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Netanyahu declares Israel 'will exact the full price' after Iranian strike hits hospital in Israel

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Israel "will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran" after the rogue regime struck an Israeli medical facility.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:18 am

How bunker buster bombs work and how they could destroy Iran’s Fordow nuclear site

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Israel battles Iran's nuclear capabilities, with the protected Fordow facility requiring specialized bunker busters that only the U.S. possesses to eliminate this critical threat.

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:36 pm

'Jewish Matchmaking' star living in Israel has hope amid conflicts with Hamas, Iran

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Cindy Seni, best known for her time on Netflix's hit dating show "Jewish Matchmaking," holds onto faith and admires Israeli resilience amid conflicts with Iran and Hamas.

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:12 pm

After Trump's departure, G7 leaders fail to reach agreements on key issues

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World leaders at the G7, which U.S. President Donald Trump left early, did not make major agreements on issues like the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Iran wars, the Associated Press claimed.

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:47 pm

UN commission accuses Israel of 'extermination' in controversial report

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A UN commission sparked backlash after issuing a scathing 19-page report in which its members accuse Israel of committing "the crime against humanity of extermination."

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:09 pm

In Iran's ‘forever war’ against the US, regime has targeted and killed Americans worldwide

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Iran's resumé against America since the 1979 revolution includes taking hostages, playing a role in the Beirut embassy bombings, funding Taliban and Iraqi proxies and assassination attempts.

Published: June 18, 2025, 12:57 pm

Tugboats, cruise ships and flights: Israel begins emergency evacuation of citizens amid Iran war

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Emergency flights bring Israelis home amid war with Iran. Citizens resorted to extreme measures like tugboat journeys to return while missiles strike their homeland.

Published: June 18, 2025, 12:15 pm

Iran warns US joining conflict would mean 'all-out war,' refuses demands to give up disputed nuclear program

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Israeli airstrikes target Iran's uranium enrichment facilities as tensions escalate, with Tehran warning that US intervention would trigger "all-out war."

Published: June 18, 2025, 12:05 pm

WH maintains Trump consistent in firm stance on Iran nukes — and shows off receipts

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The Trump administration took to X to show the president's consistent stance against Iran developing a nuclear weapon. Vice President JD Vance also defended Trump, calling the president "amazingly consistent."

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:41 am

Trump's approach to Africa lauded by top Republican as recent airstrikes show 'outside the box' thinking

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Senator Jim Risch discusses U.S. security challenges in Africa, including terrorism in Somalia, the war in Sudan, and the growing influence of China, Russia, and Iran.

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:00 am

Grim excavation begins at site believed to contain remains of around 800 babies

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Mass grave excavation begins at a former mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where remains of 800 infants and young children were discovered in an underground sewage structure.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:59 am

Live Updates: Israel Vows to Intensify Attacks After Iranian Missile Hits Hospital

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Iran struck the largest hospital in southern Israel. The hospital said it was treating several patients with mild injuries. Israel’s prime minister ordered a fierce response, the defense minister said, as the military carried out further strikes in Iran.

Published: June 19, 2025, 11:05 am

Iran Has Its Back Against the Wall

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The Iranian regime finds itself in its most difficult position 46 years after the revolution that brought it to power. But does it mean the end?

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:19 am

Will Israel’s Interceptors Outlast Iran’s Missiles? The Answer May Shape the War.

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Israel has a world-leading missile interception system but its bank of interceptors is finite.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:19 am

If Trump Joins Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Troops in Mideast Could Be Vulnerable

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Iran’s leader vowed that his country would respond to any U.S. involvement in the war with Israel.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:26 am

Trying to Satisfy Trump, NATO Is Running Into Difficulties

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A plan to increase military spending at the level President Trump wants is becoming clearer, as are its shortcomings.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:02 am

No Sting, No Mercedes: A Russian Expo Shows Cost of Divorce With the West

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The annual economic forum in St. Petersburg used to host multibillion-dollar deals and performances by global music stars. With the war in Ukraine still raging, the mood has shifted.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:58 am

China Is Hacking Russia to Steal War Secrets

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Since the war in Ukraine began, analysts have monitored a series of intrusions aimed at stealing information about weaponry and warfighting.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:01 am

The Crane That Ruined Florence’s Skyline Is Gone

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A reviled crane used during the expansion of the Uffizi Galleries was taken down this week after years of protests.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:03 am

Hurricane Erick Nears Mexico as a Category 4 Storm

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Erick set off flash floods in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. A stretch of the Pacific coastline, including Acapulco, was under a hurricane warning.

Published: June 19, 2025, 7:13 am

Quietly, Pakistan Wages a Deadly Drone Campaign Inside Its Own Borders

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As it strikes militants, the country’s security services are adopting a tactic that Pakistan once criticized the United States for using.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:01 am

Under China’s Threat, Taiwan Needs Its Own Power Sources More Than Ever

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Taiwan, which makes most of the world’s advanced computer chips, relies almost entirely on imported energy.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:00 am

Belgian Nonprofit Papy Boom Is Helping Retirement-Home Residents Hit the Clubs

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A group of Brussels retirement-home residents grooved to electronic music late one night as part of a program to fight loneliness among seniors.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:09 am

Thailand’s Prime Minister Faces Calls to Resign After Leak

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been widely criticized for appearing weak in a conversation with Cambodia’s Hun Sen, who released a recording of their exchange.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:25 am

Air India Cuts International Flights After Crash Causes Chaos

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The move came a day after Indian officials told the airline to improve its operations, and as delays and canceled flights are drawing complaints from passengers.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:14 am

Student Who Filmed Himself Raping at Least 10 Women to Be Sentenced in London

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Zou Zhenhao, 28, is considered by the police in the British capital to be “one of the most prolific predators” they have encountered. Investigators say there are probably many more victims.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:53 am

Tehran residents describe the turmoil of living in a city under attack.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 10:49 am

This Oregon Native Went to Kyiv as a Volunteer. He Died in a Russian Attack.

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Fred Grandy was upset by the United States’ reversal in its support for Ukraine, his family said. This week, he was among the 28 people killed in a drone and missile assault.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:46 am

Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries?

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Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:02 am

A Sardinian Road Trip: Coastal Cliffs and Picturesque Villages

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A photographer’s road trip traced the coastal cliffs around the Mediterranean island, a world apart from mainland Italy. Here’s what she saw.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:01 am

Here’s the latest.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:38 am

Funeral Held for Loved One Lost in Air India Crash

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A cremation ceremony was held for Kinal Mistry, a victim of the Air India crash who hailed from a community that took pride in those who went abroad. Her family said she was someone who would “fulfill everyone’s dreams.”

Published: June 19, 2025, 7:47 am

Iran Missile Strikes Hospital in Southern Israel

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The strike highlighted the risks to civilians in Israel and Iran after days of fighting between the two nations.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:55 am

Thursday Briefing

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The prospect of U.S. strikes in Iran.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:01 am

Iranians mostly lost internet access on the sixth day of Israeli strikes.

The shutdown appears to be the result of an internal decision rather than a consequence of an Israeli strike.

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:11 am

A hacking group steals at least $90 million from Iranian crypto exchange in cyberattack.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 1:53 am

U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants

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The State Department is restarting the processing of visa applications from students and visiting scholars, but is screening for “hostility” toward the United States.

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:34 pm

If the U.S. joins Israeli attacks, Iran will retaliate ‘wherever we find the targets,’ an official says.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 10:44 pm

Iranian Civilians Are Killed in Israeli Strikes, Including a Poet and an Equestrian

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Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence, among them a poet and her family, an equestrian and a graphic designer.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:46 am

Tehran is about as densely populated as New York City.

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Recent evacuation warnings from Israel affect hundreds of thousands of the capital’s residents.

Published: June 19, 2025, 2:59 am

U.S. Strike on Iran Would Bring Risks at Every Turn

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The largest perils may lie in the aftermath, many experts say, just as they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:27 pm

Iran Rejects Trump’s Call for ‘Surrender’ in War With Israel

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President Trump did not rule out U.S. military intervention on behalf of Israel, saying, “Nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:43 pm

Iran is open to talks with the U.S., a senior diplomat says, even as the supreme leader rejects the idea.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 9:37 pm

Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Indecision on Iran

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Plus, Studio Ghibliesque video games.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:01 pm

Trump Administration Says It Is Working to Help Americans Leave Israel Amid Iran Conflict

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As fighting between Iran and Israel continued for a sixth day, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem made its first announcement for Americans trying to leave Israel.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:11 pm

Before Iran’s internet was throttled, one resident described a ‘deserted’ Tehran.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 9:33 pm

Hurricane Erick Nears Mexico’s Coast as Category 3 Storm

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“If you are in low-lying areas, near rivers, near waterways, it is best for you to go to shelters,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said.

Published: June 19, 2025, 1:02 am

U.S. lawmakers say Gulf Arab leaders want Iran’s nuclear program to end, but preferably not by force.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 7:41 pm

There are about 40,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East.

Published: June 18, 2025, 6:42 pm

Despite danger from Iran’s deadly missile fire, Israeli morale appears high.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 6:17 pm

Austria Moves to Tighten Gun Laws After Deadly School Shooting

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The government announced proposals to make it harder to buy a firearm after a gunman killed nine students and a teacher.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:41 am

Focusing on Iran, Israel sends more troops to its borders and withdraws some from Gaza.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:00 pm

Spain Blames Planning Missteps and Technical Problems for Huge Power Outage

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The Spanish government ruled out a cyberattack, saying that a series of failures led to the nationwide blackout in April.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:41 am

Trump says ‘nobody knows what I’m going to do’ on Iran.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 10:11 pm

See where Israeli strikes have damaged Iranian nuclear and military facilities so far.

The nuclear watchdog of the United Nations has confirmed Israeli strikes on multiple facilities in Iran.

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:04 pm

A Man Drove a Car Down Rome’s Spanish Steps. It Did Not Go Great.

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Don’t try this at home.

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:57 pm

U.K. Police Mishandled Crash That Killed Teenager Harry Dunn, Review Finds

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An independent report found that officers should have arrested the driver, Anne Sacoolas, at the scene. She later claimed diplomatic immunity and fled Britain.

Published: June 18, 2025, 6:19 pm

Two Iranian centrifuge production facilities are hit, the U.N. nuclear watchdog says.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 1:09 pm

Kate Middleton Unexpectedly Pulls Out of Royal Ascot

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The princess canceled plans to attend the horse racing event on Wednesday as she tries to find the “right balance” in her recovery from cancer, Kensington Palace said.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:51 pm

In a defiant address, Iran’s supreme leader rejects Trump’s call to surrender.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:08 pm

Iran Urges Users to Delete WhatsApp

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Iran’s state television urged people to delete WhatsApp, saying without evidence that the app was sending user information to Israel.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:19 pm

India and Canada Move to Mend Ties Damaged by Sikh Activists’s Killing

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The rapprochement comes months after each country had expelled the other’s senior diplomats.

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:32 am

Israel Further Alienates Would-Be Arab Allies in Attacking Iran

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Wealthy Gulf countries are alarmed and anxious about Israel and Iran’s new war.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:36 am

Here’s the latest.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 7:32 am

Iran War Reflects a Changed Middle East and a New Israeli Military Doctrine

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For years, Israel contained its conflicts with Tehran, Hamas and Hezbollah. The broad assault on Iran highlights a shift in strategy.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:13 am

Trump Skips Zelensky Meeting as G7 Talks End With Little for Ukraine

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President Volodymyr Zelensky had hoped to secure more support from the Group of 7 nations, but the crisis in the Middle East was seen as a more urgent priority.

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:26 pm

Wednesday Briefing

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Fears of a wider war in Iran.

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:52 am

Great-Grandson of Islamic Republic’s Founder Was in Streets as Israel Fired on Tehran

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Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, a descendant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, told The Times that the legacy of his family name was at stake in the conflict.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:53 am

As Pakistan Moves to Ban Black Magic, Astrologers See a Bad Omen

Spiritual practitioners fear that legislation imposing prison time for vaguely defined occult services could cast a wide net.

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:01 am

Elon Musk’s A.I. Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines

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The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:08 am

California police plead for help amid officer shortage as union boss warns of unprecedented riot ‘onslaught’

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California law enforcement faces unprecedented violence during Los Angeles immigration raids, with officers working long shifts amid hundreds of arrests and multiple injuries

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:00 am

Border Patrol agents shut down massive drug smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego

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Border Patrol agents uncovered a sophisticated narcotics smuggling tunnel connecting Tijuana and San Diego, featuring electrical and ventilation systems.

