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Muslim man stabbed multiple times in Utah over his religion, police say
Arrested suspect tells police he ‘intends to kill Muslims’ after alleged attack on kiosk worker at West Valley City mill
A man was arrested in Utah for stabbing a Muslim man multiple times and stated that he targeted the victim because of the victim’s religion, police said in court records on Tuesday.
Police said the suspect told them he “intends to kill Muslims” and that he constituted “a substantial danger to the public if released based on his violent actions ... ideologies and pre-planned mass casualty events”.
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How are London City Lionesses able to embark on such a transfer spree?
Many are in awe of the investment that Michele Kang is making into the women’s game. Others, though, are baffled
There is one team whose transfer activity this summer has captured everyone’s attention. London City Lionesses, a club who finished in the bottom half of the second tier a little over two years ago, have stunned the women’s game by signing a flurry of big names, including the Spain stars Alexia Putellas and Mapi León, the former England goalkeeper Mary Earps, and then, on Wednesday morning, the France winger Kadidiatou Diani. It is a startling recruitment drive intent on breaking up the Women’s Super League’s established order.
Reaction has been divided. Many are in awe of the investment that the independent club’s owner, the American businesswoman Michele Kang, is making into the women’s game. Others, including senior staff at lots of rival clubs, are baffled at the idea that one of the league’s smaller teams can afford such world-class signings. They have one key question on their lips: how are London City able to sign all of these top players within the confines of the WSL’s salary cap?
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Muslim man stabbed multiple times in Utah over his religion, police say
Arrested suspect tells police he ‘intends to kill Muslims’ after alleged attack on kiosk worker at West Valley City mill
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Police said the suspect told them he “intends to kill Muslims” and that he constituted “a substantial danger to the public if released based on his violent actions ... ideologies and pre-planned mass casualty events”.
Continue reading...How to turn empty broad bean pods into a mouthwatering risotto – recipe | Waste not
Use the whole pod – husks, beans and all – for a rustic, nutritious version of a seasonal favourite
Tom Norrington Davies is a friend, fellow chef and one of the best yoga teachers I know, so you can probably imagine my pleasure on recently coming across his recipe for broad bean and mint risotto, which he wrote for The Eagle Cookbook in 2009. Like many restaurants, this legendary gastropub pods their broad beans to reveal the beautiful green bean inside; this is my zero-waste interpretation.
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Surviving extreme heat increasingly boils down to this: access to air conditioning | Mark Wolfe
The next great climate divide will be between countries that have the resources to adapt and those that don’t
This summer, much of the media’s attention has focused on record temperatures across Europe and the United States. Television coverage has been filled with familiar images: heat maps shaded deep red, schools closing, rail lines slowing, wildfires spreading and emergency rooms treating growing numbers of people with heat-related illnesses.
Public officials have responded with equally familiar advice: stay indoors, drink plenty of water and, if possible, turn on the air conditioning.
Continue reading...‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk
Five decades since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm
‘The most important part of the word ‘fanzine’ is ‘fan’,” says London-based zine-maker Jon Marsh. Existing outside mainstream media, free from the demands of release cycles and search engine optimisation, music fanzines are obsessions turned into tangible objects; self-published primarily for the maker’s own enjoyment, but with the potential of forging connections with like-minded people.
In the 1970s, punk zines such as Sniffin’ Glue, Alternative Ulster and Ripped & Torn allowed fans to share news and enthusiasm quickly and cheaply. Half a century on, music fanzines are enjoying a resurgence as a form of resistance to algorithm fatigue and the hyper-capitalist music industry. “Digital attention span is at an all-time low,” says hip-hop musician ExP, creator of the West Yorkshire Hip-Hop zine. “You’re almost definitely going to spend more time looking at a zine than anything you see scrolling. It’s more interesting and more real.” In the words of Stephen McRobbie, from indie-pop icons and fanzine regulars the Pastels: “It’s the long way round compared to other media, but the scenery is always better.”
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The UK government has been accused of “rushing through” planning changes that could give developers permission to “trash” nature for as little as £1.
A letter signed by more than 100 conservationists, scientists, celebrities and businesses, including the actor and writer Stephen Fry and the broadcaster Chris Packham, has urged the incoming prime minister, Andy Burnham, to immediately halt the rollout of environmental delivery plans (EDPs).
