Black voters ditch Biden as drubbing looms
Growing dissatisfaction points to a disaster in November, notably in the swing states where overwhelming black support helped Joe Biden win in 2020.
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NY backtracks on undercover cops
The mayor of New York will set out a new ‘blueprint’ to tackle crime after a police officer was murdered and a baby shot.
Fascist street names return
Madrid’s city council has restored a street name linked to one of the Spanish civil war’s most infamous massacres, stoking outrage.
Student gunman’s uni rampage
A gunman shot dead one person and injured at least three others in a lecture hall at one of Germany’s elite universities.
Banish Boris? It means off to the polls
Boris Johnson’s allies warn any successor would have to call a general election if the PM is removed from office.
Exhausted? Slam a coffee, smash a nap
Tired all the time? There’s a new twist on the power snooze that might sort your sleep. They’re calling it the ‘queen of naps’.
Ballistic missiles fired from Yemen target Westerners
Two ballistic missiles fired by Houthi rebels targeted the al-Dhafra air base, which the UAE shares with the US and France.
Macron opens door of his elitist alma mater
The two grandest secondary schools in France are in revolt over a move by the president, a former pupil, to force them to take more students who are not from affluent families.
Cruise ship diverted as judge orders seizure
The Crystal Symphony docked in the Bahamian island of Bimini with passengers taken by ferry to Fort Lauderdale on Sunday.
Cancer patients sue Fukushima owners
They were aged from six to 16 in 2011 when three reactors melted down after their cooling systems were knocked out by a tsunami.
It was so cold I cried: Alps climber after record
A French mountaineer has become the first to scale one of the most formidable north faces in the Alps alone and in winter.
Johnson still believes he broke no rules
Braced for a verdict on parties at 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson is determined to fight on and shore up support.
Label statues, books and TV shows, don’t topple them
Erasing and adjusting is a dangerous game – it’s better to confront our cultural past and appreciate changing patterns.
Kiev puppet is part of Putin’s toolkit, US warns
Russia is exploring multiple ways to destabilise Ukraine and topple the pro-western government, US secretary of state Antony Blinken says.
Republicans look to Virginia governor as Trump rival
The first order of business for Glenn Youngkin has been to ban critical race theory, mask mandates in schools and make the state’s diversity chief an ‘ambassador for unborn children’.
Starmer must be honest about the pain ahead
Rather than Tory-bashing, the opposition needs to show it’s serious about transforming the country and what that entails.
Has Boris Johnson lost his political superpowers?
Pursued by angry MPs and a wily Dominic Cummings, and paranoid about his own staff, a volatile Boris Johnson is approaching the cliff edge.
Paris, city of litter, shamed into cleaning up act
Social media campaign forces city council to launch a very French-sounding Manifesto for Beauty aimed at restoring the capital’s elegance.
Boris beefs up team to sandbag leadership
The British PM is using the group of lieutenants who helped him to win in 2019 to record the position of every Tory MP.
Hello … tearful Adele Facetimes fans
Music superstar delivers personal apologies via video call, after 11th-hour decision to cancel Las Vegas residency.
The mozzie bred to combat deadly diseases
Turns out there is such a thing as a ‘good’ mosquito: a fluorescent, genetically modified ‘suicide’ mozzie.
We’ll tear Russians apart with our bare hands: general
Short of allies and modern weaponry, outmatched on land, sea and air, fury may be Ukraine’s best defence.
What stress is doing to your heart
Divorce, work and money worries take a bigger toll than we might imagine.
Global supply pressures are easing
Supply chain constraints are not over but companies are managing them. One of the biggest users of volume containers, Associated British Foods, says disruption has been a lot smoother.
New implant delivers hope to partially blind
A partially blind woman has been able to detect signals in one eye thanks to a revolutionary implant that could be a key to sight restoration.
Tonga’s hour of need gives Xi chance to build ties
As Tonga struggles in the aftermatch of a volcano eruption and tsunami, China has found a way to increase its reach in the Pacific.
Battle groups muster minutes from border
Independent Russian investigators say troops and military hardware have been spotted barely 40km from Ukraine.
Rebel threat to call cops on whip
Cabinet ministers have condemned the Tory rebels, known as the pork pie plotters, as ‘attention-seeking schoolchildren’.
Failing Biden blames everyone but himself
There are bad years, there are very bad years and then there is Joe Biden’s inaugural year as president. Biden has no insight into what’s gone wrong. The self-denial is strong.
New scandal rocks Spanish royals
Royal family in turmoil after King’s brother-in-law’s affair with colleague at company he is doing community service as part of corruption sentence.
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