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Iran vows retaliation if UN Security Council issues snapback sanctions on anniversary of nuclear deal

Tehran issues warning against U.N. snapback sanctions amid concerns over its nuclear program, while expert warns that enforcing the U.N. mechanism could prompt Iran to exit non-proliferation treaty.
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:32 pm
Trump, Rutte announce 'really big' NATO arms package amid new 50 day deadline to Putin

Trump agrees to sell billions in US arms to NATO countries including Germany, Finland and Denmark and others for quick distribution to Ukraine, following his ultimatum to Putin on peace talks.
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:38 pm
UK to roll out red carpet in ‘unprecedented’ second Trump visit hosted by King Charles

President Donald Trump accepts invitation for a historic second state visit to the U.K. in September at Windsor Castle, marking the first time a U.S. president has received such an honor.
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:35 pm
Iranian crowdfunding campaign claims to raise $40M as reward for assassinating Trump

A movement in Iran has allegedly raised more than $40 million to reward Trump's assassination, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Published: July 14, 2025, 1:55 pm
Mother of slain soldier held by Hamas terrorists for 4K days makes plea to Trump

The family of an Israeli soldier killed by Hamas in 2014 urges President Donald Trump and Saudi leaders to ensure no deal proceeds without the return of all the hostages held in Gaza and her son's remains.
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:19 am
Would Europe Actually Retaliate Against Trump’s Tariffs?

European Union officials have drawn up plans to impose levies on American imports, but questions abound about whether they would go through with them.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:30 am
In Northern Ireland, Fire Has Long Been Used as a Weapon of Fear

A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target Irish Catholics in the territory.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:36 am
What We Know About the U.S. Deal for a Weapons Pipeline to Ukraine

NATO allies will buy arms, then give them to Ukraine, President Trump said.
Published: July 15, 2025, 10:07 am
Zelensky Announces Plan for Major Government Shake-Up in Ukraine

An announcement by the Ukrainian president that he will seek to replace the prime minister with a loyalist came as the country faces battlefield setbacks and a souring mood.
Published: July 14, 2025, 7:36 pm
Australian Premier Albanese Meets China’s Xi in Beijing

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is trying to deepen ties with China, his country’s biggest trading partner, while being under pressure from the United States.
Published: July 15, 2025, 6:39 am
Chinese University Expels Woman for ‘Improper Contact’ With a Foreigner

The university published the student’s full name and said her behavior had “damaged national dignity.” The move prompted an online debate and accusations of sexism.
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:56 am
Plan to Indefinitely Displace Palestinians Threatens to Derail Gaza Truce

An Israeli proposal to force much of Gaza’s population into a small enclave is now overshadowing negotiations over a truce.
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:04 pm
Scotland’s Unreliable Ferries Leave People on Islands in Outer Hebrides Cut Off
With aging ferries delayed sometimes for days, life goes haywire on an island in the Outer Hebrides.
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:01 am
It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers

In peak vacation season, many of the continent’s most desirable getaways are becoming places to get away from.
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:14 am
Clashes Between Bedouin and Druse in Syria Kill More Than 50, Health Official and Rights Group Say

The violence underscores the government’s challenge to assert nationwide control as ethnic and religious tensions simmer after the end of the civil war.
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:00 pm
Excavation of Children’s Remains Begins at Irish Home for Unwed Mothers

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, including bodies disposed of in septic tanks.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:22 pm
Trump Reluctantly Comes Around to Backing Ukraine. Will He Stick With It?

President Trump is formalizing a new plan to sell American weapons to European allies, who would pass them onto Kyiv. But he made it clear this wasn’t his war.
Published: July 15, 2025, 2:08 am
Air India Crash Findings Prompt Inspections of Boeing Fuel Switches

Airlines in India, Singapore and South Korea were inspecting fuel control switches on their Boeing jets.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:51 am
Tuesday Briefing: More Weapons for Ukraine

Plus, why Hitchcock still scares us
Published: July 15, 2025, 4:30 am
Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare
The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.
Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
Behind Trump’s Tough Talk on Russia and Putin, Doubts and Missing Details

Pentagon officials said details were still being worked out, and experts doubted Mr. Trump’s threat of huge tariffs for Russian trading partners.
Published: July 15, 2025, 12:59 am
Tuesday Briefing: More Weapons for Ukraine

Plus, why Hitchcock still scares us
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:11 pm
Canada Wildfire Smoke Triggers Toronto and U.S. Air Quality Alerts

Smoke from wildfires in Manitoba, a Western province facing its worst fire season in 30 years, has created hazardous air quality conditions across Eastern Canada and the United States.
Published: July 14, 2025, 6:59 pm
Trump Threatens Russia With Sanctions and Vows U.S. Weapon Support for Ukraine

The president also warned Russia that he would impose a new round of punishing sanctions if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days.
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:35 pm
BBC Ends Ties With ‘MasterChef’ Host Gregg Wallace After Investigation

The BBC said it would stop working with Mr. Wallace after dozens of sexual misconduct allegations were upheld.
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:48 pm
E.U. Says Trump’s Threat of 30% Tariffs Would Hobble Trade With U.S.

The bloc’s trade commissioner says the two sides were close to a deal before the president last week threatened to impose a 30 percent levy.
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:57 pm
It’s No Bluff: The Tariff Rate Is Soaring Under Trump

The president has earned a reputation for bluffing on tariffs. But he has steadily and dramatically raised U.S. tariffs, transforming global trade.
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:41 pm
How Trump Changed His Tone on Putin and the Russia-Ukraine War

After years of lavishing praise on the Russian leader, President Trump abruptly changed his posture amid mounting frustration with the lack of progress on a cease-fire.
Published: July 15, 2025, 2:08 am
Trump Is Expected to Announce New Weapons Pipeline for Ukraine

Under the plan, other NATO countries would buy U.S.-made arms, then give them to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia. NATO’s secretary general was set to meet Mr. Trump on Monday.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:20 am
Monday Briefing: America’s Brain Drain and the World

Plus, Jannik Sinner wins Wimbledon.
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:00 am
Macron Increases Military Spending, Saying Freedom Is Threatened

Freedom has never been so threatened, President Emmanuel Macron said, preparing France for an era in which it may no longer be able to count on the U.S.
Published: July 14, 2025, 12:45 pm
A Landscape of Death: What’s Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia

When Ukraine turned a corner of Russia’s Kursk region into a battlefield, it set in motion some of the war’s fiercest fighting. Our photographer documented the aftermath.
Published: July 14, 2025, 1:39 pm
When It’s This Hot, ‘We Are Enduring, Not Living’

How one man gets by in the unbearable and inescapable heat of Pakistan’s biggest and most unlivable city.
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:26 pm
Menendez brothers bank on new trial as backup if parole bid fails

Erik and Lyle Menendez pursue dual paths to freedom through a habeas petition citing new sexual abuse evidence and an upcoming parole hearing after their resentencing in May.
Published: July 15, 2025, 8:00 am
Florida man convicted of killing 2 people outside a bar set to be put to death

A Florida man who was convicted in the 1993 shooting deaths of a man and woman outside a bar as part of an attempted revenge plot is set to be executed on Tuesday.
Published: July 15, 2025, 7:49 am
Woman dies after falling at least 75 feet while hiking in North Carolina

A woman died over the weekend after falling at least 75 feet from a hiking trail while visiting a waterfall in North Carolina, according to officials.
Published: July 15, 2025, 5:03 am
Colorado dentist's alleged internet search history takes center stage as murder trial begins

James Craig, a dentist accused of murdering his wife with cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, allegedly searched for undetectable poisons on his dental office computer before her death.
Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
Mountain biker missing in Oregon, prompting search and rescue mission: authorities

A mountain biker was reported missing in Oregon after not returning home from a biking trip in Mount Hood, leading to a search and rescue mission.
Published: July 15, 2025, 3:04 am
Influential evangelical pastor and theologian John MacArthur dead at 86 after health battle

Renowned Christian leader John MacArthur died at age 86 following health complications, survived by his wife, four children and fifteen grandchildren.
Published: July 15, 2025, 2:27 am
Oklahoma livestock farmer killed by water buffaloes he purchased just one day before fatal attack

A Jones, Oklahoma farmer with extensive cattle handling experience died after being attacked by newly acquired water buffaloes, sustaining multiple fatal lacerations in the enclosure.
Published: July 15, 2025, 2:23 am
California tax expert admits role in illegal alien's multimillion-dollar fraud scheme

Bakersfield tax preparer admits guilt in $25 million tax fraud scheme involving stolen identities and fake businesses, facing up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine.
Published: July 15, 2025, 1:41 am
Progressive Dem rep faces backlash for calling ICE 'Nazi thugs' while defending MS-13 gang member

Progressive lawmaker sparks controversy by condemning ICE as 'thugs' after they apprehended an MS-13 member with fentanyl charges who was released despite an immigration detainer.
Published: July 15, 2025, 1:07 am
Mamdani's former intern called activism 'jihad' and confronted police officers as 'pigs'

Hadeeqa Malik, who interned for NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, was captured on video calling protests 'jihad' at an anti-Israel demonstration.
Published: July 15, 2025, 12:08 am
Victims of 'Bernie Madoff of cows' take on major banks in massive ghost cattle Ponzi scheme

Kentucky investors sue three banks after Brian McClain's $100 million cattle Ponzi scheme was uncovered following his suicide, with only 10,000 of claimed 88,000 cattle found.
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:47 pm
Ongoing trash strike draws pressure from officials as communities struggle with waste build-up

State leaders urge Republic Services to finalize contract with striking Teamsters as uncollected garbage piles up in Massachusetts communities and other states across the country.
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:31 pm
Hollywood heir accused of beheading wife, in-laws dies in custody days before release of key evidence

Sam Haskell, accused of beheading his wife and in-laws, died in Los Angeles jail while awaiting trial as prosecutors prepared to reveal new evidence of an affair and murder weapon.
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:15 pm
ICE removes airplane hijacker among 1,361 violent criminals in Houston sweep

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested over 1,300 people in the Houston, Texas, area who have serious criminal convictions.
Published: July 14, 2025, 6:47 pm
Manhunt for ICE facility attack suspect reaches 10 days with reward money on the line

The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Benjamin Hanil Song, after an attack outside a Texas ICE facility.
Published: July 14, 2025, 6:01 pm
Police arrest international traveler allegedly carrying nearly $3M in drugs bound for Brazil

Atlanta police arrested a man who allegedly tried to transport nearly $3 million in drugs to Brazil.
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:55 pm
Accused killer of Minnesota lawmakers teases 'important details' in letter during jailhouse interview

Suspect Vance Boelter claims his alleged killing of Minnesota politician was not related to President Donald Trump or pro-life views, referencing an unreleased letter.
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:25 pm
UC Berkeley professor gunned down by masked attacker in Greece

A 43-year-old associate professor from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Przemysław Jeziorski, was fatally shot in an Athens suburb, reports said.
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:22 pm
Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's secluded hideout hits the market

The 156-acre New Hampshire property where Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested is now on sale for $2.5 million, more than double its $1.1 million purchase price in 2019
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:50 pm
Idaho four murder victim's sister reveals 'weird' three-word text message hours before stabbings

Bryan Kohberger confesses to the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, with Ethan Chapin's mother describing the killer's courtroom demeanor as 'cold and calculated.'
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:15 pm
Preppy party murder suspect's lawyer says client's testimony key to acquittal

Raul Valle found not guilty of murder in Jimmy McGrath stabbing as jury cites inconsistencies in evidence and failure to prove intent in the 2022 confrontation
Published: July 14, 2025, 1:59 pm
Suspect's connection to church victims emerges as police investigate Kentucky shooting

Police in Kentucky are investigating after a gunman killed two people at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, also injuring a state trooper.
Published: July 14, 2025, 12:31 pm
Deadly overnight blaze claims 9 lives at Massachusetts assisted living home as rescue efforts continue

