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Morning mail: Britain's new rules for EU citizens

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Theresa May at 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Tuesday: Theresa May says EU citizens living in the UK will have to apply for ‘settled status’ to remain there after Brexit. Plus: New Zealand win the America’s Cup.

by Eleanor Ainge Roy

Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Tuesday 27 June.

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Theresa May has revealed 3 million EU citizens will have to apply for “settled status” if they wish to remain in the country after Brexit. The EU “settled status” residence proposals could entail an identity card, backed up by entry on a Home Office register. Many details of the new arrangement are still being decided but EU citizens would retain access to public funds such as pensions, though they would have to meet a minimum income threshold of £18,600 to be eligible to bring a spouse into Britain, an immigration rule that supreme court judges have described as “particularly harsh” and from which EU citizens were previously exempt. The new arrangement has been criticised by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who said the details come “too little, too late” for anxious EU citizens.

Meanwhile May’s minority Conservative government has signed a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party from Northern Ireland. The “confidence and supply” deal is designed to ensure the DUP backs the government on confidence and budget. But the £1bn cost has angered politicians from Scotland, Wales and parts of England, who have lined up to demand more money. The extra cash will be spent on hospitals, schools and roads in Northern Ireland, the DUP said. Critics including former treasury permanent secretary Nick Macpherson claim the money would only act as a temporary downpayment and the DUP would soon ask for more to continue their support of the beleaguered Tories.

The vast majority of Australians continue to back a massive increase in renewable energy, a new survey by the Climate Institute has found, despite attempts by the federal government to characterise renewables as unreliable and expensive. The Climate Institute says the survey points to frustration with the government’s inaction and lack of leadership on clean energy.

The US supreme court has partially lifted obstacles blocking Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban targeting visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries. The nation’s highest court said the 90-day ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, along with a 120-day suspension of the US refugee resettlement program, could be enforced against those who lack a “credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”.

The Guardian Essential poll has found an overwhelming majority of Australian voters support real-time reporting of political donations and disclosure of politicians’ meetings with companies, unions and donors. The poll of 1,025 people found 64% support a ban on foreign donations. It also examined Australians’ thoughts about their leaders. Malcolm Turnbull was perhaps unsurprisingly the choice for advice on investing money but people preferred Bill Shorten to go to the pub with for a beer.

The body of Spanish artist Salvador Dali will be exhumed to finally settle a long-running paternity case. A Spanish court has ordered the surrealist’s body be exumed so DNA can be extracted to determine whether he is the father of a woman born in 1956. Pilar Abel, a tarot card reader and fortune teller from Girona, has spent a decade attempting to prove she is Dali’s only child and heir to a quarter of his fortune. Abel said her physical resemblance to Dali is so close “the only thing I’m missing is a moustache”.

Sport

Emirates Team New Zealand including helmsman Pete Burling (left) celebrate after defeating Oracle Team USA during race nine in Bermuda and taking the America’s Cup. Photograph: John G. Mabanglo/EPA

New Zealand has sailed into America’s Cup glory and taken sailing’s biggest prize for the third time. Emirates Team New Zealand completed the upset over holders Oracle Team USA with a 7-1 dismantling and put to bed the demons of a heartbreaking 2013 defeat in San Francisco. The America’s Cup race will now return to New Zealand for the first time since 2003.

Australia have beaten the West Indies at the women’s cricket world cup in Taunton by eight wickets. An excellent display from the bowlers helped dismiss the West Indies for 204 and a chanceless 107 not out from the opener Nicole Bolton eased Australia home with 11.5 overs to spare. Next up the Aussies meet Sri Lanka in Bristol on Thursday.

Thinking time

Victoria is the new ground zero in the battle over the legalisation of euthanasia in Australia, with a government-sponsored bill looming for the first time in any jurisdiction in this country. Gay Alcorn and Melissa Davey dive deep into the debate that is polarising Victoria’s political, health and religious communities and look at why both sides feel that a victory in this state is the key to the future.

Georgia O’Keeffe was an icon of the American art world: a pioneer of abstract modernism, with boldly innovative paintings of flowers and bleached animal skulls. Lesser known is that her diet, too, was ahead of its time. Now a new cookbook of O’Keeffe’s personal recipes – Dinner with Georgia O’Keeffe: Recipes, Art and Landscape, by the Australian author Robyn Lea – reveals she would have been a modern Instagram #cleaneating star with her devotion to making her own yoghurt, organic whole grains and homemade bread.

If the sound of dial-up internet haunts your nightmares and your first crush was called Corey, perhaps you are you a xennial, a micro-generation born between born between 1977 and 1983. Take our quiz to find out – and remind yourself of your 80s and 90s pop culture consumption. Plus: are you too stupid to pass Australia’s citizenship test? First Dog on the Moon has some questions.

What’s he done now?

Donald Trump has tweeted overnight that he deserves an apology from the former president Barack Obama, who he alleges did “NOTHING” after learning of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

“The reason that President Obama did NOTHING about Russia after being notified by the CIA of meddling is that he expected Clinton would win …” Trump tweeted. “… and did not want to ‘rock the boat.’ He didn’t ‘choke’, he colluded or obstructed, and it did the Dems and Crooked Hillary no good.”

Media roundup

Fairfax Media have teamed up with the ABC’s Four Corners for a special investigation into Aveo retirement villages, titled “Bleed them Dry until they die”. The West Australian has a story and video footage of a citizen’s arrest by a cool-headed 25-year-old bricklayer.

Coming up

Census day. After the fiasco of census night 2016, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will be hoping for a smoother ride when they release the final version showing what 24 million Australians are up to. Follow live coverage with the Guardian.

Hearings for the Northern Territory child protection royal commission continue in Darwin, hearing testimony from witnesses include the WA inspector of custodial services, Prof Neil Morgan, and a US criminal justice policy expert.

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