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- Texas Democrats’ late-night walkout scuppers Republican efforts to restrict voting rights
- Sharp rise in Florida manatee deaths as algal blooms hasten food depletion
- Tulsa race massacre at 100: an act of terrorism America tried to forget
- California faces another drought as lake beds turn to dust – a photo essay
- Israeli opposition figures reach deal aimed at ousting Netanyahu
- China announces three-child limit in major policy shift
- ‘Silicon Six’ tech giants accused of inflating tax payments by almost $100bn
- Supreme court justice Stephen Breyer: Democrats must ‘get Republicans talking’
- Two dead and more than 20 injured in Florida banquet hall shooting
- Stetson pulls hats from Nashville shop selling Star of David anti-vaccine badges
- Biden promises to press Putin on human rights at Geneva summit
- Coronavirus live news: Japan mulls tests for Olympics fans; India posts lowest case numbers since April
- Backlash expected as hundreds of US colleges introduce vaccine mandates
- Covid summer: Fauci warns US has ‘a ways to go’ despite lowest rates in a year
- Trump allies herald Biden investigation of Covid origins in China
- The $3bn bargain: how China dominates Pacific mining, logging and fishing
- Is that a surrealist masterpiece by the draining board? Inside Leonora Carrington’s sculpture-filled home
- ‘It’s easy to dismiss Black women’s lives’: Texas drags feet on maternal mortality crisis
- Pure poetry: Ralph Fiennes on stage – in pictures
- ‘Shocking’: the London cemetery with listed monuments and a protruding limb
- Getting away from it all: Orkney island hopping
- Video games have turned my kids into wage slaves – but without the wages | Zoe Williams
- An everyday story of US healthcare – or how a visit to the ER can cost you $10,000 | Emma Brockes
- From Minsk to Hong Kong, people power just isn’t working any more | Will Hutton
- Workers are again learning the power of collectivism | Torsten Bell
- Helio Castroneves wins record-tying fourth Indianapolis 500 at age of 46
- Naomi Osaka fined for media snub and threatened with French Open expulsion
- Martínez angry with ‘reckless’ Rüdiger after De Bruyne suffers facial fractures
- Chelsea eye Romelu Lukaku as Tuchel targets Premier League title challenge
- Tokyo Olympics: local fans may need to show vaccination proof or negative Covid test
- Dominic Thiem loses lead and crashes out of French Open to Pablo Andújar
- World champions USA fail to qualify for Olympic men’s basketball 3x3
- Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier dies aged 19 after accident in qualifying
- Can the US avoid another Trump?
- Mare of Easttown: 20 questions the finale must answer
- The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid review – a devastating analysis
- BJ Thomas, singer of Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head, dies at 78
- Neil Finn on the return of Crowded House: ‘I am ultimately very optimistic about the world’
- ‘My parents still have no clue what I’m doing’: Lupin star Omar Sy on Hollywood, fame and fighting racism
- Alix Dobkin obituary
- ‘I wasn’t what you’d call sensible’: a walk on the wild side with Call My Agent’s Liliane Rovère
- Republicans who embraced Trump’s big lie run to become election officials
- Tulsa massacre: centennial of white mob rampage to be commemorated in Oklahoma
- ‘Real compromise’ possible on Biden infrastructure plan, key Republican says
- US seeks dismissal of cases against Trump for clearing Lafayette Square
- ‘They failed us’: how mining and logging devastated a Pacific island in a decade
- US must share intelligence on Covid origins, WHO-affiliated expert says
- New Zealand flooding: state of emergency in Canterbury, with hundreds evacuated
- Gunmen in Nigeria abduct about 150 students from Islamic school
- Italy cable car crash detainees released from prison
- Catholics question why Boris Johnson was able to marry in church
- ‘Cruel and unusual punishment’: hotel guide’s verdict on Cornish G7 venue
- EU Commission calls on UK to ditch ideology over Northern Ireland protocol
- Pacific Plunder: this is who profits from the mass extraction of the region’s natural resources – interactive
- Work is where your laptop is: meet the globetrotting digital nomads
- The ice cream owner who tried, failed – and now owes $200,000 | Gene Marks
- American uprising: three US cities cracked down on protesters – their histories tell us why
- 1921 Tulsa race massacre remembered – in pictures
- Gigs, protests and messing about in boats: the weekend’s best photos
| Texas Democrats’ late-night walkout scuppers Republican efforts to restrict voting rights Posted: 30 May 2021 09:50 PM PDT SB7 bill that would introduce restrictions making it harder to vote fails to pass before midnight deadline after Democrats leave House Texas Republican have failed in their efforts to push through one of the most restrictive voting measures in the US after Democrats walked out of the House at the last minute, leaving the bill languishing ahead of a midnight deadline. The exodus came at the instruction of Chris Turner, the House Democratic chairman, who told colleagues at 10.35pm to "take your key and leave the chamber discreetly", referring to the key that locks the voting mechanism on their desks, the Washington Post reported. Continue reading... |
| Sharp rise in Florida manatee deaths as algal blooms hasten food depletion Posted: 30 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT
Environmental groups in Florida are warning that unusually high numbers of manatee deaths in the first five months of the year, blamed in part on resurgent algal blooms contaminating and destroying food sources, could threaten the long-term future of the species. Related: Miami's chief heat officer calls for action on 'silent killer' in climate crisis Continue reading... |
