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☆ The All-Male Christian Group Seeking a Resurrection in the Trump Era
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Ruth Graham | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was an autumn Saturday in 1997, and Promise Keepers, a fast-growing conservative Christian men’s ministry that some warned was a covert political project, had gathered at its biggest event ever. “Why are we here?” Mr. Phillips, then the organization’s president, asked the hundreds of thousands of men in attendance. “Is it to demonstrate political might? Is it to take back the nation by imposing our religious values on others? This weekend, a much smaller group of Promise Keepers gathered in Tulsa, Okla., at a very different moment for evangelicals — with less decisive answers to those questions.

Persons: Randy Phillips, Mr, Phillips Organizations: U.S . Capitol, Christian Locations: Tulsa, Okla

☆ Tim Walz’s Long Relationship With China Defies Easy Stereotypes
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Amy Qin | Keith Bradsher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the summer of 1989, Tim Walz faced a difficult choice. A newly minted college graduate from small-town Nebraska, he had just turned down a stable, 9-to-5 job offer and moved across the world to teach at a local high school in China. He had made it as far as Hong Kong, just across the Chinese border, when People’s Liberation Army tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square to crush pro-democracy protests. As high school teachers in Nebraska and Minnesota, Mr. Walz and his wife, Gwen, regularly led trips to China in the 1990s and early 2000s to introduce students to China’s history and culture. Mr. Walz has said that he has traveled to China some 30 times, including for his honeymoon.

Persons: Tim Walz, Mr, Walz, . Walz, Gwen Organizations: People’s Liberation Army Locations: Nebraska, China, Hong Kong, “, Minnesota

I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”A day earlier, the Harris campaign released a television advertisement highlighting her pivot. Her stance reflects a change in public opinion since Mr. Trump left the White House in 2021. The decision for the Harris campaign to frame her record as California attorney general as a “border-state prosecutor” stands in contrast to how she ran in the 2020 Democratic primary. “Donald Trump tanked the deal,” Ms. Harris said in Arizona as a crowd of more than 15,000 supporters booed. “Voters want to see folks be serious about actually fixing the broken immigration system and securing the border,” Ms. Cox said in an interview.

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☆ What Killed Harmony Ball-Stribling?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | Rory Doyle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The last day Byron Stribling spent with his wife, Harmony, was the Fourth of July in 2021. The congregation at their church in Belzoni, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, blessed the couple and prayed for a safe delivery for Ms. Ball-Stribling. But around midnight, Ms. Ball-Stribling threw up and said her chest hurt. On the way, Ms. Ball-Stribling had a seizure. But he already knew he had lost her, there on the shoulder of Route 49-W.What killed Harmony Ball-Stribling?

Persons: Byron Stribling, Stribling, “, that’s Organizations: Mississippi Delta Locations: Belzoni, Mississippi, Yazoo City, Miss

There, he told a story of a helicopter ride with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown that Mr. Brown denies. “It was Willie Brown,” Mr. Trump, who spent much of the last year hoping to make gains with Black voters, posted. Ms. Res, who also spoke to Politico, recalled that Mr. Trump liked to say that Mr. Holden had “turned white” from fear, but that it was actually Mr. Trump whose face was ashen. Mr. Brown told him he had never been in a helicopter with Mr. Trump. “He was not fan of hers very much, at that point,” Mr. Trump said.

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Donald J. Trump was doubling down on Friday about his story of nearly crashing during a helicopter ride once with Willie Brown, the notable Black California politician. He was so adamant that it had happened that he threatened to sue The New York Times for reporting that the story was untrue, then posted on his social media site that there were “‘Logs,’ Maintenance Records, and Witnesses” to back up his account. “It was Willie Brown,” Mr. Trump, who spent much of the last year hoping to make gains with Black voters, posted. “But now Willie doesn’t remember?”Mr. Brown, 90, who was mayor of San Francisco and speaker of the California Assembly, gave several interviews on Thursday and Friday saying such a trip never occurred.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Willie Brown, Witnesses ”, ” Mr, Willie doesn’t, Mr, Brown Organizations: Black, The New York Times Locations: Black California, San Francisco, California

☆ China’s Great Wall of Villages
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Muyi Xiao | Agnes Chang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

