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US headlines

  • A mostly orange night image with three vehicles with bright headlights visible.

    California governor declares emergency as multiple wildfires rage across state

    Gavin Newsom makes declaration for three counties as thousands flee and hundreds of homes destroyed
  • The Nelons on a red carpet in 2018

    Members of US family gospel group the Nelons killed in plane crash

  • JD Vance holds a campaign rally at Radford University on 22 July 2024 in Radford, Virginia.

    From rising star to potential liability: how JD Vance’s fortunes have turned

  • ‘You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,’ Trump said at the the Turning Point rally on 26 July 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida.

    Trump tells supporters they won’t have to vote in the future: ‘It’ll be fixed!’

  • a woman sits on her front porch

    Era of rapidly intensifying hurricanes throws evacuation plans into disarray

  • Pile of red, white and blue Kamala Harris pins.

    ‘I’m rocking with Kamala’: Black men defy faulty polling by showing up for Harris campaign

  • A ‘catastrophic’ start to wildfire season in Oregon sparks alarm

  • GOP wants to hold Harris’s immigration record against her - what did she do?

  • Kamala Harris makes history as whirlwind week upends US election

  • Biden to announce plans to reform US supreme court – report

  • California’s largest wildfire of year whips through community of Forest Ranch: ‘The sky was dark with smoke’

  • Record-breaking Zoom supporting Harris mobilizes white female voters

  • Wreckage of schooner that sank in 1893 found in Lake Michigan

  • Kamala Harris calls Sonya Massey family to give ‘heartfelt condolences’

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

  • An Israeli soldiers prays in the Eviatar outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

    The Biden-Harris administration needs to stop illegal Israeli settlements

    Jo-Ann Mort
    Under Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, there has been an open spigot for the settlements. This needs to end
  • President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.

    Last Tango in Washington: how sad, sidelined Joe Biden may yet have the last laugh

    Simon Tisdall
  • A young middle-aged white man with brown hair and a bomber jacket smiling and giving a double thumbs-up in front of a blue press background.

    Elon Musk’s 20-year-old estranged daughter responded to his rant about her

    Arwa Mahdawi
    On Thursday, the billionaire went on a disturbing anti-trans rant about Vivian Wilson, who legally dropped Musk’s name in 2022
  • Kamala Harris last week, the day after receiving Joe Biden’s support to be the Democratic presidential contender.

    What I learned about Kamala Harris over our Oscars dinner

    Henry Porter
    In 2013, Vanity Fair’s UK editor spent an evening next to California’s attorney general. Did he spot a possible future president, well not exactly…
    • Red plush Paris 2024 mascots cover a car.

      Phrygian around: Paris is awash with Olympic paraphernalia

      Pamela Druckerman
    • Customers queue outside an Apple store in Shanghai, China, during the first day of sale of the iPhone 15, September 2023.

      My new iPhone symbolises stagnation, not innovation – and a similar fate awaits AI

      John Naughton
    • Two hands clinking beer glasses in an Oktoberfest marquee

      The German thirst for beer is waning – it’s not cool to be drunk any more

      Nicholas Potter
    • US vice president Kamala Harris speaks with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as they endorse her as the Democratic presidential candidate, on 26 July.

      This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election

      Carole Cadwalladr

US sports

  • Rayan Rebbadj of France celebrates scoring a try with Antoine Dupont (right) in the semi-final.

    Live
    Paris 2024 Olympics day one: Dupont going for gold with France in rugby sevens final and more – live

  • US fencing has been beset by allegations around officiating.

    Fencing enters Olympics under cloud of accusations and referee bans

  • Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook react after competing in the women’s synchronised 3m springboard diving final.

    First US medal of Paris 2024 Olympics comes in women’s synchronised diving

  • A basketball player tries to block another player in front of a large crowd

    ‘A journey bigger than basketball’: South Sudan​ dreams of Olympic glory

US politics

  • A woman wearing a purple blazer smiles at a podium, with a blue background behind her

    Record-breaking Zoom supporting Harris mobilizes white female voters

  • A woman speaks into a microphone at a press conference

    New Orleans woman sues after being accused of stalking the city’s mayor

  • Former US president Donald Trump meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

    Trump calls Harris remarks on Gaza war ‘disrespectful’ as he meets Netanyahu

  • Man in a suit and tie speaks into microphone

    JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions

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US business

  • two people in plane cockpit overlooking cityscape

    Top pilots’ union sounds alarm as regulators consider smaller crew sizes

  • OpenAI logo on phone screen sitting on laptop keyboard

    OpenAI tests new search engine called SearchGPT amid AI arms race

    • An employee stocks shelves with fresh peppers

      US economic growth ramps up, growing 2.8% in latest quarter

    • 24-carat gold bars at the US West Point Mint facility in West Point, New York

      Why have US shares, gold and the dollar been soaring?

      Jeffrey Frankel
    • Black Tesla Model 3 cars on production line

      Wall Street suffers worst day since 2022 as Tesla and Google earnings disappoint

Pictures & video

  • Donald Trump: Kamala Harris comments about Gaza war not ‘very nice’ to Israel – video

  • The former president and first lady have endorsed Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president

    1:02

    Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris for president – video

    The former president and first lady have endorsed Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president
  • The vice-president's comments on the humanitarian situation in Gaza indicate she could take a firmer tack with Israel than Joe Biden if she succeeds him

    2:39

    'I will not be silent': Harris voices concern for Gaza after meeting with Netanyahu – video

    The vice-president's comments on the humanitarian situation in Gaza indicate she could take a firmer tack with Israel than Joe Biden if she succeeds him

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