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• Fired Florida scientist builds coronavirus site showing far more cases than state reports

  12-06-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fired scientist Rebekah Jones’ site shows thousands more people with COVID-19 than the site run by the Florida Health Department.
  
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• Democrats decry Trump’s Venezuela operation while Republicans praise ‘outstanding’ effort after classified briefing – live

  07-01-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Senators hear briefing from Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth; Chuck Schumer says ‘the public needs answers’ after what Democrats describe as an unsatisfactory meetingMiranda Bryant, the Guardian’s Nordic correspondent, also has written this handy explainer on why Donald Trump is renewing calls for a takeover of Greenland: Continue reading...
  
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• UK LGBTQ+ charities are in ‘hostile environment’ amid falling donations, experts warn

  07-01-2026 17:59 via theguardian.com
  Stonewall’s corporate funding halves against backdrop of US attacks on DEI and freezing of aid for LGBTQ+ causesLGBTQ+ charities in the UK are operating in a newly “hostile environment”, experts have warned, as the ripple effect of Donald Trump’s attacks on equalities programmes sharpens financial pressures.The concerns come as yearly accounts submitted by Stonewall, the UK’s biggest LGBTQ+ charity, revealed corporate donations had more than halved in the last finan
  
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• ‘No state has the right to use force against ships,’ says Moscow after US seizes Russian-flagged tanker – live

  07-01-2026 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Marinera, also known as the Bella 1, has been taken over in North Atlantic with second Venezuela-linked vessel seized in CaribbeanPeople in Greenland, share your views on Donald Trump’s commentsMeanwhile, in the UK, Nigel Farage has offered his take on Trump’s plans to control Greenland, saying it would be “outrageous” for the US to seize it from Denmark.Farage says he agrees with Starmer that the fate of Greenland must be decided by Greenland and Denmark, not the US &nda
  
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• Police arrest two men accused of absconding from HMP Leyhill

  07-01-2026 17:49 via theguardian.com
  Officers find murderer Matthew Armstrong, 35, in Warwickshire and Daniel Washbourne, 40, in BristolA convicted murderer and a second man have been arrested after allegedly absconding from an open prison on New Year’s Day, police have said.Matthew Armstrong, 35, and Daniel Washbourne, 40, left HMP Leyhill, South Gloucestershire, between 5pm and 8pm on 1 January. Continue reading...
  
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• Farage says he would vote against deploying British troops to Ukraine – UK politics live

  07-01-2026 17:47 via theguardian.com
  Farage claims that ‘we neither have the manpower nor the equipment’ to get involved in Ukraine during Time Radio interviewFarage is now talking about London, where council elections are taking place.He says that Sadiq Khan has said he will run for a fourth term as mayor. Continue reading...
  
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• Reform London mayor candidate accused of talking down capital with ‘pity’ remark

  07-01-2026 17:24 via theguardian.com
  Laila Cunningham tells press conference that people pity Londoners for having to live in a city that is ‘no longer safe’UK politics live – latest updatesReform’s new London mayoral candidate has been accused of “talking down” the UK’s capital, after she said that people “pity” Londoners.Laila Cunningham, a former senior crown prosecutor and a Reform Westminster city councillor, used a central London press conference to paint a picture of the
  
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• UK helped US seize Russian-flagged tanker, defence ministry says

  07-01-2026 17:23 via theguardian.com
  John Healey confirms RAF provided extra surveillance and navy refuelling while capture under wayEurope live – latest updatesBritain’s Ministry of Defence said it had provided military help to the US forces that seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker north-west of the British Isles, arguing the operation was legitimate because the vessel had breached sanctions on Iran.John Healey, the defence secretary, said the UK had allowed US aircraft to use bases to prepare for and carry out the mis
  
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• Amsterdam airport cancels at least 800 flights because of snow and wind

  07-01-2026 17:03 via theguardian.com
  Camp beds set up as more than 1,000 travellers spend night at key flight hub during freezing European weatherEurope live – latest updatesSnow and ice has continued to cause chaos across parts of Europe, grounding flights and clogging roads, with about 1,000 people forced to spend the night at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport as staff worked to clear snow from runways.At least 800 flights were cancelled on Wednesday at Schiphol, one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs. Continue readin
  
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• US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker in Atlantic after two-week pursuit

