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• Harris and Walz hold Las Vegas rally as pair build on renewed 2024 enthusiasm

  10-08-2024 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Buoyant Democratic duo, energized by recent polling data, hope to win over voters in critical states such as NevadaKamala Harris and Tim Walz will wrap up their first week together on the campaign trail with a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, as the Democratic party seeks to further galvanize its base and win over undecided voters in battleground states such as Nevada.In what will be the vice-president and Minnesota governor’s fifth rally in five days, the pair will hope to continue buildin
  
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• Team GB medics save Uzbekistan boxing coach's life

  10-08-2024 23:42 via bbc.com
  
  Boxing coach Tulkin Kilichev was celebrating his athlete's gold medal when he went into cardiac arrest.
  
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• Donald Trump 2024 campaign says emails were hacked

  10-08-2024 23:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Spokesperson Steven Cheung accuses ‘foreign sources hostile to the United States’ of leaking internal documentsDonald Trump’s presidential campaign said on Saturday it had been hacked.Campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung released a statement about the alleged hack, following reports from Politico that it had begun receiving emails from an anonymous account with internal documents from the campaign. Continue reading...
  
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• Georgia Bell leads rush of medals as Team GB enjoy super Saturday

  10-08-2024 23:32 via theguardian.com
  The runner, who has set a new British record, only took up sport again to stay fit during pandemicGeorgia Bell, an occasional runner during lockdown who made it to the Olympic final of the women’s 1500m, set a new British record to take bronze as a rush of success including silvers in artistic swimming and taekwondo took Britain’s rivalry with France in the medal table into the last day.At the age of 30, this was Bell’s first Olympic appearance but in a lightning quick race in
  
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• Bell's brilliant bronze and relay stars boost GB medals haul

  10-08-2024 23:30 via bbc.com
  
  Great Britain's Georgia Bell clinches a sensational women's 1500m bronze on her Olympic debut at Paris 2024.
  
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• Celine Dion 'does not endorse' Trump use of Titanic song

  10-08-2024 23:27 via bbc.com
  
  A clip of the artist singing My Heart Will Go On was played at one of President Donald Trump's rallies.
  
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• Teenager going for a quick swim severely injured in shark attack

  10-08-2024 23:08 via foxnews.com
  
  A 15-year-old girl from Aspen, Colorado, was severely injured in a shark attack while scuba diving in Belize this week, according to reports and a fundraising page set up for the teen. Annabelle Carlson had just finished scuba diving with her family and a tour group and had gotten back onto the tour boat on Tuesday, when she decided to jump back in the water for a quick swim, the fundraising page set up by a friend of the family explained.The teen lost her leg in the attack, the Belize Coas
  
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• Trump campaign says its internal messages hacked by Iran

  10-08-2024 23:07 via bbc.com
  
  The claim, which the BBC has not independently verified, comes one day after a Microsoft report into Iranian hacking.
  
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• Final 13 medals and closing ceremony - what's happening in Paris on Sunday?

  10-08-2024 23:04 via bbc.com
  
  Your day-by-day guide to what is happening when - and who to watch out for - at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
  
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• How to survive a 1,200 mile walk with your teenage son

  10-08-2024 23:01 via bbc.com
  
  Finn, 13, and his mum Kerry-Anne have just completed a walk around the perimeter of Wales.
  
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• I had 25k of stock stolen on 'best' high street

  10-08-2024 23:00 via bbc.com
  
  Queen Street was recently named Britain's best high street, but some workers disagree.
  
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• Olympic gold 'greatest moment in my career' - Hayes

  10-08-2024 22:54 via bbc.com
  
  Emma Hayes says winning Olympic football gold with the United States is "the greatest moment" of her managerial career.
  
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• Crowds boo as sixth Banksy taken down just hours later

  10-08-2024 22:52 via bbc.com
  
  The billboard is in silhouette of a cat on an empty, distressed billboard in north-west London.
  
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• GB's Cunningham narrowly beaten in taekwondo final

  10-08-2024 22:45 via bbc.com
  
  Caden Cunningham narrowly misses out on becoming the first British man to win Olympic taekwondo gold as he has to settle for +80kg silver.
  
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• Seven taken to hospital after festival crowd surge

  10-08-2024 22:19 via bbc.com
  
  One woman, who was at the festival with her daughter, says the surge was "terrifying".
  
