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Former president announces JD Vance as running mate as Republicans gather in Milwaukee for national convention

US president's interview was scheduled during an Austin campaign visit but will now take place in White House following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

Ohio senator and former never Trumper' once asked if terrible' ex-president was America's Hitler'

In Buenos Aires, fans took to the streets after a record-breaking 16th continental championship. But there is also an acknowledgement of a changing of the guardEach year, the US has 11 federal holidays. In Argentina, that number is 19, the 11th-most in the world. Celebration and commemoration are mandatory for Argentinians, but for almost three decades they were denied the kind of festivities the capital city of Buenos Aires craves.The country's football team is making up for it now though. On Sunday night, a third successive party arrived as the city celebrated the team's 2024 Copa America triumph, its second in a row after the 2021 title, sandwiched around the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Continue reading...

Hashtags such as #staged and #fakeassassination viewed millions of times as sceptics question mainstream narrativeSoon after a bullet grazed Donald Trump's ear, the conspiracy theory hashtags started appearing. Social media discourse on the shooting was immediately punctuated by #staged, #fakeassassination and #stagedshooting as a familiar refrain took hold: don't trust what they tell you.In a sign of how unstoppable these narratives become, the focus of distrust this time was Donald Trump, one of the arch-proponents of the argument that mainstream media and the establishment in general cannot be trusted. Continue reading...

As extreme nationalist forces coalesce in the European parliament, a bolder response is neededThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold." In an age of political upheaval in liberal democracies, the poetic imagination of William Butler Yeats has haunted politicians worried about a lurch to extremes. Following last month's European elections, which saw a surge in support for the far right, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was the latest to invoke Yeats' famous line in The Second Coming. But she did so with a twist, bullishly noting: There remains a majority in the centre for a strong Europe and that is crucial for stability. In other words, the centre is holding."Holding maybe, but certainly not thriving. On core themes, Ms von der Leyen - and mainstream European politicians more generally - have adopted a defensive crouch, allowing authoritarian nationalists such as Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, to dictate the agenda. There have been U-turns and obfuscations on net zero targets, and deals with dubious regimes to keep asylum seekers out of Europe. Continue reading...

Here's who might be on the shortlist - including Doug Burgum, JD Vance and Marco Rubio - and what to know about each Republican hopefulThe guessing game is nearly over. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has said he has made a decision about who his running mate will be in November - but has yet to tell anyone who it is. Trump is expected to make the announcement any time between now and the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, starting on 15 July.Once again, the Republican primaries demonstrated Trump's strength among white men in rural areas, leading to speculation that he will choose a woman or person of colour to broaden his appeal in November. But media reports suggest that he is leaning towards North Dakota's governor, Doug Burgum, and the Ohio senator JD Vance - both white men. Then again, Trump loves nothing more than suspense and the element of surprise. Continue reading...

The 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was a registered Republican who donated to a progressive Super Pac

Director Kimberly Cheatle says she is confident' in plans as Alejandro Mayorkas slams agency over security failure'

The Nato summit offered a chance to work towards resolution. But instead, Starmer talked about long-range missilesWhen Keir Starmer entered Downing Street, a few foreign events were arranged to glamorise his arrival. He visited a Nato summit and promised to spend more on defence. He pledged 3bn a year for Ukraine, apparently from his back pocket. He was a little reckless and said his talks with Joe Biden had happened at pace" and were attentive to detail. But he said something else. He wanted to see British missiles for Ukraine fired deep into Russian territory. It sounded macho, but it was not Nato policy. The Ministry of Defence and Downing Street also later clarified that it was not current UK policy to allow such strikes.Leaders should beware the unexpected. When Tony Blair entered No 10 in 1997, few could have imagined he would one day leave it under a dark cloud marked Iraq". Britain's war in Iraq was dressed up - like Starmer's missiles - as vital to national security. In reality it was a bombastic gesture intended to make Blair look good in American eyes. Labour governments often feel the need to add trumpets and drums to their image. Continue reading...

