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Where are the brave inciters of Britain’s race riots? From Tommy to Elon, they’re far, far away | Marina Hyde
Thugs may be rampaging in the streets, but their leaders-from-behind are more likely to be found sipping cocktails by the poolMy kids are crying. We come here so I could spend some quality time with them. Now they are scared people are coming here to get them." Thus bleated Tommy Robinson from the five-star Ayia Napa all-inclusive hotel from which he is currently influencing sustained violent disorder on Britain's streets.And yet, multiple paparazzi photos from the resort show Daddy either floating like a lonesome turd in the pool, or splayed out on a four-poster sunlounger glued to his phone, with not even a pixelated Sproginson to be seen. Perhaps they were fomenting looting in the kids' club? If not, Pops has certainly broken with the form book by not coopting them into his war games. Robinson's previous stunts have included filming his disturbingly tearful children on the day he emerged from one of his prison sentences (it was the attempting-to-collapse-a-rape-trial one, I think, as opposed to the massive-mortgage-fraud one). Continue reading...
How Phelps’ coach turned Marchand into an Olympic swimming legend
Bob Bowman guided Michael Phelps to glory and was in tears after Leon Marchand delivered on his promise in ParisAs the unstoppable Leon Marchand swam to his fourth individual gold medal in six days, the 59-year-old American coach behind the face of the Paris Olympics was moved to tears on the pool deck.The 22-year-old from Toulouse had just swept the gold medals in all four events he entered, winning the 400m individual medley, then the 200m butterfly and 200m breaststroke on the same night, and the 200m medley on Friday, clocking Olympic-record times in each. One night after another, Marchand transformed the converted rugby arena in the western Paris suburbs into a white-hot cauldron of sound, holding a country of 68m souls in his thrall.Dear sir, I am a French swimmer, my name is Leon Marchand (18 years old). I would like to join the university of Arizona State in summer 2021 for swim and compete in NCAA with your amazing team. Do you think I could benefit from a scholarship? What level of education is required? (TOEFL, SAT ...) You will find attached my presentation sheet. Thank you for the time granted to my request.Sportingly, Leon Continue reading...
Revealed: US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities ahead of election
The Russia-based leader of the Base, which adheres to principles of accelerationism, seeks A-team leader' in USWhile far-right extremists from all corners of the internet are targeting vice-president Kamala Harris as she takes the reins of the Democratic ticket, one of the longer standing US-based neo-Nazi terror groups is also attempting to continue its covert activities as the presidential election season begins in earnest.Rinaldo Nazzaro, 51, a former Pentagon contractor and analyst at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) turned founder of the Base, wrote on his personal Telegram account that he's seeking a stateside leader for his organization and is willing to pay them a salary of up to $1,200 a month. Continue reading...
13,500 US hotel workers hold strike votes over pay and conditions
We're asking and fighting for what we deserve,' a worker says before votes this week from Boston to HonoluluAbout 13,500 hotel workers across Boston, Honolulu, Providence and San Francisco will vote on whether to strike this week as they push for significant wage increases and protections against job cuts.Employees at leading chains including Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Omni will decide in the coming days whether to approve the walkouts. The hotel industry stands accused of having used the Covid-19 crisis to reduce staffing and increase workloads. Continue reading...
The United States is not facing an imminent recession. This is nonsense | Robert Reich
The American economy is still growing. There is no reason to panic, despite Trump's world war three' commentsTwo weeks before 19 October 1987, I warned publicly that in two weeks, the stock market will lose 20% of its value." Then, on 19 October 1987, the S&P 500 had the biggest one-day fall in its history - dropping 20%.I was immediately deluged with letters and phone calls (no emails then) from people who wanted to sign up for my investment letter". I told them, with some regret, that I didn't have an investment letter.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...