Published: June 19, 2025, 7:00 am

Vindicated Karen Read thanks 'greatest' legal team as jurors deliver not guilty verdict in boyfriend's death

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Karen Read's legal team credited for her acquittal in the death of boyfriend John O'Keefe, with experts predicting the high-profile case will boost the attorneys' careers nationwide.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:00 am

American cyclist's global adventure derailed when 'bombs started falling' in Iran

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A 32-year-old Minnesota man's continental cycling journey took an unexpected turn when he was caught near Israeli airstrikes in Iran, prompting a hasty escape to Azerbaijan

Published: June 19, 2025, 1:21 am

Navy recruitment 'skyrockets' under Trump's leadership, official says

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Navy recruiting has 'skyrocketed' since November, reaching its fiscal year 2025 goal ahead of schedule through streamlined medical waiver reviews and enhanced recruiting operations.

Published: June 19, 2025, 12:51 am

Federal judge orders GPS monitoring for ex-Coast Guard officer who allegedly threatened to assassinate Trump

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Federal judge orders ex-Coast Guard officer to home detention following accusations of multiple threats against Trump on X, Reddit, and Bluesky.

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:45 pm

Boulder terror suspect used Israeli flags to hunt victims, FBI testimony reveals

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Egyptian national Mohamed Soliman, charged with attempted murder in Boulder firebombing, searched for 'Zionist events' online before attacking pro-Israel marchers, FBI agent testifies.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:35 pm

Fugitive ex-deputy vanishes before trial in deadly sports car crash

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Joshua Roelofs, a former deputy with the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida, is a wanted man after skipping out on his trial for allegedly killing two people in a DUI crash.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:28 pm

How a keffiyeh-wearing keynote speaker sparked boos for Jews at my UCLA graduation

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UCLA's humanities commencement speaker sparks controversy by wearing a keffiyeh and delivering a speech that led to Jewish Studies graduates being booed amid campus political tensions

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:53 pm

Army soldiers from Minnesota, Michigan perish in separate Middle East incidents

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Department of Defense confirms two Army soldiers deployed in the Middle East supporting anti-ISIS operations died in separate non-combat incidents.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:36 pm

Murdered Democratic lawmaker's home broken into just days after fatal shooting

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Brooklyn Park police investigate break-in at murdered Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman's home, where intruder entered through a broken window but apparently took nothing.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:22 pm

Wife of Boulder firebombing suspect begs Americans for help while judge delays deportation

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Egyptian national's family faces deportation after Boulder attack on pro-Israel demonstrators, as wife releases statement claiming innocence and describing detention.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:48 pm

DHS announces arrest of migrant sex offender who dragged ICE officer with car

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Convicted child sex offender Roberto Carlos Munoz, a Guatemalan national in the country illegally, was arrested after dragging an ICE officer with his car in suburban Minneapolis.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:31 pm

Karen Read murder case verdict reached after deadlocked first trial

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Karen Read's retrial concludes with a verdict on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of officer John O'Keefe during a blizzard.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:00 pm

Illegal street takeover shuts down busy intersection with dangerous stunts, fireworks: police

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Police are investigating an illegal car rally in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, where cars blocked traffic, performed dangerous stunts and set off fireworks.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:26 pm

Young mother thrown from boat leaves behind grieving husband, 4 children after Alabama waters tragedy

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Alabama mother Brittney Sherman, 27, died after being thrown overboard in a collision between two boats in Bayou Sara, leaving behind her husband and four children.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:22 pm

Thousands of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles stolen in $1.4M cargo heist

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A $1.4 million heist of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles occurred in Colorado just days after worldwide release, with 2,810 units stolen from a semitruck.

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:24 pm

New flyer shows suspected killer dad may have changed appearance in wilderness manhunt: police

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Authorities release a new flyer showing Travis Decker, a veteran with wilderness survival skills wanted for allegedly murdering his three daughters in Washington.

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:40 pm

Trump admin deploys 2K more troops to blue city for anti-ICE riots

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered 2,000 more National Guard troops into the field to protect ICE agents and federal property while Los Angeles faces civil unrest.

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:21 pm

Third illegal immigrant captured after ICE facility breakout

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Three illegal immigrants who escaped from Newark, New Jersey's ICE detention facility have been recaptured, while authorities search for Andres Pineda-Mogollon with a $25,000 reward.

Published: June 18, 2025, 1:50 pm

Senate hearing on who was 'really running' Biden White House kicks off and more top headlines

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Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox.

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:25 am

‘Eyes in the sky’: Army drone expert explains US strategy on innovation as global conflict looms

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An Army drone expert reveals how his team built low-cost, in-house drones, bypassed red tape and pushed back on "programs of record" to prepare for future conflict.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:51 am

Louisiana racetrack ICE raid nets more than 80 illegal migrants during worksite enforcement operation

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Over 80 illegal migrants arrested at Delta Downs Racetrack in joint ICE operation targeting unauthorized workers, including criminal alien with multiple prior convictions.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:06 am

Idaho judge tells Bryan Kohberger to prepare for summer courtroom showdown after last-minute effort

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A lawyer in Idaho says the judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger's case could hold the leaker in contempt of court after new case information aired on TV.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:00 am

Suspected Tren de Aragua gang members terrorize apartment complex in shocking doorbell video

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Suspected Tren de Aragua gang members were caught on camera at a Colorado apartment complex, in an incident authorities are calling "very reminiscent" to last year's gang takeover.

Published: June 18, 2025, 6:50 am

Court Leaves States to Decide on Trans Treatments for Minors

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The Supreme Court decision upholding a Tennessee ban on gender transition care for trans youths means a state-by-state patchwork of policies will remain.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:04 am

Texas Might Ban Hemp

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Gov. Greg Abbott must decide this week whether to sign or veto a bill to ban hemp-derived intoxicants, part of a national debate over the fast-growing industry.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:02 am

On Juneteenth, This Williamsburg Schoolhouse Finds a New Life

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:01 am

How the L.A. Port got hit by Trump’s Tariffs

New York Times reporter Ana Swanson reports from the Los Angeles Port, the largest port in the Western Hemisphere as well as the place that first saw the signs of Trump’s tariff war. The Port of Los Angeles is significant because of our trade relationship with China in particular, which is why The Trump administration’s 145% tariffs on the country resulted in lower volume at the port. Ana Swanson explains what the port illustrates about U.S. trade and how what’s felt at the Port of Los Angeles will soon be felt by U.S. consumers.

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:59 am

A Trump Executive Order Could Affect Ukrainian Refugees in Iowa

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The Trump administration suspended a temporary humanitarian program for Ukrainians. Now many are losing their ability to work, and fear deportation.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:00 am

SpaceX Starship Explodes During Test in Texas

The Starship experienced a “major anomaly” before starting its 10th flight test. Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket has a mixed record of success.

Published: June 19, 2025, 7:43 am

Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’

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President Trump is pondering swift military action in Iran. There were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be quick and triumphant.

Published: June 19, 2025, 1:22 am

For Tennessee’s Transgender Families, Supreme Court Ruling Was Bitter, but Expected

The state has been a leader in the rollback of L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:32 pm

U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants

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The State Department is restarting the processing of visa applications from students and visiting scholars, but is screening for “hostility” toward the United States.

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:34 pm

As Trump Debates Iran Action, the Meaning of ‘America First’ Is on the Line

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As President Trump ponders involving the United States in Israel’s attacks on Iran, the G.O.P. faces a thorny question: What does “America first” really mean?

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:45 pm

Justice Dept. to Cut Gun-Sale Inspectors by Two-Thirds as It Moves to Downsize A.T.F.

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The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to defang and downsize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:44 am

Democrats’ Wary Response to Transgender Ruling Shows the Party’s Retreat

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While some in the party denounced the Supreme Court’s decision, other top leaders remained quiet, underscoring the party’s discomfort on the issue.

Published: June 19, 2025, 2:02 am

U.S. Strike on Iran Would Bring Risks at Every Turn

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The largest perils may lie in the aftermath, many experts say, just as they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:27 pm

New Report Highlights Air Traffic Control Staffing Woes

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While faulting some towers for inefficient practices, the report recognized significant external factors and called on Congress to help address the problem.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:18 pm

Iran Crisis Overshadowed as Senators Squabble at Hearing

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A hearing featuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth exposed a major divide over the dangers of using U.S. troops domestically.

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:14 pm

Trump Suggests He May Withhold California Disaster Aid Over His Feud With Newsom

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President Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom have traded sharp insults in recent days as California awaits billions of dollars in federal wildfire relief.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:11 pm

What to Know After Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Transgender Care for Minors

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The decision to uphold the Tennessee law will most likely mean a patchwork of laws throughout the country, a map that traces current political polarization.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:50 pm

Karen Read Acquitted in Murder Trial Over Boyfriend’s Death Outside Boston

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A jury cleared Ms. Read of charges related to the 2022 death of John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, and convicted her only of drunken driving, in a trial that attracted wide attention.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:58 pm

Andrea Lucas Defends E.E.O.C. Record Under Trump at Senate Hearing

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Ms. Lucas, the acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is seeking Senate approval to renew her role as commissioner, which is a requirement for her leadership post.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:25 pm

Stanley Nelson, Journalist Who Investigated Klan Murders, Dies at 69

Born and raised in Louisiana, he investigated unresolved civil-rights-era killings in the Deep South. His reporting on one of those cases made him a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:11 pm

The D.N.C. Is in Chaos and Desperate for Cash Under Ken Martin

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Under its new leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power.

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:24 pm

Reporter Is Detained by ICE After Reporting on Immigration Protest

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Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter originally from El Salvador, was arrested while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta on Saturday, his lawyers said.

Published: June 18, 2025, 6:07 pm

Trump’s Base in Uproar Over His Openness to Joining Iran Fight

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The president’s supporters are warring over two dueling campaign promises: to steer clear of foreign wars and to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Published: June 18, 2025, 6:32 pm

The Last Time Supreme Court Considered Trans Rights, It Protected Them

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In 2020, the justices ruled 6-3 that gay and transgender workers were shielded from employment discrimination nationwide.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:44 pm

No One Answers When Lawmakers From Illinois Knock on ICE’s Door

Four Democratic members of Congress tried in vain to enter an immigration processing facility near Chicago.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:33 pm

Trump Quizzes Workers at the White House: ‘Any Illegal Immigrants?’

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President Trump decided to check the immigration status of a work crew installing a new flagpole at the White House.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:31 pm

These States Have Laws Restricting Some Treatments for Transgender Minors

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Transgender minors and their parents, guardians and doctors have challenged bans in 19 states, with mixed results.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:21 pm

What Has Medical Research Found on Gender Treatments for Trans Youth?

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The Supreme Court cited the uncertainty in the scientific evidence when upholding Tennessee’s ban on the treatments.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:03 pm

Sotomayor’s Dissent Criticizes Supreme Court Decision in Transgender Care Case

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Justice Sotomayor also read her dissent from the bench, a move typically reserved to emphasize a justice’s extreme displeasure with a decision.

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:18 pm

Tucker Carlson Berates Ted Cruz Over Bellicose Stance on Iran

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In an interview that highlighted a rift on the far right over the role of the United States in confronting Iran, the host confronted the senator over his hawkish stance, suggesting he was ill-informed.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:17 pm

A transgender clinic opened in 2018. Four years later, the firestorm began.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:05 pm

Here’s the latest on the decision.

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:27 pm

Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Transgender Care for Minors

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The justices ruled that the state’s law, which prohibited some medical treatments for transgender youths, did not violate equal protection principles.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:05 pm

How Florida’s Attempt to Let Teens Sleep Longer Fell Apart

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After lawmakers required high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m., school administrators complained that it was unworkable. Last month, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a repeal.

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:25 pm

Israel-Iran latest: Israeli minister says Khamenei ‘cannot continue to exist’ after Tehran strikes hospital

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Comments come after Soroka Hospital was damaged in southern Israel after IDF strikes a key nuclear facility in Iran

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:56 am

Bird flu devastated this duck farm — now it’s making a comeback

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Doug Corwin worries he won't be able to weather another outbreak

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:54 am

MAGA pundit throws tampon at liberal colleague after calling her ‘pretty emotional’ during fiery debate about Iran

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‘So, you seem very emotional, and I threw you a tissue just in case,’ conservative pundit Adam Sosnick says during an episode of Her Take

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:50 am

How has Iran managed to breach Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system?

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For many years, Israel’s multilayered air defence system has repelled missile attacks from Hamas and Hezbollah. Two experts explain how Iranian missiles have broken through

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:24 am

ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses

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Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:12 am

Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz’s fiery interview saw the pair come to blows over antisemitism, Iran and the Bible

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The former Fox News anchor and Texas Senator exchange bitter barbs as tensions over prospect of U.S. entering new war in Middle East spill over

Published: June 19, 2025, 10:07 am

Who could lead Iran if Ayatollah Khamenei is deposed?