Attendees at a Donald Trump campaign rally shouted to alert police officers when they spotted a man with a gun on top of a roof at the Pennsylvania venue.Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire at least one shot at Donald Trump, injuring his right ear, before a sniper positioned on a roof near the former president killed the gunman.FBI officials said on Sunday they were assessing the shooting of Donald Trump on Saturday as a possible domestic terrorism attack and assassination attempt

Neither tournament produced high-level play and proved the present fixture list is unsustainable for players and fans

Reform UK leader and former Tory PM part of British right's bid to deepen ties with American counterparts

Comments made by unnamed senior Democrat after Trump shooting draw stinging rebuke from progressiveAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a simple message for an unnamed senior Democrat who reportedly said the party had resigned ourselves" to a second Trump presidency: Retire."The anonymous Democrat was quoted by Axios on Sunday, the day after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania. Continue reading...

Fans appeared to breach the security gates at Hard Rock Stadium hours before the Copa America final between Argentina and Colombia. Footage showed fans pushing through gates, jumping fences and climbing through vents to enter the venue. Tickets were not being scanned and few police officers or stadium officials could be seen in the sea of people.

Classmates say 20-year-old was smart and shy, with no particular interest in politics or history of violence

Life in the political wilderness is grim, but you have the luxury of time. Use it to offer a constructive alternative to Labour

It's easy to grasp at shallow concepts of manliness - after all, beards are easier to grow than good relationships or life satisfactionBeards, it seems, aren't quite as sexy as they used to be. You may have heard people talking about the hot rodent boyfriend" - the conventionally good-looking, high-cheekboned, non-bearded skinny guys, all looking as if they could be the Sensitive One" in any given boyband. With the likes of Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi in Saltburn, Jeremy Allen White in The Bear and Timothee Chalamet (in everything) taking leading roles as today's screen heartthrobs, you might wonder whether the moment when beardedness was synonymous with attractiveness has long gone.It was only two years ago that journalists were declaring beards to be the trend that will never end", and only five years ago we were opining on how celebrities all look better with beards. But recent research suggests that even if people are split over whether beards are attractive or not, men with them still hold the court as the measure of manliness, as well as commitment in relationships. Continue reading...

The president called for the nation to come together, as the RNC kicks off in Milwaukee. Plus, a DNA discovery that could help cure pancreatic cancerGood morning.President Joe Biden said on Sunday there was no place in America" for political violence and called on the nation to reject extremism and fury" after the failed attempt on Donald Trump's life.What impact will the violence have on the race? US columnist Arwa Mahdawi argues it will almost certainly boost Trump's campaign, while the Guardian's Washington bureau chief, David Smith, writes that Trump's response - shouting Fight!" to his supporters - clinched his status as both messiah and martyr".What do security experts think about the assassination attempt? It warrants an intensive review" of Trump's security and a massive realignment", according to an ex-Secret Service agent.How widespread is this economic view? A Wall Street Journal survey of economists found the majority believe inflation, deficits and interest rates would be higher under Trump than Biden. Continue reading...

Footage from Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania shows Secret Service agents jumping on the former president to protect him as shots rang out.Agents could be heard shouting get down' as soon as the shots, which injured his right ear, were fired at Trump. Once he was on the ground security agents shouted shooter is down' after a sniper killed the suspected gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.While the former president was escorted off-stage, he could be heard repeatedly saying let me get my shoes', before chanting fight' towards spectators. Law enforcement agents are investigating what they suspect was an attempted assassination

The calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal. This is bad for the entire countryIs the Democratic party, the self-proclaimed party of liberal values and scientific data, morphing into a Maga-like cult in front of our eyes?Over the past few weeks, the calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met not with thoughtful critiques or reasoned counter-arguments but with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal. Continue reading...

