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Immediately’s high tales
Vice President Harris sat down with CNN final night time for her first main interview because the Democratic presidential nominee. She was joined by her working mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Harris mentioned she’d appoint a Republican to her cupboard if elected and talked about her coverage shifts over time. Republicans have accused her of flip-flopping on points like fracking and enforcement on the southern border. She’s additionally been accused of dodging interviews. How did Harris do? Listed below are six takeaways.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris are interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bash at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29, 2024. That is the primary time Harris has sat with a journalist for an in-depth, on-the-record dialog since President Joe Biden ended his presidential bid in July. (Will Lanzoni/CNN)
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- 🎧 It wasn’t “an earth-shattering interview,” NPR’s Asma Khalid tells Up First. Harris largely offered a continuation of President Biden’s policies. She acknowledged that the economy is one of the Democrats’ biggest vulnerabilities, but championed what the Biden administration has done on things like lowering Medicare drug prices and creating manufacturing jobs. She discussed in vague terms about strengthening the middle class. Policy proposals are not central to her campaign strategy. Instead she talks about herself as being a new way forward. Khalid says it’s interesting that Harris and former President Donald Trump haven’t interacted in person before. This makes the expected Sept. 10 debate perhaps one of the most important moments of this campaign.
Trump countered Harris and Walz’s interview with a city corridor in Wisconsin, a battleground state. Along with his regular speaking factors on immigration and inflation, Trump began the city corridor with a query about IVF, a shock political situation within the post-Roe reproductive rights panorama.
- 🎧 Trump says he helps IVF and desires it to be extensively out there, Minnesota Public Radio’s Clay Masters says. However abortion stays a problem he’s wrestling with. In an interview with NBC Information earlier within the day, he indicated he would vote in favor of abortion rights in Florida’s poll measure. The marketing campaign pushed again rapidly, saying Trump believes Florida’s six-week abortion ban is just too quick however hasn’t but mentioned how he would vote. Throughout the city corridor, he accused Walz with out proof of supporting abortions into the third trimester of being pregnant. He additionally attacked the Minnesota governor on a invoice he signed that made tampons out there in class bogs within the state.
9 individuals have died and extra hospitalized from listeria, a food-borne micro organism, marking the worst listeria outbreak since 2011. The instances stem from contaminated Boar’s Head deli meat. The manufacturing facility has recalled thousands and thousands of kilos of merchandise. The primary recall was issued in July and linked to a ready-to-eat liverwurst product. Since then, it has expanded to dozens of merchandise, together with sliced ham varieties, sausages and loaves, all of which had been manufactured on the similar Virginia plant because the liverwurst.
- 🎧 NPR’s Yuki Noguchi says one of many causes instances are nonetheless showing is that the merchandise have lengthy shelf lives and so they may nonetheless be in individuals’s fridges. Among the recalled meats have sell-by dates into October. It’s additionally an enormous quantity of probably contaminated meat: over 70 million kilos. Individuals ought to search for a particular quantity — 12612— on the inspection label. If recalled meat is discovered, you’re suggested to scrub your fridge, kitchen counters and something which may have come into contact with it.
Life recommendation
Do you might have a fruit fly drawback? You aren’t alone. This can be a frequent situation, particularly in the course of the summer season, says Laurie Stevison, affiliate professor of biology at Auburn College. She shares methods that will help you do away with them.
- 🍌 If you convey house fruit, particularly the overripe sort, wash it with water to take away any eggs.
- 🍌 Strive to not pass over any baked items with blueberries, bananas or different fruit.
- 🍌 Be sure that to examine your kitchen sink. Fruit flies might reside within the drain.
Pay attention to be taught extra about methods to get rid of fruit flies out of your drain or with a lure.
Weekend picks
Invoice Skarsgård in The Crow.
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Try what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
🍿Motion pictures: The Crow is a model new reimagining of the comedian e book collection that impressed the unique movie. In it, Invoice Skarsgård performs a person who will get brutally murdered alongside his soulmate and returns to life as an unstoppable determine of vengeance. Pop Tradition Comfortable Hour hosts focus on the way it stacks up in opposition to the unique.
📺 TV: Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy is lastly again after two years. The primary three episodes are on Amazon Prime. NPR’s Glen Weldon has seen all eight episodes and has a spoiler-free evaluation.
📚 Books: Do you know Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka lived in Prague on the similar time with the identical circle of mates? Ken Krimstein’s new graphic novel, Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Gap and Got here Up With the Universe playfully explores the probabilities of what occurred as the 2 Twentieth-century geniuses have separate profession breakthroughs, by an archive of letters, diaries and analysis.
🎵 Music: In celebration of the D.C. Jazz Pageant’s Twentieth anniversary, we invited bassist Corcoran Holt, artist-in-residence, to curate a playlist that highlights Washington, D.C., natives together with different bandleaders who will carry out. Test it out right here.
🥗 Meals: Content material creator Logan Moffitt has been inspiring many on TikTok with near-daily postings of cucumber salad recipe movies. Strive some recipes from him and different cooks.
🎲 Video games: The tabletop role-playing sport Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this yr. NPR critic Glen Weldon displays on why he beloved taking part in the sport as a closeted teen and the way he stumbled upon the fierce, shoulder-padded illusionist that will change into his first character.
❓Quiz: See how I paid consideration to the information this week and acquired a excessive rating on the weekly quiz? Very demure. Very aware.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
A white-browed sparrow weaver inspects a roost beneath building, after simply receiving some grass introduced by one other member of its group.
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Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos
- For birds, nest-building can be culture-building. They will be taught from others, letting teams inside one species develop their very own distinctive nest-building traditions, in keeping with a brand new report in Science.
- An workplace retreat in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains changed into a worst-case situation for one of many 15 employees when he acquired separated from his colleagues. He was left to seek out his personal manner down by a mountain’s steep terrain.
- A gaggle of authors and the nation’s largest publishers filed a lawsuit in opposition to Florida’s public officers difficult a 2023 state legislation that restricts books in class libraries. (through WMNF)
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