A devastating fire at a Massachusetts assisted living facility left nine dead and over 30 hospitalized as residents were seen screaming for help.
Published: July 14, 2025, 12:21 pm
Historic Grand Canyon Lodge destroyed in wildfire, which closes North Rim for season

The Dragon Bravo Fire engulfed the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim, destroying the landmark building and dozens of structures while firefighters battle a second blaze north of the canyon.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:59 am
California pastor John MacArthur hospitalized with life-threatening illness as church community rallies

Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church was hospitalized with pneumonia, with associate pastor stating he 'may be in the Lord's presence soon'.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:45 am
A Summer Camp Reopens in the Texas Hill Country

Barely a week after devastating floods destroyed Camp Mystic and killed at least 132, Camp CAMP, which serves disabled youth, reopened Monday, thanks to a herculean cleanup led by a volunteer army.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:02 am
Democrats Are Workshopping New Tactics After Losses of 2024

Among the ideas being promoted: knocking on every single door in a House district and awarding cash prizes for the most effective new ways to reach voters.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:01 am
Appeals Court Delays Decision on Contempt Plan in Venezuelan Migrant Deportation Case

The three-judge panel has allowed the case to languish in a kind of legal limbo, catching the eye of some legal experts.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:01 am
Three Universities Will Face Congress Over Antisemitism Allegations

Leaders from Georgetown, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley, will become the latest to testify about accusations of campus antisemitism.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:01 am
Federal Workers’ ‘Emotional Roller Coaster’: Fired, Rehired, Fired Again

Former government employees are finding that perhaps the only thing harder than getting laid off from the federal government is staying that way.
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:00 am
John MacArthur, Firebrand Preacher and Culture Warrior, Dies at 86
He was a theologically uncompromising pastor in Southern California who influenced generations of evangelical preachers.
Published: July 15, 2025, 5:40 am
Appeals Court Blocks Trump Administration From Ending Deportation Protections for Afghans, for Now

A short, unsigned order by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia blocked the Trump administration’s move to terminate deportation protections until next week.
Published: July 15, 2025, 1:54 am
Judge Orders Release of Iranian Arrested in Louisiana After U.S. Bombed Iran
Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad, a doctoral student studying mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University, was arrested along with his wife, in what his lawyers call “an unconstitutional ruse.”
Published: July 15, 2025, 1:36 am
Behind Trump’s Tough Talk on Russia and Putin, Doubts and Missing Details

Pentagon officials said details were still being worked out, and experts doubted Mr. Trump’s threat of huge tariffs for Russian trading partners.
Published: July 15, 2025, 12:59 am
Unreleased Beyoncé Music Stolen During Cowboy Carter Tour in Atlanta, Police Say

Two members of Beyoncé’s team said that their S.U.V. was broken into on July 8, just before a series of concerts in Atlanta, the authorities said. The police said a suspect had emerged.
Published: July 15, 2025, 1:54 am
What to Know About Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department

Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and disbursing federal funding.
Published: July 15, 2025, 1:31 am
How Does Trump Silence the Epstein Conspiracy Theories?

President Trump is finding it hard to put the Epstein files behind him.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:00 pm
Senate Approves First Judge of Trump’s Second Term

The pace of judicial confirmations is lagging compared with the president’s first stint in office, but more are in the pipeline.
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:54 pm
Marjorie Taylor Greene Criticizes Trump’s Plan to Speed Weapons to Ukraine

The right-wing congresswoman from Georgia suggested that the president’s new proposal to help speed weapons to Ukraine betrays the promise to voters to end U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:30 pm
Will Conspiracy Theorists Cultivated by Trump Turn on Him Over Epstein?

The fallout of the Epstein case is testing the power the president holds over his most loyal followers, many of whom have broken into open revolt against him.
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:08 pm
Trump’s Decision on Patriot Missiles Gives Ukraine Cautious Optimism

American fatigue with the war and the fickleness of the Trump administration remain concerns for Ukraine’s leaders.
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:46 pm
Son of Ex-Hollywood Agent, Jailed in 3 Murders, Dies by Suicide, D.A. Says

Samuel Haskell, 37, was accused of dismembering his wife and his in-laws. He was the son of Sam Haskell III, an Emmy-winning film producer and veteran talent agent.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:03 pm
Homeless Population Declines in Los Angeles for Second Straight Year

A key survey of homelessness in Los Angeles determined that the number of people sleeping without shelter fell again. More than 72,000 people remain homeless in Los Angeles County.
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:43 pm
Pentagon Pulls Out of Aspen Security Forum

For years, Republican and Democratic administrations have dispatched civilian Pentagon officials and military commanders to the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:17 pm
Oklahoma Farmer Killed by Water Buffaloes He Had Just Bought, Police Say

The farm where Bradley McMichael, 47, died has been in his family for three generations. His fiancée described him as an experienced farmer who had worked with livestock since his teenage years.
Published: July 15, 2025, 12:28 am
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Gut Education Department With Mass Firings

The move by the justices represents an expansion of executive power, allowing President Trump to dismantle the inner workings of a government department.
Published: July 15, 2025, 1:02 am
Democrats Must ‘Toughen Up’ Against Trump, Obama Tells Donors

Frustrated that prominent Democrats have not fought harder, former President Barack Obama said in a speech that his party’s leaders needed to step up.
Published: July 14, 2025, 7:50 pm
Arizona Governor Seeks Investigation of Federal Handling of Grand Canyon Fire

Gov. Katie Hobbs questioned why the U.S. government decided to manage the Dragon Bravo fire, which started with a lightning strike, as a “controlled burn” during the height of the summer.
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:13 pm
24 States Sue Trump Over $6.8 Billion Withheld From Education

Providers say after-school programs and other services for the coming school year are threatened without the federal money, which was abruptly withheld.
Published: July 14, 2025, 7:11 pm
Fewer Than 100 Unaccounted For in Texas Flood as Officials Decry ‘Blame Game’

In Kerr County, where the most deaths occurred, officials said they were receiving threats, even as they continued to deflect questions about flood warnings.
Published: July 15, 2025, 12:58 am
Trump Threatens Russia With Sanctions and Vows U.S. Weapon Support for Ukraine

The president also warned Russia that he would impose a new round of punishing sanctions if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days.
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:35 pm
The Economy Has Been Resilient. The New Round of Tariffs May Hit Harder.

The economy’s resilience so far to President Trump’s global trade war risks emboldening him and unleashing the sort of economic devastation that economists have long feared.
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:37 pm
Democrats Accuse Trump of Ceding Global Influence to China

The minority members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say the White House is undercutting American soft power and letting China fill the void.
Published: July 14, 2025, 7:31 pm
How Melania Trump emerged as one of Zelensky’s key allies in the White House

Melania Trump has been reminding her husband of the toll of Russian airstrikes
Published: July 15, 2025, 10:05 am
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump ‘considers sending Kyiv missiles’ which US used to bomb Iran

US president said he is ‘disappointed but not done’ with Vladimir Putin as he threatened sanctions on Moscow
Published: July 15, 2025, 10:00 am
Yulia Svyrydenko: Ukraine’s new prime minister who masterminded key Trump deal

Incumbent prime minister Denys Shmyhal poised to take over as defence minister
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:51 am
Republicans block effort to force release of Epstein files in Congress

California Rep. Ro Khanna, who authored the amendment, slammed the decision and declared the American public ‘won’t be gaslit’
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:51 am
Jon Stewart mocks Trump’s attempt to distract MAGA base from Epstein debacle in epic takedown

‘MAGA is losing their s*** right now,’ The Daily Show host scoffed during Monday night’s episode
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:32 am
Nextdoor social site, looking for a revival, pins hopes on partnership with local news providers

The neighborhood social site Nextdoor is hoping for a revival by turning to local news providers
Published: July 15, 2025, 9:01 am
Flash floods swamp New York City subway station as horrified commuters watch on

Watch as a subway station in New York City becomes submerged by floodwater amid heavy rainfall.
Published: July 15, 2025, 8:55 am
Why Europe’s only indigenous tribe started a rap festival in the Arctic circle

A music festival in Utsjoki, Finland, brings Sámi culture to the spotlight under the midnight sun
Published: July 15, 2025, 8:35 am
Tesla goes to trial over Autopilot crash that killed stargazing student

Her family says the driver-assistance feature should have braked, but Tesla says the driver is to blame
Published: July 15, 2025, 8:20 am
Netanyahu’s government on edge as ultra-Orthodox party quits coalition over military draft law

United Torah Judaism's departure has a window of 48 hours before becoming official
Published: July 15, 2025, 8:05 am
Texas floods latest: Over 130 dead as report claims Camp Mystic leader received flood warning hour before disaster
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Flash flood warnings remain in effect across parts of Central Texas Tuesday morning as thunderstorms and torrential rain continue to soak the region
Published: July 15, 2025, 7:57 am
Firebrand evangelical pastor John MacArthur dies at 86

The influential pastor built a global following but his legacy remains divisive
Published: July 15, 2025, 7:47 am
Unreleased Beyoncé music stolen from car on Cowboy Carter tour

Beyoncé was in Atlanta to tour her ‘Cowboy Carter’ album
Published: July 15, 2025, 6:48 am
Trump issues 50-day peace ultimatum to Putin: ‘I’m very unhappy with him’

Donald Trump has issued Russia an ultimatum: either begin peace talks within the next 50 days or receive heightened sanctions and tariffs.
Published: July 15, 2025, 6:38 am
Trump ‘not done with Putin yet’ despite threat of Russian sanctions

The US president expressed disappointment in the Russian president over his continued attacks on Ukraine
Published: July 15, 2025, 6:29 am
Watch: Spectacular firework and drone display lights up Eiffel Tower for Bastille Day
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The Eiffel Tower lit up with fireworks in a spectacular Bastille Day display on July 14th.
Published: July 15, 2025, 6:01 am
Camp Mystic reportedly waited an hour to evacuate after warnings of ‘life-threatening’ Texas floods

Executive Director Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, 70, drowned while trying to rescue some of the youngest girls
Published: July 15, 2025, 5:44 am
Trump is looking at making money out of Nato – not saving Ukraine

Don’t be misled; Trump is peeved by Putin and will make money from his irritation out of Ukraine’s war but he has not shifted away from Russia completely, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
Published: July 15, 2025, 4:44 am
Trump’s DOJ urges Supreme Court to reject appeal from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell

Maxwell is attempting to be released from prison by arguing Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement shielded her from prosecution
Published: July 15, 2025, 4:31 am
Bangladesh struggles to contain the fallout of an uprising that toppled its leader last year

Bangladesh was at the precipice of charting a new beginning last year after its former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was removed from power in a student-led uprising
Published: July 15, 2025, 4:22 am
Flash flooding hits NYC and New Jersey declares state of emergency as storms soak Northeast

A flood warning was in effect for all five boroughs of New York City on Monday night, while New Jersey declared a state of emergency
Published: July 15, 2025, 3:09 am
Arizona wildfires being managed with ‘aggressive strategy’ as North Rim of Grand Canyon now closed for 2025: Latest

A lightning strike started the fire on July 4
Published: July 15, 2025, 12:11 am
Dr. Oz tells Americans on Medicaid ‘don’t eat carrot cake’ as millions face health insurance cuts

‘Do the most you can do to really live up to your God-given potential to live a full and healthy life. Don't eat carrot cake. Eat real food,’ Oz told Fox Business’ Stuart Varney on Monday
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:51 pm
Suspects pretending to be teen’s girlfriend lured him to a park so they could kill him, cops say

Alexander Russell and Jonathan Hayes have been charged with murder in the 2019 killing
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:34 pm
Teenager dies after falling into a meat grinder at food processing factory in California

The 19-year-old was reportedly part of the cleaning crew at Tina's Burritos
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:05 pm
New Jersey woman nearly dies after taking dangerous amount of popular supplement: ‘I was very, very, very scared’

