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Succession fight under way after Bernie Sanders calls for Graham Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race – live
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Succession fight under way after Bernie Sanders calls for Graham Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race – live

Vermont senator, who was a staunch ally of the Democratic candidate, called for Platner step down from race amid sexual assault allegationsHow could Democrats replace Graham Platner?Sign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump is due to speak with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Nato summit in Ankara today. The press pool traveling with the president say that meeting is runnin...

First Thing: Trump calls Iran’s leaders ‘scum’ and declares fragile ceasefire over
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First Thing: Trump calls Iran’s leaders ‘scum’ and declares fragile ceasefire over

Hostilities between US and Iran resume as US president lashes out at ‘vicious, violent people’. Plus the fall out from the USMNT’s exit from the Fifa World CupGood morning. Hostilities have resumed between the US and Iran. Tehran accused the US of violating the agreement intended to end the war, after the US military launched strikes around the strait of Hormuz and revoked a temporary sanctions wa...

Items found behind a Georgia Cracker Barrel lead to charges in 1985 Ohio murder
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Items found behind a Georgia Cracker Barrel lead to charges in 1985 Ohio murder

Modern forensic analysis leads to arrest in murder of traveling salesman John Warren, authorities sayItems that were found discarded behind a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia in 1985 have led to charges against a suspect in an Ohio killing committed at about that time, investigators announced recently.As told by authorities, the case centering on killed traveling salesman John Warren is among ...

Modern forensic analysis leads to arrest in Georgia 1985 murder cold case
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Modern forensic analysis leads to arrest in Georgia 1985 murder cold case

Items analyzed were discarded behind a Cracker Barrel and led to charges in the killing of John WarrenItems that were found discarded behind a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia in 1985 have led to charges against a suspect in an Ohio killing committed at about that time, investigators announced recently.As told by authorities, the case centering on killed traveling salesman John Warren is among...

Race discrimination case over child’s swim puts ‘Dutch paradox’ in focus

Race discrimination case over child’s swim puts ‘Dutch paradox’ in focus

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Father of boy refused entry to pool says case is reminder that some Dutch do not acknowledge reality of racismWhen Henri Duiker went to check whether his 12-year-old son and his friend were enjoying their first “disco” swim evening alone, he was baffled. Instead of being in the water, Henri’s son was standing alone by the desk at the Watergeus pool, in Zoetermeer in the Netherlands.He did not have...

Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon – UK politics live

Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon – UK politics live

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In 1955 Ellis was hanged for murder triggered by domestic abuseFor anyone involved in British politics, an invitation to be interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme is the ultimate badge of seriousness. There are probably hundreds of MPs who have never made it onto the programme because they have not been deemed important enough.But, as if to prove the point that the Clacton byelection really is a...

Lammy refuses to support Lib Dem call for Farage’s resignation to be blocked until standards inquiry over – UK politics live

Lammy refuses to support Lib Dem call for Farage’s resignation to be blocked until standards inquiry over – UK politics live

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Deputy PM faced shadow housing secretary James Cleverly at PMQs, while Keir Starmer attends a Nato summitMore Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime AgencyFor anyone involved in British politics, an invitation to be interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme is the ultimate badge of seriousness. There are probably hundreds of MPs who have never made it onto the programme be...

German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat

German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat

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VW to propose 100,000 job losses to board and says car plants could be put under foreign ownership to save jobsEurope live – latest updatesThe German car industry has warned of a potential collapse of employment in the sector in Europe unless society and workers accept that “bold decisions” are needed to address competition from the Chinese and other rivals.Volkswagen is preparing to formally prop...

Housebuilder Vistry warns of losses amid heavy discounting on unsold homes

Housebuilder Vistry warns of losses amid heavy discounting on unsold homes

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Group blames expected £30m loss in first half of year on weakening market and lower consumer confidenceVistry Group, one of Britain’s biggest housebuilders, has warned it will make a loss in the first half of the year, after it resorted to heavy discounting to attract buyers for unsold homes .Vistry shares fell by 8% after the firm also announced its finance director was leaving. Continue reading....

More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency

More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency

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Exclusive: Bankers have raised potential money-laundering concerns over loans and donations involving senior party figuresUK politics live – latest updatesA host of transactions involving Reform UK’s most senior figures and donations to the party caused bankers to report potential money-laundering concerns to the National Crime Agency, a Guardian investigation has found.On Tuesday, the Guardian re...

