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The American confirmed her status as one of the most dominant athletes of the modern era with victory - and a world record - in the 400m hurdles final

Company behind Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon and CBS writes down value of its cable networks by nearly $6bnThe entertainment conglomerate behind Paramount Pictures is to cut about 2,000 jobs in a bid to reduce costs ahead of a merger with the independent film studio Skydance.Paramount Global, which also owns CBS, Nickelodeon and the UK's Channel 5, announced plans to cut about 15% of its US workforce alongside its latest earnings on Thursday. Continue reading...

Storm system brings heavy rain and flooding to Carolinas after making first landfall in FloridaTornadoes spawned by Tropical Storm Debby leveled homes, damaged a school and killed one person early on Thursday, as the system dropped heavy rain and flooded communities across North and South Carolina.It only took 15 seconds for a tornado to devastate Genesis Cooper's home in Lucama, North Carolina, a small town about 40 miles (64km) east of Raleigh. He almost slept through it - if not for an alert on his wife's phone. Continue reading...

Former president attacks Democratic rival in rambling press conference and complains media is favoring herStruggling in the polls and charged with running a lackluster presidential campaign, Donald Trump faced reporters on Thursday for an hour-long press conference that swiftly descended into a familiar mess of freewheeling invective, outlandish claims and outright lies.Nobody was killed on January 6," the former president and Republican presidential nominee said, of the day in 2021 when he incited an attack on Congress now linked to nine deaths, including law enforcement suicides and the shooting by a police officer of Ashley Babbitt, who Trump voters widely claim as a martyr. Continue reading...

Former House speaker on how she concluded the president couldn't beat Trump and should step asideNancy Pelosi has never been that impressed" with Joe Biden's political operation", the former US House speaker said, discussing a judgment that helped her conclude the president could not beat Donald Trump and should step aside.They won the White House [in 2020]. Bravo. But my concern was: this ain't happening, and we have to make a decision for [Biden's withdrawal] to happen," Pelosi told the New Yorker, in an interview published on Thursday. Continue reading...

Overall number of people sickened rises to 43 as CDC says additional death happened in VirginiaThree people have now died in a listeria food poisoning outbreak linked to Boar's Head deli meats, federal food safety officials announced on Thursday, and the overall number of people sickened rose to 43.The additional death happened in Virginia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a news release on Thursday. The other two deaths were in New Jersey and Illinois. The CDC also said nine more cases were reported since a 31 July release about the outbreak, which started in late May. Continue reading...

Make sure you don't miss a thing with our full, updating localised guide to the dates and times of all the events at Paris Olympics 2024Follow all the latest action live | Support the GuardianSearch for every event and start time at the Paris Olympics with our comprehensive live schedule. From the football pitch to the pool, via track and field and much more, use our filter tool to pinpoint the sports and disciplines you want to follow most so that you don't miss a thing. Continue reading...

Find out who is leading the way at the Paris Olympics, and drill down to see which events each country has won medals forFollow all the latest action live | Support the GuardianAs is traditional, the table prioritises the number of gold medals won. On this basis at the 2020 Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, the United States led the field with 39 golds, with China second on 38 and Japan third with 27. If countries have the same number of gold medals, the order is then dictated by which has the most silvers, and finally bronze if the numbers are still identical. Continue reading...

New photos and data show Trump met with Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts in 2022Donald Trump shared a private flight with the head of the rightwing thinktank behind Project 2025, the Washington Post reported, publishing evidence including a picture of the two men in airplane seats, grinning.The flight was on its way to a conference organized by the thinktank, at which Trump told group members they would lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do". Continue reading...

TV was important as we lay rotting on the couch, but it was another modern advance in technology that I have been appreciating mostAfter a horrible two-week battle with the influenza A (A stands for annoying") virus, I am in the home stretch to victory, and as such have entered the final stage - gratitude.This is when, after many days of thinking that you are probably never going to feel good again and all your loved ones should just forget about you and block your number, you start to improve. Everything around you becomes bathed in a warm glow (which isn't your fever for once). Continue reading...

Trump said What they did in Minneapolis was incredible' as Republicans continue to attack Walz for handling of eventsDonald Trump previously praised Tim Walz for his response to rioting in the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd, audio showed, even as Republicans continued to attack Kamala Harris's running mate for his handling of such events and Trump claimed to have personally saved the Minnesota governor from rightwing protesters.What they did in Minneapolis was incredible," Trump, then president, said in a White House phone call with Walz, the Minnesota governor, and other state leaders on 1 June 2020. They went in and dominated, and it happened immediately." Continue reading...

