Biles back in action; golf comes to Rio Simone Biles will be competing today, two days after winning gold in the team gymnastics event. The US, quite simply, is untouchable in gymnastics and it would take a miraculous effort, coupled with monumental mistakes, for Biles and team-mate Aly Raisman not to get gold and silver in the all-around final. Meanwhile, golf comes to the Olympics for the first time since 1904, while a day after one of the two Olympic pools turned green, the other appears to be going the same way. And no sooner had Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan won gold in weightlifting than he was accused of doping. Here is the schedule for day six and here is the medal table so far. Team USA's Rio 2016 highlights, day six: Simone Biles back in action Nauru security guard 'grabbed boy by throat and banged head against ground' In the latest revelations from Guardian Australia's Nauru files, Paul Farrell reports that a security guard on the remote Pacific island – used by Australia as an offshore detention center for asylum seekers – allegedly grabbed a child by the throat and twice banged his head against the ground. Other leaked documents reveal reports of misconduct by numerous security guards on the island and alleged attempts to deter asylum seekers from complaining to police. More than 2,000 leaked incident reports from the detention camp have been published by the Guardian. New readers start here. Nauru security guard 'grabbed boy by throat and banged head against ground'
Putin threatens Ukraine Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of plotting terrorist attacks in Crimea and claimed two Russian servicemen were killed in clashes this week, as tensions over the peninsula rise to their highest level since Russia annexed it in 2014. In characteristically bellicose language, Putin accused Ukraine of playing a dangerous game. "We obviously will not let such things slide by," the Russian president said yesterday, and accused Ukraine of resorting to the "practice of terror". Ukraine has denied the allegations. Putin raises stakes over alleged Ukrainian terror plot in Crimea Silicon Valley housing official resigns over housing costs Kate and Steve Downing typify the housing struggle of many in the northern California region that is home to many of the world's wealthiest tech companies – the cost of owning a home near their jobs has simply become too steep for them. Their condition carries a special irony: up until this week, she served as a planning and transportation commissioner for Palo Alto. "If even people like me can't remain in the heart of Silicon Valley, it tells you just how awful the situation is for everyone else," she said. Housing official in Silicon Valley resigns because she can't afford to live there It's that time again: Oscar season It's only three weeks until Hollywood kicks off its annual awards season onslaught, when studios release their biggest hopes for Oscars gold. The campaigns kick off with the Venice film festival, where the slate includes a Jackie Kennedy biopic starring Natalie Portman and a romance featuring real-life couple Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. The Telluride and Toronto festivals follow swiftly afterwards. Then comes New York. Nigel M Smith considers the offerings ...
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Glenn Beck loses round in Boston bombing defamation case The conservative commentator Glenn Beck must reveal the names of confidential sources he used in reports alleging that a Saudi Arabian student injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was "the money man" who funded the attack, a US federal judge has ruled. In her decision on Tuesday, writes Reuters, Chief Judge Patti Saris of the US district court in Boston also rejected Beck's latest effort to dismiss Abdulrahman Alharbi's defamation case against him and TheBlaze radio network, which broadcasts Beck's show.
Glenn Beck loses round in Boston Marathon bombing defamation case
In case you missed it … The case for swimming As we remain transfixed by the spectacle of human amphibians in Rio, Philip Hoare reminds us that 54% of Americans can't swim. "There's a potentially fatal disconnect, it seems, between ourselves and the water," Hoare writes, but from Jack London to Thoreau, there are many illustrious examples to follow. Katharine Hepburn, for instance, was famous for swimming in the ice off her home in Fenwick, Connecticut. "It's stimulating and it's fun," she said, "because it irritates everybody. It makes them cowards." Americans: it's time to reclaim your great swimming heritage | 
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Hillary Clinton arrives at a campaign rally in Des Moines yesterday. Photograph: Steve Pope/Getty Images 
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