PMQs live: James Cleverly presses David Lammy on ‘wrong and dangerous’ early prisoner release schemes

PMQs live: James Cleverly presses David Lammy on ‘wrong and dangerous’ early prisoner release schemes

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Deputy PM faces shadow housing secretary James Cleverly at PMQs, while Keir Starmer attends a Nato summitRevealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concernsFor anyone involved in British politics, an invitation to be interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme is the ultimate badge of seriousness. There are probably hundreds of MPs who have never made it onto the pr...

US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set Pfas limits in food

US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set Pfas limits in food

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Environmental protection agency and independent studies have found food biggest source of chemical exposureThe US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” in food, marking another setback for public health advocates’ push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds.The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing b...

Unions in Europe press for new worker protections to counter heat stress

Unions in Europe press for new worker protections to counter heat stress

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Climate crisis prompts calls for workplace temperature limits and rights to heat breaks and adjusted working hoursAs Europe’s sweltering summer continues, trades unions are mounting a push for new laws to counter deadly heat stress that is linked to an estimated 230 workplace deaths a year.This year’s toll may be even higher, with 1,300 excess European deaths already connected to the June heatwave...

Trump makes fresh Greenland demand and threatens trade with Spain at Nato meeting – Europe live

Trump makes fresh Greenland demand and threatens trade with Spain at Nato meeting – Europe live

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US president says he is not happy with Nato and tells officials to ‘cut all trade with Spain’ Trump renews call for US to take over Greenland as he arrives for Nato summitAnd that ends their short briefing, with Trump saying he will be back later, and Rutte desperately throwing in that he will also do a press conference if anyone is interested in it please.Trump also heaps praise on Turkey’s Recep...

US and Iran trade strikes around strait of Hormuz as ceasefire is violated again

US and Iran trade strikes around strait of Hormuz as ceasefire is violated again

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Ceasefire appears close to unravelling after three commercial vessels are hit and two militaries target each otherMiddle East crisis live: follow latest updatesIran accused the US of violating the agreement aimed at ending the war between the two countries and Donald Trump said he thought the ceasefire was over, after the US military launched strikes around the strait of Hormuz and revoked a tempo...

Trump declares ceasefire with Iran over during angry broadside at Nato summit

Trump declares ceasefire with Iran over during angry broadside at Nato summit

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President calls Iranian leadership ‘scum’, rails against alliance, repeats demand for Greenland and threatens SpainMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesDonald Trump has declared that the ceasefire with Iran is over as he arrived at the Nato summit in Ankara, launching an angry broadside in which he complained about the military alliance and repeated his demand for Gr...

UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels

UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels

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Experts warn that some marine species are at risk of ‘mass mortality events’ in ever-warming oceansUK waters are being hit with an “extreme” marine heatwave, the Met Office has said, as scientists warn the high ocean temperatures globally could result in “mass-mortality events” for some species.The forecasters said these elevated temperatures have developed rapidly because of last month’s heat dom...

Lack of safeguards over prisoners’ early release puts abuse victims at risk, Lammy warned

Lack of safeguards over prisoners’ early release puts abuse victims at risk, Lammy warned

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Exclusive: victims commissioner and domestic abuse commissioner call for pause on planned releasesA failure to put in place safeguards ahead of a change to the law that will result in offenders being released early will leave abuse victims at risk, ministers have been warned.In a rare coordinated intervention, the victims commissioner and the domestic abuse commissioner have written separately to ...

Republican leaders seek to quell Mitch McConnell speculation as rebellion grows

Republican leaders seek to quell Mitch McConnell speculation as rebellion grows

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John Thune says he spoke to McConnell on phone as secrecy over 84-year-old’s health prompts Maga backlashRepublican leaders have moved to quash speculation about Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader in the US Senate, amid a growing revolt over the lack of transparency around his health.The 84-year-old Kentucky politician, who led Senate Republicans for longer than anyone in history before...

European countries top ‘scorecard’ on climate progress while US slips to 27th

European countries top ‘scorecard’ on climate progress while US slips to 27th

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Estonia, Luxembourg and UK are the top three in biennial Yale University index in tackling pollution and other issuesMuch of the world has made encouraging strides in reducing toxic problems such as water and air pollution that have long plagued communities. But there is still a widespread lack of progress among countries in dealing with the climate crisis, according to the latest edition of an in...

