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Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms ( www.theguardian.com )

The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change ( www.theguardian.com )

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94 ( www.theguardian.com )

Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday....

Pregnancy may speed up biological ageing, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )

Each pregnancy is linked with an additional two to three months of biological ageing, researchers say...

Palestinians return to destroyed homes in Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal ( www.theguardian.com )

Thousands of Palestinians, exhausted by six months of unrelenting war and multiple displacements, trudged back to the devastated city of Khan Younis on Monday, a day after Israel’s unexpected withdrawal of its forces from southern Gaza....

Vatican calls gender fluidity and surrogacy threats to human dignity ( www.theguardian.com )

I am so tired of the whole "cool pope" thing with Francis. It's 100% PR.

Police spammed with complaints by neo-Nazis under new Scottish hate crime law ( www.theguardian.com )

First minister calls for end to vexatious reports after far-right agitators attempt to ‘overwhelm’ official systems...

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe ( www.theguardian.com )

An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem...Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the...

Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a toxic idea in UK? ( www.theguardian.com )

‘I really wasn’t worried’: US man was getting vasectomy as earthquake struck ( www.theguardian.com )

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Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. ( www.theguardian.com )

(water is wet and fire is hot).

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza ( www.theguardian.com )

The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ ( www.theguardian.com )

New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought...

Malaysian shop chain that sold ‘Allah socks’ targeted with petrol bombs ( www.theguardian.com )

Three stores hit with molotov cocktails after pictures of socks deemed offensive by Muslims shared on social media...

Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing ( www.theguardian.com )

Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing ( www.theguardian.com )

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US-funded Radio Free Asia shuts down in Hong Kong over safety concerns ( www.theguardian.com )

US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) has closed its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns for its staff in the wake of a new national security law known as Article 23....

Europe must get ready for looming war, Donald Tusk warns ( www.theguardian.com )

The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, says Europe is entering a “prewar” era, cautioning that the continent is not ready and urging European countries to step up defence investment....

Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’ ( www.theguardian.com )

Descendants of enslaved miners who dug up gold, silver and emeralds worth billions call on Colombia to halt plan to lift cargo...

Luis Rubiales faces 30 month jail sentence for Jenni Hermoso kiss ( www.theguardian.com )

Luis Rubiales could face a prison sentence of two and a half years if convicted of kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips against her will, court documents have shown. The former Spanish football federation chief has been charged with one count of sexual assault and one of coercion in the aftermath of the kiss, offences carrying jail...

Why is the right at war with cyclists? We’re not ‘wokerati’ – we’re just trying to get around | Zoe Williams ( www.theguardian.com )

‘Madness’: Netanyahu’s handling of US relations under scrutiny after UN vote | Benjamin Netanyahu ( www.theguardian.com )

Russia lauding torture was unthinkable – now it is proud to do so ( www.theguardian.com )

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Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments ( www.theguardian.com )

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...