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Netanyahu has openly called for the Supreme Leader to be overthrown - but Iran’s opposition remains fragmented

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:50 am

New Zealand freezes millions in aid to Cook Islands over China ties

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New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials in Wellington said Thursday

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:40 am

Elon Musk posts new drug test results and insists reporters should do the same

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‘Now let’s see their drug test results. They will fail,’ Musk said, demanding that New York Times reporters get tested

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:39 am

Cradock Four: South Africa opens new inquiry into apartheid-era torture and killings

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Four Black men abducted, tortured and killed 40 years ago this month by apartheid-era security forces in South Africa

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:39 am

New Zealand approves use of ‘magic mushrooms’ to treat depression but only one psychiatrist is allowed to prescribe it

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New Zealand approves restricted medicinal use of psilocybin, a hallucinogen found in ‘magic mushrooms’ for patients with treatment-resistant depression

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:38 am

‘My son went to get flour. He came back in a coffin’: As the world focuses on Iran Palestinians are being shot dead seeking aid

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While the world has its attention fixed on a regional war, desperate Palestinians are being killed by the dozen as they seek food at controversial American-run aid sites in Gaza, write Bel Trew and Richard Hall

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:21 am

Putin sends warning to Germany over Ukraine supplies: ‘Serious damage’

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Vladimir Putin has warned Germany against supplying Ukraine with missiles, stating that it would do “serious damage” to the two nations’ relationship.

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:18 am

America set to open Texas ‘fly factory’ in bid to breed millions of insects

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The plan is to breed millions of the insects near the border with Mexico

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:14 am

Singapore Airlines flight diverted after business class passenger with severe shellfish allergy served shrimp

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Exclusive: New York City pediatrician Doreen Benary was rushed to the hospital following an emergency landing in Paris

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:14 am

Israel-Iran conflict: A timeline of how the attacks unfolded

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The IDF launched ‘Operation Rising Lion’ on Friday with the largest attack on Iran since the 1980s Iraq war

Published: June 19, 2025, 9:07 am

Millions brace for powerful ‘heat dome’ set to engulf much of America

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Denver could reach 100°F (38°C), according to the weather service

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:58 am

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin claims he will meet Zelensky after Kyiv accuses him of rejecting ceasefire for 100 days

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Putin has claimed he is open to meeting Zelensky to discuss peace – while at the same time questioning his legitimacy

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:50 am

Why hypersonic missiles could change the course of the Iran-Israel conflict

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Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:48 am

Police arrest man accused of pressuring US teen to kill himself online

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The man is suspected of committing 120 crimes against eight victims, ages 11 to 15

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:44 am

Trump nominates federal judge who was nearly appointed by Biden in 2022

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Trump may face some opposition to his latest judicial pick

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:37 am

Trump approved Iran attack plans on Tuesday but then decided to hold off, report says

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President still weighing U.S. intervention in Middle East in hope Tehran will back down

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:35 am

Wild bear finally has plastic lid removed from neck after two years

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A Michigan bear is feeling much, much better

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:13 am

Buried in a mountain and fortified against bombs: Inside Iran’s secret Fordow nuclear site out of Israel’s reach

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When Barack Obama revealed the existence of Iran’s nuclear facility in 2009, he said its size and capacity were ‘inconsistent with a peaceful programme’

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:13 am

Police find body of retired detective in ‘mountains of garbage’ months after she was reported missing

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Police said conditions in the home set off a rural road in the woods were among the worst they've seen

Published: June 19, 2025, 8:01 am

Warning over popular chicken fettuccine Alfredo meal linked to deadly listeria outbreak

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An outbreak has claimed three lives and resulted in one pregnancy loss

Published: June 19, 2025, 7:49 am

Ace Hardware employee files million-dollar suit after alleging manager hung a noose in warehouse on Juneteenth

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Devondrick Hartsfield said his manager ‘was like, 'It's a joke, Juan left his backpack,'’ when he was shown the offensive display in June 2023

Published: June 19, 2025, 7:30 am

What is Juneteenth and why is it a holiday?

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Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

Published: June 19, 2025, 7:14 am

Groundbreaking twice-a-year HIV drug that could stop transmission approved

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It's unclear how many people in the US and abroad will get access to the powerful new HIV prevention medication

Published: June 19, 2025, 6:49 am

Hurricane Erick strengthens to ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 4 as it approaches Mexico

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Erick could become the most intense hurricane to make landfall along Mexico’s Pacific coast this early in the season

Published: June 19, 2025, 6:43 am

Life inside Iran: How war reduced bustling Tehran to a desert of empty streets and boarded-up shops

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Ordinary Iranians are now caught in a war they neither chose nor are prepared for, reports Sayeh Rahimy

Published: June 19, 2025, 5:25 am

Bunker buster bombs: The American weapon which could spell the end of Iran’s nuclear sites

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Experts believe only Washington has the weapons capable of halting Iran’s nuclear programme

Published: June 19, 2025, 5:23 am

Why two of the world’s most powerful spy agencies disagree on Iran’s nuclear capabilities

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Donald Trump has publicly disputed analysis by his own intelligence officials that suggests an Iranian nuclear weapon may be years away

Published: June 18, 2025, 12:20 pm

The Latest: Israel attacks Arak heavy water reactor, Iranian state TV says

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Iranian state television says Israel has attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:44 am

Technician awarded $75m in lawsuit after losing fingers in explosion while making HVAC repairs at a Kroger

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Brian Mierendorf, 37, suffered the injuries while trying to protect customers from toxic chemicals at Michigan store

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:39 am

‘I may do it, I may not’: Donald Trump taunts Iran over airstrikes as Starmer holds Cobra meeting

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Thousands flee Tehran as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei insists Iran won’t surrender to White House pressure

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:37 pm

Voice of America and Radio Farda's Persian services cover Israel-Iran conflict despite cutbacks

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Despite the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle or sharply cut back on U.S. government-run news outlets like Voice of America, two Persian-language services have been called into duty to report on Israel's war with Iran to Iranian audiences

Published: June 19, 2025, 4:11 am

Waymo wants to bring self-driving cars to New York City but with one big difference

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Elon Musk’s Tesla is set to launch its own robotaxi service in Austin as Waymo brings its self-driving cars to Manhattan

Published: June 19, 2025, 3:54 am

Here’s what to know about the twice-yearly preventative HIV shot

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A twice-yearly drug called lenacapavir is now the longest-lasting type of PrEP

Published: June 19, 2025, 3:47 am

Here’s how to help moms lighten mental load from household tasks

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Mothers take on 71 percent of the mental workload that comes with running a household, study shows

Published: June 19, 2025, 2:12 am

LA archbishop slams Trump’s ‘cruel and arbitrary’ immigration agenda

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Archbishop José Gomez accused the administration of having ‘no immigration policy beyond the stated goal of deporting thousands of people each day’

Published: June 19, 2025, 1:04 am

These are the best cities to live in the U.S.

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Honolulu was found to be the best city to live in the U.S. for the second year in a row

Published: June 19, 2025, 1:01 am

Officials recover $225 million in crypto stolen from Americans through scam targeting hundreds

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Prosecutors say this marks the ‘largest ever seizure of funds’ related to cryptocurrency investment scams

Published: June 19, 2025, 12:42 am

Georgia university employee accused of dumping woman’s body in park and throwing her belonging away when he went to work

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Steven Simmons, 57, was charged with concealing the death of another and tampering with evidence and released on a $17,500 bond

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:51 pm

DHS to limit lawmaker access to ICE facilities after confrontations with Democrats

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New rules come as Democrats have pushed to inspect immigration facilities amid Trump administration deportation push

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:39 pm

Trump says ‘nobody knows what I’m going to do’ about Iran as he warns ‘the next week will be big’

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The president’s comments come as the U.S. embassy urgently encourages Americans in Israel to evacuate

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:23 pm

Nike delays Skims launch with Kim Kardashian indefinitely

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The new fitness brand was announced in February and is expected to include training apparel, footwear and accessories

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:09 pm

California preps for intense fire season – as Trump slashes federal aid

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Trump has requested a 63% reduction in the U.S. Forest Service’s budget

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:07 pm

Break-in reported at home of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman

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A window in the late Minnesota lawmaker’s home had been broken overnight, police said Wednesday

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:05 pm

Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders ticketed after police say he drove 101 mph in Cleveland suburb

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Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders is accused of driving a pickup truck 101 mph (163 kilometers per hour) on a suburban Cleveland interstate earlier this week

Published: June 18, 2025, 11:05 pm

Trump clings to friendly Fox News as Tucker Carlson and the podcast ‘manosphere’ sour on his Iran saber rattling

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New media figures like Joe Rogan and Theo Von are increasingly backing away from Trump as he plots war with Iran. They’re driving him back into the arms of Fox News, writes John Bowden

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:56 pm

The Latest: US says foreign students seeking visas must unlock social media accounts

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The U.S. State Department says it is restarting the process for foreigners to apply for student visas but says all applicants must have their social media accounts set to ‘public’ to allow review by officials

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:44 pm

The shadow war raging in DC over Iran pits Donald Trump vs. Tulsi Gabbard: ‘They’re kind of winging it any given hour’

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Republicans overwhelmingly get behind Trump instead of Gabbard

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:41 pm

Starmer considers whether to support US if Trump joins Israel’s war on Iran

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Labour prime minister chaired emergency ‘Cobra’ meeting amid fears over escalating situation in the Middle East

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:25 pm

Bryan Kohberger judge tells both sides to prepare for trial despite defense request to delay

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Judge Hippler said he would consider the arguments and make a decision in a written order

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:18 pm

Police chief who helped arrest Minnesota shooting suspect describes moment they caught him: ‘We had made his world so small’

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Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said finding the shooter was ‘personal’ as Representative Melissa Hortman was his friend

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:16 pm

Eurostar passengers see dozens of train services cancelled or delayed

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‘Ventilation cut off, no communication, it’s getting hotter,’ one customer says

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:09 pm

Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come

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A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the Earth will be pretty much locked into hitting the internationally agreed upon preferred limit for global warming

Published: June 18, 2025, 10:04 pm

Trump administration orders LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline to close within a month

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The 988 crisis line connects thousands of young LGBT+ people to counseling every month

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:55 pm

Karen Read cleared of murdering her Boston cop boyfriend sparking wild cheering outside court

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‘No one has fought harder for justice for John O’Keefe than I have, and my team,’ Read said outside the courthouse on Wednesday

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:40 pm

Teenager arrested for vandalizing San Francisco’s massive Pink Triangle, symbol of LGBT rights

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This is the 30th year the Pink Triangle has gone on display

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:31 pm

Tucker Carlson rages at ‘sleazy feline’ Ted Cruz for implying he’s an antisemite: ‘Shame on you!’

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‘It’s interesting that you’re trying to derail my questions by calling me an antisemite, which you are,’ Tucker Carlson fumed at Ted Cruz during contentious interview

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:31 pm

Archaeologists unearth historic remains of American schoolhouse for Black children

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The Williamsburg Bray School taught hundreds of mostly enslaved students in the 1760s

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:28 pm

Obama warns America is ‘dangerously close’ to moving away from democracy

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Former president says ‘I’m still optimistic – I’m still the ‘hope’ guy,’ even as he warns US is slipping towards autocracy

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:26 pm

Cancer patient travels 300 miles to have 15 pound tumor removed after doctors at home refuse to operate: ‘Worse than being pregnant’

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A graphic photo of a 15-pound tumor was taken after it was removed from a 50-year-old woman’s stomach

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:22 pm

ICE takes custody of Spanish-language journalist arrested at Georgia protest

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Immigration officers have taken custody of a Spanish-language journalist arrested on obstruction and unlawful assembly charges while covering a weekend protest outside Atlanta

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:22 pm

Social Security fund set to run out in 2034, one year earlier than estimated

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The average retired worker could see their monthly payments drop by more than $300 after the funds go dry

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:16 pm

Just-launched Trump Mobile mocked over ‘Gulf of Mexico’ coverage map gaffe: ‘Priceless’

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Eagle-eyed social media users were quick to mock the smartphone brand’s coverage map, which featured the Gulf of Mexico.

