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  • U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Detroit Michigan, U.S., July 12, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca cook

    Joe Biden
    ‘I’m not going anywhere’: Biden holds Michigan rally as calls to quit persist

    Hakeem Jeffries reveals ‘candid’ talks with president about 2024 future as another top Democrat urges Biden to pull out
    • Police are seen by a forensics tent after body parts were found at Clifton Suspension Bridge.

      Bristol
      Human remains found in London house search after bodies discovered in Bristol

    • Football
      Expectations and prices soar as England fans gather in Berlin for final

    • Exclusive
      Zelenskiy expected in UK for meeting with European leaders

    • Media
      Keir Starmer commits to keeping BBC licence fee after years of Tory hostility

    • Gender
      Puberty blockers ban motivated by ex-minister’s personal view, UK court told

    • Jeremy Hunt
      Jeremy Hunt’s children leave ‘sweet’ notes for Starmer’s son and daughter

    • Sport
      Women ‘don’t need’ Harrison Butker after controversial speech, says Serena Williams

    • Technology
      Smart rings: England players hope £300 gadget will give them Euro 2024 edge

News in focus

  • Keir Starmer sits alongside Joe Biden at the Nato summit

    Keir Starmer
    Mr Starmer goes to Washington: how the PM made his world stage entrance

  • Daniil Medvedev is photographed with his mouth open as if he is yelling something; in this head and shoulders picture his right arm is bent so he holds his racket round his neck and over his left shoulder. He wears a white top and is thin and wiry with light brown hair that is receding at the temples.

    Wimbledon 2024
    No female players penalised for bad behaviour at Wimbledon this year so far

    For first time since records began, only men hit with code violations for breaking tournament’s genteel atmosphere
  • A man and a woman turn to enter a door

    Politics
    ‘She wants to get on with her life’: Victoria Starmer intends to do things differently

    The wife of the prime minister isn’t shy – and clearly understands politics – but shuns the limelight for her career and family

Spotlight

  • BlindDate 1307 Suzie & Toby

    Blind date
    ‘He tried to bond with the waiter – who was unimpressed’

    Suzie, 23, a solutions engineer, meets Toby, 29, a barrister
  • Gary Lineker.

    Football
    Gary Lineker: ‘Lamine Yamal blows my mind. I’ve not seen anything like this’

  • Tony and Cherie Blair pose for pictures at the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant, Mumbai.

    India
    Ambani wedding: guests from Bollywood stars to global statesmen attend lavish event

  • Eminem

    Music
    Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) review – guess who’s back, with less bite than ever

    The return of the rapper’s nihilistic alter ego makes his 12th album feel like a confused, conflicted attempt to recreate his 00s success
    • FAB-500 bombs being dropped by a Russian Su-34 bomber in an undisclosed location amid the war in Ukraine, from video released by Russia’s defence ministry

      Ukraine war briefing
      ‘Massive shelling’ of Kherson as Russia targets cities across Ukraine

    • BFFs … Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman at the UK Press Conference for Deadpool & Wolverine.

      Film
      ‘His skincare regime alone would bankrupt you’: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bring banter and bromance to London

    • Alone-01

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      My former friends are ignoring me when I try to reconnect. Why does it hurt so much?

    • A portrait of Matthew Flinders in his naval uniform

      British explorer
      Matthew Flinders, the flute-playing, cat-loving explorer who circumnavigated Australia, is going home

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Opinion

  • Keir Starmer chairs his first cabinet meeting.

    The arrogant, reckless Tory government left behind a mountain of mess. In one week, we’ve begun to clear it

    Keir Starmer
    We are embarking on the hard graft of making people’s lives better – and we will fight every day to restore hope, says prime minister Keir Starmer
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    What’s generative AI really generating? Just ask these tech bros

  • Martin Rowson on Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s race for the White House – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s race for the White House

    As Biden comes under increasing pressure from within the Democratic party, Trump remains bullish
  • Gareth Southgate celebrates after England’s Euro 2024 semi-final victory over the Netherlands.

    Gareth Southgate has proved that quiet competence can lift a nation – it’s a lesson that goes far beyond sport

    Jonathan Freedland
    The England football manager once derided as ‘woke’ and ‘soft’ has succeeded where his predecessors failed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
    • A woman wearing a red dress walks past a sign on Whitehall, London.

      After years of being gaslit by government, we civil servants can breathe again under Labour

      The civil servant
    • Keir Starmer celebrates outside 10 Downing Street, London, with people clapping

      Relax, Starmergeddon hasn’t happened. The grownups are in charge

      John Crace
    • Jeremy Corbyn speaks after winning the Islington North seat in the general election on 5 July 2024.

      People-power led to my re-election. It is the start of a new politics

      Jeremy Corbyn
    • Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street on 9 July.

      Labour will rightly be judged by how it fixes our problems. But never forget who left the UK in such a rotten state

      Polly Toynbee

Editorials & Letters

  • Sir Keir Starmer holds a press conference at the end of the Nato summit at the Walter E Washington Convention Center, in Washington DC.

