Biden condemns ruling against race-conscious admissions: ‘This is not a normal court’ – live (www.theguardian.com)
US president says ‘the court once again walked away from decades of precedent’, as Democrats decry supreme court’s affirmative action ruling
French police’s tendency to violence questioned after latest killing (www.theguardian.com)
How Europe’s far right is marching steadily into the mainstream (www.theguardian.com)
Russia reducing its presence at nuclear plant, says Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time (www.theguardian.com)
‘Gay furries’ group hacks agencies in US states attacking gender-affirming care (www.theguardian.com)
Data released by SiegedSec from six states includes South Carolina police files and contact details for Nebraska court officials
Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports (www.theguardian.com)
French newspaper staff strike after ‘far-right personality’ made editor (www.theguardian.com)
National Geographic reportedly lays off its last staff writers (www.theguardian.com)
Nineteen staffers affected, according to Washington Post, with celebrated magazine to end newsstand sales
National Geographic reportedly lays off its last staff writers (www.theguardian.com)
‘It’s not like science fiction any more’: Nasa aiming to make spaceships talk (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Researcher Dr Larissa Suzuki tells how Nasa is developing a ChatGPT-style interface
Young Australians far less likely than parents to shift to right as they get older (www.theguardian.com)
Wagner mercenaries will not be withdrawn from Africa, says Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Sergei Lavrov moves to reassure sub-Saharan allies after recent armed mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin
Amazon facing ‘urgent’ drug crisis after gutting of protections, says narcotics chief (www.theguardian.com)
Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza (www.theguardian.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene implies she thinks she’s being spied on via her TV (www.theguardian.com)
Draft EU plans to allow spying on journalists are dangerous, warn critics (www.theguardian.com)
No bed or bath: New Zealand boat shed sells for record $2m despite housing market crash (www.theguardian.com)
Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine (www.theguardian.com)
A worker at San Antonio’s international airport died after being sucked into a jet’s engine late on Friday, officials said.
Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics (www.theguardian.com)
Britain’s shorter children reveal a grim story about austerity, but its scars run far deeper | Michael Marmot (www.theguardian.com)
Since 2010, our five-year-olds have been showing signs of reduced growth, a likely symptom of policies that have led to impoverished lives
Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by nitrogen pollution crisis (www.theguardian.com)
There is much to say about these events, one sentence that caught my eye was: "Why are we so strict in Belgium and in the Netherlands? Because we are already exceeding the critical loads.”
Wagner troops may reach Moscow by evening as Kremlin hurries to intercept (www.theguardian.com)
Convoy of fighters loyal to Yevgeny Prigozhin advances north after breaking through barricades in Lipetsk
Wagner chief claims to have seized military sites in Rostov as Moscow implements anti-terror measures (www.theguardian.com)
In videos posted on social media early on Saturday, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that he was at the headquarters of the Southern Military District (SMD) in Rostov and demanded that defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general Valery Gerasimov come to the city, 1,000 kilometres south of Moscow. The videos could not be...