Chinese business tycoon convicted of defrauding followers in $1bn scheme (www.theguardian.com)
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Chinese business tycoon convicted of defrauding followers in $1bn scheme (www.theguardian.com)
Millions of US low-income households face power shutoffs amid deadly heat (www.theguardian.com)
UN concern over disciplinary case against UK lawyer for ‘boys’ club’ remarks (www.theguardian.com)
In 2022, Proudman wrote on X she was troubled by Cohen referring in a judgment to the relationship between a woman and her part-time judge and barrister ex-husband as “tempestuous”, and his use of the word “reckless” to describe the alleged domestic violence....
Case of man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor referred to CPS (www.theguardian.com)
The case of Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin, has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service over a potential prosecution for perjury and forgery....
Tenacious D’s Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt (www.theguardian.com)
The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump....
Rwanda's Paul Kagame cruises to crushing election victory (www.theguardian.com)
How Clarence Thomas helped thwart prosecution of Trump in classified documents case (www.theguardian.com)
Clarence Thomas has struck again....
Generation Kill author Evan Wright dies aged 59 (www.theguardian.com)
Evan Wright, the award-winning journalist who wrote about US subcultures in the book Generation Kill, which he helped adapt into the HBO miniseries of the same name, has died aged 59....
Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet....
California bans rules requiring schools to tell parents of child’s pronoun change (www.theguardian.com)
Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet....
Three hikers die in Utah parks in suspected heat-related cases (www.theguardian.com)
The hikers were a father and daughter lost in Canyonlands and a woman who passed out at Snow Canyon state park...
FBI cracks phone belonging to Trump rally shooting suspect (www.theguardian.com)
Federal investigators are analyzing device’s content, although it is unclear how agency gained access...
Democrats warn JD Vance will enable Trump’s ‘extreme Maga agenda’ (www.theguardian.com)
Elizabeth Warren calls Vance faux populist while party says he will ‘take women back decades’ on abortion...
US, Canada and Finland form ‘Ice Pact’ to project influence into Arctic region (www.theguardian.com)
US, Canada and Finland form ‘Ice Pact’ to project influence into Arctic region (www.theguardian.com)
War has prevented 15m children being immunised against diseases, UN warns (www.theguardian.com)
Conflicts have hampered efforts to vaccinate children across the world, health leaders have warned, as new figures showed about 14.5 million children had not received a single immunisation dose....
Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers (www.theguardian.com)
The constant trauma (of the war) took its toll on Yasmeen Khuwaiter, who found out about her pregnancy two weeks before the war, and gave birth to triplets in April, two months before her due date....
Scientists make DNA discovery that could help find pancreatic cancer cure (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists have made a crucial DNA discovery that could help cure one of the deadliest cancers....
Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
“In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit,” reports the Guardian, “and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.” South Cambridgeshire district council’s controversial...
German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign (www.theguardian.com)
A city in northern Germany has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silence in the classroom because of its close resemblance to a far-right Turkish gesture....
‘Forever chemicals’ used in lithium ion batteries threaten environment, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
A subclass of PFAS has been found near manufacturing plants and landfills, and in remote regions of the world...
Record-breaking heatwave shifts east as millions of Americans under heat alert (www.theguardian.com)
Over 245 million Americans are expected to experience 90F temperatures early this week, with some as high as 105F...