    The Guardian view
    Labour in power: the party must deliver for its MPs, members and voters

  • The Terminal 1 installation at the 2024 Glastonbury festival.

    The Guardian view
    Visas for artists: a flawed system with serious consequences for art

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 18, 2011 shows a woman, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, walking in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. For decades now, soaring population growth and ageing rates have been forecast to ignite a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the memory- and freedom-robbing disease afflicting mainly 65-plussers. But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging. / AFP PHOTO / Sébastien BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    Letters
    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

  • Children playing in puddles in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1969.

    Letters
    As children, we roamed free. What has changed?

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Climate crisis

  • A Just Stop Oil activist on a gantry above the M25 in October 2022

    Explained
    What restrictions are placed on defendants in climate protest trials?

  • a forest

    Carbon offsetting
    BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

  • Wind turbines dot the coastline along a giant solar farm near Weifang in eastern China's Shandong province

    Renewable energy
    China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects

  • 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

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

From the UK

  • Gavin Plumb mugshot

    UK
    Man jailed for at least 16 years for Holly Willoughby kidnap, rape and murder plot

    Gavin Plumb, 37, who planned to kill presenter during ‘home invasion’, sentenced to 16-year minimum term
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    Michael Mosley
    Michael Mosley’s widow aims to ensure legacy after public response to death

  • Kyle Clifford

    Crime
    Crossbow killings: Kyle Clifford arrested on suspicion of murdering three women

  • A black and white picture of Ruth Perry attached to a fence

    Ofsted
    Inquiry into headteacher’s suicide says ‘macho culture’ of inspections must end

    • Politics
      Commons speaker says threats and abuse against MPs worst he has seen

    • Dementia
      UK needs Covid-style push on dementia drugs, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce

    • 'Spy cops' scandal
      Police spy accuses colleague of fathering child while undercover

    • Crime
      Man jailed for at least 23 years for strangling estranged wife with bootlace

    • Animals
      National Trust celebrates birth of baby beaver one year after reintroduction

    • Immigration
      Four people drown trying to cross Channel near Boulogne-sur-Mer

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  • Trump speaks into microphone at rally

    Donald Trump
    Meta lifts restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts

  • Dozens of people gather near a collapsed two-storey building

    Nigeria
    Twenty-two students dead after school in Nigeria collapses during classes

    • Australia
      PM tells Russian embassy to ‘back off’ in criticism of spying charges

    • Sport
      Women ‘don’t need’ Harrison Butker after controversial speech, says Serena Williams

    • Ecuador
      Five jailed over assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio

    • California
      First death of wildfire season as body found in burned-out home

    • Technology
      AI prompts can boost writers’ creativity but result in similar stories, study finds

    • Netherlands
      Ex-coach on The Voice of Holland sentenced to two years in prison for rape

Culture

  • Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story.

    TV tonight
    The original rock stars of rap tell the story of Run DMC

    A brilliant three-part documentary starts with Run and DMC. Plus: superior Swedish thriller End of Summer continues. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Gru in Despicable Me 4.

    Going out, staying in
    From Despicable Me 4 to Kylie in Hyde Park: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • Katy Perry.

    Review
    Katy Perry: Woman’s World review – what regressive, warmed-over hell is this?

  • Natalie Portman in Lady in the Lake.

    Interview
    Natalie Portman on love, divorce and Paul Mescal: ‘I’m very in awe of his talent’

  • Mick Herron, Afua Hirsch and Elizabeth Day.

    Books
    Royal Society of Literature names 29 new fellows including Elizabeth Day, Afua Hirsch and Mick Herron

  • Clowns perform in the Opening Cabaret at The London Clown Festival in London<br>Clown Furiozo performs in the Opening Cabaret at The London Clown Festival in London, Britain, July 8, 2024. Reuters/Hollie Adams

    Frightfully funny: is being roared at by a near-naked hardman really comedy?

    Brian Logan
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    In Australia, there’s a stigma in not sharing in the collective love of canines, say non-dog-lovers. And it affects everything from dating to professional relationships
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    The good mixer
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  • King Charles III fist bumps Mikyle Louis during his meeting with members of the West Indies men’s cricket team at Buckingham Palace.

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  • Tom Hunt's lacto-fermented vegetables

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    How to turn surplus summer veg into an easy ferment – recipe

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  • A Just Stop Oil activist climbs on to a gantry over the M25 on 10 November 2022.

    Environment
    Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial

    Prosecution of five Just Stop Oil activists over M25 protest led to chaotic scenes in court and concerns about ‘judicial persecution’
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    Solitary wooden house on Union Island escapes fury of Hurricane Beryl

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    Rightwing claim of ‘0% chance’ of fair US election previews effort to undo 2024 result

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    US elections 2024
    Wisconsin progressives take battle to Trump – but warn Biden must do more

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    Why researchers fear the Gaza death toll could reach 186,000

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    How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction

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