Published: June 18, 2025, 9:09 pm

Utah college student arrested and faces deportation after information is shared in Signal group chat with ICE agents

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Information from a routine traffic stop was shared by an officer in a group chat that included immigration enforcement agents

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:58 pm

Cancer-causing asbestos has been regulated for decades and removed from buildings. Trump could allow one form to return

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Exposure to any type of asbestos is known to cause cancer and it is linked to tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:41 pm

Meet General ‘Gorilla’: Iran hawk has become Hegseth’s go-to adviser as US involvement in Middle East crisis intensifies

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‘He’s got the look of the general that both Hegseth and Trump are looking for,’ one former official said

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:28 pm

Kristi Noem is released after being rushed to the hospital with an allergic reaction

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The Homeland Security secretary was rushed to a Washington D.C. hospital on Tuesday

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:15 pm

An Oklahoma toddler fights for her life after contracting multiple strains of E. coli after swimming at Keystone Lake

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A summer boating trip turned into a ‘nightmare’ after toddler contracted three strains of E.coli

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:07 pm

‘I’ve lost hope of overturning Uganda’s brutal anti-LGBT+ law thanks to Trump’s aid cuts’

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Without US funding as leverage, one of Uganda’s most prominent LGBT+ activists Steven Kabuye tells Rachel Schraer, there are few ways to push the country towards change

Published: June 18, 2025, 8:06 pm

Man arrested after 15-year-old girl who was missing for a year is found in his apartment

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A 15-year-old girl who went missing last year from Reading, Pennsylvania, was found in High Point, North Carolina.

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:55 pm

Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza in 24 hours as world focus shifts to Iran

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‘Starving people being killed or injured while seeking life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable’ says World Food Programme

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:47 pm

87-year-old’s five-word response to being arrested at Trump protest

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Air Force veteran John Spitzberg likened president’s actions to a ‘betrayal’

Published: June 18, 2025, 7:01 pm

Hegseth says renaming military bases after Civil War soldiers who fought for slavery is ‘important for morale’

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Defense secretary claims veterans and active-duty troops are thankful the previous names are returning to bases formerly named after confederate generals and officers

Published: June 18, 2025, 6:59 pm

Trump snipes at ‘fake news’ CNN for asking about MAGA backlash to Iran, says his ‘supporters are more in love’ with him now

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‘Do you ever ask a positive question at CNN?’ Donald Trump whined to a CNN reporter on Wednesday

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:56 pm

Supreme Court opens door for ‘untold harm’ by upholding ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth, liberal justices warn

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Conservative justices have caused ‘irrevocable damage’ to the 14th Amendment, Sonia Sotomayor writes

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:37 pm

Over $1m worth of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles stolen from semi-truck in Colorado

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A thief pinched 2,810 of the video game consoles, which retail for about $500 a piece

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:31 pm

‘Ninja’ Scott Bessent says Elon Musk fancies himself as ‘a viking’ as he tries to downplay their feud

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Treasury secretary and former head of DOGE clashed in West Wing in April within earshot of Donald Trump in Oval Office

Published: June 18, 2025, 5:13 pm

Nudist resort resident accused of beating elderly neighbors to death with rake and hammer had ‘snapped’ over hot dog, prosecutors say

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The dismembered remains of Daniel Menard, 79, and Stephanie Menard, 73, were discovered buried beneath Michael Royce Sparks’s home

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:47 pm

New ‘dictator approved’ sculpture of smashed Statue of Liberty arrives in DC - but nobody knows who is behind it

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The sculpture boasts quotes from other dictators praising Trump

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:43 pm

Tariffs are already making your health insurance costs go up

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Health insurance research professor says there is a ‘perfect storm of factors’ driving prices up

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:32 pm

Aid minister says situation in Gaza is so dire that she ‘would loot too’

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The international aid minister has said the situation in Gaza is so dire that she “would loot too” if she was there.

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:23 pm

Ready-to-eat meals sold at Kroger and Walmart recalled after three deaths from listeria

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The outbreak caused three deaths, as well as one fetal loss, and injured 17 people, health officials said.

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:22 pm

Questions raised over Lauren Boebert’s financial disclosure filing - which includes no financial disclosures

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The firebrand Republican congresswoman’s filing contained no assets, no income from her book, no bank accounts, and no mortgage on a home

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:13 pm

Cops were searching for missing people. Inside a home, they found remains stored in jars

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‘It’s something like out of a horror movie. Very horrific,’ Florence County Sheriff TJ Joye said

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:04 pm

‘My mission is to make him so angry:’ E Jean Carroll reveals plans for her $83m judgement against the president

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E. Jean Carroll has pledged to use her multimillion-dollar windfall to support causes opposed by Donald Trump

Published: June 18, 2025, 4:03 pm

Trump calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell ‘a stupid person’ ahead of key interest rate decision

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The president also joked about whether he can appoint himself to head the Fed

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:56 pm

GOP lawmaker torches Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz on Iran conflict: ‘I call them war pimps’

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‘You know, Lindsey Graham‘s a friend of mine. Ted Cruz is a friend of mine,’ Tim Burchett said. ‘Look, I got a daughter who just turned 18 last week on the same day as the president did… and I don‘t want to see her go to war.’

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:44 pm

Experts warn that Iran could target power and water systems for cyberattacks if US gets involved in Middle East

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As the conflict between Israel and Iran evolves, leaders in the critical infrastructure realm remain on high alert.

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:28 pm

Mike Lynch’s tragic superyacht to be finally raised from Sicily seabed this weekend

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The mast has been left on the seabed for future retrieval

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:28 pm

Trump draws Pentagon into Bush-era Groundhog Day over Iran as he shuns intelligence to justify war

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ANALYSIS: Donald Trump rose to power criticizing Bush-era politicians for lying about weapons of mass destruction. Now he is accused of doing the same, Richard Hall writes.

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:02 pm

Texas spent $3 billion to build 65 miles of border wall. The state has now stopped the failed project

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Only eight percent of the 805 miles that the state has identified for construction are finished

Published: June 18, 2025, 3:00 pm

Chicago hospital evacuated over ‘catastrophic’ loss of air conditioning causing ‘oven-like’ conditions

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Weiss Memorial Hospital said its aging air conditioning system caused a “catastrophic” loss that left patients stuck in warm rooms before they evacuated.

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:12 pm

Far-right flag used by Jan 6 rioters flown above government agency in DC

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A picture of the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag, flying just below the U.S. flag was shared by Kelly Loeffler, the former senator from Georgia and current administrator of the Small Business Administration

Published: June 18, 2025, 2:08 pm

Diddy trial recap: ‘Drug mule’ Brendan Paul expected to testify after jury shown more ‘freak off’ footage

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Jurors were shown more texts and video concerning defendant’s relationship with Cassie Ventura on Tuesday

Published: June 18, 2025, 1:57 pm

A Spree change: from Berlin to Oslo, Europe’s urban swimmers take the plunge

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Parts of the Seine are opening to bathers and Berliners are pushing authorities to permit river dips, while other hotspots continue to delight city dwellers

The last time there was full-scale river swimming in Berlin’s city centre, before access was outlawed a century ago, there were probably fewer inflatable unicorns and fluorescent pool noodles.

But this week, a “Dip-Dip-Hurrah” demonstration to push for the lifting of the roaring 20s-era ban saw about 300 people, many with colourful swimming caps and assorted flotation devices, bob down the Spree river as the golden-hour sun bathed the old Prussian monuments of the historic Mitte district in a warm light.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 4:00 am

You be the judge: should my colleague stop bringing cakes into the office?

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Amina says the constant influx of baked goods is too much. Ruby says she’s just trying to bring joy to the workplace. You decide who should bake off

Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror

I’m not saying we should have no cakes ever, I just think we should stop assuming cake is always welcome

Bringing cakes in shows we care and adds a little joy to the office. I’m not force-feeding anyone

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Published: June 19, 2025, 7:00 am

Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe

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Many in Kassel have embraced the animal but the EU classes it as an invasive species and ecologists are divided about what to do next

In Kassel, everyone has a story about raccoons. Some struggle with a family of them that moved into their roof and simply will not leave. Others recount how a picnic in the park turned into an ambush as gangs of the black and white animals, known in Germany as Waschbären, raided the food. Almost everyone seems to have a neighbour who feeds them, to the annoyance of the entire street.

“We are the raccoon city. They are everywhere,” says Lars, a Kassel resident, as he tends his allotment by Karlsaue park in the fading light.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 4:00 am

New York City might elect a truly progressive mayor – thanks to ranked-choice voting | Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Mamdani’s campaign deserves credit for offering a clear, inspiring, progressive message. But ranked-choice voting is also helping make him competitive

With a week left until New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, one might have thought that the former governor Andrew Cuomo would be measuring the drapes at Gracie Mansion. Real estate developers, corporations like Doordash, a smattering of billionaires and even Billy Joel have shoveled cash into his campaign, with his Super Pac spending more money than any other outside force in the city’s political history. This is on top of his entering the race with major name recognition advantage, amounting to a 20- or 30-point lead as recently as May.

But according to a new poll, Zohran Mamdani – the insurgent state assemblyman and democratic socialist whom the Nation recently co-endorsed along with fellow mayoral candidate and New York City comptroller Brad Lander – has pulled ahead of Cuomo for the first time.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of the Nation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a contributor to the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times

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Published: June 18, 2025, 1:21 pm

‘Making sure everyone can see the plays’: can Hugh Jackman make theater less elitist?

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Together with Sonia Friedman and Ian Rickson, the Hollywood star has helped to create a new initiative aiming to provide high-quality theater for a low price

One night last month in the West Village, I had the pleasure of being nervous for Hugh Jackman. On stage at the Minetta Lane Theatre, the 56-year-old movie star and Broadway veteran appeared startlingly undefended and vulnerable. In character as a middle-aged university professor infatuated with his 19-year-old pupil, Jackman addressed the audience for a play called Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes with the lights up, as if helming a lecture full of shy students put on the spot; when one viewer sneezed during Jackman’s monologue, he paused to say bless you.

I fretted a few rows from Wolverine, more aware of my fellow audience members’ faces and cellphones than I’ve ever been at a New York show and acutely attuned to the fact that this all could go awry at any moment. Theater is always a contract between audience and performer, but years attending big Broadway shows have inured me to its fragility. At the Minetta, with just the commanding presence of Jackman and the lit audience at his feet, that contract felt thrillingly, temporarily exposed.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 5:12 pm

Crashing out: how gen Z adopted the perfect term for our unstable era

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Overwhelmed by stress and social media, young people are finding new language to describe the inevitable irritation and anger that ensue ...

Name: Crashing out.

Age: Psychologically ancient, lexically new.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 3:42 pm

Israel-Iran conflict live: Israeli minister says Khamenei ‘can no longer be allowed to exist’ after hospital strike

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Defence minister Israel Katz says Iran’s supreme leader ‘personally gives the order to fire on hospitals’

The leader of Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service has said that a directive had been issued to reduce the number of people on the floor that was hit at Soroko hospital in Beersheba, according to the Haaretz newspaper.

He added that there had been no hazardous materials incident at the hospital and that for now Magen David Adom was transferring patients to other hospitals in southern Israel instead of Soroka.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:06 am

An implosion, a collapse or a transition: what would regime change in Iran look like?

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Some western leaders have welcomed the idea of the toppling of Iran’s supreme leader, but no planning has been made for the aftermath if it happens

At the G7 in Canada, differences within Europe about the wisdom of regime change in Iran could not have been more stark.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned against toppling a government “when you have no idea what comes next”. Insisting that he had no time for the Iranian government, Macron argued that it was for the people of Iran to choose their rulers.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 3:00 am

Israel’s assumption US would get drawn into Iran war is being put to the test

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Donald Trump initially appeared to discourage attacks but Israeli officials claim they always had his support

Along the Ayalon highway, in the centre of Tel Aviv, two huge illuminated signs have appeared, portraying Donald Trump against a billowing stars-and-stripes backdrop and bearing the blunt appeal: “Mr President, finish the job!”

Israel’s attack on Iran may have been carried out with Trump’s approval, as government officials in Israel claim, but it appears to have been unleashed only in the expectation – rather than any certainty – that the US will ultimately be drawn into the war.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 5:38 pm

Iranian opposition supporters grapple with US and Israeli regime change plans

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‘We want freedom on our own terms,’ says one Tehran resident, while another writes, ‘Someone is helping us’

Despite a substantial internet blackout, news spread quickly in Iran on Tuesday night: the US was considering joining Israel in its war on Iran.

The US president, Donald Trump, wrote on Truth Social: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now … Our patience is wearing thin.” Three minutes later, in a second post, he added: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”

When Mehnaz*, a 24-year-old student activist in east Tehran, heard the news, she did not think of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Instead, she thought of her fellow students who were detained, shot and executed by Iranian security forces during the “woman, life, liberty” protests in 2022.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 6:08 pm

Iranian regime collapse would be serious blow for Russia

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While some in Moscow have tried to put positive spin on Israel’s assault, Kremlin risks losing key strategic partner

When a group of Russian and Iranian foreign policy officials arranged to meet in Moscow for a conference titled “Russian-Iranian cooperation in a changing world”, they probably did not anticipate just how timely that phrase would turn out to be.