NBC’s High School French Olympics are a triumph of shock and awe streaming
The Paris Games have sparkled. And nowhere has the city - and the athletes it is hosintg - shone more brilliantly than on the world's TV screensMaybe it's the effect of the global post-Covid rebound. Maybe it's a collective reprieve from the doomerism of our ecological and political end times. Maybe it's simply a reflected orgasm of the Parisian streetscape, the sense of occasion created by young athletes at the peak of physical health sweeping across this metropolis-sized monument to early-modern bombast. But for whatever reason, these Olympics have sparkled like no other Games in recent memory. A city given over to revolutions, occupations, copulations, and decapitations, in a country without a government, has come thrillingly to life for the Olympics - and nowhere has Paris shone more brilliantly than on the world's TV screens.The Olympic Games are always a media event as much as a sporting one, of course, and this edition is no exception. But thanks to the advent of streaming and the organizers' inspired decision to convert Paris into a single, city-wide stadium - to make the city, as much as the athletes, the star of the show - the 33rd Olympiad has arrived at a perfect moment to create the ultimate sports media spectacle. Volleyball by the Eiffel Tower; fencing in the Grand Palais; swimmers leaping into the Seine under the gilded Fames of the Pont Alexandre III; treacle-coated horses zig-zagging in the shadow of Versailles like members of the Sun King's court dancing a Sarabande; that Canadian guy emptying his guts at the end of the triathlon: truly, these Olympics have felt more vivid, more memorable, more saturatingly epic than any other Games this century. Even those events held away from the Parisian sights have projected a basic monumentality: from the crepe-thin margins in the men's 100m and Femke Bol's thundering finish in the mixed relay to the agony of the medal-denying dong, all the podium contenders in Paris have seemed to respond to the drama, history and scale expressed by the city around them. Continue reading...
Why am I addicted to watching videos of people chopping salads? | Sophie Brickman
Microchopping' influencers have turned chopped salads into an Instagram art - and it's a salve for my anxious mindI went to culinary school, worked as a line cook, then became a mother. Sadly, the upshot of that trajectory is not that my children eat three-course homemade meals every night, but that my Instagram feed is filled almost entirely with videos of people - mostly mothers - chopping salads into tiny dice. Microchopping, in social media parlance.That big algorithm in the sky has rightly intuited that after most days of work and childcare, and a tripartite bedtime that takes two and a half hours at its most efficient, the only content the shards in my brain can handle consuming are these types of videos - not the novel taunting me from my bedside table, not that longform magazine article everyone is talking about, not even the new movie released on a streaming service.Sophie Brickman is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times and other publications, and the author of Baby, Unplugged: One Mother's Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age. Her first novel, Plays Well With Others, comes out in August 2024 Continue reading...
Gracious, petty and brilliant – Biles is arguably bigger than the US Olympic movement
There is a credible argument that the gymnast has been America's best athlete for more than a decade. And she now wields incredible influence
‘It sucks. It’s painful. It hurts’: White Sox lose record-tying 21st straight game
I fear books are going the way of vinyl records – a rarified pursuit for hobbyists | Gaby Hinsliff
We're increasingly getting our narrative fix from short videos. But, like snacking on junk food, it won't nourish usSummertime, and the reading is easy. Or at least, it's supposed to be. Holidays were made for sinking blissfully into a pile of books: for long, hot afternoons swinging in hammocks or basting on the sand, gleefully inhaling trashy beach reads or the Booker prize longlist. Finally, we have time to read, plus the urgent need to justify what is essentially two weeks of lying down by looking at least vaguely busy.Yet, by the pool this year, I saw a striking number of people scrolling on their phones instead, some with an unopened paperback lying forlornly by the sun lounger. Not for nothing, an author friend pointed out to me recently, did Instagram Stories get its name. Reels contain just enough of a miniature plot to satisfy the human need for narrative twists, even if they are only a few seconds long, while the most successful influencers have essentially turned themselves into fictionalised characters in their own long-running minor drama. But grazing on these bite-size stories is the literary equivalent of snacking on junk: just filling enough to put you off a proper novel-length meal, but somehow never quite satisfying, and leaving the addicted reader irritably craving more.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Australia’s Jack Robinson secures surfing silver as local hero claims Olympic gold in Tahiti
Fast-moving California wildfire destroys homes and burns at least 100 acres
Edgehill fire started this afternoon in San Bernardino and forced evacuations as over 200 firefighters assigned to blazeA fast-moving wildfire burning in southern California's San Bernardino county has burned at least 100 acres since it started this afternoon and destroyed several homes.The Edgehill fire started about 3pm in the Shandin Hills area of San Bernardino and spread rapidly through the neighborhood, burning homes and forcing evacuations, according to San Bernardino county fire department. No injuries have been reported. Continue reading...
