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Masked Ice agents carry out series of raids in Los Angeles

14 hours ago | theguardian.com | Gabrielle Canon

The Department of Homeland Security conducted raids on multiple locations across Los Angeles on Friday, clashing with the crowds of people who gathered to protest. Masked agents were recorded pulling several people out of two LA-area Home Depot stores and the clothing manufacturer Ambient Apparel’s headquarters in LA’s Fashion District.
China has a stranglehold on the world’s rare-earths supply chain. Can Australia break it?

23 hours ago | theguardian.com | Jonathan Barrett

Weeks after China retaliated against Donald Trump’s tariffs by suspending exports of a range of rare-earth elements and related high-powered magnets, Ford was forced to pause a production line in Chicago. Days later, executives from other major carmakers, including General Motors and Toyota, told the White House their suppliers faced an impending shortage of necessary materials that could shut assembly lines.
‘Every moment matters’: Hull KR bidding to end 40 years of hurt in Challenge Cup final

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Aaron Bower

For a while around the 1980s, it must have felt like the good times were never going to end for Hull KR: Challenge Cup winners in 1980; winners of the old Premiership in 1981 and 1984; champions of England in 1979 and then again in 1984 and 1985. Legends like Roger Millward, Gavin Miller and George Fairbairn – men who are still revered on one side of Hull to this day – at the heartbeat of one of the finest sides in British rugby league’s history. But then, nothing. Darkness.
Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought, study finds

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Tom Perkins

The controversial food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than previously thought, new peer-reviewed research shows, adding to growing evidence that unregulated nanoparticles used throughout the food system present an underestimated danger to consumers.
Diner dates and bathhouse chili: the colorful, defiant history of the American gay restaurant

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Tim Teeman

Erik Piepenburg’s voice breaks when he speaks of the Napalese Lounge and Grille in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The restaurant known as “Naps” to locals is where a group of transgender people regularly come together to chat over beer-battered shrimp, deep-fried green beans and cheese curds. Many travel long distances to do so. “An amazing woman called Martha oversees it,” says Piepenburg, 54.
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Tom Perkins

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned. The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said.
‘I must have done something right!’: dance master Jiří Kylián on his festival, fierce critics and the Ministry of Silly Walks

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Chris Wiegand

A gang of young dancers, their black costumes offset by colourful hats, cascade down the sloping roof of Oslo’s opera house for a jubilant routine to a Prince song by the waterfront. The building’s huge glass facade has become an unlikely stage for sculptures, digitally scanned from dancers’ bodies, positioned as if they are plunging into the building like the nearby bathers in the fjord.
Football transfer rumours: Arsenal target Rogers? Gyökeres and Cherki to Manchester?

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Yara El-Shaboury

Six days into the first transfer window of the summer and the Mill is churning faster than a well-oiled machine. Leading the charge are Arsenal, whose Premier League sights has led them to add Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers and Feyenoord’s Igor Paixão to their shopping list of potential attacking targets. Getting Rogers would demand a significant fee – likely north of £50m – with the former Middlesbrough man pulling up trees for Unai Emery’s this season, scoring 14 goals and 15 assists in 54 games.
Witch: Sogolo review - Zamrock originators in joyously punchy form

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Ammar Kalia

In the early 1970s, a newly independent Zambia was forging a sound of its own. Young bands such as the Peace and Ngozi Family mixed distorted guitars with bluesy riffs, falsetto vocals and Fela Kuti-influenced Afrobeat rhythms to produce a genre they labelled Zamrock. At the forefront of this scene was singer Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda’s Witch (We Intend to Cause Havoc).
‘It’s goodbye to French fishermen’: Macron under pressure as crucial UN ocean summit opens

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Karen McVeigh

On his trawler in Saint-Malo, one of France’s most important ports for scallops and crabs, Laurent Mevel is fixing his nets. “We really want to protect the seas,” says the 60-year-old fisher. “But we’ve got crews, we’ve got employees. “If you don’t fish any more, the fish will come from Ireland, from Scotland. Now the fish you buy from shops comes by plane. And costs less.”The Mevel family has been fishing the waters off Brittany as long as they can remember.