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10 Mistakes That Can Make Diarrhea Worse
Nobody wants to talk about diarrhea—until they can't think about anything else. This summer's multistate Cyclospora outbreak has a lot of people suddenly paying closer attention to their guts. Unlike the typical 24-hour stomach bug, the parasite can keep people sick for weeks—but once it's identified and treated with the right antibiotic, most people start feeling better within days.
Regardless of whether your misery traces back to contaminated produce or a garden-variety stomach bug, gastroenterologists and infectious-disease doctors say the same handful of missteps tend to make a bad situation worse—and drag it out longer than necessary. Here's what to avoid if you're stuck making endless trips to the bathroom.
1. Reaching for Imodium at the first cramp
Your instinct might be to slam the brakes on diarrhea—but if it's being caused by an infection like Cyclospora, norovirus, salmonella, or certain strains of E. coli, that can backfire. “Imodium is a bowel paralytic,” says Dr. Svetang Desai, a gastroenterologist at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital. “It stops the bowel from moving, so if you have a toxin-producing infectious disease, you’re basically just stopping the colon from its normal mechanism, which is to try to clear the toxin.”
Slowing everything down can keep the offending germ—and the toxins some produce—in your gut longer, rather than helping your body clear it. If you need relief in the first day or two, Desai says a bismuth-based product like Pepto-Bismol or Kaopectate is generally the best choice. “It kind of helps soothe irritation,” he says. “It actually has some antimicrobial properties.” Just know it can turn your stool dark, almost black—a startling but harmless side effect.
Imodium is better reserved for noninfectious diarrhea—or after a doctor has ruled out an infection.
2. Trying to tough it out
Most diarrhea resolves on its own within a couple of days. But not every case follows the usual script. "The No. 1 mistake people make is ignoring the red flags," says Dr. Saurabh Sethi, a gastroenterologist in Fremont, Calif., who often posts about gut health on social media. Watch for a fever above 101°F, blood in your stool, dizziness and other signs of dehydration, severe abdominal pain, or diarrhea that lasts beyond two to three days. "That's the time when they should stop self-diagnosing and self-treating," Sethi says.
3. Rehydrating with plain water alone
When you have diarrhea, hydration is critical—but plain water can only take you so far. You'll lose salt, potassium, and other electrolytes along with fluid, so what you're drinking needs to replace more than just water. Instead, reach for an oral rehydration solution, like Pedialyte, and skip sugary sodas and juices. “When your bowels are inflamed, they don’t absorb sugar as well as they normally do, and sugar triggers more fluid output,” says Dr. Adam Mezoff, a pediatric gastroenterologist and chief medical officer at Dayton Children's Hospital in Ohio. You may also want to skip coffee, energy drinks, and other caffeinated beverages for a few days. “Caffeine triggers your bowels to be stimulated,” Mezoff says. “It can make it worse.”
How you drink matters too: Rather than forcing down a big glass and feeling queasy, take small sips often—Mezoff suggests a tablespoon every five or 10 minutes. “Small amounts frequently is much easier to tolerate than saying, ‘OK, suck down that big glass,’” he says.
Don't ignore the signs that you're falling behind, either. Dark urine, peeing less than usual, a dry mouth, increasing thirst, and feeling lightheaded when you stand up are all clues that you're becoming dehydrated. “Dehydration is the way you're going to get real sick real fast,” Mezoff says. “If you can't keep up [with liquids], then that's another reason you need to go [to the doctor].”
4. Raiding the medicine cabinet for old antibiotics
Found some random leftover antibiotics in the medicine cabinet? Don't take them. “There are certain forms of E. coli where, when it gets exposed to antibiotics, it releases all of its toxins, and those toxins can affect the kidneys, cause seizures, and cause bleeding issues,” says Dr. Daniel Egan, an infectious diseases physician at Orlando Health.
Cyclospora, meanwhile, is one of the infections that does need a specific prescription antibiotic: a seven-day course of the antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (sold as Bactrim or Septra). You won’t feel better simply by taking whatever you have in your medicine cabinet.
5. Eating like you normally would
Your gut has enough work to do already. Loading it up with heavy, hard-to-digest foods can make recovery even harder. “The diet needs to become bland, low in fat and low in fiber, and it should also be dairy-free,” Sethi says. “Once your intestine is inflamed, we need less of the things that can irritate our gut further.” For a few days, ease off fatty and fried foods, high-fiber choices, and dairy, and stick with bland foods your system can digest more easily. Once you're feeling better, you can gradually work your way back to your normal diet.