| Tulsa race massacre at 100: an act of terrorism America tried to forget Posted: 31 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT It was among the worst acts of violence in US history, and no one was held accountable – how much has changed in the last 100 years? Continue reading... |
| California faces another drought as lake beds turn to dust – a photo essay Posted: 30 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT Water shortages and dry conditions are already affecting the state as the governor has declared an emergency in 41 of 58 counties Verdant hillsides losing their hue, receding reservoirs with bathtub rings of newly exposed earth, crops withering in the fields. These are the visions of California's parched landscape as the state braces for another potentially devastating drought. Water shortages and exceptionally dry conditions are already beginning to hit home. Continue reading... |
| Israeli opposition figures reach deal aimed at ousting Netanyahu Posted: 30 May 2021 11:21 AM PDT Far-right politician Naftali Bennett says he has agreed to a deal with Yair Lapid to forge a coalition government The far-right Israeli politician Naftali Bennett and opposition leader Yair Lapid have agreed to forge a coalition government that would oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his 12 straight years in power. "It's my intention to do my utmost in order to form a national unity government along with my friend Yair Lapid, so that, God willing, together we can save the country from a tailspin and return Israel to its course," said Bennett, a former settler leader and religious nationalist, in a televised address. Continue reading... |
| China announces three-child limit in major policy shift Posted: 31 May 2021 01:29 AM PDT Move follows data showing sharp decline in number of births in world's most populous country China has announced that couples will be permitted to have up to three children, in a major policy shift from the existing two-child limit after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country. "To actively respond to the ageing of the population ... a couple can have three children," state media Xinhua reported on Monday, citing a meeting of China's elite Politburo leadership committee hosted by President Xi Jinping. Continue reading... |
| ‘Silicon Six’ tech giants accused of inflating tax payments by almost $100bn Posted: 31 May 2021 12:01 AM PDT Study claims firms paid $96bn less in tax between 2011 and 2020 than the notional figures cited in their annual reports The giant US tech firms known as the "Silicon Six" have been accused of inflating their stated tax payments by almost $100bn (£70bn) over the past decade. As Chancellor Rishi Sunak called on world leaders to back a new tech tax ahead of next week's G7 summit in the UK, a report by the campaign group Fair Tax Foundation singled out Amazon, Facebook, Google's owner, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft. Continue reading... |
| Supreme court justice Stephen Breyer: Democrats must ‘get Republicans talking’ Posted: 30 May 2021 05:09 AM PDT
The supreme court justice Stephen Breyer has told young Americans Democrats facing Republican intransigence, obstruction and outright attacks on democracy should "get 'em talking", in search of compromise and progress. Related: How Mitch McConnell killed the US Capitol attack commission Continue reading... |
| Two dead and more than 20 injured in Florida banquet hall shooting Posted: 30 May 2021 10:45 AM PDT
At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured in Miami early on Sunday as attackers opened fire on concertgoers outside a banquet hall. It was the city's second deadly mass shooting in little more than 24 hours. A police spokesman said the shooting happened in the Hialeah area when three people got out of a white SUV and began firing on a line outside the El Mula banquet hall. The attackers, whom witnesses said were wearing ski masks and hoodies, used assault rifles and a handgun, authorities said. Continue reading... |
| Stetson pulls hats from Nashville shop selling Star of David anti-vaccine badges Posted: 30 May 2021 09:30 AM PDT Owner of HatWRKS appeared to apologize Saturday as protesters outside the store held signs including 'no Nazis in Nashville' Stetson has said it will stop selling its products through a hat store in Nashville, Tennessee which advertised anti-vaccination patches in the style of a Star of David, the badge which Jewish people were made to wear by the Nazis. Related: 'Tyranny': Idaho governor repeals lieutenant's mask mandate ban Continue reading... |
| Biden promises to press Putin on human rights at Geneva summit Posted: 30 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT
Joe Biden said on Sunday he will press Vladimir Putin to respect human rights when the two leaders meet in June. In a speech marking the Memorial Day holiday, Biden said: "I'm meeting with President Putin in a couple weeks in Geneva, making it clear we will not stand by and let him abuse those rights." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 31 May 2021 01:22 AM PDT Japan may require Games fans to test negative or show vaccine proof; India reports lowest case numbers since 11 April; signs UK is facing third wave
The rise in Covid-19 cases in Bolton, north-west England, where cases had soared giving it the highest infection rate in the country, is slowing down but there is no room for complacency, a senior doctor has warned (via PA Media). The seven-day rate in Bolton currently stands at 386.7 cases per 100,000, down from 452.8 on 21 May, suggesting the recent surge in cases in the town, driven by the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus, may have peaked. Bolton shares a border with Blackburn with Darwen, and both areas have reported some of the highest numbers of cases of the Indian variant, with Bolton recording 1,354 up to 25 May -– the highest in the country – and Blackburn with Darwen recording 361.
