Fraud claims emerge in Venezuelan election. And, Trump hopes to regain the highlight

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A rocket hit a soccer area stuffed with youngsters within the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights area Saturday, killing 12 youngsters and wounding dozens extra. Israel says that Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired the rocket from southern Lebanon, however Hezbollah denies duty. The incident occurred on the identical day that an Israeli strike in Gaza devastated a faculty constructing used to shelter displaced Palestinian residents. Not less than 30 folks had been killed and greater than 100 had been wounded.

• 🎧 Lower than 24 hours after the strike, NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf visited Golan Heights, the place she says the grief was “palpable.” The neighborhood there may be 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 a press release final night time saying Hezbollah pays a heavy worth for the assault. Lonsdorf says evidently neither facet actually needs a full-out struggle to start, however the Israeli army has made it clear for months that they’re ready for an even bigger struggle.

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 gasoline 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 your complete vote depend 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 your complete world know what occurred. At present, the opposing occasion stays decided to ensure all votes are counted.
• ➡️ NPR’s worldwide correspondents will proceed to comply with world elections all 12 months. 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 in opposition to her, calling her “sick” and “unhinged,” and repeatedly mispronouncing her identify. Trump has even informed Christian voters that they “won’t have to vote anymore” if he’s elected.

• 🎧 In terms of Harris’ marketing campaign success up to now, NPR’s Franco Ordoñez says, “The Trump campaign will tell you that it’s simply a honeymoon period.” 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 loads of 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 damaging.

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 12 months, however that doesn’t cease many Individuals from experiencing sticker shock. The price of lease, electrical energy and auto insurance coverage have all risen sooner than groceries within the final 12 months. However the grocery store continues to be the place consumers really feel the sting. The rationale: The 1.1% enhance in grocery costs during the last 12 months comes on prime of a 4.7% enhance the earlier 12 months and a 12.2% leap the 12 months earlier than that. That is how supermarkets have turn into a logo of inflation within the U.S.:

• 🛍️ Buyers are reminded of the upper grocery retailer costs extra usually than different rising prices as a result of they see and expertise them extra continuously.
• 🛍️ Rising meals costs are a problem for low-income households, who sometimes spend a bigger share of their cash on groceries than better-off households do.
• 🛍️ Rising wages are step by step 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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Saxophonist Joey Berkley was residing his dream taking part in 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 inserting an electrode straight 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 done,” he stated. Berkley had his surgical procedure in March 2021, and after rehab, he regained sufficient management over his hand to start to file 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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1. Baldwin & Co., a bookstore that opened three years in the past, has been internet hosting a splashy countdown over the previous 12 months to what would have been the a hundredth birthday of its namesake. James Baldwin was born on Aug. 2, 1924.
2. Scientists say that as Utah’s Nice Salt Lake dries up, it’s changing into a big contributor to world greenhouse gasoline emissions that trigger the local weather to heat. The lake has shrunk by virtually half in recent times.
3. 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 getting old, in response to a trio of research.

This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.