Clinton hits stride with win in Puerto Rico, Sanders stays in
The Democrat is now less than 30 votes short of a winning tally of 2,383 delegates. Has she finally found her footing? After winning in Puerto Rico, the presidential candidate, currently barnstorming through California, tweeted that she had beaten rival Bernie Sanders. Not so fast, said Sanders – there are still several hundred delegates up for grabs in contests New Jersey, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Mexico. Plus, Clinton could still lose California on Tuesday, a state she needs symbolically, if not mathematically.
Hillary Clinton claims victory in Puerto Rico and edges closer to nomination
Trump: Muslim judges could be biased too
The presumptive Republican nominee continues to go after the judicial system, saying it’s “possible, absolutely” that not only Mexican but also Muslim judges would be biased against him. Among uncomfortable senior Republicans, potential running mate Newt Gingrich described Trump’s comments about Gonzalo Curiel, the judge in one of three cases pending against Trump Univesity, as “inexcusable”.
Trump: ‘It’s possible, absolutely’ Muslim judges could be biased against him
Muhammad Ali returns home
As the boxer’s casket was flown to Louisville, residents of the Kentucky city reflected on the skinny kid who used to tell people he’d one day be the heavyweight champion. It wasn’t just Louisville that Ali changed, though – he altered “the world”, said childhood neighbor Lawrence Montgomery. Ali’s funeral on Friday will feature eulogists including Bill Clinton, the sportscaster Bryant Gumbel and the actor Billy Crystal.
Louisville, forever changed by Muhammad Ali, prepares to bury him
Bitter clash in Stanford rape case
After the father of a student convicted of sexual assault at Stanford University issued an extraordinary defense of his son, who he said was now suffering for “20 minutes of action”, the 23-year-old victim’s full statement has been released. The victim said that former star swimmer Brock Turner, who has been sentenced to six months in prison and probation, was “willing to go to any length, to discredit me, invalidate me, and explain why it was OK to hurt me”. Her unflinching account of the crime and its aftermath has been read thousands of times online.
Stanford sexual assault case: victim impact statement in full
Cody Wilson: 3D-printed gun advocate
He quotes Nietzsche and Foucault and calls himself a crypto-anarchist. Cody Wilson, 28, is also the leading advocate for open-source 3D gun design, an online movement advocating homemade weapons. His own design, created in 2013 while a law student at the University of Texas, is named the Liberator. “All I tried to do in law school was print a pistol and put it on the internet,” he tells the Guardian. “Now I’m on a ride I can’t get off of.”
Cody Wilson: the man who wants Americans to print their own 3D guns
Human-pig embryo created in lab
Scientists in California attempting to grow human organs in pigs have created part-human, part-pig embryos. They allowed the embryos to mature for 28 days before analysing the tissue. Some hope pigs could someday provide a ready source of human organs. But opposition is growing – the US National Institutes of Health has said it will not, at this point, back research into so-called chimeras.
Scientists create human-pig embryo
Euro 2016 terror attacks foiled, says Ukraine
Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) has said a French citizen detained in May was planning attacks to coincide with Euro 2016, the 24-team soccer tournament which kicks off in Paris this weekend. The SBU said it had followed the man since December and allowed him to purchase five machine guns, two rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons. The man was not identified but the SBU said he was driven by ultra-nationalist views and planned attacks on Jewish and Muslim places of worship, government buildings, bridges, railways and other infrastructure.
Euro 2016 ‘ultra-nationalist’ attacks ‘thwarted’, Ukraine says
Warriors slam Cavaliers but San Francisco move divides
After the Golden State Warriors humiliated the Cleveland Cavaliers 110-77 in NBA finals Game 2, leaving the Cavs down 2-0 in the series. Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Levin look at what the Warriors’ move to San Francisco means to Oakland: they find Oakland’s inferiority complex – as “the Town” – is matched by a certain smugness among wealthy residents of San Francisco, “the City”. But Oakland is rapidly gentrifying, so it’s game on.
Golden State Warriors humiliate Cleveland Cavaliers
Can AI do things better than we can? If so, what?
The marriage of artificial intelligence and humanity is the emerging issue of the future. Leo Benedictus asks if AI will be able to do even the things humans find difficult. So far it’s been good at easy tasks that dazzle us, such as mathematics, but bad at those we take for granted. “One example is the ease with which you or I could make a cup of tea in someone else’s kitchen,” says Professor Alan Winfield, a roboticist at the University of the West of England. “There isn’t a robot on the planet that could do this.”
Man v machine: can computers cook, write and paint better than us?
For Apple, how much is too much?
A small Danish technology studio named Lovable Hat Cult has produced La Petite Mort, a touch-based, female orgasm stimulation game described as a “one of a kind digital erotic experience”. It is, in effect, a simulation of stimulation. Apple has declared the game inappropriate for its app store and removed it for being “excessively objectionable or crude”. Game designer Patrick Jarnfelt says such erotic games are “a very unexplored area”.
The female orgasm simulation game that’s too hot for Apple to touch
In case you missed it…
Last week, a survey in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour stated that there had been a huge increase in the number of people reporting having had same-sex experiences and, alongside this, a greater acceptance of people’s sexuality. Sarah Hughes takes the social temperature and looks at how we embarked on a new age of gender fluidity, asking: have we reached a tipping point?
Sexuality today: how we embarked on a new age of freedom and tolerance