China today reimposed anti-coronavirus travel controls on its southern province of Guangdong, announcing anyone leaving the populous region must be tested for the virus following a spike in infections that has alarmed authorities, the Associated Press reports. Guangdong, which borders Hong Kong, recorded 20 new confirmed cases, all contracted locally, in the 24 hours through to midnight yesterday. Guangdong's numbers are low compared with many places in the world, but the rise has rattled Chinese leaders who thought they had the disease under control. Continue reading... |
| Backlash expected as hundreds of US colleges introduce vaccine mandates Posted: 31 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Over 400 schools announce mandates for the fall, with some telling students they won't be able to return without vaccinations After a year of "Zoom University", colleges and universities are looking at the Covid-19 vaccine as the key to normalcy in the fall. But as with all things Covid in the US, it's unlikely they will get there without some fights. Over 400 institutions have announced vaccine mandates for the fall semester, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, with some schools telling students they will not be able to return to campus without the vaccination. Continue reading... |
| Covid summer: Fauci warns US has ‘a ways to go’ despite lowest rates in a year Posted: 30 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT 'We don't want to declare victory prematurely,' expert tells the Guardian while 2021 has seen more global cases than all of 2020 Dr Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert in the US, has warned it is too early to declare victory against Covid-19 as cases fall in the country to the lowest rates since last June. "We don't want to declare victory prematurely because we still have a ways to go," Fauci told the Guardian in an interview. "But the more and more people that can get vaccinated, as a community, the community will be safer and safer." Continue reading... |
| Trump allies herald Biden investigation of Covid origins in China Posted: 30 May 2021 09:59 AM PDT
Allies of Donald Trump took the unusual step of speaking out on Sunday in support of Joe Biden, regarding efforts to pinpoint the source of Covid-19 and find out if China knows more about the origins of the pandemic than it is letting on. Related: Biden move to investigate Covid origins opens new rift in US-China relations Continue reading... |
| The $3bn bargain: how China dominates Pacific mining, logging and fishing Posted: 30 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT China received more than half of all seafood, wood, and minerals exported from the region in 2019. Experts warn this is creating 'enormous challenges for sustainable development' One country dominates the Pacific's resources extraction. Guardian analysis of trade data has revealed that China received more than half the total tonnes of seafood, wood and minerals exported from the region in 2019, a haul worth $3.3bn that has been described by experts as "staggering in magnitude". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The great British artist's home in Mexico has been turned into a wonderful museum, full of her sculptures, books, diaries and unsmoked cigarettes. Our writer, Carrington's cousin, takes an emotional tour In October 2010, a few months before her death, I said my last goodbye to my cousin Leonora Carrington. As I left her home in Mexico City, she stood waving on the doorstep. Today, I'm back for the first time – to see Leonora's house recreated as a visitor attraction. It feels surreal, but the surreal has become the everyday since I set off to find Leonora in 2006, almost 70 years after she checked out of our family and Britain. She travelled first to Paris to be with her lover, the German artist Max Ernst, before moving on to Mexico with a diplomat she met after she and Ernst were separated by the second world war. This house, 194 Calle Chihuahua, is where she was anchored for more than 60 years. Here, she painted some of her best-known works, including The Juggler, which sold at auction in 2005 for £436,000; And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur, now at MoMA in New York; and her mural The Magical World of the Mayans, now at the National Anthropological Museum in Mexico City. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s easy to dismiss Black women’s lives’: Texas drags feet on maternal mortality crisis Posted: 30 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT As state legislature falls short on Medicaid expansion, campaigners vow to keep addressing healthcare disparities When medical staff prepped Shawn Thierry for an emergency C-section, she knew something was very wrong. After an epidural, excruciating pain ran through her legs. Soon, she could barely breathe. Related: The Texas abortion ban is a performance of misogyny. But it might get worse | Moira Donegan Continue reading... |
| Pure poetry: Ralph Fiennes on stage – in pictures Posted: 30 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT As Ralph Fiennes tours his solo stage version of TS Eliot's Four Quartets, look back at some of his greatest stage performances, from Shaw and Shakespeare to The Play What I Wrote Continue reading... |
| ‘Shocking’: the London cemetery with listed monuments and a protruding limb Posted: 30 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Campaigners want urgent action to save neglected and vandalised graves in West Norwood Cemetery Its beautiful Grade II* listed monuments were erected in memory of leading members of the Greek community in 19th-century London, but the graves in West Norwood cemetery are now in a dire state of neglect – with one decaying casket recently photographed covered in a thick layer of pigeon droppings, with a limb protruding. Lambeth council, which compulsorily purchased the cemetery more than 50 years ago, recently withdrew security to save money and campaigners are calling for urgent action to protect listed monuments from ruin. Continue reading... |
