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Buckingham Palace to host US president during party conferences removing chance of Commons addressKing Charles has invited Donald Trump for an unprecedented second state visit in September, scheduling the trip for three days when parliament is not sitting and removing the possibility of the US president addressing parliament.Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that Trump would come to the UK from 17-19 September, soon after the House of Commons rises for its traditional break for the annual party conferences. Continue reading...

Chelsea's star player is on billboards in New York and two goals and an assist against PSG showed whyThe billboards dotted around New York had it right: Cole Palmer really is scary good. He sat at the Top of the Rock on Saturday, peering over Manhattan as part of a promotional shot with Paris Saint-Germain's Ousmane Dembele, and he was on top of the world on Sunday. He mooched around the pitch at a gobsmacked MetLife Stadium, playing as if he was having a kickabout with his mates, and he destroyed PSG. We're playing the European champions, are we? And they beat Real Madrid 4-0 the other day? Fine. I'll just score two identical goals midway through the first half. Then I'll come up with an outrageous assist to put us 3-0 up just before half-time. Will that do?This was a jaw-dropping performance from Chelsea's No 10. This was Palmer launching himself into global superstardom with an almost casual destruction of PSG. He has starred in finals before but this was on another level. Palmer bent the first final of Fifa's expanded Club World Cup to his will, shattering any concern over whether the Premier League's fourth best being crowned world champions diminishes the tournament, and has ended any debate over whether he is up there with the best in the world. Continue reading...

Noem says president's response to Texas floods shows how he wants to change US disaster relief agency to help statesKristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Sunday that Donald Trump wants to have the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) remade" instead of eradicated entirely.In a new interview on Sunday with NBC, Noem defended the Trump administration's response to the deadly Texas floods that have killed at least 120 people, saying: I think the president recognizes that Fema should not exist the way that it always has been. It needs to be redeployed in a new way, and that's what we did during this response." Continue reading...

Kevin Hassett says talks are ongoing' after US president announced 30% tariffs on goods from EU and MexicoDonald Trump has seen some trade deal offers and thinks they need to be better, Kevin Hassett, the White House economic adviser, said on Sunday, adding that the president will proceed with threatened tariffs on Mexico, the European Union and other countries if they don't improve.Well, these tariffs are real if the president doesn't get a deal that he thinks is good enough," Hassett told ABC's This Week program. But you know, conversations are ongoing, and we'll see where the dust settles. Continue reading...

Highly critical Senate committee report calls for severe disciplinary action against Secret Service in the futureA new Senate committee report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, described the events as a cascade of preventable failures" and called for more severe disciplinary action to be taken with the Secret Service in the future.In the 31-page, highly critical findings released on Sunday, the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee lamented the mishandling of communications around the rally and said Trump was denied extra security on the day. Continue reading...

French president says bloc should be ready for trade war after 30% tariff threat but other EU leaders call for calmThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on the EU to defend European interests resolutely" after Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on nearly all imports from the EU.It came as the EU moved to de-escalate tensions after the blunt move by Trump on Saturday. The bloc declared a further pause on 21bn of retaliatory tariffs until 1 August, dovetailing with the US president's new deal deadline. Continue reading...

By extension of the Trump-aligned manosphere', figures such as ESPN's Pat McAfee have upended US culture with their brash, hypermasculine punditryThis February, Pat McAfee was broadcasting live on ESPN, the most watched sports network in the US, when he aired a salacious rumor about the sex life of a teenage college student. Once a workaday punter with the Indianapolis Colts, McAfee is now the most influential pundit in American sports with an eponymous ESPN show, who has more than 11m followers across YouTube, X, Instagram and TikTok.To howls of merriment from his panel, McAfee spelled out the rumor centered on a 19-year-old female student at Ole Miss, a public university in Mississippi, as it was being reported by everybody on the internet": that the student had sex with her boyfriend's father. Ole Miss dads are slinging meat right now!" roared Boston" Connor Campbell, one of McAfee's sidekicks. Continue reading...