After my nervous breakdown during a police stop, I learned a cottage industry exposes bodycam footage to online titillationA dear friend texted me in February, saying, Hey sweetie, the bodycam footage of you getting arrested got leaked on YouTube."My fingers typed out a quick reply - Omg lol haha what?" - as the rest of my body cramped in horror. Surely it wasn't anything too bad? I'd been arrested in Athens, Georgia, back in 2021, because my car looked like one that had been involved in a hit-and-run. It wasn't, but it then turned out that my driver's license wasn't a driver's license but rather a state identification card. A misunderstanding, but I was also in the middle of a crisis. Things went to hell in a handbasket, I went to jail overnight, but everything was eventually sorted out and I've had lots of great therapy since then.Mike McClelland teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University and is currently at work on a novel Continue reading...

From Taylor Swift to Zendaya, a host of famous women have boyfriends who are unashamedly joyful in cheerleading their partner's success. Maybe I could learn a thing or two ...Should we hype our partners? Elle magazine's celebration of the hype boyfriend" has me wondering. These cheerleaders for their other halves are a wholesome flipside to wife guys" (performatively uxorious men showing off their fidelity and general greatness). Travis Kelce is one, for his proud support for Taylor Swift; so is the actor Barry Keoghan, for the pop star and actor Sabrina Carpenter. Tom Holland, the original hype boyfriend", is singled out forseveral years' worth of celebrating Zendaya's ascent to global superstardom, accompanying her to events and posting a picture of her Met Gala outfit captioned with love-heart-eye emojis", says Elle. A masterclass in hype from afar."I agree there is something unashamedly joyful" about men not merely at ease with, but delighted by, their partners' accomplishments. Having read the poet Maggie Smith on how her husband's discomfort with her success contributed to their marriage ending, hype boyfriends are a heartening corrective. Continue reading...

One law enforcement official attributes assassination attempt on former president to fundamental security failure'

In Oval Office TV address, president forcefully condemns political violence and says country must strive for unityJoe Biden on Sunday forcefully condemned political violence and appealed to a nation still reeling from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump to reject extremism and fury".In a primetime address from the Oval Office, Biden said Americans must strive for national unity," warning that the political rhetoric in the US had gotten too heated" as passions rise in the final months before the November presidential election. Continue reading...

Last year, I finally realised that my habit of seeing everything through to the end was just a colossal waste of timeA couple of years ago, I was sitting in a creative writing workshop at my local university when the tutor made a confession. I only give a book a handful of pages," she said. If it hasn't hooked me by then, I put it down." I thought her approach seemed a bit hasty. Who knows what lies beyond a lousy opening. What if the book gets better as it goes on? What if a slow burn blossoms into a literary marvel? What if it doesn't," the tutor said to my objections. Anyway, you're young. You've got time to read to the end."Well, no argument on that last bit. But the thrust of her point didn't sit well. Leaving a novel unfinished felt criminal to me, almost an insult to the author who had slaved over it. If I started something, I wanted to make good on the time I'd already invested. And if I wanted licence to form an opinion on it, surely that required reaching the finish line to see everything it had to offer?Callum Bains is a freelance journalist Continue reading...

Photographer Evan Vucci has been covering Trump for eight years. When he heard gunshots at a Pennsylvania rally he ran towards the stageIt is a photograph that seems almost impossible: moments after a bullet grazes his ear, a former US president stands with his fist raised defiantly. The sky behind him is clear blue and an American flag flies overhead, fully in frame. The expressions on the faces of each secret service agents are clear and a smear of blood runs from Donald Trump's ear to his cheek.The photograph was taken by Evan Vucci, chief Washington photographer for the Associated Press. Vucci has been covering Trump since his candidacy eight years ago and in 2020 won a Pulitzer for a photograph of protests after George Floyd's death. Continue reading...

A dramatic extra-time winner from substitute Lautaro Martinez ensured Argentina retained their Copa America title, edging out Colombia 1-0 in a thrilling game in Miami.The Golden Boot winner's cool 112th-minute strike settled a scintillating game, which had simply lacked a finishing touch until his arrival on 97 minutes. Martinez latched on to Giovani Lo Celso's pass to dispatch the ball past a gallant Camilo Vargas in the Colombia goal. Continue reading...