| Getting away from it all: Orkney island hopping Posted: 30 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The Orkneys – just voted Scotland's 'best island' – are home to archaeological riches, lunar landscapes and silver-white sands. It's a place to get away from it all – even if you live there This morning, before breakfast, I was out on the water: silk-smooth in front, and streaming away behind, the ferry cutting a path from the island of Hoy, via the island of Graemsay, to the island where I live, confusingly called Mainland. Though this name creates some conversational ambiguity (are they referring to mainland Orkney, or the Scottish mainland, seven miles to the south across the Pentland Firth?), I've always admired the way it subtly shifts the centre of gravity closer to home. By considering all else relative to our own largest island, it resets the dial on what it means to be remote. Remote, us? Hardly. We're at the heart of the action. Continue reading... |
| Video games have turned my kids into wage slaves – but without the wages | Zoe Williams Posted: 30 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Gaming is task-driven, repetitive and often frustrating – just like having a job. Childhood isn't supposed to be so serious There are currently three computer games occupying the house: the 13-year-old (M), sometimes in conjunction with the 11-year-old (F), plays Fortnite, a game mainly about shooting people; the 13-year-old (F), also sometimes with the collaboration of the 11-year-old, plays Genshin Impact, a whimsical, open-world environment game, whatever the hell that means. Avatars dressed as pirates or fairies wander about the place, doing chores, occasionally fighting giant warthogs. Mr Z plays Hitman, another shooting game with very densely layered storylines, though he always skips them so never knows what's going on beyond that; the aim is to leave everyone else dead in a laundry hamper. Observing all this, I feel like the manager of a hi-tech sweat shop. Everyone is locked in concentration, shouting over headphones at other people who may or may not be in the same house, a cross between high-intensity data inputting and horribly frazzled air traffic control. I know what I should be worrying about – are they getting enough fresh air? Will they become addicted? Is this a useful life lesson, to find meaning through shooting others? Continue reading... |
| An everyday story of US healthcare – or how a visit to the ER can cost you $10,000 | Emma Brockes Posted: 31 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT The fear of dying in New York was uppermost in my mind as my bruised foot swelled and turned black: I could never afford it I had dropped my kids off at school and was lifting one of their scooters, when I turned sharply and felt something ping in my foot. It wasn't much; a bad cramp, I thought, more painful than usual, which would probably wear off by the time I got home. I limped back to my apartment, took painkillers and put it on ice. By the next morning, the foot had begun to turn black. By the evening, the flesh was rising like dough. "Ew," said a friend, when I showed it to her that night. "You need a pedicure. Also: you need to see a doctor right now." It's either laziness, Britishness, or a strain of my general belief in denial, but in most circumstances I'd rather suffer than bother the doctor. In the US, this impulse is compounded by the knowledge that, however much you spend on health insurance, even the smallest engagement with the medical establishment will result in a cascade of bills. I'm still fighting with my insurers over a $1,000 charge from last summer. Continue reading... |
| From Minsk to Hong Kong, people power just isn’t working any more | Will Hutton Posted: 30 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Last week's detention of an activist in Belarus is only the latest of many signals that we must relearn how to defend our values The west's ineffectiveness in the face of the arrant use of torture, unlawful arrest, savage imprisonment without trial and flagrant abuse of international law, even close to home in Europe, is among the bleakest symptoms of our times. The people power we saw embodied in the strikes in the GdaĹ„sk shipyards, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even the Arab spring has not presaged the new era of democracy we once hoped for. Instead, the 21st century is becoming defined as a new era of agile autocracy and vicious strong-man rule. As the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, prepared the UK's response to last Sunday's forced landing of a Ryanair jet by a Belarusian MiG-29 over its airspace to secure the trumped-up detention of a well-known democracy activist, Roman Protasevich, it must have crossed his mind that Britain's response would have been so much stronger within the EU. The UK is now a little Sir Echo, weakening the west. It is part of the reason why Belarus's president, Alexander Lukashenko, can act with impunity, as he refuses to acknowledge his loss of last's August presidential election. Continue reading... |
| Workers are again learning the power of collectivism | Torsten Bell Posted: 30 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT As even Uber recognises the GMB, and the pandemic threatens jobs, it is no surprise that more employees are joining unions You need to take good news where you can find it. Last week, that place was new trade union membership statistics. The story for decades has been that unions are in irreversible decline, but membership in 2020 rose by 118,000 to 6.6m, the biggest increase for two decades and the fourth year in a row that employee membership has increased – something not seen since the 1970s. This is good news for everyone who wants to see the quality of work rise and inequality fall. But it's not time to welcome a new collectivist dawn just yet. All of last year's growth came from the pandemic-induced growth of the public sector, where 52% of employees are members (as against 13% in the private sector). That isn't a sustainable basis for revival. Low-paid workers are at most risk from labour market abuses, but least likely to be in a union: just 3% of hospitality workers are members. Meanwhile, the fact that baby boomers, with higher unionisation rates, are retiring poses a long-term drag to membership. Continue reading... |
