Mike Nesbitt said the revelation will do ‘nothing to try and restore public and political confidence’ in the Belfast Trust.

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LeBron James may be daydreaming about Prime Day deals in his new Amazon commercial, but there’s no fantasy when it comes to his real-life focus: getting his knee healthy in time for training camp

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Iranian officials have warned that U.S. participation in an attack on its facilities will imperil any chance of the nuclear disarmament deal the president insists he is still interested in pursuing.

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MacIntyre had hopes of becoming the first Scot to win a major since Paul Lawrie in 1999 when he was the clubhouse leader on the final day.

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McIlroy had to battle to make the cut at Oakmont but at least eased some of his recent worries off the tee.

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The American’s stellar finish at Oakmont robbed MacIntyre of the chance to become Scotland’s first major champion since 1999

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Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the future of the US is ridiculous. She’s an academic specialising in the history and culture of eastern Europe and describes herself as a “Slavicist”, yet here she is, suddenly besieged by international journalists keen to ask about the country in which she insists she has no expertise: her own. “It’s kind of baffling,” she says.

In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada. It was not the move itself so much as their motive that garnered attention. As the headline of a short video op-ed the trio made for the New York Times put it, “We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the US”.

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The difficulty of the punishing Pennsylvanian course has been a talking point all week.

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The American sank a mammoth 64-foot putt on the 18th green to seal the win.

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McIlroy ended a difficult week at the US Open on a high on Sunday

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Play was suspended after a storm arrived in the Pittsburgh area.

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McIlroy ended a difficult week at the US Open on a high on Sunday.

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“How to Train Your Dragon” took flight at the box office this weekend, proving that some remakes still have teeth

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Hatton, who is five shots off the pace, joked that the brutal Oakmont course has brought everyone down to his level of mental fragility

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The Australian rolled back the years at Oakmont to put himself in contention to win a second major.

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Hatton, who is five shots off the pace, joked that the brutal Oakmont course has brought everyone down to his level of mental fragility.

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The Scot carded a third round 69 at Oakmont.

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The Northern Irishman has had a gruelling US Open.

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McIlroy birdied the last hole at Oakmont to reach the weekend but is nine strokes behind leader Sam Burns.

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Humphries has been given the accolade in the King’s Birthday Honours along with great rival Luke Littler for their achievements in the last 18 months.

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The 2023 Ryder Cup player carded a brilliant five-under-par 65.

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Israel has eliminated many of the brains behind Tehran’s nuclear programme. But don’t expect the regime to back down

This is a war 30 years in the making. Benjamin Netanyahu was talking about the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb back in the 1990s and he has scarcely let up since. For decades he has believed that a nuclear Iran would represent the one truly existential threat to Israel and that military force is the only sure way to prevent it. Several times during the many years in which Netanyahu has sat in the prime minister’s chair, an all-out strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has been weighed up, debated and planned for. In the early hours of this morning, it finally happened.

Netanyahu will be pleased with the early results, including the elimination of key Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists. But the ultimate consequences could look very different. By his actions, he may only have accelerated the very danger he has feared for so long.

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist

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The Frenchman aced the 192-yard par-three sixth.

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Hip-hop legend Slick Rick is proving his creative spark is far from fading

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A new kind of soccer tournament is landing on America’s shores. The expanded, big-money Club World Cup brings together 32 teams from around the world — titans from Europe, storied squads from South America, powerhouses from leagues in Asia and Africa, even entries from the United States’ Major League Soccer — to compete for a...

Masters champion McIlroy shot a four-over-par 74 – eight strokes off the lead of JJ Spaun

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The Masters champion shot a four-over-par 74 – eight strokes off the lead of JJ Spaun.

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IDF says defense system is operating to intercept missiles from Iran; explosions in Tehran and surrounded areas reported by Iranian state media

• Fears of full-scale war as Israel says attack on Iran is ‘just the beginning’

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying the IDF had targted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.

He said that Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted.

This operation will continue for as many days as it takes … We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history.

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MacIntyre could have been in an even better position had he not bogeyed the 18th.

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McIlroy felt the full force of the unforgiving Oakmont, which has widely been described as the hardest golf course in the game.

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McIlroy is looking to shake off a hangover from his Masters triumph in April

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David Hogg says he will not fight to hold onto his leadership role in the Democratic National Committee

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