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Harris poised for Democratic nomination

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Vice-president brings in more than double what Trump raised in July as campaign galvanizes Democrats across US For-profit universities are funding lawmakers who led attacks on top universities over campus protests surrounding Israel’s deadly war on Gaza. The Guardian’s Tom Perkins and Will Craft report: [Trump’s team] said, ‘Well, can you not fact-check? He’s not going to take the stage if you fa

‘I love my black job’: Simone Biles mocks Trump’s offensive panel remarks

Simone Biles mocks Trump after victory

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300+US news | The Guardian / 10h

Olympic champion posts on X after ex-president’s disastrous interview at event for Black journalists The champion American gymnast Simone Biles found time overnight between counting her record haul of Olympic medals to ding Donald Trump on social media after his offensive and untrue remarks at a gathering of Black journalists earlier in the week. She posted on X early on Friday: “I love my black

Report reveals secret US inquiry into alleged 2016 Egyptian $10m gift to Trump

Trump's $10M Egyptian bribe probe

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100+US news | The Guardian / 3h

A Washington Post report details that an Egypt-linked group withdrew funds days before Trump’s inauguration A spokesperson for Donald Trump blamed “Deep State Trump-haters and bad faith actors” for a bombshell report on Friday about a secret criminal investigation into whether Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , the authoritarian ruler of Egypt , sought to give the former president $10m during his victorious 2

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‘It’s heartbreaking’: Caeleb Dressel in tears after failing to defend Olympic crowns

Cameron McEvoy wins Olympic gold

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US news | The Guardian / 1h

Tokyo champion finished sixth in 50m freestyle final Failed to qualify for 100m butterfly final Day-by-day guide | Live schedule , medal table , results Caeleb Dressel was left in tears on Friday night after failing to defend his Tokyo Olympic gold medals in both of the individual events he’d qualified for in Paris. The Florida native, who turns 28 next month, finished sixth in the 50m freestyle

Philadelphia mayor’s video mistaken for Harris VP pick leak creates brief ‘firestorm’

Philly mayor hints Shapiro VP

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US news | The Guardian / 2h

Hullabaloo over clip posted by Cherelle L Parker dispersed when it emerged it was in support of Josh Shapiro and not an announcement A political and media “firestorm” broke out briefly in Philadelphia on Friday over whether the city’s mayor had published a tweet and video mistakenly revealing that Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, was Kamala Harris’s eagerly awaited vice-presidential pi

History maker: USA’s Grant Fisher takes bronze in men’s 10,000m at Paris Olympics

Grant Fisher wins Olympic bronze medal

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US news | The Guardian / 2h

Only fourth US male to medal in 10,000m at Olympics Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei puts on masterclass in final Day-by-day guide | Live schedule , medal table , results Grant Fisher joined Lewis Tewanima (1912), Billy Mills (1964) and Galen Rupp (2012) as the only American men to medal in the 10,000m at the Olympics, winning bronze in a close final on Friday night at the Stade de France. Fisher was na

First athletics world record falls as athletes praise fast Olympic track

Ingebrigtsen Kerr rivalry heats up

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US news | The Guardian / 2h

US mixed 4x400m relay team break world record in Paris Joshua Cheptegei wins 10,000m title in Olympic record Latest medal table | Live Paris schedule | Full results The purple track billed as the fastest in history already has its first world record. On a day when Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won the men’s 10,000m title in an Olympic record and Team GB’s Keely Hodgkinson and Josh Kerr made an almigh

Trump 2020 election interference case resumes after immunity decision

Trump's election case returns to court

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79US news | The Guardian / 3h

Case, paused after supreme court ruling, returns to judge Tanya Chutkan, who will decide how she intends to proceed Donald Trump ’s criminal prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election was set to resume on Friday with narrowed charges, after the US supreme court ruling that gave former presidents broad immunity took effect and the case returned to the control of the presiding trial

Key Black Muslim group backs Kamala Harris for president over Gaza stance

Muslim groups endorse Harris over Biden

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51US news | The Guardian / 4h

Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund says Harris has ‘shown more sympathy towards the people of Gaza’ than Biden or Trump Kamala Harris has won the backing for her presidential bid of a key US Muslim organization that had declined to endorse Joe Biden before he withdrew from his re-election campaign. The switch to Harris was a sign that those who voted “uncommitted” instead of actively voting for

Florida lawyer pleads guilty to Chinese embassy bombing attempt in DC

45US news | The Guardian / 4h

Christopher Rodriguez, 45, also admitted to bombing sculpture of Lenin and Mao in San Antonio, Texas, in 2022 A Florida attorney pleaded guilty on Friday to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives he placed outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington DC. Christopher Rodriguez also bombed a sculpture of the communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong in a courtyard outside the Texa

