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Sorry JD Vance, but being a ‘childless cat lady’ is actually not a bad thing | Arwa Mahdawi

Democrats capitalize on 'cat lady' jab

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Rather than being ‘miserable’, as Trump’s running mate once said, women who are childfree by choice are often happier and healthier Here’s a fun little fact for you. Did you know that, despite all evidence to the contrary, the US is run by “childless cat ladies”? Forget the statistic that, up until fairly recently, there were more men called John running big companies than women. Forget the fact,

‘We were embarrassed at halftime’: US relieved after escape against underdogs South Sudan

USA Basketball exhibitions in London

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US eke out 101-100 win on late Lebron James layup Two teams will meet again at Paris Olympics LeBron James saved the US from what would have been a stunning loss. James’s layup with eight seconds left was the go-ahead basket on Saturday, and the US Olympic team that’ll soon head to the Paris Games escaped with a 101-100 win over South Sudan in London, rallying from a 16-point deficit to avoid per

JD Vance’s confusing evolution from liberal touchstone to Maga superstar

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Trump’s vice-presidential pick seen as relatable for ties to rural white poor, but some say his book ‘sanitized’ his past JD Vance regaled the attendees of the Republican national convention on Wednesday with stories of his childhood – a life of poverty and struggle, surrounded by people who he said had found themselves at the mercy of economic downturns and forgotten by the country’s governing e

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The 2016 Republican convention let extremists in. In 2024, they took the stage

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From JD Vance to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican party put radical figures front and center In Cleveland, Ohio, in 2016, Donald Trump received the Republican presidential nomination as the leader of a successful political insurgency against the party elites, and far-right extremists the party had once tried to ostracize crossed the convention’s threshold for the first time. Along with the

Plan to end exorbitant ‘surprise’ ambulance bills heads to Congress

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Committee to recommend patients should pay no more than $100 or 10% of a bill, depending on which is less A committee chartered to find ways to stop ambulances from sending patients exorbitant bills is set to tell Congress that patients should pay no more than $100 or 10% of a bill, depending on which is less. The recommendation, which still relies on the convoluted private insurance industry, co

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Which Home Alone child star should everyone blame if Trump is re-elected? | Stewart Lee

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Macaulay Culkin might have convinced the billionaire to shun political ambition when they met on the film sequel, but didn’t The assassination attempt on Donald Trump last weekend is a tragedy; a tragedy for democracy, a tragedy for America and, above all, a tragedy for the whole world, because it means Donald Trump will be re-elected. And it is a tragedy for Donald Trump, who, whatever one think

Can Britain really keep the rise of the populist right at bay? History tells us it can | David Kynaston

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A leading social historian argues how, by rekindling the understated qualities of Attlee, Labour can prioritise the lives of working people A fortnight after the election, I cannot remember a time in my life when a sense of hope was so inextricably entwined with a sense of trepidation, even doom. We live in 2024; we are grateful for the downfall of a Tory administration so little imbued with imag

Practice doesn’t always make perfect – that’s why you’re not in the Olympics | Martha Gill

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Don’t put your faith in the 10,000-hour rule – some athletes are born with talents the rest of us will never have Stefan Holm was told he was too short to be a high jumper. But by the time he won Sweden a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics, he had honed himself into the perfect projectile. It was the result of a 15-year obsession: his whole life had been pulled into alignment with this goal. If he w

Aristopopulists like JD Vance can offer only empty promises to the working class | Kenan Malik

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Trump’s running mate was raised in poverty but he is typical of a new wave of elite politicians ‘The tragedy of Trump’s candidacy is that, embedded in his furious exhortations against Muslims and Mexicans and trade deals gone awry is a message that America’s white poor don’t need : that everything wrong in your life is someone else’s fault.” That was JD Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for vice-preside

US Secret Service rejected previous Trump team requests for more resources – reports

Secret Service denies FOIA request

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Historical requests for more staff and equipment were rejected because of lack of resources, US reports said, as Trump says he was not warned of problems ahead of Pennsylvania rally The US Secret Service repeatedly rejected requests from Donald Trump’s security team for more resources and staffing in the past two years, according to multiple US reports, amid further scrutiny of the agency in the

Donald Trump says Xi Jinping wrote him a ‘beautiful note’ after rally shooting

Trump assassination attempt impact

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US presidential contender’s reference echoes the ‘love letters’ he received from North Korea’s Kim Jong-un as he calls authoritarian leaders ‘smart, tough’ people Donald Trump has said China’s president wrote him a “beautiful note” after the assassination attempt a week ago, as he continued to court leaders whom Joe Biden has criticised as dictators. In his first campaign rally since narrowly esc

