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Over 90 protesters injured by Capitol police, organizers say, as activists condemn Democrats’ lack of support for ceasefire - live ( www.theguardian.com )

‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars ( www.theguardian.com )

Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet ( www.theguardian.com )

TV tonight: Anna Torv returns in classy drama The Newsreader ( www.theguardian.com )

The Australian newsroom series is back and there is rivalry in the air. Plus, Taskmaster just keeps getting better. Here’s what to watch this evening...

Ohio voters add abortion rights to state constitution ( www.theguardian.com )

‘On the brink of extinction’: a food historian’s hunt for ingredients vanishing from US plates ( www.theguardian.com )

Almost 40% think Australia should dump US alliance if Donald Trump returns as president, poll finds ( www.theguardian.com )

‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped ( www.theguardian.com )

Clarence Thomas failed to fully repay $267,000 loan for luxury RV, inquiry finds ( www.theguardian.com )

Obama criticizes Israel’s decision to cut off food and water to Gaza ( www.theguardian.com )

Ex-president says decision threatens to worsen humanitarian crisis, undermine peace effort and erode global support for Israel...

‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change ( www.theguardian.com )

‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change ( www.theguardian.com )

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech ( www.theguardian.com )

[P]erhaps traditional distinctions between left and right don’t make sense any more. The right, Varoufakis says, “thinks of capitalism as like a natural system, a bit like the atmosphere”. Whereas the left “think of themselves as people created by the universe in order to bring socialism over capitalism. I am telling...

An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower ( www.theguardian.com )

Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution ( www.theguardian.com )

Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )

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Climate crisis will make Europe’s beer cost more and taste worse, say scientists ( www.theguardian.com )

The home office has resumed the process of moving asylum seekers onto the Bibby Stockholm ( www.theguardian.com )

‘I prefer women’s jeans – men’s lack design subtlety’: why men are buying womenswear ( www.theguardian.com )

Vladimir Putin escalates nuclear rhetoric with threat to resume testing ( www.theguardian.com )

Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game ( www.theguardian.com )

Two-thirds of CEOs think staff will return to office five days a week, survey finds ( www.theguardian.com )

Most company leaders also believe pay and promotions could become linked to workplace attendance

Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging as picture of athletes’ ‘6/4’ is perceived as reference to 1989 massacre ( www.theguardian.com )

Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Lin won gold in the race with a time of 12.74 seconds. A photograph of the two women in profile showed Lin’s lane number, 6, next to Wu’s lane number, 4....

Urban and rural foxes equally persistent/innovative according to one study ( www.theguardian.com )

Study here. Essentially, they put food behind some puzzles and figured out how many foxes approached the puzzle and how many solved it. More urban foxes approached the puzzle than wild ones, but they solved at about the same rate. (I will admit I skimmed the actual study, so correct me if I’m wrong!)...