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• Bad Bunny, "The Traitors," and "Muppets" won top honors during the first night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. • The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show starring Bad Bunny took home a win for its production. • These awards recognize the technical and creative achievements behind the scenes of major television and special event productions.

Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s military. Find a map of them hereUS military interests control or have access to more than 100 defence facilities on Australian soil, in what some analysts describe as a “saturation” – even a “colonisation” – of the Australian continent.New data compiled by the Nautilus Institute and published by Guardian Australia maps the extent of US militarisation. The US military controls 17 facilities on mainland Australia and has access to 75 more Australian-run military installations. US defence corporations have access to an additional 18.Gathering intelligence, accessing satellite data for targeting information and communications intercepts.Training, including for 2,500 marines on dry-season rotation in the Northern Territory.Pre-positioning warfighting assets such as Osprey aircraft.Logistics hubs holding weapons, munitions and fuel, stored in case of a war in the Pacific. Continue reading...

• Federal Reserve officials Waller and Williams recently made dovish remarks that calmed U.S. Treasury yields. • Futures markets currently place the odds of a September interest rate hike and a hold at approximately 50-50. • The New York Fed president stated that large-scale technology investments in AI and data centers are keeping the U.S. economy strong.

• Southeast Asian blockchain companies raised more than double the funding they received a year earlier, despite the total number of deals falling by nearly half. • Tokenization platforms, which turn physical assets into digital securities, led the sector by attracting $114 million in investment. • The market shows a steep drop-off in maturity, with only 167 of the 3,957 tracked companies reaching Series A funding or beyond.

• The Labour Party has condemned Reform UK's proposal for £100bn in spending cuts, labeling the plan "half-baked" and "incredibly reckless." • Labour officials warn that such drastic reductions could jeopardize essential public services, specifically targeting risks to hospitals, schools, and law enforcement. • To offset economic impacts, Reform UK's consultation paper suggests loosening or abandoning planning regulations to stimulate development on brownfield sites.

Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalitiesAlmost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found.Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. Continue reading...

Increase coincides with proscription of Palestine Action last year which has led to thousands of arrests for allegedly supporting the protest groupAlmost half of all terrorism arrests in Great Britain since the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers in 2001 have come in the past year, official data shows.There have been 6,539 arrests for terror-related activity in Great Britain since the 2001 attacks and 3,021 of those arrests were in the year ending 31 March 2026, according to the Home Office. Continue reading...