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Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state’s death chamber the nation’s busiest at the end of his final termA former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern US history.It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017. Continue reading...

• The European Commission has withdrawn a €2 million grant previously earmarked for the La Biennale di Venezia Foundation. • This financial cut follows tensions between Brussels and the institution, specifically regarding the presence of Russia at the Venice Biennale. • The decision has sparked criticism from the Italian government and represents a significant loss of funding for one of Italy's premier cultural organizations.

Vertical Aerospace says government has given £10m backing, taking its total investment in the project to £48mBritish flying taxi startup Vertical Aerospace has said the UK government has expressed interest in buying a military variant of its aircraft as it races to gain approval for flights with paying passengers.Vertical also welcomed another £10m grant from the government, taking its total UK state funding to £48m. Continue reading...

Changes inside the Florida international airport are hardly evident as state and county hold back funds for full remodelOne of Donald Trump’s most grandiose vanity projects, a multimillion-dollar makeover of Florida’s Palm Beach international airport into a self-aggrandizing, gold-plated transportation hub, is running into turbulence, barely a week after the first plane’s wheels touched the runway.At first glance, the rebranding of the airport less than 5 miles from his opulent Mar-a-Lago resort appears to be complete. Its website bears the name and oversized logo of the President Donald J Trump international airport, and state transportation workers were quick to erect highway signs leaving drivers in no doubt where they were heading. Continue reading...

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Jalandhar, Punjab, on July 17 to unveil several railway and development infrastructure projects. • The visit occurs as the BJP prepares to contest the February 2027 state Assembly elections independently, signaling a strategic shift in its regional approach. • The trip takes place amid a shifting political narrative in Punjab, specifically highlighted by ongoing tensions regarding the Satluj river row.

Defunding, mandated in Trump’s 2025 policy, has been blamed for closure of clinics as well as reduction in screenings for cancer and STDsPlanned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year.The defunding, which was mandated in Donald Trump’s big tax and policy in July 2025, has been blamed in the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of Planned Parenthood patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted infections. Continue reading...

Activists aim to repeat disruption of Jeff Bezos’s wedding when billionaire Tilman Fertitta drops anchorProtesters in Venice are planning to disrupt a visit by the billionaire US ambassador to Italy in his 117-metre superyacht, which they fear he plans to dock in the lagoon city.“We ruined the party for Jeff Bezos’s wedding last year – this year let’s ruin the ambassador’s tour!” said Stella Faye, a 28-year-old researcher and activist, at a meeting of about 40 demonstrators on Thursday. Continue reading...