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Speaker mentioned U.S. House will vote on international assist
Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned that he deliberate to advance a long-stalled nationwide safety spending bundle this week to help Israel, Ukraine and different U.S. allies, coupled with a invoice to mollify conservatives against backing Kyiv.
Johnson, a Republican, has agonized for weeks over whether or not and the right way to advance essential assist for Ukraine over stiff resistance from the far proper faction of his convention. His announcement was the primary concrete indication that he had chosen a path ahead.
That path seems advanced. Johnson mentioned he would cobble collectively a legislative bundle that roughly mirrors the $95 billion assist invoice the Senate handed two months in the past, albeit in items. Lawmakers would vote individually on assist for Israel, Ukraine and allies like Taiwan, after which on one other measure containing insurance policies widespread amongst Republicans.
It will not be clear whether or not the convoluted technique will succeed within the House, the place Johnson has a tenuous maintain on his caucus and a slim majority. Republicans might attempt to block the bundle from coming to the ground, and even when they let the laws by means of, its success would hinge on an advanced mixture of bipartisan coalitions to cross. And the plan might imperil Johnson’s speakership, which is teetering below a risk to oust him.
Day 1 of Trump’s Manhattan trial
The first felony trial of a former U.S. president started in Manhattan yesterday, with a whole bunch of residents summoned to probably be part of a jury that can resolve Donald Trump’s destiny.
More than half of the primary group of 96 potential jurors raised their palms to say they may not be honest to Trump. The judge instantly dismissed them.
The Manhattan case, one in every of 4 indictments dealing with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, could be the just one to achieve trial earlier than Election Day.
Trump, who might withstand 4 years in jail if convicted on prices of falsifying data to cowl up a intercourse scandal, appeared in courtroom and seemed alternately irritated and exhausted. He known as the case “an assault on America” when he arrived, and he later appeared to nod off.
For extra, the trial thrusts the presidential marketing campaign into uncharted territory; listed here are a glimpse contained in the courtroom and 5 takeaways from the primary day.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel faces a fragile calculation. He should resolve how to answer Iran in order to not look weak, whereas making an attempt to keep away from alienating the Biden administration and different allies that helped defend Israel regardless of their impatience with Netanyahu’s dealing with of the warfare in Gaza.
An Israeli official briefed on the discussions of the cupboard mentioned it was weighing a number of choices, from diplomacy to an imminent strike. But there was no speedy public assertion by the ministers or Netanyahu.
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Bleaching is attributable to stressors, on this case terribly excessive ocean temperatures, and it could actually kill corals. Currently, greater than 54 p.c of the world’s coral space has skilled bleaching-level warmth stress previously yr, and that quantity is growing by about 1 p.c per week, one knowledgeable mentioned.
Salman Rushdie’s memoir weighs mortality
The novelist Salman Rushdie was talking at an occasion in New York in 2022 when a person wielding a knife ran onstage and stabbed him 10 instances.
In his memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” which is out in the present day, Rushdie addresses the assault and credit his spouse, the poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths, for serving to him get well from it. The e-book may be very totally different from his earlier third-person memoir “Joseph Anton,” Rushdie advised my colleague Sarah Lyall.
“This will not be novelistic,” Rushdie mentioned. “I imply, any person sticks a knife in you, that’s fairly private.”
For extra: Our critic mentioned that “Knife” was “a clarifying e-book. It reminds us of the threats the free world faces.”