Seated around a table on Wednesday at the President hotel near the Kremlin, officials from both sides were forced to confront a stark new reality: Iran’s regime – a key ally of Moscow – is facing its most serious threat in decades.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:52 pm

US supreme court upholds Tennessee ban on youth gender-affirming care

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Ruling is devastating loss for trans rights supporters in case that could set precedent for dozens of other lawsuits

A Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming care for minors can stand, the US supreme court has ruled, a devastating loss for trans rights supporters in a case that could set a precedent for dozens of other lawsuits involving the rights of transgender children.

The case, United States v Skrmetti, was filed last year by three families of trans children and a provider of gender-affirming care. In oral arguments, the plaintiffs – as well as the US government, then helmed by Joe Biden – argued that Tennessee’s law constituted sex-based discrimination and thus violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Under Tennessee’s law, someone assigned female at birth could not be prescribed testosterone, but someone assigned male at birth could receive those drugs.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 2:40 pm

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report

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False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report.

It found climate action was being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report, from the International Panel on the Information Environment (Ipie), systematically reviewed 300 studies.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:00 am

India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups

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There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guards

The Indian government has been accused of illegally deporting Indian Muslims to Bangladesh, prompting fears of an escalating campaign of persecution.

Thousands of people, largely Muslims suspected of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, have been rounded up by police across India in recent weeks, according to human rights groups, with many of them deprived of due legal process and sent over the border to neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 7:00 am

SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project

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Starship 36 was preparing for 10th test flight from Texas when it underwent ‘catastrophic failure’ while on stand

One of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starships has exploded during a routine test in Texas, authorities said, in the latest setback to the billionaire’s dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species.

The Starship 36 underwent “catastrophic failure and exploded” at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11pm on Wednesday (0400 GMT Thursday), a Facebook post by the Cameron County authorities said.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 10:24 am

New Rio de Janeiro law requires public hospitals to display anti-abortion signs

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Opponents view the controversial act as part of a growing trend across Brazil to further restrict abortion access

A new law has just come into force in Rio de Janeiro requiring all public hospitals and clinics run by the municipal government to display anti-abortion signs bearing messages such as: “Did you know that the unborn child is discarded as hospital waste?”

Reproductive rights activists view the act as the latest example of a growing trend across Brazil to further restrict access to abortion in a country that already has some of the world’s most restrictive laws.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 10:00 am

Expedition to ‘real home of the pirates of the Caribbean’ hopes to unearth ships and treasure

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Exploration of Bahamas seabed will be first time notorious New Providence hideout has been searched

The Pirates of the Caribbean is a $4.5bn swashbuckling film franchise and Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham are among marauding buccaneers who have captured imaginations over the centuries.

But almost nothing is known about the life and times of actual pirates.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 10:21 am

Putin says he would only meet Zelenskyy in ‘final phase’ of talks – Europe live

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Putin’s comments come as fighting continues and Ukraine says Russia avoiding peace talks

The Hungarian ban on the Budapest pride march comes a day after a debate on the march was held at the European parliament, with dozens of lawmakers declaring their support and solidarity.

Iratxe García Pérez, the Spanish leader of the Socialist group in the European parliament, addressed gay people in Hungary directly during the debate on Wednesday: “We see you, we hear you and on 28 June we will march with you in Budapest, side by side, proud and loud.”

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Published: June 19, 2025, 10:45 am

Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days

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Government issued permit to shoot young female who entered Vilnius, despite only small number left in Baltic country

A young female bear caused a stir after wandering out of the forest and into the leafy suburbs of the Lithuanian capital.

For two days, the brown bear ambled through the neighbourhoods of Vilnius, trotted across highways and explored backyards – all while being chased by onlookers with smartphones and, eventually, drones.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 9:26 am

Juneteenth is the most widely known US emancipation celebration – but it’s not the only one

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The federal holiday recognizes when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas found out they were free. But New York, Ohio, Mississippi and Florida have their own freedom days

In 2021, when President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, it was the first many people in the country had heard of the centuries-old tradition – a 2021 Gallup poll found that 34% of Americans knew “a little” about Juneteenth, while 28% knew nothing at all about it.

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in some Confederate states. Union soldiers, including some Black soldiers who themselves were formerly enslaved, traveled around the south to announce the order.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:00 am

US free-speech rights shredded despite Trump vow to be first-amendment champion

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Experts say free speech under attack in ways not seen since Nixon – and critics of president’s agenda are being targeted

A cornerstone of the Maga movement during the Biden administration was to accuse a mixture of the so-called “woke left” and the justice department of forcing America into the grips of a free speech crisis.

Common complaints were that nobody “can say anything any more” without being canceled or arrested for extremism. In the same breath, Maga broadly described the January 6 insurrection, which killed a police officer, as peaceful, accusing the Democrats of a communist conspiracy.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:00 am

‘He’s moving at a truly alarming speed’: Trump propels US into authoritarianism

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A senator handcuffed, people snatched in public, military deployed – Trump’s slide towards autocracy has come quicker than critics feared

It reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy.

A succession of opposition politicians, including Alex Padilla, a US senator, are handcuffed and arrested by heavy-handed law enforcement for little more than questioning authority or voicing dissent.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 8:00 am

Trump’s saber-rattling over Iran threatens to split his Maga base

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America-first backers such as Steve Bannon urge restraint, while Republican hawks push for intervention

The prospect of the US joining Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear program risks splitting Donald Trump’s support base asunder, amid sharp divisions on military intervention between the president’s most avid America-first acolytes and traditional Republican foreign policy hawks.

Some leading figures in Trump’s “make America great again” (Maga) movement have warned that such a move would amount to a betrayal of past promises to avoid US involvement in long-running overseas wars and could even destroy his presidency.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 6:49 pm

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

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Diplomats to look for ‘indications of hostility towards citizens, culture or founding principles of United States’

Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced. Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding that activity from US officials.

The new guidance, unveiled by the state department on Wednesday, directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence review to look for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States”.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 8:36 pm

Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination

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When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future

If Agneta Bruno closes her eyes, the soapy smell takes her back to childhood. Cycling home to the barracks where she lived with her father, an air force major, she would whiz through patches of snowy-white foam near the entrance of the base. The foam resembled the bubbles you get in the bathtub, just thicker. “I had to lift my feet up to avoid getting wet,” Bruno told me.

Aqueous film-forming foam (Afff) is a miracle of firefighting: it’s highly effective in putting out flammable liquid fires, such as those caused by jet fuel spills. Chemicals in the foam create a stable blanket over liquid fuel, trapping the flammable vapours and extinguishing the fire. At the air force base in Bruno’s home town of Kallinge in Sweden, firefighters were trained to douse flames using the foam. New recruits came every few weeks, so the training sessions were pretty constant. Afterwards, the foam would soak away into the sandy soil and disappear.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 4:00 am

‘Abducted by Ice’: the haunting missing-person posters plastered across LA

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The handmade posters of immigrants have become a symbol of quiet resistance. Their creators reveal the story behind the project

“Missing son.” “Missing father.” “Missing grandmother.”

The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around Los Angeles. At first glance, they appear to be from worried relatives seeking help from neighbors.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 7:04 pm

The US is woefully underprepared for wildfire season, say insiders: ‘The stakes are life and death’

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‘Efficiency’ cuts across offices have left teams understaffed, firefighters underpaid and uninsured, and without adequate equipment

Summer temperatures are rising and the US is bracing for another hot, dry and hectic wildfire season. But with the promise of extreme conditions in the months to come, federal fire crews are also growing concerned that a series of changes brought on by the Trump administration have left them underprepared.

Severe cuts to budgets and staff have hamstrung the agencies that manage roughly 640m acres of the nation’s public lands, leaving significant gaps in a workforce that supports wildfire mitigation and suppression. The administration’s crackdown on climate science and the dismantling of departments that provided world-class research and weather forecasting, may also undermine early warning systems, slowing response and strategic planning.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:00 am

One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village

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Since 1999, Armando López Pocol and his team of volunteers have bucked the trend for deforestation, regenerating the landscape of the highlands with their Chico Mendes project

Armando López Pocol is showing off some of the thousands of trees he has planted in Pachaj, his village in the highlands of western Guatemala, when he suddenly halts his white pickup truck. Alongside an American volunteer, Lyndon Hauge, he gazes out over a charred field. Clouds of smoke are still billowing from the ground.

As he walks through the ash-covered field, his optimistic speech turns to sadness and he pauses in silence to take in the barren landscape.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 9:00 am

Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?

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Depending on who you ask, between four and six million people showed up – and according to one theory, this could be a turning point

The scale of last weekend’s “No Kings” protests is now becoming clearer, with one estimate suggesting that Saturday was among the biggest ever single-day protests in US history.

Working out exactly where the protest ranks compared to similar recent events has been a project of G Elliott Morris, a data journalist who runs the Substack Strength in Numbers, calculated turnout between four million and six million, which would be 1.2-1.8% of the US population. This could exceed the previous record in recent history, when between 3.3 million and 5.6 million people showed up at the 2017 Women’s March to rally against Trump’s misogynistic rhetoric.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:00 am

‘This isn’t a gimmick’: the New Yorkers trying to restore the American chestnut

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More than 120 years after billions of the trees were wiped out, blight-proof seeds are being planted

It was in New York City that a mysterious fungus was first spotted on an American chestnut, a blight that was to rapidly sweep across the eastern US, wiping out billions of the cherished trees. Now, 120 years later, there is fresh hope of a comeback for chestnuts, spurred not only by scientists but also eager New Yorkers planting blight-proof seeds in their back yards and local parks.

The American chestnut was once found in vast numbers from Maine to Mississippi and known as the redwoods of the east due to its prodigious size. But 4bn trees were killed off in the first half of last century by a blight introduced from Asia to which it had little defense, spread by spores carried by the wind, rain and animals.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 10:00 am

‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

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The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to space

Hideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.

Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Australian even lent his appearance to a major character in Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding 2.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:00 am

How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast review – Erica Jong’s daughter on the worst year of her life

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In this frank, exposing memoir, Jong-Fast reflects on her dysfunctional upbringing as her family falls apart

In 2023, Molly Jong-Fast had the year from hell. Her husband, Matt, discovered he had pancreatic cancer; her father-in-law, aunt and stepfather all died; and her then 81-year-old mother, the novelist and poet Erica Jong, was diagnosed with dementia. “My mother is just a body now,” she states in How to Lose Your Mother. “Erica Jong the person has left the planet.”

That year also marked the 50th anniversary of Fear of Flying, Jong’s autobiographical novel. Hailed as a landmark of feminist literature, it made a star of its author, selling more than 20m copies and leading to appearances on The Tonight Show and the cover of Newsweek. The book coined the phrase “the zipless fuck” to describe casual sex. “Now think about being the offspring of the person who wrote that sentence. And pour one out for me,” writes Jong-Fast.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 6:00 am

Garmin Forerunner 970 review: the new benchmark for running watches

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Premium sports tracker adds built-in torch, smartwatch and accuracy upgrades, plus useful new training tools, but costs far more than rivals

Garmin’s new top running watch, the Forerunner 970, has very big shoes to fill as it attempts to replace one of the best training and race companions available. Can a built-in torch, a software revamp and voice control really make a difference?

The new top-of-the-line Forerunner takes the body of the outgoing Forerunner 965 and squeezes in a much brighter display, useful new running analytics and more of the advanced tech from Garmin’s flagship adventure watch the Fenix 8.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 6:00 am

The US supreme court just undermined gender equality | Moira Donegan

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The Skrmetti decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on transition-related healthcare for minors deprives children and batters the 14th amendment

By now, it is a ritual: every June, Americans endure several weeks of agonizing suspense, as we wait to hear how the supreme court will erode our freedoms, attack our dignity, undermine self-government and empower those who enrich themselves at our expense. The court, controlled by career politicians in robes who were hand-selected for their loyalty to the rightwing and their willingness to be wildly intellectually dishonest in pursuit of Republican policy objectives, has ended the right to abortion, desiccated the Voting Rights Act, made state gun regulations nearly impossible and declared the president functionally immune to criminal law. Many of us waited, with a mixture and terror and disgust, to see what cruelties the court would deliver for us in 2025.

