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Today’s high tales
Eight Republican presidential candidates confronted off within the first debate of the 2024 race yesterday in Milwaukee.
Republican presidential candidates stand on stage and pay attention to a prayer earlier than a Republican presidential main debate hosted by FOX News Channel Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee.
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Republican presidential candidates stand on stage and pay attention to a prayer earlier than a Republican presidential main debate hosted by FOX News Channel Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee.
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- One of the foremost splits was on the problem of abortion. On Up First this morning, NPR’s Sarah McCammon says some candidates, together with former Vice President Mike Pence supported a federal ban. Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley – the one lady within the race – known as for extra warning.
- Candidates additionally had intense exchanges on the problem of Ukraine. Haley and Pence strongly supported continued funding to Ukraine. Vivek Ramaswamy stated the U.S. wants to cease spending cash on Ukraine and give attention to different issues.
- Read the 5 most important takeaways and delve into extra evaluation from the debate.
Former President Donald Trump is anticipated to voluntarily give up at Georgia’s Fulton County jail at this time. He faces 13 felony counts in Georgia associated to efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election end result. Quite a lot of his 18 co-defendants, together with lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have already surrendered.
- Although Fulton County district legal professional Fani Willis has stated she desires to start trial properly earlier than the 2024 election, lawyer Jeffrey Brickman tells WABE’s Sam Gringlas “that is wishful thinking.”
- Trump’s bond situation limits his use of social media, which implies we cannot be listening to from him on X. One factor that’s doubtless to achieve social media consideration: Trump’s mugshot, anticipated to be launched later at this time.
Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a riot in opposition to the Russian army this yr, was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, killing all 10 folks on board, in accordance to Russia’s civil aviation company.
- The flight path reveals “the business jet heading from Moscow to St. Petersburg and then a little over 30 minutes into the flight, the plane suddenly starts to fall from the sky,” reports NPR’s Charles Maynes on Up First. But there is not any consensus on Prigozhin’s precise demise. Prigozhin based the Wagner army group that has been important in supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin had denounced its current mutiny as a “stab in the back,” which had led to hypothesis about Prigozhin’s destiny.
- Listen to how his prison previous helped him construct what some consider to be the world’s most harmful mercenary group, or read more about how the uprising affected Putin’s place on it.
Picture present
Five-year-old cousins Layla and Mila Cabanilla Okano are among the many many youngsters staying with members of their prolonged household at one property on Maui within the wake of the wildfires.
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Five-year-old cousins Layla and Mila Cabanilla Okano are among the many many youngsters staying with members of their prolonged household at one property on Maui within the wake of the wildfires.
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Lahaina residents who misplaced their houses to the wildfire are counting on the kindness of family and friends to assist tide them over. One lady’s stepfather welcomed her and her husband’s total prolonged household to his property – as many as 87 folks. “This is life in Hawaii,” says her husband, Travis Cabanilla Okano. “We grew up sleeping in our cousin’s house. We grew up sleeping with 20 of us in one little room… Letting our kids and us be together like that brings a lot of comfort for me.” See photographs of the Maui home the place Okano and his household are coming together as they plan their subsequent steps.
Enlighten me
Enlighten Me is a particular sequence with Rachel Martin concerning the human situation.
Vanessa Zoltan says the theology that she was raised in was the Holocaust.
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Vanessa Zoltan says the theology that she was raised in was the Holocaust.
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All 4 of writer Vanessa Zoltan’s grandparents survived the Holocaust. Because of their horrors that they had skilled, she grew up seeing her household observe Jewish customs with out actually believing within the existence of God. It impacted her personal method to spirituality:. “I think that the absence of God can be really beautiful. It means it’s our responsibility to take care of each other on this earth,” she says. Listen to Zoltan and Martin talk about how her non secular outlook guides her practice as a chaplain, or read the interview right here.
Three issues to know earlier than you go
Researchers on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied feminine octopuses that nest collectively off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters.
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Researchers on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied feminine octopuses that nest collectively off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters.
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- Octopuses are usually delinquent animals. But researchers found that over 6,000 of them have come collectively off the coast of California to huddle round an extinct underwater volcano
- India turned the primary nation to land a spacecraft close to the moon’s south pole yesterday. Speaking of house, this is what the cooks at NASA are cooking to get astronauts prepared for flight.
- Child influencers whose dad and mom characteristic them in on-line content material usually develop up to notice their privateness was violated. A brand new Illinois legislation desires to give them their due.
This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.