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| | | | | Texas Tragedy | 46 Migrants Found Dead in Tractor-Trailer Near San Antonio A further 16 people, four of them children, were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with heat exhaustion. Temperatures in San Antonio peaked at 100 degrees Monday. The grim scene was discovered around 6 p.m. by a local worker who heard cries for help. He found the trailer door partially open and could make out piles of bodies inside. The truck had been abandoned in a remote area near auto salvage yards and railway tracks. “These deaths are on Biden,” tweeted Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies.” None of the deceased have been publicly identified. (Sources: NYT, AP) |
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| | | ‘Abominable’ | Russian Missile Strike on Crowded Ukrainian Shopping Mall Kills 18 Addressing the nation last night, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the incident in the city of Kremenchuk “one of the most defiant terrorist attacks in European history,” adding that “the Russian state has become the largest terrorist organization in the world.” The targeted attack on “an ordinary shopping mall with women, children, ordinary civilians inside” wounded another 59 people. G-7 leaders, meeting in Germany to discuss further sanctions on Moscow, released a statement saying, “Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute a war crime.” The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss this and other Russian attacks on civilians. (Sources: BBC, Al Jazeera) |
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| | | Trigger Malfunction | Judges Block Statewide Abortion Bans in Louisiana, Utah The battleground shifted to state courts Monday after the Supreme Court overturned the judgment that had guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion since 1973. District judges in Louisiana and Utah issued temporary restraining orders on those states implementing their anti-abortion trigger laws. Clinics in Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas filed suits seeking similar relief. One of Louisiana’s three abortion clinics confirmed it would resume performing procedures this morning. “We’re going to do what we can,” said Kathaleen Pittman of Shreveport’s Hope Medical Group for Women. “It could all come to a screeching halt.” Anti-abortion activists have engaged lawyers to ensure it does. (Sources: PBS, Reuters) |
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| | | Toxic Leak | Poisonous Gas Tank Explosion Kills at Least 13 in Jordanian Port A video posted to Twitter showed a tank crashing onto the deck of a ship after falling from a winch. Plumes of bright yellow gas rose into the air as people fled the scene. The gas has been identified as chlorine, a chemical frequently used in cleaning products. When inhaled it reacts with water in the body to produce dangerous acids, typically causing fluid to build up in the lungs. By Monday night 123 of the 259 injured were still receiving treatment in local hospitals. Thanks to windless conditions the nearby beach town of Aqaba was cleared of danger. (Source: BBC) |
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| | | Briefly | Here are some things you should know about today: “Show them our pecs.” Boris Johnson brought a moment of levity to the G-7 summit in the sweltering German Alps by suggesting the leaders take their clothes off to “show we’re tougher than Putin.” (Source: Metro) Hot in Japan. In its most severe heat wave since record-keeping began in 1875, Tokyo recorded its fourth successive day of temperatures above 95 degrees — and more of the same is forecast for the rest of the week. (Source: Reuters) Going home. German officials confirmed Monday that priceless artifacts looted from Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania during Germany’s colonial era will be permanently returned. (Source: Al Jazeera) |
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| | | | | Orange Toads Can’t Jump | Brazil’s Pumpkin Toadlets Can’t Stick a Landing Frogs are renowned for their jumping prowess, but these Brazilian toadlets the size of an M&M lose their balance in midair and are more likely to land on their backs or bellies than their feet. A recent study has pinpointed their tiny ear canals as the problem: “Even though the canals are as big as they can possibly be relative to their heads, they’re still not big enough for the liquid to move at a rate that would allow them to maintain balance,” said co-author Edward Stanley. Luckily they’ve found other ways to get ahead, like camouflage and subterfuge. (Source: Mongabay, Image: Richard Essner / Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) |
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| | | Mr. Happy Face | Chihuahua Mix With a Mohawk Wins World’s Ugliest Dog Contest Before their meeting at an Arizona dog shelter last year, staff warned Jeneda Banelly that Mr. Happy Face “could be inbred because he was so ugly.” They also said the 17-year-old pooch’s multiple tumors meant he might only have weeks or months left. But “when I first met him, he was the happiest creature that I had ever met,” said Banelly. “He hobbled up to me and chose me.” Now, 10 months later, he’s been crowned World’s Ugliest Dog at a California contest that promotes animal adoption. “It was clear and obvious Mr. Happy Face deserved to be champion,” said judge Debra Mathy. (Source: NYT) |
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| | | Trash or Treasure? | Reclusive Artist’s Portfolio Saved From Dumpster, Exhibition Planned Alan Warburton was distraught when his “shy neighbor” George Westren died alone in his London apartment during lockdown. So when he heard Westren’s flat was being cleared last week, he rushed to investigate. To his horror, he saw hundreds of Westren’s artworks being bundled into bags. While he couldn’t save it all, he “saw George’s portfolio lying in the [dumpster] and managed to get that.” Being an artist, Warburton instantly recognized the quality of Westren’s geometric op art, and he’s now selling prints in the hopes of putting on a posthumous exhibition for a man he wishes he’d gotten to know better. (Source: The Guardian) |
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| | | Help From Above | Turkish Firm Donates Drones to Ukraine After Crowdfunding Success The Bayraktar TB2’s destruction of Russian artillery systems and armored vehicles is so legendary that it’s become the subject of a crude Ukrainian song that mocks Russian troops with the chorus “Bayraktar, Bayraktar.” Now, after a crowdfunding campaign in Turkey raised enough money to buy several TB2s, Baykar — the manufacturer of the unmanned aerial vehicle with a 40-foot wingspan — is donating three drones and asked that the “funds be remitted instead to the struggling people of Ukraine.” Turkey’s come under pressure from sometime ally Russia not to help Ukraine’s war effort — but Baykar is privately owned. (Source: Reuters) |
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| | | Pray Tell | SCOTUS Upholds Coach’s Right to Pray on 50-Yard Line Precedent? What precedent? The Supreme Court ruled Monday that high school football coach Joseph Kennedy had a constitutional right to pray on the field after games. The vote was split along familiar lines, 6-3. In his majority judgment Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that “respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse republic.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, accused her colleagues of setting America “down a perilous path in forcing states to entangle themselves with religion, with all of our rights hanging in the balance.” Last week the court ruled religious schools couldn’t be excluded from a tuition program. (Source: NYT) |
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