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Kamala Harris’s much-hyped first interview because the Democratic presidential nominee aired Thursday night time, with the vice-president utilizing the time to strengthen the insurance policies she has spoken of since launching her marketing campaign.
Harris, who did the interview alongside her operating mate, Tim Walz, instructed CNN’s Dana Bash that her highest precedence upon taking workplace can be to “support and strengthen the middle class” by way of insurance policies together with rising the kid tax credit score, curbing value gouging on on a regular basis items and rising entry to reasonably priced housing.
Through the interview, Harris defended her modifications in positions on points akin to fracking and immigration by saying her “values had not changed”. She was fast to solid off a query about Donald Trump’s feedback that she “happened to turn Black” in recent times: “Same old, tired playbook,” she mentioned. “Next question, please.”
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How did Harris carry out? The Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, writes that each Harris and Walz got here off “radically normal”. “The old saw in presidential campaigns was: which candidate would you rather have a beer with?” Smith writes. “Harris and Walz came over as the couple you’d be fine sharing cake and coffee with at your kids’ birthday party.”
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What had been some key moments? Harris spoke in regards to the second she obtained the decision from Joe Biden saying he wouldn’t run for reelection – she had simply been ending up a household breakfast together with her “baby nieces”, full with pancakes and second-servings of bacon. “I think history is going to show a number of things about Joe Biden’s presidency,” Harris mentioned. “He puts the American people first.”
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How did Republicans react? For weeks, Republicans had been calling for the nominees to open themselves as much as questions. Trump responded reacted to the interview on Fact Social with a easy message: “BORING!!!”
Israeli airstrike hits humanitarian assist convoy in Gaza
The Israel Protection Forces have confirmed that they carried out an airstrike on a humanitarian assist convoy in Gaza, saying it was geared toward “armed assailants”. However the US-based NGO Anera, the charity that organized the help, mentioned folks killed within the strike had been workers of the transport firm it was working with. “This is a shocking incident,” Anera’s Palestine nation director, Sandra Rasheed, mentioned. “The convoy, which was coordinated by Anera and approved by Israeli authorities, included an Anera employee who was fortunately unharmed.”
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Who and the way many individuals had been killed? Unconfirmed experiences from Gaza mentioned that 5 folks had been killed within the strike. Anera mentioned “several individuals” – had been within the first automobile of the convoy once they had been killed. The IDF mentioned that “a number of armed assailants” had seized this primary automobile. “No damage was caused to the other vehicles in the convoy and it reached its destination as planned,” the IDF mentioned. “The strike on the armed assailants removed the threat of them seizing control over the humanitarian convoy.”
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Has this occurred earlier than? The strike on the Anera convoy got here hours Israeli troopers opened hearth on a World Meals Programme (WFP) automobile clearly marked with UN insignia, travelling in a convoy of two. In April, the IDF killed seven staff in a drone assault on a convoy run by the World Central Kitchen charity. The IDF admitted to “grave errors” by its officers on this strike, firing two of them.
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Stat of the day: Greater than 20 million individuals are residing beneath a warmth alert within the US
A lot of the US is now beneath some form of extreme warmth watch, with the brutal heatwave that the US midwest suffered earlier this week spreading to the japanese half of the nation. In line with the Nationwide Climate Service, cities throughout central US states together with Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana, in addition to coastal cities in South Carolina and Virginia, are experiencing “major” warmth, with warmth index values reaching as excessive as 105F (40C).
Don’t miss this: New York’s lethal basement residences
New York’s greater than 100,000 basement items are prone to flooding, with many of those items unlawful and lower than code, making them particularly harmful throughout storms. In September 2021, when Hurricane Ida deluged New York Metropolis with flood waters and document rainfall, 11 of the 13 New Yorkers killed had drowned of their basement houses – a tragedy that has supercharged a motion to make basements a safer housing possibility.
… or this: Operating a takeaway kitchen in an Iraqi border city
The city of Qaim, which lies on the border of Iraq and Syria, has survived years of warfare and hardship, from the US-led invasion of Iraq to the Islamic State. Like many others within the city, Alhan al-Salmani, 50, was deeply affected throughout these years – she was widowed with three youngsters throughout the Iraq warfare and compelled to flee to Baghdad with little cash when IS took over.
Since returning to Qaim, Salmani has kickstarted a brand new chapter not simply of her life, however that of the border city. She opened the city’s first takeaway enterprise, Al-Eiz kitchen, using ladies who may in any other case wrestle to seek out employment. “When life gets hard, you must be harder,” Salmani mentioned. “I rebuilt my house and started my project, Al-Eiz kitchen. I never gave up.”
Local weather examine: Billions of {dollars} spent on unproven local weather options
{Photograph}: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs
A handful of rich polluting nations led by the US are spending billions of {dollars} in subsidies for carbon seize and fossil hydrogen, unproven local weather options that constantly fail, overspend or underperform, based on earlier research. The European Union plus simply 4 nations – the US, Norway, Canada and the Netherlands – account for 95% of the general public handouts on CCS and hydrogen. Over the previous 40 years, the US has spent $12bn in taxpayer cash on carbon seize and fossil hydrogen.
“The United States and other governments have little to show for these massive investments in carbon capture – none of the demonstration projects have lived up to their initial hype,” mentioned Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell College. “It is instructive that industry itself invests very little in carbon capture. This whole enterprise is dependent on government handouts.”
Final Factor: Defending a shrine to Harry Types in rural England
The Twemlow Viaduct in small nation parish of Holmes Chapel in England has develop into a shrine of kinds for the pop megastar Harry Types. Previously yr, greater than 5,000 Harry Types followers have made the trek to the 183-year-old construction, the place Types was rumored to have had his first kiss. With many well-meaning followers scrawling their names and messages on the viaduct’s Edwardian arches – messages that embrace “You are home,” “We’ll be alright” and even “Harry – I’ve had your baby” – Community Rail has needed to fence off a part of the 23-arch construction and erect a specifically constructed wall with blackboards for followers to inscribe their names, with the goal of stopping additional injury.
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