Relatives of Sayfollah 'Saif' Musallet, 20, say Israeli settlers beat him to death while he was on his family's farm near Ramallah in the West Bank, then prevented ambulances from reaching him for three hours. The Palestinian health ministry said another man, Razek Hussein al-Shalabi, 23, was fatally shot during the attack

The response to the demonstrations fell short. But they marked the beginning of a new era that calls for actionFive years ago, the entire world changed when we saw George Floyd's body on the pavement, a knee pressed into his neck - a murder, in broad daylight. Others might have simply witnessed a horrific incident, but Black people saw ourselves, and what it's like to live with a knee on our necks at all times. Because George Floyd wasn't the first - and unless we uproot this system, he won't be the last. The police have gone so far as to remind us of this by killing more people each year since George Floyd.But the uprisings of 2020 didn't erupt because of one killing. They were the breaking point of centuries of violence and neglect. Trayvon Martin. Freddie Gray. Sandra Bland. Oscar Grant. Breonna Taylor. Dreasjon Reed. Ma'Khia Bryant. Ahmaud Arbery. And far too many others whose names never trended. The message was clear: we've had enough. Continue reading...

Raids have left residents of LA's MacArthur Park scared to go to trusted local businesses - and outside in generalIt was an extraordinary show of force, displayed in a mostly empty public park.On Monday, a convoy of federal agents descended upon Los Angeles's MacArthur Park - in the heart of a predominantly immigrant neighborhood. Chaperones from a summer camp hurried children indoors, as protesters and media rushed to the scene. It was unclear whether immigration officials actually arrested anyone that morning. Continue reading...

It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and - as last week showed - deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political moodGreg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has had plenty of consoling words to offer following the tragic flash floods in the Hill Country that have killed more than 120 people, including 27 girls and counsellors at the stricken Camp Mystic.Our hearts grieve for this community and surrounding areas," he wrote on social media. May God bring comfort to every family affected." Continue reading...

A year ago the image of Trump's raised fist became a political touchstone, helping force Joe Biden from the race and fuelling a presidency like no otherBlake Marnell was standing in the front row, about 10 yards from Donald Trump, when the shots rang out. He watched the Secret Service pile on the former US president. I was able to see him standing and I could see the blood on his ear," Marnell recalls. When he put his fist up, I remember yelling, Yes! Yes! Yes!'"Sunday marks one year since the assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a week that changed US politics. Eight days later then-president Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the election race amid concerns over his mental and physical decline. Continue reading...

The first all-female card at MSG ended with a quiet finale to a great trilogy. But its legacy is loud: a reckoning with risk, glory, and the radical idea that women can choose bothThere are two salient pictures of the Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano trilogy: Taylor walking to the ring on Friday night under the green, orange and white bars of light, her neck like a tree trunk, eyes fixed ahead with stoic grandeur as Even Though I Walk played overhead - and the image, hours earlier, of Yulihan Luna bloodied and bruised, standing beside a ring girl whose hoisted breasts had been shellacked in oil, smiling rigidly at a camera that wasn't looking at the fighter.That's boxing. That's also being a woman. Continue reading...

Once the glitziest name in US soccer, the Cosmos are back in Paterson, New Jersey, with a historic stadium, a grassroots ethos and ambitions to build a real club from the ground upThere's a new New York Cosmos in town - in the town of Paterson, New Jersey, to be precise. One of the most storied names in American soccer has hit the reset button, finding a new league, a new city and a refreshed, community-first approach.While many high-profile new teams in US sports are parachuted in at the top of their league's hierarchy, this Cosmos revival feels different - some of that by design, some by necessity. Thursday's announcement at the newly restored Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson offered longtime fans and curious onlookers a glimpse into this fresh direction, and the reasons behind it. Continue reading...

Timekeeping used to be an issue for the Frenchman but now his rapid pressing is pushing him towards a Ballon d'OrOusmane Dembele is right behind you and way ahead of everyone, which is just where Luis Enrique always imagined him. At the end of Paris Saint-Germain's destruction of Real Madrid in the semi-final of the Club World Cup in New Jersey this week, the coach declared his No 10 the season's best player by far"; not so much for the 35 goals and 16 assists but for something more simple. So simple it has taken a decade to do. But then Didier Deschamps, his national team manager with France, did say that being late is a little habit of his".Well, it was. If there is a portrait that defines the PSG team potentially 90 minutes from winning it all, an image that embodies them and Dembele's transformation, it may be that shot of him poised, coiled, at the edge of Inter's area in the Champions League final. Toes on the line, his eyes narrow and fixed on Yann Sommer like a leopard ready to pounce, a sprinter listening for the gun. It is a scene repeated relentlessly, opponents made prey, Wednesday at the MetLife another episode. I told him he was pressing a lot; he told me he has to," Madrid's keeper, Thibaut Courtois, said. I get half a second to think." Continue reading...

