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Texas Democrat Talarico leads senator Cornyn and AG Paxton in Senate race poll

TPOR poll of 1,018 likely voters puts Talarico ahead of John Cornyn by three percentage points and Ken Paxton by fiveUS politics live – latest updatesDemocrats’ hopes of winning control of the US Senate in November’s midterm elections have been boosted by a poll showing James Talarico, the party’s c...

Robert Tait in Washington 3 months ago

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UK’s new ambassador to US said Starmer had been ‘on the ropes’ over Mandelson scandal

Mandelson’s replacement made comments in February, with diplomat also saying Israel has special relationship with USThe UK’s new ambassador to the US has described Keir Starmer as having been “on the ropes” over the Peter Mandelson scandal and said it is Israel rather than Britain that has a “specia...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor 3 months ago

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US tells embassies to deny visas to applicants who say they fear return to home country

Directive claims that new process is due to ‘the high number of aliens claiming asylum’ in the USApplicants seeking a temporary visa to the United States must now tell a consular officer that they have not experienced harm and do not fear returning to their home country, according to new guidance is...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington 3 months ago

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Singing activists disrupt NatWest meeting over ‘climate backtracking’

AGM briefly adjourned after protesters wearing T-shirts labelled ‘No more big oil’ burst into songThe chair of NatWest was forced to defend the bank against accusations of “climate backtracking” at a chaotic annual shareholder meeting, which was temporarily suspended owing to singing protesters.Not...

Julia Kollewe 3 months ago

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Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’

Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searchedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHundreds of evacuees from remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory have been housed behind temporary fences and denied visitors aft...

Reporting and photography by (A)manda Parkinson in Darwin 3 months ago

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Brittany Higgins criticises federal inaction as Victoria moves to protect victim-survivors’ counselling records

Exclusive: State government commits to strengthening laws as Higgins labels Albanese government’s response to women’s safety issues ‘disheartening’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Victorian government will strengthen laws regarding the use of victim-survivors’ confident...

Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent 3 months ago

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Guardian Essential poll: more Australians approve of Hanson’s party leadership than Albanese or Taylor’s

One Nation outperforms the Coalition for the first time, while the rightwing populist party’s leader has a positive rating among all age groupsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA majority of surveyed Australians approve of Pauline Hanson’s leadership of One Nation, giving he...

Josh Butler 3 months ago

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‘It feels like a betrayal’: anger as Apple to close US’s first unionized store

Tech giant accused of ‘cynical attempt to bust the union’ in decision to shutter location in Towson, MarylandWorkers at the first Apple store to unionize in the US are pushing back against the company’s decision to shut down the store by June, alleging the company’s decision is rooted in “a cynical...

Michael Sainato 3 months ago

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John Hinckley Jr calls Trump shooting at same hotel he shot Reagan ‘spooky’

Hinckley says ‘bad things keep happening’ at Washington Hilton and it was ‘not a secure place to hold big events’US politics live – latest updatesThe man who shot Ronald Reagan at the Washington Hilton in 1981 has said it was “spooky” for him to learn of Saturday’s shooting at the hotel during a pre...

Ramon Antonio Vargas 3 months ago

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Journalist Katie Phang sues acting attorney general Todd Blanche over Epstein files

Lawsuit alleges DoJ breached transparency law by withholding records on Jeffrey Epstein and over-redacting disclosuresTodd Blanche, the acting attorney general, engaged in a “brazen, shocking, and ongoing violation” of a law requiring the justice department (DoJ) to release the entirety of the so-ca...

Richard Luscombe 3 months ago

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Russian oligarch’s superyacht allowed through strait of Hormuz, source says

Billionaire Alexei Mordashov’s vessel, Nord, reportedly able to cross blockaded strait with US and Iranian approvalA superyacht owned by the Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov was able to transit the blockaded strait of Hormuz after undergoing maintenance in Dubai because neither Iran nor the US...

Reuters 3 months ago

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Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap deal

Sakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivatedThe Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the 2025 Sakharov prize winner, has been freed after five years in a Belarusian penal colony as part of a US-brokered multi-country swap deal....

