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One of many wildest intervals in US political life is over. Joe Biden has deserted his re-election bid and endorsed the presidential marketing campaign of his vice-president, Kamala Harris. Yesterday morning, hours after securing the Democratic nomination, Harris introduced Tim Walz as her working mate, a little-known Minnesota governor who’s aformer social research instructor, highschool soccer coach and nationwide guard veteran.
At a raucous rally in Philadelphia final night time, Harris – the primary lady of coloration to steer a significant social gathering ticket – launched Walz as “the kind of vice-president America deserves” as they solid their marketing campaign as a “fight for the future”. Walz thanked Harris for “bringing back the joy” and appeared forward in the direction of the marketing campaign in retailer, as a lot of latest polls confirmed the VP transferring forward of Donald Trump within the race for the White Home. “We’ve got 91 days,” Walz declared. “My God, that’s easy. We’ll sleep when we’re dead.”
“He’s the kind of person who makes people feel like they belong and then inspires them to dream big,” Harris stated of Walz. “That’s the kind of vice-president he will be. And that’s the kind of president America deserves.”
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The place does he stand on reproductive freedom? Walz drew a private connection to one of the searing problems with the election cycle, saying he and his spouse had two youngsters via in vitro fertilization (IVF) after years of scuffling with infertility. “When we welcomed our daughter into the world, we named her Hope,” he stated.
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A ‘history-making’ occasion. The Guardian spoke to hopeful attenders on the rally, in addition to Cherelle Parker, Philadelphia’s mayor, who advised the group: “Don’t let Trump the trickster take our eyes off the prize.”
Cori Bush loses major after pro-Israel teams spend thousands and thousands to oust ‘Squad’ member
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) has claimed its second large win within the Democratic primaries after a outstanding member of the progressive “Squad” in Congress, Cori Bush, misplaced her major in St Louis after pro-Israel stress teams spent thousands and thousands of {dollars} to unseat her over criticisms of Israel’s battle on Gaza. Aipac, in June, performed a number one function in unseating the New York congressman Jamaal Bowman, one other progressive Democrat who criticised the dimensions of Palestinian civilians deaths in Gaza.
In Missouri, Aipac pumped $8.5m into the race for the state’s first congressional district to help the St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell via its marketing campaign funding arm, the United Democracy Mission (UDP). Bush had angered some pro-Israel teams, being one of many first members of Congress to name for a ceasefire after the 7 October Hamas assault on Israel. Bush then described Israel’s large-scale killing of civilians as “collective punishment against Palestinians” and a battle crime.
Choose guidelines towards Black highschool teen in hair discrimination case
Barbers Hill faculty district close to Houston, Texas, says its coverage proscribing hair size for male college students instills self-discipline whereas instructing grooming and respect for authority. Yesterday, a federal decide dominated within the faculty’s favor after 18-year-old Darryl George was stored out of his common highschool lessons for a lot of the 2023-24 faculty yr as a result of the varsity district stated his hair size violated its costume code.
However in his order, the US district decide Jeffrey Brown questioned whether or not the varsity district’s rule precipitated extra hurt than good. “Not everything that is undesirable, annoying, or even harmful amounts to a violation of the law, much less a constitutional problem,” Brown wrote.
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The state of Georgia allowed native election boards to withhold the certification of a vote within the face of unspecified “discrepancies” – a Republican-led transfer pushed by the very individuals who tried to withhold the certification of Joe Biden’s victory within the state in 2020
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will lead Bangladesh’s interim authorities after the previous prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the nation amid a mass rebellion that left tons of of individuals useless and pushed the South Asian nation to the brink of chaos.
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A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran has been charged over a foiled conspiracy to hold out political assassinations on US soil, the justice division stated yesterday, because it disclosed what officers say is the most recent murder-for-hire plot to focus on US public figures.
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Moscow has stated about 300 troopers from Ukraine launched a cross-border assault right into a hitherto quiet a part of the entrance yesterday, with studies of preventing at a city as deep as six miles inside Russia. Moscow stated its forces had repelled the incursion.
Stat of the day: Airbnb shares drop 12% as firm flags weakening US demand
The holiday rental firm Airbnb forecast third-quarter income beneath Wall Road estimates yesterday and reported a decrease second-quarter revenue, because it flagged weakening demand from US clients. Shares of the corporate have been down about 12% after the bell. Home journey within the US has been underneath stress for the reason that begin of the yr as extra Individuals develop cautious about journey spending amid rising financial uncertainty.
Don’t miss this: ought to all of us attempt ‘sex before coffee’?
Simply two nations have museums devoted to penises. Iceland is certainly one of them, simply one of many extra express symbols of an un-prurient method in the direction of intercourse within the Scandinavian nation. ‘Sex before coffee” is the go-to cliche of Scandinavian romantic habits, but in each country it means something different. Only in Iceland, however, is it meant literally: any romantic permutation will start with sex rather than a date.
… or this: why the word Taiwan is banned at the Olympics
Angelina Yang thought she knew the Olympic rules – no national flags, no political messages. She was excited to support her compatriot athletes at the Olympics Games in France, where she was living and studying. So the Taiwanese student made what she thought was an uncontroversial sign – the outline of her home island, with the words “jiayou Taiwan” (Go Taiwan) written in Chinese.
But as she unfurled the sign in the stadium stands to watch her team play China in badminton, she was quickly surrounded. “I was still holding my poster and the security kept talking to his co-worker with his walkie-talkie. After that there was a man, we [think] he’s a Chinese language man, he stood in entrance of me to dam the poster.” The person then ripped it from her fingers. “I was really surprised. And I was really sad and angry at the same time,” Yang stated. “We’re not doing anything wrong. Why would we be treated like this?”
Local weather examine: in Alaska, advocates say lowering the jail inhabitants is a key local weather technique
In 1969, Alaska officers selected to construct a jail on flat land shaped from glacial deposits that have been deemed “poor … material” for the constructing’s basis. Then, at some point in August 2022 after heavy rainfall, the land beneath the Lemon Creek correctional heart buckled underneath the stress, inflicting sections of the jail’s basis to sink into the bottom.
For environmental advocates in Alaska, a building mission to restore the jail is deeply misguided. “We have to stop incarcerating so many people because it’s an unmanageable amount of people for the infrastructure, for staffing and for Alaska,” stated Megan Edge, the director of the ACLU of Alaska’s Jail Mission. With the escalating local weather disaster, the maintenance of carceral infrastructure will most likely solely develop tougher.
Final Factor: the end-of-life sufferers discovering solace in magic mushrooms
In 2020, Thomas Hartle had his first psilocybin session. He felt himself disappear: an expertise as near demise as one can have whereas nonetheless being alive, he stated. After it was over, as an alternative of being afraid of the inevitable end result of his stage 4 colon most cancers sickness, he felt reduction. “It gave me a taste of what life after life could be like,” he stated. “Instead of the idea that the lights shut off, the party’s over, it was like a transition from one state to another. That was really comforting to me.”
Bigger research are underneath technique to see if psilocybin may very well be a device commonly used for palliative care, to ease the dying course of. However researchers are nonetheless asking: how precisely does psilocybin assist individuals confront their demise? Does it must do with the sense that got here to Hartle – that there’s something that comes after life?
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