Secret Service takes ‘full responsibility’ for Trump shooting security failures

Secret Service criticized after shooting

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US news | The Guardian / 5h

Acting director Ronald Rowe says ‘this was a failure’ and admits errors in communications and surveillance The US Secret Service takes “full responsibility” for the events that led up to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last month, the acting director of the agency said on Friday. In a press conference in Washington, Ronald Rowe, who replaced Kimberly Cheatle after she stood down from

Kamala Harris wins enough delegate votes for Democratic nomination

Harris confirmed as Democratic nominee

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100+US news | The Guardian / 6h

In campaign call vice-president said: ‘I am honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee’ for president Kamala Harris on Friday said she was “honored” to have secured enough votes from delegates to become the Democratic presidential nominee, making her the first Black woman and person of south Asian heritage to lead a major party ticket. Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Commit

A’ja Wilson says official told her to ‘get her emotions in check’ at Paris Olympics

US news | The Guardian / 6h

American says referee made comment during Belgium game US aiming for eighth straight Olympic title Day-by-day guide | Live schedule , medal table , results A’ja Wilson has always shown emotion on the court. Whether it’s to pump up her teammates after a great pass or herself after a big basket or block, Wilson uses it to fuel her MVP-level game. Apparently not everyone is a fan of it. Wilson said

The Guardian view on Guantánamo Bay: betraying the victims of terrorism too | Editorial

US news | The Guardian / 6h

The US has reached a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others accused of the 9/11 attacks, but the camp will persist There is no neat exit point from grief. Each anniversary, each life event, each addition to or loss from the family, can bring renewed pain to the bereaved. For relatives of the almost 3,000 killed in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001 , that suffering has been compou

The Guardian view on reclaiming the Seine: hope for 21st century rivers | Editorial

US news | The Guardian / 6h

Paris 2024 has pointed the way towards a brighter future for urban waterways in post-industrial cities It was an American modernist poet who captured best the ancient, elemental status of rivers. In one of his best-loved poems , Wallace Stevens celebrated their “third commonness with light and air / A curriculum, a vigor, a local abstraction”. Life-supporting and place-defining, the great rivers

USA’s Noah Lyles: manga geek, alpha male and very, very fast

US news | The Guardian / 6h

The world champion sprinter often comes across as a stereotypical arrogant American athlete. But he is also willing to show his vulnerable side Before lining up for his opening 100m heat in June’s US Olympic trials, Noah Lyles made sure to milk his closeup on TV. But rather than pound his chest or point skyward or make some other peacock display of masculinity, the American sprinter did about the

Kamala Harris campaign raises $310m in July as presidential race is transformed

Harris poised for Democratic nomination

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100+US news | The Guardian / 7h

Vice-president’s fundraising haul dwarfed Trump’s $138.7m with polls indicating a tight contest in battleground states US politics – live updates Kamala Harris’s campaign said on Friday it raised $310m in July, the latest dramatic illustration of a US presidential race polls show has transformed from an apparent romp to victory by Donald Trump into a neck-and-neck race in battleground states, tho

Flu vaccine will curb bird flu risk for US farm workers, CDC deputy director says

US funds flu shots for farmworkers

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22US news | The Guardian / 7h

US launches major vaccination campaign in a bid to prevent healthcare strain and potential mutations of H5N1 virus In the face of serious concerns over the spreading bird flu virus in US agriculture, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pushing a major flu vaccination campaign among farm workers in a bid to prevent healthcare strain and combat potential mutations from the hi

USMNT crash out of Olympics with heavy quarter-final defeat to Morocco

USA faces Morocco in Olympics quarterfinals

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US news | The Guardian / 8h

Paris 2024 quarter-finals: Morocco 4-0 USA Morocco through to Olympic semi-finals for first time Latest medal table | Live Paris schedule | Full results Morocco are through to the last four of the Olympic men’s football tournament for the first time after a dubious Soufiane Rahimi penalty opened the scoring, second-half goals by Ilias Akhomach and Achraf Hakimi brushed aside whatever suspense rem

The Suni also rises: Simone Biles isn’t the best redemption story of the Olympics

75US news | The Guardian / 8h

Suni Lee recovered from multiple kidney diseases that left her at rock bottom to stand on the podium beside her US teammate on Friday At her lowest point Suni Lee wasn’t thinking about going back to the Olympics. Just getting out of bed in the morning was hard enough. After a year and a half of uncertainty and depression while battling a pair of career-threatening kidney ailments that led to a we

Fire-starting lightning and erratic winds threaten effort to tame wildfires in US west

Arson suspect arrested in Park Fire

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US news | The Guardian / 8h

Weather expected to increase fire activity in California, while in Colorado fires crept close to homes near Denver Firefighters battling California’s largest wildfire of the year are preparing for treacherous conditions entering the weekend when thunderstorms could unleash fire-starting lightning and erratic winds that could erode progress made over the past week. And in Colorado, a wildfire burn

