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Democrats critical of meeting between Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner

By Sam Levine

Private New York talks take place as Democrats grow increasingly confident of retaking the House in November

Ex-PC in court over rape and assault charges

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An ex-Cumbria PC accused of raping one woman and sexually assaulting another appears in court.

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Hosepipe ban extension for 13 counties

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The nationwide hosepipe ban in place since late last month has been extended in 13 counties, with the ban lifting on 26 August for 13 other counties, Uisce Éireann has said.

Murder charge after man found shot dead in car

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Sergiu Leahu is charged with fatally shooting Masum Miah in East Ham.

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The Visitor review – existential Lithuania-set homecoming drama leaves everything in limbo

By Phil Hoad

This portrait by Vytautas Katkus of a man contemplating his recent fatherhood and his own father is steeped in ennui and ends up drifting At one point in this Nordic-Baltic homecoming film, Danielius (Darius Šilėnas) refuses an invite for beachfront karaoke, preferring to watch from behind a polythene partition. At another, a neighbour glimpses him exercising across the courtyard, through the window of the flat in an

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Mercedes GLC: The first photos sparked revulsion online. But it’s a seriously impressive SUV

By Neil Briscoe

GLC and slightly smaller GLB launch together in Ireland, but the pricier car is the star performer

Race Across the World star Jo Gardiner dies aged 61 one year after son's death

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Former TV contestant, Jo Gardiner, 61, dies of cancer one year after her son's death in a crash.

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Children make up half of mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads

By Eromo Egbejule in Cotonou

West African country reports 46 suspected cases in outbreak declared in July, amid fears virus may be spreading undetected More than half of the mpox cases reported in Guinea-Bissau have been among children, local authorities have said, almost two months since the country announced an epidemic. A national outbreak was declared on 4 July, just over a week after a 27-year-old woman became the first confirmed case of mp

32% rise in wrong-way driving on Irish motorways - TII

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A total of 62 incidents of wrong-way driving have been recorded on motorways so far this year, according to Transport Infrastructure Ireland.

Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

By Sara Braun

Civil liberties groups decry plan to use gloves linked to death of Kentucky man allegedly shocked 27 times in county jail Plans to supply Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with special gloves that can deliver electric shocks have alarmed experts and drawn scrutiny amid some high-profile lawsuits over their use in local correctional facilities. In one extreme case, a 43-year-old man died after alleged

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Marching in the Dark review – rural Indian widows show stunning resilience as they battle poverty and taboos

By Phuong Le

Kinshuk Surjan’s documentary follows women in dire financial straits whose bereavement compounds their social plight, which they confront together Out in rural India, a crisis casts a dark cloud over the seemingly tranquil vistas of wheat fields and soy farms. Over the past 20 years, more than 400,000 farmers have killed themselves, beset by mounting debts and low market prices for crops. Shot in Maharashtra, the sta

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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine

By Judith Levine

Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices On 11 August, the Associated Press reported that the Homeland Security Agency will spend up to $20m to equip its agents with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to the skin of a person deemed uncooperative. The “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices”– branded Glove, for Generated Lo

‘Standard’ velvet hangers? There’s nothing standard about some of the items on John Lewis’s uni essentials list| Emma Beddington

By Emma Beddington

It used to be that dorm rooms were chaotically messy. Does this new generation really need an £80 spice rack and velvet clothes hangers? Of all the questions this year’s freshers may be nervously asking themselves as they prepare for this next phase – did I pick the right course? Will I make friends? Is uni worth 30 grand when my future job prospects may be limited to dusting a datacentre? – one is particularly press

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The pet I’ll never forget: Ernie the danger dog – who loves dicing with death

By Farryn Stock

He has chased a deer across a dual carriageway, eaten an entire tray of chocolate brownies and jumped head first into a canal. But despite all the worry he brings us, he is extraordinarily lovable Ernie found his way into our hearts and home about nine years ago, when he strategically crawled into my lap during a family visit to meet a litter of puppies. While all the other beagle puppies ran wild, Ernie sat comforta

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The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?

By Eduardo Porter

The US is scooping up treasury bonds in an effort to raise their price and push yields down – but it’s not working The bond market is driving the Trump administration crazy. Last week, the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, announced that the government would sharply ramp up its purchase of treasury bonds, in an effort to raise their price and thus push down their yield, which amounts to the interest rate the governm

Devastation, doubt and blame: Hurricane Helene looms over North Carolina’s US Senate race

By Chris Stein in Marshall, North Carolina

The Democratic and the Republican candidate each blame the other for the bungled recovery effort after storm struck region Two years after North Carolina suffered the worst natural disaster in its history when Hurricane Helene struck the state’s western half, life in the hardest-hit areas appears back to normal. Downtowns are lively, blocked roads have been reopened and rivers are flowing below their banks. But the t

‘I was right all along’: Woman diagnosed after years of severe and wide-ranging symptoms

By Emmet Malone

Survey finds half of women who experience menopause say it impacts attendance

This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

By Tim Winton

Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of the few places left to share them honestly Climate campaign 2026: help us reach 30,000 acts of support Well, there’s no getting around it now. What many of us once feared has become a reality. The dangerous conditions climate scientists long warned of have become our common, if deeply

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Deaths of woman and man treated as murder-suicide

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Gardaí are treating the death of a Brazilian woman in Limerick as a murder-suicide after the body of her husband, who is suspected of her killing, was found in Cork.

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Deaths of woman and man treated as murder-suicide

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Gardaí are treating the death of a Brazilian woman in Limerick as a murder-suicide after the body of her husband, who is suspected of her killing, was found in Cork.

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Six Irish restaurants added to Michelin Guide including three Dublin spots

By Úna McCaffrey

Three Dublin spots included in influential guide, as well as restaurants in Wexford, Wicklow and Galway

Six Irish restaurants added to Michelin Guide in bumper boost for sector

By Úna McCaffrey

Three Dublin spots included in influential guide, as well as restaurants in Wexford, Wicklow and Galway

Owning a home now out of reach, most young people believe – research

By Conor Pope

PTSB report says younger adults believe renting or social housing will be their paths to getting a home

The men claiming to defend women’s sports are throwing sex toys at female athletes

By Dave Schilling

The WNBA has attracted grifters who care little for basketball – and whose latest stunt exposes the hollowness of their supposed concern I regret to inform you that yet another dildo has hit a WNBA court. The Chicago Sky v Golden State Valkyries game was sullied by sex toys being chucked on to the playing surface on Friday. Aren’t we tired of all this yet? To paraphrase the Sky’s Natasha Cloud, it takes a lot of effo

Ex-mayor Dan Sullivan supports incumbent Dan Sullivan’s Senate bid against third Dan Sullivan

By Ramon Antonio Vargas

Endorsement of Republican incumbent over challenger with same name adds twist to unusual campaign in Alaska Republican senator Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola advance in Alaska Senate primary Dan Sullivan supports Dan Sullivan against Dan Sullivan in Alaska ’s US Senate election, says a former Alaskan mayor who recently backed the race’s Republican incumbent over a challenger sharing their name. That developme