| Helio Castroneves wins record-tying fourth Indianapolis 500 at age of 46 Posted: 30 May 2021 01:19 PM PDT
Helio Castroneves joined the exclusive club of four-time Indianapolis 500 winners on Sunday. At 46, and one of the oldest drivers in the field, he sprinted along the frontstretch of the speedway after his victory, waving to the 135,000 fans in attendance. He was interrupted during his victory jog by other drivers and most of Team Penske, the organization he spent more than two decades with and won three Indy 500s. Continue reading... |
| Naomi Osaka fined for media snub and threatened with French Open expulsion Posted: 30 May 2021 10:23 AM PDT
Naomi Osaka has been fined $15,000 (£10,570) for her refusal to "honour her contractual media obligations" following her 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over Patricia Maria Tig in her first-round match at Roland Garros on Sunday. In a lengthy and stern statement released shortly after her win, the four grand slam tournaments warned that should Osaka repeatedly violate the rules, she could be "exposing herself" to sanctions including being thrown out of the tournament and a major offence investigation that could lead to future grand slam suspensions. Continue reading... |
| Martínez angry with ‘reckless’ Rüdiger after De Bruyne suffers facial fractures Posted: 30 May 2021 04:56 AM PDT
Kevin De Bruyne suffered an acute fracture of the nose and an orbital fracture to his left eye socket in Manchester City's 1-0 Champions League final defeat to Chelsea on Saturday. The Belgian midfielder has left hospital but faces a wait regarding how the injuries heal before his availability for Euro 2020 can be determined. De Bruyne was injured in a challenge with Chelsea's Antonio RĂĽdiger just before the hour mark in Porto. Continue reading... |
| Chelsea eye Romelu Lukaku as Tuchel targets Premier League title challenge Posted: 30 May 2021 02:30 PM PDT
Thomas Tuchel is planning a move for Romelu Lukaku as he considers how to build a dynasty at Chelsea and mould a side capable of challenging for the Premier League title next season after winning the Champions League on Saturday night. Chelsea became European champions for the second time after their 1-0 victory over Manchester City at the Estadio do DragĂŁo and Tuchel, who is close to signing a new two-year deal, is already hungry for more success. The manager, who met the club's owner, Roman Abramovich, in person for the first time on Saturday, is targeting a maximum of three signings this summer and is keen to increase his options in attack, with Internazionale's Lukaku prominent in his thoughts. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo Olympics: local fans may need to show vaccination proof or negative Covid test Posted: 30 May 2021 11:37 PM PDT Games authorities are relying on Japan's spectators to provide atmosphere but are now in a race against time to inoculate population Sports fans in Japan could be allowed to attend Olympic events in Tokyo this summer if they have proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test, a newspaper reported on Monday. While many athletes are expected to have been fully vaccinated by late July, poor planning and staff shortages mean most Japanese citizens will still be waiting for a jab when the Olympics begin in less than two months' time. Continue reading... |
| Dominic Thiem loses lead and crashes out of French Open to Pablo Andújar Posted: 30 May 2021 11:41 AM PDT
For much of Sunday afternoon Dominic Thiem appeared to be right on track. He had established a two sets to love lead against the world No 68, he generated a break point in the third set and he seemed to be on his way to a solid win. But then, out of the blue at 3-4 in the third set, he inexplicably threw in four unforced errors in a row and lost his service game to love. Thiem would spend the rest of the day trying to regain his momentum and he was ultimately unsuccessful. The fourth seed and two-times Roland Garros finalist squandered his two sets lead in its entirety as Pablo AndĂşjar, a recent victor over Roger Federer, triumphed 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Continue reading... |
| World champions USA fail to qualify for Olympic men’s basketball 3x3 Posted: 30 May 2021 10:21 AM PDT
The US men's 3x3 team has failed to qualify for this summer's Olympics, marking the first time a Team USA basketball has missed out on a Games they have entered. The American disappointment was offset by the women's team booking their place in Tokyo. The men's team were the defending world champions but the roster at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Austria had only one player, Robbie Hummel, with any meaningful NBA experience. The team lost in the quarterfinals to the Netherlands on Sunday, ending their hopes of winning a place in Tokyo. No current NBA players were being considered for the 3x3 tournament at the Olympics. Continue reading... |
| Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier dies aged 19 after accident in qualifying Posted: 30 May 2021 04:09 AM PDT
The Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier has died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident during qualifying on Saturday, MotoGP has announced. The 19-year-old Swiss was hit by another bike after falling from his own at Mugello in Italy. "Following a serious incident in the Moto3 qualifying two session at the Gran Premio d'Italia, it is with great sadness that we report the passing of Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier," MotoGP said on its official website. Continue reading... |
