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Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana has said he believed he had "natural immunity" from an earlier infection....

Live updates from day three’s Games action in TokyoGames schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageSign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingEmail Jonathan with your thoughts or tweet @JPHowcroft 3.36am BST Swimming: Back to the action and Ryan Murphy (USA) has led home Mitch Larkin (AUS) in the first semi-final of the men’s 100m backstroke. 3.35am BST Swimming: It’s rare that any sporting event lives up to the hype, but that 400m free final delivered in spades. Even the coaching on the sidelines.SHOUT AHT DEAN BOXALL #Tokyo2020 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/NyjgB0A3dz Continue reading......

Warning: Spoilers ahead from Hallmark Channel’s Good Witch series finale. After seven seasons, Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) and the rest of the Good Witch gang said a bittersweet goodbye as the emotional series finale aired on Hallmark Channel on Sunday night. A trip to the secret room helped the Merriwick cousins—Cassie, Abigail (Sarah Power), and […]...

As crowds celebrate ousting of ministers blamed for economic stagnation, opposition accuses Kais Saied of staging a coupTunisian president Kais Saied has suspended parliament and dismissed prime minister Hichem Mechichi after a day of protests against the ruling party brought the country’s political crisis to a head.Cheering crowds quickly flooded the streets of the capital Tunis after Saied’s announcement on Sunday, celebrating and honking car horns in scenes that recalled the 2011 revolution that brought democracy and triggered the Arab spring protests that convulsed the Middle East. Continue reading......

When journalist Mary Ann Sieghart set out to document the ways that women are held back by a cultural presumption of their inferiority, she found reams of data to support her case – and heard stories of how it affects even the most successful women in the world. She explains why the authority gap persists, and asks what we can do about itFrom the very beginning of her career as a journalist in the 1980s, Mary Ann Sieghart found herself pushing against a set of assumptions which accorded her less authority than her male peers – and and led to her being viewed as bigheaded if she showed the same ambition and confidence as they did. When she came to write a book about how experiences such as hers still shape women’s lives, she found a huge range of empirical evidence that confirmed the existence of those prejudices. And when she asked some of the most accomplished women in the world – from Bernardine Evaristo to Hillary Clinton – she learned that they had all experienced the same “authority gap”, no matter how remarkable their CVs.Sieghart speaks to Rachel Humphreys about why the authority gap remains a pervasive phenomenon, and what tactics women can use to try to circumvent it. We also hear excerpts from some of Sieghart’s interviews, featuring examples of the problem perpetrated by everyone from literary prize judges to restaurant staff to ... the pope. Continue reading......