Australia to double penalty for social media ban breaches to $99m as tech giants accused of ‘not doing enough’ pred 3 urami in 36 minutami Prime minister Anthony Albanese says too many children still on platforms but he is ‘heartened’ by world-leading lawSocial media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdownGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government will double the penalty for breaches of Australia’s youth social media ban to $99m, arguing tech companies are “not doing enough” to keep children off harmful social media sites.And the eSafety commissioner, now investigating potential breaches of the law by Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, will have its information-gathering powers strengthened under proposed further reforms. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘I’m missing out’: the cash-strapped UK university students forced to live at home pred 4 urami in 6 minutami Experts say students from poorer backgrounds increasingly having to limit their options because of money worriesMost days, Mariam spends hours simply waiting.The 19-year-old University College London student often finishes her lectures by mid-morning but has careers events or society meetings in the evening. The three-hour round trip to her family home means travelling back and forth makes little sense, so she waits on campus instead. More often than not, by the time the event starts, she is too exhausted to stay long. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
The UFC match plot: how a far-right group tried to assassinate Trump at his own event pred 4 urami in 6 minutami Court files show how men connected through TikTok and encrypted apps planned attack on White House UFC fightWhen Tycen Proper, 19, finished high school, his family gave him at least $3,000 of “graduation money”, according to court documents. Despite the generosity, he seemed content to just live at his parents’ home, in a tiny Ohio town near Amish country, and spend more and more time on the internet.But Proper did have ambition of a kind, an affidavit says. He quit his job to focus on a special project that he was planning with friends from the internet. His mother saw him studying maps of Washington DC. He also put his graduation money into investments that made his father uneasy: a rifle, a shotgun, body armor, ammunition. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
David Hencke, Guardian journalist who exposed cash-for-questions scandal, dies aged 79 pred 4 urami in 35 minutami Former Westminster correspondent earned a reputation for uncovering political wrongdoing in the 1990sThe acclaimed journalist David Hencke, whose career at the Guardian spanned more than three decades, has died of liver cancer aged 79.As Westminster correspondent, Hencke was instrumental in exposing the cash-for-questions scandal that forced the resignations of two Conservative ministers, and the scoop that led to Peter Mandelson’s first resignation from government. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘Not a culture war’: the council that won its case over England flags on lampposts pred 4 urami in 51 minutami Leader of local authority in Oxfordshire faces backlash over injunction ‘to maintain neutral, safe space for residents’While Londoners scurried from building to building seeking shade on another baking hot day this week, one man paused in the shadow of the Royal Courts of Justice.The leader of Oxfordshire county council, Tim Bearder, was not only happy in the shade of the court’s gothic towers. He had just won a landmark legal victory. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘Not puff pieces and kid gloves’: why Bari Weiss is hiring British journalists at CBS News pred 5 urami in 6 minutami Editor-in-chief has developed network of UK thinkers she believes reject what she regards as overly ‘woke’ consensusIn the six years since she very publicly resigned from the New York Times, and in her tumultuous eight months as editor-in-chief of one of the US’s most prestigious television networks, Bari Weiss has become renowned as a media disruptor and challenger of what she regards as an overly “woke” journalistic consensus.As Weiss continues to face bitter internal and external opposition to her leadership of CBS News, she has been turning to figures from UK journalism in her attempts to tackle what she sees as US newsroom “groupthink”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘This isn’t about any one administration’: protests kick off in DC to reimagine the next 250 years in the US pred 5 urami in 6 minutami Next250’s Declaration of Interdependence, a new art gallery that features Americans’ collective values and hopes for the future, will open in McPherson SquareThousands are expected to gather a block away from the White House today to unveil their vision for America’s future.At the Next250 All of US rally, held a week before the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding, organizers will launch their Declaration of Interdependence, an art installation featuring the collective values they believe should define the next 250 years of America’s story. The pledge – a take on the Declaration of Independence, the country’s founding text – aims to build a country where everyone can earn a living wage, have access to green spaces and feel safe in their communities, activists said. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘It’s just so wrong’: Haitians in Ohio reel from supreme court TPS ruling pred 5 urami in 6 minutami After outrageous insults from Donald Trump, Haitians have helped to revive Springfield – now their future is uncertainThe embattled Haitian community of Springfield, Ohio is among many groups reeling after this week’s ruling from the supreme court that strips the legal immigration status from hundreds of thousands of Haitians living and working in the US – and could be a threat to more than a million.The Springfield community in particular had worked hard to remain resilient beyond the outrageous besmirching by Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign and further insults about Haiti delivered after he became the US president again. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Trump threatens 100% tariff on European countries that impose digital tax pred 5 urami in 45 minutami US president says levy would be imposed immediately and supersede pre-existing trade deals with the country Donald Trump has threatened to place a 100% import tariff on any European country that imposes a tax on digital services from US companies.Writing on Truth Social on Friday, the US president said that “numerous European countries” had been discussing putting a digital services tax on American companies and that “some of these countries are close to actually doing this”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Europe heatwave live: Germany braced for temperatures ‘well over 40C’; extreme heat warnings for England pred 6 urami in 35 minutami Forecasters say hottest conditions spreading into central and eastern EuropeWhile it will be a lot less hot in the UK, there is still an amber warning for extreme heat over parts of East Anglia and south-east England today.The Met Office has forecast today’s temperatures as follows:Aberdeen 22CBelfast 21CBirmingham 28CCardiff 27CGlasgow 22CLiverpool 28CLondon 32CNewcastle 27CPlymouth 23CSheffield 28C Continue reading...(The Guardian)