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step upFor 40 cruel and bloody months, Ukraine has fought the Russian invader. Since February 2022, when Moscow's full-scale, countrywide onslaught began, its people have faced relentless, devastating attacks. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have lost their homes. Ukraine's industries, shops, schools, hospitals and power stations burn, its fertile farmlands are laid waste. Its children are orphaned, traumatised or abducted. Despite repeated appeals, the world has failed to stop the carnage. And yet Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, has continued to fight back.Ukrainian heroism amid horror has become so familiar, it's almost taken for granted. But as Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, escalates the war, raining nightly terror on Kyiv and other cities using record waves of armed drones, as US support and peace efforts falter, and as Ukraine's overstretched frontline soldiers face exhaustion, such complacency looks increasingly misplaced. A no longer hypothetical question becomes ever more real and urgent: what if Ukraine falls?Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

US president threatens further tariffs if Europe retaliates, and tells federal immigration agents they can use whatever means' necessary - key US politics stories from Saturday 12 July 2025Donald Trump has said he will impose tariffs of 30% on the European Union and Mexico from 1 August, threatening Europe that it would pay a price if it retaliated and telling Mexico it had not done enough to stop North America from turning into a Narco-Trafficking Playground".If for any reason you decide to raise your Tariffs and retaliate, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 30% that we charge," he wrote in a letter to the EU. Continue reading...

Agency director says conspiracy theories aren't true' amid backlash against FBI-DoJ decision to block release of filesFBI director Kash Patel has denied swirling resignation rumors over reported unhappiness at a justice department decision to close the book on Jeffrey Epstein after administration officials teased a big reveal earlier in the year.In a Saturday social media post, the agency director said: the conspiracy theories just aren't true, never have been. It's an honor to serve the President of the United States - and I'll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me." Continue reading...

Serving Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, Gergen was a speechwriter and communications directorDavid Gergen, a veteran of Washington politics and an adviser to four presidents, Republican and Democrat, in a career spanning decades in government, academia and media, has died. He was 83.Gergen was perhaps best known for a line he summoned for then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan for a TV debate with Jimmy Carter: Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Continue reading...

xAI's lengthy apology for antisemitic remarks says they apologize for the horrific behavior many experienced'Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has issued an apology after its chatbot Grok made a slew of antisemitic and Adolf Hitler-praising comments earlier this week on X.On Saturday, xAI released a lengthy apology in which it said: First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced." Continue reading...

Deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaignDonald Trump is on a roll. The big, beautiful bill" is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.2024 is published in the US by Penguin Random House Continue reading...

British ambassador to US believes universal levy unlikely to change but there is scope' for negotiations in some sectorsThe 10% tariffs on most UK goods imported into the US are likely here to stay", according to Lord Mandelson.The British ambassador to the US said the universal 10% tariff" was unlikely to change but that there was scope" for negotiations in different sectors and industries, such as technology. Continue reading...

Defender has gone from villain to hero at Chelsea and can embellish his cult status by lifting the Club World CupMarc Cucurella is thinking back to his early days at Chelsea. Signed from Brighton for 62m in August 2022, the left-back struggled to adapt to life at a big club. Chelsea were experiencing teething problems during the opening months of the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership and it was Cucurella's misfortune to be held up as a symbol of the club's apparent malaise.It is funny to think that the Spain international was booed on to the pitch by Chelsea supporters before a Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund in February 2023. Cucurella is a cult figure these days. He is loved by the Chelsea faithful and has come a long way since that difficult first season at Stamford Bridge. Continue reading...

