Hong Kong security law unveils strict penalties with up to life in prison, broad Beijing powers https://t.co/2P2jE1uEhv

— Reuters China (@ReutersChina) June 30, 2020

China has passed a controversial new security law for Hong Kong

Many believe this could spell the end for the territory’s unique freedoms

What do we know, and what do people fear the most?

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— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 30, 2020

In this thread, I'll explain the 4 categories of offences under the new national security law, just gazetted into law in Hong Kong: secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.

— Stuart Lau (@StuartKLau) June 30, 2020

Hong Kong police decline to permit one of the city’s largest annual marches as China finalises the national security law.https://t.co/Swc64Z8EHl

— NDTV Profit (@NDTVProfitIndia) June 29, 2020

Hong Kong protests: opposition veterans to defy police ban on July 1 march, even with national security law expected to be in force https://t.co/olGbjCnadb

— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) June 30, 2020

People in Hong Kong face life behind bars for breaking a controversial new security law imposed by China https://t.co/j4i10vt9xY

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 30, 2020

This video will live for a long time, long after Kayleigh McEnany is no longer working for President Trump. https://t.co/cpZmiJnVtw

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) June 30, 2020

Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s niece Mary Trump from publishing her tell-all book https://t.co/7UetfhdFBZ pic.twitter.com/9adtp7Pedy

— The Hill (@thehill) June 30, 2020

With this move, Republican senators have stopped merely being enablers when Trump seeks foreign help to win elections. They’ve become accomplices. https://t.co/GKOhj4oPJN

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 30, 2020

The Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff briefed the President yesterday on plans to redeploy 9,500 troops from Germany. pic.twitter.com/oFwyWZRmvB

— Jonathan Hoffman (@ChiefPentSpox45) June 30, 2020

2.64 million Americans have tested positive for Covid-19, including 36,390 in last 24 hours.
As of today, 128,000 Americans have died, including 338 in past 24 hours. https://t.co/YuwFEietol

— Raju Narisetti (@raju) June 30, 2020

US could see 100,000 coronavirus cases per day, top disease researcher Dr Anthony Fauci sayshttps://t.co/RORhBPFh9K pic.twitter.com/iyghak45O9

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 30, 2020

Texas breaks record with nearly 7,000 coronavirus cases in one day https://t.co/81BNsVvcBQ pic.twitter.com/pd3QmB1xiz

— The Hill (@thehill) June 30, 2020

Remember when a positive test or two was enough to shut down a league? What will it take now? https://t.co/JJWolYUUWR

— Andrew Das (@AndrewDasNYT) June 30, 2020

Is Leicester the first of many local lockdowns in England? https://t.co/GORXvr2CuH

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 30, 2020

Some Leicester factories stayed open and forced staff to come in https://t.co/jg3yz49he5

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 30, 2020

NEW with @AndyBounds, @sarahnev & @Laura_K_Hughes:

The UK government’s published numbers of new cases at local authority level only include pillar 1 and *not* pillar 2 cases, meaning as many as 90% of new cases are missing from the datahttps://t.co/xGydQLHWjX

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— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) June 30, 2020

Boris Johnson returns to his happy place – upbeat, vague and incoherent https://t.co/Ku3zT8033I

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) June 30, 2020

Amusingly the BBC's Reality Check team have looked at Johnson's speech this morning and found that every major assertion was either previously announced, a lie, or a distortion of the truth – usually some combination of the three. https://t.co/DNymL8NCHl

— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) June 30, 2020

You see how we changed the word “back” to “forward” here?

Clever huh?

We’ve been working on that one for weeks.#BuildBuildBuild pic.twitter.com/Y4xyt0m7wf

— Conservatives (@TheBigCons) June 30, 2020

ANALYSIS. A speech that promised a New Deal for Britain. Rich on rhetoric the actual substance was thin gruel.

The PM dusted down his pre-Covid infrastructure plan for Britain but a New Deal for jobs won’t wait https://t.co/naUiPMptQH

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 30, 2020

M’former coll ⁦@rafaelbehr⁩ knocks it out the park (again) https://t.co/hosiaNdh7X

— Matthew d'Ancona (@MatthewdAncona) June 30, 2020

For the final time: You haven't removed freedom of movement across our continent from anyone other than poorer UK citizens. Every citizen of the 31 EU, EEA and EFTA countries, everyone born in NI (if they choose) and in practice every UK citizen who has enough dosh still has it. https://t.co/Z1ZDpUGF6v

— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) June 30, 2020

Something pathetic about dozens of middle-aged not very bright men and women (Tory MPs) tweeting cut and paste joy and expecting congratulations for taking away the rights of young people to travel, work and live in some of the greatest, safest, most prosperous countries on earth

— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) June 30, 2020

Fifty years ago today, 30 June 1970, the UK began negotiations to join the European Community, along with Ire, Den, Nor.
UK chief negotiator Con O’Neill: “What mattered was to get in.. (and) restore our position at the centre of European affairs, which since 1958, we had lost.”

— Jennifer Rankin (@JenniferMerode) June 30, 2020

This is SF's Dominic Cummings' moment. It's the politically powerful breaking the rules they themselves have made & expect ordinary folk to follow. Equality is meant to be a central tenet of republicanism. But it seems that, even in death, some are more equal than others. pic.twitter.com/ndAZnbtIMr

— Suzanne Breen (@SuzyJourno) June 30, 2020

Opening the UN Human Rights Council, 27 governments reiterate their "deep concern" about the Chinese government's detention of one million Uighur and other Turkic Muslims and now add "deep and growing concern" about the national security law for Hong Kong. https://t.co/GpfTYn9ddg pic.twitter.com/q4JyQ8xcjj

— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) June 30, 2020

US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir https://t.co/iMIBomlyQK

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) June 30, 2020

New swine flu in China could morph to cause human pandemic, study warns https://t.co/xb2862gJFI

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 30, 2020

2020 continues to surprise. pic.twitter.com/9katSmpjyq

— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) June 30, 2020

Carl Reiner, a driving force in American comedy as a writer for television pioneer Sid Caesar, partner of Mel Brooks and creator and co-star of the classic sitcom ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show,’ has died at age 98 https://t.co/bmfmMXVxKc pic.twitter.com/PocO0uplhK

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 30, 2020

Inspired by all who took knees before me, I'll attempt to & hopefully succeed in taking a knee for equality & justice for all our citizens. pic.twitter.com/KLGA0xomug

— carl reiner (@carlreiner) September 30, 2017

I have a Carl Reiner story that I hold very dear to me. I figured I'd share it today, on the day of his passing, because I hope it will bring some other people some joy the way it does me.

— Matthew Rosenberg (@AshcanPress) June 30, 2020