6. Not eating anything at all
The opposite mistake is just as common—going long stretches without food because nothing sounds good. Your gut can't heal on an empty tank. “Your bowel depends on that nourishment, because it needs energy to fix itself,” Mezoff says. If you don't feel like eating for the first day, that's OK. But any more than that can prolong the whole ordeal. “You shouldn’t go much longer than a day without getting some kind of food in you,” Mezoff says.
When you're ready to eat again, keep it simple. Sethi recommends sticking to bland, low-fat, low-fiber foods that are easy on your digestive system, like toast, rice, bananas, applesauce, crackers, and plain pasta. Wait until you're feeling better to gradually reintroduce richer, fattier, and higher fiber foods, he advises.
7. Assuming your doctor will automatically test for Cyclospora
If your diarrhea has dragged on for days—especially if you've eaten fresh produce or live in an area affected by the outbreak—don't assume it's just a stubborn stomach bug. Unlike most stomach illnesses, which are over in a day or two, Cyclospora can, in some people, take three weeks to completely clear, says Dr. Alan Bulbin, director of infectious disease at Catholic Health’s St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center in Roslyn, N.Y.
Even if you do see a doctor, don't assume a stool test automatically checks for everything. “The general stool testing that’s ordered is only for bacterial infections like Shigella, salmonella, and E. coli,” Sethi says. “So if someone is suspecting Cyclospora, they need to request this special test.” The good news is that once it's identified, treatment with an antibiotic is relatively straightforward.
8. Thinking all stomach bugs spread the same way
Cyclospora behaves differently than many of the more common stomach bugs. Unlike norovirus, it isn't immediately contagious after it leaves the body—it has to mature in the environment before it can infect someone else. “Cyclospora is not person-to-person,” Bulbin says, which is why contaminated food and water—not close contact—drive outbreaks.
That means you don't need to isolate yourself at home. But don't skip good hygiene: If you're sick, don't prepare food for other people, and wash your hands thoroughly. “For Cyclospora and norovirus, you're better off just with good old soap and water,” Bulbin says. “Alcohol hand sanitizer does not work very well.”
9. Jumping in the pool
Even though Cyclospora does not generally spread directly from one person to another, experts still recommend staying out of pools while you have diarrhea. You may not actually know what's causing your illness, and many other diarrheal infections—including norovirus and Cryptosporidium—can contaminate recreational water. “Nothing will clear a pool faster than somebody who has diarrhea while they’re in it,” Mezoff jokes.
10. Rushing back to normal the moment you feel better
Feeling human again doesn't mean you’re back to 100%. “You want to go gentle,” Egan says. “To jump right back into your regular diet is a little bit hard on the GI system, so you want to ease into it and gradually reintroduce foods.”
The same goes for exercise. “You need to understand how much trouble this created for your body before you launch back into all your normal stuff,” Egan says. Even if the diarrhea has stopped, you may still be catching up on hydration, so don't assume you're ready for a hard workout—or a return to business as usual. Give yourself a few days to ease back into your normal routine.
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The most surprising winner of the World Cup was American public transit
Much like its indifference toward soccer, America’s aversion to public transport has made it a global anomaly, an oddity encapsulated by the nation’s sacred pregame pastime: the tailgate.
Here in the US, celebrating sports means driving your big car to a colossal suburban gridiron football stadium, where you’ll grill, baby, grill until the smoky scents of burgers and bratwurst float across vast plains of asphalt. So entrenched is the nation’s car culture that the average American spends about half a month sitting behind the wheel every year. In fact, while the US has tens of millions more cars than it has people to drive them, even its largest cities have far fewer trains or buses per capita than our global peers.
As a result, Americans are more than twice as likely to die in a car accident as Europeans, and nearly five times as likely to die in a car crash as someone in train-happy Germany. While many transit projects carry similar price tags, the US still boasts many dozens more college football stadiums than it does rapid transit systems or subway networks.
So, it’s no wonder that critics doubted that US cities hosting this year’s World Cup, the largest single sporting event in human history, could effectively find ways to schlep visiting fans around. After abandoning its initial pledges to shepherd fans for free, New Jersey earned scorn for trying to sell $150 round-trip train tickets to MetLife Stadium, prompting journalists to test how difficult it would be to reach it by foot, bike, or canoe. Kansas City’s shiny new pop-up World Cup buses got caught in hours of ensnarled traffic on their way to their city’s very first game between Algeria and Argentina.
