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  • Gloved hands hold a large snake.

    Snake hunters descend on the Everglades for the Florida Python Challenge

    More than 600 python hunters registered for the event that aims to reduce the population of the invasive species
  • President Biden Arrives At The White House From Delaware<br>WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 5: US President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn after disembarking from Marine One at the White House on August 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden, who spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan earlier in the day, returns to the White House from Wilmington, Delaware and will convene his national security team in the Situation Room to discuss developments in the Middle East. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

    Not done yet: still-smarting Joe Biden to focus on his legacy in final months

  • A man fishes off a jetty in Alameda, Calif., as the sun sets over the San Francisco Bay on Monday, July 1, 2024. An extended heat wave predicted to blanket Northern California has resulted in red flag fire warnings and the possibility of power shutoffs beginning Tuesday. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    July was California’s hottest month in history

  • Piles of ashen belongings, such as a Buddha statue, sit where a house once was

    ‘Left with nothing’: inside California’s wildfire home insurance crisis

  • Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on 7 August.

    Democrats bask in optimism of Harris surge: ‘Enthusiasm is off the charts’

  • Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrive at a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Harris and Walz whip up crowd at packed Phoenix rally – but ‘we are the underdog’

  • Illinois sheriff whose deputy killed Sonya Massey announces retirement

  • Biden, Harris to attend first joint event since he quit campaign race – as it happened

  • Joe Rogan calls RFK Jr the only candidate ‘that makes sense to me’

  • Man charged in three 1970s California murders after DNA match

  • Polls show Kamala Harris building lead over Trump in 2024 election

  • ‘I told them’: police body-cam reveals warning days before Trump shooting

  • Project 2025 architect compared abortion to slavery and the Holocaust

  • Outside trustee formally sought for New Orleans church bankruptcy as costs soar

Behind the magic

  • A truck trailer belonging to magician David Copperfield sits outside his warehouse in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    The FBI investigated David Copperfield for two years
    The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

  • Epstein head Main Image

    ‘Magic David called’
    David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein

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    David Copperfield
    Former teen models accuse magician of misconduct

  • David Copperfield.

    ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’
    Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

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Opinion

  • Rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby lands in Washington<br>The U.S. Capitol reflects in water on Capitol Hill as Tropical Storm Debby approaches Washington, U.S., August 8, 2024. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal

    Unregulated money continues to corrode US politics. Reforms are needed

    Daniel I Weiner and Owen Bacskai
    • FILE PHOTO: Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions<br>FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X looks on during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo

      You know who else should be on trial for the UK’s far-right riots? Elon Musk

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Illustration: Hollie Adams/Reuters/Guardian Design

      What do asylum seekers and refugees make of the eruption of far-right violence in the UK? We asked them

    • Supporters at a rally with the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in Barcelona, Spain, 8 August 2024

      Carles Puigdemont’s escape antics may look comic. But he is Spain’s version of Donald Trump

      María Ramírez
    • Anti-racism protesters in Birmingham, 7 August 2024.

      The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy

      Zarah Sultana

US sports

  • Britain's Noah Williams competes in the men's 10m platform diving event.

    Live
    Paris Olympics day 15: marathon gold for Ethiopia, diving, taekwondo and more – live

  • Catalina Axente of Romania receives medical attention after her loss to Kennedy Blades

    Olympic wrestler Catalina Axente leaves mat on stretcher after scary fall

  • Nyjah Huston showed his bronze medal to his followers on Instagram

    Paris 2024 offers new Olympic medal after Huston says bronze looks ‘like it went to war’

  • Imane Khelif of Algeria celebrates after beating Yang Liu of China to win gold in the women’s 66kg boxing

    Paris 2024 Olympics day 14: Imane Khelif secures boxing glory, Thiam beats Johnson-Thompson to gold – as it happened

US politics

  • The Viper robot, with thick wheels, on a sloping platform, with a woman in a helmet controlling it

    Scientists slam ‘indefensible’ axing of Nasa’s $450m Viper moon rover

  • Kamala Harris greets audience members at a campaign rally in Wayne, Michigan.

    Polls show Kamala Harris building lead over Trump in 2024 election

  • A Black child's hand rests on an American flag

    Black US voters’ economic priorities revealed in new advocacy agenda

  • a man in a suit and tie

    Project 2025 architect compared abortion to slavery and the Holocaust

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US business

  • a two-frame portait montage of Donald Trump (left) and Elon Musk (right)

    ‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?

  • Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

    Wall Street banker bonuses forecast to rise 35% this year

    • Representations of cryptocurrencies in front of FTX logo

      Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX ordered by US court to pay customers $12.7bn

    • water tower, with blue Paramount logo, next to building

      Paramount Global to cut 15% of its US workforce before Skydance merger

    • street sign for wall street

      Wall Street sees best day of trading in nearly two years amid recovery rally

Pictures & video

  • 'I respect your voices': Harris responds to pro-Palestinian protesters during rally – video

  • Kamala Harris gives a speech

    0:38

    'I’m speaking': Kamala Harris hits back at Gaza protesters during Detroit campaign rally – video

    Protesters interrupt Kamala Harris’s speech in Michigan, chanting 'Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide!'
  • Video released by Manatee county government shows rescuers pulling a person from a vehicle in a heavily flooded street in Parrish

    0:37

    Drone footage shows rescue of Florida resident stranded by Storm Debby – video

    Video released by Manatee county government shows rescuers pulling a person from a vehicle in a heavily flooded street in Parrish

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