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This State Program Collects Money from the Deceased. Families Pay the Price.

For nearly two decades, the state’s Medicaid Estate Recovery Program has filed repayment claims against Medicaid recipients after they die, threatening the inheritances of vulnerable Texans.

Texas Observer

No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

Ahead of new books by both, the two English novelists discuss their friendship, the baggage that comes with being labelled ‘northern writers’ and why the Krankies’ memoir is a must-read

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Fresh crisis at ‘toxic’ Strictly as ex-staff claim they faced sexualised comments and cruelty

Production workers at Strictly Come Dancing allege BBC refused to take their complaints seriously

The Guardian - UK

Waiting Out the Storm in Prison

Incarcerated Texans describe conditions in prison following Hurricane Beryl.

Texas Observer

The post-Biden era may be uncertain for the Democrats, but for Trump it will be utterly dismaying

Whoever wins the nomination, a fresh choice will be on offer – a far better scenario than a grudge match between two grumpy old men, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator

The Guardian - UK

Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould

The Marx Brothers collaborator and New Yorker writer returns to the dime store novels and schlocky movies of his teens – and nails American culture

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Fears grow over rise of ‘under the radar’ all-night slot machine halls in UK

Campaigners raise concern over risk of problem gambling as more than 300 24-hour sites spring up

The Guardian - UK

How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction

The Flow Country is to gain Unesco world heritage status years after the area was being destroyed in a tax break scheme, and thanks to campaigners, Nigel Lawson – and this newspaper

The Guardian - UK

A meeting with Liza Minnelli, 1989

Promoting her album with the Pet Shop Boys, the actor and singer was in a liberated mood when she granted the Observer an audience in Athens

The Guardian - UK

Britain behind Europe in arts funding and education, ‘crisis’ report shows

State of the Art reveals that while Germany, France and Finland have each increased culture spending by up to 70%, Britain has cut its budget by 6%

The Guardian - UK

Labour makes working-class children key to schools reform

Minister pledges more sports and drama in curriculum review as row deepens over two-child benefit cap

The Guardian - UK

Slave trader Colston left bequest to Church of England, archive shows

As archbishop of Canterbury visits Jamaica, research reveals trader left money to church’s missionary arm

The Guardian - UK

Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names

Offensive term to be replaced as first step towards more changes in unprecedented reform of nomenclature rules

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Scientists urge GPs to share UK patient data for research into new treatments

Researchers call on the government to settle dispute, which they say is impeding groundbreaking research

The Guardian - UK

ECB wants to keep the Hundred name even if it switches to Twenty20 format

A source involved in talks about the future of the Hundred says it wants to keep its ‘really powerful brand’ even if the format does change in 2028

Texas Observer

Mike Miles Moved Texas School Funds to Colorado Through a Possible Shell Corporation Without a Paper Trail

An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent's Colorado charter school nonprofit did business in Texas.

The Guardian - UK

Guardian News and Media announces retirement of Paul Webster, editor of the Observer

Guardian News and Media has today announced that Paul Webster, editor of the Observer, will be retiring from the role this autumn.

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Evening Standard

Science Museum ends sponsorship deal with oil giant Equinor following pressure from climate change protesters

The Science Museum has encouraged Equinor to put in place targets which align with the Paris Climate Agreement

Texas Observer

Texas Plans to Execute Man After Courts Refuse DNA Tests

Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of murder in 1999 under Texas’ “Law of Parties.” He says he had nothing to do with the killing.

Texas Observer

Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Forced Labor Shrouded in Secrecy

Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.

The Guardian - UK

The Orange Room by Rosie Price review – quietly devastating portrait of coercive control

An art student’s self-worth is undermined by her boyfriend in the author’s second novel, a subtle tale of a toxic relationship

The Guardian - UK

The big split: why divorce rates were soaring in 1976

After the Divorce Reform Act a decade earlier, women were telling their husbands, ‘I’ve had enough!’

The Guardian - UK

Films, fashion, law, politics: George and Amal Clooney’s growing global reach

While George is busy urging Biden to bow out of the presidential race, Amal has Netanyahu firmly in her sights

The Guardian - UK

Fears UK prisons face ‘collapse’ as they could be full before early release scheme begins

With Labour plan not coming into effect until September, ex-prison governor says emergency measures can only ‘keep a lid on things’

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