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Live ‘Bullets were flying over us’: Trump recounts assassination attempt

• ‘I'm not supposed to be here tonight’, he says during RNC speech
• Crowd responds: ‘Yes, you are! Yes, you are!’

Biden needs to ‘seriously consider’ dropping out from election, Obama tells allies

Who will win the US election? Our experts predict Trump boost after assassination attempt

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‘Fanatic’ Extinction Rebellion founder gets record jail sentence

Pictured: Roger Hallam arrest in 2022

Border Force takes Channel migrants to France for first time

New pill for men with advanced prostate cancer avoids need to travel for injections

Paula Vennells lied to me, says Sir Ed Davey

Labour ‘retirement tax’ to hit state pensioners within two years

Unrest in leeds

Police car flipped over and bus on fire in Leeds as riots break out

• Mob surrounds police car and smashes windows with bats
• Riot van deployed as 30 officers clash with locals

European leaders meet

King shares sympathy for ‘brilliant’ Gareth Southgate

Don’t let Putin blackmail you, Zelensky warns allies in swipe at Orban

PM takes hands-on approach to embracing Europe

Starmer to consider processing asylum claims overseas

Donald Trump

The tweets David Lammy doesn't want Trump to see

Hulk Hogan to warm up crowd for Trump’s first speech since assassination attempt

Golf

Rory McIlroy’s only mercy was that he did not hit the 13:00 train from Glasgow

Northern Irishman ended his opening round at Royal Troon with a 78 to leave him 10 shots off the lead

Outsider Daniel Brown grabs shock first-round lead at the Open

Tiger Woods denies TV commentator’s claims he is playing Open ‘on painkillers’

Postage Stamp claims scalps of world’s best golfers after day of carnage

Business

Chunks to be cut out of HSBC skyscraper in Canary Wharf overhaul

House purchases delayed by ‘global payments issue’

More than half of trains to be state-run within a year

Baby Reindeer and Bridgerton help Netflix to record revenues

Sport

Ollie Pope makes important century as England cash in on West Indies drops to build commanding score

Ben Stokes offers tantalising hope that his batting and bowling will again flourish in tandem

I am glad Gareth Southgate left on his terms – I did not get the chance

Sven-Goran Eriksson

‘Car crash’ Hundred sale plans in danger of falling hundreds of millions short of ECB target

World news

Large explosion near US embassy in Tel Aviv may have been drone attack

Police officer injured in knife attack near Champs Elysees

Police ‘thwart plot to supply 1,000 Kamikaze drones to Hezbollah’

American driver who fled UK after hitting nurse admits vaping before crash

British tourist who drowned in Lake Como named

life

How to fake a ‘French woman tan’

Jeep Avenger review: Close to brilliant – until a charging glitch left me stranded in a car park

‘I will kill you’: abusers use 1p bank transfers to send death threats

German boarding schools target British parents

It’s the summer of the Little Red Dress – choose yours wisely