Owners of Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies found ordered to pay $950m
Jon and Carie Hallford found liable as court rules for victims' families - but amount unlikely to be paid outThe Colorado couple who owned a funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year were ordered to pay $950m to the victims' families - a largely symbolic victory for families of the deceased.According to an email sent to victims by Leventhal Lewis, the firm that filed the lawsuit, it is the largest judgment in Colorado's history. Continue reading...
US supreme court won’t stop Trump sentencing from going ahead – as it happened
This blog is closed. You can read the latest US election coverage here.Climate activist, feminist and screen legend Jane Fonda has put out a video message endorsing Kamala Harris to win the White House in November.Today I'm proud to endorse Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States," Fonda begins, talking to camera in close-up. Continue reading...
Bloomberg fires reporter for ‘premature’ publication of Evan Gershkovich release – reports
At least one reporter appears to have been fired for a decision that would've been reviewed by senior editorsBloomberg News said it had taken disciplinary action" against a number of its editorial staff after the outlet prematurely" published news of the historic prisoner swap between Russia and the United States last week that it said could have endangered the safety of the Americans being released.In an email to staff on Monday, editor-in-chief John Micklethwait wrote that a number of staff members had been disciplined, although the company did not say who, how many or what their punishment had been. At least one reporter on the story appears to have been fired in a rare case where a journalist was punished for a decision to publish a major news story that would likely have been reviewed by senior editors at the outlet. Continue reading...
Keely Hodgkinson surges to 800m glory on golden day for Britain in Paris
Clarence Thomas failed to disclose more private jet travel, senator says
Senate finance committee learned of additional undisclosed travel on Harlan Crow's jet, says Ron WydenThe conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose more private travel on a jet owned by the rightwing mega-donor Harlan Crow, a Democratic senator said on Monday, amid a swirling ethics scandal and demands for judiciary reform.I am deeply concerned that Mr Crow may have been showering a public official with extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill," Ron Wyden of Oregon, the Senate finance committee chair, told a lawyer for Crow in a letter. Continue reading...
Chiefs sign kicker Harrison Butker to record contract after controversial offseason
Ex-Trump attorney agrees to cooperate in Arizona fake electors case
Jenna Ellis to sit for interviews and turn over documents to prosecutors, and will avoid potential jail time in returnJenna Ellis, Donald Trump's 2020 campaign attorney charged in Arizona as part of the fake electors scheme, has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for getting her charges dismissed.Arizona's attorney general, Kris Mayes, announced the deal on Monday, sharing a legal agreement that shows Ellis agreed to sit for interviews and turn over documents related to the scheme. The agreement also calls on Ellis to testify completely and truthfully at any time and any place requested by the Arizona attorney general's office". Continue reading...
Wall Street suffers worst day in nearly two years after global sell-off
Fears of recession in US caused leading share indices to tumble, just weeks after they last scaled record highsWall Street suffered its worst day in almost two years after a global stock market sell-off sparked by fears of recession in the US.America's leading share indices - the S&P 500, Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq Composite - tumbled in volatile trading as the day started in New York, before pulling back slightly. Continue reading...
US supreme court declines to halt Trump’s sentencing in hush-money case
Missouri state lawsuit claimed that case against Republican nominee infringes on voters' constitutional rightsThe US supreme court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of Missouri to halt Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing for his conviction in New York on felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star and left a related gag order until after the 5 November presidential election.The decision by the justices came in response to a lawsuit by the state of Missouri claiming that the case against Trump infringed on the right of voters under the constitution to hear from the Republican presidential nominee as he seeks to regain the White House. Continue reading...
