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🏠 A New York City housing board voted to approve a two-year rent freeze for about one million regulated apartments, delivering on a key promise of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
🇳🇴 Norway, one of the first countries to ban smartphones in schools, is now imposing a ban on AI in elementary schools, with children between the ages of six and 13 barred from using AI in schools entirely.
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French Polynesia just expanded ocean protections to cover 30% of its waters
The government of French Polynesia announced it is expanding the extent of ocean where extractive industries like seabed mining and industrial fishing will not be allowed — it means 30% of its waters will now be fully protected.
On June 7, 2026, the country’s president announced a 520,000-square-kilometer (200,000-square-mile) expansion of protected waters near some of its islands, bringing French Polynesian waters under full protection to 1.4 million square kilometers (540,500 square miles), reaching that 30% global benchmark.
The protected area was established by consensus of the communities within French Polynesia, and more than a decade of advocacy from local mayors.
Why is this good news? The new protected zone will help conserve 20 species of sharks including the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead and oceanic whitetip. The new zone is also one of the few known breeding sites for 22 bird species, and will protect 455 mollusk species, 60 open-ocean fish species, and other marine animals.
Sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time ever in the UK
A new analysis found that, for the first time ever, more new electric vehicles have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars in the United Kingdom.
In the year leading up to May 2026, consumers in the UK purchased 516,490 new battery-electric vehicles, compared to 504,010 new petrol cars.
The milestone comes amid debate over the country’s “zero-emission vehicle” mandate, which sets a rising target for the share of new car sales that must be “zero-emission vehicles” each year.
🍻 Jason Kelce is putting his beer-drinking skills to very good use.
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