New Jersey resident Katie Mohan says her daily turmeric supplements gave her ‘impending liver failure’
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:03 pm
Cuomo vows to stay in NYC mayor race despite losing Democratic primary to Mamdani: ‘I’m in it to win it’

The former governor promises to ‘hit the streets’ in social media video taking a page from Mamdani’s playbook
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:40 pm
Despite Trump saying there are no more Epstein files, Lara Trump says he will release more Epstein files

The Trump administration has claimed there is no Epstein client list and that no other documents will be released. Now the President’s daughter-in-law is insisting otherwise
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:46 pm
Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised

The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:32 pm
Number of nicotine poisonings in kids skyrockets with pouches becoming more common

There have been more than 134,000 nicotine poisonings among children younger than the age of six from 2010 to 2023, a new study finds
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:32 pm
US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic production

The U.S. government says it's placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:30 pm
Supreme Court gives Trump go-ahead to gut Department of Education

Without providing an explanation, court allowed administration to move forward with mass layoffs in Education Department
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:23 pm
Trump sees his approval rating waver as backlash from Epstein files engulfs MAGA

Cheerleading of Epstein conspiracies by the likes of JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr. leave second Trump administration facing a MAGA rebellion
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:17 pm
DOGE official told nuclear regulators they expect a ‘rubber stamp’ approval on new reactors: report

The comment comes as the Trump administration increases its interest in nuclear power
Published: July 14, 2025, 9:06 pm
Suspect accused of fatally shooting karaoke singer at bar as victim broke out in duet with suspect’s ex

The owner of the bar where the shooting happened said it was ‘very traumatizing’
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:59 pm
Charlie Kirk says ‘I’m done talking about Epstein’ after Trump called him over weekend
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The president reportedly called up influential right-wing media personalities and asked them to pull back on their criticism of Pam Bondi amid the continued uproar over the Epstein memo
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:48 pm
Hollywood exec’s son who killed and dismembered his wife and her parents dies in custody, hours before court appearance

Samuel Haskell IV was charged with killing his 37-year-old wife Mei Haskell and her parents
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:31 pm
Dan Bongino’s relationship with the White House is ‘basically untenable’ as rumors of his departure mount

Dan Bongino may be poised to leave the FBI after reportedly arguing with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Epstein files
Published: July 14, 2025, 8:16 pm
Mom and her four American-born children detained after visiting Canadian border: ‘What authoritarianism looks like’

Jackie Merlos, her 9-year-old triplets and 7-year-old son held by border patrol for more than two weeks, family says
Published: July 14, 2025, 7:44 pm
Pentagon announces new contract with Musk’s Grok AI just a week after its anti-Semitic turn

xAI announced ‘Grok for Government’ a new product from the artificial intelligence company
Published: July 14, 2025, 7:28 pm
Trump vs MAGA: Epstein Files spark unprecedented division between president and his base that thinks he’s ‘out of touch’

Prominent conservative influencers expressed disappointment and disbelief at lack of revelations on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
Published: July 14, 2025, 7:27 pm
Nine dead and dozens injured after blaze at assisted living facility that left residents desperately hanging out of windows

Firefighters were called to the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River around 9:50 p.m. Sunday
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:38 pm
Trump ramps up his war on Jerome Powell - and might have found reason to oust the Federal Reserve chair

Donald Trump has found a new angle to attack Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and potentially replace him
Published: July 14, 2025, 6:51 pm
Fox & Friends does just what Trump wants – they pretend the Epstein fiasco doesn’t exist
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While much of the MAGA media universe is gripped in a meltdown over Donald Trump demanding that his ‘boys’ and ‘gals’ stop caring about the Epstein files, his pals at Fox & Friends are following his orders to a tee, Justin Baragona writes.
Published: July 14, 2025, 6:17 pm
She left a fundamentalist Mormon cult. Then her children went missing

After escaping a fundamentalist polygamous group, Elizabeth Roundy fought to rebuild her life and protect her children. Now, they are missing — and she believes the FLDS is behind it. As more mothers come forward with similar stories, a chilling pattern is emerging, Andrea Cavallier writes
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:57 pm
Trump threatens Russia with new sanctions if no peace deal is reached with Ukraine in the next 50 days

U.S. will also send weapons to Ukraine as Trump turns against Putin
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:54 pm
The dirty secret about AI in the office that has CEOs admitting millions of white-collar jobs will be replaced

Artificial Intelligence may not be fully replacing the duties of middle managers, but it is allowing companies to employ fewer of them, writes Graig Graziosi
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:52 pm
Trump kept FIFA Club World Cup trophy for himself - leaving champions Chelsea to lift a replica

The FIFA Club World Cup trophy is currently in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump revealed
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:44 pm
Gisele Pelicot awarded France’s highest honour as country marks Bastille Day

She has been named a knight of the Legion of Honour
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:24 pm
Nantucket man walked into neighbor’s yard and cut down 50-year-old trees to improve his ocean view, suit says

‘I wasn't trespassing, I was clearing out her crappy trees,’ Jonathan Jacoby told the Boston Globe
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:18 pm
Georgia hotel ordered to pay $40 million to victim who was trafficked more than 200 times at the facility

J.G. was only 16 when she was trafficked at the hotel between 2018 and 2019
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:12 pm
UC Berkeley professor gunned down in Greece outside of his ex-wife’s home

Przemyslaw Jeziorski was in Greece for a child custody battle with his ex-wife, according to reports
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:08 pm
Nearly every worker at the US Institute for Peace is fired via a weekend email from DOGE

Now backed by an appeals court, DOGE completes shuttering of agency meant to stop conflict zones from exploding into violence
Published: July 14, 2025, 5:03 pm
ICE detains six-year-old leukemia patient and his family — even though they’ve followed every immigration rule, lawyer says

Family launches first lawsuit involving arrests of children during controversial ICE operations inside courthouses
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:47 pm
Idaho murder victim’s parents break silence on Bryan Kohberger’s controversial plea deal

Bryan Kohberger admitted to brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students in November 2022
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:33 pm
CIA has spent decades saying it knew little of Oswald before he killed JFK. New docs show that isn’t true

The CIA repeatedly denied the existence of an agent named ‘Howard,’ who secretly oversaw a group that had contact with Oswald in August 1963
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:15 pm
An armed man dressed in a bikini storms a donut shop – but staff fight back
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Christopher Hall, 41, was charged with robbery and assault with a deadly weapon for the May 30 incident
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:13 pm
Almost half of Gen Z is using AI to help with dating apps

The new findings come from Match.com who say that Gen-Z is also the most ‘intentionally celibate’ generation
Published: July 14, 2025, 4:12 pm
Trump said Alligator Alcatraz was built for the ‘most vicious people on the planet’ — but hundreds of detainees have no criminal record

More than 700 people being held at temporary detention facility in the Florida Everglades
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:51 pm
‘Laughing Stock’ NY Post brutally mocked for claiming Trump received ‘huge applause’ at FIFA Club World Cup final

‘He was brutally booed,’ one critic pointed out in response to the Post’s headline.
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:33 pm
Neighbors back Arizona man in fight against HOA after he was repeatedly fined $100 for handing out free bottles of water

‘It's not just about water, it's about the community as a whole,’ Arizona resident David Martin said
Published: July 14, 2025, 3:19 pm
Gotta catch ‘em all: Search for thief who stole over $100k worth of rare Pokémon cards in overnight raid

Police in New Bedford, Massachusetts, responded Tuesday following reports of the break-in at 1st Edition Collectibles in the early hours of the morning
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:59 pm
Husband in ‘failed murder-for-hire plot involving fentanyl-laced chocolate’ reveals hitman warned him about ex’s scheme

Exclusive: Pamela Jean Stanley’s former spouse told The Independent that she hatched a plan to poison him with candy containing fentanyl after her initial plot fell apart
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:47 pm
Daughter’s heartbreaking message to Mexican mother over ICE raids

Farmers have warned that ICE raids could damage their businesses and threaten the US food supply
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:44 pm
Gunman in deadly Kentucky church shooting identified as aspiring local rapper with serious criminal history

Police say that Guy House shot dead churchgoers Beverly Gumm and Christina Combs in Lexington on Sunday
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:41 pm
Extreme heatwaves across Spain caused more than 1,000 deaths

Spain has been hit by extreme heat in recent weeks with temperatures often topping 40 degrees Celsius
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:40 pm
Urgent search for Briton who went missing on solo hike in Italy

Mother of missing Matthew Hall described her son as an avid hiker
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:40 pm
Airport roof collapses as Spain hit by powerful earthquake

The 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook large parts of southern Spain on Monday morning
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:29 pm
Young Democrat wants cognitive tests for aging members of Congress

Despite Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s amendment failing, she wants to have a tough conversation about older members of Congress
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:26 pm
California professor accused of assault after he was ‘kidnapped’ during ICE protests at cannabis farm raid

Witnesses says masked agents tackled Jonathan Anthony Caravello as he moved tear gas canister from wheelchair
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:20 pm
Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 20-26
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of July 20-26 include dancer-singer-actor Julianne Hough, guitarist Carlos Santana and actor Sandra Oh
Published: July 14, 2025, 2:08 pm
‘He’s in good shape’: Trump backs Dan Bongino after his feud with Pam Bondi over Epstein Files

Bongino reportedly did not show up to work on Friday following a heated exchange with Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein Files release
Published: July 14, 2025, 1:53 pm
Moment police find $3m worth of drugs in suitcase at Atlanta airport

This is the moment that police find $3million (£2.2million) worth of drugs stashed in a suitcase at Atlanta airport.
Published: July 14, 2025, 1:44 pm
BBC breached editorial guidelines on controversial Gaza documentary, corporation says

It failed to disclose that the narrator of the documentary was the son of a Hamas official
Published: July 14, 2025, 1:42 pm
German backpacker speaks out after being found alive in Australian outback

Carolina Wilga says a car crash and head injury left her disorientated for 11 days
Published: July 14, 2025, 1:07 pm
Controversial video showing Jeffrey Epstein’s cell door before his death was ‘modified,’ report finds

DOJ faces further backlash after claiming the footage outside the convicted sex offender’s cell was ‘full raw’ and unedited
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:34 am
Linda Yaccarino ‘lasted two years in a job that would have crushed most in two weeks,’ X insider says

Yaccarino left X after Musk’s AI chatbot referred to itself as ‘MechaHitler’ and called for a new Holocaust
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:24 am
World’s oldest president eyes eighth term - at the age of 92

President Paul Biya first took power in 1982 and has not lost an election in the central African nation since
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:21 am
Hacker uses Elmo’s X account to post antisemitic messages and tweet that reads: ‘RELEASE THE FILES’

The fluffy red character experienced a hack over the weekend, says owner
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:01 am
The cosmetics billionaire, the rock star, and a series of very mysterious property deals in prime Palm Beach

An ultra-wealthy buyer is using LLCs to hide while purchasing multi-million dollar properties just miles away from Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago
Published: July 14, 2025, 11:00 am
Texas floods mapped: Here are the affected areas as death toll rises

At least 166 people are still missing in Central Texas, as the death toll climbs to 132
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:45 am
Paper-eating beetles threaten 100,000 books at country’s oldest library

Restoration workers are racing against the clock to save the centuries-old books
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:23 am
Trump jokes about signing executive order to change soccer to football

Donald Trump has joked about signing an executive order to get “soccer” renamed to “football” in the US.
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:19 am
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian injured during Israel’s attacks

The attack came on the fourth day of a 12-day war Israel launched against Iran in June
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:16 am
Family of woman who was struck by Lufthansa CEO’s wife is ‘destroyed’ over her tragic death

Gaia Costa, a 24-year-old babysitter, was walking across a pedestrian crossing in Sardinia earlier this week when she was struck
Published: July 14, 2025, 10:11 am
‘I needed to be locked up’: how Kavana went from 90s pop stardom to smoking crack in a skip – and bounced back

