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First day of Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial highlights his drug useSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailCross-examination and testimony will continue today in Hunter Biden’s federal gun charges case with the prosecution expected to introduce Kathleen Buhle – Biden’s ex-wife – for questioning.Defense attorneys will have the opportunity, this morning, to continue cross-examining an FBI agent assigned to Biden’s case.Jurors heard testimony from the FBI agent on Tuesday in which she recounted extracting messages from his laptop that showed conversations about crack cocaine…

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 Manchester United are in talks with Jonny Evans about a new contract which would keep him at Old Trafford past his 37th birthday. The FA Cup winners are also considering giving third-choice goalkeeper Tom Heaton a new deal while they have offered a contract to Omari Forson, the 19-year-old forward who could leave this summer. United had already confirmed that Raphael Varane and Anthony Martial would go when their contracts ended, meaning France internationals who cost the…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USAmanda Knox has been re-convicted of slander in an Italian court after accusing an innocent man in the murder of her roommate in 2007.Knox arrived at the Florence court on Wednesday in an attempt to overturn a conviction for slander, in the last outstanding case against her.The 36-year-old spent four years in jail for the murder of her flatmate Meredith Kercher, while the two were exchange students, before her conviction was later annulled in 2015.She appeared…

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 Troy Parrott is hoping better fortunes are just around the corner for the Republic of Ireland after firing them to a dramatic win over Euro 2024 finalists Hungary.The 22-year-old Tottenham striker came off the bench to snatch a 2-1 victory in the second minute of stoppage time at the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday evening, Ireland’s first success of note since they beat Scotland 3-0 in June 2022.It has been a bleak couple of years for the Republic,…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsBelgian director Ivo Van Hove’s production of A View From the Bridge at the Young Vic back in 2014 remains a high watermark of contemporary theatre. Showers of blood-red rain, no set or props, Mark Strong and Nicola Walker going at it with a brutal level of intensity that didn’t let up until the final, tragic scenes. That was the last big production of Arthur Miller’s classic in London, and it did beg the question…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USJames Kane has used a powerful magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but he says the stacks of $100 bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely.Kane’s girlfriend, Barbi Agostini, was recording last Friday as he pulled a slimy safe out of a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, famous as the location of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, and extracted bags of waterlogged, gunk-covered Benjamins from…

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 Interim boss John O’Shea is confident the Republic of Ireland are laying a foundation for future success after a morale-boosting friendly victory over Euro 2024 qualifiers Hungary.Substitute Troy Parrott’s stoppage-time goal secured a 2-1 win at the Aviva Stadium which ended the Hungarians’ 14-match unbeaten run in their penultimate warm-up fixture before they fly to Germany.Ireland will head for Portugal next Tuesday without a permanent head coach, but with a hard-fought win against a side ranked some…

Jury selection begins in Hunter Biden’s gun trialSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailJurors in Hunter Biden’s federal gun charges trial saw text messages between the president’s son and his onetime girlfriend – who is also his brother Beau Biden’s widow – Hallie Biden in which the two spoke about drug usage and the firearm at the center of the case.On Tuesday, prosecutors submitted into evidence messages from 2018 where Biden berated Hallie for taking the firearm he purchased and disposing of it without…

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 have had their fair share of wake-up calls as of late and they haven’t always heeded them. This time, though, they finally did what was required.The Lionesses found their rhythm against France in Saint-Etienne and ironed out the issues which blighted them in Friday’s defeat in Newcastle. In doing so they handed a significant boost to their Euro 2025 qualification hopes.They are joint-second in Group A3, trailing leaders France by two points with two fixtures remaining.…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailIn 2020, at the end of his term in the White House, Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to force TikTok off the top app stores and have its Chinese parent company divest its ownership. He must be glad now that those efforts were challenged in court and dropped by the Biden administration. The former president joined TikTok on Saturday and has quickly garnered 5.2m followers, blowing past the Biden campaign’s roughly 357,000 followers. In a statement to The Independent,…