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  • Small girl shelters from cold wind in front of Mexican and other flags at US-Mexico border

    Vulnerable Biden tries to straddle both sides with new asylum rules

    The president is under pressure from Republicans and progressives as humanitarian crisis builds and immigration remains a key voter issue
  • Mountains with snow above buildings

    Two skiers killed and one rescued after avalanche in Utah mountains

  • Large, strong, brown arms with two light tattoos are wrapped around a framed color photograph of a young black man in a blue military uniform with a peaked cap beside an American flag.

    Family of US airman killed by Florida police dispute sheriff’s narrative

  • An undated photo of a younger Lawrence Hecker.

    ‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church

  • sketch of woman with glasses

    Trump’s other criminal trials keep getting delayed

  • Migrants with interviews are allowed to enter the United States at the Chaparral pedestrian border on May 16, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico.

    Biden officials propose denying some migrants earlier in asylum process

  • Talk to the hand: Hawaii makes shaka state’s official gesture

  • Judge denies Trump team’s motions for mistrial and to modify gag order – as it happened

  • Netanyahu says Israel will ‘stand alone’ as White House says major Rafah invasion wouldn’t help efforts to defeat Hamas – as it happened

  • Alabama sets nitrogen-gas execution for man who survived botched 2022 effort

  • Louisiana university cancels graduation address by UN ambassador over Gaza

  • Trend of declassifying US intelligence poses serious risks, ex-CIA officials say

  • New York sees first US faculty-led Gaza protest encampment at the New School

  • Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

Donald Trump trials in focus

  • Donald Trump walks to the courtroom on 9 May.

    Hush-money trial
    Here’s what’s happened in the case so far

  • White man wearing blue suit and orange tie opens his mouth

    Analysis
    Trump’s strategy to delay cases before the election is working

  • Side-by-side photos of a white woman and a white man

    ‘Do you worry about STDs?’
    Stormy Daniels’s testimony on Trump affair off to lurid start

  • Older white man, orangey skin, dark suit, white shirt, red tie, frowning, standing in front of multiple American flags.

    Who's who
    The key players in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial

Opinion

  • two men sitting next to each other in front of israeli flags

    Will Biden finally stop enabling Netanyahu’s extremist government?

    Mohamad Bazzi
    • The new Boxberg solar park, built on a former open-pit coal mine in Nochten, Germany.

      I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

      Christiana Figueres
    • ‘Daniels has described the sex that followed as a grim affair, performed out of a begrudging sense of obligation.’

      Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

      Moira Donegan
    • Kendrick Lamar performing at Glastonbury in 2022.

      Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?

      Nels Abbey
    • Emma Brockes

      Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

      Emma Brockes

US sports

  • Frank Vogel won the NBA title with the Lakers in 2020

    Phoenix Suns fire Frank Vogel after early playoff exit in coach’s first season

  • Cavan Sullivan

    14-year-old Cavan Sullivan signs record MLS deal that includes Man City move

  • Mats Hummels scored the only goal of the second league between Borussia Dortmund and PSG.

    Champions League team of the week: Joselu and Hummels steal the show

  • Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever looks on during a preseason game against the Dallas Wings on Friday in Arlington, Texas.

    It won’t be easy for Caitlin Clark in the WNBA, sports’ most unmerciful league

US politics

  • NH Trump<br>Laconia, NH - January 22 : Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump shakes hands with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy, left, at a campaign rally at the The Margate Resort in Laconia, NH on Monday, January 22, 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr in Brooklyn, New York, on 1 May.

    RFK Jr says he’ll eat brain worms and ‘still beat’ Biden and Trump in debate

  • FILE - The Michigan State Police exit the Adams Township Hall after executing a search warrant, Oct. 29, 2021, in Hillsdale, Mich. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges Wednesday, May 8, 2024, against former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott and her attorney, Stefanie Lambert, who is pro-Trump, for allegedly allowing unauthorized access to a computer and its voter data in a search for fraud related to the 2020 election. (Corey Murray/Hillsdale Daily News via AP, File)

    Former US town clerk and her lawyer charged for allegedly accessing 2020 voter data in hunt for fraud

  • man in a red baseball cap shouting

    ‘Madman in a circular room screaming’: ex-aide’s verdict on Trump in book

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US business

  • Nils Pratley

    Cazoo car crash, skidding on a shares fall of 99.9%, ends an American dream

    Nils Pratley
  • A 737 Max plane in flight

    Boeing supplier regularly shipped parts with defects, whistleblower alleges

    • Man wearing black glasses, grey suit and purple tie

      Archegos founder Bill Hwang heads to trial over collapse of $36bn fund

    • FTX logo with coins

      Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX says it will be able to repay creditors full $11bn

    • A closeup of a row of cars in a sunny parking lot.

      Flame retardants in auto seats pose multiple health risks, research shows

Pictures & video

  • 'We will stand alone' says Netanyahu in face of threat from US to halt weapon deliveries – video

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly interrupted US defence secretary Lloyd Austin during a senate hearing

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    Protesters interrupt Senate hearing as US pauses bomb shipment to Israel – video

    Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly interrupted US defence secretary Lloyd Austin during a senate hearing
  • Two women, one carrying a child, wade through water with their belongings

    Pulitzer prize winner for feature photography 2024 – in pictures

    Associated Press photographers have been awarded a Pulitzer prize for their work chronicling the arduous journey of migrants and asylum seekers from central and South America to the US

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