He was a teen singer with his dream career. But then his life fell apart. Anthony Kavanagh talks about sex work, addiction and the years he spent being forced to hide his sexuality
Nobody could say that Anthony Kavanagh does not know how to laugh at himself. The day he was fired from his record label, he trudged across London in the rain, walking and walking, as the realisation sank in that he was no longer a pop star. Soaked, he went into a pub and the woman behind the bar offered him a grubby tea towel to dry off. Washed-up indeed, he thought.
His memoir, Pop Scars, is sprinkled with darkly comic takes on what his life had become after 90s pop stardom. Known as Kavana, he had a Top 10 hit in 1997 with his cover of Shalamar’s I Can Make You Feel Good. “I’ve always somehow been able to find the humour, even at some of the darker times,” he says.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
The shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère

Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter, I joined him as he prepared for battle
Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, is a small jumble of orange prefab buildings and low grey apartment blocks nestled on a stony outcrop on the edge of the ocean. There are no trees, but there’s a hill topped by the statue of Hans Egede, the Danish-Norwegian missionary who evangelised the world’s biggest island in the 18th century and which, as such, is threatened with removal by Inuit anti-colonialists. It was at his feet that I awaited the helicopters bringing back the Greenlandic prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron – referred to throughout this trip as “PR”, short for président de la république – from their excursion on the ice.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
In Gaza, we know why Israel wants to herd us all into one camp – our lives are bargaining chips | Nour Abo Aisha

We’ve fled the attacks again and again. Now Israel plans to force us into the ruins of Rafah in order to increase pressure on Hamas
After 21 months of war, the Israeli minister of defence, Israel Katz, has proposed a new initiative to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah.
I lived west of Gaza city, just five minutes away from the beach. I used to see the waves from the roof of our house. The area was marvellous, with luxury architecture, hotels and tourist resorts.
Nour Abo Aisha is a freelance writer based in Gaza
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Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 6:15 pm
Gaming in their golden years: why millions of seniors are playing video games

Adults over the age of 50 represent nearly a third of US gamers and are becoming more visible in the mainstream
Michelle Statham’s preferred game is Call of Duty. It’s fast and frenetic, involving military and espionage campaigns inspired by real history. She typically spends six hours a day livestreaming to Twitch, chatting to her more than 110,000 followers from her home in Washington state. She boasts about how she’ll beat opponents, and says “bless your heart” while hurtling over rooftops to avoid clusterstrikes of enemy fire. When she’s hit, she “respawns” – or comes back to life at a checkpoint – and jumps right back into the fray.
The military shooter game has a predominantly young male user base, but Statham’s Twitch handle is TacticalGramma – a nod to the 60-year-old’s two grandkids. Her lifelong gaming hobby has become an income stream (she prefers to keep her earnings private, but says she has raised “thousands” for charity), as well as a way to have fun, stay sharp and connect socially.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
Superman: identity crises, fascist space holograms and a super furry animal – discuss with spoilers

Has director James Gunn reinvented the superhero film – or just lovingly detonated it? Let’s have a deep dive into the new Man of Steel movie
• This article contains spoilers for Superman
James Gunn’s Superman is a curious film: so earnest, so heartfelt, and so defiantly weird it sometimes feels less like a reboot of the world’s most iconic superhero and more like an elaborate fan project. Most of us will be relieved we’ve said goodbye to the heavy metal space Jesus of the Zack Snyder years, and that Gunn has avoided paying too much retro cosplay tribute to the Christopher Reeve era. This is undeniably a Superman we’ve never seen before on the big screen: a Kal-El who’s deeply human, flawed, and more likable for it.
The new Man of Steel, played with boyish charm and the right amount of golden retriever energy by David Corenswet, spends most of the movie juggling black holes, battling clone siblings, and dealing with the looming realisation that his space dad might have been one bad day away from full-blown genocide. And yet there’s always the sneaking suspicion he would break off from all this in a second if you asked him to fix your router and play Enya until your existential dread subsides.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 5:06 pm
From awol to A-lister: how pop stars from Charli xcx to Addison Rae found the fun in fame again

Despite their predecessors stressing the horrors of pop success, a new cohort are hungry for it, reflecting the ambitions of spotlight-hungry gen Z and the shamelessness of Trump 2.0 life
On Lorde’s 2021 album Solar Power, the New Zealand pop star ditched fame. She threw her phone in the sea, sang “if you’re looking for a saviour, well, that’s not me” and advised looking to nature for answers instead. But her sun-bleached third album proved divisive, so much so that just a year later, she placated fans by promising she was making “bangers” again. This April, her comeback single What Was That returned to the incandescent synth-pop of her beloved 2017 album Melodrama; her new album Virgin opens: “It’s a beautiful life so why play truant? / I jerk tears and they pay me to do it.” Lorde was back roaming the streets, swapping Auckland fishing trips for New York Citi Bike rides, addicted to her phone again, playing Glastonbury at 11.30am and then disappearing to get high at Four Tet.
Where Solar Power was introverted, Virgin is hungry for experience and connection, sticky with sweat and other bodily fluids. But it’s also still preoccupied with the cost of finding fame at the age of 16 and how to carry it at age 28. The erratic album has divided critics again: is the sometimes spindly sound and lyrical status anxiety another attempt by Lorde to push listeners away? Or are the intermittent Melodrama 2.0 bangers her giving in to expectation? Ever alert to her own myth, she said recently: “I just am this person who’s meant to make these bangers that fuck us all up.”
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 3:07 pm
Ukrainians hail Melania Trump for challenging husband’s faith in Putin

US first lady celebrated as ‘Agent Melania Trumpenko’ for noting Russian leader’s duplicity
Ukrainians are celebrating Melania Trump on social media in a series of memes, after Donald Trump suggested the first lady played a part in his apparent change of heart over Russia.
Speaking at a meeting in the White House on Monday with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, Trump said his wife had played a key role in pointing out Vladimir Putin’s duplicity.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 9:48 am
US supreme court allows Trump to resume gutting education department

Justices lift federal judge’s order that reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass firings in win for president
The US supreme court on Monday cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education as part of his bid to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more control by the states.
In the latest high court win for the president, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass firings at the department and blocked the administration from transferring key functions to other federal agencies. A legal challenge is continuing to play out in lower courts.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 8:48 pm
UN’s Albanese hails 30-nation meeting aimed at ending Israeli occupation of Palestine

The Hague Group aims to agree political, economic and legal actions in ‘existential hour’ for Israel and Palestine
The UN rapporteur hit with sanctions by the US last week has vowed not to be silenced as she hailed a 30-nation conference aimed at ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine as “the most significant political development in the past 20 months”.
Francesca Albanese will say the two-day gathering in Bogotá, Colombia, starting on Tuesday and including China, Spain and Qatar, comes at “an existential hour” for Israel and the Palestinian people.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
China’s economy beats expectations in face of Trump’s trade war

GDP grows 5.2% in second quarter as world’s second largest economy ‘front-loads’ shipments before tariffs kick in
China’s economy grew more strongly than expected in the second quarter as it proved resilient in the face of Donald Trump’s trade war.
China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5.2% in April to June compared with a year earlier, slowing from 5.4% in the first quarter, but just ahead of analysts’ expectations for a rise of 5.1%.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 9:55 am
Republicans complain to Canada over wildfire smoke despite supporting planet-heating bill

Lawmakers send letter railing against ‘suffocating’ smoke days after voting for Trump plan likely to boost pollution
A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires.
In a letter sent to Canada’s ambassador to the US, six Republican members of Congress wrote that wildfire smoke from Canada has been an issue for several years and recently their voters “have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer”.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 10:00 am
Boy in Minnesota survives fall that sent arrow through his brain: ‘It’s a miracle’

Gus, nine, fell face-first on arrow, which penetrated his head and came within less than an inch of exiting his skull
A hospital in Minnesota was left in disbelief after a nine-year-old boy survived an accidental fall that sent an arrow through his brain and nearly out the back of his skull.
Abby Deterding recently told the Minneapolis news station KARE “it’s a miracle” that the freak mishap did not kill her son, Gus. “We’re just thankful, so grateful,” she said.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 10:00 am
Footage shows flood water gushing into New York subway station during heavy rain – video

Heavy rain swept across parts of the U.S. Northeast on Monday night, inundating sections of New York and New Jersey with flash flooding that stranded vehicles in roadways, closed subway lines and led to the declaration of a state of emergency. In New York City, some subway service was suspended while other lines were running with severe delays due to flooding, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 9:54 am
Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance’s home town

The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold
A Biden-era plan to implement a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Ohio, which would have eliminated tons of greenhouse gases from the local environment year over year and created more than a thousand jobs, has been put on hold indefinitely by the Trump administration.
Experts and locals say the setback could greatly affect the health and financial state of those living around the mill.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 10:00 am
Trump says Club World Cup trophy will remain in Oval Office after tournament’s end

US president was given trophy earlier this year
Chelsea won newly expanded tournament on Sunday
US president Donald Trump has claimed that the Club World Cup trophy that has featured prominently in the Oval Office will stay there, and that Fifa made a copy of the trophy that was awarded to Chelsea after their win in the tournament’s final on Sunday.
Trump attended the final along with numerous members of his cabinet and Fifa president Gianni Infantino. The pair of presidents jointly presented the trophy to Chelsea captain Reece James, with Trump staying front-and-center despite the apparent confusion of Chelsea players and the pleading of Infantino.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 7:45 pm
Who is Dan Bongino? FBI deputy at center of Maga fallout over Epstein files

Bongino appears to be on course to be the Trump administration’s first casualty of the Epstein files fallout
The future of the deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, is unclear after he stormed out of a meeting with Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and told friends he was considering quitting over the controversy surrounding Jeffrey Epstein.
Bongino, a former New York police officer and Secret Service agent who helped protect George W Bush and Barack Obama, appears on course to be the Trump administration’s first casualty of the Epstein fallout, which is threatening to split the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 1:04 am
Trump news at a glance: president threatens 100% tariff on Russia and says he is keeping Club World Cup trophy

Trump gives Putin a deadline to make peace; president claims trophy given to cup winners Chelsea is copy of Oval Office one. Key US politics stories from Monday 14 July at a glance
Donald Trump has said he sealed an agreement with Nato allies that will deliver Patriot missiles and other key arms to Ukraine – and warned Russia it would face severe sanctions if the war did not end within 50 days.
Unveiling the military assistance deal, the US president expressed increased frustration with Vladimir Putin, whom he accused of giving the impression of pursuing peace while intensifying attacks on Ukrainian cities. He gave the Russian president a new deadline of 50 days to make peace or face 100% tariffs on Russian goods, and more importantly, sweeping “secondary tariffs”, suggesting trade sanctions would be imposed on countries that continue to pay for Russian oil and other commodities.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 11:48 pm
Pam Bondi fires US justice department’s top ethics adviser

Move is latest in series of dismissals as Trump and allies seek retribution against civil servants in the agency
The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, fired the justice department’s top ethics adviser on Friday, the latest in a series of dismissals that comes as Donald Trump and allies have sought retribution against civil servants in the agency.
Joseph Tirrell, who had served as the head of the justice department’s ethics office, since 2023, revealed he had been fired in a post on LinkedIn. He shared Bondi’s letter to him, which misspelled his name and did not give a reason for his termination.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 9:56 pm
US dairy industry to remove synthetic dyes from ice-cream, RFK Jr says

Dairy officials tout ‘great day for “Maha”’ as Trump officials claim deal leads to healthier options, especially for children
In what Trump administration officials dubbed a “major announcement”, health and agriculture department leaders said the US dairy industry agreed to voluntarily remove synthetic dyes from ice-cream.
The announcement continues the Trump administration’s pattern of voluntary agreements with industry – from health insurers to snack food makers.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 9:30 pm
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’

Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fall. It was one of many trips he had taken to the US, and he was authorized to travel under a visa waiver program that allows tourists to stay in the country for 90 days.
He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 10:00 am
‘I have a huge case brewing’: US readers’ frustrations with cancelling various subscriptions

Readers share their experiences after a US appeals court vacated the FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule
Cancelling subscriptions could continue to be a grueling process after the US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up.
The court’s decision came down due to the commission behind it failing to follow required procedures under the FTC Act. In response, the Guardian asked readers to share their experiences while trying to cancel their various subscriptions - from Hulu, to Roblox, to dating apps. These are their stories.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 10:00 am
Diljit Dosanjh is one of the biggest Asian stars in the world. So why can’t Indian cinemagoers see his latest film?

