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Donald Trump and Joe Biden argued about the President’s golf handicap in a bizarre exchange during the first US election TV debate.
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Sky video'Double haters' who dislike both Biden and Trump may well have swelled in number after debate
On the pier in California's Manhattan Beach, 21-year-old Stella and her friends are crowded round a phone watching videos of two old men rowing about their golf handicap.
- The Independent
New York Times editorial board calls on Biden to drop out of the 2024 race
Biden defended his weak debate performance on Friday, saying he still knows ‘how to do this job’
- The Independent
Four dead and nine hospitalized after vehicle smashes into Long Island nail salon
Driver of car survived and is in hospital after incident at Hawaii Nail & Spa in the town of Deer Park
- The Telegraph
The members of Joe Biden’s circle who could convince him to stand down
Pressure on Joe Biden to stand aside to avoid humiliation in November’s election is mounting.
- The Independent
Trump tells Biden to ‘get the hell out of here’ as he takes victory lap at lie-filled rally
Trump says he doesn’t believe Biden can be replaced because he ‘polls better than those people’
- The Guardian
‘History shows that all Labour victories are hard earned’: campaign chief’s iron formula
From his London HQ, Pat McFadden talks about his party’s nothing-left-to-chance preparations, Nigel Farage showing his true colours, and ‘fending off Tory nonsense’
- Rolling Stone UK
Fontaines D.C. and IDLES live at Glastonbury: headline sets with contrasting energies
One set is a victory lap, the other a tantalising teaser of a new era: both bands triumph on Friday at Worthy Farm.
- HuffPost UK
Trevor Phillips Destroys Nigel Farage With One Devastating Question
The Reform UK leader rejected the accusation that his party is a home for racists.
- The Telegraph
Labour vote share falls to lowest in more than two years
Labour’s vote share has fallen to its lowest level in more than two years ahead of the general election, new polling shows.
- HuffPost UK
Rishi Sunak Left Squirming As He's Confronted With Ordinary People's Lives In Tory Britain
The prime minister had insisted life was "better" now than when the party came to power in 2010.
- The Telegraph
Old, rich and living on benefits: welcome to the state pension capital of Britain
East Preston feels an unlikely stronghold of benefits dependency. The genteel village on the West Sussex coast might be the closest thing that Britain has to a moneyed pensioner utopia.
- The Daily Beast
Obama Rode to Biden’s Rescue—but Intervention Could Yet Come
On Friday afternoon, in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump, private murmurs and public calls for an “intervention” ricocheted through Democratic circles. But then a hold-up emerged.Some 17 hours after Biden botched his big debate moment, his former boss came to the rescue.For many high-ranking Democrats, a single tweet from former President Barack Obama appeared to nix any chance of the 44th president meeting with the 46th and urging him to drop out.Rea
- The Telegraph
Did Nigel Farage blow himself up in the BBC Question Time election special? Our writers react
It was finally Nigel Farage’s time to appear before a BBC Question Time audience this evening, more than a week after Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer had theirs. The Reform UK leader took the podium in the same hour as a Green Party representative, Adrian Ramsay. Yet only one of these men has excited reaction from our writers.
- INSIDER
Biden meets family at Camp David as calls to exit the race grow
The meeting was pre-planned but is a timely opportunity for Biden to discuss the future of his campaign with the most influential people in his life.
- HuffPost UK
'On The Brink Of Destruction': Trevor Phillips Tells Oliver Dowden The Tories Face Election Wipeout
The party still trails well behind Labour with just four days to go until the election.
- Manchester Evening News
'My mortgage has doubled... the country's gone to pot': The Greater Manchester neighbourhood where people want change
'I was born and bred here... I've never known the place be as big of a dump as it is'
- Associated Press
A private call of top Democrats fuels more insider anger about Biden's debate performance
A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week. DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez held a Saturday afternoon call with dozens of committee members across the country, a group of some of the most influential members of the party.
- PA Media: UK News
Rishi Sunak: I’ll still be Prime Minister on Friday
The Conservative leader defended his party’s record in government against what he described as a ‘declinist narrative’.
- Business Insider
A grinding Russian assault appears telling about Putin's plan to defeat Ukraine
ISW's conflict experts warned that the West must "challenge Putin's belief that he can gradually subsume Ukraine."
- The Telegraph
Joe Biden cannot run again
After Thursday night’s debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, held on terms considered by many to be favourable to the current President, there is only one conclusion that it is possible to draw: Mr Biden should not run again for the US presidency in November.