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House Republicans are at conflict with themselves as a authorities shutdown is lower than two weeks away. They tried to go a spending invoice this week, however a gaggle of far-right representatives are blocking their very own get together.
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- These hardline conservatives want steeper spending cuts than what was already selected in the debt ceiling invoice House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden made in May, NPR’s Deirdre Walsh says on Up First. The members oppose any “continuing resolution” to fund the federal government and keep away from a shutdown. They wish to see McCarthy transfer all the spending payments. Â
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is traveling to Washington as we speak to make his case for the United States’ continued help for his nation’s struggle in opposition to Russia. Zelenskyy spoke with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep forward of his journey.
- Inskeep describes Zelenskyy as “very impressive” but additionally senses the stress he is under. “He’s one person,” he says. Inskeep provides their dialog turned contentious when it turned to Ukraine’s nationwide elections, that are alleged to happen subsequent yr. Zelenskyy cited difficulties holding elections in a conflict zone and emphasised {that a} “whole Ukraine [would] need to want that.”Â
Louisiana’s Baton Rouge Police Department is going through a number of lawsuits associated to accusations of brutality. The fits allege civil rights violations came about at a warehouse often called the “Brave Cave,” the place police illegally searched members of the general public and held them for interrogation. The Street Crimes Unit utilizing the warehouse has been disbanded, and an investigation is ongoing.
- WRKF’s Aubry Procell says civil rights attorneys called the site a “torture warehouse.” A lawsuit filed on behalf of Jeremy Lee alleges he was overwhelmed. Another go well with alleges Ternell Brown was illegally strip-searched. Procell says Chief of Police Murphy Paul and Mayor Sharon Weston Broome appeared “caught by surprise” when the information broke.
Nearly half 1,000,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. might be eligible for work permits and granted non permanent reduction from deportation after the Biden administration introduced yesterday an enlargement of the Temporary Protected Status program to incorporate them.
- The White House has been beneath stress from Democrats to speed up the work authorization process, NPR’s Joel Rose says. In New York, 1000’s of migrants residing in homeless shelters have strained assets. Rose says immigrant advocates responded positively to the choice to develop TPS. But Republicans and immigration hardliners usually are not happy and mentioned it might encourage extra migration from Venezuela.Â
Enlighten me
Elena Mudd
Enlighten Me is a particular collection with Rachel Martin about what it takes to construct a lifetime of which means.
Jia Tolentino, a workers author for The New Yorker, was raised in an evangelical megachurch. She says she enjoyed how worship helped dissolve the boundaries round her and made her really feel a part of a “nebulous collective.” When she stopped believing in God, she sought the identical ego dissolution in music, artwork and medicines. She skilled it once more when she had kids — in her interactions with them and through their births.
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When a strong earthquake hit Morocco earlier this month, brother and sister Boujemaa and Aicha Ounasser solely felt tremors. But the mountain village they grew up in was close to the epicenter. After residing in totally different cities, the pair returned after six years to seek out piles of clay bricks and particles the place their idyllic dwelling was once. See images of the Ounasser siblings and different survivors taking stock of their losses and examine their expertise.
three issues to know earlier than you go
- Simone Biles made history this week when she turned the one U.S. girl to qualify for six World Gymnastics Championships.Â
- Are Clorox wipes out of inventory at your grocery retailer? No, it isn’t pandemic provide chain points. The firm is struggling to meet demand after a cyberattack final month.
- After a decades-long authorized battle, seven artworks by Austrian artist Egon Schiele stolen by Nazis have been returned to the heirs of their authentic proprietor, who died in a focus camp.
This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.