If you want to know why so many Mets fans still wear No. 5 jerseys to Citi Field, those tales are a nice foundation on which to build. If you want to know why Saturday, start to finish, will be an endless — and deafening — thank you note, fans to star? It’s because David...

• Updates from the first mountain stage of this year’s race

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Matt Stephens on TNT Sports spoke to Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) before today’s stage. He asked if he and his team would be the aggressors today, to which Pogačar replied:

Like I said we will see. We can decide after a few climbs. We can see if we’re riding strong or not … I think we are ready today.

I think the whole Tour are talking about today. It’s the national day of France, I think everyone wants to be in the break today.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban criticized the Democratic Party’s fixation on attacking President Donald Trump rather than providing ideas for helping ordinary people.

Rory McIlroy couldn’t hide his disdain for the conditions at the Scottish Open.

Police in Kentucky are investigating after a gunman killed two people at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, also injuring a state trooper.

Not everything went the way of Dustin Poirier during the course of his first 17 years as a professional fighter, chief among them falling short three times in his bid to become the undisputed UFC lightweight champion.

A devastating fire at a Massachusetts assisted living facility left nine dead and over 30 hospitalized as residents were seen screaming for help.

O'Donnell lives in Ireland with her 12-year-old child, CLay, while DeGeneres recently moved to England with her wife, Portia De Rossi.

Some influencers on social media are participating in the viral "Sharpie lip liner" trend — which is exactly what it sounds like.

Police say they are looking for a group of migrants who were inside a vehicle that collided near the Canada-U.S. border in southern Quebec. Read More

Politics of carmaker’s owner has soured sentiments in Grünheide, south-west of Berlin, where the factory promised jobs and revitalisation

When Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer – who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built Tesla’s European production hub – wrote to the state premier to complain.

“How can you do business with someone who supports rightwing extremism?” she asked Dietmar Woidke, the Social Democrat leader of the eastern state of Brandenburg, who had backed the setting up of the Tesla Giga factory in Grünheide.

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When it comes to keep babies quiet on the plane, parents will do just about anything. 

Japan’s limited-edition Baby Body Burger packs in 1,876 calories and tips the scales at nearly 680g. Will it defeat our reporter?

Japan can legitimately claim to be home to some of the best food on the planet. But it usually has little appetite for supersizing it.

That changed on Friday with Burger King’s gargantuan but curiously named Baby Body Burger, tipping the scales at nearly 680g (1.5lb). As part of a collaboration with the Japan Sumo Association, whose July wrestling tournament has just started, the burger checks in at 1,876 calories. Sumo wrestlers would only need about four of these to get their average daily caloric needs; a mere mortal would need just one to one-and-a-half. And, at ¥2,590 (£13.05), it’s nearly twice the price of a one-patty Whopper with cheese.

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Pro Football Hall of Famer John Elway will avoid charges in the death of his longtime agent and friend Jeff Sperbeck after he died in April.

A great speedy bowl meal that is wholesome, tasty and a success with all the family

These were an absolute hit with my children, albeit minus the cashews, and as any parent with toddlers who refuse to let their food touch other food will know, that’s a breakthrough. It’s well worth making the whole quantity here, because any leftovers are perfect for fried rice the next day – just make sure you cool the rice after making it, then refrigerate immediately and reheat until piping hot the next day.

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© Photograph: Matthew Hague/The Guardian. Food and prop styling: Lucy Turnbull. Food assistant: Georgia Rudd.

© Photograph: Matthew Hague/The Guardian. Food and prop styling: Lucy Turnbull. Food assistant: Georgia Rudd.

The Democratic mayoral candidate has faced controversy over his calls for a rent freeze. But the plan has plenty of precedent

During the New York City mayoral primary campaign, Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for a citywide rent freeze became a contentious topic. The Democratic nominee says to achieve a cap on annual rent increases for the city’s 1m rent-stabilized apartments, he would appoint members to the city’s rent guidelines board who support it. Critics decry a rent freeze as a pie-in-the-sky, unrealistic proposal.

I served as a rent guidelines board member for nearly four years, appointed by then mayor Bill de Blasio in 2018. And it’s clear this controversy isn’t just about rent freezes – there’s a larger agenda to deregulate rent-stabilized housing, under which rent ceilings prevent landlords from raising the rent too high and tenants must be offered renewal leases (unless the landlord shows legal reason not to).

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Family of Paul St Hilaire Sr to take council to high court next month to reinstate van on King William Walk

When he was growing up, Paul St Hilaire Jr thought his dad was the next best thing to Willy Wonka: no one else’s dad sold ice-cream for a living.

“I remember sitting in the van, eating my Mr Whippy and feeling superior to children queueing up outside,” St Hilaire Jr remembered.

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© Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

A man gets catapulted into the future to help him understand the future of his crush, but the sloppy chronology and gratuitous stylistic touches leave this film a little too infatuated with itself

With studio projects abandoning Los Angeles as a shooting location, it’s the low-budget crowd that are still holdouts, presumably out of necessity. Futra Days is another in the line of esoteric films about overheated Angeleno creative minds that the pandemic seemed to encourage; the likes of the hermeneutic sci-fi Something in the Dirt or family found-footage He’s Watching. But running time-travel rings around a dysfunctional relationship, Ryan David’s sophomore effort is just a bit too infatuated with itself.

Jaded record producer Sean (Brandon Sklenar, looking like Chris Evans and Glen Powell spliced) is wondering whether a new crush on thrift-shop worker and aspiring singer Nichole (Tania Raymonde) will go the distance. So he signs up to a “happiness heist”: being catapulted into the future by an experimental time-travel clinic run by Dr Felicia Walter (Rosanna Arquette) whose medical qualifications seem, well, questionable. After replacing his future self, who is in the process of walking out on an exasperated future Nichole, he decides to try to reboot their relationship.

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© Photograph: Archstone Entertainment

I wasn’t expecting Kourtney Kardashian to do a number on my gut, but here we are.

So is Jack like rich-rich in 1880s cash?

The Dragon Bravo Fire engulfed the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim, destroying the landmark building and dozens of structures while firefighters battle a second blaze north of the canyon.

The actor confirmed their role from the original film is being recast.

Domestic intelligence agency ‘eliminated’ two Russia-linked operatives allegedly responsible for killing

Officers did not notice inmate’s disappearance for 24 hours, amid overcrowding across France’s prison system

A prisoner who escaped from a French jail hidden in a laundry bag has been rearrested, authorities have said, amid a continuing debate over prison security and overcrowding.

Elyazid A, 20, known as “the Joker” or “the Equaliser”, was detained early on Monday morning as he emerged from a cellar in a village about 15 miles (25km) from Lyon-Corbas, the prison from which he escaped on Friday.

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