Floridians anxious over anti-Zika mosquito As the introduction of GM mosquitoes dominate local news in Key West, the prospect of ridding the neighborhood of a disease-carrying pest hasn't quelled public dissatisfaction. Each male mosquito released by the US pest control firm Oxitec will carry a gene to prevent his offspring from reaching adulthood. Scientists hope that the genetically modified males will mate with wild females to undercut the population of Aedes aegypti, the type of mosquito that spread Zika. But some residents are angry. "It's about human rights – this can't be pushed down our throats without consent," said Mila de Mier, a real estate agent. Zika virus: Floridians fear 'Pandora's box' of genetically altered mosquitoes
Trump takes aim at media As the Republican presidential nominee struggles in polls and reports of despair within his presidential campaign circulate, Donald Trump has begun to question the role of a free press. At a Saturday night rally, Trump went so far as to say that his race is not against the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, but against journalists. "I'm not running against Crooked Hillary," he told a crowd. "I'm running against the crooked media." On Sunday, he went further: "It is not 'freedom of the press' when newspapers and others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even if it is completely false!" Donald Trump: I'm running against 'crooked media', not just Hillary Clinton Record flooding in Louisiana More than 10,000 people are in shelters and more than 20,000 people have been rescued across south Louisiana amid widespread flooding, governor John Bel Edwards has said, as the federal government declared a major disaster in four parishes. Three people were reported dead Sunday and one remains unaccounted for. The governor says water is continuing to rise in some areas even though the sunshine is out. He encouraged people to not go out and "sightsee" even as the weather improves. Louisiana flooding: 20,000 people rescued as major disaster declared Picnic only for some
Scores of "u-pick" farms have sprung up in southern California – offering recreation, entertainment and do-it-yourself harvesting. But the big, working farms produce much of America's fruit and vegetables, and the juxtaposition between the mostly white children gambolling in shorts and flip-flops and the mostly latino men and women bent over double, wearing jeans, boots and masks, is striking. They labor in silence for up to 13 hours a day. "You have to be fast. If you're not, they scold you. 'Move it, hurry up'," said Veronica Villano, 28, a veteran Ventura county raspberry picker. "You drink water when you can but they don't always let you." Fruits of labor: sunny California is no paradise for farm workers A progressive Clinton? Not likely Come November, Clinton will have won her great victory – not as a champion of working people's concerns, but as the greatest moderate of them all, predicts Thomas Frank. "And so ends the great populist uprising of our time, fizzling out pathetically in the mud and the bigotry stirred up by a third-rate would-be caudillo named Donald J Trump. So closes an era of populist outrage that began back in 2008 ... The unrest has taken many forms in these eight years – from idealistic to cynical, from Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party – but they all failed to change much of anything." With Trump certain to lose, you can forget about a progressive Clinton Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton got a bounce from the Democratic convention. If history is any guide, Clinton's current lead hinges on her performance in upcoming debates, the ability to avoid (any more) scandals, and bigger-picture issues like the economy and national security, which are beyond either candidate's direct control. Hillary Clinton got a big boost from the convention. What happens next? Gabby Douglas 'heartbroken' The three-time gold medalist has faced criticism over her appearance and perceived lack of patriotism, her mother says. "She's had to deal with people criticizing her hair, or people accusing her of bleaching her skin," Douglas' mother, Natalie Hawkins, told Reuters. "They said she had breast enhancements, they said she wasn't smiling enough, she's unpatriotic. Then it went to not supporting your team-mates." The abuse has left Douglas "heartbroken", her mother said. Gabby Douglas 'heartbroken' as online abuse targets gymnast, mother says Lost city no 6: Thonis-Heracleion After 1,000 years, Egypt's ancient gateway to the Mediterranean – submerged and buried under layers of sand – is an eerie reminder of how vulnerable cities are to nature's forces, writes Jack Shenker. Since the early 2000s, archaeologists have been bringing up treasures. Discovering a single statue is exciting, says Aurélia Masson-Berghoff, curator at the British Museum, but "discovering a whole city, which was home to thousands and thousands of people over more than a thousand years … Well, that's something else".
Lost cities #6: how Thonis-Heracleion resurfaced after 1,000 years under water
In case you missed it … Kate Mara was 19 when she passed on admission at the highly respected Tisch School of Performing Arts at New York University and bought a dog. "I knew I would need the company," she says. "Because where I was going, I knew literally no one." That place was Hollywood. Speaking of her equally famous sister, actor Rooney Mara, she says, there's no rivalry. "If we were up for the same job, our agents wouldn't tell us." Kate Mara: 'If we were up for the same job, our agents wouldn't tell us' | 
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates after the final of men's 100m at the Rio 2016 Olympics Sunday. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock 
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