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US retail group retracts claim that half of $94.5bn inventory loss was from theft (www.theguardian.com)

National Retail Federation says 2021 data was flawed and based on congressional testimony from president of an advocacy group...

US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show (www.theguardian.com)

California teenager who passed bar exam at 17 is now practicing attorney (www.theguardian.com)

A teenager from California’s Central Valley has become the youngest person to ever pass the state’s bar exam and is now working as a practicing attorney....

Failure to agree fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 ‘will push world into climate breakdown’ (www.theguardian.com)

Heatwave, fire, flood and cyclone: Sydney temperatures peak at 43C amid wild weather across Australia (www.theguardian.com)

Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows (www.theguardian.com)

Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes

Texas attorney general says he will sue doctor who gives abortion to Kate Cox (www.theguardian.com)

Ken Paxton issues threat after judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, can get an abortion...

Pregnant woman sues Kentucky for right to have abortion (www.theguardian.com)

A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit on Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen US states since Roe v Wade was overturned last year....

Six teenagers convicted in France over teacher’s beheading in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)

Samuel Paty had shown pupils caricatures of the prophet Muhammad during a class on freedom of expression...

Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere (www.theguardian.com)

Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere::The dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. Focusing on public transport would be much smarter, says transport writer Christian Wolmar

Abortion clinics saw record surge in out-of-state patients post-Roe, report says (www.theguardian.com)

One in five patients crossed state lines to obtain an abortion in 2023, compared with one in 10 patients in 2020...

Vladimir Putin to run for Russian president again in March 2024 (www.theguardian.com)

Vladimir Putin has said he will run for president in the March 2024 election, moving the longtime Russian leader a step closer to a fifth term in office....

US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show (www.theguardian.com)

On the scope of the latest revelations, German said: “At a time where there’s much more public sensitivity to foreign influence in domestic affairs, having a foreign country’s security services aligned with the beat cop on the streets of American neighborhoods is concerning.”