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

Heritage Foundation claims 2024 election

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100+by Sam Levine in New York / 6h

Mike Howell makes comment at Heritage Foundation event where implausible post-election scenarios were shared A major conservative thinktank previewed rightwing efforts to overturn the 2024 election on Thursday, with a top official saying there was a “0% chance of a free and fair election”. Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, made the comments at an

New York judge dismisses Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case

Creditors criticize Giuliani's bankruptcy tactics

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100+by Sam Levine in New York / 4h

Ruling clears way for two Georgia election workers to try to recover nearly $150m Giuliani was ordered to pay them A New York judge dismissed Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case on Friday, clearing the way for two Georgia election workers to try to recover nearly $150m Giuliani was ordered to pay them for defaming them after the 2020 election. “The court finds that cause exists to convert or dismiss

Alec Baldwin’s Rust shooting trial dismissed after lawyers say evidence was withheld

Alec Baldwin faces trial death

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by Dani Anguiano in Santa Fe / 50min

New Mexico judge agrees charges against actor should be dropped after his lawyers said state ‘buried’ evidence about live ammunition One week into Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial , a New Mexico judge has dismissed the case against the actor and found that the state improperly withheld evidence. In dramatic proceedings on Friday, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ruled in favor of the defens

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Meta lifts restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts

Meta lifts Trump account restrictions

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by Kari Paul / 50min

‘Guardrails’ that previously existed removed as Meta says voters should be able to hear from presidential nominees Meta has removed previous restrictions on the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Donald Trump as the 2024 election nears, the company announced on Friday. Trump was allowed to return to the social networks in 2023 with “guardrails” in place, after being banned over his online behavio

Republican senator Susan Collins says she will not vote for Trump

by Associated Press / 1h

Moderate conservative from Maine says she wanted Nikki Haley to win and will write her name on November ballot US senator Susan Collins didn’t vote for her fellow Republican Donald Trump for president in 2016 or 2020 – and the third time will not be the charm. The longtime moderate conservative from Maine told reporters on Friday that she intended to write in former South Carolina governor Nikki

Oklahoma identifies first victim in Tulsa race massacre mass grave

Ogden man identified as Tulsa Race Massacre victim

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by Maya Yang and agencies / 2h

War veteran CL Daniel was in his 20s when he was killed in 1921, in one of deadliest acts of racist violence in US history A veteran of the first world war has become the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa massacre of the Oklahoma city’s Black community, the mayor said on Friday. Using DNA from descendants of his brothers, the remains of

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

Serena Williams roasts Harrison Butker

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by Léonie Chao-Fong / 2h

Butker in May railed against working women, Pride month and abortion in speech that won him support from US conservatives Serena Williams has taken a swing at the Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, saying women “don’t need” him after he controversially railed against Pride month, working women and abortion rights during a May graduation speech. The 23-time tennis grand slam winner took ai

Houston swelters in punishing heat as 800,000 without power after Beryl

Houston CenterPoint customers face power outages

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38by Erum Salam / 2h

Residents suffer sleepless nights without air-conditioning as energy company blames fallen trees for outages Nearly 800,000 Houston residents remain without electricity five days after the category-1 Hurricane Beryl downed power lines across the city. The outages come as the city is under heat advisory, with heat index values over 100F (37.8C). Residents have described insufferable heat, sleeples

California: first death of wildfire season as body found in burned-out home

California faces intense wildfire season

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by Guardian staff and agencies / 3h

Coroners in Mendocino county in northern California working to identify remains as state’s wildfires intensify Officials have found human remains in a burned-out home in Mendocino county, California, marking the first death in the state’s 2024 wildfire season. The local coroner’s office is working to identify the body, but it may be that of a 66-year-old woman whose family reported her missing. T

Will Biden drop out? Key questions on his presidential campaign

Biden faces criticism over health

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by Joan E Greve in Washington / 4h

With just one month left before the Democrats convene for their convention, the party has limited time to determine who will be on the top of the ticket As he addressed reporters at the conclusion of the Nato conference on Thursday, Joe Biden sent a defiant message to his critics: I’m not going anywhere. Despite demands from dozens of Democratic lawmakers that he withdraw from the presidential ra

Alec Baldwin trial: judge mulls dismissal after claim that state withheld evidence

Alec Baldwin faces trial death

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by Dani Anguiano in Santa Fe / 5h

Actor’s defense team at Rust film set shooting trial accuses state of concealing ammunition turned over to police The judge in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial is considering a motion from the defense to dismiss the case after the actor’s lawyers argued that the state improperly withheld evidence. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the Rust armorer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter e

