Gavin Newsom reckons if the Supreme Court were to find California’s law invalid, it would have to throw out the abortion one in Texas, which is similarly structured https://t.co/N21kfJVE2Y
It may already be too late to avert calamity in Somalia, beset as it is by insurgency and drought. But the longer the world waits to help, the greater the suffering
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The truth is that no one knows whether Donald Trump will be charged over his attempted election theft. Yet there is no doubt that the case against him has hardened https://t.co/zM8c5H1EL5
The fact that Pedro Castillo has managed to stay in power despite the chaos surrounding his administration says a lot about one of Latin America’s most politically volatile countries https://t.co/RCXwO0ZuSq
Joe Biden was right to talk to Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Emmanuel Macron is right to talk to Vladimir Putin. Everyone needs to talk to China’s president, Xi Jinping https://t.co/C3GygcGgXl
Nuclear power stations provide 42% of France’s energy, compared with just 6% in Germany. This has helped shield France from the worst of Europe’s energy crunch—until now https://t.co/EvAdPSonGT
Xi Jinping warned Joe Biden against “interfering” with Taiwan during a phone call last night. These comments were provoked by a possible upcoming trip by Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan. Read why the visit is causing such fury: https://t.co/FnGnNMvLI9
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Whether you’re spending the holidays on the beach or the sofa, our first summer double issue is bursting with stories to keep you busy, from online magicians to big-cat hunters. Or delve into our archive for a selection of our favourite reads https://t.co/H1nP0i8sKC https://t.co/uSsUXeNfif
Somalia needs urgent help to avert a catastrophic famine https://t.co/dYFZ9w7TOM
At times it all seemed hopeless, as gleams of reform and democracy in Myanmar were continually snuffed out. But Ko Jimmy was a born optimist https://t.co/XqLizhVhUR
Some in the West want a return to business as usual once the war is over, but there can be no true peace with a fascist Russia
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A new generation of leaders would energise not just the House Democrats but the party https://t.co/aCiSlpNbn7
Under Vladimir Putin’s form of fascism, Russia is set on a course that knows no turning back. Without victimhood and the use of violence, Mr Putin has nothing to offer his people
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Just as Moscow conceals its war behind a “special military operation”, so it conceals its fascism behind a campaign to eradicate “Nazis” in Ukraine
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“Ukrainian troops back from the Kherson front are less sanguine. They say morale is improving, but complain about the lack of air-defence systems, artillery & munitions. “We have plenty of targets, but we can only choose one out of ten,” says a reservist” https://t.co/B1a7O4ww1w
Investigators appear to be building a criminal case against the former president https://t.co/5VFsHg9PjH
Clinical practice is already changing to emphasise dealing with environmental triggers of depression rather than deploying drugs https://t.co/DkdDQ3rl0m https://t.co/q7UmJPIl4L
The Democrats’ leaders are old. A party that yearns for the vigour and optimism of John Kennedy, and would happily settle for that of Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, finds itself yoked to the oldest president in history https://t.co/bnZpd8XwKA
Investigators appear to be building a criminal case against the former president https://t.co/pCwxnQLp7n
“Now that Ukraine’s survival is assured, its international allies must properly evaluate the scale and timeframe required to bring about victory,” argues the military expert in a guest essay for The Economist https://t.co/qsr1zExUTb
A landmark paper in the field of Alzheimer’s research has been accused of containing fabricated data. Whether this potential falsification is enough to topple the primacy of the amyloid hypothesis remains to be seen https://t.co/5wugEuDygf https://t.co/DagiHPhdit
The most extensive drought in four decades is wilting crops and killing livestock in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. More than 18m people in the region are struggling to find enough to eat
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America has the highest maternal mortality rate in the industrialised world. With the overturning of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that abortion was a constitutional right, it is likely to rise https://t.co/L9v5iCiBu9 https://t.co/v3CY0mdgPg
Our defence editor has picked five books you should read to understand modern warfare https://t.co/dkR3IU3hw8
We talk to Ted Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas, about the surge in illegal border crossings and what could fix the immigration system https://t.co/jC1iMznWJH
The World Health Organisation hopes efforts to curb the virus will intensify now it has declared a global emergency https://t.co/y1XQ9mvODU https://t.co/nger29RLdU
A Greek firm with Russian ties wants to buy the strategically important port of Alexandroupolis. The timing could not be worse https://t.co/biltQa7lO0
“These are poor kids from rural parts of Russia. They’re from blue-collar towns in Siberia. They are disproportionately from ethnic minorities. These are [Putin’s] cannon fodder,” says Richard Moore, MI6 chief https://t.co/5f35pnw39I
Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is not a problem of a few bad apples; it is a rotting orchard https://t.co/LlufuIZr7V
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My new piece: how heavy are Russian casualties in Ukraine, and how do we know? It depends greatly on the assumptions one makes about wounded-to-killed ratios in war, which in turn hinges on military medicine and the evolution of tactics over the invasion. https://t.co/ntv1eii8EK
Drought, and the war in Ukraine, are causing the first famine of the global food crisis https://t.co/7QXnmH0sgy
By 2050, 25% of the world’s population will be African https://t.co/pm5u675RJM
Two-thirds of those who suffer extreme heat live in countries where average annual incomes are below $2,000, meaning many cannot afford air-conditioning https://t.co/CaJPtzcWgB
Clinical practice is already changing to emphasise dealing with environmental triggers of depression rather than deploying drugs https://t.co/aJsLYK9pHT https://t.co/0ywxYQjqy8
And why foreign policy should pay more heed to half of humanity https://t.co/2LQGNu0ZTS
Drought, and the war in Ukraine, are causing the first famine of the global food crisis https://t.co/48LFo7dAQe
Software that can absorb and crunch unprecedented amounts of data promises to predict the outcomes of war https://t.co/ZruOTwUbeV
“The people who have damaged public schools since 2020…are not conservative activists. They’re actually public-school administrators and bureaucrats,” argues @RealChrisRufo on “Checks and Balance” https://t.co/72rDZM87oI
The business of trying to predict the outcomes of conflicts is going into overdrive https://t.co/zwp4NnOZDa https://t.co/164ejLAih2
In Henry Kissinger’s view, there are two types of leader, the statesman and the prophet. The best combine elements of both, and above all, have faith in the future https://t.co/NJRa1vVIx2
Perhaps Germany’s biggest own goal was scored against its own natural-gas industry https://t.co/TtfkIOoWKe
Between 1999 and 2020 the epidemic killed over half a million Americans. “American Cartel”, a new book, chronicles the tragic, man-made epidemic https://t.co/jjB0UsJlsA
There are now seven times as many days of simultaneous heatwaves in the northern hemisphere as there were four decades ago, according to a recent study https://t.co/ePSW3EF1i7
A neurologist raised the alarm when he analysed images in a paper from 2006 and identified signs that suggested that experimental results had been fabricated https://t.co/X2ZZug8kWp
America should count itself lucky that Donald Trump tried so hard to overturn the election of 2020. That is the biggest obstacle standing between him and a return to power https://t.co/djmx2Z5szM
Fear of fracking prevents Germany from exploiting its sizeable reserves of natural gas. Yet German gas producers say given a chance, they could double their output in as little as 18-24 months https://t.co/5upeQqVgXE
In America, 20% of men said climate change was “not a problem”, while only 8% of women agreed, according to one survey https://t.co/HO78E6kq0x
Some pianists put off performing Rachmaninoff’s concerto until later in their careers. The prodigy from South Korea has done so triumphantly at the age of 18 https://t.co/swC9cTwkCj
The January 6th committee has hobbled Donald Trump https://t.co/2ekhMPe57F