John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court (www.theguardian.com)
Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice had 30 days to accept or it would expire....
Israel says it will launch Rafah assault if hostages not freed by Ramadan (www.theguardian.com)
A member of Israel’s war cabinet has said the country will launch its threatened ground offensive against Rafah, the last place of relative safety in Gaza, if Hamas does not release its remaining Israeli hostages by the beginning of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in just under three weeks....
Hawaii rules against public carrying of guns without permit citing ‘aloha spirit’ (www.theguardian.com)
Why oil autocracies and private equity bullies are coming for the NBA next (www.theguardian.com)
As the NBA has emerged as the first professional league in the US to cozy up to global sport’s burgeoning class of nation-state investors, the shape of its guiding dualism under Silver is starting to become crisper: lip service to social justice issues at home, a studied obliviousness to human rights violations abroad. In the...
In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids (www.theguardian.com)
Jim Pillen breaks with 14 other Republican governors to enroll in Summer EBT, a new food program for school vacation months...
‘The worst film ever made’: how Sex Lives of the Potato Men broke British cinema (www.theguardian.com)
When the puerile comedy bombed, the film-makers blamed the critics and the Tories blamed the UK Film Council. Twenty years on, we reassess the legacy of a cinematic pariah whose champions include Stewart Lee and Mike Leigh
Boy injured in Osteen church shooting lost ‘portion of his frontal lobe’ (www.theguardian.com)
Samuel Moreno-Carranza, age seven, was injured after his mother fired a rifle inside church and police responded, killing her...
‘It’s legalised robbery’: anger grows at China’s struggling shadow banks | Chinese economy | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’ (www.theguardian.com)
Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’...
‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana (www.theguardian.com)
Reform advocates condemn raft of measures expected to pass under new far-right governor...
Israel has gone ‘beyond self-defence’ in Gaza, says Labour’s Streeting (www.theguardian.com)
New York lobbyists ‘aiding and abetting’ climate crisis, research reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Lobbying firms work double-duty, representing political interests of victims and perpetrators of climate change in state capital...
Genetics journal retracts 18 papers from China due to human rights concerns (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it::The man behind ChatGPT is wooing the UAE to invest in energy-hungry AI. But if it turns out his tech can’t fix the world, he’s got his escape plan
Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (www.theguardian.com)
A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days....
‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts (www.theguardian.com)
There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?...
EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding (www.theguardian.com)
Video platform under scrutiny over potential breach of Digital Services Act in areas such as age verification...
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Recycling (www.theguardian.com)
Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regar
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Recycling (www.theguardian.com)
Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regar
Ministers confirm plan to ban use of mobile phones in schools in England (www.theguardian.com)
School uniforms may be barrier to physical activity among younger girls (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza’s largest functioning hospital ‘completely out of service’, say health officials (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has gone ‘beyond self-defence’ in Gaza, says Labour’s Streeting (www.theguardian.com)
Tampa man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly four decades to receive $14m (www.theguardian.com)
Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’...