Biden heads to Michigan to shore up support as calls to quit persist

by Martin Pengelly in Washington / 6h

Hakeem Jeffries reveals ‘candid’ talks with president about 2024 future as another top Democrat urges Biden to pull out Joe Biden was headed for the battleground state of Michigan on Friday, to campaign both for re-election and for his survival as the Democratic presidential nominee. In Washington, calls for the 81-year-old president to quit continued, while the Democratic leader in the House of

Hackers stole call and text message records on ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers, company says

AT&T data breach exposes records

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22by Nick Robins-Early / 6h

AT&T says a suspect was apprehended in connection with the hack, which included numbers customers texted or called Hackers stole call and text message records on “nearly all” of AT&T’s customers, the communications giant disclosed on Friday. The immense data breach took records of tens of millions of people’s phone use from around a six-month period in 2022, along with a single day in January 202

RFK Jr reportedly sent apology text to woman who accused him of sexual assault

RFK Jr. apologizes to accuser

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30by Jessica Glenza / 7h

In text, Kennedy said he had ‘no memory’ of alleged late-1990s assault on nanny who lived in Kennedy family home Robert F Kennedy Jr , the independent presidential candidate, sent a text apologizing to a woman who had accused him of sexual assault in a Vanity Fair article, it was reported on Friday, just days after the increasingly isolated member of the famous political dynasty tried to brush of

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

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The England football manager was once derided as ‘woke’ and ‘soft’. But he has succeeded where his predecessors failed It’s just a game, right? Wrong. You don’t have to be on nodding terms with, let alone a fan of, the beautiful game to see that Sunday’s final of the European Championship – and the fact that England are in it – has a significance that goes beyond sport. It has implications for al

UK risks tech ‘talent drain’ to US if pension funds fail to back sector

SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker

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by Dan Milmo Global technology editor / 9h

Co-founder of British chipmaker Graphcore, which has been bought by Japan’s SoftBank, issues warning Business live – latest updates Britain risks a tech “talent drain” to the US if British pension funds fail to back the sector, according to the co-founder of a UK chipmaker that has announced its sale to Japan’s SoftBank. Nigel Toon, the co-founder and chief executive of Graphcore, said domestic p

Joe Biden is pulling out all the stops to prove his competency – but will it work?

Kamala Harris takes campaign spotlight

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32by Adam Gabbatt / 9h

After the disastrous debate with Trump, the president is trying hard to redeem himself, but the gaffes keep coming In the two weeks since that disastrous debate performance, Joe Biden has been busy. He spent the first few days visiting donors, trying to reassure his financiers that he was up to the job. Then – more than a week later – he kicked off his public reconciliation tour, holding a series

Biden to campaign in swing state Michigan after high-stakes Nato press conference – live updates

Biden to hold big boy press conference

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100+by Chris Stein / 9h

Biden to campaign in Detroit tonight; president impressed many commentators with last night’s appearance but uncertainty among Democrats looms From the Guardian’s Kira Lerner , here are the biggest moments from Joe Biden’s press conference yesterday, which was billed as addressing issues related to the Nato summit, but dominated by questions about his fitness to continue serving as president: Dur

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

by Joan E Greve / 10h

Activists plan counter-programming at the Republican convention to warn voters of the dire election stakes Four years ago, progressives in the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin were energized about the presidential race, feeling ready and eager to elect Joe Biden and end four years of Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership. This year, the nominees for president remain the same, but much has chan

A weekend of deranged hope, dread and stockpiling flares – it’s the Euro 2024 final | Marina Hyde

200+by Marina Hyde / 11h

Gareth Southgate’s side have made the hardest possible work of this – such is the only script our national psychodrama permits Light the touchpaper on your flares, because England stands on the threshold of two days of giddy possibility. There is, quite simply, no greater weekend available to an England football supporter than the one leading up to the climax of a major tournament in which the na

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

87by John Crace / 11h

We can now feel free to get on with our lives without worrying what the halfwits in Westminster might do next Well, we’re all still here. According to most of the rightwing press, we were in for “Starmergeddon”. Plague, floods and earthquakes would only be the start. Famine would be along shortly thereafter. But a week on from the Labour landslide and the country already feels in a better place.