| Can the US avoid another Trump? Posted: 30 May 2021 07:00 PM PDT Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes has travelled the world looking for clues to how the US came to elect Donald Trump and he found parallels everywhere. But is there a way of stopping it from happening again? When Donald Trump won the US election in 2016 it upturned the assumptions of many in America about who was electable to the highest office in the land. It seemed obvious to many that Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton and yet he won a stunning victory. For the former Obama aide Ben Rhodes it was a moment to take stock and search for clues as to how it could have happened. He tells Anushka Asthana that his quest took him around the world to countries that had elected their own 'strongman' leaders. He asks what lessons can be learned to avoid another Trump-style presidency? Continue reading... |
| Mare of Easttown: 20 questions the finale must answer Posted: 30 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT Who's in the photograph? And just what is in those journals? As the Kate Winslet thriller comes to a close, here are the mysteries we're desperate to see solved Warning: this article contains spoilers for episodes one to six of Mare of Easttown. Mare of Easttown has become a bona fide phenomenon. A thriller revolving around an aloof, small-town detective tracking down the perps of the sexual abuse and murder of girls is pretty much the least original idea there is, but its combination of phenomenal performances (Kate Winslet is one of the best actors working today), surprising comic chops (Jean Smart is hilarious) and breadth of suspects has proved gripping. The show even has Stephen King hooked. Who knew a bunch of bearded men in flannel shirts could be this interesting? Continue reading... |
| The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid review – a devastating analysis Posted: 31 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT Lawrence Wright's deep research reveals the oversights and errors that fatally hampered the US reponse to Covid It has become an embarrassingly well known fact that in the 2019 Global Health Security Index, the US was ranked No 1 in the world for preparedness for a pandemic (the UK, almost as embarrassingly, was No 2). Exactly how the US became the worst affected country in the world – more than 590,000 Americans have so far died from Covid – is now the subject of much finger-pointing debate. Recently, Michael Lewis's Premonition looked at a group of people in public health in the US who warned of what was coming but were ignored. Lawrence Wright, who is a master of knitting together complex narratives, takes a much broader view of the proceedings in The Plague Year. Continue reading... |
| BJ Thomas, singer of Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head, dies at 78 Posted: 30 May 2021 05:41 AM PDT Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts announced in March he had lung cancer BJ Thomas, a Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts with hits including Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head and Hooked on a Feeling, has died. He was 78. Thomas, who announced in March that he had lung cancer, died on Saturday at his home in Arlington, Texas, his publicist said. Continue reading... |
| Neil Finn on the return of Crowded House: ‘I am ultimately very optimistic about the world’ Posted: 30 May 2021 10:30 AM PDT As the band release their first record in a decade, the New Zealand songwriter reflects on their influences – from Fleetwood Mac to Donald Trump Neil Finn, New Zealand music's jovial elder statesman, is remembering his best friend and bandmate Paul Hester. He recalls the Crowded House drummer holding Finn's baby son Liam up to the heavens, recreating a scene from the 70s TV show Roots; how Hester taught Liam's younger brother, Elroy, to play the drums. But Hester's gone now – he took his own life in 2005. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT After a decade in Hollywood, French actor Omar Sy returned home to star in Netflix's much-loved hit, Lupin. He talks about playing the charming thief, growing up with Arsenal's Nicolas Anelka and his battle with racism Actors, obliged to exhaustively market their wares, will pose for hours in front of posters of their latest film or TV show. They'll hop between city premieres, sit on dreary festival panels, tell rehearsed comic stories on night-time talkshows, then get up early to be on breakfast radio. Before meeting Omar Sy, a 43-year-old Frenchman who stars in the massively popular Netflix drama Lupin, I'd never heard of an actor picking up a bucket and brush to spend a day gluing up their own billboard posters on the Paris metro. Sy, who is 6ft 2in, born in a working-class Parisian suburb to West African parents, explains the thinking behind this unusual marketing stunt that took place just before the first series of Lupin debuted earlier this year. "A lot of people know me in Paris," begins Sy, who worked as a comedian in France through his 20s before becoming a film star there in his early 30s. "Because people in France have watched me in stuff for years, I'm used to meeting strangers who recognise me and who already have smiles on their faces." In Lupin, lightly adapted from the classic heist books by Maurice Leblanc, Sy plays a French-Senegalese man called Assane Diop, an anonymous Parisian who is used to being ignored and overlooked in his home town, but who is willing to use that to his advantage while robbing the city's jet-set blind. "The show is entertainment and we want to have fun with it," he says, "but at the same time we're talking about something very serious: that some people in France are simply not seen." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 May 2021 10:02 AM PDT American folk singer and lesbian activist who formed her own music production company Alix Dobkin, who has died aged 80 from a brain aneurysm and stroke, was an American folk singer and lesbian activist who coined the term "women's music," which morphed into its own genre. A performer in the New York folk scene of the 1960s, Dobkin had come to feminist activism after hearing the writer Germaine Greer interviewed in 1970 by Liza Cowan, then a radio host, during a pivotal moment in the women's liberation movement. As a result, Dobkin began talking with other feminists in consciousness-raising groups about male supremacy and women's oppression. Continue reading... |
