Exit poll suggests Labour set for huge landslide win in UK general election (www.theguardian.com)
Exit poll predicts Labour will win 410 seats, securing a majority of 170, to the Conservatives’ 131
Georgia becomes first state to require election law training for police (www.theguardian.com)
The newly required course emphasizes de-escalation and non-threatening conduct for officers...
Millions face record-high temperatures as heat dome intensifies over US (www.theguardian.com)
Cities in midwest and north-east brace for heatwave with some to experience highs of 105F – 25 degrees above normal...
Post-Brexit ‘mess’ as Italian driver’s lorry held for 55 hours at UK border post (www.theguardian.com)
An Italian lorry driver has described the UK’s new post-Brexit controls as a “mess” after his lorry was held at a government-run border post for more than two days....
Dangerous heatwave hits US from Texas to California with grim records expected (www.theguardian.com)
Millions of Americans are sweltering as experts warn early heat could herald next record-smashing summer...
Clerical error was behind Michigan man’s viral suspended license hearing (www.theguardian.com)
The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler? (www.theguardian.com)
The Hitler-Trump analogy is controversial. “Some of Trump’s critics – including Biden’s campaign – argue that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric and authoritarian behavior justify the comparison,” the Politico website observed recently. “Meanwhile, Trump’s defenders – and even some of his more historically-minded...
Pope Francis allegedly used offensive slur during discussion about gay men (www.theguardian.com)
European far-right leaders gather ahead of EU elections (www.theguardian.com)
International far-right leaders, including France’s Marine Le Pen, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s Javier Milei, came together in Madrid to rail against socialism and “massive illegal migration” three weeks before hard-right parties are expected to see a surge in support in June’s...
Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions (www.theguardian.com)
Republican Glenn Youngkin also vetoed bills related to maintaining access to contraception, saying they were ‘not ready’...
Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women (www.theguardian.com)
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...
University of Mississippi: ‘abhorrent’ counter-protesters condemned (www.theguardian.com)
‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third (www.theguardian.com)
Fossil fuel and petrochemical campaigners at Ottawa summit outnumber scientists, EU and Indigenous delegates...
Netanyahu labels US student protests ‘antisemitic’ and calls for them to end (www.theguardian.com)
Supreme court appears to side with Starbucks in fight over fired employees (www.theguardian.com)
Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn (www.theguardian.com)
The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history...
Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn (www.theguardian.com)
Influenza is still the biggest threat to global health as WHO raises fears about the spread of avian strain...
Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’ (www.theguardian.com)
She should have said - well we tried calling first but were on the phone for quite a while- you said our call was important to you and you were ‘experiencing an unusually high volume of calls’…
Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field | Sierra Solter (www.theguardian.com)
Russia accused of using chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine soldiers describe ‘almost daily’ illegal gas attacks as invaders seek to dislodge them from embedded positions...
‘I really wasn’t worried’: US man was getting vasectomy as earthquake struck (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10087746...
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...