Democratic strategist Richard Goostein and former DHS public affairs deputy assistant secretary Lauren Claffey discuss.
The attackers were dressed in costumes which including Spider Man, Batman and Ali G
Piers Morgan believes he caught Covid-19 during the chaos at the Euro 2020 final despite being fully vaccinated. An avid critic of the government’s pandemic policies, he said his ordeal has given him a new perspective on Covid and vaccines. “So it’s been a long ten days,” Piers said in a tweet on Saturday.
Labour criticised the ‘amber plus’ list requiring isolation on return from destinations.
The French National Assembly on approved the controversial “anti-separatism” bill despite strong criticisms from parliamentarians from the Left and the Right. The government argued the legislation was needed to bolster France’s secular system, but critics say it breaches religious freedom. After a seven-month debate – and the text going back and forth between France’s lower house, the National Assembly, and the Senate – the anti-separatist bill was approved by 49 votes to 19 with five abstention
Of the 613 athletes on this year’s US Olympic team, 329 are female – the most women any country has ever sent to the Olympics
Met police ‘tried to recruit ex-officer to spy on climate change activists’Former detective says he was asked to inform on fellow Extinction Rebellion campaigners Former police officer Paul Stephens joined Extinction Rebellion after he retired from the Metropolitan police in 2018. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer
Belgium has been hit by floods for the second time in just over a week. The provinces of Namur and Walloon Brabant southeast of the capital city Brussels were among the worst hit, after thunderstorms and heavy rain reached the country on Saturday. In Dinant, in the Walloon region, heavy rainfall washed away cars, leaving them strewn across the town.
An 11-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Bolton with a "substantial amount of money" has been found "safe and well" in London, police have said. Fatuma Kadir's parents are said to be "incredibly relieved" after they had appealed for her to return home quickly. The girl left without her parents' knowledge on Thursday evening before travelling on several trains to get to London Euston in the early hours of Friday morning.
Former President Donald Trump is telling some thoroughly debunked stories as he presses his relentless effort to undermine the legitimacy of his election defeat to President Joe Biden
Buried in concrete: how the mafia made a killing from the destruction of Italy’s southThe south of the country bears the scars of how bosses enriched their clans with illegal, brutalist buildings and gaudy, now decaying, villas The villa owned by hardened Cosa Nostra killer Giuseppe ‘Scarpuzzedda’ Greco was nearly 40 metres high. Photograph: Alessio Mamo
US set for punishing temperatures as huge ‘heat dome’ to settle over country. Heatwave to next week roast areas already gripped by severe drought, plunging reservoirs and wildfires
Europe clamps down amid fears over rapid spread of Delta variant. Governments are launching de facto vaccine passport schemes as they try to head off a summer Covid wave like the UK’s
Applying same rules as France would have significant impact, Labour says
It’s Hollyoaks, but now with an all-black cast and crew…The long-running soap will be the centrepiece of Channel 4’s Black to Front diversity initiative in September Richard Blackwood and Kelle Bryan filming the episode. Photograph: Channel 4
Far-right commentator Katie Hopkins was among thousands of campaigners on the streets of London today for a protest against vaccine passports, wearing masks and further lockdowns. Video filmed on Saturday afternoon (July 24) shows Hopkins posing for selfies with fans in central London. Hopkins arrived in the UK earlier this week following her deportation from Australia after mocking the country's quarantine rules. She was there to take part in "Celebrity Big Brother." A Worldwide Rally For Freedom demonstration took place in a several cities around the world.
Fears for Covid vaccine drive if second doses clash with boostersRisk that low take-up by young will lead to crunch as older people get third shotCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Young people waiting to receive a Covid jab at Twickenham rugby stadium at the end of May. Take-up has slowed down. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
‘An explosion is coming’: Biden races to unite allies against ChinaThe US president is being much tougher than expected on Beijing, but a lack of solidarity will undermine his policy’s success The hole where common policy and joint action should be gapes dangerously amid collisions with Xi Jinping’s aggressive one-party state. Photograph: Li Xueren/AP
Australia Covid update: woman in her 30s among two deaths as NSW records 141 new coronavirus casesGladys Berejikilian tells anti-lockdown protesters they should be ‘ashamed’ as case numbers continue to climbFollow our Covid Australia news live blogNSW restrictions; NSW hotspots; Vic restrictions; Vic hotspotsDownload the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian announced 141 new Covid cases on Sunday, and condemned anti-lockdown protesters. Photograph: Lis
The prime minister will emerge from isolation this coming week and deliver what is being billed as his new "beating crime plan". Boris Johnson, who will finish his quarantine period at his Chequers country retreat on Monday, is seeking to get back on the front foot as he begins his third year as prime minister. There has been anger and calls for exemptions from isolation for a range of key workers.
With no race radio available the chasing group at the end were not aware of mathematician Kiesenhofer’s early breakaway.
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