‘Swedes like generous, personal, lived-in spaces’: The Scandi homeware style that Swedish people love
Dominic Lutyens
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250620-the-true-scandi-style-that-swedes-love

How the Grateful Dead built the internet
Allegra Rosenberg
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250618-how-the-grateful-dead-shaped-social-media

Some beaches closed in Hennepin County after water test results
By Kilat Fitzgerald
https://www.fox9.com/news/beaches-closed-hennepin-county-water-test-results

Thousands still without power, cleanup continues after severe storms in northern Minnesota
Andrew Krueger
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/22/thousands-without-power-cleanup-continues-severe-storms-northern-minnesota-bemidji

‘Perpetual crisis mode’: how Trump uses emergency declarations to push radical agenda
President’s dubious claims of ‘emergency’ threaten civic and political norms in authoritarian style, experts warn
Peter Stone in Washington DC
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/23/trump-emergency-declarations-politics-law

‘I’m scared to death to leave my house’: immigrants are disappearing from the streets – can US cities survive?
Heavily immigrant towns and cities in California resemble ghost towns as fear of Ice raids grip local residents
Cindy Carcamo, Dianne Solis and Alfredo Corchado in Santa Ana, California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/23/immigrants-disappearing-us-cities

First images of distant galaxies captured by ‘ultimate’ telescope
Stunning pictures from Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile released at start of 10-year survey of cosmos
Ian Sample Science editor
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/23/first-images-of-distant-galleries-captured-by-ultimate-telescope

Rich Americans flock to apply for New Zealand’s ‘golden visas’ after rules relaxed
Coalition government loosened requirements for its Active Investor Plus visa in bid to boost flagging economy
Eva Corlettin Wellington
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/23/americans-new-zealand-golden-visas-trump

Free buses, more housing, taxing the rich: how Zohran Mamdani has gone viral in the New York mayor’s race
He was 30 points behind former governor Andrew Cuomo just months ago, but now he’s surging in the contest to lead the largest US city
Adam Gabbatt
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/23/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-race-viral

Travels in Moominland: summer in Tove Jansson’s Finland
The children’s book author spent the precious long Nordic days in simple, off-grid cabins on small dreamy islands – a tradition many Finns still follow
Ailsa Sheldon
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/jun/23/summer-in-tove-jansson-finland-moomins