The Guardian

Lawyers for magician, who plans to unveil new project, said in 2024 he was ‘at most acquaintances’ with Epstein Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox David Copperfield has announced that he is performing his last show at MGM Grand in Las Vegas next month, an announcement that comes weeks after documents released in the Epstein files revealed new details abo…

A change of leadership means little to an agency ‘shielded from scrutiny and unchecked by oversight’ US politics live – latest updates Some of the most ostentatious enforcers of Donald Trump ’s mass deportation agenda have left or been forced out of the administration in recent weeks. In January, the president withdrew Greg Bovino – the border patrol commander who was the face of the immigration …

US president again calls on Iranian people to overthrow government or face ‘absolutely guaranteed death’ Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has said only Iran’s “unconditional surrender” will bring an end to the joint US-Israeli offensive launched seven days ago, as the two powers’ warplanes carried out some of the heaviest bombardments so far in the spiralling conflict. “There will b…

Stephen McCullagh also covertly recorded ex-girlfriend’s counselling sessions after loss of a baby A man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend in Northern Ireland beat a previous partner, a court has heard. Stephen McCullagh also covertly recorded the counselling sessions of the woman, just months before he met and allegedly killed Natalie McNally, Belfast crown court was told on Friday. C…

The women in their 40s, 50s and 60s are suspected of facilitating alleged abuse by the late Harrods owner Three women have been interviewed under caution on suspicion of facilitating one of Britain’s worst sexual abuse scandals involving the former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed and his alleged attacks over four decades. Scotland Yard said the number of victims had reached 154 women, feared to ha…

PM justifies position on US-Israel war on Iran in social media post using the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing Keir Starmer has been accused of trying to mimic Donald Trump’s social media output after posting a TikTok video about the crisis in the Middle East overlaid with the prime minister’s voice and the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing. The video opens with footage showing Royal Navy Wi…

Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaign The highest human rights court in Latin America condemned Peru on Thursday over the death of its citizen Celia Ramos , who died at the age of 34 in 1997 after undergoing sterilisation “under coercion”. The landmark ruling by the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR) is the first…

People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iran’s capital, with several saying they feared they would die Middle East crisis – live updates Sleeplessness, fear and exhaustion gripped residents of Tehran as successive waves of strikes struck the Iranian capital , judging from messages sent by people in the city after the latest overnight onslaught, which several described as the worst bom…

With one text message, Israel made half a million people homeless, leaving the city’s southern suburbs a ghost town The ding of half a million phones, a pause and a collective gasp: in an instant, more than 500,000 people had been made homeless. Shooting in the air, panicked phone calls and honking filled the streets of Beirut as people began to flee. Thousands abandoned their cars and began the …

Styles will perform new album in full at Co-op Live arena show, with tickets being traded for well above £20 face value More than 20,000 fans from all over the world flocked towards the Co-op Live arena in Manchester on Friday to watch Harry Styles perform his first concert in two and a half years – some waiting 48 hours for a place down the front. Styles will perform his new album Kiss All the T…

Sales of products made the traditional way dropped 7% in three months to 25 January while nitrite-free sales rose 20% UK supermarkets have been hit by a “bacon backlash” as consumers fear that chemicals used to preserve it increase the risk of cancer. Campaigners against the use of nitrites in meat production claimed the fall in sales showed that a “consumer revolt” against the traditional, nitri…

Reports Kuwait was cutting output pushed up cost of barrel of Brent crude to highest weekly gain since pandemic began The Iran conflict has driven the oil price past $90 a barrel to its highest weekly gains since the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago, threatening a fresh rise in global inflation. Reports that Kuwait had begun cutting production of oil at some fields after running out of space to st…

Senator Richard Blumenthal alleges the ousted DHS secretary lied to Congress about the agency’s contracts Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Senator Richard Blumenthal said he would open a perjury investigation into the ousted homeland security secretary Kristi Noem after alleging she lied to Congress about the hidden influence her senior adviser Corey L…

Platforms include YouTube, TikTok and Instagram as communication minister says ‘our children face real threats’ Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, its communication and digital affairs minister said on Friday. Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said that she signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on high-ri…

The European powerhouse has scuppered the Daily Mail owner. But why did it not bid sooner? And what will Brexit-backing readers think? After three years, a series of failed bids stretching from the US to Abu Dhabi, internal rebellions and even changes in the law, it should be no surprise that the tortured sale of the Telegraph has delivered another spectacular twist with a blockbuster offer from …