Biden’s reelection campaign calls top donors in an effort to reassure them that he should stay in the race; Trump’s lawyers ask judge to set aside conviction and delay sentencing in hush-money case

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Joe Biden is “probably in better health than most of us,” Biden’s campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, told top fundraisers during the Monday conference call, according to NBC News.

“He’s also 81,” O’Malley Dillon added. “He knows that he has to prove that he can do this job from a stamina standpoint, but also from substance.”

Obviously, we have more work to do because the president is 81, but it was also a terrible debate in 2012. I was there. I remember it clearly.

I won’t sit on the sidelines, but it’s hard and getting a lot harder to donate directly to the campaign given their judgement.

Antoine Kolias invented new branding and said the medicines were a ‘natural remedy’ for erectile dysfunction

A Manchester University graduate has been jailed for importing and selling illegal medicines on eBay and Amazon.

Antoine Christopher Kolias was sentenced on Friday to three and a half years’ in prison.

Anne Hidalgo says Paris ‘stands up for freedom’ amid Marine Le Pen success in first round of voting

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The Paris mayor has sought to reassure visitors that the festive mood at the Olympics will not be dampened by Marine Le Pen’s electoral successes in France’s snap parliamentary elections, with less than a month to go before the city hosts the Games.

“The party will not be spoilt,” Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo told broadcaster France 2 on Tuesday. “I say to visitors from the world over – come over! Because Paris is a city that stands up for freedom and is a city of resistance against the extreme right.”

While most politicians haven’t taken the platform seriously, the Reform UK leader is an astute content creator – and is reaping the benefits

Nigel Farage was born to be a TikTok star. He joined the platform in March 2022, announcing “it’s got to be done, it’s where it’s at” in a video that has been watched more than 600,000 times. He is still one of the first politicians to bother taking the platform seriously, and it is paying him vast dividends. The Guardian reported last week that Farage is outperforming all other UK parties and candidates on TikTok in terms of engagement and average views, according to data from 22 May to 17 June.

Farage has been prolific in his output since his election candidacy was announced. He posted several times a day for the first two weeks of his campaign, flooding the algorithm with short, characterful videos that resonate powerfully with his fanbase. The recipe to his success is clear: he’s willing to be opinionated, comical and – most compellingly in British politics – himself.

You can keep it as simple as you like or go the extra mile and serve a range of courses

”Brunch has a very flexible definition, but it’s that hearty meal when you’re having a lazy day,” muses Fadi Kattan, chef/co-founder of akub in London and author of Bethlehem. There’s an informality to it, too, he says, with less fanfare and stress than having people over for dinner. “Brunch can also be a more affordable way to socialise,” adds Natasha Sayliss, founder of Mae + Harvey in east London. “You can have a night out during the day!”

Food-wise, eggs are essential for Kattan and Feast’s Benjamina Ebuehi. “If there’s no egg action, something is missing,” says Ebuehi, who keeps things light by serving hers with cornbread. “That goes down really well, and it’s quick to come together: cornmeal, eggs, liquid of your choice [milk or buttermilk], salt, a bit of sugar, and brown butter to give an extra dimension.” Eat while it is warm, so it’s “soft and fluffy”, and top with the all-important fried eggs, bacon, perhaps, and a drizzle of hot honey. Sayliss, meanwhile, gets her weekend started with Turkish eggs. “Mix yoghurt and garlic, then spread it on a plate and top with fried eggs.” The real star, though, is the chilli butter: “Fry a load of chopped red chillies, add butter and, once that has melted, add honey and chilli flakes.” Drizzle that over, sprinkle with parsley, then just add toast.

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Many are frustrated at failures to tackle inequality, the climate and Labour’s struggle to define a woman

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Jane Embury, from Devizes, Wiltshire, lost her job and her home during the pandemic.

Her and her husband’s manufacturing business, producing architectural steel for commercial glazing, suffered from import hurdles after Brexit. Then Covid hit and construction sites closed. Embury, who had been living alone but continued to work with her husband after they split up years ago, took out a £250,000 loan against her home, on which she had already paid off a mortgage, in the hope of saving the family business, but in vain.

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• Bodhana Sivanandan youngest selected in any sport
• Will compete against adults at world Chess Olympiad

She is a nine-year-old British prodigy, who has already caused a commotion in the chess world with her fearless play and string of spectacular victories. Now Bodhana Sivanandan, a nine-year-old from Harrow, is set to make history as the youngest person to represent England in international sporting competition.