And yet, on the precipice of the tournament’s final stage, the nation’s widely expected World Cup public transit meltdown has simply not materialized. To the surprise of pretty much everyone, US cities have managed to absorb the influx of fans with relative ease, even under the pressure of record ridership en route to stadiums, watch parties, and fan zones.
Eli Lipmen, executive director of the advocacy group MoveLA, said that he had “actually been pleasantly surprised and quite impressed” with how the Los Angeles transit system performed amid the World Cup. As he explained, that notoriously gridlocked city is in the midst of a “major cultural shift” around public transit. As Angelenos spend less time in their cars, the city has gotten quieter, he said. “People are happier. There’s more of a sense of community,” Lipmen said.
A renewed commitment to public transit infrastructure has played a part in that shift — and not just in Southern California. In the lead-up to the World Cup and the 2028 Olympics, Los Angeles unveiled three new subway stations in May, its first new stations to open in over two decades. Meanwhile, Seattle’s Sound Transit shuttled a record-shattering 309,000 riders when Team USA faced Team Belgium, thanks in part to its completion of a light rail extension that had been in the works for nearly two decades. Atlanta overhauled its bus network, Miami made use of a new rapid transit line, and Kansas City spent millions to expand its tram service and rolled out pop-up shuttles.
As it turns out, US cities can build new buses, trams, and trains much faster than they may think. The harder question now is whether they can keep up that momentum when it serves locals, and not just visitors. Just hours after Kansas City’s final World Cup match — Argentina 3, Switzerland 2 — its cash-strapped transit authority shut down its extended tram service with plans to slash a quarter of its regular bus routes by the end of this summer.
Many host cities “are still not building [transit] as a serious modal shift” away from cars, said Eric Goldwyn, director of the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. “They’re building it as a cutesy-patootsie complement.”
Americans learned to love soccer. Can they learn to love transit too?
LA is among the exceptions, and not only because of its looming Olympics host gig. The city has made a concerted effort over the past couple of years to invest in and rebrand its transit system, which had long had a reputation for grime and danger. “If you’d spoken to me two and a half years ago, this conversation would be about safety and security on the metro system,” said Lipmen, referencing a bus that was taken hostage in 2024, one of several “really horrible, very high-profile incidents” that left many Angelenos feeling unsafe on the system. “Now, the conversation is about joy and celebration.”
What changed?
LA began investing heavily in building more trains, buses, and subway stations, and overhauled its public safety approach, which led to a 6.7 percent drop in violent crime on transit and a 33 percent drop in incidents like drug use and weapons possession. For Lipmen, the real shift came when the metro system opened its three new stations along the D line in May, and released a raunchy “Ride the D” shirt to celebrate it. Almost immediately, the Metro’s cheeky merchandise sold out, and would continue to sell out every time it was restocked for months to follow.
It might sound silly, but the hype genuinely helped dull some of the stigma associated with taking the train. “People who were quietly riding transit all of a sudden felt comfortable in their own skin as a transit-rider, and proud to be a transit-rider,” Lipmen said.
Overall, LA’s big bet appears to be slowly working. “LA is a transit city,” Jennifer Vides, Metro Los Angeles’s chief customer experience officer, told the Associated Press last week. “People want to try to say that it’s not. Obviously, we have a lot more expansion to do and we’re working on it. But people really want transit.”
Beyond adding new train lines or bus fleets, normalizing public transit requires “a dramatic recast of how people get around and travel,” Goldwyn said. Cities need a vision that ensures that there is an actual “destination on the other end” of their new transit line, like offices or the kind of housing California’s new bill aims to get built near transit hubs. Most cities will need a mixture of “carrots and sticks” to help people who are used to driving everywhere see the value in hopping on a bus or tram as part of their everyday commute, not just to get to the airport or the stadium. “If your transit is not connecting you to places you want to go, you’re not going to use it,” Goldwyn said.
A single tournament, like a single train line, will never be enough to change how Americans move. But if this nation of football fans can learn to love soccer, then surely they can learn to love the train a little bit more too. At the very least, with LA28 precisely two years away, Los Angeles just got closer to making its car-free summer Olympic dreams come true.
One small pen for one giant fee: Buzz Aldrin’s mission-saving felt-tip sells for over $850,000
Second man on moon’s Duro Rocket pen, crucial to Apollo 11 return, reaches astronomical sum at Sotheby’s auction
The felt-tip pen Buzz Aldrin used to fix a broken circuit-breaker and escape from the moon in 1969 has sold at auction in New York for more than $850,000 (£630,000).