Trump’s policy mayhem is making even the Maga faithful consider walking away

Trump’s policy mayhem is making even the Maga faithful consider walking away

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Even voters who identify as foot soldiers of his political army are increasingly willing to blame Trump for their economic troublesThe political consequences of Donald Trump’s policy mayhem are now coming into view: “Maga” America is getting pissed.It has been a sight to see how every one of the president’s policy initiatives has sabotaged some core constituency or other. From farmers and rural Am...

Succession fight under way as Bernie Sanders calls for Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race – US politics live

Succession fight under way as Bernie Sanders calls for Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race – US politics live

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Vermont senator is latest figure to call for Democratic nominee to step down after sexual assault allegationsHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.The fight to replace Graham Platner is already under way as Bernie Sanders became the latest key figure to call for the scandal-hit Democratic nominee to step down.Donald Trump has revived his bid for the US to acquire Greenland, threatening to...

Summer holiday bookings bounce back after fragile Middle East ceasefire, Jet2 says

Summer holiday bookings bounce back after fragile Middle East ceasefire, Jet2 says

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Company says market in good shape with strong recovery across all destinations as customers take the plungeBusiness live – latest updatesSummer holiday bookings have bounced back recently after the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East, the package holiday operator Jet2 has said.The company, which flies about 20 million people every year, said its summer bookings are up by 7.1% compared with this t...

Summer holiday bookings bounce back amid fragile Middle East ceasefire, Jet2 says

Summer holiday bookings bounce back amid fragile Middle East ceasefire, Jet2 says

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Holiday operator says market in good shape, with strong recent recovery in bookings across all destinations as customers take the plungeBusiness live – latest updatesSummer holiday bookings have bounced back recently after the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East, the package holiday operator Jet2 has said.The company, which flies about 20 million people every year, said its summer bookings are up...

Women and university graduates in Australia most at risk of losing jobs to AI, report finds

Women and university graduates in Australia most at risk of losing jobs to AI, report finds

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Those with high levels of vocational training, including tradespeople, are least exposed to AI displacement, according to government reviewGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastArtificial intelligence has yet to cause widespread job losses but the federal government has warned that telemarketers, advertising staff and accountants are among the occupations “most exposed” to bei...

Booyakasha! Sacha Baron Cohen has completed a new Ali G movie

Booyakasha! Sacha Baron Cohen has completed a new Ali G movie

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Report says new film has finished filming – although title and release date not yet confirmedTwenty-four years after Staines’s foremost political interlocutor was last seen on the big screen in Ali G Indahouse, Ali G is set to return to cinemas.As reported by The InSneider, a new movie has wrapped production, with filming locations including Oxfordshire, where Baron Cohen was spotted in character ...

Telstra blames ‘software defect’ for major outage that hit mobiles, trains and triple-zero calls

Telstra blames ‘software defect’ for major outage that hit mobiles, trains and triple-zero calls

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Telco said outage was not due to a cyber-attack but warned of scammers calling people claiming to be from TelstraGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTelstra has blamed a “software defect” that changed the time servers for a major outage in which thousands of mobile customers were unable to make calls or access data on the country’s largest network on Wednesday morning.The te...

Port of Dover faces ‘utter chaos’ under struggling EU entry system, MPs warn

Port of Dover faces ‘utter chaos’ under struggling EU entry system, MPs warn

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UK government urged to apply pressure on France to fix system or suspend checks by next weekCross-Channel ferry passengers and the port of Dover face “utter chaos and miles of tailbacks” under the EU’s entry/exit system (EES) unless the technology is fixed or checks suspended by next week, MPs have warned.The home affairs select committee chair, Karen Bradley, urged the government to “apply maximu...

‘Software glitch’ blamed for mass outage – as it happened

‘Software glitch’ blamed for mass outage – as it happened

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This blog is now closedTelstra outage: Telco apologises for major time-keeping issue that hit mobiles, trains and triple-zero callsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTelstra outage reported to be cause of Victoria train stoppageThere is a long list of cancelled trains on the official V/line site, but the TL/DR is that Victoria’s regional train network has ground to a halt.D...