David Lynch’s belongings fetch $4.25m at auction, including scripts for unfinished film

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Items ranged from video cameras and guitars to taxidermy deer heads, props from Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive – and the director’s personal coffee machine

Personal effects belonging to the film-maker David Lynch, who died in January, have fetched more than $4m at auction in Los Angeles, with the highest bid of $195,000 going to scripts for his unrealised film project Ronnie Rocket.

Wednesday’s auction of almost 450 items included props from Lynch’s films, personal items such as video cameras and music equipment, his director’s chair, two taxidermy deer heads, his 35mm print of his debut feature Eraserhead – and his beloved La Marzocco GS/3 home espresso machine, which fetched $45,500 and presumably produces a damn fine cup of coffee.

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Trial reveals flaws in tech intended to enforce Australian social media ban for under-16s

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Operators of trial insist age assurance ‘can be done’ but preliminary report finds age verification tools ‘not guaranteed to be effective’

Technology to check a person’s age and ban under 16s from using social media is not “guaranteed to be effective” and face-scanning tools have given incorrect results, concede the operators of a Australian government trial of the scheme.

The tools being trialled – some involving artificial intelligence analysing voices and faces – would be improved through verification of identity documents or connection to digital wallets, those running the scheme have suggested.

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Los Angeles Dodgers say they denied Ice agents entry to Dodger Stadium

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Baseball team says Ice agents were denied permission to access parking lots but agency claims agents ‘were never there’

The Los Angeles Dodgers said on Thursday they denied US immigration enforcement agents access to the parking lot at Dodger Stadium earlier in the day.

“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots,” the baseball team said in a post on X.

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PM: Israel will ‘hit all nuclear facilities,’ has destroyed half of Iran’s launchers – The Times of Israel

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‘Each strike reinforces our air superiority’: Satellite images show damage to Arak nuclear reactor – Ynetnews

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  2. Israel and Iran launch new strikes even as diplomatic effort gets underway  PBS
  3. What are the nuclear contamination risks from Israel's attacks on Iran?  Reuters
  4. UN nuclear chief warns of disaster if Israel hits Iran’s Bushehr plant  Al Jazeera
  5. IAEA Director General Grossi’s Statement to UNSC on Situation in Iran  International Atomic Energy Agency
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IAEA: No fear of ‘radiological effects’ after IDF hits Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor – The Times of Israel

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  2. Australia urged to press US to ‘act responsibly’ as threat of nuclear disaster rises amid Israel-Iran conflict  The Guardian
  3. Israeli hospital hit by Iranian missile strike  BBC
  4. Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, hit by an Israeli airstrike, was part of Tehran’s nuclear deal  AP News
  5. UN nuclear chief warns of disaster if Israel hits Iran’s Bushehr plant  Al Jazeera
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Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states’ transportation funds to immigration enforcement

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States argued US transportation secretary lacks authority to impose conditions on funding appropriated by Congress

A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding.

Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, granted the states’ request for an injunction barring the Department of Transportation’s policy, saying the states were likely to succeed on the merits of some or all of their claims.

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Israel strikes unfinished Arak heavy water reactor in Iran – BBC

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  1. Israel strikes unfinished Arak heavy water reactor in Iran  BBC
  2. As U.S. Considers Using Bunker-Buster Bombs, Here’s What It Takes to Hit Iran’s Deepest Nuclear Site  The New York Times
  3. Iranian missile strikes hospital, prompting Israeli threat of retaliation  The Washington Post
  4. Trump and U.S. intelligence appear at odds over Iran's nuclear progress  NBC News
  5. Iran Update Special Report, June 19, 2025, Morning Edition  Institute for the Study of War
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