Sardaar Ji 3 is breaking box office records despite not being released to its most famous actor’s home audience
He is number one in the UK list of top 50 Asian celebrities in the world, has headlined arenas in the UK, US and across Europe as part of his sold-out Dil-Luminati world tour, and recently strutted the Met Gala carpet in an ivory-toned turban.
But despite Diljit Dosanjh’s stellar status, the Punjabi actor-singer has been caught in a cultural and political row that has halted the Indian release of his latest movie, Sardaar Ji 3.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 5:00 am
Could giving this pod of dolphins the same legal rights as humans help keep them safe?

With a bottlenose population threatened by fishing gear, boats and pollution, campaigners on South Korea’s Jeju island are lobbying to extend legal status to the vulnerable cetaceans
It is a beautiful sunny day on the island of Jeju in South Korea and as the boat cuts through the water all seems calm and clear. Then they start to appear – one telltale fin and then another. Soon, a pod of eight or nine dolphins can be seen moving through the sea, seemingly following the path of the boat.
But as they start to jump and dive, fins cutting through the air, it becomes apparent that one dolphin is missing the appendage, his body breaking the surface but without the telltale profile of his companions. His name, given to him by a local environmental group, is Orae, which literally translates as “long”, but in this context means “wishing him a long life”.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 2:00 am
‘He didn’t think he was a good man’: new book reveals unseen portrait of JFK

In an exhaustively researched new book, J Randy Taraborrelli looks at the private, public and secret lives of the president
J Randy Taraborrelli has already written five books on the Kennedy family but his sixth, JFK: Public, Private, Secret, is his first that’s directly about John F Kennedy, 35th US president from 1961 until his assassination in Dallas two years later.
“I have been writing about the Kennedys from Jackie’s perspective for 25 years,” Taraborrelli said, referring to Jacqueline Kennedy, the first lady who lived for another 30 years after he was shot, a figure of worldwide fascination.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 9:13 am
Toni at Random by Dana A Williams review – the editorial years of a literary great

This illuminating account of Toni Morrison’s time at Random House reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America
While a great deal has been written about Toni Morrison’s fiction, her work as a senior editor at Random House is less well known. Dana A Williams, professor of African American Literature at Howard University, sets out to fill this gap, offering an impeccably researched account of Morrison’s stint at Random House between 1971 and 1983, against the backdrop of the Civil Rights and the Black Arts movements. Reflecting ideas generated by that convergence, Morrison’s novels – described by the Nobel committee, when they awarded her the prize in literature in 1993, as giving life to an essential aspect of American reality – were driven by an unwavering belief in the possibility of African American empowerment through self-regard. Williams’s interest lies in showing how Morrison’s editorial career was informed by the same invigoratingly insular ethos. Whether writing or editing, her work was aimed at producing “explorations of interior Black life with minimal interest in talking to or being consumed by an imagined white reader”.
Morrison saw early on how that kind of insularity could be wielded as both a weapon and a shield. Addressing the Second National Conference of Afro-American Writers at Howard in 1976, she urged the audience to recognise that “the survival of Black publishing, which […] is a sort of way of saying the survival of Black writing, will depend on the same things that the survival of Black anything depends on, which is the energies of Black people – sheer energy, inventiveness and innovation, tenacity, the ability to hang on, and a contempt for those huge, monolithic institutions and agencies which do obstruct us”. These words could well have been repurposed as a mission statement for her editorial career, which, as Williams points out, consisted of “[making] a revolution, one book at a time”. Change was coming in America. Morrison’s contribution would be to work towards change in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing: “I thought it was important for people to be in the streets,” she said during an interview for the documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, released in 2019. “But that couldn’t last. You needed a record. It would be my job to publish the voices, the books, the ideas of African Americans. And that would last.”
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 6:00 am
‘Don’t ever assume there’s anything to eat!’ 29 tips for perfect vegan holidays, from where to go to how to order

Nowhere should be out of bounds just because you have a plant-based diet. Seasoned travellers explain how to stay happy and hunger-free, whether you’re trekking in Thailand or on a mini-break in Berlin
This spring, I spent five weeks travelling around Mexico – my longest time away from home since becoming a vegan two and a half years ago. It was a learning experience: lots of incredible vegan food, gallons of fall-back guacamole and the odd cheese-related disaster. This is what I found out about being a vegan on holiday, and the advice I received from more seasoned vegan travellers.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 9:00 am
‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama

After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story
‘I think of it as a very sexy, dangerous game of Elizabethan cat and mouse.” Ncuti Gatwa is describing his new project with the Royal Shakespeare Company, a two-hander about William Shakespeare and fellow playwright Christopher “Kit” Marlowe. In Born With Teeth, Will and Kit collaborate on a play about Henry VI – for “collaborate”, read flirt, fight and ruminate betrayal.
Gatwa plays Marlowe and Shakespeare is Edward Bluemel; the pair last worked together on TV’s Sex Education. Bluemel followed that series about horny teens with playing a vampire (A Discovery of Witches), an MI6 agent (Killing Eve) and a brooding lord (My Lady Jane), while Gatwa was cast as one of the Kens in the Barbie movie and starred in a little thing called Doctor Who.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
‘A rarefied world of privilege’: lives of the New England upper class – in pictures

Tina Barney’s decades-long exploration of the bourgeois set her family belonged to reveals the strange rituals and claustrophobic banality of rich people’s every day lives
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 6:00 am
I was on New York’s rent board. Zohran Mamdani’s ideas aren’t pie in the sky | Leah Goodridge

The Democratic mayoral candidate has faced controversy over his calls for a rent freeze. But the plan has plenty of precedent
During the New York City mayoral primary campaign, Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for a citywide rent freeze became a contentious topic. The Democratic nominee says to achieve a cap on annual rent increases for the city’s 1m rent-stabilized apartments, he would appoint members to the city’s rent guidelines board who support it. Critics decry a rent freeze as a pie-in-the-sky, unrealistic proposal.
I served as a rent guidelines board member for nearly four years, appointed by then mayor Bill de Blasio in 2018. And it’s clear this controversy isn’t just about rent freezes – there’s a larger agenda to deregulate rent-stabilized housing, under which rent ceilings prevent landlords from raising the rent too high and tenants must be offered renewal leases (unless the landlord shows legal reason not to).
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 12:00 pm
Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics | Carolin Würfel

The stories of curator Kathleen Reinhardt and provenance expert Lynn Rother show how exclusion can be turned to powerful insight
In February 1990, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran the headline “Why are they still coming?”, adding: “In West Germany, hatred for immigrants from the GDR could soon reach boiling point.” That year, resentment towards so-called newcomers from the east erupted without restraint. East Germans were insulted in the streets, shelters were attacked and children from the former GDR were bullied at school. There was a widespread fear that the weekly influx of thousands of people would overwhelm the welfare system and crash the housing and job markets. The public consensus? It needed to stop.
That same year, Kathleen Reinhardt and her parents moved from Thuringia in the former GDR to Bavaria. She was in primary school, and her new classmates greeted her with lines such as: “You people come here and take our jobs. You don’t even know how to work properly.”
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
Measles cases are surging in Europe and the US. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us

Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationality
It’s easy to say in hindsight, but also true, that even when the anti-vax movement was in its infancy in the late 90s before I had kids, let alone knew what you were supposed to vaccinate them against, I could smell absolute garbage. After all, Andrew Wakefield, a doctor until he was struck off in 2010, was not the first crank to dispute the safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccines. There was a movement against the diphtheria-tetanus-whooping cough vaccine in the 1970s in the UK, and a similar one in the US in the early 1980s. The discovery of vaccination in the first place was not without its critics, and enough people to form a league opposed the smallpox rollout in the early 1800s on the basis that it was unchristian to share tissue with an animal.
So Wakefield’s infamous Lancet study, in which he claimed a link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism, going as far as to pin down the exact mechanism by which one led to the other, was new only in so far as it had all the branding of reputable research, when in fact it was maleficent woo-woo, a phenomenon as old as knowledge. It was noticeable, though, that it fell on parched ground – a lot of people were very keen for it to be true. That was partly simple news appetite: vaccines are inherently boring. Devised by humans co-operating with one another, motivated by nothing more complicated than a desire to help the species – and indiscriminately, no one baby more worthy of protection than any other – there is no animating conflict here, nothing hidden, no complexity. Is there anything more tedious than humanity at its finest? So wouldn’t it be at least piquant if it turned out to be a giant mistake?
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Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 2:12 pm
Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works | Sean Ingle

In the fevered environments within sporting arenas, anything that can help an official has to be a good thing
We are all suckers for a good story. And there was certainly a cracking two‑parter at Wimbledon this year. First came the news that 300 line judges had been replaced by artificial intelligence robots. Then, a few days later, it turned out there were some embarrassing gremlins in the machine. Not since Roger Federer hung up his Wilson racket has there been a sweeter spot hit during the Wimbledon fortnight.
First the new electronic line-judging system failed to spot that Sonay Kartal had whacked a ball long during her match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – which led to the Russian losing a game she otherwise would have won. Although, ironically, it happened only because an official had accidentally switched the system off.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 7:00 am
I’m not keen on the Clooneys’ ‘no phones’ rule for guests | Emma Beddington

Amal Clooney says the policy allows for ‘safe and frank’ conversation. But what if you want to show George a cool meme of an anteater posing?
Would you willingly surrender your phone if you were invited to the Clooneys’? Because that’s the deal, apparently. “I now have a phone basket that I use to take everyone’s phones away!” Amal Clooney recently told Glamour magazine in a rather stilted “conversation” with the cosmetics diva Charlotte Tilbury. “It’s important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange,” she explained.
Hmm. I’m fine with shoes-off households (although you reap what you sow when it comes to the state of my socks or my toes). But the phone basket is reminiscent of those aggressively jocular pub signs that say: “No wifi – talk to each other.” What if you’re dealing with a family or work situation, need to hide in the loo and stroke your shiny pocket rectangle to recharge your social batteries, or want to show George a cool meme of an anteater posing? Yes, the Clooneys are the A-est of A-list, with attendant privacy concerns and young children. But if you can’t trust people to behave properly, what are they doing in your home?
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 10:00 am
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts

We have warned the government repeatedly: the response has been pathetic. Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide
Dr Natalie Roberts is the executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières UK
Our colleague Abdullah Hammad was killed last week by Israeli forces as he waited to collect flour from an aid truck in Khan Younis. He is the 12th Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleague to have been killed in Gaza since October 2023. The Israeli-US food distribution scheme forces people in Gaza to choose between starvation and risking their life for minimal supplies. With more than 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme has had the effect of luring desperate people in with aid, only for them to be slaughtered by the Israeli armed forces.
This is part of the genocide that is being committed in Gaza. And the UK government is complicit.
Dr Natalie Roberts is the executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières UK
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Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 7:00 am
The Guardian view on Europe’s Trump challenge: Brussels must hold its nerve and think big | Editorial

