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US headlines

  • a woman and man on blue stage as a crowd cheers

    The coach v the couch: key takeaways from the first Harris-Walz rally

    Harris praises Walz’s time as a football coach as her VP pick says he’ll debate JD Vance ‘if he’s willing to get off the couch’
  • Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally with her newly chosen vice-presidential running mate Tim Walz in Philadelphia.

    Harris and Walz fire up crowd in first rally as running mates – as it happened

  • Man and woman smile on stage at convention center

    Kamala Harris introduces running mate Tim Walz at raucous Philadelphia rally

  • A woman and a man laugh while standing in front of a large crowd at a political rally

    ‘I feel ecstatic’: Harris and VP pick Tim Walz fire up Philadelphia rally-goers

  • man wearing black shirt and khaki pants stands behind a table as two other people sit next to him

    New Georgia rules let local boards withhold election certification

  • Man claps on stage at rally

    Tim Walz: charismatic running mate to help Harris make case against Trump

  • Tim Walz can take ‘Minnesota nice’ nationwide, home state residents say

  • Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran charged in foiled plot to kill US leaders

  • JD Vance pleads sarcasm in latest effort to clean up ‘childless cat ladies’ remark

  • People line up at Ohio dispensaries for first day of recreational cannabis sales

  • Chinese American man convicted in US of spying on dissidents for China

  • Nine killed and one injured after SUV flips into Florida canal

  • Mike Bloomberg will donate $600m to historically Black medical schools

  • Kamala Harris bets on Tim Walz as running mate: ‘We are going to win’

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

  • LOTY 19 ROB NEG 34

    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

  • A man with white hair gestures his hand as he stands in front of signs saying 'Vice President Kamala Harris Fight For Reproductive Freedoms'.

    Kamala Harris’s VP pick may signal a shift away from pivoting to the center

    Moira Donegan
    • Tim Walz and Kamala Harris

      The Guardian view
      Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick: Tim Walz is a smart choice for Democrats

    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Kamala Harris is mixed race, I’m mixed race – and Donald Trump is a dusty old relic

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • A man in a suit-and-tie speaks on stage in front of an American flag

      Trump once seemed invincible. Then Kamala Harris broke the spell

      Sidney Blumenthal
    • Tommy Robinson addressing a protest in Trafalgar Square, London, 27 July 2024

      Where are the brave inciters of Britain’s race riots? From Tommy to Elon, they’re far, far away

      Marina Hyde

US sports

  • A long sought-after medal is 40 minutes away for France after they beat Canada in the quarter-finals.

    How the Olympic men’s quarter-finals became the best day in basketball

  • Amit Elor is unbeaten in five years.

    Amit Elor becomes youngest US wrestler to win Olympic gold

  • Sophia Smith celebrates with team mates after her extra-time goal against Germany.

    Sophia Smith’s extra-time goal sends USWNT to Olympic gold medal match

  • The USWNT celebrate their winne

    USA 1-0 Germany: Olympic women’s soccer semi-final – as it happened

US politics

  • a man in a suit and tie crosses a street

    Chinese American man convicted in US of spying on dissidents for China

  • a man in a suit leaves a vehicle

    Kamala Harris bets on Tim Walz as running mate: ‘We are going to win’

  • a man in a suit and tie speaks into a microphone

    RFK Jr will not be charged for dumping dead bear in Central Park 10 years ago

  • a woman in a blue suit walks on stage

    Polls show Kamala Harris moving ahead of Donald Trump in 2024 US election

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US business

  • people attend a hearing

    Alaska pilot describes ‘chaos’ as Boeing officials quizzed on mid-flight blowout

  • A trader works on the trading floor of the New York stock exchange on 5 August 2024

    Global markets partly recover but analysts fear ‘we’re not out of woods’

    • A group of people stand outside and hold signs reading messages like 'Fair Wages Now' and 'No Contract No Peace'.

      13,500 US hotel workers hold strike votes over pay and conditions

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

      Wall Street suffers worst day in nearly two years after global sell-off

    • Nils Pratley

      Get ready for a long and messy August in the stock markets

      Nils Pratley

Pictures & video

  • Tim Walz on calling Donald Trump weird – video

  • Parts of northern Florida were flooded after Tropical Storm Debby brought torrential rain to the area

    1:05

    Florida residents kayak through flooded streets as Storm Debby makes landfall – video

    Parts of northern Florida were flooded after Tropical Storm Debby brought torrential rain to the area
  • The Guardian's global affairs correspondent, Andrew Roth, spoke with Gershkovich at Andrews air force base in the US shortly after Washington and Moscow completed their largest prisoner exchange since the cold war

    1:25

    'It's overwhelming': WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich returns to US in Russia prisoner swap – video

    The Guardian's global affairs correspondent, Andrew Roth, spoke with Gershkovich at Andrews air force base in the US shortly after Washington and Moscow completed their largest prisoner exchange since the cold war

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