19 minutes ago Biden fights back tears as he thanks Kennedy family for support after son’s death

Joe Biden fought back tears as he thanked the Kennedy family for their support after the death of his son Beau.

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38 minutes ago Boy killed in Newcastle house explosion ‘named’ after second body found

Six people, five adults and a child, were taken to hospital following the incident and a man in his 30s remains in a critical but stable condition.

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46 minutes ago Audi driver, 21, jailed for crash with police car after driving the wrong way on the M65

Zafar’s Audi went the wrong way on the roundabout leaving the motorway and collided head on with a liveried police car

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83 minutes ago NFL owner says Trump was like ‘having a drunk fraternity brother’ become president

Robert Kraft reflected on earlier friendship with Republican presidential nominee – but told Charlamagne tha God he has not spoken to him since the Capitol riot

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87 minutes ago Kamala Harris hits out at Donald Trump for saying January 6 riot was a ‘day of love’ – US politics live

Vice-president says Trump supporters’ assault on US Capitol was ‘attack on democracy’ because ex-president did not like 2020 election resultDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsHere are some key takeaways from Kamala Harris’s Fox News interview, the Guardian’s Helen Sullivan reports:1. Immigration Continue reading...

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88 minutes ago Footage shows moment punches are thrown in clash between bouncers and clubgoer

The confrontation in Cardiff city centre has sparked a police probe

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1 hour ago Hotel manager said Liam Payne was ‘breaking everything in the room’ in 911 call

Payne died after falling from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Hotel in the Palermo area of Buenos Aires.

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2 hours ago Police insisted second Salisbury novichok attack was drug overdose, inquiry told

Inspector dismissed emergency services’ concerns that incident was similar to Skripal poisonings, KC saysPolice officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.The UK government believes the novichok was brought into Britain by agents tasked by Vladimir Putin to target the former spy Sergei Skripal, who had been settled in Salisbury after a spy exchange, the inquiry heard earlier this week. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned on 4 March 2018 and both survived. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Shocking moment police officer clings onto car for more than 700 metres as suspect speeds off at 60pm

Reece Wheeler, 24, was sentenced to four years in prison after he drove at high speed with the copper clinging on to his door for more than 700 metres.

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2 hours ago ‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but for the truly horrible origin story read the book | Emma Brockes

Lucky Loser, by two New York Times journalists, reveals just how much Donald owes to his father (spoiler alert: everything) The singular piece of publicity most helpful to The Apprentice, a film about Donald Trump that opened in the US last week and opens in the UK this Friday, is the fact its subject tried to block the movie’s release. The title refers to Trump’s adventures as a young man under the informal mentorship of the notorious New York lawyer Roy Cohn – former chief counsel for Joseph McCarthy, among other things – and from whom, the movie suggests, Trump picked up much of his conniving and ruthlessness. Trump is so lurid in life that he may be impossible to fictionalise, but the movie has a good crack. That it fails leaves one feeling vaguely cheated of an opportunity to deepe...

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