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House defeats bid to end military aid to Israel as over 100 Democrats vote for it
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House defeats bid to end military aid to Israel as over 100 Democrats vote for it

Backing by 103 Democrats underscores how sentiment in party towards Israel and Netanyahu government has souredThe House on Wednesday defeated a measure to slash military aid to Israel, but more than 100 House Democrats voted for it in a significant rebuke of the longtime US ally as accusations that...

Chris Stein in Washington
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House Republicans resurrect Save America Act by adding it to spending bill
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House Republicans resurrect Save America Act by adding it to spending bill

Effort is latest attempt to pass bill that seeks to ban mail-in ballots and imposes voter identification requirementsHouse Republicans on Wednesday made another attempt to answer Donald Trump’s demand for new restrictions on voting nationwide by linking the measure to an unrelated spending bill and...

Chris Stein in Washington
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Mexico asks US state attorneys general to investigate immigrant ICE deaths
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Mexico asks US state attorneys general to investigate immigrant ICE deaths

Since start of Trump’s second term, 14 Mexican immigrants have died in ICE custody and three in agency operationsMexico formally requested that US state attorneys general criminally investigate cases of immigrants who have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody or during raids, the Mexi...

Associated Press
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Ukraine’s popular defence minister
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Ukraine’s popular defence minister

Mykhailo Fedorov, credited with transforming the ministry, ousted in reshuffle after six months in postVolodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Ukraine’s popular defence minister, despite pleas from foreign partners and civil society for him to keep his job, as part of wide-ranging government reshuffle.In...

Luke Harding in Kyiv and Artem Mazhulin
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Police charge 14-year-old boy over alleged terror plot targeting London mosques
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Police charge 14-year-old boy over alleged terror plot targeting London mosques

‘Documents of concern’ found at child’s home in the capital, with no other suspects soughtA 14-year-old boy from south London has been charged with an offence linked to “extreme rightwing terrorism” after a police search uncovered an alleged plot to target two mosques.The boy was arrested on 9 July...

Harry Cockburn
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New $1 coin featuring Trump in production at US Mint, treasury says
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New $1 coin featuring Trump in production at US Mint, treasury says

Coin commemorating 250th anniversary will be released this fall and will mark the first time a living president appears on currencyThe treasury department announced Wednesday that the US Mint has started producing a new commemorative $1 coin featuring Donald Trump as part of the nation’s 250th anniv...

Marina Dunbar and agency
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Shabana Mahmood expected to be named Andy Burnham’s chancellor
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Shabana Mahmood expected to be named Andy Burnham’s chancellor

The home secretary is the frontrunner for the role ahead of ‘risky’ Ed Miliband, according to senior Labour figuresShabana Mahmood has emerged as the frontrunner to become Andy Burnham’s chancellor after a fierce briefing war over the prospect of Ed Miliband being appointed to the powerful role.Seni...

Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot and Kiran Stacey
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Germany warns US against election interference after it announces grants scheme
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Germany warns US against election interference after it announces grants scheme

State department says plan will provide funding to ‘address national sovereignty, migration, censorship and lawfare’Friedrich Merz has warned Donald Trump’s administration against interfering in German elections after the US state department announced a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe.T...

Ben Quinn and Aisha Down
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Jude Bellingham lookalikes compete for a £1,966 Deliveroo voucher
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Jude Bellingham lookalikes compete for a £1,966 Deliveroo voucher

The match-winning England striker is ‘a good ambassador for young people’, says one contestantAll together now, with arms in the air: One Jude Bellingham, there’s only one Jude Bellingham …Unless, that is, you happened to find yourself in Shoreditch, east London, on Wednesday, where a dozen young me...

Esther Addley
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Andy Burnham signals a wealth tax is off the agenda for now
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Andy Burnham signals a wealth tax is off the agenda for now

Incoming prime minister says he doesn’t want to ‘create new divisions’ as Mahmood is tipped to be chancellorAndy Burnham has signalled that he will not increase wealth taxes immediately after becoming prime minister, easing concerns among the business community but limiting his economic room for man...

Kiran Stacey Policy editor
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Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium
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Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium

AI-friendly president shared a post saying governor Kathy Hochul should scrap the one-year policy ‘IMMEDIATELY’Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive facilities that power artificial intelligence....

Blake Montgomery in New York
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Extreme temperature warnings in place as ‘heat dome’ bakes US
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Extreme temperature warnings in place as ‘heat dome’ bakes US

Warnings about dangerous, unhealthy air also extended from Minnesota to New York as wildfires rage in TorontoExtreme heat warnings are in place for large swaths of the United States this week, as an unusual weather pattern eclipses record temperature highs.In Billings, Montana, residents experienced...

Uwa Ede-Osifo
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Venezuelan man becomes 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year
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Venezuelan man becomes 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year

Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, found ‘unresponsive’ while being transferred between detention facilities in GeorgiaAnother person has died in federal immigration custody this week in Georgia, officials announced on Wednesday, His is the 22nd death in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody...

José Olivares
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Florence Welch’s mother says cuts to arts and humanities ‘absolutely tragic’
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Florence Welch’s mother says cuts to arts and humanities ‘absolutely tragic’

Exclusive: Prof Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, believes her daughter’s success shows value of arts educationOne of Britain’s leading university vice-chancellors has described sweeping cuts to arts and humanities across the sector as “absolutely tragic”, citing her famous daught...

Sally Weale Education correspondent
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Chaos and confusion bring US no closer to resolution on strait of Hormuz
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Chaos and confusion bring US no closer to resolution on strait of Hormuz

Five months of U-turns and false boasts leave Donald Trump in worse position than when he startedDonald Trump has taken the war with Iran into a new, murkier phase as the two sides move further and further from the vague memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on 17 June.And as during the opening p...

Patrick Wintour
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Search continues for three people missing after Alcatraz boating disaster
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Search continues for three people missing after Alcatraz boating disaster

One person dead after pontoon boat involved in memorial service capsized in San Francisco Bay on TuesdayRescuers were still searching for three missing people on Wednesday after a boat involved in a memorial service sank in the cold, fast-moving waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island, auth...

Guardian staff and agencies
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Trump’s barbed eulogy for Lindsey Graham reveals how fragile his ego is
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Trump’s barbed eulogy for Lindsey Graham reveals how fragile his ego is

In interviews and social posts, the loyalty-obsessed president couldn’t help but weave criticism into his praiseThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every WednesdayNormal procedure in the immediate aftermath of an unexpected death is to shower...

Adam Gabbatt
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