  07-01-2026 16:56 via theguardian.com
  US coastguard reportedly boards the Marinera, facing no resistance but risking confrontation with MoscowEurope live – latest updatesThe US has seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean in a high-stakes operation that could risk confrontation with the Kremlin after Moscow reportedly dispatched a submarine to safeguard the vessel.The Marinera, formerly known as the Bella 1, “was seized in the North Atlantic pursuant to a warrant issued by a US federal court after being
  
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• Venezuela to continue supplying oil to US ‘indefinitely’, White House says

  07-01-2026 16:20 via theguardian.com
  US to remove some sanctions to allow it to keep selling country’s supplies after laying claim to blockaded crudeBusiness live – latest updatesThe US plans to control Venezuela’s oil sales “indefinitely” after laying claim to 50m barrels of blockaded crude and seizing a Russian oil tanker linked to the South American country.The White House already plans to sell up to $3bn (£2.2bn) worth of Venezuelan crude stranded in tankers and storage facilities into the ov
  
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• Trump administration reportedly warns Maduro ally Diosdado Cabello could be next

  07-01-2026 16:15 via theguardian.com
  Washington signals interior minister must back acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, or face Nicolás Maduro’s fateThe Trump administration has reportedly put Venezuela’s hardline interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, on notice that he could be next to fall if he does not support the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, who has been in power since the Nicolás Maduro was seized on Saturday.Reuters reported that US officials are “especially concerned” t
  
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• Highly transmissible flu strain infects more than 2,500 Australians

  07-01-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Unseasonably high rate of influenza, dubbed Super-K, comes as vaccination rates plummet among those most vulnerable, GPs sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 2,500 Australians have rung in the new year with a highly transmissible new strain of influenza, and health authorities are on alert for what could be Australia’s worst year since tracking began 35 years ago.Last year’s record, when more than half a million Australians contracted a laboratory-c
  
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• Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject ‘inadequate’ $108bn Paramount bid

  07-01-2026 14:52 via theguardian.com
  Board unwilling to accept hostile takeover despite $40bn guarantee from billionaire Larry EllisonWarner Bros Discovery (WBD) has again told its shareholders to reject an “inadequate” $108.4bn (£80bn) hostile takeover bid by Paramount Skydance amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the media conglomerate.Paramount, controlled by the billionaire Ellison family, had sought to combat WBD’s criticism of its offer and claims it had “consistently misled” i
  
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• MPs would get vote on troop deployment to Ukraine, says Keir Starmer

  07-01-2026 14:19 via theguardian.com
  UK and France ready to send peacekeeping troops, PM tells House of CommonsUK politics live – latest updatesMPs will have a debate and vote before any UK troops are deployed on peacekeeping duties in Ukraine, Keir Starmer has announced at prime minister’s questions.Speaking after Britain and France said they would be willing to send troops if there was a peace deal, following discussions at a wider summit in Paris, Starmer was pressed by Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, as to w
  
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• US suspends funds for needy families in five Democratic-led states

  07-01-2026 14:14 via theguardian.com
  Administration has alleged fraud in decision to halt grants from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New YorkDonald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about fraud.The US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the program, will require the states to provide extra documentation to access the funds.The child care and development fund sub
  
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• Brigitte Bardot laid to rest in funeral ceremony broadcast across Saint-Tropez

  07-01-2026 14:09 via theguardian.com
  Service attended by singers, animal rights activists and public figures including far-right leader Marine Le PenBrigitte Bardot, the film star turned animal rights activist, has been laid to rest after a funeral service in Saint-Tropez attended by her favourite politician, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen.Bardot died aged 91 at her La Madrague villa on 28 December. Her funeral was held at the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church and broadcast on large screens across the town. Continue readi
  
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• Australia’s cost of living ‘getting crazier’ as nearly half of lower-income families worry about affording school shoes

  07-01-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Nine in 10 families are worried about price of back-to-school essentials as inflation continues to bite, research has foundFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesBudgeting for Laura, a single mother of four, often means deciding between buying enough food or paying her electricity bill on time.“Some weeks we’re good, some weeks we’re down and I have to go into the community and ask for vouchers,” she says. The down weeks have been happening more since the p
  
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• First flight of 2026 under UK ‘one in, one out’ asylum scheme cancelled

  07-01-2026 13:55 via theguardian.com
  Detainees under scheme to return people entering UK on small boats told their plane tickets have been cancelledThe first flight of 2026 to return asylum seekers who came to the UK on small boats to France has been cancelled, the Guardian understands.Detainees earmarked for the UK government’s “one in, one out” scheme who had tickets for a flight on Wednesday morning to Paris were told their tickets had been cancelled. Continue reading...
  
