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US SPECIAL sent to the Middle East Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow And meets Russian President Vladimir Putin today. His visit comes as President Trump’s deadline for the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine or in front of economic sanctions was transferred at the end of this week.
In this photograph of swimming pool distributed by the Russian state agency Spoutnik, Russian president Vladimir Putin welcomes us special envoy Steve Witkoff before their talks in Moscow on August 6.
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- 🎧 Trump threatens sanctions and secondary prices on Russian energy exportsWho would penalize countries like China that buy their oil and their gas, says Charles Maynes of NPR First. Trump’s policies and rhetoric to Russia have changed when a cease-fire with Ukraine did not occur after several meetings between the United States and Moscow. Putin expressed that his army had momentum on the battlefield and showed no indication that he planned to retreat. With Witkoff’s latest meeting, Maynes says that the two parties can look for a compromise – not the immediate peace of Trump, but a solution that would prevent him from filling his threats on Friday.
The eminent supporters of the president recently intensified their criticism of Israel due to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Republican Party has long been aligned with Israel in his war against Gaza, but now the rift within the party creates a political challenge for Trump. The representative Marjorie Taylor Greene as Georgia last week qualified Israel a genocide. Former White House assistant, Steve Bannon, warned of the long -term expenses of this conflict and Trump’s risk of losing support from young Republicans.
- 🎧 Republican strategist Alex Conant says that we are now in the early stages of the lame duck period from the presidency of Trump. Conant said to Franco Ordoñez de NPR that there is a fight to determine what the republican party will look like post-Trump, with a strong push for a first part in America. The republican strategist Sean Walsh said that the president must focus on the mid-term elections and call on the majority of his party, which supports Israel, if he hopes to keep the house.
Prosecutor General Pam Bondi is said to have launched an investigation by the Grand Jury on the way in which the Obama administration managed The survey of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections. NPR did not independently verify this information, which was reported for the first time by Fox News and other points of sale. Bondi launch of the survey suggests a trend that blurs the border between the Ministry of Justice, which was mainly independent and the White House.
- 🎧 The president responded to the reports of the Bondi actions by diverting responsibility while praising his performanceSaid Domenico Montanaro de NPR. Trump has had tensions with general prosecutors in the past and has shown a desire to dismiss them when disagreements arise. Bondi adopted a different approach with the president. She expressed her indignation on behalf of Trump before the congress when her ethics was questioned and protected her concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s files. Many consider its actions to the Obama administration on Russia as a distraction of the Epstein conflict.
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Historical Voting Rights ActWho was promulgated by the president of the time, Lyndon B. Johnson, to protect against racial discrimination. However, legal efforts to combat the dilution of the collective power of black voters in the polls could end soon, as a new legal argument is progressing towards the United States Supreme Court.
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Holding a newspaper helped the writer Suleika Jaouad to sail in his battle with leukemia at 22, life after treatment and pandemic. Now she has released The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for A Inspired Lifewhich develops his approach to journalization. It is a collection of essays and writing prompts from 100 writers and artists. Jaouad shares advice with Rescue kit On how to rekindle your writing practice if you feel stuck, bored or without inspiration.
- ✏️ Adjust a duration that you plan to have a journalist daily. Being coherent can help you form an unexpected and interesting writing.
- ✏️ Try to add journalization to a non -negotiable part of your routine, such as when you sit for your morning coffee.
- ✏️ There is no good or bad way of the newspaper. You can use a telephone application; Do not leave expectations as needing a pen and paper hindering your pleasure.
- ✏️ Try this prompt to help you start: write a day in the life of your dreams a few years old. But do it in the present.
For more advice on how to start the journalization, listen to this episode of NPR Rescue kit. Subscribe to Rescue kit Newsletter for expert advice on love, money, relationships and more.
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India is about to resume the world of chess, in particular after the recent victory of Divya Deshmukh, 19, at the Fid a female chess World Cup. This success marks the 88th Grand Master of India – a title awarded to the best players from around the world. From the pandemic, failures have experienced significant resurgence worldwide. With more free time, people started playing online and looking at YouTube. India has become one of the biggest beneficiaries of this boom. Traditionally, Indian parents do not encourage their children to seriously pursue sport. But failures, which reflect academic activities, have acquired acceptance. Now, India ensures that its young people are ready to check with a system created to teach “from the base” of sport, according to chess coach Venkat Saravanan. Take a look at how they make strategic movements.
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A commemorating statue Confederate The General Albert Pike seated on the field a few moments after the demonstrators overthrew him on Friday evening in Washington, DC
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- The National Park Service plans to restore and reinstall in Washington, DC, a statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate General and Freemason. He was vandalized and shot in the Matter Black Lives demonstrations in June 2020.
- Yesterday, the American Coast Guard published a 300 -page report indicating that the death of the passengers of the submersible Titan implosion two years ago was avoidable. He reproached the CEO of Oceangate Stockton Rush, who designed and piloted the ship.
- On Tiktok and Instagram, the word “clanker” as a tote term for robots and AI has reached viral levels. Context clues show that the term is not a good thing. The word series of the week breaks down exactly what it means.
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