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    Simone Biles wins gold in vault, Evenepoel doubles up in cycling road race

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    • Huw Edwards presenting the BBC news in June 2022.

      BBC
      Man at centre of Huw Edwards case says he felt ‘groomed’ by presenter

    • Olympic boxing row
      IOC puts out correction after president Thomas Bach confuses gender issues

    • ‘Free money’
      £4bn lost to fraud and error on flagship HMRC ‘innovation’ scheme

    • Essex
      Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault

    • London
      People urged to stay away from dolphin in Thames

    • Immigration and asylum
      Home Office urged to settle asylum claims over unlawful detention

    • US news
      Kyle Rittenhouse reverses course on not endorsing Trump after online pile-on

    • Climate crisis
      ‘This is climate change’: Scottish beach eroding by 7 metres a year

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  • Police clash with right wing protesters in Piccadilly Gardens on 3 August in Manchester.

    ‘A polarisation engine’
    How social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots

    Carole Cadwalladr
  • A teargas can lands in front of demonstrators during a protest against President Nicolás Maduro’s government in Caracas on Monday.

    Venezuela
    ‘Maduro has lost the streets’: in Venezuela’s barrios, former loyal voters risk all in protests

    Thousands from the capital’s favelas, once strongholds for the ‘revolution’, have faced a brutal crackdown after challenging last month’s presidential election result
  • A composite image of a man with a large Trump flag and a woman holding up a giant Trump playing card.

    Donald Trump
    Inside the Maga mind: Trump’s most dedicated fans explain their fervor

    From camaraderie to a shared political vision, these campaign rally regulars explain why they are all-in for Trump

Spotlight

  • Anthony Alderson speaks into a microphone

    Edinburgh fringe 2024
    Risk, reward and trigger warnings: the Edinburgh fringe chief's ‘balancing act’

    Anthony Alderson defends the high cost of tickets and says the big venues are sharing the risk with performers, as this year’s festival opens
  • Sam Altman with a digital design overlaid on his face

    AI
    OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid

  • Frank Skinner in 2024

    Flashback
    Frank Skinner looks back: ‘I liked being famous – I felt noticed for the first time. But at some point it has to end’

    The comic on his nightmarish first gigs, how he finally became sober, and dying by his own sword
  • Desiree Akhavan - American filmmaker, writer and actress. Hair and Make up by Alanna Chelmick.

    Lifestyle
    I was voted ‘ugliest girl’ at my high school. Would a nose job change my life?

    Filmmaker Desiree Akhavan on being crowned ‘The Beast’ by fellow pupils – and how her parents suggested a radical solution
    • Jeff Goldblum photographed in London June, 2024. Photographer: David Vintiner Photographer's assistants: Adam Orzechowski and Kristina Salgvik Stylist: Andrew T. Vottero Sittings Editor: Helen Seamons Grooming: Gareth Bromell at A Frame agency using Sisley Paris and 111skin Set design and build by wyliewood.co.uk All clothes prada.com

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      ‘It’s foolish to mask your age. Accept it. Present it’: Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s

    • Emma Barnett

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      BBC presenter Emma Barnett reveals her side hustle – colouring books

    • Elle and Jay

      This is how we do it
      ‘After trying spanking, role-playing and bondage, we decided to go back to basics’

    • The bedroom with an erotic mural by Damiano Groppi.

      Interiors
      Sex in the city: a designer’s ‘porno chic’ home in Milan

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    Sport

    • Cyriel Dessers fires in a shot during Rangers’ goalless draw against Hearts

      Football
      Rangers unable to break down Hearts in Scottish Premiership opener

      Goalkeeper Zander Clark helps Hearts deny Rangers and secure opening 0-0 draw in the Premiership
    • People walk cross the course this week at the annual Goodwood meeting.

      Horse racing
      ‘Glorious’ Goodwood loses racegoers in marketing stakes failure

    Opinion

    • Illustration: Thomas Pullin for the Guardian.

      Labour is still in its ‘phoney’ period. Far tougher tests await in autumn

      Martin Kettle
      When the honeymoon ends, Keir Starmer’s team will be judged on pressure points from the economy to North Sea oil drilling
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      This one weird trick might win Democrats the election

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • A man in a colourful jacket standing in front of an urban river

      I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

      Tim Adams
      When a juror was sworn in on a cupful of water from the Roding he made modern history
    • Donald Trump speaking at a Bitcoin event in Nashville on 27 July

      Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

      John Naughton
      In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge
      • Gershkovich waves at the bottom of the steps of a silver aircraft at night

        After 16 months behind bars, my friend Evan Gershkovich is free

      • Pro-choice protesters in Parliament Square, London in September 2022.

        Women are being spat on outside my abortion clinic. Where is the safe zone we’re legally entitled to?

        Michaela McDaid
      • A vehicle burning during violent protests in Southport, Merseyside, on Tuesday 30 July 2024.

        The grifters behind the Southport riot are only getting started – and they have a voice in parliament

        Gaby Hinsliff
      • Arwa Mahdawi

        When will Israel free the Palestinians it is holding hostage?

        Arwa Mahdawi

    Editorials & Letters

    • A Guantanamo detainee's feet are shackled to the floor as he attends a "Life Skills" class at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on Guantánamo Bay: betraying the victims of terrorism too

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      The Guardian view on reclaiming the Seine: hope for 21st century rivers

    • An AI illustration; 3d render human head profile filled with binary code.

