Reality-checking the Trump-Harris debate. And, meals supply might assist the setting

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Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump confronted off final evening over subjects together with the financial system, abortion, international coverage and immigration. All through the controversy, Trump’s tried to tie Harris to President Biden’s document and distance himself from abortion restrictions. Harris tried to outline herself to voters as a brand new and youthful chief who cares about them and tie Trump to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and its aftermath. Listed below are some takeaways from the controversy.

• 🎧 “Trump’s tendency to veer between subjects and traffic in falsehoods and conspiracy theories was quite striking,” NPR’s Tamara Keith tells Up First. In response to a query about why he had requested Republicans to kill a bipartisan deal to spice up border safety, Trump boasted about his rallies’ crowds, claimed Harris busses folks in to attend hers and stated we’re headed for World Warfare III earlier than saying immigrants are destroying the nation. He additionally practically accused Harris of being chargeable for the assassination try in opposition to him and insisted he gained the 2020 election. Harris responded to the election denial by saying it’s an issue that somebody who desires to be president is confused by details. Harris’s marketing campaign stated this debate was nice and so they stay up for one other one in October. Trump remarked that this one wasn’t truthful.
• ➡️ NPR truth checked the Harris-Trump presidential debate. Here is what we discovered.
• ➡️ After the controversy, pop star Taylor Swift endorsed one of many candidates on Instagram. Learn the submit right here.

A authorities shutdown looms as Congress should cross a stop-gap spending invoice earlier than the top of the month. The Home is about to vote as we speak on a gap supply from Home Republicans that may start the negotiations. Republicans wish to connect what they name the SAVE Act to the invoice, which might require voters to show citizenship to stop noncitizens from voting. The partisan invoice is drawing opposition from Democrats and a few Republicans.

• 🎧 NPR’s Claudia Grisales says Trump weighed in on the subject yesterday, saying Republicans shouldn’t conform to something until the availability is within the momentary funding plan. Democrats alternatively need a comparatively simple momentary funding invoice that maybe contains some catastrophe help. Grisales says it is frequent for one or each side to start negotiations with proposals they know won’t ever get handed — often to show a political level. Democrats and a few average Republicans say the way in which out is to fund the federal government and go away the fights to the aspect.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as we speak on a joint go to with British Overseas Secretary David Lammy. The journey comes hours after the presidential debate, the place the candidates had starkly totally different views on what to do about Ukraine. The nation desires the U.S. to raise restrictions on the usage of long-range weapons supplied by the U.S. to hit navy targets in Russia.

• 🎧 There appears to be some momentum to raise restrictions, particularly after Blinken and Lammy revealed that Iran was supplying Russia with ballistic missiles, NPR’s Joanna Kakissis says. Ukraine says utilizing these long-range weapons is the finest solution to cease Russian troops advancing on Ukrainian land and killing folks in its cities. Ukrainians adopted final evening’s debate. Harris made it clear she would proceed help for Ukraine, whereas Trump appeared to evade speaking about help, saying solely that he’ll finish the battle, however not specifying how.

Local weather options week

An Uber Eats supply courier rides an electrical bicycle by means of the Park Slope neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York.

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Meals manufacturing and transportation make up as a lot as one-third of a typical U.S. family’s annual contribution to local weather change-inducing emissions. An estimated 30% of meals produced within the nation is wasted. As soon as it is in landfills, rotting meals creates methane — a potent gasoline that heats the Earth. Minimizing waste and lowering transportation may need a big affect on the air pollution that causes local weather change. One doable higher resolution: house supply. That’s as a result of with a supply automobile, when a driver drops off your groceries they’re typically additionally delivering to neighbors throughout the identical run.

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by Michel Martin, Morning Version host

Do you keep in mind the place you had been on Sept. 11, 2001? 

For some folks the query is sort of an insult. How might they overlook? For the households of the two,977 individuals who died and the tens of 1000’s of individuals estimated to have been affected by the smoke, mud, falling particles and trauma, the day marks the top of 1 life and the start of one other.

Flags and flowers are positioned by the names of these killed throughout the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults, on the reflecting swimming pools on the Nationwide September 11 Memorial & Museum, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in New York.

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However for different folks, particularly folks born after the 9/11 assaults, who had been too younger to recollect, who lived distant or who’ve a number of different issues to fret about — the query would possibly really feel like a scolding in disguise. What number of unhappy days are folks supposed to carry shut? What number of tragedies?

We aren’t nice with reminiscence in America. We regularly assume different folks’s recollections are too lengthy. We marvel why their historic hatreds loom so giant as we speak. However typically it appears as if our recollections are too brief; we don’t perceive why ache lingers or why some folks can’t “just get over it” — no matter “it” is.

Perhaps there’s a center floor. On a day like 9/11, possibly we might simply take a second to note the folks round us and ask, “Is this a special day for you? Do you want to talk about it? Did you lose someone? Tell me about that person.”

It may’t damage to ask, and to hear.

In reminiscence of Fireplace Patrol Sgt Norman E. McQueen, Jr.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei (third from left), died after being set on fireplace in her house. The person who allegedly attacked her has additionally died, in a case that has renewed requires extra consciousness and protections for ladies in opposition to home violence in Kenya.

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1. Dickson Ndiema Marangach, who allegedly poured gasoline on Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei and set her on fireplace, killing her, has additionally died of burns, in keeping with the hospital the place the 2 had been handled.
2. A Delta plane clipped the tail of one other airplane on Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport’s tarmac yesterday, officers stated. No accidents had been reported.
3. Mauricio Pochettino, the Argentinian soccer coach who led a few of Europe’s prime membership groups over the previous decade, has been named the brand new coach of the U.S. males’s nationwide soccer workforce by means of a much-anticipated run on the FIFA World Cup in 2026.

This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.