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• ‘And really, that song?’: Celine Dion rebukes Trump for unauthorized use of Titanic tune

  10-08-2024 22:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Singer jabs at ex-president for playing My Heart Will Go On at campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana on FridayCeline Dion, the Canadian pop icon, has rebuked and mocked the Donald Trump campaign for unauthorized use of her hit song about the sinking Titanic as a musical interlude during a recent rally.Dion, beloved by millions of people for her tear-jerking ballads, issued a strong and somewhat tongue-in-cheek statement on Saturday, a day after Trump played a video clip of My Heart Will Go On from
  
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• Lin follows Khelif by winning gold amid controversy

  10-08-2024 22:17 via bbc.com
  
  Lin Yu-ting becomes the second boxer in 24 hours to win Olympic gold, despite the ongoing row over her gender eligibility.
  
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• 'Amazed if City don't spend' - but youngsters can ease Alvarez loss

  10-08-2024 22:13 via bbc.com
  
  The performances from Manchester City's youngsters in their Community Shield win show they may be able to cover a potential exit of World Cup winner Julian Alvarez.
  
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• When Amber Haigh vanished, police planted listening devices in home of murder accused. This is what they heard

  10-08-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Robert and Anne Geeves recorded discussing how investigating police ‘can’t find nothing’Listen to Guardian Australia’s podcast Who Cared? The disappearance of Amber HaighGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastListening devices planted in the home of a New South Wales couple accused of murder reveal the pair discussing allegations the husband tied up and raped his teenage lover while his wife filmed. They make no admissions on the clandest
  
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• New chair Kim Williams says ABC should be ‘last broadcaster standing’ and News Corp’s criticism is ‘unbalanced’

  10-08-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Former News Corp CEO says Murdoch company’s obsession with the public broadcaster is ‘fairly unhinged’ and should largely be ignoredGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastKim Williams, the current chair of the ABC, wants the organisation to be “the last broadcaster standing” and one of his first acts has been to reverse the board’s decision to start reducing the corporation’s radio networks.“It is not av
  
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• Major job provider accused of trying to get jobseeker to sign off on false work invoice

  10-08-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Woman claims APM threatened to cut off her jobseeker payment after she refused to sign false time sheet. APM denies any wrongdoingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOne of the country’s biggest job providers is accused of pressuring a jobseeker to sign a false description of her employment status, an alleged deception which would have triggered a publicly funded payment to the company.The Victorian woman, who did not want to be named, claims the employ
  
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• AFP counter-terrorism operation that targeted 13-year-old with autism cost more than $500,000

  10-08-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  FOI documents reveal the cost of Operation Bourglinster, which was criticised for encouraging a child’s fixation on the Islamic StateGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian Federal Police counter-terrorism operation targeting a 13-year-old boy with autism cost more than $500,000, Guardian Australia can reveal.Documents provided under freedom of information laws show the total cost of Operation Bourglinster, the AFP investigation into a boy kno
  
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• GB win bronze in the men's 4x400m relay final

  10-08-2024 21:32 via bbc.com
  
  Watch as Team GB quartet made up of Alex Haydock-Wilson, Matt Hudson-Smith, Lewis Davey and Charlie Dobson, win bronze in the 4x400m men's relay final at Paris 2024.
  
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• More than 100 neglected animals rescued from home in southern California

  10-08-2024 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Dogs, horses, birds, goats and pet cockroaches were seized from a home in Riverside county and placed in careAnimal services officials in southern California have rescued more than 100 neglected animals including dogs, horses, birds and pet cockroaches from a home in Riverside county.Riverside county officials served a search warrant on Wednesday at a property that was discovered following the Nixon fire that burned more than 5,200 acres (2,100 hectares) in July, according to a statement release
  
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• Jess Phillips calls X a ‘place of misery’ as she vows to scale back use

  10-08-2024 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour minister says she removed social media platform’s app from her mobile phone when Elon Musk took overA government minister said she has scaled back her use of social media platform X, arguing it had become “a bit despotic” and was “a place of misery now”.Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said although she had previously been “massively addicted to Twitter”, referencing the former name of X, she had r
  
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• Emma Hayes reflects on winning Olympic gold medal with USWNT

  10-08-2024 20:55 via nbcnews.com
  Emma Hayes reflects on winning the Olympic gold medal with USWNT.Take a look at every goal the U.S. women's national team scored in the women's soccer tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, July 26 - Aug 11.
  
