Six states to ship troops to D.C. And, Texas lawmakers to vote on redistricting in the present day

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Six states have now promised to ship their Nationwide Guard troops to Washington, D.C., which is able to lead to over 1,100 new troopers patrolling the streets. All the states to this point have Republican governors: Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ohio. The deployment follows President Trump’s declaration that there’s a “crime emergency” within the nation’s capital.

• 🎧 NPR’s Meg Anderson tells Up First that after taking a look at final yr’s homicide charges, she discovered that lots of the states sending troops have cities with increased crime counts than the capital. In Jackson, Miss., the homicide fee is 4 instances increased than that of Washington, and in Memphis, it’s practically triple. Washington nonetheless has the next violent crime fee than another main cities, together with New York Metropolis, however the numbers are falling. Insha Rahman, with the advocacy group the Vera Institute of Justice, says the president’s enlisting of governors to ship troops alerts a political energy seize, and it is not about making cities safer.

European leaders have been urgently working to determine the following steps to ending Russia’s practically four-year battle in Ukraine following their assembly on the White Home on Monday. Trump has dominated out sending U.S. troops to hitch a European-led drive that may guard in opposition to one other potential Russian invasion. Lower than 24 hours after the conferences with Trump, the European Union leaders who had been current had been in digital periods debriefing their counterparts.

• 🎧 The urgency reveals how high-stakes that is for Europe, says reporter Teri Schultz. Trump has pledged that the U.S. will assist with safety ensures for Ukraine, however the president has made it clear he desires Europe to take the lead. European Council President António Costa says there’s a troublesome street forward, however the U.S.’s help has introduced reassurance. A big unanswered query is how keen Europeans are to ship their folks to Ukraine as a result of it’s unclear whether or not the mission could be to observe, reinforce or defend a ceasefire. These phrases all imply very various things and carry completely different ranges of hazard for these deployed.

Texas lawmakers are anticipated to vote in favor of redrawing the state’s congressional map in the present day. The invoice would then head to the Senate tomorrow after which to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is anticipated to signal it. Texas Democrats left the state for a few weeks to decelerate this course of. Upon their return, Texas Republican Home Speaker Dustin Burrows ordered Democrats to signal a paper pledging they might present up in the present day in the event that they needed to go away the constructing after work earlier this week.

• 🎧 The brand new map, which might deliver 5 new GOP seats, might make all of the distinction for Republicans, who at the moment maintain the Home by just a few seats, Blaise Gainey of The Texas Newsroom says. Democrats say the brand new map weakens Black and Latino votes in unlawful methods, and so they will problem it in court docket. California Democrats additionally plan to vote this week on a map that may give an edge to 5 extra Democrats within the Home subsequent yr. In California, the legislation requires an impartial fee to do the redistricting, however the state is looking for voters’ approval in a particular election in November.

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There is a rising consensus amongst researchers on what number of each day steps are wanted to enhance well being.

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Dwelling Higher is a particular collection about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

Counting steps is the principle means many individuals monitor their each day exercise — or lack of it. Many People spend nine-plus hours sitting day by day and will most likely stand to take just a few extra steps. However what number of each day steps do that you must enhance your well being? New analysis, printed in The Lancet Public Well being, suggests 7,000 is an efficient goal, and the extra you progress, the much less seemingly you’re to die from heart problems and different illnesses. Nevertheless, the proof would not low cost the worth of getting greater than that many steps per day. This is what else the analysis discovered:

• 🚶‍♀️ The extensively cited goal of 10,000 steps isn’t rooted in strong science; as a substitute, it was popularized by a Japanese promotional marketing campaign.
• 🚶‍♀️ The examine discovered that taking 7,000 steps a day diminished the prospect of creating Sort 2 diabetes by 14%, heart problems by 25%, signs of melancholy by 22% and dementia by 38%.
• 🚶‍♀️ The examine was unable to attract any definitive conclusions about whether or not the velocity you are taking your steps makes a distinction. There are numerous methods to measure depth and noticed distinctions might merely replicate higher general health and bodily operate.

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Members of Calling All Brothers welcome the scholars of Dr. Martin Luther King College of Social Justice and Breakthrough Magnet College to their first day of college in Hartford on August 17, 2024.

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NPR community photographers all cowl all kinds of tales in numerous elements of the U.S., and perceive that pictures join folks in methods phrases cannot. In every project, they typically discover frequent floor within the on a regular basis moments of communities gathering. To have fun World Images Day, they shared these moments in Right here, collectively, a visible exploration of scenes of household, mates, neighbors and strangers that showcase distinctive experiences of pleasure and challenges. Every photographer displays on the advanced methods we join, coexist and navigate life. From tons of gathering for Seattle’s annual “From Hiroshima to Hope” occasion to the weiner canine race in St. Louis, take a look at their work.

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This undated artist’s conception launched by NASA 13 April, 1999 reveals an intermediate-sized black gap, which exists within the coronary heart of spiral galaxies all through the universe. Black holes emit no mild. What’s seen from Earth is the accretion disk (matter swirling into the black gap, typically glowing in x-ray power) and jets (beams of particles shifting away from the black gap). An intermediate-sized black gap is 100 to 10,000 instances as huge because the Solar, but occupies a area smaller than the Moon. Beforehand, solely two sorts of black holes had been thought to exist: stellar black holes, a number of instances extra huge than the Solar, and supermassive black holes, with the mass of one million or billion instances that of the Solar. AFP PHOTO NASA (Photograph by NASA / AFP) (Photograph by NASA/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

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1. A analysis group detected the oldest and most distant black gap utilizing knowledge from NASA’s James Webb Telescope. It shaped shortly after the Large Bang.
2. College students at Central Excessive College in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., got here again to high school dressed to impress. They shared model suggestions everybody can use. (by way of KCUR)
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This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.