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• Yemen separatist leader to make last stand after rejecting Saudi ultimatum, supporters say

  07-01-2026 13:47 via theguardian.com
  Saudi airstrikes hit Aidarous al-Zubaidi’s military camps after he defies a demand to travel to Riyadh for talksThe leader of Yemen’s routed southern separatist movement, Aidarous al-Zubaidi, has decided to make a defiant last stand in Aden, his supporters say, rejecting a Saudi ultimatum to travel to Riyadh for talks and – for now – a plan to flee the southern capital.Al-Zubaidi, the president of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), has been gathering his remaining t
  
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• Trump claims Venezuela is set for an oil boom after US attack – history points to a bumpy road ahead

  07-01-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  From Venezuela to Libya to Iraq, removal of dictators has not always guaranteed a surge in oil production, data showsHours after Nicolás Maduro was captured by US special forces in Venezuela and indicted on drugs, weapons and “narco-terrorism” charges, Donald Trump spoke extensively about his plans for something else entirely: oil.Venezuela’s oil reserves – reputedly the world’s largest – are set to be pumped by a parade of powerful US oil companies, ac
  
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• White House says using US military ‘always an option’ for acquiring Greenland | First Thing

  07-01-2026 12:41 via theguardian.com
  Trump demands Venezuela open up to US oil companies or risk more military action. Plus, justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein filesDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Donald Trump and his advisers are looking at “a range of options” in an effort to acquire Greenland, noting in a White House statement on Tuesday that using the US military to do so is “always an option”.How are the US’s European allies respondi
  
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• ‘Astounding’ vaccine change puts US behind peer countries, experts warn

  07-01-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Scientists predict increased disease outbreaks after Trump officials no longer recommend third of childhood vaccinesThe bombshell announcement that the Trump administration no longer fully recommends a third of childhood vaccines means the US moved from leading globally on vaccination to lagging behind other high-income nations in preventing disease, experts say.The move is the latest and most significant escalation against vaccines from Robert F Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine skeptic and curren
  
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• Maga media stars back Trump on Venezuela … mostly: ‘It doesn’t make any sense’

  07-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Maga media used to hate US foreign intervention – now some are cheering it on“I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars,” Donald Trump said after declaring victory on 6 November 2024. It wasn’t his first pledge to disengage the US from foreign conflicts, and Trump’s top allies in conservative media and the “Make America Great Again” (Maga) movement have all rallied to his pledge to “put America first”.Now that the US pr
  
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• Melbourne swelters through hottest day in six years as severe heatwave descends on Australia’s south-eastern states

  07-01-2026 09:39 via theguardian.com
  Hot conditions for NSW, Victoria, South Australia, the ACT, Tasmania and WA as authorities warn of high fire dangerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMelbourne has recorded 41C, the hottest day in six years, and Adelaide’s temperature has reached 43C as a heatwave not seen since the deadly black summer bushfires has caused “really dangerous” conditions and bushfire warnings in several states.Severe to
  
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• Labor group urges Albanese to rescind invitation to Israeli president Isaac Herzog

  07-01-2026 08:50 via theguardian.com
  Friends of Palestine has criticised the decision to invite Israel’s head of state to Australia in a sign of further strain within the Labor movementGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA group of rank-and-file Labor party members has urged the Albanese government to rescind its invitation for the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, to visit Australia, voicing outrage over his country’s military bombardment of Gaza.In signs of further strain inside the Labor movemen
  
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• PM attends funeral of Bondi victim – as it happened

  07-01-2026 08:29 via theguardian.com
  This blog is now closedMelbourne hits 41C as Australia’s most severe heatwave in six years descends on south-eastern statesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMinister says many in flood-hit areas in Queensland ‘in shock’ after lossesKristy McBain, the federal minister for emergency management, said it would take some time to determinate the full impact of widespread flooding in parts of Queensland, noting for many primary producers, it will be the second
  
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• Trump says he is seeking to acquire Greenland

  07-01-2026 05:32 via nbcnews.com
  Trump says he is seeking to acquire Greenland
  
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• Grok faces backlash over generating explicit images

  07-01-2026 04:59 via nbcnews.com
  Grok faces backlash over generating explicit images
  
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• Baltimore Ravens fire head coach John Harbaugh

  07-01-2026 04:38 via nbcnews.com
  Baltimore Ravens fire head coach John Harbaugh
  
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