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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailBob Menendez, the New Jersey Democratic Senator being accused of accepting lavish bribes in exchange for political favours, announced he will not seek re-election.In a nine-minute-long video posted on Thursday, Mr Menendez said he would not run again due to the accusations he faces related to a years-long bribery scheme. However, he did not rule out the possibility of running as an independent candidate after his federal trial.“Unfortunately the present accusations I am facing, of which I am…

Aaron Ramsey in training ahead of Wales’ Euro 2024 play-off semi-final (Nick Potts/PA Wire)Wales are taking on Finland tonight in the Euro 2024 play-off semi-finals as they bid to join England and Scotland in the tournament this summer. Rob Page’s side are at home in this one-legged fixture, and if they can see off Finland in Cardiff then they will qualify for a play-off final against either Poland or Estonia next week for a place in the Euros. Wales qualified for both of the past two European Championships, memorably reaching the semi-finals in France in 2016 where they were beaten…

Relate: Donald Trump’s own former vice president Mike Pence says he won’t endorse him in 2024Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailPresident Joe Biden’s re-election campaign raked in a further $21m in donations in February, according to its latest report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, closing out the month with $71m in cash on hand.That means the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee together have an estimated $97.5m in cash right now, more than twice the $44.8m Donald Trump and…

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 Jordan Pickford says speculation over Gareth Southgate’s future makes “no difference” to an England squad fully focused on winning the European Championship.Having reached the World Cup semi-finals and quarter-finals either side of finishing as Euro 2020 runners-up, the team are favourites to be crowned continental champions this summer.Euro 2024 could well be Southgate’s fourth and final tournament in charge, with the former England defender’s Football Association contract expiring at the end of the year.The 53-year-old says contract…

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailThe Bank of England has kept interest rates at the same level on Thursday as it continues to wait for further evidence that inflation is falling.Ahead of Thursday’s announcement, financial markets overwhelmingly predicted that the base rate would remain unchanged at 5.25 per cent for the fifth consecutive time.Click here for our live coverage of the interest rates announcement. Homeowners suffered 14 consecutive increases in 2022 and the first half of 2023 from 0.1 per cent up to the current…

Trump lawyer Alina Habba doesn’t rule out seeking $464m bond money from wealthy Russian or Saudi donorsSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump has issued a panicky fundraising memo to his supporters entitled “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!” as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in the New York fraud judgement against him ticks ever closer.”KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” the mailout reads. “Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia Jameswants to SEIZE my properties in New York. THIS…

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 Jarrad Branthwaite might make his senior England debut against Brazil on Saturday, up against stars like Vinicius Jr and Endrick, and it is from this point that his remarkable career trajectory must now be measured. Last summer he was on the bench for England’s Under-21s watching others play ahead of him; go back another four years and Branthwaite was ready to give up football entirely.He was a 15-year-old playing for his local club, Carlisle United, about to…

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Putin Attends Concert In Moscow On Anniversary Of Crimea’s AnnexationFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsRussia launched dozens of missiles at Kyiv in an early morning attack, injuring at least 10 people while residential buildings and industrial facilities across the Ukrainian capital have been damaged. The city’s air defence units downed 31 missiles, including two ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles, according to the country’s air force commander Mykola Oleschuk.However, debris from the missiles hit buildings across the city, including a…

Joe Gomez says his return to England’s squad for the first time in three and a half years has closed the chapter on a difficult period of his career which had a “psychological toll”.The Liverpool defender is back on the international scene amid a fine season, making the cut in Gareth Southgate’s final squad selection before he names his 23-man pool for Euro 2024.It was during a session while away with England in November 2020 when Gomez injured the tendons in his knee, leading to surgery and an eight-month spell on the sidelines that became a near-four year absence from…