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Reeves to announce spending plans in parliament

The chancellor sets out the government’s expenditure after weeks of speculation

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Rachel Reeves to hand big budget increases to health and defence, while housing and Home Office feel squeeze in review focused on growth

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David Lammy flies to Gibraltar to finalise post-Brexit deal

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Police on horseback and on foot at a protest in Los Angeles.

Riot police enforce LA curfew as protests spread across US cities

President Trump said he might yet invoke the Insurrection Act to quell ‘terrible’ violence in response to sweeping ICE raids in the California city

US politics

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£60m art collection of ‘Europe’s Peggy Guggenheim’ to go on sale

Pauline Karpidas, who encouraged a generation of British artists, had Magritte, Picasso and Dalí on her walls

Art

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Bow of the San Jose galleon shipwreck off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia.

Treasure photos may prove ‘the richest wreck in history’ has been found

History

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich at a political rally.

US urges UK to reverse sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers

Politics

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Musk says he ‘went too far’ in fallout with Trump

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Times readers on how they had to ‘steal’ back their own cars

Crime

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JONATHAN NORTHCROFT

England booed off after grim Senegal defeat as Tuchel faces big questions

Football

Treasure photos may prove ‘the richest wreck in history’ has been found

History

US urges UK to reverse sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers

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Musk says he ‘went too far’ in fallout with Trump

US politics

Times readers on how they had to ‘steal’ back their own cars

Crime

JONATHAN NORTHCROFT

England booed off after grim Senegal defeat as Tuchel faces big questions

Football

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Hundreds gather on second night of ‘serious disorder’ in Ballymena

Police say 17 officers were injured when they were pelted with petrol bombs and bricks

Crime

Prime Minister Keir Starmer giving a speech.

NHS ‘won’t hit waiting list target’ despite budget boost

Politics

Rachel Reeves at a First Bus depot in Huddersfield.

Labour says the economy is ‘in a better place’. Is that true?

Politics

Photograph of the Royal Academy of Art's 257th Summer Exhibition.

News in pictures: smiles at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition

More conflict in 2024 ‘than any year since Second World War’

Defence

A man takes cover as an explosion creates a large smoke cloud near damaged vehicles and debris.

More conflict in 2024 ‘than any year since Second World War’

Defence

UK students still welcome in US, Trump’s education secretary says

US politics

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.

UK students still welcome in US, Trump’s education secretary says

US politics

THE TIMES DIARY

Oh yes she is! Kemi Badenoch to channel her inner dame at PMQs

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THE TIMES DIARY

Oh yes she is! Kemi Badenoch to channel her inner dame at PMQs

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Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in the film "F1®".

Inside F1: The Movie – how Brad Pitt hit 180mph (with Lewis Hamilton’s help)

It’s Top Gun with wheels! Jonathan Dean talks to the team behind the blockbuster that aims to bring the live thrills of Formula 1 to the big screen

Film

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FIRST PERSON

Sex parties with my husband. Then I found a young lover as well

Sex & Relationships

Birchwood House, a remodeled stone house with a large driveway and attached garage.

Which home would you buy for £2.4 million? Vote for your favourite

Property & Home

FIRST PERSON

Sex parties with my husband. Then I found a young lover as well

Sex & Relationships

Which home would you buy for £2.4 million? Vote for your favourite

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World

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at Jerusalem Day event.

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Sanctioned Israeli minister moves to ‘paralyse’ Palestinian economy

Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right finance minister in Netanyahu’s war cabinet, will cancel a scheme allowing bank transactions in the West Bank and Gaza

Israel-Hamas war

Forensic technicians examining the aftermath of a motorcycle explosion outside a police station.

At least seven dead in Colombia bomb attacks

Latin America

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I was on a trek to find a 3ft rat. Then men with machetes arrived

Australasia

At least seven dead in Colombia bomb attacks

Latin America

I was on a trek to find a 3ft rat. Then men with machetes arrived

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Comment

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DANIEL FINKELSTEIN The whole truth about moving on from Truss

Repairing Britain requires honesty about the costs, something Labour is dodging and which could hurt the Tories

Illustration of a superhero pushing a shopping cart full of industrial projects while welfare cuts fly behind him.

Cartoon by Seamus Jennings

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ROGER BOYES ‘Crinks’ nuclear gang is Trump’s biggest test

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ALICE THOMSON Let’s not forget why we have a two-child cap

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MATTHEW PARRIS | NOTEBOOK Buxton festival is some legacy for boozy pal Spencer Le Marchant

ED DE MINCKWITZ Westminster must prepare for era of superintelligence

Life & Style

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Oh, how I’ve missed my Marks fix

Its website is up and running again in time for the summer holidays — and the fashion set are already eyeing up what they want.

Fashion

A server at The Ritz London presents a cheese cart.

Tony Turnbull Yes, the Ritz is fabulous — I went recently

Carol Midgley Enough with the hearts Meghan … maybe just don’t post your kids at all

Tony Turnbull Yes, the Ritz is fabulous — I went recently

Carol Midgley Enough with the hearts Meghan … maybe just don’t post your kids at all

Business

Close-up of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.

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US and China reach deal to restore trade truce

The agreement in principle after two days of talks in London will need to be signed off by President Trump and President Xi

Companies & Markets

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David Smith Double counting and the dark arts of government spending reviews

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Louisa Clarence-Smith Dangers of the economy being treated like a Wall Street plaything

David Smith Double counting and the dark arts of government spending reviews

Louisa Clarence-Smith Dangers of the economy being treated like a Wall Street plaything

Sport

JONATHAN NORTHCROFT

England booed off after grim Senegal defeat as Tuchel faces big questions

England 1 Senegal 3: Kane opened scoring but goals from Sarr, Diarra and Sabaly meant home side suffered first loss to African nation

Football

Thomas Tuchel, England's manager, looking concerned.

Tuchel: Learning is tough at the moment but there’s no need to panic

Football

Australian cricket bowlers holding the Ashes trophy.

MIKE ATHERTON

Lord’s will tell us if Australia’s fab four can still be Ashes force

Cricket

Tuchel: Learning is tough at the moment but there’s no need to panic

Football

MIKE ATHERTON

Lord’s will tell us if Australia’s fab four can still be Ashes force

Cricket

Culture

Elizabeth Day: I took a photograph on my iPhone, now it’s hanging in the Royal Academy

As her snapshot of a window is accepted for this year’s Summer Exhibition, the How to Fail host writes about the unexpected joy of doing something different

Art