Iga Swiatek took only 57 minutes to win her first Wimbledon title and sixth grand slam after delivering a brutal masterclassRoad to the final. When Anisimova whitewashed Yulia Putintseva 6-0, 6-0 in the first round, perhaps we should have known she was going to do something special this fortnight. She dealt well with the pressure of being the favourite in every round until the semi-finals, where she dealt even better with the world No 1 Sabalenka. Swiatek, meanwhile, hasn't dropped a set since the second round, gaining confidence and momentum as the rounds have gone by on a surface that had previously befuddled her.Anisimova

Owners of 1st Edition Collectibles in New Bedford say suspect broke in to courtyard and smashed window in doorMore than $113,000 worth of rare Pokemon cards have been stolen from a Massachusetts shop, according to the store's owners.Officers responded to a reported break-in at 1st Edition Collectibles, a trading card shop in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. The break-in reportedly happened around 2.30am and the thief stole a handful of Pokemon cards including five to seven rare cards and a few vintage boxes. Continue reading...

A sold-out crowd of 19,721, split almost evenly between Irish and Puerto Rican fans, packed Madison Square Garden on Friday night for the first ever all-women's boxing card to be held at the storied venue

The president made the announcement on social media, even as the EU was hoping for a trade agreementDonald Trump announced on Saturday that goods imported from both the European Union and Mexico will face a 30% US tariff rate starting 1 August, in letters posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.The tariff assault on the EU came as a shock to European capitals as the European Commission and the US trade representative Jamieson Greer had spent months hammering out a deal they believed was acceptable to both sides. Continue reading...

The billionaire says the America party will challenge the system, but third-party bids rarely make it far in the USYou want a new political party and you shall have it!" Elon Musk declared in early July.The world's richest man is never one to shy away from grandiose statements, and he continued: When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom." Continue reading...

Lara Trump, a Fox News host, is said to be mulling a Senate run. The Republican National Committee chair can't waitOnce upon a time, before she retired to Florida, Ivanka Trump reportedly had her sights set on being the first female US president. According to a book about the first Trump administration by Michael Wolff, Ivanka made a pact with her husband, Jared Kushner, that if sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she'd be the one to run for president".Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Josh Earnest says president brought staff into Oval Office to hear address stressing national unity: It was very poignant'The hardest day on the job for the White House press secretary for most of Barack Obama's second term was right after Donald Trump was first elected president, he recently revealed during a fireside chat at a journalism convention.Speaking at the 2025 National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference in Chicago, Josh Earnest said it was grueling for the Obama administration to realize it would have to follow through on promises of a peaceful transfer of power despite spending the 2016 election cycle offering dire warnings about what could or would happen if Donald Trump were given the keys to the Oval Office". Continue reading...

Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stallAs US regulators restrict Covid mRNA vaccines and as independent vaccine advisers re-examine the shots, scientists fear that an unlikely target could be next: cancer research.Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines have shown promise in treating and preventing cancers that have often been difficult to address, such as pancreatic cancer, brain tumors and others. Continue reading...

Immigrants are living in brutal conditions at the Florida detention camp, built on a sense of scripted unrealityThe concentration camp seems to have been erected largely for the sake of a photoshoot. Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis - eager to rehabilitate his reputation among the Maga right in the wake of his humiliating and disastrous 2024 presidential run - has been among the most eager foot soldiers of the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda. He has dedicated funding to capturing migrants and holding them at facilities like the Krome detention center in Miami, where dramatic overcrowding, the absence of air conditioning, rapidly spreading disease, and a shortage of food, sanitation, and medical care have contributed to an outcry among immigrants imprisoned there and the deaths of multiple detainees, including a 29-year-old man from Honduras, a 44-year-old man from Ukraine and a 75-year-old Cuban national who had lived in the United States since his teens.For his efforts, DeSantis has received praise from Donald Trump and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. This kind of abuse of immigrants - rounding them up, cramming them into detention centers that are little more than cages, and letting them die there of heat, illness or neglect - is exactly the kind of policy that aligns with the Trump administration's aims. Continue reading...

But White House is backing away from pledge to phase out' disaster-relief agency, even as key leaders have leftAs the cleanup continues from this month's torrential rain storms and flooding in Texas that left more than 120 dead, recently departed officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) say the organization is dangerously underresourced and overstretched in the event of further natural catastrophes.A mass staff exodus, plunging morale and a loss of key leaders has left the main US disaster-relief organization ill-equipped to cope with an anticipated deadly spate of storms in the current hurricane season, former agency insiders say. Continue reading...