A renewed threat of punitive tariffs from the White House is a reminder that the EU must invest in its own values in a volatile and transforming world
As the world has grown used to Donald Trump delivering aggressive ultimatums that are then revised or watered down, the shock-and-awe effect of a presidential edict on Truth Social has somewhat diminished. On Saturday, Mr Trump unexpectedly announced that the United States would hit the European Union with swingeing tariffs on goods of 30% from 1 August. That certainly prompted urgent weekend discussions in Brussels, Paris and Berlin. But for now, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, is placing all countermeasures on hold, in the hope that what the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, described as “reasonable solutions” can be found.
Given the stakes, betting on the success of a softly, softly approach to trade negotiations remains sensible. Mr Trump’s previous imposition of 25% tariffs on European carmakers (on top of the pre-existing 2.5% rate) has already panicked German manufacturers in particular. But the president’s attempts to further batter Europe into economic submission, risking a trade war with an ally and threatening an annual €1.7tn worth of commercial activity, would be likely to trigger another market backlash if taken to the brink.
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Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 5:58 pm
The Guardian view on a climate reckoning: an annual address could set a new standard for political accountability | Editorial

The energy secretary framed environmental action as practical and patriotic, not in terms of wordy ideological pieties. But holding the line won’t be easy
Ed Miliband is a target for the political right; not because he’s irrelevant, but because he’s effective. The bacon sandwich gags and “Red Ed” jokes mask a deeper unease: that Mr Miliband, with his dogged insistence on science, public investment and long-term thinking, is right. Now, as energy secretary, he has delivered what he calls an exercise in “radical truth-telling” and a stark warning to MPs that rejecting climate action is a betrayal of future generations. The language, for once, isn’t overblown. It’s belated.
By highlighting the Met Office’s annual State of the UK Climate report, Mr Miliband shows that the hotter, wetter and more arduous future we feared has already arrived. Extremes are becoming the norm: the number of very hot days has quadrupled; in the last 250 years, six of the 10 wettest winter half-years have occurred in the 21st century. Britons experience this in cancelled hospital appointments, flooded homes and hosepipe bans.
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Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 5:59 pm
Bigger, better, more often? Infantino won’t let up on his ambition for Club World Cup

With claims of 2bn TV views, $2.1bn revenues and a push for it to go every two years, Infantino’s pet project is here to stay
All that can be said with certainty about the future of the Club World Cup is that it is not going away. The 24-carat gold Tiffany trophy presented to Reece James by Donald Trump in New Jersey, in one of the most surreal scenes seen in a sports stadium, will be up for grabs again in four years. The event could well be bigger, Fifa intends it to be better and the presentation will surely not be as brash.
Gianni Infantino was widely criticised for imposing the Club World Cup on an indifferent sporting public, against a backdrop of hostility from players’ unions and domestic leagues, but his belief that top clubs would back his vision has been vindicated, albeit largely because of the $1bn (£740m) prize fund. With Chelsea banking £85m for winning seven matches, others are keen for a slice of the pie.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 7:00 am
Former NFL QB Bridgewater suspended from high school coaching job

The former Lions QB has been suspended while under investigation for allegedly providing impermissible benefits
Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has been suspended from his position as a high school football coach in Miami while under investigation for allegedly providing impermissible benefits.
Bridgewater, 32, confirmed his suspension by Miami Northwestern in a Facebook post on Sunday but said he remains committed to his alma mater.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 9:53 pm
Tour de France 2025: Ben Healy rides into yellow as Simon Yates storms to stage 10 win

Healy becomes first Irishman in 38 years in maillot jaune
Giro winner Yates takes his third career Tour stage win
The Bastille Day stage of the 2025 Tour de France ended with an Englishman winning in the Auvergne, an Irishman in yellow, and a French hope falling by the wayside, as Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard called a truce on the eve of the first rest day.
Simon Yates took a third career stage win in the Tour, only a few weeks after his unexpected success in the Giro d’Italia, dropping the last of his breakaway companions on the uphill finish to Puy de Sancy, while Ireland’s Ben Healy claimed the first yellow jersey of his career.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 4:27 pm
Cole Palmer’s Chelsea finally believe they are Premier League contenders | Jacob Steinberg

Aggressive, motivated, extremely talented and now champions of the world, Enzo Maresca’s squad have the confidence and real depth
When Chelsea won the Conference League in May, a victory secured by the standard ice‑cold Cole Palmer performance in a final, the reaction was restrained and there was no internal talk of an impending title challenge. Now the vibe is different. It is hard not to dream when Chelsea perform as they did against Paris Saint‑Germain in the final of the Club World Cup.
Nobody is getting carried away. Chelsea know what the rest of us know, which is that they are not the best team in the world. They are not the finished article. They are young and still have much to learn. Yet there is a gold badge on the shirt for the next four years and if Chelsea woke up feeling $100m on Monday morning it will not only have been because of the prize money made during their month in the US.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 4:46 pm
Sinner’s Wimbledon focus was unblinking on every point – Alcaraz is playing catch-up | Tumaini Carayol

Italian overcame heartbreak in French Open final and now moves on to his favoured hard courts for US Open buildup
With his hopes of a third consecutive Wimbledon title fading desperately with every point, Carlos Alcaraz sat in his chair on Centre Court after conceding the third set of his final with Jannik Sinner and unloaded his thoughts on his team: “From the back of the court, he is much better than me. Much better than me! Much [better]! It’s like this,” Alcaraz said, gesturing with his hands to demonstrate the vast gap between his greatest rival and himself.
His assessment was not wrong. From a set down, Sinner put together a supreme performance to overturn five consecutive defeats against Alcaraz and win his first Wimbledon title, avenging the most difficult loss in his career – his French Open final defeat by Alcaraz in June – at the earliest opportunity.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 3:46 pm
Premier League fans in Asia want to feel valued – and not just as a source of revenue

Pre-season trips to Asia may not be new for English clubs, but they remain a huge global engagement opportunity
Fifty years ago, Arsenal lost 2-0 to Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, with jet-lagged players struggling to deal with frogs bouncing around the Merdeka Stadium pitch as well as the legendary local striker Mokhtar Dahari.
Since then, however, many aspects of Asian tours by English clubs have changed. They have become, mostly, slick affairs. This summer, Arsenal will visit neighbouring Singapore for games against Newcastle and Milan. Then to Hong Kong for an unusual north London derby against a Tottenham team that will also travel to South Korea to face Newcastle. Liverpool visit Japan and Hong Kong just weeks after Manchester United were in action there on a post-season tour, which they finished in Malaysia.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 7:00 am
US men to host friendlies against Australia and Ecuador in October international window

The US will play Australia in Colorado on 14 October
Game v Ecuador in Austin, Texas set for 10 October
The US men’s national team will play friendlies against Ecuador and Australia in the October Fifa international window, the federation announced on Monday. The games will pit the US against two teams that have already sealed their spots in the 2026 World Cup in one of the team’s last gatherings before the start of the tournament next summer.
The US will host Ecuador first on 10 October at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas, with kickoff set for 8.30pm ET. This will be the US men’s 16th all-time meeting against Ecuador, with the last meeting coming in 2019. In that match, Gyasi Zardes scored a late winner in a 1-0 victory for the US.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 8:28 pm
Jake Paul is boxing’s newest power broker. Taylor v Serrano was his proof of concept

Katie Taylor’s decisive victory over Amanda Serrano at MSG on Friday capped a watershed night for Most Valuable Promotions, who are betting big on women’s boxing
On Friday night, 11 July, Katie Taylor earned the clear-cut win that had eluded her in two previous victories by controversial decision over Amanda Serrano. Fighting before a sold-out crowd of 19,721 on the first all-women’s boxing card ever at Madison Square Garden, Taylor outboxed her longtime rival and solidified her status as one of the greatest women boxers of all time.
The evening was a celebration of women’s boxing and also marked a significant step forward for Most Valuable Promotions (Jake Paul’s promotional company), which orchestrated, produced and marketed the event.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 8:00 am
Meet the Estonian amateur who started golf by accident and qualified for the Open

Richard Teder secured a major debut at Royal Portrush after a playoff hole-out and only took up the sport after his aunt won a prize
All we know already about Richard Teder suggests his Open Championship debut may provide essential viewing when he becomes the first golfer from Estonia to tee it up in the oldest major.
He qualified by holing out from 90 yards in a sudden‑death playoff, a euphoric scene which preceded the eating of half a doner kebab for dinner.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 2:00 pm
Texas camp leader waited over an hour after flood warning to evacuate

Camp Mystic leader, who died trying to save small children, waited over an hour after alert before starting evacuation
The adult leader of Camp Mystic, the Texas summer camp where 27 children and counselors died in the Hill Country floods, waited more than an hour after receiving a severe flood warning before initiating an evacuation, it was disclosed on Monday.
Richard “Dick” Eastland, who had run the popular all-girls, Christian-values sleepaway camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River with his family since the 1980s, was among the fatalities after a wall of water rushed through the camp early on 4 July.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 8:30 pm
Andrew Cuomo announces run for New York City mayor as an independent

Former governor lost the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani by more than 12 points last month
Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, said on Monday that he will run as an independent in New York City’s mayoral race, after losing in the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani.
Many saw Cuomo as the favorite in the primary, but he ultimately lost to Mamdani, a current member of the New York state assembly, by more than 12 points.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 10:06 pm
xAI announces $200m US military deal after Grok chatbot had Nazi meltdown

Defense department also inked contracts with other leading AI firms including Google, Anthropic and OpenAI
The week after its Grok chatbot identified itself as “MechaHitler” and generated antisemitic posts, Elon Musk’s xAI firm announced a contract with the US Department of Defense worth nearly $200m. The deal is for developing and implementing artificial intelligence tools for the agency.
The DoD on Monday also announced similar contracts with $200m ceilings with several other major US-based artificial intelligence developers, including Google, Anthropic and OpenAI. The agency is partnering with the General Services Administration to make these companies’ AI tools available for use throughout the federal government.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 8:24 pm
Starbucks tells corporate staff in US and Canada to work in office at least four days a week

Seattle-based coffee chain offers payment to those who opt to quit instead as it seeks to ‘re-establish in-office culture’
Starbucks has ordered its corporate staff to work from the office at least four days a week from late September and is offering cash payments to those who choose to quit instead.
Brian Niccol, the chief executive of the Seattle-headquartered coffee chain, said many of its employees would be required to work in the office for a minimum of four days a week, up from three, from Monday to Thursday. This will apply to its Seattle and Toronto support centres and regional offices in North America.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 9:31 am
US court blocks Trump administration from revoking Afghans’ protected status

More than 82,000 Afghans had been evacuated after Taliban’s takeover and were allowed a temporary ‘parole’
A US appeals court has for now blocked the Trump administration from removing the temporary protective status of thousands of Afghans in the United States, court documents showed on Monday.
An administrative stay on the termination of temporary protected status for Afghans will remain until 21 July, the US court of appeals for the fourth circuit said in an order granting a request from immigration advocacy organization Casa.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 1:49 am
Four astronauts depart international space station in return flight home

Crew Dragon capsule will parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Tuesday
Nasa retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson and three crew mates from India, Poland and Hungary departed the International Space Station early on Monday and embarked on their return flight to Earth.
A Crew Dragon capsule carrying the quartet undocked from the orbital laboratory at 7.15am ET, ending the latest ISS visit organized by Texas-based startup Axiom Space in partnership with Elon Musk’s California-headquartered rocket venture SpaceX.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 2:11 am
Hollywood agent’s son accused of murdering wife and in-laws kills himself

Samuel Bond Haskell, whose father represented major stars, was charged with dismembering his wife and killing her parents
A California man who was charged with murdering and dismembering his wife and her parents in the home they shared in the Los Angeles suburbs, then dumping his wife’s remains into a garbage bag, has died by suicide in jail, the Los Angeles county district attorney confirmed on Monday.
Samuel Bond Haskell IV, 37, was arrested in November 2023 and charged with the murders of his wife, Mei Haskell, her mother, Yanxiang Wang, and her stepfather, Gaoshan Li. Haskell pleaded not guilty to the three murder counts in January 2024 and was being held without bail pending trial. He was facing a sentence of life in prison with no parole.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 9:45 pm
FTSE 100 share index hits 9,000 points for the first time; UK government considers reforms to ISAs and savings – business live