The best of Simone Biles’ sensational Paris Olympics – in pictures
Biles has won three golds (team all around, individual all around and vault), one silver (individual floor) and finished fifth on beam Continue reading...
‘It was really weird’: Simone Biles says crowd affected routine in Olympic final
Trump picks a pointless fight with Georgia Republicans – it could cost him
His tirade against the popular governor and secretary of state was highly unwise. Maga is not a majority in GeorgiaAll Donald Trump had to do on Saturday in Georgia is show up, bring the tent together and not pick a fight with other Republicans. It might have been money in the bag.Instead, Trump attacked Governor Brian Kemp, who is substantially more popular in Georgia than he is. Early in his comments, Trump pointed to a few recent high-profile murders in Atlanta, saying: Atlanta is like a killing field, and your governor should get off his ass and do something about it." Continue reading...
Simone Biles says routines affected by 'weird and awkward' atmosphere –video
Simone Biles put her fifth place finish in Paris 2024 Olympic beam final down to a 'weird and awkward' atmosphere at Bercy Arena. Biles fell off the beam during her routine and later explained that a lack of noise meant she could 'hear some of the Android ringtones going off, the photo clickers' before adding 'you're tying to stay in your zone, and then people start cheering and the shushing gets louder'. Biles stayed positive, however, adding that she was 'proud' of herself and saying 'I can't be mad at my performances. A couple of years ago I didn't think I'd be back here at an Olympic Games, so competing and then walking away with four medals, I'm not mad about it'
The Guardian view on the riots: culpability in high places | Editorial
Rishi Sunak's former adviser for social cohesion is right to say that inflammatory rhetoric has nourished extremism on the groundThe weekend scenes of encircled mosques guarded by police, and hotels accommodating asylum seekers attacked by mobs intent on violence, were among the most disturbing seen on British streets for many years. In their scope and intensity, these riots were of a different order to relatively isolated incidents in the past, such as the petrol bomb attack on a Dover immigration centre in 2022. In Rotherham, where a group of rioters broke into a Holiday Inn and attempted to set the building on fire, the bravery of outnumbered police averted a potential tragedy.Responsibility for this horror naturally lies with the perpetrators, who exploited the tragic murder of three girls in Southport last week as a convenient pretext for xenophobic violence. It is, as Sir Keir Starmer clearly intends, imperative that they are swiftly seen to suffer the consequences of such thuggery in court. Continue reading...
Harris to announce VP pick on Tuesday ahead of Philadelphia rally – report
Presidential nominee interviewed governors Josh Shapiro and Tim Walz over the weekend in crunch time decision
With a salute and a silver medal, Simone Biles shows the humanity that goes with her greatness | Tumaini Carayol
Despite an imperfect day on the beam and the floor, the American has re-established herself as the world's bestAs Simone Biles closed out her final transcendent floor routine and saluted to the judges, she held her arms above her head in a salute for as long as she could. It was partly a cheeky, sarcastic gesture, a reference to the deduction she seemingly received in the preceding final for not properly saluting to all judges, but it was also perfect. Bercy Arena, filled again for one last glimpse of her this year, responded by saluting her in turn with a long, heartfelt ovation.Although Biles did not close out her Paris Olympics with a golden picturesque finish in a chaotic last day of artistic gymnastics, her final day of competition in Paris was rather an exhibition of the sportsmanship and humanity that has accompanied her greatness. After a fall on the balance beam led to a fifth-place finish, Biles won a silver medal on the floor exercise. Continue reading...
Thief who stole American footballer’s Hall of Fame ring jailed for two years
Gary Towsey, who was captured on CCTV wearing Andre Reed's 35,000 ring, admitted to charges of handling stolen goodsA thief who left an American football legend feeling totally gutted" by dismantling his stolen Hall of Fame ring to try to sell its gems has been jailed for more than two years.Andre Reed, who played as a wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills in the 1980s and 1990s, reported that the ring and other valuables, including passports, had been stolen from a room at London's Leonardo hotel last October. Continue reading...
