When Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, goes up against his liberal challenger in a presidential run-off next Sunday, there will be more at stake than just the medium-term political trajectory of the country. The vote is set to be one of the closest and most important European elections in recent years, and the result will resonate […] More
Joe Biden strikes most people as a decent guy. That fact alone could go a long way towards getting him elected US president in November. Avuncular, good-hearted, reassuring, empathic are adjectives commonly applied to his low-key, low-visibility candidacy. This image contrasts starkly with public perceptions of rowdy, vulgar Donald Trump. Not being Trump may suffice […] More
Play Video 1:20 Standing beneath Mount Rushmore on the eve of independence day in the US, the president said the nation’s history was ‘under siege from far-left fascism’. He defended the symbolism of statues and monuments, including Mount Rushmore – which features the carved faces of four US presidents. They include George Washington and Thomas […] More
Play Video 1:28 Donald Trump has declared the US economy is ‘roaring back’ after news of a fall in unemployment nationwide. The results come as states across the country have been gradually lifting Covid-19 restrictions. While 4.8m jobs were added in June, parts of the country have also experienced record numbers of new coronavirus cases […] More
Play Video 5:22 The US recorded a new all-time daily high of 52,000 new Covid-19 cases on 1 July, according to Johns Hopkins University figures, as Donald Trump repeated his belief the virus would ‘just disappear’. America has now had more than 2.7 million confirmed cases – more than double that of Brazil, the second […] More
Play Video 1:05 US president Donald Trump says he hopes the coronavirus will “just disappear”, despite states across the country experiencing record numbers of new Covid-19 cases. Speaking to Fox Business, the president was asked if he believed the virus will simply disappear. “Yeah sure. At some point. And I think we’re going to have a […] More
Trump faces demand for answers over his relationship with Putin Covid-19 outbreaks at meat-processing plants in US being kept quiet Los Angeles sheriff’s department faces reckoning after police shooting Virginia joins states banning hair discrimination Sign up to our First Thing newsletter LIVE Updated Trump has described the ‘Russian bounty’ story as a hoax in […] More
Mississippi Lawmakers have seen increasing pressure to change the flag amid a nationwide reckoning with systematic racism Mississippi state employees Willie Townsend, left, and Joe Brown raise the state flag over the Capitol grounds. Photograph: Rogelio V Solis/Associated Press Mississippi has officially retired the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem, […] More
