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☆ ‘Catastrophic flooding’ in Upper Midwest prompts evacuations and rescues as record-breaking heat wave shifts to mid-Atlantic
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Here’s the latest:• Heat wave shifts to mid-Atlantic: As heat alerts persist for over 100 million people over the weekend, the extreme heat risk will spread from the Ohio Valley on Saturday to the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday. Highs across the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic have been 10 to 15 degrees above average. “An intense heat wave will continue across the Mid-Atlantic, where record high temperatures are likely,” the National Weather Service said Saturday. • Flooding prompts evacuations in Iowa: In Rock Valley, Iowa, all homes north of Highway 18 were evacuated amid high floodwaters Saturday. On Sunday, storms are possible across New England and southwestward though the Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Tennessee Valley, according to the weather service.

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Young voters could be pivotal in an election year where the race is expected to be very close between presumptive nominees Biden and Republican front-runner Donald Trump. While young voters tend to favor Democrats, even a small drop in turnout among those voters – or a shift toward Republicans – could make a dispositive difference in battleground states. Biden has a dramatic disadvantage, compared with Trump, on the economy, even as young voters report overwhelmingly that their own financial situations are solid. That's on track with Biden's performance among young voters in 2020, when exit polls showed Biden took 60% of the youth vote, compared to 36% of young voters who voted for Trump. The data on young voters reflects a trend other polling has shown throughout the campaign season: Americans are unhappy with the ways things are going and don't want a Biden-Trump rematch.

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A statue of Christopher Columbus is vandalized with the word ‘murderer.’ (Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Images)When did Indigenous Peoples Day come about? Indigenous Peoples Day is an opportunity to reconcile tensions between these two perspectives. Yes, the shift from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day has met resistance from communities across the country. In 2021, parents in Parsippany, New Jersey, protested the local school board’s decision to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in place of Columbus Day. Now the holidays are just referred to as “days off.”What resources do you recommend for Indigenous Peoples Day?

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☆ Trump is explaining exactly how wild and extreme his second term would be
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Stephen Collinson | Trump S Authoritarianism May Make The Election A Profound Choice | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“It’s really a threat to democracy while they trample our rights and liberties every single day of the year,” he said. This followed a March rally in which he billed his 2024 campaign and potential second term as a vessel of “retribution” for supporters who believe they’ve been wronged. In a recent CNN poll, for example, only 28% of Republicans thought Biden legitimately won sufficient votes to win the 2020 election. This comes after years of Trump incessantly denying he lost, and despite courts throwing out his multiple challenges to the result. “Indict my opponent, he’s doing well,” Trump said, implying that was exactly what Biden had done.

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