First thing: Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn

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Mar-a-Lago – the Palm Seaside resort and residence the place Donald Trump reportedly saved nuclear secrets and techniques amongst a trove of extremely labeled paperwork for 18 months since leaving the White Home – is a magnet for overseas spies, former intelligence officers have mentioned.

The Washington Submit reported that a doc describing an unspecified overseas authorities’s defences, together with its nuclear capabilities, was one of many many extremely secret papers Trump took away from the White Home when he left workplace in January 2021.

There have been additionally paperwork marked SAP, for Particular-Entry Programmes, which are sometimes about US intelligence operations and have severely restricted circulation, even amongst administration officers with high safety clearance.

Probably most annoying of all, there have been papers stamped HCS, Humint Management Programs, involving human intelligence gathered from brokers in enemy international locations, whose lives could be in peril if their identities have been compromised.

  • When will Trump be prosecuted? The granting of Trump’s request for a “particular grasp” provides the justice division no good choices. The necessity to prosecute Trump as quickly as attainable after this November’s midterm elections factors to avoiding the delay an enchantment may trigger, and simply transferring ahead with the particular grasp’s doc overview.

Suspect arrested over Canada mass stabbing dies from self-inflicted accidents

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Police discovered a knife within the truck, which officers had rammed off the street right into a ditch. Photograph: Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Pictures

The fugitive needed for a mass stabbing in Canada that killed 10 individuals and injured 18 has died in hospital after his arrest, police have confirmed, with sources saying his dying was the results of self-inflicted wounds.

Myles Sanderson went into “medical misery” after his arrest and was taken to hospital, the place he died, the Royal Canadian Mounted police assistant commissioner Rhonda Blackmore mentioned in a press convention on Wednesday evening. Police discovered a knife within the truck, which officers had rammed off the street right into a ditch earlier than arresting Sanderson, however Blackmore wouldn't touch upon the reason for his dying.

Sources accustomed to the scenario earlier confirmed that Sanderson had died shortly after being taken into custody, because of self-inflicted accidents. Police sources gave related accounts to the Canadian media outlet World Information and Related Press.

With Sanderson useless, police could by no means perceive what motivated him within the mass stabbing, Blackmore mentioned.

  • Who have been the victims? They have been named as: Thomas Burns, 23, Carol Burns, 46, Gregory Burns, 28, Lydia Gloria Burns, 61, Bonnie Burns, 48, Earl Burns, 66, Lana Head, 49, Christian Head, 54, Robert Sanderson, 49 and Wesley Petterson, 78.

  • What will we find out about them? All have been residents of James Smith Cree Nation, an Indigenous group, aside from Petterson, who lived in Weldon in northern Saskatchewan. Police mentioned among the victims appeared to have been focused, whereas others appeared random.

‘Telling that fuller story’: Michelle and Barack on their White Home portraits

The former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during the unveiling of their official White House portraits.
The previous president Barack Obama and first woman Michelle Obama attend the revealing of their official White Home portraits. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Pictures

Even in any case these years, Michelle Obama admitted she nonetheless feels a bit odd and awkward contained in the White Home, writes David Smith. “Rising up on Euclid Avenue [on Chicago’s south side],” the previous first woman mirrored, “I by no means may have imagined that any of this might be a part of my story.”

But from yesterday her face will adorn the partitions of America’s most well-known tackle for so long as it stands and presidents nonetheless name it dwelling. Of their first go to as a pair to the White Home since leaving workplace in 2017, the Obamas unveiled their official portraits at a ceremony within the East Room.

Giant, formal portraits of presidents and first women adorn partitions, hallways and rooms all through the White Home. Typically, a former president returns for the revealing throughout the tenure of his successor. However the Obamas, who've remained in style since leaving energy, didn't have their ceremony whereas Donald Trump was in workplace.

The revealing revived a bipartisan custom final held a decade in the past however this being the Obamas, no portrait is a mere punchline nor only a chilly and lonely, pretty murals. It's also a metaphor for America and who tells its story. To listen to them talking was a reminder that whereas the present president, Joe Biden, speaks in prose, the Obamas communicate in poetry.

  • What did Michelle say? “As a result of as Barack mentioned, if the 2 of us can find yourself on the partitions of probably the most well-known tackle on this planet, then, once more, it's so necessary for each younger child who's doubting themselves to consider that they'll too. That's what this nation is about.”

