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Judge dismisses DoJ subpoenas against Walz and other Minnesota officials
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Judge dismisses DoJ subpoenas against Walz and other Minnesota officials

Federal judge rules subpoenas linked to immigration crackdown ‘issued for unlawful reasons’US politics live – latest updatesA federal judge agreed to quash the US federal government’s subpoenas of leaders in Minnesota issued during the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown on th...

Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis
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John Swinney says victims of Edinburgh knife attacks deeply traumatised
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John Swinney says victims of Edinburgh knife attacks deeply traumatised

Scotland’s first minister expresses solidarity with communities affected by apparently anti-Muslim violenceJohn Swinney has said victims of the allegedly anti-Muslim knife attacks in Edinburgh last week have been deeply traumatised by their experiences.Scotland’s first minister spoke to some of the...

Severin Carrell Scotland editor
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Keir Starmer has quit as prime minister – what will happen next in UK politics?
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Keir Starmer has quit as prime minister – what will happen next in UK politics?

Britain will soon have its fifth prime minister in four years. How did we get here and what challenges await Starmer’s successor?UK politics live – latest updatesBritain is to get its fifth prime minister in four years after the current incumbent of Downing Street, Keir Starmer, announced on Monday...

Ben Quinn Political correspondent
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Backing Ukraine, staying out of Iran and riding the Trump rollercoaster: how Starmer handled foreign affairs
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Backing Ukraine, staying out of Iran and riding the Trump rollercoaster: how Starmer handled foreign affairs

Analysts say foreign policy was an ‘area of relative strength’ for the prime minister – but goodwill with the White House soon evaporatedKeir Starmer inherited two wars and a country disconnected from the EU when he arrived in Downing Street – and that was before Donald Trump crash-landed at the Whi...

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
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Rail passengers told to only travel if essential amid red extreme heat warning
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Rail passengers told to only travel if essential amid red extreme heat warning

Network Rail tells people to check if services are running, with intercity trains expected to be worst affectedRail passengers have been told to only attempt to travel if “absolutely essential” and check trains are running, with extreme heat expected to disrupt services around Britain.Temperatures...

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
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US supreme court reinstates murder conviction in case of Etan Patz
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US supreme court reinstates murder conviction in case of Etan Patz

Appeals court had ruled Pedro Hernandez, 64, was wrongly convicted over 1979 disappearance of New York six-year-oldThe US supreme court has reinstated a murder conviction in the long winding case of Etan Patz, whose 1979 disappearance at age six from New York City garnered national headlines.In a 6-...

Maya Yang
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Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London
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Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers, linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group, change pleas on first day of expected six-week trial Two British cybercriminals linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group have pleaded guilty to a cyber-attack on Transport for London in 2024 that cost £39m and affected...

Dan Milmo
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Spanish PM’s former right-hand man jailed for 24 years for corruption
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Spanish PM’s former right-hand man jailed for 24 years for corruption

José Luis Ábalos found to have taken bribes on Covid-era public contracts in damaging blow to Pedro SánchezSpain’s supreme court has jailed the former transport minister José Luis Ábalos for 24 years for taking bribes on public contracts for sanitary equipment such as ‌face masks during the Covid pa...

Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
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Fatal shooting of one-year-old boy ignites tensions in Mississippi town
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Fatal shooting of one-year-old boy ignites tensions in Mississippi town

Death of Kohen Wiley is latest in series of troubling police encounters that have outraged community membersThe recent fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by police who were responding to a shoplifting call has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the small town of Senatob...

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The rise and fall of Keir Starmer: where did it all go wrong?
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The rise and fall of Keir Starmer: where did it all go wrong?

PM’s demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorateHistorians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of Keir Starmer that will most...

Jonathan Freedland
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Unhappy camper: man rescued after falling into toilet at California campsite
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Unhappy camper: man rescued after falling into toilet at California campsite

Unidentified man fell into vault toilet at Camp Edison while trying to retrieve sunglasses he dropped, officials sayAn unhappy camper spent about 15 minutes submerged in sewage in the putrid tank of a California campground’s vault toilet after falling in trying to retrieve sunglasses he dropped, acc...

Richard Luscombe
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European leaders pay tribute to Starmer as EU-UK summit is postponed
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European leaders pay tribute to Starmer as EU-UK summit is postponed

Ursula von der Leyen, Friedrich Merz and Volodymyr Zelenskyy say British PM helped increase securityEuropean leaders have paid tribute to Keir Starmer after he announced his resignation as the British prime minister, triggering the postponement of an upcoming EU-UK summit.The European Council presid...

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
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Brown skuas and giant petrels rarely make landfall. When they were found in WA, scientists feared ‘bad news’ for wildlife
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Brown skuas and giant petrels rarely make landfall. When they were found in WA, scientists feared ‘bad news’ for wildlife

Experts thought H5N1 bird flu would more likely reach Australia’s north. But an arrival from Antarctica had always been possibleGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBrown skuas and giant petrels are a common sight offshore in southern Australian waters in the winter months, but...

Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent
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Los Angeles schools superintendent resigns after FBI search warrants
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Los Angeles schools superintendent resigns after FBI search warrants

Alberto Carvalho put on leave after news of warrants but officials have not provided details of nature of investigationThe superintendent of Los Angeles public schools has resigned five months after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the LA Unified school district headquarters.Alberto Ca...

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Two million bees escape after truck carrying hives overturns in Texas
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Two million bees escape after truck carrying hives overturns in Texas

Accident was resolved fairly quickly and authorities said the bees were being transferred to local beekeepersTwo million bees escaped after a truck transporting their hives overturned and released the insects in Texas on Sunday.The accident happened near the town of Mauriceville in the east of the s...

Guardian staff
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Tesla drivers crash into swimming pool and home in separate US incidents
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Tesla drivers crash into swimming pool and home in separate US incidents

Texas man using ‘automated driving assistance system’ crashed into house and Connecticut man drove into pool while trying to parkSeparate crashes in Texas and Connecticut involving Tesla electric vehicles left a woman dead when a car barreled into a house; and a driver rescued after plunging into a...

Richard Luscombe
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Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual offences including rape
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Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual offences including rape

Former DUP leader convicted of 18 offences against two victims after high-profile trial that gripped Northern Ireland Jeffrey Donaldson has been found guilty of sexual offences against two victims who were children at the time of the abuse.The former Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader faces a po...

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
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