The dented silver plastic Duro Rocket pen – used by the second man on the moon to save Neil Armstrong and himself from being “stuck on the moon for ever” – had a sale price estimated by Sotheby’s at between $800,000 and $1.2m and went for $857,600 after being pursued by five bidders. The victor got the broken piece of circuit breaker, too, as part of the lot. Both came from Aldrin’s personal collection.
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Good morning. Donald Trump has threatened to expand US strikes on Iran next week to target civilian infrastructure including power plants and bridges if Tehran does not agree to a deal. Trump made similar comments in March. Destroying civilian infrastructure such as power and water facilities would be illegal under international humanitarian law and would probably constitute a war crime.
The US president, meanwhile, has U-turned on a threat that ships would have to pay a 20% fee to the US for “security” in the strait of Hormuz. He said he had decided to scrap the toll “based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership”, and touted “massive” investments. He said the US would continue to blockade Iranian ports.
How have Democrats responded to renewed hostilities? Senate Democrats blocked the advancement of a must-pass defense bill. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, said his party could not support advancing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as long as the fighting continued.
Top House Democrats, meanwhile, have vowed to oppose a bid to cut US military aid to Israel as the party grapples with a rebellion among their voters over the party’s support for the Middle Eastern ally.
Continue reading...One small pen for one giant fee: Buzz Aldrin’s mission-saving felt-tip sells for over $850,000
Second man on moon’s Duro Rocket pen, crucial to Apollo 11 return, reaches astronomical sum at Sotheby’s auction
The felt-tip pen Buzz Aldrin used to fix a broken circuit-breaker and escape from the moon in 1969 has sold at auction in New York for more than $850,000 (£630,000).
The dented silver plastic Duro Rocket pen – used by the second man on the moon to save Neil Armstrong and himself from being “stuck on the moon for ever” – had a sale price estimated by Sotheby’s at between $800,000 and $1.2m and went for $857,600 after being pursued by five bidders. The victor got the broken piece of circuit breaker, too, as part of the lot. Both came from Aldrin’s personal collection.
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The Spin | The day Harrogate ‘burst at the seams’ as Pakistan and India swung into town
An unlikely match ‘like a World Cup final’ was for some first proof of Yorkshire immigrant community’s love of cricket
On 30 June 1986 the Yorkshire Post printed an invitation to a pre-match reception at the Majestic hotel. “Meet cricket club celebrities,” the invite read. “Auction, £10 (including buffet).” But these were not just any old cricket celebrities, this was India and Pakistan, led by Kapil Dev and Imran Khan, due to meet for only the second time on British soil at the genteel English town of Harrogate.
This unlikely match, a 40-over bish-bash fundraiser for Help the Aged, had been encouraged by the cricketing bigwigs of both nations. India were already in situ on an England tour, while the Pakistan ambassador, Ali Arshad, was in charge of pulling together a team, flying five players over specially.
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Continue reading...‘Collective failure’: French press digests World Cup semi-final defeat by Spain
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French fans’ expectations of their national team had been at an all‑time high: a semi-final on Bastille Day, Kylian Mbappé a hero, a squad unbeaten. Across the country, bars had been packed with viewers spilling on to pavements, ready to crack open the fireworks ahead of hopes for the final.
The night was unexpectedly subdued, however, streets cleared early. On Wednesday morning, the French media were digesting the disappointment of defeat in a World Cup semi-final, praising Spain’s performance in Texas while struggling to comprehend Les Bleus’ fall.
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The night was unexpectedly subdued, however, streets cleared early. On Wednesday morning, the French media were digesting the disappointment of defeat in a World Cup semi-final, praising Spain’s performance in Texas while struggling to comprehend Les Bleus’ fall.
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From the comfort of a friend’s air-conditioned car last weekend, I watched a dozen sweaty men on a “beer bike tour” chug booze while pedalling through Berlin, as the city broke its temperature record with 39.2C heat. Few wore hats, and their tender pink necks showed signs of sunburn.
A few days later, I visited Coschen, the eastern German village that provisionally recorded the hottest temperature the country had ever seen, in a district where nearly every other voter backs a far-right party that denies basic climate science. One man who lives down the road from the station that reached the national record-breaking 41.7C high calmly told me “it was also warm” when he was young.
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