Court sides against group, whose members say they do not believe in Satan in the literal sense but fight authoritarianismWhenever the city council of Boston meets, a speaker gives opening remarks: sometimes a sermon, sometimes a poem - but usually a prayer, as the majority of the speakers come from Christian organizations.In 2016, the free speech group that styles itself the Satanic Temple asked to be included, offering to give an invocation". When it was denied, the group sued the city, arguing religious discrimination under the first amendment. Continue reading...

Harris expresses openness to discussing Israel-Gaza stance with movement leaders, who are torn over Walz as VP pickLeaders of the uncommitted" campaign spoke with Kamala Harris and her newly announced running mate, the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, before a rally in Detroit on Wednesday to discuss their calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel.Harris shared her sympathies and expressed an openness to a meeting with the Uncommitted leaders to discuss an arms embargo", the organization said in a statement. Continue reading...

The racists have done one constructive thing: rallied support for the thriving communities they sought to destroyWhen three little girls, Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar, were so callously killed in Southport last week, I - along with the entire country - was sickened and shaken to the core. But there was no time for their families to grieve in peace, or space for the solidarity that arises from a period of national sorrow. Instead, the tragedy was violently hijacked by far-right thugs on the basis of flagrant lies, emerging from a climate of Islamophobia and racist, divisive rhetoric that has always been a threat to us all.Over the past week, my mobile phone has been pinging with messages conveying anxiety and fear from family, friends and colleagues. Clips have been circulating of Muslim businesses torched, ethnic minority members of the public being attacked and chants of Pakis out" at passersby on the streets. Continue reading...

The US once dominated weightlifting before a long period in the doldrums. The balance of power could be shifting again thoughCould a caffeine-fueled 20-year-old from Georgia who doesn't have a driver's license and trains out of his family's garage be at the fore of an American weightlifting resurgence? It might be too early to say, but there's a smouldering optimism about the US camp which only grew on Wednesday when Hampton Morris became the first men's lifter from the United States to win an Olympic medal in four decades by taking bronze in the men's 61kg division.Morris, the youngest US weightlifter at the Olympics since Cheryl Haworth in 2000, ended a long-running American hoodoo by hoisting a combined weight of 298kg (about 657lb) between the snatch and clean-and-jerk segments of the contest, becoming the first male US lifter to reach the podium since Mario Martinez and Guy Carlton took silver and bronze respectively at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Li Fabin of China won the gold with a combined total of 310kg, becoming the first lifter to win consecutive Olympic titles since Turkey's Naim Suleymanoglu won three straight from 1988 through 1996, while Theerapong Silachai of Thailand took silver (303kg) in the leadoff event of the five-day weightlifting competition. Continue reading...

Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, was labor secretary under FDRJoe Biden has been asked to designate a national monument to the former US labor secretary, Frances Perkins, by members of Congress and groups including the National Park Conservation Association.Perkins, who served three terms under Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, was the first woman to be appointed to a presidential cabinet and the longest-serving secretary of labor in US history. Continue reading...

The ex-president is chatting with Logan Paul, Adin Ross and others with vast followings as the demographic shifts right

After decades of failed appeals, execution warrant was signed in June despite objections to planned lethal drugA Utah man who killed his girlfriend's mother by slashing her throat was put to death by lethal injection early Thursday in the state's first execution since 2010.Taberon Dave Honie, 48, was convicted of aggravated murder in the July 1998 death of Claudia Benn, the maternal grandmother of his now 27-year-old daughter, Tressa. Continue reading...

Death reports obtained by the Guardian show elderly people are regularly dying on the streets of LA: They're incredibly alone'Thousands of senior citizens died in Los Angeles while homeless in the past 10 years, with residents age 60 and over representing a quarter of all deaths of unhoused people in that period, according to a Guardian analysis of public records.A common misconception about California's homelessness crisis is that the majority of people on the streets are young adults who came from out-of-state, drawn to warm weather and homeless services. But death reports obtained by the Guardian reveal more than 3,000 of the 11,500 people who died while unhoused in Los Angeles county between 2014 and 2023 were 60 and older, highlighting the vulnerability of older residents in one of the US's most expensive regions.More than 1,700 of the unhoused people age 60 and over who died probably lived unsheltered. They were found in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and sidewalks and other locations suggesting they may have been living outside.