China’s Great Wall of Villages China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. Mr. Akester and Mr. Barnett, who have studied Tibet’s border villages for years, reviewed The Times’s findings. In neighboring Xinjiang and Yunnan, The Times identified six new and 59 expanded border villages. (China says there are hundreds of villages like them, but few details are available and many appear to be mere upgrades of existing villages.) A Times investigation found 12 villages in disputed areas Disputed areas Villages in disputed areas Other villages CHINA CHINA TIBET Arunachal Pradesh Controlled by India Claimed by China BHUTAN INDIA MYANMAR 50 miles CHINA CHINA TIBET Arunachal Pradesh Controlled by India Claimed by China BHUTAN MYANMAR INDIA 75 miles Source: RAIC Labs and The Times analysis of Planet Labs satellite imageryChina makes clear that the villages are there for security.

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“Some critics, like Mr. Smotrich, for example, have claimed that the hostage deal is a surrender to Hamas or that hostages should not be exchanged for prisoners,” Mr. Kirby said at the start of a briefing for reporters. Mr. Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister and a far-right ally, have threatened to quit Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition if he signs a deal ending the war. But whether it could help Mr. Netanyahu to have the Americans weigh in on his domestic politics was not as clear. “The idea that he would support a deal that leaves Israel’s security at risk is just factually wrong,” Mr. Kirby said of the president. “He won’t allow extremists to blow things off course — including extremists in Israel making these ridiculous charges against the deal,” he said.

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☆ Joe Rogan Would Like to Clarify: He Did Not Endorse Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Ken Bensinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The world’s most popular podcaster has, sort of, but not really, thrown his support to one of the 2024 presidential race’s least popular candidates. On Thursday, Joe Rogan said he preferred Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as an independent, for president. His remarks about Mr. Kennedy, uttered on a show with a far smaller reach than his own, nonetheless set off a frenzied response. Supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, worried that Mr. Rogan’s stance could carve off voters and hurt his electoral chances come November, quickly turned on the podcaster, standup comic and U.F.C. They questioned his intelligence and even mocked his height, a spectacle that was greeted with something akin to joy — or, at least, schadenfreude — among Democrats who have long written off Mr. Rogan as helpful to their cause.

Persons: Joe Rogan, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, “, ” Mr, Rogan, Lex Fridman, Kennedy, Mr, Rogan’s, Donald J, Trump

☆ Video and Airplane Sketch Raise New Questions About Saudi Ties to 9/11
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. intelligence officials say the new evidence could change the story of the 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people, and of the possible involvement in the plot of Omar al-Bayoumi, the Saudi national. Michael J. Morell, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., said that Congress or the Justice Department should investigate the apparent lapse in processing the evidence. “What happened to this stuff after it was turned over to the F.B.I. at the time of the attacks, said that the new evidence was significant enough to require further evaluation, according to a spokesman. “The 9/11 families deserve no less,” Mr. Tenet said through the spokesman.

Persons: Al, Omar al, Michael J, Morell, ”, George Tenet, Mr, Tenet Organizations: Saudi, Former, Justice Department Locations: Former U.S

How Online Hatred Toward Migrants Spurs Real-World Violence Social media posts assailing immigrants have fomented a climate of fear and hatred in Britain, Portugal and other countries. It followed months of vitriol on social media that came not only from disgruntled Portuguese, but also from prominent far-right figures inside and outside the country. “It’s not up-to-date for the social media age,” Leo Varadkar, the prime minister then, said. Asked whether he believes his social media posts contribute to violence, Mr. Robinson responded: “I believe the teachings in the Koran contribute to violence. July 29 1:42 p.m.Not much info yet, but it will be a Muslim culprit followed by violence protests 1:49 p.m.

