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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-07 05:00:37 (1 week ago)

Rachel Aviv: ‘There’s a way of writing about motherhood that can be very sentimental and boring’

As one of today’s greatest essayists, the Pulitzer-nominated writer’s new book investigates why the mother-daughter relationship is the most complex bond of all

Interviewing Rachel Aviv is a great way to source reading recommendations. The exacting essayist responds to my questions about her new book by asking if I’ve read her colleague Parul Sehgal on the trauma plot (of course), Janet Malcolm’s oeuvre (are you kidding?), or Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose (you know, I’ve been meaning to). And then there’s the self-help book from the 90s making the rounds among her friends.

The Middle Passage – “a bad title”, admits Aviv – advances the Jungian belief that if you hold on to the identity you first developed in young adulthood, in middle age you’ll end up small and afraid. You have to alter something fundamental in order to make it to the other side. Over green tea at a cafe near her home in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, the New Yorker staff writer on the deliciously nebulous “psychology, medical ethics and criminal justice” beat confirms that’s basically, frustratingly true. “I have always been very afraid of change,” she says. “I had a really profound high school relationship where I totally lost myself. Everything I’d been interested in before just fell away.” She feared this would happen when she gave birth to her first child in 2017, and was thrilled when it didn’t: “I thought I had won, as if there weren’t more opportunities for change later down the road.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-07 05:00:36 (1 week ago)

Talking about death: how a father and brother found solace in the ‘living graveyard’ of an airline disaster

The film-maker Don Edkins lost his son Max in 2019, in the Ethiopian Airline crash that killed 157 people. With Max’s brother Teboho, he has made a documentary, not about the crash, but about their mourning

It was, says Teboho Edkins, “a film I didn’t want to make”. On 10 March 2019, Edkins’ brother, Max, was among the 157 people killed when Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa airport.

For Teboho, making a documentary about the disaster seemed impossible: “It’s not a sexy subject. At first, I really didn’t want to do it at all.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-07 05:00:36 (1 week ago)

Houseplant hacks: can butterworts control fungus gnats?

This pretty little plant is carnivorous, so when placed next to plants affected by the insect pest it can be an effective living flypaper

The problem
The fungus gnat is the pest that just keeps coming. You dry out the soil, set up sticky traps, maybe even reach for the hydrogen peroxide, and just when you think you’ve have won, they’re back. The adults are harmless but maddening, drifting around your face and laying the next generation in any damp compost they can find. And most controls only deal with one stage of the cycle and leave the rest to carry on.

The hack
Butterworts are small carnivorous plants whose leaves are coated in a sticky mucilage that traps tiny flying insects, including fungus gnats. Keep one or two among your collection as living flypaper, catching adult gnats before they can breed.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-07 05:00:35 (1 week ago)

Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution

Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being challenged or cancelled, as infrastructure’s energy demands ramp up

Datacentre planning proposals face all kinds of hurdles, from securing energy supply to high construction costs. But the 2,000 acre Prince William Digital Gateway site in the US state of Virginia had another problem: its proximity to a Civil War battlefield.

“If the development is allowed to proceed, the solemn nature of this historic site would become marred by sitting in the shadow of the monstrous datacentres, along with their associated electrical infrastructure,” said one legal brief against the plans.

Fox News - Opinion

2026-07-07 05:00:31 (1 week ago)

MORNING GLORY: The Supreme Court officially closes the books on another term

Only about a fifth of Supreme Court cases this term split along ideological lines, with Roberts and Kavanaugh each in the majority 95% of the time.

Fox News - Opinion

2026-07-07 05:00:26 (1 week ago)

SEN DAVE McCORMICK: Trump Accounts give all Americans a stake in prosperity

A $1,000 investment at birth plus $10 per week could grow to nearly $400,000 through tax-advantaged compounding.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-07 05:00:25 (1 week ago)

WATCH: Ex-Warren campaign volunteer spotted praising murderous ex-Iranian leader

An activist who volunteered for Elizabeth Warren and helped organize youth support for Ed Markey appeared in an Iranian state media praising Ayatollah Khamenei as the "greatest" leader of her life.

Fox News - Opinion

2026-07-07 05:00:11 (1 week ago)

LIZ PEEK: July Fourth exposed Democrats' big problem with America's silent majority

Democrats' opposition to Trump created a policy vacuum that democratic socialists are rushing to fill with plans to abolish prisons and more.

Le Monde - World News

2026-07-07 05:00:11 (1 week ago)

Ukraine dreams of becoming the 'arsenal of the free world' as allies are still unsure on how far they want cooperation to go

Many European countries seemed torn between the desire to contribute to Ukraine's war effort, the need to maintain a degree of strategic ambiguity regarding their defense industry cooperation and the fear of seeing a new competitor emerge.

BBC News - Health

2026-07-07 05:00:00 (1 week ago)

Inside Health

Are mosquitos biting earlier and how to optimise sperm.

Washington Post - World News

2026-07-07 05:00:00 (1 week ago)

Belarus gets squeezed as Putin seeks war help and Ukraine threatens strikes

Ukraine’s northern neighbor was used as a staging ground for Russia’s 2022 invasion, but the country seems intent on not being drawn further into the Kremlin’s war.

Washington Post - World News

2026-07-07 05:00:00 (1 week ago)

Haitians in U.S. fear mass deportations; Haiti fears mass return

Mass deportations would cost the economy billions of dollars, analysts say, and mass arrivals would challenge a country already suffering record displacement.