Equestrian rider Laura Kraut becomes oldest US Olympic medalist in 72 years

100+US news | The Guardian / 8h

58-year-old wins silver in team jumping event Team USA also win first sailing medal in eight years Laura Kraut made history on Friday at the Olympics as she became the oldest US medalist at the Games in 72 years. Kraut was part of the US equestrian jumping team that claimed silver behind Great Britain at Versailles, where the host nation France won bronze. At 58, she is the oldest American to med

Texas lockups violate minors’ constitutional rights, says US justice department

Texas juvenile justice facilities abuse found

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36US news | The Guardian / 9h

Department of Justice report found pattern of sexual abuse and mistreatment in the state’s juvenile justice facilities Youth lockups in Texas remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and other mistreatment including the prolonged isolation of children in their cells, the justice department has said in a scathing new report that accused the state of violating the constitutional

‘Laced with toxic substances’: Utah’s shrinking Great Salt Lake is ringing climate alarm bells

Great Salt Lake emits greenhouse gases

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54US news | The Guardian / 9h

Study has found the lake’s dried area has released 4.1m tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases For years, scientists and environmental leaders have been raising alarm that the Great Salt Lake is headed toward a catastrophic decline. Now, new research points to the lake’s desiccating shores also becoming an increasingly significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have cal

I feel joy at my friend Evan Gershkovich’s release. But the anger lingers | Margaret Sullivan

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I worked closely with Evan several years ago. His release is a huge geopolitical story, and for me, it’s also personal It was a headline that many American journalists yearned to see, in the place they most wanted to see it. Spread across the Wall Street Journal’s homepage on Thursday, in large font, the words: “WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free.” When I first heard the news that Evan was bei

We’re literally going to need a bigger burrito: can Guzman y Gomez crack the crowded US market?

US news | The Guardian / 9h

The chain’s much-hyped expansion plan includes selling meatier burritos than in Australia for a lower price, but marketing Mexican-themed food in the Americas is a tough ask Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast When the Mexican-themed food chain Guzman y Gomez listed on the Australian stock market in June, its share price rocketed by more than one-third in a

The war in the Middle East is escalating fast – and Biden has squandered too many chances to stop it | Mohamad Bazzi

Israel retaliates after deadly rocket attack

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45US news | The Guardian / 9h

The president says his priority is to avoid a regional conflict involving Israel and Iran. Withholding arms is his best lever I recently returned from three weeks in Lebanon, where I found people braced for an incident that might escalate into a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah. The past week’s retaliations in the region look worryingly like exactly these kinds of clashes. Each strike

Louisiana mayor arrested on child rape accusations after abrupt resignation

Former DeRidder mayor arrested for rape

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67US news | The Guardian / 10h

Misty Roberts left post days before being jailed for third-degree rape and contributing to delinquency of minors The mayor of a Louisiana city near the state’s border with Texas abruptly resigned from her post days before authorities jailed her on suspicion of raping a boy while she served in office. Misty Roberts became the first woman to be elected as mayor of DeRidder in 2018, and she was well

Secret Service’s tech issues helped shooter go undetected at Trump rally – report

Secret Service criticized after shooting

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42US news | The Guardian / 10h

Federal agency’s radio and drone detection system malfunctioned due to lack of proper technology The technology flaws of the US Secret Service helped the gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month evade detection. An officer broadcast “long gun!” over the local law enforcement radio system, according to congressional testimony from the Secr

Revealed: first picture of war on terror detainee in CIA black site

100+US news | The Guardian / 10h

Image shows one of five men accused by US government of plotting 9/11 attacks, who remains in custody without a criminal conviction Warning: this article contains graphic images and descriptions of torture The man is very slight of build, his hair shorn but his beard full. He is naked except for the handcuffs shackling his wrists in a clinically bright room. This photo is the first published imag

Who is Josh Shapiro, Kamala Harris’s potential vice-presidential pick?

