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Presidential debate
Republicans express dismay at Trump performance as polling suggests Harris won debate
US politics live  
Republicans express dismay at Trump performance as polling suggests Harris won debate
Donald Trump says this was his ‘best ever debate’ after fiery encounter with Kamala Harris and attacks Taylor Swift for endorsing his rival
Analysis  
Harris delivered a ‘masterclass’ debate. Will it change the race?
Key takeaways  
Harris’s powerful abortion stance and fact-checking Trump: top debate moments
Taylor Swift  
Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president in post signed ‘childless cat lady’
Headlines
Ron DeSantis condemned over Florida’s ‘draconian’ new anti-homelessness law
Florida  
Ron DeSantis condemned over Florida’s ‘draconian’ new anti-homelessness law
Fort Lauderdale mayor says legislation will provoke ‘tsunami of lawsuits’ but do nothing to help homeless crisis
Congress  
House to vote on Mike Johnson’s controversial government funding bill
Europe live  
Blinken in Kyiv to meet Ukrainian leaders
Environment  
Giant tortoises in Seychelles face threat from luxury hotel development
US  
‘I feared for my life’: record-setting US traveler says he was held as possible spy
 

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In focus
Prosecutor Kamala Harris put Trump on trial, but the court of public opinion can be fickle
The US politics sketch  
Prosecutor Kamala Harris put Trump on trial, but the court of public opinion can be fickle
Under the bright lights of the US presidential debate stage, Harris was judge, jury and executioner, baiting Donald Trump at every turn
Ohio  
A coal plant bulldozed an Ohio town displacing residents. Now its owners include a big Trump donor
Rise against fascism  
‘Do not laugh. Do not wear this. Do not speak aloud’: life under the Taliban
Spotlight
Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris. Donald Trump has only himself to blame
Analysis  
Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris. Donald Trump has only himself to blame
The former US president did what no one else could do: cracked Swift’s inscrutable veneer by annoying her into action with an Instagram post backing Harris
Television  
Back to the 90s! The TV show giving a front row seat to fashion’s hard-partying superstars
Music  
Holly Johnson on orgasmic pop and his second coming: ‘It’s a miracle of modern science I’m still here’
Art  
‘My old label said I was more annoying than lucrative’: painter-musician Issy Wood on her singular, insular world
Analysis  
Is it game over for Venezuela’s opposition as Maduro clings to power?
Comedy  
‘I regret being a little bit poor’: Doon Mackichan on stardom, Smack the Pony and never selling out
Opinion
Who won Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first debate? Our panel reacts
Who won Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first debate? Our panel reacts
Are novelists who worry about the rise of AI really ‘classist and ableist’?
Sports
Pochettino faces trickiest career challenge as USMNT coach
Pochettino faces trickiest career challenge as USMNT coach
Gymnastics  
The long road to make the US a force in men’s gymnastics
Culture
Music  
Dave Grohl says he has become father of baby girl born ‘outside my marriage’
Dave Grohl says he has become father of baby girl born ‘outside my marriage’
Performance art  
Nude descending a staircase on a skateboard: Jan Hakon Erichsen’s viral video art
In case you missed it
Trump and Harris tied nationally, latest polls show
Poll tracker  
Trump and Harris tied nationally, latest polls show
Find out who’s up and who’s down in the latest US presidential election opinion polls
Georgia  
No easy out for Brian Kemp as governor tries to rein in Georgia elections board
American psyche  
‘Shut up and dribble’ no more: US athletes juggle the interplay of sports and politics
Solar power  
How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over booming US solar power
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