Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist (www.theguardian.com)
UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term...
Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/9649718...
Israel accuses Australia of forgetting ‘Hamas’s culpability’ for Gaza war as ministers consider UNRWA funding (www.theguardian.com)
As an Australian, no we didn’t. We just had it put in context. Jews around the world are great people, the Israeli government and the hardline supporters are absolute monsters. I hope the Australian government tells them as much. Israel deserves no support and everything that may happen when it’s withdrawn.
Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere (www.theguardian.com)
Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere::The dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. Focusing on public transport would be much smarter, says transport writer Christian Wolmar
Scientists claim to have discovered secret to perfect espresso (www.theguardian.com)
Spoiler, its RDT...
Mike Johnson to publicly release 44,000 hours of sensitive January 6 footage (www.theguardian.com)
US House speaker to make good on promise to far-right Republicans including Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump
Approval of divisive Alaska oil project upheld in blow to US climate goals (www.theguardian.com)
‘Murdered in cold blood’: stories emerge of Israelis killed at Gaza border (www.theguardian.com)
Friends and relatives say Hamas killed a grandmother, parents protecting their children, and an entire family during raids...
Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues (www.theguardian.com)
Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp (www.theguardian.com)
Prime minister says Italy ‘under incredible pressure’ from large number of arrivals from north Africa.
Calls for Starbucks boycott grow amid aggressive union-busting activities (www.theguardian.com)
Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination (www.theguardian.com)
Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’...
‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end child marriage in 37 US states — and the people who want to keep it legal (www.theguardian.com)
Child marriage, which activists describe as one or both parties entering a union while under age 18, remains legal in 37 US states. There are no federal laws against it, meaning minors can marry, with parental consent, before they can vote, drink, or buy lottery tickets in the majority of the country. Some states have a minimum...
Spanish town bans penis suits and sex dolls from stag and hen dos (www.theguardian.com)
Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Nato chief says Trump remarks may put US and EU lives at risk (www.theguardian.com)
A White House spokesperson put it the best, I think:...
Lauren Boebert denies allegations that she punched ex-husband in restaurant (www.theguardian.com)
Colorado police reportedly arrived after Jayson Boebert called and claimed he was ‘victim of domestic violence’ and punched in face...
OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff::Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking
Panera adds warnings about caffeinated lemonade after suit over student’s death (www.theguardian.com)
Family sued after Sarah Katz died last year after drinking Charged Lemonade, apparently unaware of soda’s high caffeine content
South Korean teachers stage walkout over harassment by parents and students (www.theguardian.com)
‘Orphaned by decree’: Italy’s same-sex parents react to losing their rights (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing PM Giorgia Meloni has demanded councils register only biological parents on birth certificates, leaving partners in legal limbo
Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border (www.theguardian.com)
Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems...
Ted Cruz, US senator mocked for flight to Cancún, seeks airport police escorts (www.theguardian.com)
Republican senator, who flew to Mexico as Texas faced deadly cold snap, complains of ‘serious security threats’ to lawmakers...
Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago (www.theguardian.com)
Boeing 747 makes emergency landing in Florida after ‘engine malfunction’ (www.theguardian.com)
A Boeing cargo airliner made an emergency landing in Florida on Thursday night after what its operator called “an engine malfunction” occurred shortly after takeoff, in the latest setback for the beleaguered company. A gaping hole where a paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on...
