JD Vance is a rightwing troll disguised as a populist. He could be our next vice-president ( www.theguardian.com )
Having called Trump an ‘idiot’ and a potential ‘American Hitler’, the Republican senator now fawns over him...
Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury ( www.theguardian.com )
Archegos Capital Management’s founder guilty of 10 of 11 criminal counts over investment firm that collapsed in 2021...
Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint ( www.theguardian.com )
Brazil’s ministry of foreign affairs has been forced to apologise to the embassies of Canada, Gabon and Burkina Faso after three diplomats’ teenage children – all of whom are Black – were searched at gunpoint by police officers....
Climate protesters won’t be deterred by fines, jail or political mixed messages on the environment | Activists are convinced a wartime campaign of resistance is the only way ( www.theguardian.com )
Official Kristi Noem social media accounts appear to have been deleted ( www.theguardian.com )
Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape ( www.theguardian.com )
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....
New York Times editorial board declares Trump ‘unfit to lead’ ( www.theguardian.com )
New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages ( www.theguardian.com )
I hope the billionaire bunkers down there have good aircon /s
US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say ( www.theguardian.com )
Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body ( www.theguardian.com )
US study that researchers say highlights chemicals’ ubiquity also shows PFAS association with seafood and red meat
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to meet with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago ( www.theguardian.com )
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, will fly to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to meet with Donald Trump, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting....
BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds ( www.theguardian.com )
A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on Gaza school ( www.theguardian.com )
The scene shows a moment of respite and relative calm in Gaza: a crowd of people watching a football match in a school playground. A player fails to control a long pass from a teammate. The opposing goalkeeper gathers the ball and looks to launch it back up the pitch....
Key plank of Biden student-debt relief plan can move forward, court rules ( www.theguardian.com )
China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects ( www.theguardian.com )
Hakeem Jeffries says he met with president; big Democratic donors reportedly freeze money in objection to Biden candidacy – live ( www.theguardian.com )
The House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said he shared lawmakers’ “insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward” in a private meeting with Joe Biden yesterday....
US reportedly foiled Russian plot to kill boss of German arms firm supplying Ukraine ( www.theguardian.com )
Heat-related deaths in Phoenix, Arizona, have nearly doubled this year ( www.theguardian.com )
Biden’s doctor reportedly met with top neurologist at White House ( www.theguardian.com )
Joe Biden’s doctor met with a leading Washington DC neurologist at the White House this year, it was reported on Saturday....
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit ( www.theguardian.com )
‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans ( www.theguardian.com )
Labour consider plan to release prisoners after 40% of sentence served ( www.theguardian.com )
Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour ( www.theguardian.com )
Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election ( www.theguardian.com )
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