Elizabeth Holmes’ 11-year prison sentence shortened by two years (www.theguardian.com)
Elizabeth Holmes’ prison sentence was quietly shortened by two years, new records show....
Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests (www.theguardian.com)
Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests....
The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found. (www.theguardian.com)
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Putin says Trump conviction ‘burns’ idea of US as leading democracy (www.theguardian.com)
Kansas supreme court rules state constitution does not provide the right to vote (www.theguardian.com)
In a bizarre mixed ruling combining several challenges to a 2021 election law, Kansas’s supreme court has ruled that its residents have no right to vote enshrined in the state’s constitution....
India elections: exit polls show Narendra Modi expected to win historic third term (www.theguardian.com)
Boeing’s largest plant in ‘panic mode’ amid safety crisis, say workers and union officials (www.theguardian.com)
Managers in Washington accused of hounding staff to keep quiet over quality concerns, as employees point to union-busting...
Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it? (www.theguardian.com)
Young women in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 11 years in prison by "anti-terrorism court" after being arrested for “her choice of clothing and support for women’s rights” (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi officials confirmed in a statement to the United Nations high commissioner for human rights that Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced on 9 January for what the Saudi government called “terrorist offences”....
Nearly half of US prisons draw water likely contaminated with toxic PFAS – report (www.theguardian.com)
Around 1m people, including 13,000 youths, especially vulnerable because they can do little to protect themselves, co-author says...
Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed (www.theguardian.com)
Twelve people reported drowned off a Gaza beach trying to reach aid drop (www.theguardian.com)
Twelve people drowned trying to get to aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities have said, amid growing fears of famine nearly six months into Israel’s military campaign....
US supreme court to hear first major abortion case since Roe decision (www.theguardian.com)
Future of mifepristone at issue as rightwing groups seek to roll back measures taken by the FDA to expand drug’s availability...
Putin says radical Islamists carried out Moscow attack but maintains claim Ukraine was involved (www.theguardian.com)
Russian president says he is interested in ‘who ordered’ terror attack as US and France say Islamic State branch was responsible...
Treason charges after $50 for Ukraine: desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia (www.theguardian.com)
‘Everything beautiful has been destroyed’: Palestinians mourn a city in tatters (www.theguardian.com)
Its walls collapsed and its minaret cut short, Gaza’s Omari mosque remains standing but vastly diminished. Around it, the historic old city is also in tatters. The 7th-century mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, was Gaza’s most famous and its surroundings a focal point of the Palestinian enclave’s history and...
British inventor seeks to take $18bn bite out of Apple in bitter patent war (www.theguardian.com)
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Politicians from Germany’s AfD met extremist group to discuss deportation ‘masterplan’ (www.theguardian.com)
Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE (www.theguardian.com)
Arctic Ice harvests ice from the fjords of Greenland, and then ships them to the United Arab Emirates to sell to exclusive bars. Using glacial ice in drinks is a common practice in Greenland, and, over the years, several entrepreneurs have unsuccessfully attempted to export it....
Israel says Gaza fighting could last a year, amplifying fears of regional war (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli defence officials and former senior intelligence officers have said they expect fighting in Gaza to continue for at least a year, raising the prospect of thousands more civilian casualties, a deepening humanitarian crisis and a continuing grave threat to regional stability....
How social media's biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
Year-end recap from The Guardian.
Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from ruling on Trump’s 2024 eligibility, Raskin says (www.theguardian.com)
Supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 presidential election, a prominent Democrat said Sunday, warning that the leading Republican candidate is seeking to become a “political martyr” as he pursues a second presidency....
Guyana appeals to US and UN as Maduro advances annexation of territory (www.theguardian.com)
Request for help came after Venezuelan president announced series of measures to formalize a referendum Sunday evening...
EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water (www.theguardian.com)
The EPA had strong limits on its use until the Trump administration reversed them; now the agency wants to ban it
