‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference (www.theguardian.com)
“The peace activists are war activists,” co-founder and CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”...
Trump and Johnson spread unfounded fears by urging non-citizen voting ban (www.theguardian.com)
Trump falls back on false claim that non-citizen voting threatened his popular vote, despite data proving that it’s a lie...
University of Georgia pulls out of ‘Cop City’ lawsuit requesting public records (www.theguardian.com)
Dean of law school orders first amendment clinic to curtail core work, including on Atlanta Police Foundation case...
Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging...
South Africa calls on ICJ to order Israel to end Rafah offensive (www.theguardian.com)
South Africa has asked the international court of justice (ICJ) to urgently order Israel to end its assault on Rafah, halt its military campaign across Gaza, and allow international investigators and journalists into the territory....
Ukraine’s troops withdraw from parts of north-east as pressure mounts (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine’s troops withdrew from several areas of the country’s north-east amid mounting pressure from a new Russian offensive, as the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, postponed all foreign trips underscoring the seriousness of the threat....
French police shoot suspect dead in synagogue incident in Rouen (www.theguardian.com)
Interior ministry says armed suspect ‘neutralised’ after attempting to set fire to synagogue in Normandy city...
Earth-sized planet spotted orbiting small star with 100 times sun’s lifespan (www.theguardian.com)
Speculoos-3b, 55 light years away, is only second planetary system to be found around an ultra-cool red dwarf...
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, its foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Thursday....
How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming (www.theguardian.com)
US completes installation of floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
UK climate activists convicted in first trial of new anti-protest laws (www.theguardian.com)
Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women (www.theguardian.com)
‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’: magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out (www.theguardian.com)
UN says it has no more food or tents for nearly 2m people in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
The UN has run out of tents and food to distribute to almost 2 million people in Gaza, the majority displaced from their homes and dependent on aid to stave off looming famine....
University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing (www.theguardian.com)
‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks (www.theguardian.com)
The White House has condemned an attack on an aid convoy heading to Gaza by Israeli settlers who threw packages of food into the road and set fire to the vehicles....
Concerns grow about the wellbeing of Chinese journalists Zhang Zhan after supposed jail release as she failed to make contact with the outside world (www.theguardian.com)
Zhang Zhan, 40, a lawyer turned citizen journalist, was detained in May 2020 after she travelled to Wuhan to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her videos and social media posts drew attention to the government’s stifling of information about the spread of the disease and the harsh lockdowns that were being...
Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women (www.theguardian.com)
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico ‘in life-threatening condition’ after shooting – Europe live (www.theguardian.com)
David Cameron urges BBC to describe Hamas as terrorist organisation (www.theguardian.com)
Foreign secretary’s call comes after group releases video of British-Israeli hostage it says died after being wounded in Israeli airstrike...
‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down (www.theguardian.com)
The UN has denied that the estimated death toll of women and children in the war in Gaza has been revised downward, pointing towards a confusion between the total numbers of dead bodies recorded, and the number of those who have so far been fully identified....
Protests at French prisons as search continues for gunmen who killed officers (www.theguardian.com)
Prison officers complain of overcrowding and violence after two guards killed and inmate freed from van...
