Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street (www.theguardian.com)
Lauren Boebert says she "fell short of values" after Beetlejuice groping video. (www.theguardian.com)
Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’...
Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall (www.theguardian.com)
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the felling of the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England....
Byron Bay is to be stripped of its nudist beach – and naturists blame ‘conservative creep’ (www.theguardian.com)
It’s a Tuesday morning, the infinite blue sky of Byron Bay has opened up and the six naturists – four men, two women – have stripped down to their birthday suits for a quick dip in the buff....
Vatican calls gender fluidity and surrogacy threats to human dignity (www.theguardian.com)
I am so tired of the whole “cool pope” thing with Francis. It’s 100% PR.
Australians look set to vote against Indigenous voice in parliament (www.theguardian.com)
Shouting at children can be as damaging as physical or sexual abuse, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Parents who shout at their children or call them “stupid” are leaving their offspring at greater risk of self-harm, drug use and ending up in jail, new research claims....
Biden to announce US will build port on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery (www.theguardian.com)
Guardian
‘Don’t get sick. It’s too expensive’: medical debt is putting more Americans in financial crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord (www.theguardian.com)
Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone group said staff want to work from home so they can save money...
Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
www.cell.com/joule/…/S2542-4351(23)00351-3
Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago (www.theguardian.com)
Experts alerted motor trade to security risks of ‘smart key’ systems which have now fuelled highest level of car thefts for a decade.
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
Tennessee after-school Satan club holds first meeting despite protests (www.theguardian.com)
Almost 40% think Australia should dump US alliance if Donald Trump returns as president, poll finds (www.theguardian.com)
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....
Biden ‘not sure he’d be running’ in 2024 if Trump wasn’t: ‘We cannot let him win’ (www.theguardian.com)
After six months of war, I fear we may lose Palestine completely | Raja Shehadeh (www.theguardian.com)
Netanyahu defies Biden, insisting there’s ‘no space’ for Palestinian state (www.theguardian.com)
Defiant Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on opposition to Palestinian statehood, deepening the divide with Israel’s closest international allies, as cracks in his wartime “unity” government became increasingly evident....
US campuses in uproar as Israel-Palestine conflict exposes divide (www.theguardian.com)
Tensions spill across universities like Columbia and Harvard as students on each side accuse the other of a kind of bloodlust...
Animal homosexual behaviour under-reported by scientists, survey shows (www.theguardian.com)
Texas attorney general says he will sue doctor who gives abortion to Kate Cox (www.theguardian.com)
Ken Paxton issues threat after judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, can get an abortion...
Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi (www.theguardian.com)
The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure
Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm NATO bid, says Sweden (www.theguardian.com)
Defence agency says Moscow is using the protests in Stockholm to stir tensions between Arab countries and the west
