Republican senator renews push to make daylight savings permanent ( www.theguardian.com )
James Lankford cites a veteran as partial reason for recommitting to Sunshine Protection Act, which has already passed in Senate...
Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’ ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14097254...
Polls show Trump winning key swing states. That’s partly a failure of the press ( www.theguardian.com )
Polls can’t predict – but they can warn. And I’m not sure our horserace-obsessed media are heeding the warning...
Amid a national shortage, the US Adderall black market is booming ( www.theguardian.com )
With pharmacies unable to fill prescriptions, many ADHD patients are turning to Craigslist to buy illicit pills online...
Hamas says two Israeli hostages have been killed by Israeli airstrikes ( www.theguardian.com )
Hamas has released a video announcing the death of two Israeli hostages and claimed that they were killed by Israeli airstrikes....
Man survives being lost in California mountains for 10 days by eating berries ( www.theguardian.com )
As McClish told it, the 34-year-old outdoors enthusiast from Boulder Creek, California, lost his bearings after beginning his hike the morning of 11 June. He had not informed anyone else of his plans, so it would not be until the afternoon of Thursday, 20 June, that the unkempt-looking hiker was found at the bottom of a remote...
Joe Biden just did the rarest thing in US politics: he stood up to the oil industry; The Biden administration suspended new permits for natural gas terminals. Can we see more of this kind of backbone? ( www.theguardian.com )
Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour ( www.theguardian.com )
The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy ( www.theguardian.com )
Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism...
‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city ( www.theguardian.com )
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...
Racist dog whistle: the right wing has weaponized ‘DEI’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims ‘bullshit’ as expert says Covid vaccine saved 14m lives ( www.theguardian.com )
Responding to an expert’s statement that “about 3.2 million” American lives have been saved by vaccines against Covid, with “over 14 million lives” saved globally, the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said: “I’m not a doctor, but I have a PhD in recognising bullshit when I hear it.”...
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? ( www.theguardian.com )
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
‘We don’t have a democracy’: why some Oregonians want to join Idaho ( www.theguardian.com )
Britain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmer ( www.theguardian.com )
‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription ( www.theguardian.com )
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Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months ( www.theguardian.com )
A Vermont lawmaker was compelled to apologize publicly after being caught on video pouring water into her colleague’s work bag multiple times across several months....
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms ( www.theguardian.com )
Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist ( www.theguardian.com )
UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term...
We must start urgently talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency | Margaret Sullivan ( www.theguardian.com )
More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings ( www.theguardian.com )
More than 100,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protest against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans at a meeting of extremists....
Scientists find desert moss ‘that can survive on Mars’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Spanish town bans penis suits and sex dolls from stag and hen dos ( www.theguardian.com )
Facebook rules allow altered video casting Biden as paedophile, says board ( www.theguardian.com )
Meta’s oversight board has found that a Facebook video wrongfully suggesting that the US president, Joe Biden, is a paedophile does not violate the company’s current rules while deeming those rules “incoherent” and too narrowly focused on AI-generated content....
Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech: grim visions of an American apocalypse ( www.theguardian.com )