Jakub Krupa 3 months ago

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Northern Beaches hospital handed to NSW government, ending troubled public-private partnership

Transition and legal handover of hospital from private operator Healthscope to NSW Health occurs at 7am on WednesdayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney’s Northern Beaches hospital is officially entering the public sy...

Penry Buckley 3 months ago

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One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

Though solar was initially incorrectly blamed for crisis, renewables have helped insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle EastOne year ago today, all of Spain, and much of Portugal, suffered through a blackout of unprecedented scale and duration. In mere seconds, a cascading seque...

Ketan Joshi 3 months ago

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Europe’s smaller airports ‘under threat’ if fuel shortages cause many cancellations

High fuel prices and passenger delays caused by EU’s EES entry-exit system causing problems, says trade bodyBusiness live – latest updatesEurope’s smaller airports may not survive if jet fuel shortages triggered by the Middle East crisis lead to widespread route cancellations, the industry’s trade b...

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent 3 months ago

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The personal pettiness of the Elon Musk v OpenAI trial

In theory, Musk and Altman’s court fight could pose key questions about AI safety – in reality, it’s motivated by money and personal grievanceSign up for the TechScape newsletter: our free technology emailHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardia...

Blake Montgomery 3 months ago

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Antiquities dealer who exposed thefts at British Museum dies aged 61

Ittai Gradel died of renal cancer days after museum awarded him medal for ‘very significant contribution’The academic turned antiquities dealer who exposed the theft of hundreds of artefacts from the British Museum has died aged 61.Dr Ittai Gradel, from Denmark, alerted the British Museum and the po...

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent 3 months ago

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UAE to quit Opec in blow to oil exporters’ cartel

Big win for Donald Trump, who has accused organisation of ‘ripping off the rest of the world’ by inflating oil prices Business live – latest updatesThe United Arab Emirates has quit the Opec oil cartel in a heavy blow to the group and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, amid the global energy shock c...

Reuters 3 months ago

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Man who heckled Shabana Mahmood dismisses ‘laughable’ white liberal claim

Protester says he migrated from Malaysia as a child and describes home secretary’s immigration policies as cruelUK politics live – latest updatesA protester who heckled Shabana Mahmood said he came to the UK as a child from Malaysia, describing the home secretary’s claim that he was a white liberal...

Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent 3 months ago

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Trump’s attempt to crush clean energy progress not going to plan, experts say

US generated more power from renewables like solar and wind than gas last month in a firstDonald Trump has wielded the full might of his administration to crush the progress of clean energy, which has called a “scam” and “stupid”. But there are signs this assault is not going to plan.In March, the U...

Oliver Milman 3 months ago

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Sri Lanka police arrest 22 Buddhist monks after 110kg of cannabis found in luggage

Customs officials say group allegedly hid 5kg of ‘kush’ in false walls of bags on return from Bangkok holidayTwenty-two Buddhist monks are in Sri Lankan police custody after customs officials found 110kg of high-grade cannabis concealed in their luggage, the largest ever drug bust at Colombo’s main...

Oliver Holmes 3 months ago

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First Thing: White House dinner suspect charged with attempted assassination

Alleged shooter, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, faces potential life sentence. Plus: the Americans renouncing their citizenshipGood morning.The suspect accused of trying to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner was charged on Monday with three federal crimes, including attempting to assassin...

Vivian Ho 3 months ago

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Michael smashes UK records for biggest biopic opening

Michael Jackson biopic debuted with £11.6m at the UK box office – almost double achieved by next-best Bohemian RhapsodyMichael, Antoine Fuqua’s authorised biopic of Michael Jackson’s life until 1988, before allegations of child sexual assault began to emerge against the singer, has performed margina...

Catherine Shoard 3 months ago

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Press dinner shooting conspiracy theories spread in era of fractured politics

Neither political party is immune to conspiracies in a time of intense distrust in government and media, experts say After an armed man attempted to breach the ballroom where Donald Trump was set to speak to White House journalists on Saturday, conspiracies immediately spread about whether the event...

Rachel Leingang 3 months ago

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