Analysis shows funding for biotech, defense and video platform - and a fascination with The Lord of the RingsJD Vance's investments reveal potential contradictions between the political persona he has sought to project, his history as a venture capitalist and Peter Thiel acolyte, and his status as a hard-edged tribune of the so-called new right".Companies he has invested in include a firm that carries out medical testing of therapies that may include stem cells in scientific research to tech firms with records of harvesting data. Vance and some of the people behind the various firms he is involved with also exhibit an obsession with references to the mythology around The Lord of the Rings' fantasy world. Continue reading...

The teenager's precocious talent won plaudits at the US Olympic trials. Now he is ready to become his country's youngest-ever male track athlete at the GamesThere was never a time in 16-year-old Quincy Wilson's life that he wasn't fast. It's a fact that has propelled him to the Paris Olympics, where, if ESPN sources are to be believed, Wilson on Friday will become the youngest US male track and field athlete to ever appear at the Games.Wilson's mother, Monique, was the first to chase after her son once his feet touched the ground as a 10-month old. Continue reading...

Even with Harris running, more than one out of five Black voters say they support Trump. But polls can be deceivingThroughout the 2024 cycle, polling has suggested that Republicans are poised to do extraordinarily well with African Americans.Even with Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, more than one out of five black voters say they support Donald Trump. Younger Black voters seem especially open to casting ballots for the Republican party. Continue reading...

Detroit rally draws 15,000 people and high energy. Plus, Israel minister condemned over starvation remarks

Coaches such as Jurgen Klinsmann and Gregg Berhalter have preached change, but there has been no upturn in results in the biggest competitionsFor the US men's national team, it's been an era of big promises and underwhelming results.Jurgen Klinsmann started the trend when he took over the team in 2011, assuring fans that no longer would the US be the hardscrabble group that would occasionally but not consistently get results against the world's elite. Rather, they would be more proactive, more cultured and entertaining. A revamped youth system would ensure a constant pipeline of talent - talent that would be good enough to play overseas. And those players would be used to the pressure that comes with higher expectations, having proved their worth in top European leagues. Continue reading...

Users of online platforms spread conspiracy theory that he changed Minnesota flag to mimic Somalia'sJust as he was officially announced on the ticket, Minnesota's governor, Tim Walz, often lauded as the safest pick for Kamala Harris to make as a running mate, was already facing racist and nativist attacks from the online depths of the far right.In media speculation leading up to Harris's potential pick, Walz, a midwesterner who once coached a high school football team, was seen as evening out the Californian vice-president's candidacy for the White House. Continue reading...

Kamala Harris's evening speech in Detroit, Michigan, was interrupted by protesters against the war in Gaza who chanted: 'Kamala, Kamala, you can't hide, we won't vote for genocide'. Harris responded by saying: 'If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I'm speaking'

From a row about an allegedly blasphemous biblical scene to a controversial boxing match, the Games have been hijacked by culture wars between Russia and the westWhile sport has long prided itself on its capacity to promote peace and reconciliation, there was widespread anxiety before the Paris Olympics that the wars in Europe and the Middle East would poison the event. Thankfully, there have been no major security incidents. Yet geopolitical conflict has played out at the Games, including in the controversy over women's boxing.On the eve of the Olympics, many feared the worst. Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the ensuing Israeli invasion of Gaza, now exacerbated by the threat of an all-out regional war, brought back the ghosts of the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Palestinian militants infiltrated the Olympic village, killing 11 members of the Israeli team.Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Detroit rally draws 15,000 people and high energy despite Gaza protesters and medical incidents from summer heatKamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota's governor, Tim Walz, continued their swing-state tour with rallies in rural Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday, that the campaign said brought out more than 10,000 people each.The rallies, which followed a raucous event in Philadelphia, served as an opportunity for Harris to continue to introduce Walz, a formerly low-profile midwest governor, to Democrats in the critical swing state. Continue reading...

This blog is now closed. Thank you for following along. You can find the latest US elections news here.The other big news late on Wednesday was congresswoman Cori Bush losing her Democratic primary after pro-Israel pressure groups spent millions of dollars to unseat her over criticisms of Israel's war on Gaza.St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated Missouri's first Black female member of Congress with about 51% of the vote. Bush, a member of the progressive Squad", took about 46%. Continue reading...