Sivanandan, who only took up chess in lockdown, is one of five players chosen for England’s women’s team to play in the Chess Olympiad in Budapest in September. The next youngest player, Lan Yao, is 23, while the other members of the team, Jovanka Houska, Harriet Hunt and Kata Toma, are all in their 30s and 40s.

The much-anticipated sequel to the director’s 1988 hit Beetlejuice will get its world premiere at the festival in August

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 hit Beetlejuice, has been selected as the opening film of the Venice film festival. The screening will be the world premiere of the film, which reunites original stars Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder with Burton.

Festival director Alberto Barbera said in a statement that it “marks the long-awaited return of one of the most iconic characters of Tim Burton’s cinema, but also the happy confirmation of the extraordinary visionary talent and the masterly realisation of one of the most fascinating auteurs of his time”.

It takes time and attention to look after other people – and ourselves. And there are so many distractions to overcome

Years ago I was sitting in a cafe before work when an exhausted-looking man and his toddler son came in. A “One cappuccino and one babyccino please” later, they sat at the table next to mine. The boy was a bit snotty and whiny, and I could see his dad was working hard to keep him entertained, to give him the time and attention he needed. And then I saw the moment where that time and attention ran out. The man’s focus slipped away, his hand dropping down to his pocket, his tired eyes sliding across to the screen as he eased out his phone …

And then I saw the scream. I saw it before I heard it, because the very loud scream was preceded by a terrifying silent scream (my own child also does a very potent silent scream, so I recognise this retrospectively). The father realised at this point that the game was up, shoved his phone back in his pocket and, defeated, carried his child out of the cafe in one arm, his other hand steering the empty pushchair.

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Good Will Hunting is a great movie for many reasons. Robin Williams’ outstanding performance, Ben Affleck’s petty squabbling with his on-screen and actual brother, the fact that Affleck and Matt Damon’s Oscar-winning screenplay is actually (a little bit) autobiographical – both hailing from Massachusetts, Affleck’s father was a janitor at Harvard, while his mother went to the university, as did Damon, before dropping out. The film is a great watch, a classic and pleasing arc of self-discovery, with a happy-ish ending that avoids the pitfall of being too twee. The protagonist (Will, played by Damon) is a complete eejit – sucker-punching people, fighting police, insulting his mentor’s dead wife, ignoring the time and energy of others while taking his seemingly god-given talent for granted – but we end up rooting for him anyway, because genius is a bewitching and beguiling thing.

Further to Peter Oh’s comparison between Glastonbury’s Saturday night headliners Coldplay and 11 other English plodders (yesterday’s Euro 2024 Daily letters), I was at the Pyramid Stage the next afternoon, with an anxious eye on Rob Smyth’s MBM for the England game. As extra time began, Janelle Monáe began to play Tightrope, and by the time I had a phone signal again, it was 1-1. I’d like to think it was this bit of musical serendipity that kept England in the tournament, though the song’s lyrics – “Ha ‘cause you get too high, no you’ll surely be low” – don’t bode well for the quarter-final” – Ian Rodin.

It seems clear that since Brexit happened, all the bile and fury previously directed at EU apparatchiks now flies around our society like the contents of Spud’s bedsheet. I therefore call on Gareth Southgate to perform one last great sacrifice for his country, and stay on as England manager For All Time, so that he becomes the eternal lightning rod for all the anger and frustration of the English people. This will allow us to go about our lives in an atmosphere of calm and goodwill toward our neighbours, knowing that an opportunity for a spittle-flecked rant is only ever the next England game away” – Chris Goater.

Looking towards the conclusion of the Euros, if it ended up as a Germany v Switzerland final (not impossible), this would work wonders for the self-esteem of the Tartan Army. Why, a defeat and a draw against the finalists? That’s as good as third place surely? Surely?” – Ken Muir.

Dozens killed at religious celebration of the deity Shiva in the city of Hathras, south-east of Delhi

At least 27 people have been crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India, with several more injured and fears the toll could rise, government medics have said.

“We have received 27 bodies so far … bodies are still coming,” the Uttar Pradesh state senior medical officer Ram Mohan Tiwari said.

Joy can feel elusive in this economy – a counsellor talks to us about moving the needle from surviving to thriving

Who would say they’re thriving right now?

