Author: The Guardian

Special counsel prosecutors scoffed at Donald Trump’s claim that the classified documents case should be tossed because the order of documents in the boxes were slightly changed, arguing in a Monday night court filing it did not matter since the contents of the boxes were already so haphazardly stored.“Trump personally chose to keep documents containing some of the nation’s most highly guarded secrets in cardboard boxes along with a collection of other personally chosen keepsakes of various sizes and shapes from his presidency” prosecutors wrote.“At the end of his presidency, he took his cluttered collection of keepsakes to Mar-a-Lago, his…

Most of the time, when trying to evaluate a sports team’s play, you might as well look for the future in chicken guts. Throw in enough offal and you can interpret it into any shape you like.Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign could take many forms. Looking at the struggles against lower ranked teams, you can see a team that never struggled. Australia lost nearly half the game against Oman, three-quarters of the game against Scotland and finally suffered a heavy loss against Afghanistan. Marcus Stoinis saved the first two with a little help, but there was no one riding with…

It had been universally accepted that England needed a performance to reinvigorate their fans here in Germany after the toil of their opening Euro 2024 ties against Serbia and Denmark. One of the principal takeaways from a claustrophobic and emotional night was that the fans were certainly connected.Moved to boo at the interval after a display that lacked bite, they raised the intensity in the second period, belting out their songs for almost the duration of it. There was something faintly heroic about their efforts. They got louder and louder because they believed that a goal was coming. And if…

There was the moment of unbridled joy Kylian Mbappé had presumably visualised in recent days: whipping off his black mask and celebrating in front of thousands of France supporters daubed if not decked out in tricolour in the imposing, iconic Südtribüne. He struck a nerveless second-half penalty to register his first goal at a European Championship and relieve France’s goal­scoring frustrations – but by the end of a stodgy team performance he cut a contrasting figure, fidgeting with the mechanics of his mask in sticky heat, wiping the sweat clear with a towel.Mbappé was comfortably the most dangerous player on…

In 1993, Tee A Corinne wrote that she was “close to being finished with sexual imagery”. Corinne was a prolific multimedia artist, activist, photographer and writer of erotica and autobiography. Much of her work involved what she called “labia imagery and … images of women making love with other women or with themselves”. After three decades of this, however, she was thinking about moving on. “I have thought this before but changed my mind,” she wrote. “Why? Because no one else was making the images I wanted to see.”The images Corinne made, in part because nobody else was doing it,…

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case for retaining classified documents is expected on Tuesday to weigh a brazen attempt by the former president to prevent special counsel prosecutors from using some of the most incriminating evidence against him at trial.The Trump lawyers will first argue at a sealed hearing that prosecutors’ access to transcripts of voice memos made by Trump’s ex-lawyer in the documents case Evan Corcoran – which constitute key evidence of obstruction – should be entirely revoked, according to people familiar with the matter.And the Trump lawyers will later argue to the US district judge Aileen…

Name: Tickling.Age: As old as skin.Sensation: Actually quite sexy.Sorry everyone, we appear to have been infiltrated by a pervert. Oh, stop being so repressed. You love a good tickle.I only love tickles when they’re being given for the correct purposes. Which are?Parental bonding or development of combat skills. OK, while those are perfectly legitimate and well-established reasons for enjoying a tickle, you have to admit that tickling is also quite sexy.No it isn’t! I’m afraid I have to refer you to a recent study by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany, which has revealed that a quarter of people have…

A story that never ends?You may have seen Luka Modric’s post-match photos. Modric’s expression after a superb performance in Croatia’s late draw with Italy, which ultimately cruelly denied his country the chance to finish second in Group B and qualify for the knockout stages of Euro 2024 Empty, like the squire in a medieval tapestry. Reality. One eye on the past and one eye on the future.For better or worse, Modric has experienced more than just the depths of Shangri-La and the relentless noise of those metal toilet doors clanking. His childhood was ruined by the Croatian War and the…

Some prominent conservative lawmakers and commentators are advocating for ending no-fault divorce, laws that exist in all 50 US states and allow a person to end a marriage without having to prove a spouse did something wrong, like commit adultery or domestic violence.The socially conservative, and often religious, rightwing opponents of such divorce laws are arguing that the practice deprives people – mostly men – of due process and hurt families, and by extension, society. Republican lawmakers in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have discussed eliminating or increasing restrictions on no-fault marriage laws.Defenders of the laws, which states started passing…

“EEuropean champions – you’ll never sing that song. With around three hours to go before England take on Denmark in their second game of Euro 2024, we find ourselves surrounded by thousands of red-shirted players in the healthy surroundings of Frankfurt’s Opera Square. Danish fans, overlooked by the magnificent Old Opera House, which was rebuilt in the 1970s after being destroyed by Allied bombs in 1944, have apparently been writing impressive repertoire that reference previous British defeats , these songs will be repeated throughout the day.This time, they were aiming in our direction. This is probably not surprising as we…