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☆ From Tips to TikTok, Trump Swaps Policies With Aim to Please Voters
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Alan Rappeport | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Everybody loves it,” Mr. Trump said to cheers. The reversal is one of many that Mr. Trump has made in his bid to return to the presidency and underscores his malleability in election-year policymaking. From TikTok to cryptocurrencies, the former president has been reinventing his platform on the fly as he aims to attract different swaths of voters. At times, Mr. Trump appears to be staking out new positions to differentiate himself from Vice President Kamala Harris or, perhaps, just to please crowds. To close observers of the machinations of Mr. Trump’s first term, the shift on tips, a policy that has become a regular part of his stump speech, has been particularly striking.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, ” Mr, “, Kamala Harris, Trump’s Locations: cryptocurrencies

Follow live updates on the 2024 election. Mr. Trump also flashed frustration when asked about the size of Ms. Harris’s crowds while boasting about the attendance at his own rally on Jan. 6, 2021, and insisted that the group of hundreds that stormed the Capitol was relatively small. But he fixated on the size of the crowd that he initially gathered on the national mall, making comparisons to — and declaring it was larger than — the one drawn by Martin Luther King Jr. for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. “Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me,” Mr. Trump said. “If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours — same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not — we had more.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump, shoehorn, Kamala Harris, —, Martin Luther King Jr, ” Mr, Martin Luther King, ” Organizations: Capitol Locations: Mar, Palm Beach, Fla, U.S

☆ Where Tim Walz Stands on the Issues
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tim Walz of Minnesota, the newly announced running mate to Vice President Kamala Harris, has worked with his state’s Democratic-controlled Legislature to enact an ambitious agenda of liberal policies: free college tuition for low-income students, free meals for schoolchildren, legal recreational marijuana and protections for transgender people. “You don’t win elections to bank political capital,” Mr. Walz wrote last year about his approach to governing. “You win elections to burn political capital and improve lives.”Republicans have slammed these policies as big-government liberalism and accused Mr. Walz of taking a hard left turn since he represented a politically divided district in Congress years ago. Here is an overview of where Mr. Walz stands on some key issues. AbortionMr. Walz signed a bill last year that guaranteed Minnesotans a “fundamental right to make autonomous decisions” about reproductive health care on issues such as abortion, contraception and fertility treatments.

Persons: Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, ” Mr, Walz, “, Mr Organizations: Democratic, Republicans Locations: Minnesota

☆ Netanyahu’s Spat with Biden Echoes Dispute With Israel’s Security Chiefs
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | Vivian Yee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Top NewsA quarrel between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s approach to cease-fire talks mirrors growing domestic tensions between Mr. Netanyahu and senior Israeli security officials over his perceived resistance to a swift deal with Hamas. Mr. Biden has publicly chided Mr. Netanyahu for failing to agree to another truce in Gaza. Channel 12 reported that the chiefs accused Mr. Netanyahu of blocking the deal, while the prime minister was said to have accused them of being weak negotiators. Mr. Netanyahu has blamed Hamas’s intransigence for stalling the negotiations, rather than his own. But among Israeli security officials, the prevailing assessment is that a deal could still be reached within days if Mr. Netanyahu set aside some of his conditions, according to the two Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Persons: Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Mr, Israel, gripes, Shin, Hamas’s intransigence, ” Mr, Ismail Haniyeh, “, Haniyeh, Myra Noveck Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Shin Bet, Iran

☆ Nvidia Tumbles After Reports of Chip Delay
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Tripp Mickle | More About Tripp Mickle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nvidia shares tumbled more than 10 percent in early trading on Monday after reports that the company would delay shipments of its newest artificial intelligence chip, but the stock later rebounded as investors’ concerns about the costs of the delay faded. The Information, a tech news outlet, reported on Friday that Nvidia would be shipping its latest graphics processing unit, or GPU, which make it possible to create A.I. Nvidia said in a statement that production for the chip, which is called Blackwell, was on track for later this year and added that customer orders and interest were high. That expansion means that Nvidia chips will be in demand, he said. “Nvidia’s competitive window is so large right now that we don’t think a three-month delay will cause significant share shifts,” Mr. Rasgon said.