Trump’s return to rally stage met with prayers, excitement and confusion over JD Vance

Vance criticized for blaming Biden

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Supporters crowd Michigan arena to see first rally after assassination attempt and meet VP pick: ‘I had to Wikipedia him’ “He was spared by the hand of God!” a man wrapped in a flag chanted as he walked past a line of people snaking outside the 12,000-seat Van Andel Arena in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. The display prompted a smattering of loud cries of “USA! USA!” but the general tone of the

Trump attacks Biden and Harris in first rally since assassination attempt

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In first rally with running mate JD Vance, ex-president jibes at leadership chaos within Democratic party Donald Trump launched a full-throated attack on Democratic rivals Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday as he returned to the campaign trail a week after surviving an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. In his first rally since the shocking shooting , a

LIV Golf’s legionnaires flounder as Royal Troon throws up perfect storm | Paul MacInnes

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Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm remain well off the leaders as Greg Norman oversees underwhelming displays Greg Norman was on site at Royal Troon on Saturday. The chief executive of LIV Golf and bête noir of the bastions of the game has previously found himself excluded from attending the Open. Two years ago he was snubbed of an invitational letter to St Andrews, but this weekend he has been “afforded

Outsider Dan Brown gives himself every chance of bringing home Open bacon

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Son of a pig farmer is a shot off the lead after round three Lowry slips down leaderboard as Horschel hits front Eighteen holes sit between Dan Brown and one of the greatest sporting upsets of our time. Before a ball was struck at Royal Troon, little was known by anyone outside golf’s anorak contingent about this 750-1 outsider. No wonder; Brown arrived in Ayrshire as the 272nd ranked player in t

Durable Justin Rose digs in to make a qualified success of things | Andy Bull

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Former US Open champion earned his spot in the field at Burnham and Berrow and is now making the most of it It was a slow day’s trade at the ice cream stands roundabout Royal Troon. The rain clouds closed over just as the leaders were arriving at the practice green, and misery spread over the links like a puddle no one got around to mopping up. It was the sort of weather that makes you turn strai

Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination

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Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’ Utah officials said on Saturday that they are scrapping plans to use an untested lethal drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case. They will instead seek out a drug that’s been used previously in executions in numerous states. Defense attorneys f

Turn off Netflix and take the stairs: let’s aim to die healthy rather than just live longer | Robin Mckie

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Research helping mice reach a ripe old age is of little use to humans if it boosts longevity but not healthspans Prospects for extending lifespans have generated some striking headlines in recent weeks. “Tantalising drug lets mice live longer but retain youthful looks,” the Times announced. “Anti-ageing drug is ‘holy grail’ of cancer fight,” claimed the Telegraph . Nor is the agent of this media

Disneyland workers in Anaheim, California, vote to authorize strike

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Largest US strike so far this year could take place if negotiations, including over wages, fail next week Members of four unions representing 14,000 workers at the Disneyland in Anaheim, California, have voted to authorize a strike amid contract negotiations. The vote does not mean the workers will go on strike yet, but that the unions can call a strike at any point. If a strike takes place, it w

Gunman at Trump rally flew drone over fairgrounds earlier on day of shootings

Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted Trump

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Latest disclosure about security lapses comes as larger picture of Thomas Matthew Crooks’ preparations emerges Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump a week ago, was able to fly a camera-equipped drone over the fairgrounds near Butler, Pennsylvania, shortly before the former president was set to speak there, according to news reports. The latest disclosure about s

Pity US voters their choice of leaders. Surely democracy is better than this? | Simon Tisdall

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s failings put a focus on their understudies, but in JD Vance and Kamala Harris there’s precious little to cheer What a shambles! What a shame! With less than four months to go, America’s presidential race, global democracy’s showpiece event, has boiled down to a choice between a crook, a codger, a cheerleader and a charlatan. Four folks who, for varying reasons, are ba

Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself | Andrew Rawnsley

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The meaty king’s speech heralded several striking and radical departures from the Tory years that came before When Labour was in opposition, but looking very likely to be the next government, some intrepid explorers gathered together all the food and water they could carry and set off in search of Starmerism. Those hardy souls who made it back from the quest invariably reported that, if such a th

A wild three weeks in US presidential politics: a timeline

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It’s been tumultuous few weeks marked by concerns about Biden’s acuity and an assassination attempt on Trump They may go down as the wildest three weeks in the history of the US presidency, when the prospects of Joe Biden’s candidacy surviving until polling day seemed to change from day to day – sometimes even from hour to hour. Here is a summary of the milestone events as Biden’s re-election eff

Federal judge delays posting of Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools

