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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planetGet our free Climate emailDemocrats in the US House of Representatives are investigating Donald Trump after he reportedly promised oil company executives that he will undo certain climate policies if they fund his return to the White House.Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee sent letters to nine oil executives on Monday asking for information about their meeting with Mr Trump in Florida. The letter asks the executives to reveal whether Mr Trump proposed a “quid pro quo” arrangement to them.“Media reports raise significant potential ethical,…

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 captain Bruno Fernandes insists he will stay at Old Trafford – if the club wants him. And Erik Ten Hag is adamant the club have no intention of letting Fernandes leave.The Portugal international’s future has been the subject of speculation in recent days, with Bayern Munich and Inter Milan among the clubs linked with the influential 29-year-old.Yet speaking after playing a prominent role in the Red Devils’ 3-2 victory over Newcastle – which maintained their…

CCTV shows gunmen ramming French prison van and killing guards to free drug dealerFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThe “unprecedented” manhunt for the escaped French inmate ‘The Fly’ has entered its third day after an international arrest warrant was issued.Interpol on Wednesday said it issued a ‘Red Notice’ search warrant for fugitive Mohamed Amra, 30, at the request of France’s authorities.The suspected drug boss, nicknamed ‘La Mouche’, was being transported from a court hearing in Rouen to a secure jail…

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 There was a time when the period dramas television executives rushed to commission involved the writings of Jane Austen, not the musings of Phil Neville. Though that time was the 1990s, a decade that has led to a growth industry in Manchester United nostalgia. Which, as the last quarter of a century has taken them from “football, bloody hell” to “football, bloody mess”, may be unsurprising. The past is infinitely preferable to the present for them.After Netflix’s…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USAn inmate who escaped custody in Idaho following a “brazen, violent” prison break has pleaded guilty during a court appearance.Skylar Meade went on the run while undergoing medical treatment for self-inflicted wounds at a hospital in Boise. He was eventually re-captured after a 36-hour manhunt.Three law enforcement officers were shot and wounded during the violent escape.Meade entered a guilty plea to charges of prison escape and persistent violator in an Ada County courtroom on Wednesday, reported…

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 If this proves Erik ten Hag’s farewell to Old Trafford, at least it summed up some of the finest elements of the Dutchman’s fraught second season at Manchester United. There was entertainment in abundance and goals by three youngsters; Kobbie Mainoo and Amad Diallo were given their chance by Ten Hag, Rasmus Hojlund signed by him. A patched-up team delivered a victory against one of the better teams in the country, Casemiro was talismanic if also culpable,…

Chad Daybell gets emotional as 911 call is played at his murder trialThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USJurors listened to never-before-heard jail phone calls in a Boise, Idaho courtroom on Wednesday that revealed “doomsday” author Chad Daybell told his wife Lori Vallow that he texted her dead brother, Alex Cox. Daybell, 55, is on trial for the 2019 murders of his former wife Tammy, and Vallow’s children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ, seven. The children were found buried in Daybell’s Idaho…

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 It was one of the moments of the season, one that people will talk about for years, but might well have been followed by something that said much more about the modern history of Tottenham Hotspur.On 85 minutes, with the title on the line, Son Heung-Min bore down on goal after a Manuel Akanji slip. The Korean is statistically the best finisher in the Premier League, so this might have been the miracle Arsenal needed. Ederson wasn’t…

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 emailsWhen Duncan Macmillan’s play about an actress recovering from drug addiction opened at the National Theatre in 2015, many said how wonderful it was, and how rare, to see such a complex lead role written for a woman. Denise Gough had been on the verge of quitting the profession when her portrayal of Emma turned her into a star overnight. It was compared to Mark Rylance’s performance in Jerusalem, helping to power a 2016 West End transfer…

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 emailsSlovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico has been injured in a shooting and rushed to hospital. The incident took place in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometres northeast of the capital Bratislava, after a government meeting. TA3, a Slovakian TV station, has reported that the 59-year-old premier was hit in the stomach during the daylight attack. A suspect has been detained, with dramatic images showing a man handcuffed on the ground. The shooting occurred in…