Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges (www.theguardian.com)
Death of Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, from India, ignited outrage after fellow officer was recorded making ‘appalling’ remarks about case...
Navalny’s mother shown body and ‘blackmailed by authorities’ over funeral (www.theguardian.com)
Lyudmila Navalnaya says she was told to agree to secret burial as Kremlin appears to fear funeral turning into political action...
Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide...
US intelligence: ‘low confidence’ in part of Israel’s UNRWA claims (www.theguardian.com)
A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible but that the claims of wider links to militant groups could not be independently verified… According to the Wall Street Journal, the intelligence report,...
US returns to lunar surface for first time in over 50 years: ‘Welcome to the moon’ (www.theguardian.com)
Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft Odysseus lands after a 73-minute descent, touching down near moon’s south pole...
South Korea doctors’ strike: ‘severe’ public health alert issued for first time (www.theguardian.com)
US to impose sanctions on 500 Russia-linked targets to mark Ukraine war anniversary (www.theguardian.com)
Military industrial complex and companies aiding Moscow in third countries will be targeted, treasury says...
US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says (www.theguardian.com)
Bleaching fears along 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are investigating reports of dying coral from Lizard Island in the north to Heron Island in the south...
Bobi the Portuguese mastiff stripped of record as world’s oldest ever dog (www.theguardian.com)
Guinness World Records ‘no longer has the evidence’ that animal – 31 years and five months old when it died – was as old as claimed...
Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closer (www.theguardian.com)
Australian working in Rafah hospital says all staff are struggling: ‘We have victims caring for victims’ (www.theguardian.com)
UK indie films will ‘die’ without fiscal aid, Ken Loach producer says (www.theguardian.com)
The Bafta-winning producer behind Ken Loach’s acclaimed films has warned that the UK indie film sector will “die” without additional fiscal support....
Alabama’s supreme court ruled embryos are ‘extrauterine children’. IVF patients are worried (www.theguardian.com)
Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th (www.theguardian.com)
Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war...
US unions target the housing affordability crisis as their ‘biggest issue’ (www.theguardian.com)
Organized labor across the country is now setting its sights on housing costs as rents and mortgages continue to soar...
Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list (www.theguardian.com)
South Carolina lawmaker is one of more than 12,000 individuals on list kept by Russia’s state financial monitoring agency...
Polish farmers dump grain in protest as Ukraine dispute deepens (www.theguardian.com)
Poland’s bitter dispute with Ukraine over farm imports has escalated as Polish farmers dumped grain from a freight train as part of nationwide protests and Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Warsaw of “mockery”....
At least 60% of US population may face ‘forever chemicals’ in tap water, tests suggest (www.theguardian.com)
Federal tests of one-third of water systems find 70 million Americans exposed to PFAS – suggesting 200 million affected overall...
‘Ruining my career’: calls grow for Japan to change law on married surnames (www.theguardian.com)
Japan is the only country in the world that requires spouses to use the same name, but after decades of inaction, appetite for change is building
A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims? (www.theguardian.com)
Two years after an attacker shot five volunteers before a Black Lives Matter march in Portland, Oregon, killing a 60-year-old woman and leaving one of her young friends paralyzed, a new visual investigation of the attack reveals that the assailant tried to provoke a stand-your-ground situation, daring three women to fight him,...
High court rejects legal challenge over UK arms sales to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids (www.theguardian.com)
Jim Pillen breaks with 14 other Republican governors to enroll in Summer EBT, a new food program for school vacation months...
Russian pilot who defected found dead in Spain, says Ukraine security agency (www.theguardian.com)
A Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year in a secret operation has been found dead in Spain, according to the main military intelligence agency in Kyiv....
