Southern California suburb alarmed as ‘exceptionally rare’ cancer sickens multiple children

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Residents in Ladera Ranch in Orange county voice concerns after six children diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma

Concerns are growing in southern California over a cluster of “exceptionally rare” cancer cases that has sickened multiple children in a suburban community.

Families living in the Orange county neighborhood of Ladera Ranch, home to about 26,000 people, have reported that six children in the community were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, Katrina Foley, the vice-chair of the county board of supervisors, said in a statement.

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Trump vows to hit an Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship Iran attacks – Axios

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  1. Trump vows to hit an Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship Iran attacks  Axios
  2. July 22, 2026 — Trump attends dignified transfer of soldiers, US and Iran trade threats  CNN
  3. US to Use Iran’s Frozen Funds to Pay for Ship Damage, Trump Says  Bloomberg.com
  4. Trump Says U.S. Will Bomb Iran’s Power Plants, Bridges if Tehran Strikes Ships  WSJ
  5. Trump warns of strikes to infrastructure if Iran targets ships in Strait of Hormuz  The Hill
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How protests over a popular minister’s firing sparked Ukraine’s sudden military reset – AP News

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  1. How protests over a popular minister’s firing sparked Ukraine’s sudden military reset  AP News
  2. A Mandate for Change and a Monumental Test for Ukraine’s New Military Chief  The New York Times
  3. Why is Zelensky firing top leaders as Ukraine’s outlook improves?  The Washington Post
  4. Ousted Ukrainian defence chief digs in against Zelenskiy  Reuters
  5. Zelenskyy Bows to Pressure for New Model Army to Confront Russia  Bloomberg.com
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Kemi Badenoch ‘has to adapt’ her rhetoric to take on Andy Burnham

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Conservative leader is becoming more confident and forging a message for her party, but faces a new opponent

“So, Andy Burnham seems like a nice guy.” Those were the slightly unexpected opening words of Kemi Badenoch’s first speech since the change in prime minister. But make no mistake: she was there to bury her opponent.

Even Badenoch-sceptics inside the Conservative party and farther afield agree the Tory leader is becoming more confident, and has been able to forge an increasingly coherent message for her party, one based on a promise of economic competence.

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Secret Service agent on Vance’s detail under investigation

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Agent came under suspicion after allegedly providing info in MS Now report about vice-president’s helicopter trip

A Secret Service agent assigned to JD Vance’s protective detail is “the subject of an administrative investigation, and potential criminal inquiry, involving allegations of compromising operational and information security”, according to the Secret Service chief of communications.

The agent came under suspicion after allegedly providing information that appeared in an MS Now report about the vice-president’s planned Marine Corps helicopter trip with his son to a golf lesson, a source told CNN.

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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana moved to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital

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Exclusive: Clinical assessments concluded Rudakubana could not be safely managed in prison, sources say

The Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been moved from prison to a psychiatric hospital after clinical assessment, the Guardian can disclose.

He was transferred to Broadmoor high-security hospital from the category A prison Belmarsh this week after it was concluded that he could not be managed safely in a prison environment, sources confirmed.

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Minnesota man sentenced to life for killing Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman

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Vance Boelter receives two life terms after admitting politically motivated killings and shootings

The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison on Thursday, a little over a year after the political attacks.

Vance Boelter, 59, was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 40 years in prison after pleading guilty in June to the six counts related to the killings of the former house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the shootings of state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

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China Rewrites the ‘Soft Power’ Playbook for the A.I. Age – The New York Times

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  1. China Rewrites the ‘Soft Power’ Playbook for the A.I. Age  The New York Times
  2. China’s Xi pursues AI diplomacy to woo global south  Financial Times
  3. Shanghai science forum photos show China’s AI and robotics advances in rivalry with US  AP News
  4. China's AI doctrine is a challenge for Europe  Le Monde.fr
  5. Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order, challenging US dominance  Reuters
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‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed

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CEO Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger margins

The owner of British Gas has claimed that most households would rather speak with an AI chatbot than deal with the company’s staff as it prepares to cut 1,300 jobs from its call centres.

Centrica, the supplier’s FTSE 100 owner, plans to cut 800 jobs as the company carries out a “targeted deployment of AI tools”, on top of the 500 cuts it confirmed last month.

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Mayor shot dead in Mexico months after surviving assassination attempt

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Valentín Lavín Romero is the 14th mayor to be murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in 2024

A mayor was shot dead on Wednesday in the Mexican state of Morelos after having survived a previous assassination attempt earlier this year. He is the 14th mayor to be murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in October 2024.

Valentín Lavín Romero, who was from the Green party, an ally of the ruling leftwing Morena party, was wounded at the end of January when hitmen shot him at a petrol station on a motorway.

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Owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage

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Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was $6,000 but Universal – which made $264m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped up

The Swedish owners of a Viking longship replica that features in the Hollywood blockbuster The Odyssey say they feel “forgotten” after film-makers allegedly returned the vessel damaged and failed to foot the bill for repairs.

In nearly three decades at sea, the warship Glad av Gillberga – based on a wreck from around 1040 found in Denmark’s Roskilde fjord – has successfully sailed the North Sea, the Baltic and even voyaged to Canada.

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Wildfire spreads near popular French tourist town as thousands are evacuated – AP News

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  1. Wildfire spreads near popular French tourist town as thousands are evacuated  AP News
  2. France evacuates 20,000 as wildfires spread in south-west  BBC
  3. More than 10,000 flee wildfire near popular French tourist town  The Seattle Times
  4. Thousands of tourists forced to evacuate as fire rages in southwest France  France 24
  5. France wildfires force evacuation of over 20,000 people from tourist town  Al Jazeera
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