Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen (www.theguardian.com)
Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs (www.theguardian.com)
BlueTriton, the company that owns Arrowhead brand, has been taking water from San Bernardino springs for more than 100 years...
Biden announces $600m for more free Covid-19 tests in anticipation of surge (www.theguardian.com)
The funding will produce new at-home tests and restart a website to allow Americans to order four free tests per household...
Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report (www.theguardian.com)
Climate coalition cites Twitter’s lack of clear policies to stop incorrect information and confusion from Musk takeover...
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims (www.theguardian.com)
The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (www.theguardian.com)
AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report (www.theguardian.com)
The Climate of Misinformation report by Climate Action Against Disinformation looked at Meta, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter for their content moderation policies and efforts to mitigate inaccurate information such as climate denialism. The group, which is made up of dozens of international climate and...
Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed bridge (www.theguardian.com)
Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago...
Adidas chief exec: Kanye West ‘didn’t mean what he said’ with antisemitic comments (www.theguardian.com)
Bjørn Gulden, chief executive of Adidas, has lamented the end of the company’s lucrative partnership with Kanye West, saying, “I don’t think he meant what he said,” regarding the rapper’s antisemitic comments in October 2022....
A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Ten years after tragedy, tiny Lampedusa at centre of migration crisis again (www.theguardian.com)
More than 11,000 people have landed on the island in recent days – a decade on from when hundreds were killed in a shipwreck...
Thousands protest in Armenia over military strike on Nagorno-Karabakh (www.theguardian.com)
Elephants on the march across African borders as heat stress leads to fatalities (www.theguardian.com)
Mortality rate grows as animals roam long distances and clash with local people in desperate search for water.
Leaders of world’s biggest polluting countries skipping UN climate summit (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending summit in New York....
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.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial (www.theguardian.com)
Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board...
World inching ever closer to a great fracture, says UN chief (www.theguardian.com)
Nagorno-Karabakh: death toll rises as latest violence condemned by Russia and US (www.theguardian.com)
US anti-child trafficking activist resigns after sexual harassment allegations (www.theguardian.com)
The anti-child slavery activist Tim Ballard, whose work was dramatized in the movie Sound of Freedom, resigned from the Operation Underground Railroad (Our) organization he founded amid allegations he sexually harassed colleagues, it was reported on Monday....
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Vape stores opening near Australian schools to ‘recruit new generation to nicotine’, Mark Butler says (www.theguardian.com)
Companies skirting regulations by labelling e-cigarettes as ‘nicotine-free’ despite them containing the drug.
France accused of attack on press freedom after journalist arrest (www.theguardian.com)