‘One and done’: Michael Phelps says dopers should be given lifetime ban
Get ready for a long and messy August in the stock markets | Nils Pratley
Complacency from the US and Japan have fed the turmoil, but a gentle-ish landing is still on the cardsChoose the culprit behind the sudden sell-off in stock markets but a common theme in all top contenders is complacency.In the first case, it is the US Federal Reserve that stands accused, in the eyes of the market, of being asleep to the risk of a recession in the US. Friday's weak jobs numbers intensified the worry that policymakers have waited too long to cut interest rates. Even if a US recession in the next year remains unlikely in the eyes of most economists (a 25% possibility says Goldman Sachs, upping its forecast from 15%), it's the difference from previous expectations that moves markets. At the start of 2024, virtually nobody was talking about a US recession; now it is a plausible outcome to be priced into models. Continue reading...
JD Vance’s wife says his ‘childless cat ladies’ comment was a ‘quip’
Usha Vance doubles down on controversy dogging Donald Trump's running mate over his remarks about US leadersWomen offended by JD Vance's contention that the US is run by childless cat ladies" should realise it was merely a quip", the Republican vice-presidential nominee's wife, Usha Vance, claimed in an interview broadcast on Monday.I took a moment to look and actually see what he had said and tried to understand what the context was and all that, which is something that I really wish people would do a little bit more often," Vance told Fox News in remarks that doubled down on a controversy that has emerged as one of her husband's most persistent. Continue reading...
Project 2025: what does the rightwing blueprint say about abortion?
Policy playbook developed for potential Trump 2.0 term aims to ban abortion pills, increase surveillance and champion fetal personhoodProject 2025, the wishlist for a Trump 2.0 administration drawn up by the influential thinktank the Heritage Foundation, proposes mobilizing an array of government agencies to curb access to abortion - up to and including a national ban on abortion pills that would affect even states that protect abortion rights.Backed by more than 100 conservative organizations, the 922-page Project 2025 has become notorious in recent weeks as Kamala Harris has started bringing it up at rallies. Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from its many proposals, claiming he doesn't know anything about Project 2025 and has no idea who is behind it" - even though his administration's officials wrote chunks of it. While the director of the blueprint stepped down last week, a move that the Trump campaign celebrated and that leaves its future operations unclear, the policy ideas endure and closely align with Trump's platform. Continue reading...
I spent decades straightening my 'Jewish hair' – until I realised I was hiding my true self | Diana Spechler
For decades I wrangled my frizz in an attempt to fit in. But amid rising antisemitism, I decided to embrace my identitySometime after 7 October 2023, I decided to stop straightening my hair. For decades, I had employed round brushes and flat irons and smoothing oils in service of wrangling the Jew frizz, spending money I barely had on keratin treatments and Brazilian blowouts.But as swastikas splattered public walls, as bomb threats blasted synagogues, as ancient conspiracy theories rose from the dead, as a congresswoman tweeted Antisemitism is wrong, but ...", I examined what I'd been doing: trying to look less Jewish; trying, as perhaps my great-grandparents did, to assimilate. For the first time, I felt the violence in that choice.Diana Spechler is an author and essayist. She writes the newsletter Dispatches from the RoadDo 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...
Democrats should run on a progressive economic agenda. Americans are ready | Bernie Sanders
Campaigning on an economic agenda that speaks to the needs of working families is a winning formula for Kamala HarrisOne of the most extraordinary aspects of our corporate-dominated American political system is the degree to which the needs of working-class people, the majority of our population, are systematically ignored by political and media elites.Americans who are following the 2024 presidential campaign - and the vital campaigns for control of the US Senate and the US House - will see, hear and read a whole lot of rhetoric from political insiders and the corporate media about the political game".77% overall73% independents69% Republicans67% Trump voters75% overall68% independents68% Republicans65% Trump voters72% overall72% independents56% Republicans56% Trump voters70% overall68% independents54% Republicans53% Trump voters63% overall57% independents46% Republicans46% Trump voters62% overall62% independents39% Republicans39% Trump voters62% overall59% independents43% Republicans42% Trump voters59% overall57% independents38% Republicans42% Trump voters58% overall55% independents43% Republicans43% Trump voters54% overall49% independents37% Republicans37% Trump voters51% overall49% independents47% Republicans42% Trump voters50% Overall51% independents25% Republicans25% Trump voters48% overall41% independents29% Republicans28% Trump votersBernie Sanders is a US senator, and chair of the health education labor and pensions committee. He represents the state of Vermont, and is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress Continue reading...
