July set to be hottest month on record (www.theguardian.com)
UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened (www.theguardian.com)
Italy wildfires encircle Palermo as temperatures hit 47C (www.theguardian.com)
Tennessee toughens voting rules for people with felony convictions (www.theguardian.com)
TIL in New York you can apply to have a fire hydrant opened during hot weather (www.theguardian.com)
Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
Prigozhin wig pictures appear to be genuine, analysis shows (www.theguardian.com)
Skin cancer cases reach record high in UK with sharp rise among older adults (www.theguardian.com)
How Europe’s far right is marching steadily into the mainstream (www.theguardian.com)
Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement (www.theguardian.com)
‘Stereotypes are evolving’: female divers shake up conservative Jordan (www.theguardian.com)
Finland coalition in chaos as far-right minister quits over ‘climate abortion’ remark (www.theguardian.com)
The good people of Finland decided to elect the most right wing government in the history of the country just a couple of months ago. The government is a coalition of an extreme right wing party, a right wing christian party, and a "fiscally conservative" party – ie. they mostly leave saying the bigoted shit out loud to the...
Russia reducing its presence at nuclear plant, says Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Kerala is rolling out free broadband for its poorest citizens. What’s stopping your government? (www.theguardian.com)
SkyWest Airlines facing federal lawsuit over alleged ‘fake company union’ (www.theguardian.com)
Largest regional airline in North America also sued by flight attendant union for alleged retaliatory firings...
Elon Musk should face arrest if he incited UK rioters, says ex-Twitter chief (www.theguardian.com)
Don’t trust the inevitability myth touted by the tech determinists (www.theguardian.com)
Scratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook founder, Mark...
Uvalde shooting: uncle begged police to let him talk to gunman, 911 call shows (www.theguardian.com)
No survivors from plane that crashed in Brazil with 61 people on board, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Japan’s PM cancels overseas trip after experts issue ‘megaquake’ warning (www.theguardian.com)
Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has cancelled a visit to central Asia this weekend after experts warned that the risk of a “megaquake” occurring off the country’s Pacific coast had increased following Thursday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the south-west....
Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’ | Devastation in Brazil wetlands was made at least four times more likely by fossil fuel use and deforestation, scientists say (www.theguardian.com)
Palestinian prisoners describe widespread abuse in Israel’s jails (www.theguardian.com)
Conservatives left UK wide open to far-right violence, says former adviser (www.theguardian.com)
The Conservative government left the UK wide open to the far-right violence erupting across parts of the country by ignoring red flags and stoking fires with a culture war agenda, a senior adviser on extremism to Tory prime ministers has said....
Cognac, tortoises and a pink-striped helicopter: inside the mystery of Alice Guo, the missing Philippines mayor (www.theguardian.com)
Alice Guo was a mayor like no other, say her supporters. At Christmas, she would hand out gifts of ham and spaghetti to local people. When school term started, she would give notebooks and bags to children. She wasn’t from a prominent political family, as is often the case in the Philippines, yet she rose to become the first...
Starmer’s live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)
Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said it was ironic the new prime minister was suggesting a greater use of facial matching on the same day that an EU-wide law largely banning real-time surveillance technology came into force....