| ‘I wasn’t what you’d call sensible’: a walk on the wild side with Call My Agent’s Liliane Rovère Posted: 30 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT The actor's remarkable life fed into the character of Arlette in the Netflix hit, from growing up Jewish in occupied France, via Left Bank jazz and a relationship with Chet Baker, to global fame in her 80s If you're an actor in the rare position of becoming internationally famous in your 80s, then it's rather fitting to achieve it with a role that ripely resembles you. In recent years the world has come to know the veteran French actor Liliane Rovère as Arlette AzĂ©mar, the seasoned "impresario" – as she prefers to be known – in the French TV series Dix Pour Cent, AKA Call My Agent!. The show has become a global hit on Netflix, and Arlette has struck a chord as everyone's ideal disreputable aunt with a repertoire of outrageous stories that she just might tell if the burgundy is flowing. She is the sly, sharp-tongued doyenne of top Paris talent agency ASK, who knows where the bodies are buried, and just when to dig them up. It is easy to imagine that Arlette is Rovère. You can just see Arlette reading Nietzsche while listening to Charlie Parker and smoking a joint – and if you dip into Rovère's 2019 memoir, La Folle Vie de Lili, you'll see that she depicts herself doing just that on the first page. Likewise, it came as no surprise in season two to learn that Arlette had supposedly had a youthful romance with jazz legend Chet Baker – a plotline that also came directly from Rovère's own "wild life". Continue reading... |
| Republicans who embraced Trump’s big lie run to become election officials Posted: 30 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT Countrywide campaigns for secretaries of state underscore new Republican focus to take control of election administration Republicans who have embraced baseless claims about the 2020 election being stolen are now running to serve as the chief elections officials in several states, a move that could give them significant power over election processes. Continue reading... |
| Tulsa massacre: centennial of white mob rampage to be commemorated in Oklahoma Posted: 30 May 2021 08:43 AM PDT
One of the darkest chapters in the long and turbulent history of racial violence in America will be commemorated in Oklahoma on Monday, the 100th anniversary of a rampage by a white mob that left an estimated 300 Black people dead. Related: 'They didn't talk about it': how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past Continue reading... |
| ‘Real compromise’ possible on Biden infrastructure plan, key Republican says Posted: 30 May 2021 10:31 AM PDT
Negotiations with Joe Biden over a potentially massive infrastructure investment package are inching forward even though disagreements remain over the size and scope of such legislation, Republican senator Shelley Moore Capito said on Sunday. Related: Joe Biden seeks Republican buy-in but how long before patience snaps? Continue reading... |
| US seeks dismissal of cases against Trump for clearing Lafayette Square Posted: 29 May 2021 05:36 AM PDT Last June, law enforcement removed protesters before the then president walked to a church for a photo op with a Bible Lawsuits filed by protesters who were forcefully removed from a park near the White House before a photo op for Donald Trump last June should be dismissed because the new administration is not likely to repeat such behavior, federal lawyers said on Friday. Related: Judge to appoint a 'special master' in Rudy Giuliani case Continue reading... |
| ‘They failed us’: how mining and logging devastated a Pacific island in a decade Posted: 30 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT Rennell Island, in Solomon Islands, has suffered the triple assault of extensive logging, bauxite mining, and a devastating oil spill from a carrier hired by a mining company There is perhaps nowhere in the Pacific where the costs of extractive industries are as heartbreakingly clear as Rennell Island. The island, a tiny dot in the vast South Pacific that lies at the southern tip of Solomon Islands, is home to a few thousand people. And it's starkly divided. Continue reading... |
| US must share intelligence on Covid origins, WHO-affiliated expert says Posted: 30 May 2021 08:19 AM PDT Theory that coronavirus leaked out of a Wuhan lab was 'not off the table', Dale Fisher says A health expert affiliated with the World Health Organization has called on the US to share any intelligence it has about the origins of the coronavirus outbreak with the WHO and the scientific community. Last week the Wall Street Journal cited US intelligence agencies who said they were told that three unnamed members of staff at a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan were sick enough to go hospital in November 2019 with Covid-like symptoms. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand flooding: state of emergency in Canterbury, with hundreds evacuated Posted: 30 May 2021 05:07 PM PDT The MetService has issued a red warning for heavy rain in Canterbury and multiple warnings elsewhere Hundreds of people have been evacuated and many more face being forced to abandon their homes in New Zealand's Canterbury region as heavy rains raise water levels and cause widespread flooding. A state of emergency was declared for the entire Canterbury region and at least 300 homes were evacuated overnight as water levels rose in rivers across the region in a "one-in-100-year deluge", local media reports said on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Gunmen in Nigeria abduct about 150 students from Islamic school Posted: 30 May 2021 05:29 PM PDT One person shot dead after armed gang on motorcycles attack town in north-central Nigeria, 'shooting indiscriminately' An armed gang has abducted students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger. The school's owner, Abubakar Tegina, told Reuters he witnessed the attack and estimated about 150 students had been taken. "I personally saw between 20 and 25 motorcycles with heavily armed people. They entered the school and went away with about 150 or more of the students," said Tegina, who lives around 150 metres from the school. Continue reading... |