Harris is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country's oldest Black sorority and one of the Divine Nine, which boasts four million membersOn 10 July, less than two weeks before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Kamala Harris attended a boule: the annual or biannual gathering of all of the members of a sorority. But this wasn't just any sorority, it was Alpha Kappa Alpha, the historic Black sorority Harris joined in college, and one of the Divine Nine - also known as the Pan-Hellenic Council - the most powerful Black sororities in America.To my line sisters, the 38 Jewels of Iridescent Splendor: Oh, you are such an incredible part of my journey," she said. Continue reading...

Vance, who served as a correspondent in the marines, accused Walz of stolen valor garbage'JD Vance went on the offensive on Wednesday, attacking the military record of Tim Walz, Kamala Harris's vice-presidential pick.Speaking in Michigan, Donald Trump's Republican running mate said: You know what really bothers me about Tim Walz? When the United States Marine Corps ... asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do and I did it honorably, and I'm very proud of that service. Continue reading...

President says in CBS News clip that Trump means what he says' about a bloodbath for the country' if he loses electionJoe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transfer of power after the November presidential election.If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all. I mean, if Trump loses, I'm not confident at all," the president said in an interview with CBS News that is due to air in full this Sunday.Reuters contributed reporting Continue reading...

Trump tells Fox News that he announced Walz was a good person' to dissuade protesters from surrounding his houseDonald Trump claimed to have saved Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, from rightwing protesters in 2020 during unrest in Minnesota after the police murder of George Floyd, a statement that appears to contradict Walz's own descriptions of calls between the two politicians.Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Trump said, without offering evidence or specific dates or times, that he publicly announced Walz was a good person" in order to dissuade protesters from surrounding Walz's house. Continue reading...

Simple, bold logo divides observers but camouflage hat embraces one of the year's most unlikely fashion trendsWith less than 100 days to go until the election, Kamala Harris announced her VP pick - the avuncular Minnesota governor Tim Walz - and dropped a new official logo.Harris Walz merchandise, including yard signs, T-shirts, and one much-memed camouflage printed hat, launched as soon as the current vice-president put Walz on her ticket on Tuesday. The logo looks simple, with some even calling it boring: tall, white, sans serif lettering spelling out the nominees' last names. Continue reading...

A month after the supreme court's immunity ruling, Trump may finally have to answer for his alleged election disputeDonald Trump might have landed a handful of legal victories lately, but his Washington DC federal election subversion case is back on track, meaning he might finally have to answer for alleged election interference in a court of law. Continue reading...

Remote consultations allow access for patients in states with severe curbs as January sees over 100,000 abortionsAbortions continue to rise across the US due to better access to care via telehealth, even as states push new restrictions and total abortion bans in the wake of the supreme court decision overturning Roe v Wade, according to a new #WeCount report from the Society of Family Planning published on Wednesday.Still, despite the increase in access for some patients, there are significant challenges for others who need reproductive healthcare. Continue reading...

Gen Z is seeing a historic reverse gender gap', with women poised to outpace men across virtually every measure of political involvement

Mitchell died after being pinned face down after incident in hotel in June, drawing comparisons to George Floyd caseProsecutors charged four Milwaukee hotel employees on Tuesday with being a party to felony murder in connection with D'Vontaye Mitchell's death.Mitchell was Black. The incident has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for about nine minutes. Floyd's death sparked a national reckoning on race relations marked by multiple protests around the country. Continue reading...

Kevin Roberts, president of hard-right Heritage Foundation, says it's time to put down the books and go fight like hell'A JD Vance-introduced book by a leader of Project 2025, the vast and controversial hardline rightwing plan for a second Trump administration, will be delayed until after the 2024 election.There's a time for writing, reading, and book tours - and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country," the book's author, Kevin Roberts, told RealClearPolitics, which first reported the news. Continue reading...

Brazilian will get fitting farewell after red card heartbreak but whatever the outcome change is needed at the GamesIt's wanting more. It's training more. It's taking care of yourself more. It's being ready to play 90 plus 30 minutes. This is what I ask of the girls. There's not going to be a Formiga for ever. There's not going to be a Marta for ever. There's not going to be a Cristiane. The women's game depends on you to survive. Think about that. Value it more. Cry in the beginning so you can smile in the end."In June 2019 Marta, Brazil's captain and all-round trailblazer, stood distraught on the side of a pitch in Le Havre. As the cameras came to her after Brazil had again fallen early on the world stage - beaten in extra time by the hosts, France, in the last 16 of the World Cup - she launched into an impassioned speech to her country's next generation that drew worldwide traction. Continue reading...