      Letters
      We must be wary of the power of AI

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    • A hazy, pink and purple sunrise behind electricity pylons in the countryside

      Environment
      ‘There’ll be no countryside left’: Opposition to pylons puts UK carbon targets at risk

    • USA News - 01 Aug 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bailey Stover/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14615170e) Linda Fischer crouches and holds her head in her hands amidst the ruins of her home along Peregrine Road in Forest Ranch, California, on Wednesday. ''I can't do this,'' said Fischer, who lived in the home with her husband for 15 years before it was burned by the Park fire. USA News - 01 Aug 2024

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      ‘Here we are again’: a fire-addled California enclave reckons with disaster on repeat

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      Environment
      ‘Building something better’: the UK residents retrofitting their homes amid the climate crisis

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      Climate crisis
      Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave

    From the UK

    • Suella Braverman wears a teal green dress. She is pictured from the side and her hair is flying out behind her as she walks. In the background is a grey brick wall

      Conservatives
      How Suella Braverman went from darling of the Tory right to outcast

      One-time likely successor to party leadership has seen supporters desert her and rumours fly over a defection to Reform
    • An ambulance driving down a road

      Society
      NHS ‘missing’ thousands of mental health patients who are only seen by ambulances

    • A young man works at his laptop while holding a tissue to his nose

      ‘Hard to call in sick’
      A waitress, a teacher and a hybrid worker on presenteeism pressure

    • View of Southend seafront with beach, amusement arcades and a road

      Essex
      Police charge seven teenagers over Southend seafront violence

      • Health
        Don’t try this at home: experts warn against copying Olympic feats

      • Data protection
        Minister apologises for Northern Ireland special education needs data breach

      • Food
        British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming

      • Analysis
        Sun, sea and sales … Britain’s delayed summer arrives to thaw the retail chill

      • Crime
        UK motorist jailed for 10 years for killing pedestrian in high-speed crash

      • Strictly Come Dancing
        Amanda Abbington says she fears taking public transport after Strictly threats

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    • Lloyd Austin

      US
      Plea deal for accused 9/11 plotters revoked by Pentagon

      US secretary of defense pulls rank and withdraws agreements for trio accused of involvement in 2001 terror attacks
    • Nathalie Cabrol

      Science
      Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol: ‘I believe Mars still has some big surprises for us’

    • Aerosmith "Farewell Tour" Opener - Philadelpha, PA<br>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - SEPTEMBER 02: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith performs live on stage at the Wells Fargo Center on September 02, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake/Getty Images)

      Music
      Aerosmith retire from touring over frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal injury

    • Five men carry a body in a red plastic sheet across the sand with a restaurant in the background

      Somalia
      More than 30 killed in terrorist attack on popular Mogadishu beach

      • US
        Donald Trump ‘doing great’ after assassination attempt, says son Eric

      • Warren Buffett
        Berkshire Hathaway sells off large share of Apple and increases cash holdings

      • Technology
        Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

      • Spain
        Can Lamine Yamal change attitudes towards immigrants in Spain?

      • Ireland
        Irish police question man over woman’s death in County Cork

      • US
        Report reveals secret inquiry into alleged 2016 Egyptian $10m gift to Trump

    Culture

    • Sue Perkins.

      On my radar
      Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights

      The broadcaster and standup comedian on her love of Angela Carter, bewitching Budapest, and a pizza restaurant that fuses Indian and Italian cuisine
    • For G2 arts: Ben Elton, London. Photograph by David Levene 6/9/19

      This much I know
      Ben Elton: ‘I often felt a one-man cliché in the 80s’

    • A still from the animated film showing a hut on stilts on an island with birds flying by

      Review
      Kensuke’s Kingdom – impeccably elegant animation of Michael Morpurgo adventure

    • Mark Watson Edinburgh Fringe

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      ‘It ends with me crying in a pink cycle helmet’: Edinburgh fringe comics pitch their own Baby Reindeer

    • Killer Mike in a white t-shirt, arms raised, on stage in Quebec City, July 2024.

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      ‘A rumpled paperback showed me I was not alone’
      Charlotte Mendelson, Michael Rosen and others on the books that marked their coming of age

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      ‘We need to assert our power - or we’ll get trampled on’: the cleaner sacked for eating a tuna sandwich

    • Blind Date comp Anwit Pandit &amp; Kassondra Cloos

      Blind date
      ‘He let it slip that he has a thing for writers’

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      Credit cards: ‘My spending limit was slashed by 90%’

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      English GPs: share your views on the vote in favour of taking industrial action

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      The last Gullah sermon? End of an era looms for endangered language

      In South Carolina, Pastor Edward Alston is retiring, and Bible readings in Gullah – a unique dialect formed by enslaved people – face an uncertain fate
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      Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna: ‘I’m passionate about my culture’

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      Why conservative women dealing with infertility aren’t upset about Vance’s ‘cat ladies’ comment

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      Analysis
      Far-right call to arms over Southport has echoes of Dublin stabbings aftermath

    • Evan Gershkovich grins as he hugs his mother, with a woman clasping her hands in joy behind him, and others standing in the background barely visible

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