This live coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is ending now. You can read all of our coverage of this story here.Before Saturday's attempt on Donald Trump's life, there have been multiple assassinations of US presidents.Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated, shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 April 1865, as he and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, attended a special performance of the comedy Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, the AP writes. Continue reading...

The president's calls to lower the temperature' demonstrated the power of incumbency, as both candidates strengthen their handsDonald Trump has the stagecraft but Joe Biden still commands the biggest stage.A day after the former US president displayed his preternatural genius for spectacle - forcing the Secret Service to pause so he could show bloody defiance after a near-death experience - the spotlight turned back to his beleaguered election opponent. Continue reading...

Best known for her roles in Beverly Hills, 90210, Heathers and Charmed, the former child star has died aged 53. We look back at some of her key roles

Witness Vatan Cana recounts the moments during and after Donald Trump's rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. 'As soon as they were escorting him, one of the secret services was like, there might be a second shooter. And this was where, like, everybody just like lost it, started panicking, running, screaming,' Cana says. The shooter, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired multiple rounds at Trump roughly 10 minutes into his campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Crooks was shot dead by US secret service counter-snipers at the rallySubscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube

FBI says no evidence suspected gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was operating as part of a larger group but motive remains unclear

Addressing the US the day after the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden said the shooting 'calls on all of us to take a step back' and 'take stock of where we are'. 'A former president was shot, an American citizen killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing,' Biden said. ' We cannot, must not go down this road in America'

Footage of a 2022 graduation ceremony shows Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old identified by the FBI as the suspect in what it called an attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump, receiving his high school diploma. Video from the ceremony shows Crooks with glasses in a black graduation gown and posing with a school official. FBI officials said that the shooter involved in the attempted assassination acted alone and it had yet to identify an ideology linked to the suspect

Lawmakers express shock at apparent security lapses, while Mike Johnson says House will conduct full investigation'

Next public appearance is tentatively set for Tuesday at the convention but sources caution that could still changeDonald Trump huddled with his senior advisers at his Bedminster club in New Jersey a day after surviving what federal investigators called an assassination attempt, preparing for the Republican national convention, which kicks off on Monday.Trump was keeping the same schedule as originally planned, according to sources familiar with the situation. His next public appearance is tentatively set for Tuesday at the convention though the sources cautioned that could change. Continue reading...

US president decries assassination attempt and urges Americans to unite during White House press conferenceJoe Biden said that that there was no place in America" for the sort of political violence that saw a gunman open fire on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania and plunge America's already fractious election campaign into new levels of fears over political unrest.There is no place in America for this kind of violence or any violence for that matter. An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation," Biden said. Unity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is more important than that right now. Unity. We'll debate and disagree, that's not going to change, but we're not going to lose sight of who we are as Americans." Continue reading...

In Butler, site of the ex-president's Saturday rally, residents grapple with atmosphere of political violence

Attack is likely to fortify sense of grievance his supporters already feel toward political elites as campaign seizes on opportunity to fuel narrative of persecutionIt will be the new must-have for every Donald Trump acolyte. The indelible image of the former US president, ear bloodied and fist raised as Secret Service agents try to rush him away from a would-be assassin's bullets, has already been turned into a $35 T-shirt with a simple legend: Fight! Fight! Fight!"The words are taken from Trump's entreaty as he was bundled off stage in the aftermath of the shooting which left one man dead at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. His supporters responded with chants of USA! USA!" and by angrily turning on the media, pointing fingers of blame at journalists. Continue reading...

The USA Olympic men's basketball coach Steve Kerr called the assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump a 'demoralizing day' for America highlighting a dangerous gun culture. Kerr said 'It's yet another example of not only our political division but also our gun culture, a 20-year-old with an AR-15 trying to shoot the former president. It's hard to process everything and it's scary to think about where this goes.' USA point guard Stephen Curry called for tighter gun control following the news. He said '[It] invokes a lot of emotions around things that we need to correct as a people, obviously gun control first and foremost'.Kerr and Curry call Trump assassination attempt sad day for America Continue reading...

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