From RFK Jr’s dead bear to a shot dog, why do US politicians keep throwing us red meat?
We are living through the age of the meatfluencer and it has led to some strange stories in this election cycle - few stranger than Kennedy's latestI had never really engaged with how spooky Robert F Kennedy Jr looked until I saw him describe in a video the circumstances in which he ended up driving around with a dead baby bear in his boot. It sounds a lot more like an anxiety dream than a thing that happened, but here you go: the independent US presidential candidate had been taking some people falconing in the Hudson valley, in 2014, when he saw a woman hit and kill a bear with her van.Kennedy decided to skin and eat it, so he picked it up, only remembering later that he didn't have time to do either of those things, because he was going out for dinner in New York and taking a flight straight after. Can't take a dead bear cub on a flight. He had bought only hold luggage and this was carrion. Sorry. Continue reading...
‘Thompson is a gold medalist!’: NBC announcer apologizes after incorrect 100m call
Uefa’s craven failure to stand up for the game’s values has left clubs on the brink
In a mailbag edition of his newsletter, Jonathan Wilson answers your questions on the multi-club model, how Kylian Mbappe will fit at Real Madrid and VAR
Olympic gymnastics: Simone Biles misses gold on floor and falls on beam – live updates
Simone Biles misses gold on floor and beam on final day of Olympic gymnastics
Could young men deliver Trump the presidency?
The ex-president is heavily courting a demographic that used to lean left. What's driving the widening gender gap among young people?A chill wind swept through Europe this summer. On the continent, far-right parties rose triumphantly in the EU elections, hoisted not just by the grumbles of older xenophobes but on the shoulders of young men. When news crews went out on the streets to train their cameras on these extremists in France, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands, they found no blackshirts, just barbershop trims and Zara chinos worn by young men, enthralled by dreams of ethnonationalism and a return to the values of the 1980s or the 1940s or some other period long before their birth. Then, in Britain this weekend, gangs of mostly young far-right men marauded through northern towns, attacking mosques and accommodation for asylum seekers. The nationalist right is rising once more on the tides of gelled-backed hair and Nike swooshes.A similar transformation could befall America in November. Until now, twentysomething voters were a thorn in Donald Trump's side, opposing him robustly in previous elections and making their resistance corporeal as leaders in the Women's March, Black Lives Matter protests and climate movement. Yet recent election polls suggest that while young women remain committed to the cause, there has been a tremulous withdrawal from young men. In 2016, 51% of young men identified with or leaned toward the Democratic party. By last year, it was down to 39%. Young men now favor Republican control of Congress and their support for Trump has grown since 2020. Continue reading...
Trump hikes Mar-a-Lago membership to $1m raising concerns of selling access
Four new spots at his resort have opened at a 43% spike in a move seen as buying political influenceDonald Trump has set a million-dollar price tag for the ability to whisper in his ear should he win back the presidency in November, prompting ethics watchdogs to worry that the Republican nominee is selling access and political influence for personal gain.Trump is making available four new and rarely available memberships at his exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he mingled freely with unvetted patrons during his first term of office and accepted policy advice from guests scrawled on cocktail napkins. Continue reading...
‘The world’s getting faster’: business as unusual as US swimmers’ dominance erodes
The Americans topped the medal table in the pool in Paris but the men were close to going without an individual gold to show for their effortsAt a glance the Paris swimming medal table looks much as it did three years ago for the United States - top once again, both in golds and overall medals.But the meet continued a narrative that emerged in Tokyo of supremacy maintained but dominance lost. When Bobby Finke retained his men's 1500m freestyle title on Sunday on the final day of the Olympic meet, he was salvaging pride for the American men rather than signing off from France with an exclamation point on behalf of his nation. Continue reading...
