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👏 In response to the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate” arrests, a federal judge in California ruled that U.S. immigration officials cannot stop and detain people based solely on their race or for speaking Spanish.
🎾 With her Wimbledon win, 24-year-old Iga Swiatek made history, becoming the youngest woman with at least one major trophy on all three tennis court surfaces since 2002 when Serena Williams did at age 20.
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Low-traffic zones in London have reduced deaths and injuries by a third
The goal of low-traffic neighborhoods, or LTNs, is to make smaller residential roads more friendly for biking, walking, and other pedestrian activities by stopping through-traffic of motor vehicles. They’ve been used in the UK for decades, but were expanded in 2020.
Now, a new study found that London’s LTNs reduced road injuries and deaths by 35% within their boundaries compared to roads that did not have them. This amounted to the LTNs preventing more than 600 road injuries, including 100 involving death or serious injury.
And while one of the main critiques of LTNs is that they just push and concentrate dangerous traffic to nearby roads, the study also found that this did not happen.
Why is this good news? People deserve to have options for how to get around. Car-centric infrastructure and communities make alternatives like biking and walking more dangerous — plus, they result in poorer air quality.
A U.K. court upheld a Cayman Islands law legalizing same-sex partnerships. In the original case, the Cayman Islands’ courts ultimately ruled that the right to marry extended only to opposite-sex couples, but that same-sex couples were entitled to legal protection “which is functionally equivalent to marriage.”
In June, solar power was the EU’s largest source of electricity for the first time ever
Overtaking nuclear and wind, solar power was the European Union’s largest source of electricity for the first time in history last month — and coal fell to an all-time low.
Record sunshine and more solar installations pushed solar ahead to generating 22.1% of the EU’s electricity, up from 18.9% in June 2024. Nuclear made up 21.8% and wind 15.8%, while coal fell to 6.1%.
Demonstrating “how rapidly the EU’s power system is changing,” at least 13 countries in the EU recorded the highest-ever monthly solar generation — that included Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands.
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