The justices decided to start by attacking vulnerable children. In a 6-3 split, the court’s conservatives ruled on Wednesday that Tennessee’s law banning transition-related healthcare for minors can remain in effect. The law prohibits hormone therapies and surgeries only for their use in treating gender dysphoria; cisgender minors retain access to these drugs. The statute is on its face sex-specific and designed to mandate certain forms of gender conformity: the care that it bans, it bans on the basis of a patient’s sex. This is in straightforward violation of the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause, which has long been interpreted to ban facially sex-discriminatory laws and those that encourage sex-role stereotyping. The court decided to ignore this precedent and the plain intent of Tennessee’s statute, and in the process it both imposed a cruel and needless deprivation on trans children and their families, and also substantially weakened constitutional guarantees of equal protection of the sexes.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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Published: June 19, 2025, 10:00 am

Easy regime change in Tehran is a nice idea. But look to history: it’s a near-impossible one | Martin Kettle

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No one doubts the malignity of the Iranian government, but if we forget the tragedies of interventions past, we’ll make the same mistakes

On the eve of the 1991 Gulf war, a TV reporter asked the US commander Norman Schwarzkopf if he would topple Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. Stormin’ Norman replied with a memorable succinctness: “Easy say. Hard do.”

Schwarzkopf knew what he was talking about. The general was a lifelong student of the Middle East region – he spent some of his childhood years in Tehran – and of military history. Indeed his successful ground-war strategy for Saddam’s defeat in Kuwait was consciously modelled on the flanking tactics used to such devastating effect by the Carthaginian commander Hannibal to defeat the Romans at Cannae in 216BC.

Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist

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Published: June 19, 2025, 5:00 am

Europe must stand without the US – but the latest war in the Middle East shows it has no idea how | Nathalie Tocci

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If Europe was not so in hock to Washington, it would sanction Israel over Gaza and condemn its unilateral attack on Iran

The rupture in the transatlantic relationship has left European leaders struggling to know how to think, let alone act, with any autonomy. Europe most urgently needs a mind of its own on the Middle East.

Tragically, EU governments were just beginning to turn the page after a year and a half of complicity with the Israeli government’s war crimes in Gaza. Donald Trump’s obscene plans for a Gaza “riviera” and “humanitarian” initiatives that breach humanitarian principles were creating distance with the US, and European governments were starting to craft their own course.

Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnist

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Published: June 19, 2025, 4:00 am

The anti-Trump camp was in disarray. How has No Kings managed to unite it? | Emma Brockes

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A new slogan has offered a non-partisan rallying point – and last weekend, protests overshadowed the president’s weird military parade

Two months ago, around the US, mass demonstrations against Donald Trump were organised in what felt like the beginning of the great unfreezing of the popular movement. Since the inauguration in January there have been plenty of ad-hoc anti-Trump protests, but compared to the huge numbers that turned out in 2017 – half a million at the Women’s March in Washington DC alone – the response has been muted. What was the point? The threat was so large, and the failure of the first movement apparently so great, that Americans have been suffering from what appeared to be a case of embarrassed paralysis: a sense, at once sheepish and depressed, that pink hats weren’t moving the needle on this one.

It looks as if that thinking has changed. On Saturday, in a follow-up to the protests in April, more than 2,000 coordinated marches took place in the US, organised by multiple groups under the umbrella No Kings Day and attended by numbers that at a glance seem startling. While in the capital on Saturday, Trump oversaw his weird, sparsely attended Kim Jong-un style military parade, an estimated 5 million people country-wide took to the streets to protest peacefully against him, including an estimated 80,000 in Philadelphia, 75,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix, and 7,000 in Honolulu. More heartening still were the numbers from deep red states, such as the 2,000 odd protesters who gathered in Mobile, Alabama, and a reported 4,000 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist

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Published: June 19, 2025, 7:00 am

Will the new Middle East crisis rock the world economy? The markets say no – but I fear they’re wrong | Larry Elliott

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The oil shocks of the 1970s-90s had brutal economic impacts. As Israel attacks Iran, a moderate rise in oil prices rests on questionable assumptions

Financial markets picked up the clear message when Donald Trump cut short his stay at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies this week. Despite calls from fellow western leaders to de-escalate the crisis, the president’s early return to the White House was taken as a sign that the US is considering joining Israel in its military action against Iran. Trump says he wants Iran’s unconditional surrender.

This is where modern summitry came in half a century ago. In 1975, the first meeting of what eventually became the G7 was convened at Rambouillet in France in an attempt to work out a joint response to the oil shock that accompanied the Yom Kippur war between Israel and its neighbours.

Larry Elliott is a Guardian columnist

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:56 pm

The Guardian view on Israel, the US and Iran: you can’t bomb your way out of nuclear proliferation | Editorial

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The age of disarmament is over. But military action only increases the dangers instead of ending the threat

Eighty years after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 40 years after the US and Soviet Union pledged to reduce their arsenals, the threat of nuclear war has resurged with a vengeance. The age of disarmament is over, a prominent thinktank warned this week: “We see a clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, sharpened nuclear rhetoric and the abandonment of arms control agreements,” said Hans M Kristensen of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

The world’s nine nuclear-armed states have amassed the equivalent of 145,000 Hiroshima bombs. Israel’s illegal attack upon Iran is purportedly a last-ditch attempt to prevent it joining this club – as Israel did long ago, though does not admit it. While Tehran possesses the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon if it chose to, US intelligence believes it has not made that decision – and would still need up to three years to build and deploy one. Israel does not appear to be striking Iran because US nuclear diplomacy has failed, but because it fears it might succeed. Many of its targets are unrelated to the nuclear programme, and some even to Iran’s military. Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly invoked regime change: more honestly, regime collapse.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 6:04 pm

Alexander-Arnold feels heat on Real Madrid debut as Al-Hilal make Club World Cup point

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  • Gp H: Real Madrid 1-1 Al-Hilal (G García 34; Neves 41pen)

  • Federico Valverde’s 92nd-minute penalty saved

Xabi Alonso said in the buildup he was going to “ignite” his players at this Club World Cup, that Real Madrid were ready to rock’n’roll. In the event this was something more downbeat in Miami, 90 minutes of pub-rock, at times even a meandering shoe-gaze as a well-drilled Al-Hilal kept the new-era Madrid at arm’s length.

Madrid had a chance to win it at the death, but Federico Valverde missed a dubiously awarded 92nd-minute penalty. A 1-1 draw felt fair at the end of a Group H opener that flickered but never caught fire.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 9:29 pm

Expect to see Premier League teams going longer more often next season

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Playing out from the back works for top teams but sides at the bottom are giving away too many chances

By Opta Analyst

Long-ball football has, for better or worse, been on the decline for years. Football was once a kick-and-run game, shaped by long balls and the thinking that getting the ball close to the opposition’s goal as quickly as possible increased the chances of scoring, well, more quickly.

That was swiftly disproved and left further and further in the rear-view mirror as the game sped off into the Premier League era and further still in the Pep Guardiola-inspired 2010s. As the technical standard of players increased, the ball was kept on the floor more and more. The laws of the game have even been changed to allow teams to play passes so short from goal-kicks that they do not even leave the penalty area.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 7:00 am

Lakers to be sold to Dodgers owner at $10bn valuation, per reports

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  • Buss family sells team after 45-year tenure

  • New owner Mark Walter also owns WNBA’s Sparks

The Buss family is entering an agreement to sell a majority stake in the Los Angeles Lakers at a $10bn valuation, ESPN reported on Wednesday, marking the end of an era for one of the NBA’s most influential families.

Mark Walter, the CEO and chair of holding company TWG Global, is set to take the majority ownership under the agreement, ESPN’s NBA insider Shams Charania said in a post on X. Walter was already a minority owner in the Lakers and is also primary owner and chair of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, and the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 9:50 pm

Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders cited after driving at 100 mph in suburban Cleveland

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  • 23-year-old was going 41 mph over speed limit

  • Sanders dropped down draft earlier this year

Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders is accused of driving his pickup truck at 101 mph in suburban Cleveland earlier this week.

The Strongsville Police Department stopped Sanders at just past midnight on Tuesday in a 60 mph zone on Interstate 71 near the Ohio Turnpike, according to a report provided to local media.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 3:35 am

WNBA to hand out fines after skirmishes and hard fouls in Fever’s stormy win over the Sun

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  • Caitlin Clark was poked in eye as fouls broke out

  • Both teams critical of officiating during Fever win

The WNBA has upgraded the technical foul on Connecticut’s Marina Mabrey for shoving Caitlin Clark to the floor during Tuesday’s night game against Indiana to a Flagrant-2, a source told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

Any flagrant foul comes with an automatic fine. The person also said the league has fined the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham for her role in the on-court melee that occurred after she fouled Jacy Sheldon with 46.1 seconds left. Cunningham received a Flagrant-2 during Tuesday night’s game, which Indiana won 88-71.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 7:54 pm

Football transfer rumours: will Gyökeres force a move to Arsenal or Manchester United?

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Today’s rumours prefer baking

Viktor Gyökeres may or may not have spat the dummy out after reportedly refusing to hold clear-the-air talks with Sporting over his desire to move. Arsenal and Manchester United have been linked with the Sweden international but the Portuguese side want a wheelbarrow full of cash for his services, which is putting off potential suitors. Gyökeres wants the club to lower their demands but if the striker does not get what he wants, then he could go on strike to really show his employer who is boss.

In a further blow to Arsenal, the Athletic Club winger Nico Williams has told anyone who will listen that he only wants to join Barcelona this summer. It is now up to Barça to look down the back of the sofa for the cash to pay for him. If the Spain international does head from the Basque Country to Catalonia, it will end any chance of Marcus Rashford joining the Spanish champions. Rashford might need to turn to Italy where Napoli, Milan and Como are interested in helping him escape from Manchester United.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 7:00 am

Florida is now the Stanley Cup’s semi-permanent home. What does that mean for Canada?

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The NHL’s southern expansion was mocked in the 1990s. But it led to better hockey, more money and a long drought for the sport’s spiritual home

“There are a lot of things I do not understand about this proposed expansion,” New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey wrote in December 1992, as the NHL wrapped up its annual Board of Governors meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. During that week’s meeting, the league received expansion proposals for two teams. One was for a team in Anaheim, California, backed by Disney. The other was for a team in Miami, Florida, put forward by waste management-and-VHS-video magnate, Wayne Huizenga. “What makes it think the Sun Belt is ready for all these hockey teams?” Vecsey wondered.

At the time, the answer was money. With more time, the answer seems to be: because championship hockey teams can be built anywhere, including in the South. On Tuesday night in Florida, the Panthers won their second-straight Stanley Cup against the Edmonton Oilers, this time in six games – one fewer than they needed last season. If anything, you could now argue that there’s no better place to build a championship NHL team than the southern US. Since 1990, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to a team based in the South nine times – but five of those have come in the last six years. And three of those have also been against Canadian teams.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 12:31 pm

Mykhailo Mudryk could face four-year ban after FA charge over failed drug test

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  • Chelsea winger was provisionally suspended last year

  • ‘Presence and/or use of a prohibited substance’ alleged

Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk could face a lengthy ban after being charged by the Football Association with doping offences. Under FA regulations the winger could be banned for as long as four years after providing a positive A sample last year. It is believed the banned performance-enhancing substance meldonium was found in Mudryk’s system.

The Ukraine international has not played since last November and was provisionally suspended while he and Chelsea waited for the results of a B sample.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:33 pm

Empty seats are everywhere at the Club World Cup. But does this miss the real point?

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Put in a wider context, the attendance issues that have emerged during the tournament perhaps aren’t quite as embarrassing as they seem

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the Club World Cup so far, it’s that images of nothingness can still generate strong reactions. Empty seats – which are apparently a festering scourge upon the game of football or a tragedy representing the plastic bankruptcy of American soccer fandom and/or the Club World Cup – have been commonplace in the competition’s opening dozen games. Social media is awash in panoramic photos of empty banks of seats, informing you that this image, so obscene in its emptiness, was taken a mere 45 minutes before kickoff – or (gasp) even closer.

Why do we care? What is it about the sight of a whole lot of plastic folding chairs with nobody in them that inflames our passions? Since when did we all become Clint Eastwood at the 2012 Republican National Convention?

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Published: June 18, 2025, 7:00 am

Rodney Scott confirmed as head of CBP by US Senate despite ‘cover-up’ claim

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Senate backs Trump’s nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection despite accusation by former official

The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed Rodney Scott as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), despite a former top official accusing him of orchestrating a “cover-up” over the death of a man detained while trying to enter the country from Mexico.

Scott was confirmed on a party-line vote, with 51 Republicans in favor and 46 Democrats opposed, along with three absences.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 10:25 pm

Mental health and poverty remain a struggle for Maui wildfire survivors, new study says

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Two years after the devastating fires, many lack access to food, stable housing, work and healthcare

Mental health problems and economic hardship remain widespread among survivors of the Maui wildfire, as access to food, stable housing, work and healthcare remains a struggle for many, according to a study tracking 2,000 survivors.

