Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history (www.theguardian.com)
Florida divers find trove of suspected cocaine packages in Atlantic Ocean (www.theguardian.com)
Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says (www.theguardian.com)
Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...
Charleston bridge closed as out-of-control ship powers through harbor (www.theguardian.com)
Police cleared traffic and pedestrians from bridge as cargo ship went nearly full throttle through South Carolina harbor...
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...
Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Leaders rally behind Zelenskiy to make clear to Putin that, as in 1944, freedom in Europe is worth fighting for...
‘Poison portal’: US and UK could send nuclear waste to Australia under Aukus, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
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Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial (www.theguardian.com)
Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study (www.theguardian.com)
From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money...
Nvidia hits $3tn and surpasses Apple as world’s second most valuable company (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work (www.theguardian.com)
Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research....
Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes (www.theguardian.com)
Putin says Trump conviction ‘burns’ idea of US as leading democracy (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: the carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza after months of Israeli bombing (www.theguardian.com)
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
European Central Bank cuts main interest rate by 0.25 points (www.theguardian.com)
Citing a sustained fall in inflation, the ECB said its deposit rate would be cut to 3.75% from a record high of 4%, putting it ahead of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, which have yet to cut interest rates.
Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content (www.theguardian.com)
New York City postpones controversial, first-in-the-US congestion pricing plan (www.theguardian.com)
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet....
Italian court dismisses Amanda Knox appeal against slander verdict (www.theguardian.com)
Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher...
Met chief says millions of men are danger to women and girls in England and Wales (www.theguardian.com)
Millions of men in England and Wales pose a danger to women and children, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police has said....
Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification (www.theguardian.com)
Third of world’s ocean surface particularly vulnerable to threats driven by burning fossil fuel and deforestation, new research finds...
Columbia Law Review board shutters website over article critical of Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime....
‘Racial resentment’ a factor in violence of 6 January 2021, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Measurable in Trump supporters, psycho-social phenomenon can have consequences for democracy, authors say...
