The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and established that all people are created equal.

Elie Mystal proposed Democrats champion pornography as protected free expression to appeal to young men, arguing against age verification.

Iran remains 'obsessed' with building nuclear deterrent despite damage incurred from U.S. strikes last month, but suggests its still open to negotiation in a move that one expert warns is a ploy to buy time.

Irish-born Jason Corbett's murder case explored in Netflix documentary, featuring interviews with his wife and her ex-FBI agent father who confessed to beating him to death.

Johnny Van Zant shares Gary Rossington's request for Lynyrd Skynyrd to continue after his death as the band releases a live album of his last performance.

The 26-year-old moves from Real Sociedad for a reported £51m.

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Osbourne said she and her husband are ready to ‘live our life and do what we want to do’

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Arsenal have made a breakthrough on a Viktor Gyokeres deal and also confirmed Martin Zubimendi on a big day for the club

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The message from Alice was blunt: “I don’t trust you. You are one of them, right? You all just want to sell me like some animal.” Alice’s hostile reaction wasn’t completely surprising to Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo, the co-authors of “Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds” (Verso), out July 8. “Like the...

If you want to understand the new Saudi Arabia, don’t start with oil. Start with a video game. The 39-year-old crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman — better known as MBS — grew up obsessed with video games, and he continues to play every morning, despite his heavy workload and...

Francisco Lindor can’t figure out Max Fried. 

Israeli foreign minister calls on Australian government to 'do more to fight this poisonous disease' of antisemitism.

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Khachanov holds for 5-3, asking Majchrzak to serve to stay in set one … which he does with ease. Save that early break, he’s been impressive too, but he needs something quickly to avoid going behind.

Khachanov is playing nicely. There’s no complexity about what he’s doing – he’s hitting it well from the back, able to plant his feet while his opponent scurries, and I wonder if Majchrzak might try a few drops – he’s a clay-courter, so should have them is his armoury. In the meantime, he remains a break down at 3-4 in the first.

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164km to go. We have a crash in the breakaway! Fedorov and Andreas Leknessund hit the deck on a slippery bend. It looks like both riders just lost their back wheels underneath them. Fortunately they are both back up and look fine. They’ve lost about 20 seconds but are working together to get back up to Armirail and Van Moer.

172km to go. You know it’s early on a long stage because now Ned Boulting is reading passages from Les Miserables. The breakaway is now 2mins 42secs ahead of the main bunch.

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Nothing is happening so I’m going to grab a coffee. In the meantime, here’s Geoff Lemon with the latest from Australia’s tour of the Caribbean.

The rain has eased so the groundstaff are getting to work. It’s still spitting and there’s been no discussion of a potential start time. Could be at least an hour – the outfield looks sodden.

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Footage captured the moment a woman was airlifted to hospital after being mauled by a lion in its zoo enclosure.

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The silly season discourse pinning Jaguar sales figures on a car that didn’t even exist was enough to make the eyes roll, writes Sean O’Grady – they’re simply not making cars, but there’s life in the old cat yet

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Including several reality stars and a royal family member

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Ministry denies issuing legal order as users question sudden block

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The 12th race of the 2025 F1 season sees the paddock return to the home of British motorsport

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Pope Leo XIV is heading to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation

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The 31-year-old ran in two tries against the New South Wales Waratahs in the most eye-catching performance from a 12 or 13 so far on tour.

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‘I thought I could trust him’, said victim of shopkeeper jailed for sexual assault

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The Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday today will shine a spotlight on Beijing’s long-held antipathy towards organised religion – and how succession plans might renew Xi’s plans for a reckoning with Tibet and beyond, writes Michael Day

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Fans paid tribute to heavy metal pioneer Ozzy Osbourne on Saturday (5 July), as the 76-year-old played an emotional farewell show in Birmingham.

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TV presenter struggled with mood swings before her diagnosis

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Defending champions England take on France, Netherlands and debutants Wales in the ‘group of death’

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Labour unveils Blair-style family hubs as Reform UK gains ground in new poll

Follow live F1 coverage from Silverstone as Verstappen looks to beat the Brits after securing a surprise pole

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The action returns to Group A as hosts Switzerland take on Iceland looking for their first win

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WHO data shows ‘Stratus’ was a fastest growing variant in May to June

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Her daughter Maria said the new electronic visa system was difficult for elderly people to navigate

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New XFG.3 varient accounts for a larger proportion than any other individual variant, says UKHSA

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Having made waves as part of the alt-lit movement, the US author is poised to go mainstream with The Stalker, her most exhilarating work yet

When I arrive at Paula Bomer’s apartment building in south Brooklyn I am briefly disoriented in the lobby, until I hear the yapping of dogs and amid them, her voice calling my name. Bomer is tall and striking, in her mid-50s. I met her last year at a reading in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she seemed like someone who cared almost manically about literature and also like someone who would be fun to hang out with, two qualities not always confluent. I had heard of these anxious dogs before, when she and I met for dinner a few months ago, and she disclosed that her life was now spent managing canine neuroses.

“I got them when my dad died,” she says, in between offering me matcha, coffee, tequila or wine (it’s 2.30pm on a Sunday; Bomer doesn’t drink any more, save a glass of champagne on selling her book, but doesn’t mind if others do). “The dogs were a mistake,” she says, “But that’s OK, I’ll survive it.”

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Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequences

Throughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met.

By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emails, often littered with mistakes that were glaringly obvious to me even at such a young age. It used to baffle me – how could this person, who races through multiple books a week and can quote Shakespeare faultlessly, possibly think “me” is spelt with two Es?

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Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison’s childhood homes remain unmarked – raising urgent questions about legacy and preservation

Nothing could prepare me for seeing the house that Langston Hughes, the heralded Harlem Renaissance poet, author, journalist and traveler, lived in as a teenager in Cleveland, Ohio. Only eight steps separated me from the walkway that led to the front door as my Uber driver idled behind me. I clasped my camera in my hand, the shutter echoing in the quiet of a snowy February day. I looked more like a too-curious-tourist than a concerned writer researching the literary legacy of a man who had inspired me all my life.

The house was ordinary, painted in an aging beige that was deepened with crisp, burgundy accents. At the top in an attic space the burgundy was most prominent. I’d learned before this visit that Hughes had lived and written there. I’d also known going into this trip that the house had at one point been at risk of being demolished, efforts that were subverted largely in part due to local librarian Christopher Bucka-Peck’s intervention.

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