate their penalty shootout victory over Venezuela in the Copa América quarter-finals

    Canada hold nerve in penalty shootout to set up Copa América semi-final with Argentina

US politics

  • David Lammy arrives in Downing Street.

    David Lammy faces a world in turmoil: five key concerns for foreign secretary

  • an upside down American flag outside the supreme court

    Chevron doctrine ruling a ‘gut-punch’ for US health and environment – experts

  • Biden in front of an American flag

    Joe Biden: key takeaways from the high-stakes ABC TV interview

  • Two white men sit in adjacent chairs with legs crossed, talking.

    Biden says only ‘the Lord almighty’ could make him drop out in pivotal TV interview

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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

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    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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