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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 USHarvey Weinstein, disgraced Hollywood producer, is set to be retried as early as September, a New York court decided on Wednesday in the first hearing since the movie mogul’s conviction for rape and sexual assault was overturned.Weinstein, 72, using a wheelchair, appeared in the courthouse in lower Manhattan this afternoon.The hearing was the first step in the path to retrying the case. Both the prosecutors and attorneys for Weinstein were given a chance to address next…

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 Anton Ferdinand has called on John Terry to sit down with him in front of live cameras and look at “footage unblurred” of their October 2011 incident – following which Ferdinand accused Terry of racial abuse.Terry, then Chelsea captain, was charged over the incident at Loftus Road but was then cleared in court. Terry has always denied abusing the former QPR player, though was given a four-match ban and a £222,000 fine by the Football Association after…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USWatch from Columbia University on Wednesday 1 May, where protests continue after police cleared a campus encampment on Tuesday.New York City mayor Eric Adams said about 300 people had been arrested as he blamed the protests on outside agitators – without offering concrete evidence.Student rallies have spread to dozens of schools across the US in recent days expressing opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza and police have been called in to quell or clear protests.Supporters of…

Luis Enrique on PSG’s defensive collapse as Barca comeback to win 3-2Sign 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 Paris Saint-Germain are aiming to reach their first Champions League final since their 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in 2020.Standing in PSG’s way are Bayern’s Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund, who overcame a first-leg deficit against Atletico Madrid to progress to the semi-finals.After ending Diego Simeone’s hunt for a first UCL medal, the German club are now faced with stopping Kylian Mbappe’s search for the trophy he…

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 emailsA new musical about the Post Office scandal is currently in the works and its creators want to get the victims involved.The scandal came to wider public knowledge thanks to the ITV documentary Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which showed how at least 900 postal workers’ lives were destroyed when they were blamed for shortcomings in their accounts caused by faulty Horizon software between 1999 and 2015.The new musical, Make Good: the Post Office Scandal, is based on the stories…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USThe infamous Wally the ‘emotional support alligator’ has been stolen while on vacation in Georgia and released back into a swamp.Wally the Gator, best known for being an emotional support pet who often gives out cuddles to the public and has amassed thousands of followers on social media for his unusually friendly behaviour, was stolen over a week ago, his owner, Joie Henney, says.Wally’s Facebook page has been updating fans of Wally’s disappearance on the animal’s…

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 emailsPaddy Power owner Flutter is to switch its primary stock market listing to New York in another significant blow to the London stock exchange.Flutter Entertainment, which also owns Betfair and PokerStars, confirmed that a vast majority of shareholders voted in favour of the move at its annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday morning.The company, which was previously called Paddy Power Betfair, currently has a primary stock market listing in London and gained an additional New…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailFlorida’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect on Wednesday, setting up the state as a major battleground over reproductive rights in the 2024 election.The law, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis last year, will replace the existing 15-week ban in the state. The 15-week ban took effect earlier this year after a decision by Florida’s supreme court. The state now joins its neighbors Alabama and Georgia in having one of the most restrictive abortion…

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 Howard Webb, the head of Premier League referees says PGMOL would like VAR decisions to be communicated to the crowd during matches.However, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) who are the “independent guardians of the football rules of association football” have regulations in place that do not allow any discussions between officials to be broadcast live inside a stadium.PGMOL are instead pushing for referees to be allowed to explain their decisions to the crowd when they are…

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 emailsFor a relatively short novel, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia is a big and unwieldy thing. The incendiary 1990 book teems with incident and ideas – an irreverent, orgiastic odyssey following Karim, a mixed-race bisexual teenager, from his fraught family life in the 1970s suburbs to the London stage, and then to the druggy excess of New York. It’s hard to imagine how everything could fit into the temporal confines of a stage play.…