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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 emailAs the Republican Party continues the hunt for its 2024 presidential nominee, it increasingly looks like only Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis stand even an outside chance of ousting Donald Trump.The former president remains the clear front-runner in nearly all polls, despite the myriad legal problems he faces, any one of which could yet derail his hopes of mounting a return to the White House.As it stands, he has been crossed off the primary ballot papers in Colorado…

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 The sports minister Stuart Andrew has condemned “dangerous” comments made by Joey Barton about female football commentators and pundits and says he will take the issue up with social media platforms.Barton has posted a number of abusive comments online in recent weeks, and the former Manchester City midfielder described ITV pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward as “the Fred and Rose West of football commentary” on X, formerly Twitter, following the channel’s coverage of Crystal Palace’s FA…

Jeffrey Epstein victim Sarah Ransome has doubled down on allegations that the convicted paedophile made sex tapes of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and Richard Branson.Ms Ransome alleged in the newly released files that Epstein would film her “friend” having sex with each of the men.After making the claims in 2016, she then later retracted them.In 2019 Ms Ransome publicly admitted that she had invented the story and through her own admission confirmed that her original claims were baseless.In an interview with Good Morning Britain on Tuesday (9 January), Ms Ransome claimed she was forced to take back the allegations after…

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 Roy Keane has said that he’d be “fuming” with Rasmus Hojlund if he was a Manchester United teammate of the striker after another frustrating night for the Danish forward.Hojlund passed up a number of good opportunities in the 2-0 FA Cup win at Wigan, clipping the crossbar with a diving header.While the 20-year-old has shown glimpses of the talent that convinced Manchester United to spend upwards of £60 million in signing him from Atalanta, he has struggled…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USA man has been named as a suspect in three murders that took place in the late 1980s, two of which were connected to the infamous Colonial Parkway Murders.Police have identified a deceased fisherman as the suspect, over thirty years since the victims were murdered.Alan W. Wilmer has been linked to the 1987 deaths of David Knobling and Robin Edwards in Isle of Wight County and the 1989 killing of Teresa Lynn Howell in Hampton.Investigators were…

Guardiola welcomes return of ‘unique’ Kevin De Bruyne: ‘These guys win games’The January transfer window can be a strange beast on occasions, slow to start but frenzied at the end of the month as teams try to fix flaws or add depth in a compressed timeframe – and often with clubs who don’t want to deal. That can result in inflated fees or extremely late deals being done, but the rumours themselves start early and simply keep going.This month, Arsenal and Chelsea are expected to be two of the teams trying to bring in at least one player each, with…

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 emails A Danish appeals court on Tuesday upheld guilty verdicts for three members of an Iranian separatist group convicted of promoting terror in Iran and gathering information for an unnamed Saudi intelligence service.The three were arrested in February 2020 in the town of Ringsted, 60 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of the Danish capital of Copenhagen, and convicted of promoting terror over a deadly attack on a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahwaz…

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 The Football Association is assessing information surrounding the death of Sheffield United midfielder Maddy Cusack to see if any of its rules were breached.Cusack died aged 27 last September. Her family is understood to have written to her club within a week of her death, outlining a range of issues she had been facing which they said all stemmed from her relationship with the club’s manager, Jonathan Morgan, who has been in charge of the Blades since…

Donald Trump claims American Civil War ‘could’ve been negotiated’Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump is set to attend a hearing on Tuesday morning at Washington DC’s Court of Appeals weighing the presidential immunity plea that he hopes will see his January 6 election interference case dismissed.“Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity,” Mr Trump told his followers on Truth Social, trailing the appearance.“I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was long over. I was…

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 Two-nil is supposed to be a dangerous scoreline. For Manchester United, it was more of an unknown one, offering a level of comfort to which they have become unaccustomed. After 29 games this season, they mustered a first 2-0 win. That is not the damning part, however, or the fact their victims, Wigan Athletic, lie in the lower reaches of League One.It was only the third match this season they have won by more than one goal.…