Kamala Harris considers potential running mates

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91US news | The Guardian / 11h

Since being elected Pennsylvania governor in 2022, Shapiro maintains high approval ratings, including notable support from Republicans Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, is a leading contender to be named Kamala Harris ’s running mate in the US presidential election , with a decision expected in the next few days. A congressional aide turned state representative and state attorney genera

US jobs data ‘flashing red’ as poor growth sparks Wall Street sell-off

US unemployment rate rises to 4.3%

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US news | The Guardian / 11h

Fed chair urged to ‘cancel his summer vacation’ and take action as unemployment rose to highest rate since October 2021 The US labor market cooled significantly last month as unemployment unexpectedly rose, sparking fears of a slowdown across the world’s largest economy. American employers added 114,000 jobs in July – short of the 180,000 additions expected by economists , and a marked decrease f

Morocco v USA: Paris Olympics men’s soccer quarter-finals – live updates

USA faces Morocco in Olympics quarterfinals

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51US news | The Guardian / 11h

Email beau.dure@theguardian.com with your thoughts Keep up to date with the rest of the action on day seven Latest medal table | Live Paris schedule | Full results 5 min: A sub is warming up for the US. Really? They’re going to suffer a lineup-changing injury on an uncontested header? 4 min: Hakimi storms forward into the Moroccan attack. He earns a corner kick. It’s headed away by Tolkin, who im

Fear of US recession rattles global markets as tech shares fall

Global stocks plunge on recession fears

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100+US news | The Guardian / 12h

Europe’s main indices all decline on Friday as Japanese equities suffer worst day since 2020 Business live – latest updates Stock markets in Europe, Asia and New York tumbled on Friday as fears of a US economic slump grew and technology shares were hit by underwhelming earnings. Concerns that the US could be sliding towards a recession spurred a global sell-off , which accelerated after a poor em

The hunt for a missing date, the numbers I’ll never forget: we’ll never match the magic of a landline | Viv Groskop

100+US news | The Guardian / 12h

Fewer than half of British households now have a home phone – and we will lose something precious when they’re gone When was the last time you called someone on their landline? Probably not recently according to new data that shows that, for the first time ever, most households in the UK no longer have a home phone. The number of households with landlines dipped below half to 47% this year , acco

Digested week: Olympic poolside parenting, cracked water slides and fishy memories | Emma Brockes

US news | The Guardian / 12h

Tom Daley’s glittering performance makes a trip to a leisure centre pool feel all the more bleak, but fish save the week How long into the opening ceremony did you last? I got as far as the living statues of famous feminists rising out of the Seine before getting up and drifting away. There was entertainment value in watching the caravan of shivering, poncho-clad athletes being conveyed down the

Paris Olympics 2024 medal table

94US news | The Guardian / 13h

Find out who is leading the way at the Olympics, and drill down to see which events each country has won medals for Follow all the latest action live | Support the Guardian As is traditional, the table prioritises the number of gold medals won. On this basis at the 2020 Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, the United States led the field with 39 golds, with China second on 38 and Japan third with 27.

How Kamala Harris can lose the cop’s badge and still look tough | Judith Levine

Kamala Harris emerges as nominee

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22US news | The Guardian / 13h

For many voters whose support Harris needs, a prosecutor is always a cop, and a cop is not the good guy Kamala Harris has struggled to establish a clear political identity, and much of the trouble comes from her record as a prosecutor in California. In 2004, as San Francisco district attorney, she declined to seek the death penalty for a man convicted of killing a police officer (he received a li

First Thing: Evan Gershkovich freed in largest US-Russian prisoner swap since cold war

US news | The Guardian / 13h

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris meet Wall Street Journal reporter as he steps off the plane in Washington. Plus, Simone Biles wins sixth Olympic gold Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have met the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other freed American prisoners after Washington and Moscow completed their largest pri

‘We have to be voting biblically’: the Courage Tour rallies Christians to get Trump in office

300+US news | The Guardian / 14h

A travelling tent with self-styled prophets hits swing states and brings a message: help deliver the election to Trump By 9am on Monday, hundreds of worshipers who had gathered under a tent in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, were already on their feet. Praiseful music bumped from enormous speakers. The temperature was pushing 90F (32C). The congregants had gathered in north-western Wisconsin for the Coura

Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

62US news | The Guardian / 14h

Environmentalists want DoJ to hold fossil fuel firms accountable and for presumptive nominee to lead charge If elected president, Kamala Harris should take on the fossil fuel industry for its history of spreading climate disinformation, environmentalists say. Forty US states and municipalities have sued big oil for allegedly spreading climate disinformation. For years, climate advocates and some

For-profit colleges fund lawmakers who led attack on top universities over campus protests

300+US news | The Guardian / 14h

Critics say representatives Elise Stefanik and Virginia Foxx shield for-profit colleges from accountability As antisemitism hearings on college campuses ignited late last year, US representatives Elise Stefanik and Virginia Foxx seized the spotlight, relentlessly attacking Harvard, Columbia and other top universities , portraying them as unsafe and incompetent. “We must DEFUND the rot in America’

Europe’s far-right surge has a lesson for Labour: fix the NHS to see off Farage | Catherine De Vries

72US news | The Guardian / 14h

Our research shows how the far right exploits voter discontent with crumbling public services – and what Keir Starmer must do to stop it The Labour party may have won a landslide election victory in the UK last month, but now comes the difficult and unforgiving business of governing, not helped by the

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