In different information …

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Steve Bannon is predicted to face prices that he siphoned off $1m in private bills from public donations to construct a US-Mexico border wall. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

  • The highest former Trump strategist Steve Bannon is predicted to give up to New York authorities at present to face state fraud prices over his function in a fundraising effort to privately underwrite the development of the US-Mexico border wall, in line with sources accustomed to the matter.

  • Two girls have been condemned to dying in Iran due to their hyperlinks to the LGBTQ+ group, human rights teams have reported. Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Choubdar, 24, have been discovered responsible on 1 September however the particulars of their sentences solely emerged this week.

  • The Biden administration has despatched Liz Truss a message on her second day in workplace warning towards “efforts to undo the Northern Eire protocol”. It got here from the White Home briefing room, the place a spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, was requested in regards to the new British prime minister.

  • A neighborhood official has been arrestedon suspicion of homicide after a Las Vegas reporter, Jeff German, was discovered useless, the Las Vegas Overview-Journal reported. Robert Telles, Clark county’s public administrator, had been the main focus of a number of investigative tales by German.

Don’t miss this: From Sober Mother Squads to anti-anxiety workbooks, do new AA options work?

Illustration shows woman having dropped glass of wine, looking out at a landscape with a giant laptop emitting light, and a circle of people in chairs
New methods to cease consuming have flourished throughout the pandemic, catering to girls who really feel marginalized from the abstinence program. Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian

A Sober Ladies Information is one among a cohort of on-line sobriety teams that grew to become in style as extra individuals grappled with consuming issues early within the pandemic, and the teams look like right here to remain. They've much less inflexible requirements than AA, which has dominated alcohol restoration teams since its was based in 1935. Many organisations have been based by and heart on girls, whose alcohol consumption and binge consuming – even earlier than the pandemic, through which alcohol abuse statistics soared – was catching as much as males’s. Girls, nonetheless, have been much less prone to search therapy for substance abuse.

… or this: Supreme court docket fears spur LGBTQ ‘shotgun’ weddings

Male couple with US and rainbow flags
In 2015, the supreme court docket dominated that same-sex couples have a constitutional proper to marry nationwide with out regard to their state’s legal guidelines. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Pictures

When the supreme court docket overturned Roe v Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that the court docket had “an obligation to ‘appropriate the error’ established” in a number of landmark civil rights and privateness instances, together with 2015’s Obergefell v Hodges, which enshrined marriage equality. Different conservative justices wrote that Obergefell was not on the chopping block, however many individuals have discovered that arduous to belief. Some LGBT couples are not ready to seek out out.

Local weather examine: The Southern Ocean absorbs extra warmth than every other and the results might be felt for generations

Icebergs among the ice floe in the Southern Ocean
‘Southern Ocean warmth uptake accounts for nearly all of the planet’s ocean warming, which is able to solely improve if we will’t cease emitting carbon dioxide.’ Photograph: Cultura Inventive Ltd/Alamy

Over the previous 50 years, the oceans have been working in overdrive to gradual world warming, absorbing about 40% of our carbon dioxide emissions, and greater than 90% of the surplus warmth trapped within the environment. However, Maurice Huguenin, Matthew England and Ryan Holmes write for the Dialog their analysis revealed at present in Nature Communications, has discovered some oceans work more durable than others. They discovered the Southern Ocean has dominated the worldwide absorption of warmth. In reality, Southern Ocean warmth uptake accounts for nearly all of the planet’s ocean warming, controlling the speed of local weather breakdown.

Final Factor: Vineyards await Saint-Émilion wine rankings after 10-year row over 2012 outcomes

A woman working in a vineyard of Saint Emilion, southwestern France.
A lady working in a winery in Saint-Émilion, south-western France. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Pictures

Winemakers within the historic vineyards of Saint-Émilion in France are hoping that prestigious wine rankings unveiled at present will put an finish to greater than a decade of court docket instances, authorized wrangling and controversy. The sedate space of Saint-Émilion, with its Romanesque structure and assortment of vineyards classed as a world heritage website, has been on the centre of a long-running row over its well-known rankings, that are determined each 10 years and have been in comparison with the Michelin Information’s affect on the restaurant commerce.

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