Patriots for Europe? Viktor Orbán’s new EU group is another hollow victory for the far right | Cas Mudde

Orbán's rightwing group gains recognition

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28by Cas Mudde / 11h

Marine Le Pen’s RN and Hungary’s Fidesz have joined forces. But Europe’s far right is fractured and Orbán isolated “Victory in defeat, there is none higher,” wrote Robert A Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land, about unsung heroes who never give up. Although the far right likes to portray itself as unsung heroes, it has mostly found defeat with a series of pyrrhic victories in recent weeks, una

How the ex-Obama aides of Pod Save America lost faith in candidate Biden

Obama and Clooney controversy unfolds

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38by Lois Beckett in Los Angeles / 12h

The influential Democratic podcast has become skeptical of the president’s ability to win On 15 June, Joe Biden flew to Los Angeles for a star-studded campaign fundraiser with Barack Obama, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Roberts and George Clooney. Three of the hosts of the influential Democratic podcast Pod Save America were among the guests and later said the event left them disturbed. The former Obama sp

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

52by Martin Pengelly in Washington / 12h

Scotland face Eagles at Audi Field but Alan Gilpin, World Rugby CEO, is also focusing on the women’s game and more Alan Gilpin, chief executive of World Rugby, arrived in Washington at a busy time in the US capital. “I don’t think we knew about the Nato summit when we organised this trip,” he says, from a couch on the top floor at the National Association of Realtors , the Capitol dome looming ou

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

100+by Sam Levine / 12h

Republican secretary of state sends vaguely worded letter to voters weeks before primary Tennessee’s top election official asked more than 14,000 registered voters to prove their citizenship in a vaguely worded letter last month in what voting and immigrant groups say is an attempt to intimidate voters. The office of the Tennessee secretary of state, Tre Hargett, a Republican, sent the letter to

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

by Claire de Lune in Las Vegas / 12h

The most talented US men’s basketball team since the London Olympics is a Marvel-esque crossover event. Their run for a fifth straight gold in Paris will be can’t-miss theater In the final scene of Spike Lee’s beloved, sports-movie-pantheon-occupying He Got Game, an incarcerated Denzel Washington rockets a basketball over the prison yard wall. The ball magically transcends space and time , landin

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

Biden strengthens NATO amid concerns

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by Jem Bartholomew / 12h

US president introduced Volodymyr Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin’ at a Nato summit, but later showed command of thorny foreign policy issues. Plus, the subversive screen presence of Shelley Duvall Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. In a press conference seen as critical to his presidential campaign, Joe Biden spiritedly defended his foreign policy record even a

Teamsters president faces backlash over ‘unconscionable’ GOP convention speech

Teamsters leader's Trump flirtations divide union

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200+by Michael Sainato / 13h

Sean O’Brien accused of bolstering ‘most anti-union party and president’ by senior members of his own union The Teamsters International president, Sean O’Brien, has been accused by senior members of the union of disgracing it by agreeing to an unprecedented appearance at next week’s Republican national convention. O’Brien’s decision was branded “unconscionable” by John Palmer, vice-president at l

Democratic billboards stress Trump link to rightwing Project 2025 manifesto

Heritage leader warns of revolution

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200+by Rachel Leingang / 13h

Billboards will go up in seven swing states as campaign seeks to publicize manifesto and tie it to ex-president Democrats will put up billboards in swing states that show Donald Trump and tie him to Project 2025, a conservative manifesto that could become reality if he wins in November. The Democratic National Committee’s paid media campaign escalates liberal efforts to publicize Project 2025 and

Why did Delta Air Lines tweet that the Palestinian flag is ‘terrifying’? | Arwa Mahdawi

Delta airline faces controversy over Palestine

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100+by Arwa Mahdawi / 13h

Thousands in Gaza are dying – but what’s really scary, apparently, is a flight attendant wearing a tiny flag pin There’s been a huge increase in scary airline incidents recently. Last week, there was yet another one when passengers on a Delta flight from Boston to West Palm Beach experienced extreme turbulence. No, this wasn’t a Boeing-related safety glitch ; it was far more serious than that. A

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

20by Ryan Baldi / 13h

Knockout rounds in the South American championship advance straight to penalties after full-time to help ease the burden on players Fans enjoying the feast of football served up this month by Copa América and Euro 2024, running concurrently on either side of the Atlantic, will have noticed one key difference between the two tournaments: there is no extra time at the end of tied games in the knock

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

Georgia election board members propose new rules

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76by George Chidi in Atlanta / 13h

A new rule would require Fulton county to hand count paper ballots and investigate discrepancies on the spot, possible delaying tabulation Georgia’s state board of elections has proposed changes to election policy and