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It’s not summer yet, but more than 17 million people in the western United States are already under excessive heat warnings as temperatures climb 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit above average, with large swaths of California expecting to see thermometers hit 108F (42.2C). Meteorologists are saying the scorching weather is caused by a heat dome, when high pressure traps heat over an area, making it hotter the longer it lasts. The BBC has more.

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#Heat #Heatwave #California #Nevada #Arizona #Summer

Nearly one in three Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose, according to a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health survey. For 18.9% of respondents, the person who died “was a family member or close friend.” People who knew someone who had died from an overdose were also more likely to see addiction as an “extremely or very important policy issue” regardless of political affiliation. CBS News has more.

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#Drugs #Addiction #Health #Survey #Overdose

U.S.-built pier will be removed from Gaza coast and repaired after damage from rough seas.

AP reports: "The setback is the latest for the $320 million pier, which only began operations in the past two weeks and has already had three U.S. service members injured and had four vessels beached due to heavy seas."

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#Gaza #Palestine #Starvation #Israel #Hamas

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 35 people on Sunday and hit tents for displaced people in the southern city of Rafah, Palestinian health workers say. The report came hours after Hamas fired a barrage of rockets that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv. AP reports: https://flip.it/fTMULA
#News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza

Vox has an important investigation about the "world's largest democracy" and its attempts to silence critics abroad.

Inside India’s secret campaign to threaten and harass Americans: https://flip.it/LwSk7C

#India #USA #Democracy #Press #PressFreedom #Modi #Politics #News

An airstrike kills 27 people, mostly women and children, in central Gaza as Israel’s increasingly divided leadership debates who should govern the territory after the war, now in its eighth month. AP reports: https://flip.it/E.DkW9
#News #WorldNews #MiddleEast #Israel #Gaza

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted a full pardon to Daniel Perry, a man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended the move. Perry claimed during the trial that he shot Garrett Foster, who was carrying an AK-47 rifle, in self-defense. Prosecutors argued Perry was seeking out the confrontation. Read more from USA Today.

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#Texas #Pardon #BLM #Protest #Guns

U.S. President Joe Biden is set to give a commencement address this Sunday at Morehouse, a historically Black college in Atlanta that counts Dr. Martin Luther King among its graduates. But the president’s coming speech has sparked consternation from the graduating class. Some students see Biden using Morehouse as a political tool for Black votes in an election year, and others are considering ways to protest his Middle East policies without overshadowing the celebration for their families. NPR has more.

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#Biden #Morehouse #Commencement #Graduation #College

Hamas says it has accepted the cease-fire proposal mediated by Egypt and Qatar, but Israel has not yet commented on the announcement.

Al Jazeera has a live blog with the latest developments: https://flip.it/3C5CY4

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #Palestine #Ceasefire #News

Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off a three-country visit to Europe on Sunday as much of the continent is divided over Beijing’s growing power and its intensified rivalry with the U.S. Xi’s first stop is in France, followed by Hungary and Serbia. AP reports: https://flip.it/OQ3xT0
#News #WorldNews #Europe #China #USA #Politics

Columbia University president says negotiations with pro-Palestinian protesters have stalled, school will not divest from Israel.

NBC News reports: "Columbia was the first elite institution [in the U.S.] struck by protests in support of the Palestinian cause, with students demanding that the school divest from investments in weapons manufacturing and that support Israel amid the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, in which more than 34,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip. Protests spread quickly last week on campuses from coast to coast, resulting in mass arrests and crackdowns."

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#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Protest #Columbia #News

World Central Kitchen says it has 276 trucks with eight million meals ready and will resume distributing food in Gaza nearly a month after seven workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike. "Ultimately, we decided we must keep feeding," the charity said on Sunday. BBC News reports: https://flip.it/moViEt
#News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #Palestine

President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.

NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."

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#EarthDay #Biden #ClimateChange #USPolitics #Climate #News

Biden to Netanyahu: “You got a win. Take the win.” U.S. won’t support Israeli counterattack against Iran, White House official says. Read more from Axios:
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#News #WorldNews #Israel #Iran #Biden #Netanyahu

Israel says it is closing its airspace as it braces for an Iranian drone attack that may take hours to reach its targets. AP reports: https://flip.it/bK1nWN
#News #WorldNews #Iran #Israel #IsraelHamasWar

Did you see that President Joe Biden joined the fediverse this week? Here are some interesting U.S. politics accounts to follow:

President Biden: @potus

Anti-Trump activist George Conway: @gtconway3

Independent journalist Judd Legum: @realjuddlegum

Political scientist Ian Bremmer: @ianbremmer

Politics writer Jason Sattler: @lolgop

And some Magazines from @Flipboard and our publisher partners:

2024 Elections from Axios: @2024-elections-AxiosNews

Politics from Semafor: @politics-Semafor

Joe Biden from Axios: @joe-biden-AxiosNews

Politics from The Christian Science Monitor: @politics-csmonitor

Abortion from the Flipboard Politics Desk: @abortion-ElectionCentral

Immigration from the Flipboard Politics Desk: @immigration-ElectionCentral

#FollowFriday #USPolitics #Politics #Biden #Fediverse

@dnkrupinski This may be because your instance has chosen not to federate with Threads.

A U.S. doctor who performs abortions became the first Democratic candidate in Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District on Thursday, entering the race for the seat opened up by the surprise retirement of Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher.

CBS News reports: https://flip.it/nxAK_d

#Abortion #USPolitics #Politics #AbortionRights

Donald Trump has, for years, used Christian imagery as a powerful rhetorical tool.

@axios built this collection of stories on Trump's $59.99 bibles, why evangelicals support him and more.

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#Trump #Religion #Evangelical #USPolitics #Politics #ChristianNationalism

"A federal judge has dismissed X owner Elon Musk's lawsuit against a research group that documented an uptick in hate speech on the social media site, saying the organization's reports on the platform formerly known as Twitter were protected by the First Amendment."

NPR reports: "One of the group's findings, published in June, detailed how 'racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, antisemitic or conspiracy content' from paid users went unmoderated on the site."

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#ElonMusk #Twitter #X #Birdsite #SocialMedia #FreeSpeech #Tech