London stock market hits new peak, Thames Water reports £1.6bn loss, and Rachel Reeves outlines ‘Leeds reforms’ for financial services
The FTSE 100 has also benefitted from the TACO trade this year – the bet that Trump always chickens out when his policies cause mayhem in the markets.
As this chart shows, shares in London slumped in early April after the US president announced high new tariffs on US trading partners.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 10:05 am
Farm worker who died after California Ice raid was ‘hardworking and innocent’, family says

Jaime Alanís, 57, died a day after falling off a greenhouse roof during an immigration raid of a cannabis farm
The farm worker who died from injuries he sustained after falling from a greenhouse roof during an Ice raid of a California cannabis farm was a “hard-working, innocent farmer” and the sole provider for his wife and daughter, his family says.
Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county where authorities arrested at least 200 workers. The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacán, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 8:16 pm
Trump officials address ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theories while spreading misinformation, experts say

EPA’s move comes as it slashes climate research funding and cuts weather forecasting and scientific agencies’ staff
Trump officials’ recent attempt to dispel concerns about “chemtrails” has perplexed and angered some experts who say the administration has itself promoted the conspiracy theory while also spreading climate misinformation.
“This is an intriguing strategy … in an administration that, depending on agency, is actively promulgating conspiracy theories or at least conspiratorial thinking,” said Timothy Tangherlini, a professor at the Berkeley School of Information who studies the circulation of folklore and conspiracy theories.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 5:07 pm
Wildfire that destroyed Grand Canyon lodge spread after being left to burn for days

Arizona’s governor calls for federal investigation into National Park Service’s handling of the fire, which was sparked in early July
A wildfire raging along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim that leveled a historic lodge erupted over the weekend after burning for more than a week, raising scrutiny over the National Park Service’s decision not to aggressively attack the fire right away.
Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s governor, called for a federal investigation into the park service’s handling of the fire, which was sparked by lightning on 4 July.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 5:10 pm
Trump promised to lower energy costs – his tax bill will raise them for people in red states the most

Household energy bills in some Republican-leaning states could rise by more than $600 every year, analysis of the so-called ‘big, beautiful bill’ finds
The cost of electricity is poised to surge across the US in the wake of Republican legislation that takes an axe to cheap renewable energy, with people in states who voted for Donald Trump last year to be hardest hit by the increase in bills.
As air conditioners crank up across the US during another sweltering summer amid an unfolding climate crisis, rising energy costs will become even more severe for households due to the reconciliation spending bill passed by Republicans in Congress and signed by Trump, who called it the “big, beautiful bill”, on 4 July.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 2:00 pm
Homelessness in Los Angeles county declines for second straight year

LA reports 72,308 people as unhoused, a 4% decrease from last year, as California pushes to break up encampments
Homelessness in Los Angeles county declined by 4% to an estimated 72,308 people in 2025, the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) announced on Monday.
The southern California metropolitan area previously reported its highest unhoused population in 2023, when it counted 75,518 people experiencing homelessness. That count decreased slightly to 75,312 people in 2024.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 11:05 pm
Unreleased Beyoncé music stolen in Atlanta during Cowboy Carter tour

Star’s team members reported music, concert visuals and future setlists taken from vehicle ahead of Atlanta shows
Beyoncé’s choreographer and one of her dancers for the Cowboy Carter tour told police that thieves broke into their vehicle and stole numerous items, including jump drives full of unreleased music, footage for her upcoming shows and past and future setlists.
The alleged robbery, first reported by Channel 2 in Atlanta, occurred less than 48 hours before the singer kicked off a four-show residence at the city’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 9:14 pm
Musk’s giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany

Politics of carmaker’s owner has soured sentiments in Grünheide, south-east of Berlin, where the factory promised jobs and revitalisation
When Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer – who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built Tesla’s European production hub – wrote to the state premier to complain.
“How can you do business with someone who supports rightwing extremism?” she asked Dietmar Woidke, the Social Democrat leader of the eastern state of Brandenburg, who had backed the setting up of the Tesla Giga factory in Grünheide.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 12:14 pm
Arizona Democratic race for House seat highlights party’s internal debate – and previews the midterms

An old-versus-new, established-versus-insurgent dynamic is being played out among the candidates
A gen Z influencer, a former state lawmaker and the daughter of a former representative are facing off in a special Democratic primary in Arizona on Tuesday that showcases the party’s internal debate in the run-up to the midterm elections.
Longtime Arizona representative and progressive stalwart Raúl Grijalva died in office from complications of lung cancer treatment in March at age 77, leaving open a seat representing southern Arizona and its borderlands.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 2:00 pm
Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of killing almost 300 people in village raids

Rights group says Rapid Support Forces accused of targeting villages ‘completely empty of any military objectives’ in North Kordofan state
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed nearly 300 people in attacks in North Kordofan state that began on Saturday, according to Sudanese activists.
The RSF has been fighting the Sudanese army in that area, one of the key frontlines of a civil war in Sudan that has raged since April 2023.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 12:39 am
UK worst in G7 for MMR jab rates, as 30m children worldwide not fully immunised

More than 14m children globally have not had single routine jab as figures show less than 90% of those eligible in UK had first MMR last year
Millions of children worldwide are at growing risk of serious illness and death due to declining infant vaccination rates, experts have warned, while the UK ranks worst of major western economies for MMR immunisation.
Figures released by the World Health Organization and Unicef show that more than 30 million children worldwide are not fully immunised against measles, mumps and rubella and 14.3 million children have not received a single routine infant vaccination.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 12:01 am
France signals willingness to discuss reparations for colonial massacres in Niger

Exclusive: French government says it is open to dialogue but does not acknowledge responsibility in letter seen by the Guardian
More than a century after its troops burned villages and looted cultural artefacts in the quest to include Niger in its west African colonial portfolio, France has signalled willingness over possible restitution, but is yet to acknowledge responsibility.
“France remains open to bilateral dialogue with the Nigerien authorities, as well as to any collaboration concerning provenance research or patrimonial cooperation,” the office of France’s permanent representative to the UN wrote in a document seen by the Guardian.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 4:00 am
Indian regulator orders airlines to check Boeing fuel switches after plane crash report

Air India cautions investigation into Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash is in early stages as speculation about cause grows
India’s aviation regulator has ordered the country’s airlines to examine fuel switches on Boeing aircraft, after a preliminary report on the Air India flight 171 crash in June showed the fuel supply had been cut seconds after takeoff.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said it had issued the order after several domestic and international airlines began making their own inspections of the locking mechanisms attached to the switches.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 3:03 pm
‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies

For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspective
One morning in Denver as artist John Knuth was getting his exhibition ready at the David B Smith Gallery, the police knocked on the door to check he wasn’t housing a dead body. “They said, ‘We’ve got a report of a lot of flies in here. Is there a dead body or anything rotting?’” Knuth recalls to the Guardian over Zoom.
The hundreds of flies emerging from Knuth’s gallery were actually his collaborators. For over a decade, Knuth has been creating paintings using the regurgitation of tens of thousands of flies. “When flies eat they digest externally,” explains Knuth. “They’re in a constant state of regurgitation. They land on a surface, puke up, suck it back in. Puke up, suck it back in.” After feeding the insects a mixture of acrylic colored paint and sugar water, the flies spend several weeks expelling the mixtures on to his canvases. “From that I get these really transcendent color connections.”
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 5:12 pm
‘Spirited and sumptuous’: why Big Night is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers recommending comfort watches is a tribute to 1996’s charming restaurant-set comedy drama
“Life is meals,” observed the novelist James Salter. Big Night, Stanley Tucci’s spirited and sumptuous indie from 1996, is a film about one big meal that asks a few big questions about life, including: What is the cost of the American dream? What does food allow us to say to each other that words can’t? And what right does Marc Anthony, of all people, have to deliver one of the most charming non-speaking performances in any movie since the silent era?
Big Night follows two Italian immigrants who run a failing restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. Ambitious, high-strung Secondo (Tucci, practically hirsute) is the manager, while his brother Primo (Tony Shalhoub) is the madman in the kitchen, a purist who derides the local clientele as philistines and has begun to doubt the wisdom of coming to the US in the first place.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 9:00 am
Futra Days review – esoteric sci-fi romance offers lovers time-jump ‘happiness heists’ to save relationships

A man gets catapulted into the future to help him understand the future of his crush, but the sloppy chronology and gratuitous stylistic touches leave this film a little too infatuated with itself
With studio projects abandoning Los Angeles as a shooting location, it’s the low-budget crowd that are still holdouts, presumably out of necessity. Futra Days is another in the line of esoteric films about overheated Angeleno creative minds that the pandemic seemed to encourage; the likes of the hermeneutic sci-fi Something in the Dirt or family found-footage He’s Watching. But running time-travel rings around a dysfunctional relationship, Ryan David’s sophomore effort is just a bit too infatuated with itself.
Jaded record producer Sean (Brandon Sklenar, looking like Chris Evans and Glen Powell spliced) is wondering whether a new crush on thrift-shop worker and aspiring singer Nichole (Tania Raymonde) will go the distance. So he signs up to a “happiness heist”: being catapulted into the future by an experimental time-travel clinic run by Dr Felicia Walter (Rosanna Arquette) whose medical qualifications seem, well, questionable. After replacing his future self, who is in the process of walking out on an exasperated future Nichole, he decides to try to reboot their relationship.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 12:00 pm
DJ Nick León on Rosalía, regional Latin club sounds and rejecting success: ‘I was losing my edge’

Early success left the Miami producer feeling risk-averse. He quit touring to discover his muggy, magical sound – and accidentally scored another hit with Erika de Casier
A few years ago, Nick León made a hit. Not a hit hit, like a Drake/Sabrina/Taylor hit, but a hit in certain circles. His single Xtasis, made with the Venezuelan producer DJ Babatr, was one of the defining club tracks of 2022. Named track of the year by Resident Advisor and a staple at parties throughout the summer and autumn, it launched León from his status as one of Miami’s most interesting underground DJs into the international club circuit.
“It was like, we’re hitting the ground running – we’re gonna be touring and DJing all the time, and there was this mission of spreading the music that so many people have been playing already, from Latin America and the US,” León recalls of this period, sweating through his tie-dye T-shirt in an east London cafe in June.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 11:07 am
Flesh and Code is an utterly jaw-dropping listen: best podcasts of the week

Brace yourself for the staggering tale of Travis, who has both real and bot wives. Plus, the wickedly gossipy duo of Graham Norton and Maria McErlane are back
This staggering tale of people falling in love with AI chatbots is baffling, tragic and terrifying. It’s full of jaw-dropping moments, as hosts Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala speak to Travis who “married” a bot despite already having a real-life spouse. There’s also the vulnerable teenager whose “companion” spurs him on to an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II (which ends with him being charged with treason). Alexi Duggins
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Published: July 14, 2025, 6:00 am
Brooklyn and beyond: Colm Tóibín’s best books – ranked!

