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  • Martin Shkreli

    Martin Shkreli accused of copying one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album

    Digital art collective that now owns album sues convicted pharmaceutical executive for making copies
  • Treasury secretary Janet Yellen

    Live
    US announces new sanctions on Russia over military invasion of Ukraine – live

  • Young women huddle under umbrellas and smile.

    Southern Florida sees record-breaking storms with up to 8in of rainfall

  • A rare white buffalo calf

    Rare white buffalo born at Yellowstone prompts Lakota Sioux celebration

  • A single color illustration of a hand holding a mobile phone, its screen covered with three dripping blobs.

    They post constant crime news from police scanners. But does it feed into rightwing fears?

  • a glass of soda with ice and a straw

    Is aspartame bad for you? What we know about the sweetener’s health risks

  • ‘Gutted’: champion eater Joey Chestnut excluded from New York hotdog-eating contest

  • I was struggling with sex in my first queer relationship. Then we started taking mushrooms

  • First Thing: Hunter Biden found guilty in federal gun case

  • Trump on Trial: truth or consequences

  • ‘We’re not backing down’: US grocery workers take on Kroger with strike vote

  • Who is Mr X? How a true crime podcast helped identify a 1975 murder victim

  • Millions of US voters lack access to documents to prove citizenship

  • ‘People will die’: Biden’s border order will worsen migrants’ risks, experts say

Behind the magic

  • A truck trailer belonging to magician David Copperfield sits outside his warehouse in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    The FBI investigated David Copperfield for two years
    The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

  • Epstein head Main Image

    ‘Magic David called’
    David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein

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    David Copperfield
    Former teen models accuse magician of misconduct

  • David Copperfield.

    ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’
    Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

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Opinion

  • Elon Musk

    Is the Tesla board in charge of a public company or the Elon Musk fan club?

    Nils Pratley
    • Rishi Sunak Launches The Conservative Party's General Election Manifesto<br>NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JUNE 11: Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak delivers a speech to launch the Conservatives' general election manifesto at Silverstone Circuit on June 11, 2024 in Northampton, United Kingdom. Financial security for working people topped the Conservatives' list of pledges, which also includes tax cuts, measures to curb migration and boost the economy. (Photo by Benjamin Cremel - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

      Rish! seems determined to achieve total humiliation. This isn’t politics, it’s art

      John Crace
    • Photo shows two men holding a Straight Pride banner in Boston.

      Consider the plight of that poor oppressed majority: heterosexuals

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • *** BESTPIX *** TOPSHOT-FRANCE-GERMANY-POLITICS-HISTORY-WWII<br>TOPSHOT - French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stand together as they pay their respects during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the massacre of 643 persons by Nazi German forces, in Oradour-sur-Glane, southwestern France, on June 10, 2024. On June 10, 1944, just four days after the Allied forces landed on the Normandy coast on D-Day, 643 inhabitants, including 247 children, were massacred in the tranquil village of Oradour-sur-Glane in southwestern France, by German Waffen-SS soldiers belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich". (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

      I feel squeamish talking to Germans about the war. Is it a British thing?

      Adrian Chiles
    • A set of gates leading to Harvard's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

      We watched Ivy League law reviews censor Palestinian scholars first-hand

      Erika Lopez and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

US sports

  • Jerry West was a 14-time All-Star as a player for the Lakers.

    Jerry West, inspiration for NBA logo and Los Angeles Lakers legend, dies at 86

  • Boston Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis talks with reporters before basketball practice, Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Dallas, in preparation for Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

    Kristaps Porzingis doubtful for Game 3 of NBA finals with ‘rare’ leg injury

  • Scottie Scheffler has won five of his last eight starts

    The hardest task at the US Open: figuring out how to beat Scottie Scheffler

  • Jon Rahm

    Rahm out of US Open while McIlroy is grouped with Scheffler and Schauffele

US politics

  • A man in a dark suit looks ahead

    Lindsey Graham vows to block Democrats’ supreme court ethics bill

  • Person inside voting booth at polling place

    Millions of US voters lack access to documents to prove citizenship

  • people look through barbed wire

    ‘People will die’: Biden’s border order will worsen migrants’ risks, experts say

  • woman wearing glasses gestures and speaks in front of microphone

    Nancy Mace beats Kevin McCarthy-backed challenger in South Carolina primary

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US business

  • a worker puts oranges in a bag

    US inflation eases slightly as economic anxiety looms over presidential election

  • Elon Musk photographed in profile against a black and white striped background

    Tesla leads charge to defend Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package

    • A red 'Now Hiring' sign sits on grass

      US adds 272,000 jobs as labor market holds unexpectedly strong

    • John Deere tractors

      ‘Greed’: John Deere rolls out hundreds of US layoffs and sends work to Mexico

    • man wearing suit and blue tie smiles in front of glass door

      Not guilty: how tech mogul Mike Lynch’s fortunes soared, fell – and rose again

Pictures & video

  • Hamas changes to ceasefire deal are 'unworkable', says Blinken – video

  • US president praises 'remarkable' Ukrainian counterpart during meeting in France after world leaders gathered for the 80th D-day anniversary

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    Biden apologises to Zelenskiy for US military aid delay to Ukraine – video

    US president praises 'remarkable' Ukrainian counterpart during meeting in France after world leaders gathered for the 80th D-day anniversary
  • Pictures are shown on a huge screen during the UK's national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, hosted by the Ministry of Defence on Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Hampshire

    D-day commemorations begin for 80th anniversary – in pictures

    Veterans and world leaders attend ceremonies to mark 80 years since allied troops landed in France during the second world war

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