Two in every five (41%) adults report declining overall health since the August 2023 fire, with the burden falling heaviest on those still exposed to ash, smoke and debris, according to the latest findings of the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study (MauiWES), a pioneering longitudinal research initiative by the University of Hawaii (UH) and local community groups.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 6:00 pm

Shell boss warns of ‘huge impact on trade’ if Israel-Iran conflict escalates

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Blockage of strait of Hormuz, through which about 25% of world’s oil passes, could shock energy market, says Wael Sawan

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An escalation in the Middle East conflict could have a “huge impact on global trade”, the boss of the oil company Shell has warned, as Donald Trump suggested the US could enter the air war between Israel and Iran.

Shell, one of the biggest traders of oil and natural gas in the world, said it had contingency plans in case the conflict disrupted flows from the region. There is a risk that a blockage in the strait of Hormuz could shock the energy market.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 8:10 am

Federal Reserve holds interest rates, defying Trump’s demand to lower them

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Hours before the decision, the president called the Fed’s chair, Jerome Powell, ‘stupid’ for anticipated rate hold

The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold, but signaled it might make two cuts this year, as Donald Trump continues to break with precedent and demand lower rates.

Policymakers at the American central bank lifted their projections for inflation this year, as the US president stands by his controversial tariff plans, and downgraded their estimates for economic growth.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 7:45 pm

Trump’s Yemen bombings killed nearly as many civilians as 23 previous years of US attacks, analysis shows

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Monitoring group says high death rate in two months indicates change in US policy that could affect Iran

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The US bombing campaign of Yemen under Donald Trump led to the deaths of almost as many civilians in two months as in the previous 23 years of US attacks on Islamists and militants in the country.

An analysis of Operation Rough Rider by the monitoring group Airwars has concluded that 224 civilians were killed between March and the end of the campaign in May, compared with 258 between 2002 and 2024.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 1:28 pm

Jury finds Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder in death of police officer boyfriend

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Read, who was found guilty of drunk driving, was accused of fatally striking her boyfriend, Boston officer John O’Keefe

A jury has found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder, but guilty of drunk driving in the death of her police officer boyfriend in a divisive and high-profile case that dueling lawyers presented as either a tragic love story or a sinister cover-up.

Read, 45, was accused of fatally striking her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, 46, with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow outside a house party where other local police and a federal agent were closing out a night of drinking in 2022.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 8:07 pm

Cambodia bans fruit imports and soap operas from Thailand as border dispute sours

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The border dispute has led to a surge in nationalist sentiment and tit-for-tat actions by both governments

Cambodia has banned imports of fruit and vegetables from Thailand, the latest escalation in a series of retaliatory actions sparked by a long-running border dispute between the South-east Asian neighbours.

Tensions flared in May when troops briefly exchanged fire at a contested area of the border, killing a Cambodian soldier.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 11:41 pm

Seven California men charged with ‘largest jewelry heist in US history’

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Men allegedly stole $100m worth of gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and luxury watches from an armored truck

Seven men in southern California have been charged in connection with what federal authorities are calling the “largest jewelry heist in US history” after allegedly stealing approximately $100m worth of gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and luxury watches from an armored truck.

The US attorney’s office for California’s central district revealed the charges in a news release on Tuesday.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 2:05 pm

Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds

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Volatile weather patterns may be altering taste of juniper berries – a key botanical in the spirit – scientists say

The flavour of a gin and tonic may be impacted by climate change, scientists have found.

Volatile weather patterns, made more likely by climate breakdown, could change the taste of juniper berries, which are the key botanical that give gin its distinctive taste.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 11:00 pm

Youth-led Sunrise Movement to launch campaign to ‘villainize big oil’ and force climate action

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With climate policies under siege by the Trump, young climate activists are intensifying their campaign

The youth activists who put the Green New Deal on the political map are launching a new campaign to “villainize big oil” which will push for the industry to pay for climate action so the costs don’t fall on ordinary people.

Seven years ago, the Sunrise Movement captured headlines when its members stormed the office of the incoming House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, demanding the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and creation of good jobs.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 3:00 pm

Climate crisis could hit yields of key crops even if farmers adapt, study finds

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Production of staple crops projected to fall by as much as 120 calories per person per day for every 1C of heating

Some of our critical staple crops could suffer “substantial” production losses due to climate breakdown, a study has found, even if farmers adapt to worsening weather.

Maize, soy, rice, wheat, cassava and sorghum yields are projected to fall by as much as 120 calories per person per day for every 1C the planet heats up, according to new research in Nature, with average daily losses that could add up to the equivalent of not having breakfast.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:20 pm

Antarctic seal numbers falling drastically due to melting sea ice, research shows

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British Antarctic Survey finds one breed of seal has declined by 54% since 1977

Antarctic seal populations are drastically declining as the sea ice melts around them, new research has shown.

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have been monitoring the seal population in the sub-Antarctic since the 1970s, looking in particular at three different seal species in the sub-Antarctic on Signy Island: Weddell seals, Antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 9:01 am

‘Ice raids while the wealthy party next door’: the migrants living in the shadow of Mar-a-Lago

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Five residents of Lake Worth Beach – just 10 miles from Trump’s Maga fortress – share their stories of survival as an immigration crackdown takes its toll

Lake Worth Beach, a small coastal city of about 45,000, sits in the shadows of Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. A 10-minute drive from “Maga” HQ, it is sometimes optimistically referred to as “mini San Fran”, with a largely progressive, white middle class occupying its beachfront bungalows and a local economy built on tourism, retail and construction.

It is also home to many undocumented and temporary visa migrants, who work at fruit farms and restaurants, landscape gardens and support the area’s affluent households. Though data on undocumented people is notoriously hard to collect, the 2024 census estimates that nearly half of the city’s residents are Hispanic and include Guatemalans (many of whom are Indigenous Maya), Mexicans and Venezuelans.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 11:00 am

‘Cancer is just everywhere’: could farming be behind Iowa’s unfolding health crisis?

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A new study investigates possible ties to pesticides, nitrates and other farm-related risks

Six months ago, Alex Hammer was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 37. Dianne Chambers endured surgery, chemotherapy and dozens of rounds of radiation to fight aggressive breast cancer, and Janan Haugen spends most days helping care for her 16-year-old grandson, who is still being treated for brain cancer he developed at the age of seven.

The three were among a group of about two dozen people who came together last week in a small town in central Iowa to share their experiences of cancer. They are part of a new research project investigating potential environmental causes for what the American Cancer Society’s advocacy arm calls a cancer “crisis”.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 2:00 pm

Thousands of families’ futures in the US could be helped by order to restore legal aid – will Trump comply?

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Judge ordered services to be restored after officials violated settlement that forced government to repair impact of family separations

A US district judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore legal services for potentially thousands of migrant families after officials violated a historic settlement agreement that had forced the federal government to repair some of the devastating impact of the family separation scandal from the first Trump White House that sparked bipartisan uproar at the time.

Judge Dana Sabraw has mandated that the executive branch resume services by an independent contractor advising parents and children who were separated during Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at the US-Mexico border in 2017 and 2018, when accounts of traumatic scenes spread around the world and a secret recording was made public of terrified, sobbing children being torn from their parents by federal agents, to be detained separately.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 12:00 pm

Trump cuts leave hurricane-hit North Carolina town’s rebuilding plans adrift – in pictures

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After Hurricane Helene’s flood waters slammed into Lake Lure’s century-old dam last September, the resort town was spurred on to seek federal funding for an ambitious rebuilding plan. While the initial response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency seemed encouraging when Joe Biden was president, Donald Trump’s plans to shrink or even abolish Fema – and push some of the costs of disaster response on to states – have injected uncertainty into the North Carolina town’s recovery

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Published: June 18, 2025, 1:00 pm

Ukraine war briefing: Russia can defend itself, says Putin, as North Korea sends more soldiers

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Death toll rises to 28 after Russian attack on Kyiv apartments; Zelenskyy planning to attend Nato summit in The Hague. What we know on day 1,212

Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was ready to meet with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy but only during a “final phase” of negotiations “so as not to sit there and divide things up endlessly, but to put an end to it”. Putin made his customary false accusation that Zelenskyy is not Ukraine’s legitimate president.

In a round-table interview in St Petersburg with international news agencies, Putin said on Nato: “We do not consider any Nato rearmament to be a threat to the Russian Federation, because we are self-sufficient in terms of ensuring our security.” Russia has brought in thousands of North Korean soldiers to help defend Kursk; and has relied on a flood of arms and ammunition from North Korea as well as Iranian drones and missiles to wage war on Ukraine; while also receiving suspected help from China to continue arming a “special military operation” that Putin thought would be over in three days. The potential collapse of the Iranian regime would be a serious blow to Putin, Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer writes.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to attend the Nato summit in The Hague on 24-25 June, a source in the Ukrainian presidency told the AFP news agency on Wednesday. “The decision will be made on the eve of the summit. This is just the schedule,” the source said, describing the meeting as “an opportunity to maintain support and promote a ceasefire”. Nato leaders want to keep the summit brief so as not to aggravate Donald Trump and his short attention span, the Times has reported (£).

Senior Ukrainian officials at the G7 summit in Canada discussed with US counterparts the possibility of supporting defence projects in Ukraine under a joint investment fund set up in May, Kyiv’s first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said on Wednesday. The talks included the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, Svyrydenko said.

The death toll from Tuesday’s Russian attack on Kyiv stood at 28, with more than 130 injured, as the recovery of bodies continued at destroyed apartment blocks.

Russia’s defence ministry claimed its forces hit a Ukrainian troop position in the Sumy region with an Iskander missile. The Reuters news agency said it could not independently confirm the battlefield report, or determine exactly when it took place. Ukrainian authorities on Monday reported an Iskander missile strike on Konotop damaged flats in multi-storey buildings with no casualties. Ukraine is trying to drive Russian forces from the Sumy region where border areas are gripped by heavy fighting.

Slovak police have detained eight people, including defence ministry officials, in an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office into possible misuse of €7.4m for military aid to Ukraine at the start of the war in February 2022. Jaroslav Nad, who was Slovakia’s defence minister at the time, has called the police action “theatre”. Slovakia’s pro-Russia current prime minister, Robert Fico, has taken sharp policy turns since taking power in 2023 – stopping military aid to Ukraine and making a trip to Moscow that fuelled large and widespread protests in opposition to his stance on Ukraine.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 12:19 am

Fake dentist charged by Czech police after treating dozens of patients

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Tooth extraction and root canal work among procedures offered by self-taught 22-year-old and two family members

A fake dentist and two assistants who treated dozens of patients after learning the trade on the internet have been charged in the Czech Republic.

The three family members opened a fully equipped dental practice, without a licence or the necessary expertise, in the central Czech town of Havlíčkův Brod in 2023, police said on Wednesday.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:33 pm

Teenagers who report addictive use of screens at greater risk of suicidal behaviour, study shows

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Experts find link between compulsive use of social media, phones and video games and mental health problems

Teenagers who show signs of being addicted to social media, mobile phones or video games are at greater risk of suicidal behaviour and emotional problems, according to research.

A study, which tracked more than 4,000 adolescents for four years, found that nearly one in three reported increasingly addictive use of social media or mobile phones. Those whose use followed an increasingly addictive trajectory had roughly double the risk of suicidal behaviour at the end of the study.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 3:00 pm

‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number

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Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline

The Meta chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, called it “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use”. But Barry Smethurst, 41, a record shop worker trying to travel by rail from Saddleworth to Manchester Piccadilly, did not agree.

Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was nowhere to be seen, he asked Meta’s WhatsApp AI assistant for a contact number for TransPennine Express. The chatbot confidently sent him a mobile phone number for customer services, but it turned out to be the private number of a completely unconnected WhatsApp user 170 miles away in Oxfordshire.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 11:14 am

‘At one point, I stepped on a cow’s head’: Gulshan Khan on her best photograph

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‘He is one of the “invisible people” of Johannesburg. Many of them reclaim trash from its biggest landfill site, sell it to buy-back centres, then spend the money on heroin’

This was a tough assignment. I was making images around Johannesburg for World Environment Day 2018 and I thought I’d follow the trash to Robinson Deep, the oldest and biggest landfill in the city. I had a basic idea of where the things we throw away end up, but seeing our trash in real life, in that quantity, and not disintegrating, was eye-opening. The smell was overpowering. The sounds of tractors churned against the constant noise made by baby mice squeaking under the huge mounds of waste. I was probably stepping on them but I couldn’t see them, nor do anything differently. At one point I stepped on a cow’s head. Thank God I was wearing rubber boots that day – boots that the dozens of people eking out a living on the landfill didn’t have. They didn’t have any proper protective gear: no gloves, masks or proper shoes.

