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The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USTwo teenager sisters have died while swimming at New York’s Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn over July 4 weekend.Aisha Mohammed, 18, and Zainab Mohammed, 17, of the Bronx, were reported missing on Friday night in the area of Stillwell Avenue and Boardwalk West after they were seen entering the water and disappearing from view, the NYPD said.Witnesses told WABC-TV that a rain storm began and most people at the beach took shelter, but the two young…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter England hit back from a goal down before beating Switzerland in a nail-biting penalty shootout to book a Euro 2024 semi-final spot.Gareth Southgate’s side can now look forward to a showdown on Wednesday against the Netherlands, who also battled back from 1-0 down to edge past Turkey.Here, the PA news agency looks back at the latest action from Euro 2024.England spot onJordan Pickford was the shoot-out hero as England kept their Euro 2024 dreams alive by beating…

Downing Street has released video footage of the moment Sir Keir Starmer speaks with US President Joe Biden following Labour’s general election win.The call, which took place on Friday (5 July), saw the new prime minister speak with Mr Biden, who congratulated him on “a hell of a victory”.Mr Starmer replies: “Thank you, Mr President.“It has been a long night and day and I have been busy appointing my Cabinet.”The two leaders also discussed their shared commitment to the “Special Relationship” between the UK and the US.Mr Starmer said: “This is the bedrock for our defence, for our security and…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Euro 2024 nears its finale after the last eight teams were whittled down to four ahead of the semi-finals. Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey all fell at the quarter-final stage, as Spain set up a mouth-watering clash with France and England squeezed through to face Netherlands. The semi-finals will be played on Tuesday and Wednesday night, before Sunday’s final in Berlin. Here is the full fixture schedule for the Euro 2024 knockout stages: Euro 2024 knockouts…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USTwo suspected killers who escaped from a jail in southwestern Mississippi have now been captured following a brief manhunt. Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, broke out of the Claiborne County Detention Center around 2.20am local time on Friday, according to the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Department.Footage from the facility showed the two men crawling into the ceiling of the jail, the sheriff’s department said.From there, the pair managed to find a means of escape to…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter For the second time in two days, the home team went out of Euro 2024. If Germany are the hosts, the Turkish diaspora had made Berlin feel as if it stood on the banks of the Bosphorus. They were little more than 20 minutes from a semi-final in Dortmund which, given the Ruhr’s vast Turkish population, could have seemed another home game.But then came the Dutch comeback. The Netherlands eliminated the West German hosts in Euro ’88.…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailThe federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against Donald Trump refused Saturday to throw out charges against a co-defendant of the former president.Lawyers for Walt Nauta, Trump’s personal valet, had asked US District Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss the indictment against their client. They argued, among other things, that Nauta was charged because of insufficient cooperation with prosecutors’ investigation and because of a personal animus that they say prosecutors harbored against one of Nauta’s attorneys.Special counsel…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Gareth Southgate lauded England’s streetwise spot-kick heroes after reaching the Euro 2024 semi-finals and heaped special praise on Bukayo Saka for exorcising his penalty demons against Switzerland. The manager also admitted some of the “personal” criticism of his management had been “difficult” to take, after sections of the media including former England players took aim at his coaching skills.Having stumbled through the group stage and secured a dramatic extra-time triumph against Slovakia in the round of 16,…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailJoe Biden has narrowed Donald Trump’s lead in crucial swing states including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina in spite of his disastrous debate performance fallout, according to a new poll.In the new Morning Consult and Bloomberg survey, Trump holds only a three-point lead over Biden in Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina and a one-point lead over Biden in Georgia. The former president holds a more significant lead over Biden in Pennslyvania.Meanwhile, Biden is polling slightly ahead of…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Bukayo Saka said he had belief in himself as he capped a man-of-the-match performance by scoring in the Euro 2024 shoot-out win over Switzerland to book a semi-final slot and banish his penalty demons of three years ago.Not only did he equalise for England with a fine individual strike to cancel out Breel Embolo’s opener – to make it 1-1 and take the match to extra-time – he took the third of the five penalties all scored…