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A rocket hit a soccer discipline stuffed with kids within the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights area Saturday, killing 12 kids and wounding dozens extra. Israel says that Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired the rocket from southern Lebanon, however Hezbollah denies accountability. The incident occurred on the identical day that an Israeli strike in Gaza devastated a faculty constructing used to shelter displaced Palestinian residents. No less than 30 individuals had been killed and greater than 100 had been wounded.
Israeli safety forces and medics transport casualties together with native residents, at a website the place a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village within the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights space on Saturday.
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- 🎧 Lower than 24 hours after the strike, NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf visited Golan Heights, the place she says the grief was “palpable.” The group there’s largely Druze, an Arab minority inhabitants. Due to this, some believed it wasn’t a excessive precedence for the Israeli authorities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace launched an announcement final evening saying Hezbollah can pay a heavy value for the assault. Lonsdorf says evidently neither aspect actually desires a full-out warfare to start, however the Israeli navy has made it clear for months that they’re ready for an even bigger warfare.
Venezuela’s electoral authorities have declared incumbent president Nicolas Maduro the winner of yesterday’s election. This has sparked accusations of huge fraud to steal the victory from opposition candidate Edmundo González. Maduro claimed the win with 51% in comparison with 44% for González, with 80% of the votes counted. The problem to his 12-year authoritarian rule comes because the nation is dealing with an financial disaster, with fuel and electrical energy shortages.
- 🎧 NPR’s Carrie Kahn tells Up First that Maduro claims the electoral system was hacked by overseas terrorists however gave no proof. The electoral authorities say they may launch all the vote rely within the coming hours. The opposition accuses authorities of kicking observers out of the stations and refusing to print or transmit voting tallies. Additionally they say that Venezuelans and all the world know what occurred. Presently, the opposing get together stays decided to verify all votes are counted.
- ➡️ NPR’s worldwide correspondents will proceed to observe international elections all yr. Keep up to date on the outcomes right here.
Former President Donald Trump is working to reclaim the highlight after Vice President Kamala Harris raised greater than $200 million for her presidential marketing campaign. He’s nonetheless hoping to tie Harris to President Biden’s most unpopular insurance policies, together with inflation and the border. He has escalated assaults towards her, calling her “sick” and “unhinged,” and repeatedly mispronouncing her title. Trump has even instructed Christian voters that they “gained’t need to vote anymore” if he’s elected.
- 🎧 With regards to Harris’ marketing campaign success up to now, NPR’s Franco Ordoñez says, “The Trump marketing campaign will inform you that it’s merely a honeymoon interval.” Most polls taken after Harris entered the race present her and Trump about even. Having to share the highlight is new for him. Trump noticed numerous momentum after his debate with Biden and the Republican Nationwide Conference, however now there was a shift. However, Ordoñez says the angrier Trump is, the extra headlines he’ll usher in, that are good for him whether or not they’re constructive or unfavourable.
Deep dive
Annalise and Ellie Currence stand on the fridge deciding on dinner at their house in Belton, Mo., on July 17.
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Grocery costs have largely leveled off within the final yr, however that doesn’t cease many People from experiencing sticker shock. The price of hire, electrical energy and auto insurance coverage have all risen sooner than groceries within the final yr. However the grocery store remains to be the place consumers really feel the sting. The rationale: The 1.1% improve in grocery costs during the last yr comes on prime of a 4.7% improve the earlier yr and a 12.2% soar the yr earlier than that. That is how supermarkets have change into a logo of inflation within the U.S.:
- 🛍️ Customers are reminded of the upper grocery retailer costs extra usually than different rising prices as a result of they see and expertise them extra ceaselessly.
- 🛍️ Rising meals costs are a problem for low-income households, who usually spend a bigger share of their cash on groceries than better-off households do.
- 🛍️ Growing wages are regularly catching as much as grocery retailer costs. Common wages rose 3.9% within the 12 months ending in June. That’s about 3 1/2 instances as quick as grocery store costs rose.
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Joey Berkley
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Sarah Matthews/Large Apple Jazz
Saxophonist Joey Berkley was residing his dream enjoying jazz till, someday, he seen his left hand wasn’t cooperating. That was about 20 years in the past. He was experiencing focal dystonia, a motion dysfunction marked by involuntary muscle contractions. Berkley discovered of an experimental process that concerned putting an electrode immediately within the mind to deal with the dysfunction. Regardless of how invasive and doubtlessly harmful that sounded, it was no query for him. “Music is all I’ve ever achieved,” he mentioned. Berkley had his surgical procedure in March 2021, and after rehab, he regained sufficient management over his hand to start to report once more.
- 🎧 Hearken to some songs from his new suite referred to as A Suite Life.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
James Baldwin’s face is painted upon an ornamental shelf of books within the Baldwin & CO bookstore in New Orleans
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- Baldwin & Co., a bookstore that opened three years in the past, has been internet hosting a splashy countdown over the previous yr to what would have been the one hundredth birthday of its namesake. James Baldwin was born on Aug. 2, 1924.
- Scientists say that as Utah’s Nice Salt Lake dries up, it’s changing into a major contributor to international greenhouse fuel emissions that trigger the local weather to heat. The lake has shrunk by nearly half lately.
- Reelin, a key protein that helps assemble the mind early in life, additionally appears to guard it from Alzheimer’s and different ailments associated to ageing, in accordance with a trio of research.
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