Trump leans into religious extremism to energize rightwing evangelicals
Ex-president turning to Christian nationalists for support as Kamala Harris's potential nomination poses hard challengeDonald Trump, now facing a tougher challenge in the US election after Joe Biden stepped down in favor of Kamala Harris, is increasingly leaning into religious extremism aimed at energizing a key section of his support base: socially conservative Christians.Fears that Trump would be an authoritarian leader if elected seemed to be realized last week, when he told a group of Christian supporters they would not have to vote" in four years if he becomes president. Continue reading...
Biden to meet national security team amid fears of Iranian attack on Israel | First Thing
US trying to calm tensions after assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders last week. Plus, far-right riots escalate in UK
Melon madness has me in its grip. I blame the French | Emma Beddington
The quest for a sweet, fragrant cantaloupe is a national obsession on the other side of the Channel. But oh, the price!Scrolling through what I eat in a week" diaries instead of working, I found one from the New York fashion designer Somsack Sikhounmuong, and was captivated by his melons. Sikhounmuong bought two exquisite specimens for, brace yourself, $50 each. His doorman assumed there was a mix-up with his shopping: It's missing a lot of stuff because the bill is like $100, but there are only two melons in here." Sikhounmuong sheepishly confessed, but had no regrets: They are incredible, so sweet and so orange."I almost relate. Despite my horror at the way even basic foods have become so unaffordable, I descend into melon madness every summer, craving an orange Charentais, intensely fragrant and juicy. I inherited it from my French in-laws, who serve them at every summer meal with a ritual call - How's the melon?" - and response (hopefully tasty", fragrant", or really sweet"). The quest for a good melon is a French national sport, assisted by an official minimum sugar percentage of 10%. Specialist fruiterers ask, gravely, when exactly you intend to eat the melon to ensure the one they select hits its absolute peak then, and charge near-New York prices. They've always been precious: in 1864, Alexandre Dumas donated his books to melon town" Cavaillon's library in return for a measly 12 melons a year for life.Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
USA’s Olympic team is bolstered by a crucial group of athletes: immigrants
Many of those with the American contingent in Paris have chosen to represent a country where some have vilified people like themA judo world championship bronze medalist from Cuba who got back into the sport after moving to America. The son of a pioneer in the new Olympic sport of breaking who came to the US after an arduous journey through the desert. Basketball players and track and field athletes who came to the USA for college and professional sports who decided to represent their new country internationally.Many of the 594 athletes named to the US Olympic team this summer are immigrants or the children of immigrants, all of whom have chosen to represent a country that is in the throes of a movement that would have limited their ability to get there or stay there, even through legal means. Continue reading...
The Latin American left is smart not to pick a side over Venezuela’s contested election result | Jordana Timerman
Attempts to get Nicolas Maduro back to the negotiating table highlight the influence of a younger generation of votersWhen Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of the Venezuelan presidential election last week, there was an immediate outcry and accusations of fraud. Maduro had trailed significantly in many polls, and the National Electoral Council (CNE) didn't provide access to voting breakdowns as it is legally required to do.While much of the rhetoric from Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's supporters has been heated, left-leaning governments in the region haven't come down on either side - despite many longstanding connections with Maduro's administration. This is a marked shift within the remnants of the pink tide" of leftist governments that dominated Latin American countries in the noughties may provide a way through the crisis, and achieve a democratic transition in Venezuela. Continue reading...
Paris Olympics 2024: live schedule
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 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...
Nancy Pelosi reveals struggle with guilt after husband’s attack: ‘I was the target’
He was looking for me,' former US House speaker says in CBS interview about home intruder David DePapeThe former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has revealed that she has been struggling with guilt ever since a man wielding a hammer invaded her home and gave her husband a near fatal beating that had been meant for her ahead of the fall 2022 elections.He was looking for me. Imagine the guilt of all of that," the California Democratic congresswoman said in an interview aired on CBS News Sunday Morning, which contained some of her most extensive remarks to date about the attack that badly injured Paul Pelosi. It's just a horrible thing. Continue reading...
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