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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 Carlos Alcaraz has said he could not leave his taxi to the Wimbledon champions’ dinner before being sure that Spain’s Euro 2024-winning goal was onside. Alcaraz beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets in the Wimbledon final on Sunday, before watching his national team defeat England in the Euro 2024 final.Alcaraz’s victory over Djokovic was much more straightforward than his epic against the Serb in the 2023 final, while Spain overcame England 2-1 with an 86th-minute winner. However,…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailThe 20-year-old gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a campaign rally was previously rejected from his high school shooting club because he was “a bad shooter”, it has been revealed. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was shot dead on Saturday evening by Secret Service agents after he opened fire on the former president from a vantage point of the rooftop of a building just outside the security perimeter of the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.The gunman, from nearby…

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 Violence was seen breaking out among England fans in the stands of Berlin’s Olympiastadion as well as in the streets of the UK following their team’s defeat in the Euro 2024 final.Images and footage show supporters clashing inside the German stadium as well as back home in London and other British cities after the Three Lions fell at the final hurdle once more, with Spain winning the tightly contested tournament.The Metropolitan Police said there were six football-related…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailLinkedIn’s co-founder Reid Hoffman has sought to clarify comments he made about Donald Trump before the assassination attempt against him, in which he said that he wished the former president was a “martyr.”The internet entrepreneur said at an Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference last week, before the shooting incident at Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, that he wished the presumptive Republican candidate for the White House was “an actual martyr” – a comment that…

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 have sold defender Willy Kambwala to Villarreal for a sum rising to €11.5m.United will make an initial €5.5m for the 19-year-old, with a potential €6m in add-ons and they have a sizeable sell-on clause.They also possess a buy-back option for the centre-back, who had one year left on his deal at Old Trafford and who had rejected a new deal.Kambwala, who made 10 appearances for the club, becomes the second French centre-back to leave United…

Related: Donald Trump is seen for the first time after assassination attempt at rallySign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump has arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to attend this year’s Republican National Convention, a matter of hours after surviving a dramatic attempt on his life.The presumptive GOP presidential nominee – who will be coronated by his party as its 2024 candidate at the convention and finally unveil the identity of his running mate – was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on…

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 As Gareth Southgate tries to figure out what comes next, and whether he will stay as England manager, Spain know exactly what they’re going to do. That – other than celebrate being European champions – is to go for the 2026 World Cup with the same approach, the same idea.It is the major difference between the teams, and the main reason that Spain won. That should be the lesson and legacy of Euro 2024. Ideology has won…

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 emailsThirty three Indian farm labourers have been freed from “slave-like” working conditions in northern Italy amid a crackdown on immigrant worker exploitation following the brutal death of a worker from Punjab.Italian tax police said they seized almost half a million euros from two alleged gangmasters, also Indians, who got their compatriots to work in the European country.The men were made to pay €17,000 (£14,275) each and promised a seasonal work permit and better life. They…

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 They got to trudge past the trophy, given an immediate illustration of what they could have won. England were so close – denied by an 86th-minute winner in the final – and yet perhaps also so far away. They were the second-best side in Euro 2024 in the sense they stretched their participation right to the end; not in others, though. But for Jude Bellingham’s magnificent overhead kick against Slovakia, they would have exited early and ignominiously.…

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discountsGet Simon Calder’s Travel emailDelta has decided that only US flags will be allowed on uniforms after it faced backlash for saying they would be “terrified” as well when an X user pointed out two employees wearing Palestine flag pins. The airline confirmed the change in an email to The Independent. The new policy will go into effect on July 15.The decision followed an X exchange between the airline’s account and the complaining user this week. Photos had emerged of flight attendants wearing the Palestinian flag on…