Thanks to the US and the UK’s high cost of living, the lack of affordable housing, uninspiring or extreme politics, the horrors of war and forecast climate catastrophe, hope and joy can feel elusive.

The USMNT have crashed out of Copa América early. At best they have stagnated under their coach’s leadership as they aim to build for 2026

You can’t deny they played for him, and for each other. This was no capitulation, no cowed or callow performance against one of the world’s best teams.

So Gregg Berhalter has not lost the locker room. But how, after this, can he not lose his job? How can anyone trust that he is the man to shape the USMNT into a team good enough to make a major impact at the 2026 World Cup? They have at best stagnated since Qatar 2022, and perhaps even regressed.

Consumer prices slip to 2.5% but core rate stays high, prompting little belief in further cuts in borrowing costs

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Inflation across the eurozone slowed to 2.5% in June despite lingering pressure on households from price increases in the service sector, leaving the European Central Bank on track to keep interest rates on hold this month.

Annual inflation in consumer prices across the 20-country bloc eased from 2.6% in May, according to a flash estimate from the EU statistical agency Eurostat, matching financial market expectations.

Partnerships ended over the investment firm’s ties to fossil fuel and Israel, leaving nine book festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham in need of funding

Nine festivals that were previously sponsored by investment company Baillie Gifford are now seeking donations.

“Amidst intense discussion around arts funding and challenges to our continued flourishing”, reads a joint statement, the festivals have “joined forces” to “call for increased support”.

Ever since Biden’s poor performance at debate, the California governor who’s spent years seeking a national stage finds himself at the centre of one

To paraphrase Jan Brady of the Brady Bunch, lately it’s been “Newsom, Newsom, Newsom” all day long.

He’s been at the Vatican for a climate summit, and in Alpharetta, Georgia, for a televised debate with Florida governor Ron DeSantis. He’s all over the TV, actually – on Fox News and MSNBC, and in advertisements airing in Tennessee.

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111km to go … Up the valley they go and the front quartet aren’t able to pull out much of a gap. The group comprises Alexey Lutsenko, Christopher Juul-Jensen, Oier Lazkano and Tobias Halland Johannessen, but it doesn’t look like they’ll hold out for long.

114km to go … Another kick off the front and four riders go clear.

Richard Forrest has spent half a century combing beaches for ammonites and other fossils. Along the Dorset coast, the constant shift of earth, rocks and sand continually reveals fresh evidence of life millions of years ago

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When Richard Forrest walks along the Lyme Regis beach on the Jurassic coast in Dorset, he carries in his small backpack a pointed pick, a geological hammer and an old kitchen knife. But he very rarely uses them until he is back home with a rock or two to work on. “The most important thing to take with you is your eyes,” he says. “And learn what it is you’re looking for.”

Forrest is a fossil finder and has spent more than 50 years on Britain’s beaches hunting for evidence of the country’s prehistoric past. The Jurassic coast, stretching 95 miles (150km) across Devon and Dorset, is world famous for its treasure trove of ammonites and other fossils that lie, in many places, conspicuous beneath visitors’ feet. Others are hidden within the cliffs, only exposed after heavy rains bring on one of the regular landslips. “The best feeling is when you find something you think is potentially interesting and then you get it home and discover that wow, this is really interesting,” he says. “That feeling is amazing.”

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A hearty, spicy, meaty treat

Cut a 125g piece of pancetta into small, thick pieces roughly 3cm x 2cm. Put them into a large, shallow pan with a good glug of olive oil and let them cook over a low to moderate heat. As the fat starts to melt and the pancetta becomes golden, peel and thinly slice 2 cloves of garlic and stir them into the pan. Roughly chop 2 spring onions and scatter them among the pancetta.

Thickly slice 250g of courgettes, add them to the pan and stir them among the pancetta and aromatics. Leave them to cook for about 8-10 minutes, stirring them regularly. Trim 150g of broccoli (I use the long-stemmed variety) and add to the pan. Cover with a lid and continue cooking for a few minutes until the broccoli has softened a little and is rich, deep green in colour.

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A series of bans on volumes with race, gender and LGBTQ+ themes have proliferated in recent years

It started with a social media video: a school principal from a medium-sized Brazilian city lashed out against an award-winning novel, saying it was “disgusting” and disrespectful of “good manners”.

The next day, the local department of education ordered all schools in nearby cities to remove the book from their libraries.