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Ford Foundation’s New Leader Says She’ll Work to Protect Democracy

Heather K. Gerken, the dean of the law school, will run the powerful philanthropy, known for pushing for social justice.

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Heather Gerken, a constitutional law scholar, wrote “The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It.”
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Televangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart dead at 90 — weeks after suffering a heart attack

Televangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart died at the age of 90, weeks after he suffered a heart attack. The reverend had been in critical condition since the medical episode in his home city of Baton Rouge on June 14. Preacher Jimmy Swaggart passed away at age 90. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died just weeks after suffering cardiac arrest....

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Fed chair Jerome Powell blames Trump tariffs for failure to cut US interest rates this year – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Sainsbury’s has recorded its strongest growth since last summer after its Argos chain recorded a big step up in sales as shoppers sought out paddling pools and fans during recent hot weather.

The retail group said Argos, its catalogue shop, was able to achieve growth of 4.4% in the three months to 21 June, up from 1.9% in the previous quarter. Comparable group sales, excluding fuel, rose 4.7% on a year earlier.

Companies have now expanded production slightly for the fourth month in a row, order intake has ceased to fall, and slightly longer delivery times also indicate that demand is picking up a bit.

Against the backdrop of numerous uncertainties - US tariffs, the crisis in the Middle East, and Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine - this can certainly be seen as a sign of resilience.

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© Photograph: ECB

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No 10 considers further concessions on welfare bill just hours before vote – UK politics live

Guardian deputy political editor Jessica Elgot says another concession to rebels MPs is possible

Compass, the leftwing group urging Labour to be more pluralistic, has put out a statement condemning the UC and Pip bill. Its director, Neal Lawson, said:

If your own friends are telling you to put the brakes on, then something has clearly gone wrong. Despite the government’s line, this legislation does not advance Labour values. It is fundamentally at odds with them, and with the views of the mainstream of the party and civil society.

MPs from across the House, and especially the Labour side, must back Rachael Maskell’s reasoned amendment. This bill’s creation of a three-tiered social security system would condemn thousands to poverty and could lose Labour the next election.

A bill of this magnitude should have been co-produced with disabled people and our organisations from the very start.

Now, ministers scramble to promise ‘consultation’ as one small part of the process. That is too little, too late. Co-production is not a rushed tick-box exercise tagged onto legislation already steaming through Parliament. It means disabled people shaping the system at every step – not just commenting on the detail of changes already baked in.

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© Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

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‘I have a lot of sympathy for Elon Musk’: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on his tech bros AI satire Mountainhead

He is the master of ripped-from-the-headlines drama, a writer who skewers the billionaire class. As Mountainhead takes him into new territory, he talks about his nuanced take on the world’s richest man – and why a bonnet drama may be next

When he gets to his London office on the morning this piece is published, Jesse Armstrong will read it in print, or not at all. Though the building has wifi, he doesn’t use it. “If you’re a procrastinator, which most writers are, it’s just a killer.” Online rabbit holes swallow whole days. “In the end, it’s better to be left with the inadequacies of your thoughts.” He gives himself a mock pep talk. “‘It’s just you and me now, brain.’”

Today, the showrunner of Succession and co-creator of Peep Show is back at home, in walking distance of his workspace. He could be any London dad: 54, salt-and-pepper beard, summer striped T-shirt. But staying offline could feel like a statement too, given Armstrong is also the writer-director of Mountainhead, a film about tech bros. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Open AI’s Sam Altman, guru financiers Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen: all these and more are mixed up in the movie’s characters, sharing a comic hang in a ski mansion. Outside, an AI launched by one of the group has sparked global chaos. Inside, there is snippy friction about the intra-billionaire pecking order.

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Israel’s Victory: How stable is the ceasefire?

Following a devastating exchange of missiles and airstrikes between Israel and Iran, a fragile ceasefire—brokered by President Trump—has temporarily halted the violence in what is now being called the “12 Day War.” With dozens killed and hundreds more wounded, the truce has offered a brief moment of calm, but questions remain about its longevity and...

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Krejcikova navigates tricky Wimbledon start to put supercomputers in their place

  • Reigning champion fights back to beat Eala 3-6, 6-2, 6-1

  • Injury-plagued title holder displays tough mentality

Barbora Krejcikova avoided the curse of the early Czech-out on Tuesday as she held off the hustle of rising Filipino star Alexandra Eala to progress to the second round at Wimbledon.

The defending women’s champion has seen her season blitzed by injury, and was predicted by Wimbledon’s in-house supercomputers to lose here and echo her compatriot Marketa Vondruosava, who last year became the first women’s champion to exit at the first round since 1994.

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© Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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