The Guardian (USA) - 2021-08-05

• Rare California water restrictio­ns hit farmers amid dire shortages
• Jared Kushner’s hidden genius? To make terrible decisions – yet keep failing upwards
• Millions more people vulnerable to flooding in next decade, study shows
• Lucrative fundraisin­g points to small but strong Republican anti-Trump resistance
• $5,800 whisky bottle given to Pompeo as gift missing, state department says
• ‘Bad faith’ US prosecutor­s misled Canada in Huawei case, court hears in final arguments
• Mexico sues US gunmakers in unpreceden­ted bid to stop weapons crossing border
• Uber more than doubles revenues to nearly $4bn after a dismal pandemic year
• Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds
• Previously unseen 1963 film of John F Kennedy emerges in Ireland
• New Yorker, Yankees fan: police identify officer killed outside Pentagon
• San Francisco mayor London Breed fined for ‘significan­t’ ethics breaches
• Man arrested in mistaken identity case locked in Hawaii mental health hospital for two years
• Barack Obama scales back 60th birthday party over Covid concerns
• Ohio Democratic primary election: Shontel Brown defeats progressiv­e Nina Turner
• US blocks imports from Fiji-based vessel accused of enslaving its crew
• Visitors to US Titanic museum injured by replica iceberg
• US announces new 60-day eviction ban that would protect millions of Americans
• Missouri governor pardons couple who pointed guns at racial justice activists
• UK media unite to urge visas for Afghan reporters at risk from Taliban
• Advocates of sexual assault survivors say Cuomo’s denial ‘robs them of justice’
• Nicaragua: Ortega opponent becomes eighth election candidate to be arrested
• Turkish town evacuated as wildfire reaches power station
• Belarus sprinter arrives in Vienna from Tokyo after seeking refuge
• Genetic secret to age women start menopause discovered
• North Korea wants sanctions eased on metal, fuel and ‘liquor and suits’ to restart US talks
• Colombian top general Mario Montoya faces murder charges in ‘false positives’ scandal
• Judicial inquiry ordered into alleged rape of nine-year-old girl in Delhi
• Our leaders look climate change in the eyes, and shrug
• The evidence is damning. If Cuomo had any self-respect, he’d resign
• Is Alexander Lukashenko trying out the ‘madman’ theory of foreign policy?
• If the US really cared about freedom in Cuba, it would end its punishing sanctions
• ‘I came home to fight for my land’: First Nations battle Canada blaze that displaced them
• The ‘queen of vegan cheese’ wants to change the dairy industry
• Australian mathematic­ian discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet
• Andrew Cuomo teeters on the edge of a spectacula­r fall from grace
• Cooking With Paris review – Hilton in the kitchen? Prepare to have your mind blown
• Open letter warns of brutal Taliban reprisals against Afghan reporters
• Billy Summers by Stephen King review – his best book in years
• The Guardian view on Boris Johnson in Scotland: an undeclared campaign
• The Guardian view on the UK economy: stuck in a rut of low growth, and politics is to blame
• ‘The very worst things we could imagine’: a terrifying documentar­y on US wildfires
• Mel Brooks announces his first memoir at the age of 95
• ‘My job was to let my mother talk’: Shirley Jackson’s son on a book of her letters
• Top 10 millennial heroines in fiction
• ‘It has our energy, our story’: asakaa, Ghana’s vibrant drill rap scene
• Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art
• Why don’t you get a jab? Offspring drummer ousted after refusing Covid vaccine
• Zola review – pulp-factual viral tweet becomes an icily slick urban thriller
• Now, Voyager review – Bette Davis’s sublime, sex-free act of sublimatio­n
• Welcome II the Terrordome review – dystopian drama offers a bleak vision of Britain
• Workers return to Bangladesh’s garment factories despite record Covid deaths
• All Hands on Deck review – fresh and funny French holiday romance
• Labour calls for ‘hard-edged’ end date for oil and gas exploratio­n
• Oil industry is blocking climate action
• Vaccinolog­ist Barbie: Prof Sarah Gilbert honoured with a doll
• Scientists discover Machu Picchu could be at least two decades older than thought
• The risks and rewards of vaccinatin­g UK children against Covid
• How to photograph the moon on your phone or camera, and the best settings to use
• Good old days: why body confidence improves after 60
• Sony profits soar as it benefits from home entertainm­ent boom
• TechScape: Why ‘hacker summer camp’ and pandemics don’t mix
• A moment that changed me: I realised I had become a masochist – and quit Twitter
• USA will give everything for bronze medal, vows Vlatko Andonovski
• With a chance at gold, Torrez eyes first US men’s Olympic boxing title since 2004
• Sky Brown, 13, becomes Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist with skateboard bronze
• Simone Biles keeping ‘the door open’ for Olympic return at Paris 2024
• US too good for Australia with no sign of Olympic basketball streak ending
• Chelsea closing on Romelu Lukaku after striker tells Inter he wants move
• Sport climbing’s Olympics debut sends viewers scrambling for more
• Jack Grealish poised to join Manchester City from Aston Villa in £100m deal
• Australia at the Olympics on Thursday: day 13 schedule of who and when to watch in Tokyo today
• Warren Gatland in favour of extra time if final Lions Test ends in stalemate
• Dismal England collapse on opening day as Bumrah and India find their groove
• Trescothic­k admits scheduling affected England after batting collapse
• Most racist abusers of footballer­s are still active on Twitter, PFA finds
• Harry Kane spends further time in Florida and delays Tottenham return
• Aston Villa sign £25m Danny Ings from Southampto­n after landing Leon Bailey
• Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson extends Anfield stay with new six-year contract
• Championsh­ip 2021-22 season preview
• Spain’s La Liga agrees €2.7bn deal with private equity firm CVC
• Footballer who battled addictions took his life in team hotel, coroner rules

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