This image of a man carrying a giant bag that looks like a cape, with an ibis hovering over him, was made with a long lens. I was too far away to get to him in time to ask his name before he disappeared over the hill, but I spoke to many others there. They spoke of being ill from working on the landfill but not having a choice. Some of them cook and eat their meals on the site. Some even live there. I recall the moment when a truck arrived bearing a new load and everyone ran toward this waterfall of garbage to get whatever they could – the plastic or glass that could be taken to the buy-back centres and exchanged for a few rand. This scene is not particular to Johannesburg. It happens every day in landfills all over the world.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 2:10 pm

Loyle Carner: Hopefully! review – rap sweetheart faces family, fear and the feels | Album of the week

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The Londoner’s trademark sentimental sweetness is balanced by a new unaffected singing style – his fourth album is his most impressive work yet

Loyle Carner raps like he has a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes. Wonder, nostalgia, love, hurt, excitement, hard-won peace: these are the emotions his voice tends to catch on. When combined with his typically blissed-out sonics – feathery breakbeats, dreamy piano figures, delicate synth washes, gently plucked guitars – the results are often very nice. Sometimes a bit too nice. So it is on Feel at Home, the sentimental love song that opens the 30-year-old’s fourth album, Hopefully!

Carner – whose moniker is a spoonerism of his real name, Benjamin Coyle-Larner – never makes music that is boring or basic. As well as the slushy lyrics and comfortingly toasty chords, Feel at Home is buttressed by madly skittering percussion and what sounds like a blurry reproduction of young children’s playground chatter. But much like the outpouring of earnestness and loveliness on the Croydon-raised rapper’s first two albums, Hopefully! may well have you hankering for a shred of dissonance or disruption – especially after 2022’s Mercury-shortlisted Hugo, which gratifyingly offset Carner’s trademark tenderness with a more abrasive sonic palette. Initially, the musician seems to have moved on – or perhaps backwards – from that record.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 11:00 am

‘Grown-ass men cry in our arms!’ The political, powerful music of soul band Durand Jones and the Indications

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Equally at ease with making sex-playlist jams and socially conscious songs, the revered group are fretting about fascism – but are determined to find common ground for Americans

If you looked to the skies in the UK on 12 May, you’d have seen the flower moon, the name given to that month’s full moon. Also known in agricultural circles as the hare moon or the corn planting moon, it’s closely associated with new life and new beginnings.

“Happy flower moon day!” beams Durand Jones, leader of soul outfit Durand Jones and the Indications, whose forthcoming album Flowers – led by the single Flower Moon – also deals with the theme of fresh starts. We’re serendipitously speaking on 12 May, along with his bandmates Aaron Frazer and Blake Rhein.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 11:42 am

The Maga-flavoured faux pas that shook the games industry

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Splitgate 2’s Ian Proulx thought his Musk gag was funny – but what it revealed was the major blind spots still in the business

One thing most game developers can agree on in the modern industry is that it’s hard to drum up any awareness for your latest project without a mammoth marketing budget. Last year, almost 20,000 new titles were released on the PC gaming platform Steam alone, the majority disappearing into the content blackhole that is the internet. So when a smaller studio is offered the chance to get on the stage at the Summer Games Fest, an event streamed live to a global audience of around 50 million people, it’s a big deal. Not something that you want to spectacularly misjudge.

Enter Ian Proulx, cofounder of 1047 Games. His short slot at the event earlier this month had him walking on stage with a baseball bat to promote the online shooter Splitgate 2 by announcing that he was “tired of playing the same Call of Duty every year”, while wearing a cap bearing the slogan “Make FPS great again”. It did not go well. Gamers and fellow developers criticised his decision to diss another studio’s game as well as his politically charged use of a Maga/Trump meme, especially with anti-ICE protesters being beaten and arrested just across town. Proulx defended his actions, denying that his use of the cap slogan was political, but four days later he made an apology via X explaining: “We needed something to grab attention, and the honest truth is, we tried to think of something and this is what we came up with.”

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Published: June 18, 2025, 2:00 pm

Beyond Mario Kart World: what else is worth playing on Nintendo Switch 2?

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Nintendo has slept on new games for its new handheld but clockwork-puzzle murder missions, an RPG reborn and a beefed-up Yakuza 0 are the highlights from other developers

The Nintendo Switch 2 certainly makes a strong first impression, but once that gadget limerence begins to fade, it’s down to the games to stave off any creeping buyer’s remorse. We all know that Mario Kart World is undoubtedly a multiplayer masterpiece, and original Switch games from Pokémon Scarlet/Violet to Zelda have been updated to look amazing on the new console, but there’s otherwise a severe lack of Nintendo-made launch games for the Switch (beyond the £8 tech demo, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour).

Thankfully, other developers have stepped in to fill the gap, releasing a bunch of updated versions of games that have been out on other consoles for a while. What should you pick up when you’re tired of Mario Kart World?

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Published: June 18, 2025, 8:00 am

That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

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How can anyone call Rubens’ sumptuous masterpiece Samson and Delilah a ‘fake’ and ‘a shoddy artefact’? The Flemish master is simply doing a superb job of copying his own favourite outlaw artist

Samson, a huge muscular hunk of a man, slumbers in the lap of his seducer Delilah, in a bedchamber sumptuously lit by candle. As Delilah looks down on the unconscious form of the great biblical hero, her accomplice is cutting the very tangled locks that hold his superhuman strength. Meanwhile, at the door, soldiers are waiting by torchlight. At the heart of it all is Samson’s rippled naked back, nestled on the woman’s pink silk skirts.

Is this a painting by the Flemish baroque master Peter Paul Rubens? Hell, yes. The wonder is that anyone would ever think otherwise. And yet some do. Michael Daley and his campaigning group ArtWatch UK, and the art historian Euphrosyne Doxiadis (among others), are getting traction with their claims that the National Gallery owns a “fake” or “modern copy” and is covering up that reality.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 10:35 am

Deliver Me from Nowhere: first trailer for Oscar-tipped Bruce Springsteen biopic

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The hotly anticipated music drama stars The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White as the rocker with Jeremy Strong and Stephen Graham also starring

The trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere has offered the first real look at Jeremy Allen White in the lead role.

The award-winning star of The Bear plays the musician as he puts together his sixth album Nebraska in the early 1980s. The film, from the Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, is based on Warren Zanes’ 2023 book.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 12:17 pm

Kitchen gods and Chinese opera: views from the diaspora – in pictures

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From Greek customs to a Kenyan returning home, this year’s winners of the OpenWalls Spotlight award show how migration shapes our culture – and the power of ancient rituals

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Published: June 18, 2025, 6:00 am

‘I dance the young people off the floor!’: joy and pain from the Windrush generation – in pictures

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From combatting racist skinheads to fixing railway lines, these photographs and stories reflect the enduring, positive impact Windrush arrivals had on the UK. Portraits by Amit Lennon.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 6:00 am

The shorter man’s search for love: ‘One woman cried when I told her how tall I am’

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Tinder is trialling a height filter, following in the footsteps of some other popular apps. What is behind the ‘6ft fixation’ in dating – and could it be scuppering the chance of true connection?

Height is often seen as a dealbreaker when it comes to romance, particularly within heterosexual relationships. But when Tinder recently said that it was trialling a feature that allows some premium users to filter potential matches by height, it quickly proved controversial. “Oh God. They added a height filter,” lamented one Reddit thread, while an X user claimed: “It’s over for short men.”

“I’ve experimented with not putting my height on my dating profile, or lying about it just to see, and the number of likes I get shoots up massively,” says Stuart, who is in his 50s and from the Midlands. “I know I get screened out by the majority of women from the off.” At 5ft 7in (170cm), Stuart is just two inches below the UK and US male average height of 5ft 9in, but a height filter would probably prevent him from receiving as many matches.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 4:00 am

A moment that changed me: I stepped into the boxing ring – and decades of quiet anger lifted

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As I punched and shouted, I knew I didn’t have to be demure, delicate or diplomatic. I could be as fierce as I wanted. Those three minutes set me free

On meeting me, you would never guess that I used to be an angry person. I’m talkative, sociable and self-possessed – but for nearly 20 years I lived with a quiet fury. It started with my parents, whose strict conservatism restricted everything in my life: what I ate, what I wore, where I went, what I thought. As immigrants from Bangladesh, they believed that control was the best way to protect their daughters, but it suffocated me.

I had to fight to go to university – for all the things that men in my community were given as a right. At first, my anger felt ambient – mild and ever-present – but it became something harder, more bitter, when I was pressured into an arranged marriage at the age of 24.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 5:55 am

A local’s guide to the best eats in Turin

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Birthplace of vermouth, grissini and espresso, the north Italian city is a fitting host for the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurants ceremony on 19 June. But you don’t need to have deep pockets to enjoy its great food scene

Many renowned dining destinations have hosted the annual “food Oscars” – the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. This year is the first time the honour goes to Italy, with Turin, capital of Piedmont, holding the ceremony on 19 June. Although Emilia-Romagna is usually regarded as the country’s food capital, Piedmont has a proud gastronomic tradition, with white truffles, rice, chocolate, pastas and cheeses, not to mention wines such as barolo and barbaresco.

Greener than most Italian cities, Turin, the former capital of Savoy and briefly capital of Italy, also has elegant piazzas, royal palaces, possibly Europe’s biggest outdoor market and the wide Po River for strolling, cycling and kayaking. It is where vermouth (see below), grissini breadsticks and espresso coffee were invented.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 6:00 am

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for mini babas al rum | A kitchen in Rome

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Oozy, boozy miniature cakes to enjoy with a kick of caffeine

Someone I know and admire very much, and who seems in excellent health at between 82 and 89 years old, has an espresso and a mini baba al rum every day at about three o’clock – except Sundays, when he has ice-cream. Every now and then, I join him and we then walk for a bit (there is nothing like a caffeine-baba spring in your step), and congratulate each other for not smoking while both wishing that we had a cigarette.

In Poland, the word “baba” can refer to a variety of baked goods, and one in particular is made with rye flour and sweet wine. Baba al rum came about thanks to the greediness of twice king of Poland Stanislaus Leszczyński, who, exiled in Lorraine, thought his kougelhopf too dry, so asked for it to be soaked in rum. This inspired his pastry chef to perfect the dish and, in turn, subsequently inspired other pastry chefs, like baba dominoes. It is a project, though, and remember to chill the eggs.

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Published: June 19, 2025, 5:00 am

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: finding the perfect summer jacket

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This season’s three hot looks: the barn jacket, the leather blouson and the haute anorak

The summer jacket is one of the trickiest bits of your wardrobe to get right, because nobody really wants to wear one. I mean, isn’t summer supposed to be lovely and warm? Isn’t that sort of the whole point of a summer wardrobe? Sandals and shorts exist to celebrate carefree, balmy days. Sunshine is the raison d’etre of a sundress. The very existence of a jacket is a summer buzzkill. But you need one. Sorry, but you do. Seasons are unpredictable, heatwaves break, darkness brings a chill. So you definitely have to put some thought into a summer jacket unless you want your fabulous summer outfits to end up hidden beneath some random hoodie you grabbed off the banister.

Your summer jacket needs to do two things. It needs to keep you warm and dry when the weather turns chilly or wet. And somehow, at the same time, it needs to keep your summer vibe bouncing along, rather than kill the mood. Like I said: tricky.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 1:00 pm

‘Fashion is about fantasy’: Max Mara’s short shorts are inspired by postwar Naples

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Brand known for no-nonsense style and camel coats channels the glamour and poverty of the city in Italian cinema

Max Mara is known for its deep-pile camel coats and conservative northern Italian style. But in tune with the times, this season’s show at the baroque Palace of Caserta outside Naples opened with a pair of very short shorts.

Tight and high-waisted, the vibe was Vogue but the inspiration was the 1949 Italian realist film Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) and a 19-year-old Italian actor, Silvana Mangano, in a paddy field wearing damp shorts and stockings, which ended up on global billboards.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 12:31 pm

A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government – and was executed for ‘high treason’

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The death of Turki al-Jasser was the first high-profile killing of a journalist since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi

The tweet posted by Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser in 2014 was chillingly prescient: “The Arab writer can be easily killed by their government under the pretext of ‘national security’,” he wrote.

On Saturday, the Saudi interior ministry announced that al-Jasser had been executed in Riyadh, for crimes including “high treason by communicating with and conspiring against the security of the Kingdom with individuals outside it”.

This article was amended on 18 June 2025 to clarify that the US intelligence assessment of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi was released by Joe Biden in 2021, not in 2020, as we originally said.

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Published: June 18, 2025, 7:00 am

Royal Ascot, a Highland show and nearly 12,000 drones: photos of the day – Wednesday

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The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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Published: June 18, 2025, 1:01 pm

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