The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found. ( www.theguardian.com )
Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine ( www.theguardian.com )
An unknown number of people have been trapped under rubble after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit during a daylight Russian missile barrage that the authorities said had killed at least 29 people across the country....
Stormy Daniels gets more than $900K from GoFundMe after alleged threats ( www.theguardian.com )
Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people ( www.theguardian.com )
Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers ( www.theguardian.com )
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BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds ( www.theguardian.com )
Finite Carbon, created in 2009 and bought by British multinational oil and gas giant BP in 2020, is responsible for more than a quarter of the US’s total carbon credits, which it says it generates from protecting more than 60 “high credibility, high integrity projects” across 1.6m hectares (4m acres)....
Urban heat island effect making temperatures 8F hotter in 65 US cities – study ( www.theguardian.com )
Nearly 34 million people in those cities, or 15% of the US population, experiencing temperatures higher than in surrounding areas...
Trump plans to block hearings in January 6 case before 2024 election ( www.theguardian.com )
Last I checked, Trump had no position in the government. Do we need another explicit law on the books to prevent non-representative collusion in the Senate? 🤦
Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers ( www.theguardian.com )
US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say ( www.theguardian.com )
Night owls’ cognitive function ‘superior’ to early risers, study suggests ( www.theguardian.com )
We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5 ( www.theguardian.com )
Streaming has meant it has never been easier for Hollywood to measure the power of nostalgia. They watch what we’re watching and rewatching and it means they bring back, to varying degrees of success: The Matrix, Scream, Top Gun, Indiana Jones, Mad Max, Hocus Pocus, Legally Blonde, Ghostbusters, Home Alone, Blade Runner, Kung...
Democratic billboards stress Trump link to rightwing Project 2025 manifesto ( www.theguardian.com )
Billboards will go up in seven swing states as campaign seeks to publicize manifesto and tie it to ex-president...
Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on ( www.theguardian.com )
Congressional Democrats are to hold an emergency weekend meeting to discuss Joe Biden’s tottering presidential candidacy, after a primetime television interview failed to dispel doubts triggered by last week’s debate fiasco....
China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects ( www.theguardian.com )
Tennessee elections chief accused of intimidation for telling 14,375 voters to prove citizenship ( www.theguardian.com )
Republican secretary of state sends vaguely worded letter to voters weeks before primary...
For US democracy to survive, it needs progressives like Sanders and AOC ( www.theguardian.com )
Disney faces strike threat as thousands of California workers vote on walkout ( www.theguardian.com )
Company could endure biggest US strike of 2024 as unions accuse it of intimidation during contract negotiations...
‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier ( www.theguardian.com )
About half the countries in the region are experiencing a rush in oil exploration that threatens the global drive to achieve net zero. But many argue that they have a right to enrich themselves in the same way the west has...
Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror ( www.theguardian.com )
It was 10 days into the journey when the boat sprang a leak. Dozens of men, women and children were crowded on to a fishing boat, all Tamils fleeing persecution in their home country, Sri Lanka. They had hoped to reach sanctuary in Canada....
Chinese warships spotted off Alaska coast, US Coast Guard says ( www.theguardian.com )
Four Chinese vessels were ‘transiting in international waters but still inside the US exclusive economic zone’...
‘Like an oven’: death at US women’s prison amid heatwave sparks cries for help ( www.theguardian.com )
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US justice department says it disrupted Russian social media influence operation ( www.theguardian.com )
Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape ( www.theguardian.com )