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• Uvalde shooting: uncle begged police to let him talk to gunman, 911 call shows

  10-08-2024 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Released audio reveals conversation between uncle and dispatcher shortly after suspect was killed by Texas policeThe uncle of the Uvalde school shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers begged police to let him try to talk his nephew down, according to a 911 call included in a massive trove of recordings and transcripts released by city officials on Saturday.“Maybe he could listen to me, because he does listen to me. Everything I tell him he does listen to me,” said the man, wh
  
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• Uvalde school massacre videos, 911 calls released after legal fight

  10-08-2024 20:46
  
  Uvalde officials had refused to release documents related to the school shooting
  
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• Judge in Maryland rules Baltimore 'baby bonus' proposal is unconstitutional

  10-08-2024 20:41
  
  The proposal in Baltimore would pay new parents $1,000 when they have a child.
  
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• ‘I guess we all look alike’: Trump accused of mixing up Black politicians in helicopter story

  10-08-2024 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-California state senator Nate Holden says he, not Willie Brown, was on helicopter that made emergency landingNate Holden, the former Los Angeles city council member and California state senator, said that he was on the helicopter ride with Donald Trump that was forced to make an emergency landing.In an interview with Politico on Friday, Holden, who is now 95, referred to the former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, who Trump insisted was on the helicopter ride, saying: “Willie is the sh
  
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• Bach to step down as Olympic chief next year

  10-08-2024 20:35 via bbc.com
  
  International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach says he intends to stand down after the end of his second term next year.
  
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• JD Vance 'absolutely' sure Trump thinks he could be president if needed

  10-08-2024 20:34
  
  GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance sat down with "This Week" co-anchor Jon Karl in an interview that will air in full Sunday.
  
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• About 15,000 join Belfast anti-racism rally as trouble flares in Derry

  10-08-2024 20:33 via theguardian.com
  More than 120 groups take part in demonstration after week of rioting and disorder Up to 15,000 people took part in a peaceful anti-racism rally in Belfast on Saturday, after a week of rioting and disorder in the city.But there was an outbreak of trouble on Saturday night in Derry, 70 miles from Belfast. Continue reading...
  
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• Ards mosque community 'nervous' after attack

  10-08-2024 20:27 via bbc.com
  
  An Islamic centre founder says his community will not leave after an overnight petrol bomb and graffiti attack.
  
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• US assets deployed to Mideast will help Israel but will unlikely alter Iran's mind on retaliation, experts say

  10-08-2024 20:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Iran may be reconsidering attacking Israel in retaliation for the alleged assassination of a high-ranking Hamas leader, but experts question the impact U.S. assets in the region played in the change of heart. After months of seeing the U.S. Navy patrol the region without answering Iranian escalations, Tehran is unlikely to be responding to fear of American reprisals, Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital. "Khamenei sees a
  
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• Team USA's 74kg wrestler Kyle Dake wins bronze in Paris

  10-08-2024 20:21 via nbcnews.com
  At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Team USA's Kyle Dake wins his 74kg freestyle wrestling Bronze Medal Match against Serbia's Khetag Tsabolov. The American takes home his second Olympic bronze medal. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, July 26 - Aug 11.
  
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• Wood 'rear-ended by lorry' as GB miss out in madison

  10-08-2024 20:18 via bbc.com
  
  Ollie Wood and Mark Stewart fall short of the medal places in the men's madison as Portugal win a historic first Olympic gold on the track.
  
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• Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, has died at 56

  10-08-2024 20:06
  
  Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died
  
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• Messages of welcome to be delivered to refugees and asylum seekers

  10-08-2024 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Brighton organisation is inviting UK public to hand write notes of ‘solidarity’ after far-right violenceA Brighton-based organisation has promised to deliver handwritten messages welcoming refugees and asylum seekers who have recently arrived in the UK in the wake of far-right violence and anti-immigrant unrest.Conversation Over Borders has invited the public to submit messages of “solidarity” online, which they plan to write by hand and deliver to people in accommodation
  
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• Watch: U.S. women's soccer celebrates gold after final whistle sounds

  10-08-2024 19:36 via nbcnews.com
  The U.S. women's soccer team won gold in the 2024 Paris Olympics after a 1-0 win over Brazil, marking the first time the women's team has won gold since the 2012 Olympics.
  
