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Yesterday, Hezbollah and Israel exchanged a few of the fiercest hearth because the starting of the warfare in Gaza — heightening fears of a wider regional battle within the Center East. Israel says its main assault in southern Lebanon was preemptive after it acquired intelligence that Hezbollah was going to strike first. Hezbollah responded with rockets and drones and mentioned by late morning that it was executed with operations for the day. Israel additionally de-escalated.
Smoke billows from the location of an Israeli airstrike on Zibqin in southern Lebanon on Sunday, amid escalations within the ongoing cross-border tensions as combating continues between Israel and Hamas militants within the Gaza Strip.
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- 🎧 Hezbollah and Iran have been protecting the area on edge this month, NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi tells Up First. They each promised to avenge the Israeli killings of a prime Hezbollah chief in Beirut and Hamas’ chief in Tehran. This comes as Egypt hosted a brand new spherical of talks geared toward getting Israel and Hamas near a cease-fire deal in Gaza. No deal was reached and it is unknown how a lot progress was made. A 29-year-old Palestinian who has been pressured to evacuate once more tells NPR Gaza producer Anas Baba that he does not have an oz. of hope and thinks the warfare will drag on for a minimum of one other yr.
The presidential race has modified considerably since President Biden dropped out and Vice President Harris took his spot, based on NPR’s newest map of swing states. Harris has taken slender leads in three essential states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that will put her at simply sufficient electoral votes to win the White Home, based on polling averages. NPR’s evaluation now has all seven of essentially the most intently watched swing states as toss-ups, transferring the entire Solar Belt states from Lean Republican beforehand.
- 🎧 “The race is extraordinarily shut, which we have been anticipating all alongside,” NPR’s Domenico Montanaro says. Harris has closed the hole fully within the Solar Belt states of Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, whereas Trump holds on to a slight lead in Georgia. Harris and her operating mate Tim Walz shall be in Georgia later this week. Regardless of Harris’ momentum, Montanaro says Democrats are warning activists and voters to not get complacent. Although the polls have improved for her, he says the underside line is it’s unknown who will present as much as vote and these polls are estimates.
Eric Garcetti, former Mayor of Los Angeles and present U.S. Ambassador to India, has been accused of mendacity beneath oath to cowl up harassment allegations in opposition to one among his pals and prime advisers, Rick Jacobs. Individuals who labored with Jacobs at Los Angeles Metropolis Corridor testified that he touched them, together with forcible kisses on the lips, massages, and hugs with out their consent. He is additionally accused of constructing crude sexual and generally racist feedback and total making a “hostile work atmosphere.” Jacobs has denied all wrongdoing and declined to reply NPR’s questions. Garcetti additionally declined an interview request however mentioned in an electronic mail that he absolutely stands by his testimony.
- 🎧 NPR’s Tom Dreisbach talked with six staff of the Braveness Marketing campaign, a liberal group that Jacobs led earlier than working at LA Metropolis Corridor. They echoed the identical points going again to the mid-2000s. Garcetti denied ever seeing any inappropriate behaviors by Jacobs at any time. The allegations in opposition to Jacobs got here to gentle in 2020, when an LAPD officer sued town, alleging Jacobs harassed him for years and Garcetti witnessed the conduct and did nothing. The lawsuit included a photograph of Jacobs posing along with his hand on a lobbyist’s crotch subsequent to Garcetti and a few lobbyists on the U.S. Convention of Mayors. The town paid the officer $1.8 million with out admitting wrongdoing.
Life recommendation
Images Unsplash; Collage by Kaz Fantone/NPR
Images Unsplash; Collage by Kaz Fantone/NPR
Grocery costs have elevated by 1.1% over the previous yr, on prime of a 3.6% improve the earlier yr and 13.1% the yr earlier than that. Meals costs are nonetheless excessive, however your grocery invoice does not should be. Beth Moncel, founding father of the cooking weblog Funds Bytes, shares good recommendations on how to save cash on the grocery store.
- 💸 Obtain Flipp, a free software that aggregates gross sales flyers from shops in your space.
- 💸 Evaluate costs of various manufacturers on-line earlier than buying.
- 💸 Don’t assume bulk offers are higher. Typically totally different packaging has drastically totally different costs. Take note of unit costs.
- 💸 In the reduction of on pricier objects similar to meats and cheeses. Bear in mind, lowering doesn’t imply going with out.
- 💸 Load up on cheap and filling produce together with potatoes, onions, carrots and broccoli.
Click on right here for extra of Moncel’s suggestions that might assist along with your subsequent grocery run.
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The ‘Voting by Mail’ exhibit opens on Aug., 24 on the Nationwide Postal Museum in Washington D.C.. The museum hopes guests be taught that voting by mail has a deep historical past in the US and develop the exhibit with extra artifacts.
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Tens of millions of U.S. voters turned conversant in voting by mail 4 years in the past. The Smithsonian’s Nationwide Postal Museum’s new exhibition reminds us that the follow dates again greater than 160 years earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. Mail-in ballots, election mailers, pictures and different artifacts are on show within the museum’s stamp salon. The exhibit lays out a timeline that begins with the Civil Conflict election of 1864, which is taken into account the beginning of mail-in voting’s large-scale use within the U.S.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Babe Ruth’s New York Yankees jersey, that he is mentioned to have worn in a memorable Recreation 3 of the 1932 World Collection, is displayed at Heritage Public sale in Irving, Texas, days earlier than its report sale.
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- A New York Yankees jersey worn by Babe Ruth has bought for $24.12 million, shattering the report for the costliest sports activities collectible bought at public sale. Ruth wore the jersey when he “referred to as his shot” in Recreation 3 of the 1932 World Collection in opposition to the Chicago Cubs.
- On the finish of September, People can order as much as 4 free at-home COVID-19 checks delivered to their mailbox. The checks can detect newer variants of the virus.
- The 2 astronauts who have been stranded after taking a Boeing Starliner take a look at flight into orbit will return in a capsule constructed by competing firm SpaceX in February, NASA introduced.
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