Louisiana delays Ten Commandments in schools

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Judge pushed enactment of law to display religious code until November in response to parents’ suit A federal judge blocked Louisiana from posting the Ten Commandments in public schools until November after parents from five districts sued the state over the law. In a brief ruling Friday, district court judge John deGravelles said that the parents and the state agreed that the Ten Commandments wi

Google’s wrong answer to the threat of AI: default to not indexing content | John Naughton

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The search engine’s response to ChatGPT and its ilk is to take a highly partial approach to what it considers worthy of attention Once upon a time, a very long time ago in internet years – 1998 – Google was truly great. A couple of lads at Stanford University in California had the idea to build a search engine that would crawl the world wide web, create an index of all the sites on it and rank th

Al Sharpton on Joe Biden’s re-election bid: ‘Let him make up his mind’

Obama and Clooney controversy unfolds

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Veteran civil rights leader hesitates to call for president to step aside, noting Biden’s strong first-term record When Al Sharpton recently hung up the phone with Joe Biden, a man he has known for more than 30 years, first as a senator, then as vice-president and now as president, the message was clear: “He assured me he wasn’t going anywhere.” In their conversation, Sharpton said he never asked

Biden campaign latest: president continues to self-isolate with Covid as he resists calls to step aside – live updates

Obama and Clooney controversy unfolds

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Joe Biden has faced increased pressure to exit the 2024 race since his poor debate performance against Donald Trump several weeks ago Full list – more than 30 Democrats call on Biden to exit race Joe Biden has called Sheila Jackson Lee a “great American” and “towering figure in our politics” in a statement issued after the Democratic congresswoman from Texas died on Friday. Jackson Lee, a strong

A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’

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At the city-funded D10 Community Market, clients in the Bayview neighborhood can choose their produce instead of being handed a box When Nancy Gonzalez walked into the D10 Community Market in San Francisco on a recent afternoon, her refrigerator at home was empty. “Right now, I’m out of food stamps and Wic ,” said Gonzalez, 25, referring to the USDA supplemental food program for women, infants an

The Open 2024: third round updates – live

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Latest updates on day three at Royal Troon in Scotland Official leaderboard | Day two report | And mail Scott The rain is beginning to come down now. Umbrellas up. The greens suddenly not running quite as quickly as they were. Russell Henley, coming off the back of a birdie blitz at 4, 5 and 6, tries to make it four in a row at 7, but leaves his 20-foot putt a couple short. He remains at -1. See

Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

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Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support Less than a month after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, he invited the cream of Silicon Valley’s tech elite to a meeting at his transition team’s headquarters at Trump Tower. It was an awkward affair. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s Larry Page and Amazon’s Jeff B

Biden continues to resist Democratic calls to end re-election campaign

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Latest high-profile name to call on president to step aside is Sherrod Brown, the embattled senator from Ohio Democrats were caught in an apparent stalemate on Saturday as a dug-in Joe Biden continued to endure high-profile calls to end his re-election campaign after a week of astonishing party moves to unseat the president in favor of a candidate many hope will be more likely to beat Donald Trum

Trump to hold first public campaign event since assassination attempt

Vance criticized for blaming Biden

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The former president and his running mate, JD Vance, will hold a joint rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan Republican nominee Donald Trump will hold his first public campaign rally since a shocking assassination attempt a week ago by appearing in a crucial rust belt battleground state alongside his new running mate, Ohio senator JD Vance. The return to the campaign trail by Trump comes after the atte

Democrat calls on Biden to exit race after ‘he didn’t seem to recognise me’

Obama and Clooney controversy unfolds

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Seth Moulton says president’s apparent failure to recognise him at D-day event in France is part of deeper problem A US congressman has said he decided to join calls for Joe Biden to exit the presidential race after he claimed the 81-year-old appeared not to recognise him at a recent event. Seth Moulton, a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, was one of the first Democrats to call for Biden

Past assassination attempts led to US gun reform. But not this time

Trump rally shooting sparks gun control debate

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Political violence has long shaped the gun control movement, but it appears little will change from this week In the aftermath of the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963, the calls for stricter gun regulation came quickly. Senator Thomas Dodd proposed new legislation five days after the president’s death. Almost two decades later, the 1981 shooting of Ronald Reagan prompted swift demands for

Pro-Trump multimillionaire and election denier boosts funds to far-right voter-conspiracy groups

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Ex-Overstock chief Patrick Byrne using Maga-allied America Project to steer large amounts to groups pushing fringe theories The multimillionaire and prominent election denier Patrick Byrne has been boosting his funding to the Maga-allied America Project and using it to steer six-figure checks to far-right groups that push voting conspiracies in Arizona, Michigan and elsewhere, according to tax re

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