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• Would-be VoePass passengers say they missed doomed Brazilian flight over booking mix-up

  10-08-2024 19:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Two would-be passengers say they cheated death on Friday after a mix-up resulted in them missing their flight aboard the doomed VoePass airliner which crashed in Brazil and killing all 62 people on board. The two passengers were scheduled to fly on the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop but told a Brazilian news outlet how they failed to make the flight, which ended up saving their lives. One of them said they were part of a group of 10 who missed the ill-fated flight.One man, Adriano Assis, told
  
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• Top Tories fuelled riots with ‘divisive language’ on immigration, say party grandees

  10-08-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Veteran Conservatives on the party’s liberal wing have criticised the rightwards shift by some senior figures• Tim Kirkhope: The Conservative party has shifted too far to the right. We must fight for the centre groundTory grandees have accused senior figures in their own party of using divisive language that inflamed anger over immigration before the recent rioting, amid warnings that too many Conservatives have “turned a blind eye” to a shift to the right.The criticisms c
  
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• Video doorbells, CCTV, facial recognition: how the police tracked UK rioters

  10-08-2024 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Using an array of technology and intelligence tools, police are hopeful of tracking down key perpetrators, even those who were maskedThe hunt to find the rioters and the people who incited them began the moment the first brick was thrown. But the efforts to catch them will last weeks or months, and involve super-recognisers, specialist software, video doorbells and, in a few cases, criminal stupidity.A dizzying number of newly convicted rioters and online agitators were this weekend waking up in
  
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• Israel strikes on Gaza school site kill at least 80, Palestinian officials say

  10-08-2024 18:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Compound where about 6,000 displaced people were sheltering hit as many prepared for dawn prayersAt least 80 people have been killed in Israeli missile strikes on a school compound in Gaza City, according to the territory’s civil defence service, the latest in a string of attacks on schools that the Israeli army says are targeting militants using them as bases.The bombing of Tabeen school, where about 6,000 displaced people were sheltering, was hit when many people were preparing for dawn
  
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• Police in Ferguson make arrests amid protests on 10th anniversary of Michael Brown's death

  10-08-2024 18:46
  
  Police in the St. Louis suburb arrested two people and said more were likely.
  
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• DJs join Ravers for Palestine boycott of top Berlin techno club Berghain

  10-08-2024 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Faultlines in Germany’s response to Gaza war exposed by artists pulling out of gigs at renowned venuePeople create guides on how to get into Berghain and films about its doorman. But the world-famous nightclub now faces a boycott by some DJs over its stance on the war in Gaza.A group calling itself Ravers for Palestine first announced a boycott of the Berlin venue, along with several other clubs, in January, saying that remaining silent on Israel’s attacks in Gaza made it complicit.
  
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• Putin under pressure as Ukraine incursion continues, may give Kyiv bargaining chips in peace talks: experts

  10-08-2024 17:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Moscow has deployed troops to the Kursk region after a Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory that has raised major questions for the Kremlin and handed Kyiv a major opportunity. "Given the significant disparity of combat potential favoring Russia on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces appear to be switching to, or at minimum, intensifying, unconventional warfare, bringing war deeper into Russia," Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and author of "Putin’s Play
  
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• Bureau of Prisons employee dies after coming into contact with 'unknown substance'

  10-08-2024 17:11
  
  The employee was rushed to the hospital and later died.
  
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• Russia claims to have thwarted Ukraine’s advance in Kursk

  10-08-2024 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Fighting said to be continuing, with reports of power outages near nuclear power station, despite Moscow’s claim Russia’s defence ministry claimed it prevented Ukraine from advancing further on the fifth day of the unprecedented attack into the province of Kursk, though there were reports of regional power outages after an electricity substation was hit.Fighting was said to be taking place in three villages between seven and 11 miles from the international border – Ivashkovskoy
  
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• Israel-Gaza war: dozens reported dead after Israeli strike on Gaza school – as it happened

  10-08-2024 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereThe death toll from an Israeli air strike on a Gaza City school has risen to 80, Palestinian health authorities said.The Israeli military acknowledged the strike on the Tabeen school on Saturday morning, claiming it hit a Hamas command centre within the school. Hamas denied having a base at the school. Continue reading...
  
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