Club World Cup final features two youth-driven teams but Enzo Maresca's side believe they can hurt favouritesChelsea have already made more than 80m from their Club World Cup adventure but they can achieve something priceless against Paris Saint-Germain. This goes beyond gaudy gold badges and money in the bank. The season with no end is almost over, the final of the tournament that nobody asked for is here and while Chelsea have no intention of getting carried away if they triumph in New Jersey on Sunday it is also the case that there would be no better way to demonstrate that they are on to something with their youth-driven project than by beating Luis Enrique's awesome PSG.Easier said than done, of course. One school of thought is that Chelsea will have done well if they leave MetLife Stadium with their dignity intact. Premier League opponents hold no fears for PSG, whose path to Champions League glory was paved by wins over Manchester City, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal, while they were in terrifying form against Real Madrid on Wednesday. It finished 4-0, but it could have been 10; PSG really were that good and the reality is there will only be one outcome if they hit those heights again. Continue reading...

Palestinians continue to hold on to the practice we call sumoud - refusing to give up or leave - despite the world turning its back on usOver the past 21 long months of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, voices all over the world have decried the demise of international law and the rule-based order. And indeed, the facade of Israel's adherence to international law has vanished and policies that constitute war crimes are now brazenly declared.This week, Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, has shared plans to forcibly move Palestinians into a camp in the ruins of Rafah. Once they enter, they cannot leave. In other words, a concentration camp, which by definition is an internment centre for members of a national group (as well as political prisoners or minority groups) on the grounds of security or punishment, usually by military order. Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer, was quoted in the Guardian as saying that Katz laid out an operational plan for a crime against humanity". Hundreds have been killed and thousands wounded trying to access food.Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer and writer, and founder of the human rights organisation Al-Haq. His latest book is Forgotten: Searching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, with Penny Johnson. Continue reading...

Judge issues temporary block in seven counties including Los Angeles after lawsuit accuses government of systematically targeting brown-skinned peopleA federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles.Judge Maame E Frimpong on Friday blocked the administration from using what has been called unconstitutional tactics in raids after a lawsuit was filed by immigrant advocacy groups last week. Continue reading...

Thomas Wenski says it would be more financially sensible and more morally acceptable to expand legal pathways'. This blog is now closed.The US state department is firing more than 1,300 employees in line with the Trump administration's reorganization plan initiated earlier this year.

President praises flood response while state department begins issuing first of more than 1,350 termination notices - key US politics stories from Friday 11 July 2025Donald Trump has defended the state and federal response to deadly flooding in Texas, while administration officials continue to dodge questions about his plans to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).Speaking at a round table in Kerrville, Texas, Trump said Fema deployed multiple emergency response units and praised all the officials involved in what he said was an effective and swift response. Continue reading...

Since disaster that has killed at least 120 people, US president has remained quiet about promises to axe relief agencyDuring a trip on Friday to look at the devastation caused by the catastrophic flooding in Texas, Donald Trump claimed that state and federal officials had done an incredible job", saying of the disaster that he had never seen anything like this".The trip comes as he has remained conspicuously quiet about his previous promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief. Continue reading...

Jaime Alanis died after sustaining injuries during raid where authorities say they arrested about 200 peopleA farmworker died Friday from injuries that he sustained a day earlier in raids on two California cannabis farm sites as US immigration authorities confirmed they arrested 200 workers after a tense standoff with authorities.Jaime Alanis's death was confirmed in a social media post by the United Farm Workers advocacy group. We tragically can confirm that a farm worker has died of injuries they sustained as a result of yesterday's immigration enforcement action," the post read. Continue reading...

Brant Frost IV's First Liberty Building and Loan lied to investors about lending high-interest loans to small firmsA prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140m, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed on Thursday.The civil lawsuit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said First Liberty Building and Loan, controlled by Brant Frost IV, lied to investors about its business of making high-interest loans to companies. Instead, investigators said, it raised more money to repay earlier investors. Continue reading...