Voices of America: voters tell the Guardian what really matters
Across the country, the Guardian has been asking American voters about what really matters to them in this presidential year – in questions online, in person as they went to the polls, and in discussion groups on campuses, in restaurants and in their homes. Resoundingly, the largest group of participants pointed to climate change. More than 1,500 American voters gave us insight into the issues they care about most as part of the Guardian’s new Voices of America series – starting today – which aims to highlight the way key issues have been ignored or under-played during a primary season when trivial personal attacks seemed to take precedence over substantial debate of issues that matter.
Climate change: the missing issue of the 2016 campaign
‘We have to live up to our potential’: the voters we met on the campaign trail
Why we wanted to hear from you – and still do
‘Juno, welcome to Jupiter’
After five years travel at 130,000 mph over 1.8bn miles, Nasa’s Juno probe was successfully placed into the orbit of Jupiter on Monday night. The $1.1bn craft braved intense radiation and fields of space rocks in what was described as an extremely complex manoeuvre, with the craft first having to slow and then turn off its engines to enter the orbit of the largest planet in the solar system at exactly the right moment. Juno’s success prompted joy at Nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California. “We just did the hardest thing Nasa has ever done,” said Scott Bolton, principle investigator of the Juno mission.
‘Welcome to Jupiter’: Nasa mission puts Juno in orbit after five-year journey
Trump campaign defends ‘antisemitic’ Clinton tweet
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remain locked in a war of words over a tweet featuring the Democratic candidate which her Republican rival subsequently deleted. The dispute centers on an image of Clinton over a six-pointed star resembling the Star of David, and a carpet of $100 bills. Clinton campaign spokesperson Sarah Bard called the image “blatantly” antisemitic. Trump accused the media of dishonesty and said that linking the star with antisemitism was “ridiculous”. The Trump campaign’s social media director Dan Scavino posted a statement on Trump’s Facebook page on Monday evening saying that he had lifted it from an anti-Clinton Twitter feed and had never intended to offend anyone, according to the Associated Press.
Donald Trump blames ‘dishonest media’ in furor over ‘antisemitic’ Clinton tweet
Gun control measure may get vote
Two weeks after Democrats staged a 26-hour congressional sit-in to demand action on gun control, Republican speaker of the House Paul Ryan has agreed to hold a vote on a single gun-related bill that would allow the attorney general to delay the sale of a gun to a person on the terror watchlist for three days. The measure has already been slammed by Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi as “toothless”. Meanwhile in Patchogue, Long Island, the group Gays Against Guns, formed after the Pulse nighclub massacre in Orlando last month, held its first Fourth of July march.
Gun control fight returns to Congress as Speaker Ryan allows vote on one bill
Suicide bombers target three Saudi sites
In one of a series of attacks across Saudi Arabia on Monday, suicide bombers killed four members of security forces outside the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, one of the holiest sites in Islam. The attack, coming as the holy month of Ramadan ends, appeared to be coordinated with a series of other strikes, including an attempted bombing near the US consulate in Jeddah, that are consistent with the modus operandi of the Islamic State. In Baghdad, the death toll from a bomb attack claimed by Isis in a marketplace on Saturday climbed toward 200.
Suicide bombers attack sites in Saudi Arabia including mosque in Medina
UK Conservative party leadership contest narrows
Britain’s political crisis enters a new phase as Conservative lawmakers begin to narrow the selection process for a new leader and would-be prime minister. Current favourite Theresa May has refused to promise that EU nationals will be able to remain in UK ahead of a reciprocal agreement from the EU. Andrea Leadsom, Michael Gove, Stephen Crabb and Liam Fox are also running. Yesterday, Leadsom won the backing of Brexit leader Boris Johnson, who had been favorite to take over from David Cameron as prime minister before his shock exit from the race last week. Meanwhile, Alain Juppé, the favourite to win the French presidential election next year, has said Britain needs to leave the European Union as quickly as possible. “When you get divorced, you do not get to stay at home,” he said.
Brexit live: Farage ‘disgusted’ at May’s refusal to promise EU nationals they can stay in UK
Serena Williams back on form
The reigning Wimbledon champion saw off Svetlana Kuznetsova at Wimbledon on Monday in what amounted to a demolition. “Williams simply stepped up a gear and dominated until the finish,” writes Sachin Nakrani, “winning 7-5, 6-0 to set up a quarter-final against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Tuesday afternoon”. It will be the 36-year-old’s first quarter-final appearance at this championship since 2010.
Serena Williams laughs off legal talk after Svetlana Kuznetsova demolition
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The Berlin school where students self-motivate: Philip Oltermann visits the Evangelical School Berlin Centre and finds “a unique educational institution that has turned the conventions of traditional teaching radically upside down”. There is no grading until students turn 15, no timetables and no lecture-style instructions. The pupils decide when they want to take an exam.
No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
