Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty (www.theguardian.com)
Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in history...
Ties with US and Japan will ‘change dynamic’ in South China Sea, Philippines president says after critics of China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the region (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13139560...
Iranian attack on Israel expected ‘sooner rather than later’, says Joe Biden (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has said he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran: “Don’t.”...
Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)
However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans. There is also a shortage of willing drivers after repeated incidents of aid trucks coming under fire, of which the WCK bombing has been...
Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)
A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialise, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip....
Florida can’t ban teacher from asking students to use her preferred pronouns, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
Katie Wood, a transgender algebra teacher, has long gone by ‘Ms Wood’ but the law required students to say ‘Teacher Wood’...
Colombians told to shower with a friend as drought hits capital water supplies (www.theguardian.com)
Bogotá brings in water rationing with El Niño weather phenomenon meaning city could run out in under two months...
Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots undercuts campaign pitch to vote early (www.theguardian.com)
Campaign toils to convince Republicans to vote early, crucial to winning the election, while ensuring they don’t annoy Trump...
Post office operator wrongly jailed while pregnant rejects executive’s apology | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Tim Kaine: Biden knows Netanyahu ‘played’ him in early months of Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Senator Tim Kaine, a former vice-presidential nominee and leading foreign policy voice in the Democratic party, has said Joe Biden now understands that Benjamin Netanyahu “played” him during the early months of the war in Gaza but “that ain’t going to happen any more”....
‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse (www.theguardian.com)
Delivering a baby was already risky, but an unprecedented surge in gang violence has forced clinics and hospitals to close...
US seeking to deter Iran from strike on Israel, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm sales (www.theguardian.com)
‘Historic’ action by justice department closes ‘doggone dangerous’ loophole in Biden administration’s fight against gun violence...
New economic warfare method just dropped: (www.theguardian.com)
Judge denies Trump’s third attempt this week to delay hush-money trial (www.theguardian.com)
Case on Monday will be first ever criminal trial of an ex-president as Trump’s lawyers fight to put it off and try to remove its judge...
OJ Simpson, ex-NFL star who was acquitted of murder, dies aged 76 (www.theguardian.com)
‘Shame! Shame!’: Arizona Republican leaders block effort to repeal abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
Democrats stymied after state supreme court rules that 1864 law with no exceptions for rape or incest can go into effect...
Menthol cigarettes are killing Black Americans. Advocates are suing the government to change that (www.theguardian.com)
Biden says he is ‘considering’ Australian call to drop Julian Assange charges (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.
Quebec separation re-enters political debate thanks to TikTok-friendly leader (www.theguardian.com)
Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon speaking loudly and often after party win over Coalition Avenir Québec...
German university rescinds US scholar’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter (www.theguardian.com)
A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.
Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Up to 500 ‘drop-and-forget’ bombs containing foreign components being fired every week, government analysis finds...
'A dark day': Arizona governor condemns ruling on near-total abortion ban – video (www.theguardian.com)
The Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, called for an Arizona supreme court ruling to be repealed that permits enforcement of an 1864 law banning almost all abortions. Speaking at a press conference the governor said: ‘The near total civil war-era ban that continues to hang over our heads only serves to create more...
UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s (www.theguardian.com)
Two far-right conspiracy theorists to pay up to $1.25m for robocall campaign (www.theguardian.com)
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman found liable last March for trying to discourage Black New Yorkers from voting in 2020 election...
