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Republican Texas is a surprising model for solving the UK’s prison crisis – but it just might work | Gaby Hinsliff

9 hours ago | theguardian.com | Gaby Hinsliff

What should become of the two idiots who took a chainsaw to the beloved Sycamore Gap tree? Obviously it was thuggish, a pointless desecration of something that gave countless people joy, judging by the outpouring of unexpectedly deep emotion that followed. Landscapes work their way into the soul. But so does the thought of two children whose father is about to be jailed for what the judge warned would be a “lengthy period”.
‘Now my kids have a future’: Syrians dare to dream again after years as a pariah state

9 hours ago | theguardian.com | William Christou

In 2006, Ahmed al-Sharaa was sitting in a US prison in Iraq, then an al-Qaida fighter waging jihad against what he viewed as an American occupation of the Middle East. Nearly two decades later, on Wednesday, he posed for a photo with the US president Donald Trump in Riyadh after discussing normalising ties with Israel and granting US access to Syrian oil.
‘An island of strangers’: is this the Labour party voters wanted? - podcast

12 hours ago | theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Nesrine Malik |Eleanor Biggs |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent

On Monday, Keir Starmer announced the government’s latest proposals to reduce immigration. The plans included restricting visas for students and skilled workers, tightening up English language requirements and – perhaps most drastically – aiming to end all overseas recruitment of social care workers by 2028. Yet maybe more notable than the policies was the language Starmer used to introduce them.
Esther Rantzen urges MPs to back ‘strong, safe’ assisted dying bill in vote

20 hours ago | theguardian.com | Peter Walker |Eleni Courea |Jessica Elgot

Esther Rantzen has urged all MPs to back Kim Leadbeater’s “strong, safe, carefully considered bill” to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales, which faces its next Commons test on Friday. In an impassioned letter, the broadcaster, who has stage-four lung cancer, said she and other terminally ill adults asked MPs to allow “a good, pain-free death for ourselves and those we love and care for”.
How the world of work has lured Barbie out of high heels

20 hours ago | theguardian.com | Ian Sample

She walked into the world on high-heeled mules, but as Barbie’s many careers gathered pace, her feet became more planted on the ground, researchers say. A rare analysis of nearly 3,000 Barbies released over 65 years found that high-heeled incarnations gradually made way for flat-shoed forms, as workplace rules relaxed and career doors opened for the PVC doll.
US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first

21 hours ago | theguardian.com | Ian Sample

Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy. International researchers have hailed the feat as a medical milestone, saying it demonstrated the potential for treating an array of devastating genetic diseases by rewriting faulty DNA soon after affected children are born.
Kid Rock’s restaurant workers asked to go home to avoid rumored Ice raids

23 hours ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon

The restaurant Kid Rock’s was among several others in Nashville owned by the conservative restaurateur and Donald Trump supporter Steve Smith where undocumented kitchen staff were asked to go home to avoid rumored immigration raids this weekend.
Echidna mothers change their pouch microbiome to protect tiny ‘pink jelly bean’ puggles, new research finds

23 hours ago | theguardian.com | Petra Stock

When echidna mothers nurse their young, known as puggles, the microbiome of their pouch changes to protect their babies in their first weeks of life, new research has found. These first few weeks are critical for puggles. At this early developmental stage, they are tiny – roughly the size of a 5-cent coin – and vulnerable. “They can’t see and they don’t have a functional immune system,” said Isabella Wilson, lead author of the study published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
Starmer trip labelled an ‘embarassment’ as Albania rules out asylum seeker deal

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu |Peter Walker |Rajeev Syal

Keir Starmer has been accused of overseeing a diplomatic “embarrassment” after arriving in Albania to promote a policy of establishing “return hubs” for refused asylum seekers, only for his counterpart to rule it out. The prime minister confirmed that refused asylum seekers could be sent to facilities abroad, which would function as detention centres, once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal against rejection of their application to stay in the UK.
How 'forever chemicals' have seeped into almost everything - video

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Ryan Baxter |Rachel Salvidge |Ali Assaf |Josh Toussaint-Strauss |Leana Hosea

Pfas are a group of thousands of chemicals that are used for their non-stick and water-resistant properties. They are often refered to as 'forever chemicals' because they can take thousands of years to break down. Pfas are being found in so many everyday items that it's starting to feel like they are everywhere - non-stick frying pans, waterproof mascaras, stain-resistant clothing, packaging for takeaway food items. Pfas are even in our food, our drinking water and in the rain.