| Italy cable car crash detainees released from prison Posted: 30 May 2021 04:12 AM PDT Judge places one of the three men under house arrest as investigation into brake tampering continues An Italian judge has ruled that three men detained over a cable car crash that killed 14 people in northern Italy can leave prison, with one of them being placed under house arrest. In the crash a week ago, a gondola on the cable connecting the Lake Maggiore resort town of Stresa to a nearby mountain plunged to the ground, killing all aboard apart from a five-year-old Israeli boy who remains in hospital. Continue reading... |
| Catholics question why Boris Johnson was able to marry in church Posted: 30 May 2021 10:28 AM PDT Clergy and worshippers raise query as faith's law does not recognise divorce Catholics, including members of the congregation at Westminster Cathedral, have questioned why the prime minister was able to be married in a Catholic church following his two previous divorces. Boris Johnson married Carrie Symonds at the cathedral in a ceremony with 30 friends and family on Saturday, planned in strict secrecy and reportedly carried out by Father Daniel Humphreys, who baptised their son Wilfred last year. Continue reading... |
| ‘Cruel and unusual punishment’: hotel guide’s verdict on Cornish G7 venue Posted: 30 May 2021 03:30 AM PDT Five-star Carbis Bay will not inspire the world's top politicians, says hospitality expert Adam Raphael Draped in the finery of the Cornish coastline, the Carbis Bay hotel is not an obvious double for the Bangkok Hilton. Yet the resort's immaculate beach and tranquil woodland setting have failed to persuade The Good Hotel Guide otherwise. By choosing the hotel as the venue for the G7 summit, Boris Johnson has "decided to inflict a cruel and unusual punishment" on Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, according to the guide's editor, Adam Raphael. Continue reading... |
| EU Commission calls on UK to ditch ideology over Northern Ireland protocol Posted: 30 May 2021 12:07 PM PDT Maroš Šefčovič says he is trying to iron out disruption to businesses caused by the protocol A senior European Commission figure has defended the Northern Ireland protocol, calling on the UK government to ditch ideology in favour of pragmatism in order to transform problems arising from the Brexit deal. Maroš Šefčovič said he was looking at "solutions" to iron out disruption to businesses caused by the protocol, a key part of the Brexit agreement designed to protect the bloc's single market at its frontier with the UK on the island of Ireland, without a return to a hard border. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT Across the region, mining, logging and fishing have formed the basis of economies and development, but have sometimes come at catastrophic cost
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| Work is where your laptop is: meet the globetrotting digital nomads Posted: 30 May 2021 08:02 AM PDT Worldwide shift to flexible and home working in pandemic has led to rise of new kind of backpacker Samantha Scott does not miss her daily commutes in London, particularly "the dread of having to wake up and get on the tube, and heading into work sweaty and flustered. I'm still waking up at 6 or 7am, but I'm able to go for a walk on the beach before I start work." When she and her partner Chris Cerra arrive with their luggage in a new city, they can easily be mistaken for tourists. But they are part of a new generation of "digital nomads" who hop from country to country to live and work. Continue reading... |
| The ice cream owner who tried, failed – and now owes $200,000 | Gene Marks Posted: 30 May 2021 04:00 AM PDT Red tape put father-of-two Jason Yu out of business in San Francisco before he could even start He tried, and he failed. But the worst part is he never got a chance to even start. And now he's got a $200,000 debt to pay off. That's the story of Jason Yu, a 30-year-old father of two who had the audacity to attempt to open up an ice cream shop in San Francisco's Mission District. Unfortunately, the city got in his way. Continue reading... |
| American uprising: three US cities cracked down on protesters – their histories tell us why Posted: 30 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT In cities where police gassed protesters, investigation finds history of racial oppression and struggle to implement reforms One year ago, in the week after George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police, an uprising ripped across the country at a dizzying pace. As millions flooded the streets police used teargas against demonstrators in more than 100 cities, producing a sense that the nation teetered on the edge of chaos and revolution. Some of the cities were not large metropolitan areas, but medium-sized towns that exemplified political and social forces that have repressed Black communities for nearly 100 years. The Guardian examined three cities – Asheville, North Carolina; Wichita, Kansas; and Spokane, Washington – and found similar trends were at play. Continue reading... |
| 1921 Tulsa race massacre remembered – in pictures Posted: 31 May 2021 01:18 AM PDT One of the darkest chapters in the long and turbulent history of racial violence in America is commemorated in Oklahoma on Monday, the 100th anniversary of a rampage by a white mob that left an estimated 300 Black people dead. Hundreds of Black-owned businesses, churches and homes were burned, leaving about 8,000 homeless and a further 800 injured Continue reading... |
| Gigs, protests and messing about in boats: the weekend’s best photos Posted: 30 May 2021 06:26 AM PDT |
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