US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholders Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics. Biden said earlier this week during an Oval Office address that he would call for reform of the court ..read more

Police allege the man used an encrypted messaging service to deal drugs and coordinate a network of runners outside the Sydney facility Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast An immigration detainee and another man have been charged over an alleged drug ring operating from inside a detention facility. Police say the 49-year-old dealt large amounts of methylamphetamine using an encrypted messaging service from Villawood immigration detention centre in Sydney’s west. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily ..read more

A secret legal battle between the media mogul and his children is evoking parallels with his TV counterpart This article contains spoilers for the HBO series Succession Rupert Murdoch is reportedly in a secret legal battle with his four eldest children over the future of his media empire, in a turn of events that has sparked comparisons with the battles of the Roy family in the hit HBO drama Succession. According to sealed court documents seen by the New York Times, Murdoch, 93, is arguing that his eldest son, Lachlan, should have sole control of the family’s investments in a move that would ..read more

Australia’s Matthew Dawson thought his Games were over after a freak accident but a bold decision ensured he will still be part of a team chasing a medal It has been 20 years since the Kookaburras, the Australian men’s hockey team, have won an Olympic gold medal. But so badly do the current cohort want to improve on their agonising silver medal in Tokyo, downed by Belgium in an extraordinary, protracted shoot-out, that some squad members have taken to drastic measures. Like cutting off a finger. Two weeks ago, Kookaburras defender Matthew Dawson was participating in a warm-up match in Perth wh ..read more

Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules Elon Musk’s X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app. The UK and Irish data watchdogs said they have contacted X over the apparent attempt to gain user consent for data harvesting without them knowing about it ..read more

Singer, who hasn’t performed onstage since 2020 as a result of her health, brought down the house with a breathtaking take on an Edith Piaf classic The casual sports fans of the world endured four hours of rambling, chaotic, rainy pomp and circumstance along the Seine on Friday evening for one reason: to possibly see Céline Dion return to the stage. The 56-year-old French Canadian singer has not performed in over four years, owing to a rare, incurable neurological disorder called stiff person syndrome. Despite struggling with uncontrollable muscle spasms extreme enough to break ribs, Dion, a t ..read more

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales Get this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads here. Top of the weekend to you all. A gentle reminder to my fellow Australians that there is a time and place for the “Oi! Oi! Oi!” chant and that was Sydney almost a quarter of a century ago. With that Olympics-related PSA out of the way, go the Boomers, go the Tillies – and rest assured that from here this newsletter is a sport-free zone. Kind of ..read more

Jess Fox and Eddie Ockenden were among those who got soaked as they sailed down the Seine but their grins were visible from the river’s banks “I woke up this morning and it was raining,” Australia’s flag bearer Jess Fox said in Paris on Friday, as she prepared to lead her national team on a barge along the Seine in the grand opening to the Olympics. “But it won’t rain on our parade.” The line was obviously rehearsed, one final practice session for Fox ahead of the formal start of Olympic competition on Saturday. But seeing the soaked smiles of the Australians as they sailed down Paris’ magnifi ..read more

From meticulous preparation to sandbagging, breaking down the psychic toolbox competitors in Paris will be working with Olympic athletes employ a number of strategies in their attempts to gain a psychological advantage over the other competitors. Some of these may be ­deliberate, but in many cases they will be employing tactics they don’t fully understand. Here are 10 mind games to look out for ..read more

An armada of boats carrying athletes along the Seine, dangling dancers and parading drag queens – all under torrential rain The Paris Olympic Games opened on Friday night with a high-kitsch, riverside spectacle, as an armada of boats carried athletes along the Seine, dancers dangled from high poles, drag queens paraded on bridges and the Olympic rings lit up the Eiffel Tower – all under unrelenting, torrential rain. France had promised its opening ceremony would be the biggest open-air show on Earth. More than 300,000 people watched the riverside and bridges – and hundreds more stood at window ..read more