As the Irish author turns 70, we rate his best works of fiction – from his latest, Long Island, to his emotionally wrenching ‘masterpiece’
This dispatch from what we might call the extended Colm Tóibín universe is set near the same time and in the same place as his earlier novel Brooklyn (one character appears in both books). It’s the story of a widowed woman who struggles to cope with life after love. If it lacks the drama of some of Tóibín’s other novels, the style is impeccable as ever, with irresistibly clean prose that reports emotional turmoil masked by restraint. There is no ornate showing off. “People used to tease me for it, saying: ‘Could you write a longer sentence?’” Tóibín has said. “But there’s nothing I can do about it.”
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 11:01 am
Poem of the week: Poem in which I’m a transnational drug smuggler by Bethany Handley

A sharp and witty look at the treatment of people with disabilities conveys its anger with arresting artistry
Poem in which I’m a transnational drug smuggler
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 11:12 am
A Year With the Seals review – what to know about the elusive sea creature

A science journalist delves deep into our sometimes fraught relationship with these intelligent animals
‘There is no creature born, even among the greater apes, which more resembles a human baby in its ways and its cries than a baby grey seal,” wrote the ecologist Frank Fraser Darling in 1939. Seals’ large eyes, the five digits of their flippers, their lanugo – the soft down with which they (and sometimes we) are born – all erode the mental barriers we erect between ourselves and our marine cousins. According to Faroese legend, there are even seals, known as selkies, that can shed their skins, assume human form and live undetected among us.
The selkie myth is just one that appears in the Maine-based science writer Alix Morris’s compelling book, which explores seals’ fraught relationship with culture, the economy and our imaginations. She charts the varied and conflicting ways in which we conceive of these creatures: as reviled competitors for fish, magnets for great white sharks, or defenceless human children who “weep” when distressed.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 8:01 am
‘The way a child plays is the way they live’: how therapists are using video games to help vulnerable children

Minecraft and other creative games are becoming recognised as powerful means of self-expression and mental health support, including for traumatised Ukrainian refugees
Oleksii Sukhorukov’s son was 12 when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. For months, the family existed in a state of trauma and disarray: Sukhorukov was forced to give up his work in the entertainment industry, which had included virtual reality and video games; they became isolated from friends and relatives. But amid the chaos, his boy had one outlet: Minecraft. Whatever was happening outside, he’d boot up Mojang’s block-building video game and escape.
“After 24 February 2022, I began to see the game in a completely different light,” says Sukhorukov. I discovered that Ukrainian children were playing together online; some living under Russian occupation, others in government-controlled areas of the country that were the targets of regular missile attacks; some had already become refugees. And yet they were still able to play together, support one another, and build their own world. Isn’t that amazing? I wanted to learn more about how video games can be used for good.”
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 9:00 am
First look at HBO’s Harry Potter TV series released

HBO releases first glimpse of new Boy Who Lived as cameras roll on small screen adaptation of JK Rowling’s books
HBO has provided a first glimpse at the new world of Harry Potter, as filming begins on its hotly anticipated television adaptation of JK Rowling’s beloved book series.
A photo provided by the broadcaster shows Dominic McLaughlin in character as the young wizard for the first time. The 11-year-old was selected alongside Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley and Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger after an extensive casting search among British children aged 9-11. As with Daniel Radcliffe before him, McLaughlin sports Potter’s trademark round glasses and Gryffindor uniform.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 3:59 pm
‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war-torn Kharkiv

A new architectural guidebook was written as a love letter to the Ukrainian city – then Russia started bombing it. How will this home to Tetris-like offices and daring curved cinemas be rebuilt?
When the Derzhprom building erupted on to the Kharkiv skyline in the 1920s, it must have seemed like an impossibly futuristic vision. Standing like a gleaming white concrete castle, it curves around the circular plaza of Freedom Square in the city’s centre.
Built as the state industry headquarters of what was then the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, it looks like a three-dimensional game of Tetris, a mighty nest of chunky oblong forms stacked, rotated and interlocked to form a colossal administrative pile. Striding across three city blocks, and towering almost 60m high, it was the tallest office building in Europe for several years, its humungous floor plates connected high up in the air by thrilling sci-fi skybridges. It was far ahead of its time, prefiguring the brawny brutalist complexes that emerged in western Europe and the US half a century later.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 5:00 am
Wireless festival review – Drake’s disjointed three-night headline run smacks of desperation

Finsbury Park, London
An all-star lineup of supporting turns – including, astonishingly, Lauryn Hill – show up to bolster the beleaguered megastar, but this is a very scrappy affair
The announcement of Drake’s three-day headline set for Wireless’s 20th anniversary met with a mixed response. Having been eviscerated in a rap beef with Kendrick Lamar, he had seemingly lost all street credibility. Plus, three consecutive sets from one artist could be overkill. On the other hand, what better way could there be to mark the occasion? No artist is more emblematic of the interface between British and American music that is so central to Wireless (despite Drake being Canadian). And the triptych curation around his various artistic personae seemed like genius: the swoon-worthy Casanova, the menacing rapper, the Black diaspora-surfing chameleon (or “culture vulture”, if you’re a Drake-sceptic).
Friday at the festival has an R&B focus, revealing rising star Kwn and the delightfully bluesy Leon Thomas. Summer Walker is somewhat garbled and listless. And then, after collaborator PartyNextDoor bores us to death for 20 minutes, Drake arrives, throwing it back with the 2011 heartbreak classic Marvin’s Room. The surprise army of R&B all-stars he brings on is incredible: Mario, Bobby Valentino, Giveon, Bryson Tiller; Lauryn Hill’s appearance is astonishing, despite the glaring audio issues that occur in the transition from Nice for What into Ex-Factor. It is a clear statement of Drake’s standing among the greats, an assembling of allies.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 10:17 am
The valleys of the Dolomites: exploring Italy’s new network of wild trails

The Via delle Valli is a series of 50 trails aiming to tempt mountain-lovers away from the region’s hotspots and towards lesser-charted country
Thick white cloud hangs outside the windows of Rifugio Segantini, a mountain hut 2,373 metres up in the Italian Alps. But it is shifting, revealing glimpses of the majestic Brenta Dolomites before us: a patch of snow here, a craggy peak there. The view is tantalising, and a couple of times I have run outside in a kind of peekaboo farce to see the full display, only for it to pass behind clouds again.
The refuge – cosy, wooden-clad and packed with hikers – is named after the Italian landscape painter Giovanni Segantini, who was inspired by these mountains. His portrait hangs on the walls and his name is embroidered on the lace curtains. A simple stone building with blue and white shutters in Val d’Amola, the refuge is dwarfed by its rugged surrounds, with Trentino’s highest peak, the snow-capped 3,556-metre Presanella, as a backdrop. The entries in the guestbook are entirely by locals.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 6:00 am
Terrible night’s sleep? Here’s how to make it through the day – and maybe even enjoy it – one step at a time

Coffee or no coffee? Almond croissant or exercise snack? Early night or bedtime as usual? You’ll be grateful you made the right choices
Ah, sleep – “nature’s soft nurse” to Shakespeare, “the foundation of our mental and physical health” to the less poetically minded neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman. By now, you hopefully know that getting a consistent seven to eight hours of shuteye is crucial for everything from your short-term decision-making to your long-term health, and you’re familiar with all the usual advice on getting it (have a consistent bedtime, make your bedroom really dark, no double espressos at 9pm). But one question that’s considered less is: what if you have one restless night? How do you best get through the day – and what can you do to avoid a single interrupted slumber snowballing into several? Let’s take it one hour at a time.
When you first drag yourself out of bed, it’s tempting to click the kettle straight on – but should you hold off your first hot drink of the day until you’re a bit less bleary-eyed? Increasingly, influencers advise delaying your first hit of tea or coffee for anywhere between 30 and 90 minutes after you wake up – the rationale being that caffeine mostly works by blocking the brain’s receptors for a molecule called adenosine, which ordinarily promotes relaxation by slowing down neural activity. Adenosine levels are at their lowest when you wake up, and so in theory, you might be “wasting” your first brew of the day by glugging it when there’s nothing for the caffeine to block. This seems plausible, but it’s also worth noting that caffeine’s effects take about 10 minutes to kick in, and it’s about 45 minutes before levels peak in the bloodstream. Caffeine’s also not just good for getting you going: if you’re planning a workout or a morning walk, it can help things along by producing feelgood endorphins and increasing the amount of fat you’re able to burn. Some people suggest that waiting a while before your first cup helps to avoid afternoon drowsiness, but according to an evaluation of the scientific literature published last year, “There is no evidence that caffeine ingestion upon waking is somehow responsible for an afternoon ‘crash’.”
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 4:00 am
Women in the US: if you’re single, tell us why

We’re keen to hear from women in the US why they are single, what they are looking for in a partner and whether they’ve given up dating
Based on Census Bureau historical data and Morgan Stanley forecasts, 45% of prime working age women (ages 25-44) will be single by 2030 – the largest share in history and up from 41% in 2018.
We’d like to hear from single women in the US why they are single, how they’re feeling about not having a partner and whether they are still looking for one.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 11:23 am
Georgina Hayden’s recipe for red curry chicken and courgette burgers

This might just be summer’s winning recipe – ridiculously easy and delicious flavours for barbecue season
I present to you my new favourite summer burger, which has been on our menu at home ever since its arrival in my kitchen. It’s one of those recipes where the ease is almost embarrassing. How can something so delicious be so straightforward? The burgers themselves are a simple food processor job; if you don’t have one, use chicken mince and make sure you really mix in the curry paste and courgette by hand. The accompaniments are also key: the lime-pickled shallots, the abundance of herbs and the creaminess of the mayo all work so well together. Turn up to a barbecue with a tray of these and I guarantee you’ll be dishing out the recipe in no time.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 5:00 am
Alice Zaslavsky’s buttery brussels sprouts with apple and smoked pork belly – recipe

Salt, sweetness and speed are key to bringing out brussels’ best, says the cookbook author. Here she adds apple and smoked pork for a show-stealing side dish
Have you heard of the five monkeys experiment? It’s an apocryphal demonstration of how behaviours and beliefs can be adopted and perpetuated, long after the OG reasons for them fade. I’m pretty sure they could’ve just used humans and brussels sprouts as a metaphor instead.
Like most veg of medieval origin, brassicas, of which sprouts are a baby-cabbage-y-version, were grown for hardiness and weather-resistance. As a result, the flavour skewed bitter, and the texture, tough and oftentimes woody.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 3:00 pm
Five beef patties, four cheese slices, bacon, lettuce, tomato … Burger King’s sumo of a burger enters the ring

Japan’s limited-edition Baby Body Burger packs in 1,876 calories and tips the scales at nearly 680g. Will it defeat our reporter?
Japan can legitimately claim to be home to some of the best food on the planet. But it usually has little appetite for supersizing it.
That changed on Friday with Burger King’s gargantuan but curiously named Baby Body Burger, tipping the scales at nearly 680g (1.5lb). As part of a collaboration with the Japan Sumo Association, whose July wrestling tournament has just started, the burger checks in at 1,876 calories. Sumo wrestlers would only need about four of these to get their average daily caloric needs; a mere mortal would need just one to one-and-a-half. And, at ¥2,590 (£13.05), it’s nearly twice the price of a one-patty Whopper with cheese.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 12:05 pm
Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for cashew rice bowls with stir-fried tofu, broccoli and kimchi | Quick and easy

A great speedy bowl meal that is wholesome, tasty and a success with all the family
These were an absolute hit with my children, albeit minus the cashews, and as any parent with toddlers who refuse to let their food touch other food will know, that’s a breakthrough. It’s well worth making the whole quantity here, because any leftovers are perfect for fried rice the next day – just make sure you cool the rice after making it, then refrigerate immediately and reheat until piping hot the next day.
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 12:00 pm
‘I couldn’t watch the forests vanish’: the man restoring Solomon Islands’ vital mangroves

Crucial for coastal communities, mangroves are threatened by land clearing, development and rising seas
As the morning light hits Oibola village in Solomon Islands, the receding tide drains water through a maze of tangled mangrove roots.
Dressed in muddy jeans and a worn T-shirt, Ben Waleilia moves carefully through the thick mangrove forest, searching for seedlings. Rows of young mangrove shoots stand high as Waleilia gently drops seedlings into a small plastic bucket.
Continue reading...Published: July 15, 2025, 1:13 am
Bastille Day and a swan census: photos of the day – Monday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
Continue reading...Published: July 14, 2025, 1:26 pm
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