Voters in Nevada think the South should be prepared for a Hurricane
The Old Country: The Story of a Princess in the Wild. A Game for the NPR Public Radio Station (NPR/Phoenix)
The games are games. The main game series features the first appearance of a princess in this game. NPR’s James Perkins Mastromarino breaks down how it stands up against the rest of the series.
The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn is a jazz album that was recorded in 1992. The world premiere of his first single,Straight, No Chaser, will be at the NPR station.
📚 Books: Sally Rooney’s fourth novel Intermezzo is a story about learning to accept loss. The story follows two brothers Peter and Ivan, who are going through difficult times in their relationships and lives in the aftermath of their father’s death.
📺 TV: Police detective Lois Tryon teams up with a nun who is also a journalist to solve a series of heinous crimes that could have been concocted to taunt her in Grotesquerie. There are some new shows coming this week.
His Three Daughters: What will we tell you when we’re all together? A question for anybody who wants to know about the election: Where do we think we will be after the election?
🍿Movies: Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon and Natasha Lyonne portray sisters who are at odds but must come together in their dying father’s apartment in the new Netflix film His Three Daughters.
I had a question for everyone that I wanted to ask after the election. Where do you think we will be a day after the election? Most of the answers had the word ” united” in them, just like the name says.
An hour and half west of Las Vegas, I visited the town of Pahrump in rural and conservative Nye County. Many of Trump’s supporters were convinced that Congress would stop him from fulfilling his campaign promises even if he wins the election.
If elected, both presidential candidates promised they would stop taxing tipped workers’ tips, which I thought was positive for tipped workers. Nope. There was a feeling that nothing comes for free and many wondered how the government would make up for the lost tax revenue on their tips.
When I went door-to-door with canvassers, I’d ask people how they were feeling about how the election was going. Before they’d answer, I’d notice eye rolls, shaking heads, sighs or some other non-verbal ways to express how tired they are…before saying how they just want it to be over already.
Source: Hurricane Helene batters the South. And, takeaways from voters in swing state Nevada
U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon: Resolving the Middle East Crisis through Diplomacy in the Lewisburg Men’s Correctional Facility
Pennsylvania’s Lewisburg federal prison has failed to take the needed steps to reduce suicide risks among its inmates, according to the latest review of the medium-security men’s institution. A report from the Bureau of Prisons watchdog found prisoners with mental illness at Lewisburg were placed in solitary confinement for longer than recommended by BOP policy, usually with another prisoner with a mental illness. They are at greater risk of death and assault due to this. The location has many other issues to contend with.
The army of Sudan launched a huge offensive against the Rapid support forces in Khartoum to regain control of the capital. The RSF has controlled the capital for more than a year. The world’s worst hunger and displacement crises have been experienced since the beginning of the war.
Danny Danon, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, said the government is pushing for certain terms in any deal. “If we can achieve the goals of the war through diplomacy, we prefer that,” he said outside the U.N. Security Council on Friday. “And the goals are to allow the citizens of Israel, 70,000 refugees to move back to their homes. And to push Hezbollah from the southern Lebanon area.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the High-Yang-Mills: An Update on the Progress Against Israel and the Palestinians During the July 4th Hurricane Helene Event
As it moved northward from Florida to Georgia, Hurricane Helene became a powerful Category 4 storm, but it fell to a Category 1 storm. The storm made landfall with winds up to 140 miles per hour and a storm surge of 20 feet. There have been storm-related deaths. A wide area of the South could be devastated in the hours and days to come.
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The Israeli premier met with his Dutch counterpart during one of several meetings in New York this week, and raised the proceedings currently underway at the court. According to Netanyahu’s office, he insisted during the bilateral conversation that the prosecutor’s actions constituted “a political proceeding based on false libels that endanger every democracy defending itself against terrorism.”
As the Israeli military calls up further reserves close to the northern border and responds to Hezbollah rocket fire with dozens of airstrikes in Lebanon, Netanyahu also remains at the center of a high-profile demand for an arrest warrant against him, issued by the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands.
Israel has continued with its military campaign. Danon said Israeli forces carried out a “precise attack on Hezbollah’s central headquarters” in Beirut Friday.
During the negotiations between the US, Egyptian and Qatar over the cease-fire in Gaza, there were many contradictions. And now — according to Israeli media outlets — this form of dissembling obstruction has reoccurred in the recent cease-fire proposal developed by the U.S. and France.
Critics have often in recent months said that Netanyahu — whose political savvy has helped him survive repeatedly to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister in history — will agree to show negotiating flexibility during private meetings, before issuing public statements that block progress during peace talks.
But his trip had been planned well in advance, and though his arrival in New York for the annual General Assembly had been slightly delayed due to domestic considerations, he told the audience of dignitaries and world leaders that he had “decided to come here and set the record straight.”
Abbas and the Palestinians: Israel is Wining in the Middle East and its proxies will attack Iran, says U.N. Secretary Gen. Arman Netanyahu
Abbas told delegates that Israel didn’t deserve the U.N. membership because of its exploitation of Oct. 7. Hamas-led attack in Israel to “launch a comprehensive war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, and committed and continues to commit war crimes recognized by the international community.” Israel insists it’s fighting to defeat militant groups and defend itself from further attacks, and denies committing genocide or other war crimes.
For days, Arab leaders including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had been assailing the behavior of the Israeli military in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
The delegates left the hall after he called the UN a “swamp of antisemitic bile” at the start of his address.
Netanyahu said during his speech at the United Nations on Friday that Israel is “winning” on multiple fronts and that he would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East.