Persons: Blackwell, Stacy Rasgon, Bernstein, “, Mr, Rasgon Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft

Lucas Altman remembers it well: On an early October night in 2014, he had taken his two Labradors to Central Park when suddenly they became alert, their tails wagging with the thrill of the hunt as they towed him to a patch of shrubbery. “It was dark, I was getting impatient and I didn’t bother to look,” he said. A day later, he returned to find out that another resident had made a shocking discovery under the bushes: a dead bear cub, oddly placed under an old bike. “It was so strange,” Mr. Altman, 52, remembered in an interview Monday. “I always thought it had to take somebody kooky to do that.”This weekend, a most unexpected culprit stepped forward to admit the bear dumping: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Persons: Lucas Altman, ”, Mr, Altman, “, Robert F, Kennedy Jr Locations: Central

Progressive groups have trained their criticisms on Mr. Shapiro and Mr. Kelly, who they accuse of being too conservative on key issues. The debate grew heated during a discussion about whether using the phrase “Genocide Josh” to describe Mr. Shapiro, who is an observant Jew, was antisemitic. One of his advisers called the Harris campaign to object to Mr. Shapiro, a development that was first reported by Politico. Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for Mr. Shapiro, declined to comment on the vice-presidential selection process. Mr. Walz and Mr. Beshear are set to appear at dueling, simultaneous fund-raisers to benefit Ms. Harris on Monday evening.

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☆ Declaring ‘Crisis,’ South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Back in the day,” said Lim Hyung-kyu, a retired Samsung Electronics executive now in his 70s, “my weeks were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday.”Mr. Lim joined Samsung, South Korea’s largest company, in 1976 and rose through the ranks to chief technology officer. For much of his 30-plus years at Samsung, working on the weekends was normal — and legal under the nation’s labor laws. South Korean labor laws cap working hours to 52 a week: 40 standard hours with up to 12 for overtime. But over the past few months, some influential South Korean companies have told executives to work longer hours, in some cases telling them to come to the office six days a week. Some people in South Korean business are predicting that lower-ranked employees and managers at smaller companies will feel pressure to follow suit.

Persons: ”, Lim Hyung, ” Mr, Lim, Mr Organizations: Samsung Electronics, Samsung, Korea’s Locations: South

☆ Virginia Man Threatened to Kill Kamala Harris, Authorities Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Annie Correal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Virginia man has been charged with posting repeated death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris on social media, the authorities said on Monday. The man, Frank Lucio Carillo, of Winchester, Va., was arrested on Friday and appeared in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Va., on Monday to face a charge of making threats against the vice president of the United States. discovered nearly 20 threats against Ms. Harris from an account linked to Mr. Carillo on the social media site GETTR, according to filings in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The threats included promises to kill Ms. Harris and her family, to pluck out her eyes with pliers and to burn her alive. “Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive I will do it personally if no one else does it I want her to suffer a slow agonizing death,” Mr. Carillo said in one post on July 27.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Frank Lucio Carillo, Harris, Carillo, “ Kamala Harris, ” Mr Organizations: Western, of Locations: Winchester, Va, U.S, Roanoke , Va, United States, of Virginia

☆ The Next Month in the Economy Could Be Crucial for the Presidential Election
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Jim Tankersley | More About Jim Tankersley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It didn’t take long for former President Donald J. Trump to make a political weapon out of Monday’s market sell-off. “This is not good.”The post underscored Mr. Trump’s longstanding fixation on stock indexes as a barometer of economic health. It also reinforced the degree to which economic messaging — and the health of the economy itself — will play a key role in the sprint finish ahead of the presidential vote in November. American voters consistently tell pollsters that the economy and consumer prices are the most important issues facing the country. Mr. Trump wants voters to believe the economy is on the brink of catastrophe, and that Ms. Harris and President Biden are to blame.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, ” Mr, pollsters, Kamala Harris, Harris, Biden Organizations: “ Stock, Democratic

☆ Live Updates: Bangladesh Protesters Call for Mass March After Deadly Crackdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Mujib Mashal | Saif Hasnat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Here’s what to know about why the quota system has become such a point of contention. An old quota system, reinstated recently by the Supreme Court, reserves more than half of those jobs for various groups. The quota system was introduced in 1972 by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led his country’s fight for independence from Pakistan in 1971. Student protests accompanied the appeal, although they were not as violent as this time. She abolished the quota system in 2018 amid calls for its overhaul.

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☆ Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Anupreeta Das | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the summer of 1991, Mary Gates, the mother of the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, convinced her workaholic 35-year-old son to spend the July 4 holiday at Hood Canal, a scenic, outdoorsy location about two hours from Seattle that had long been the family getaway. The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, was among the guests. When Mrs. Gates tried to introduce her son to Mr. Buffett, however, he brushed her off, saying that he didn’t want to meet a “stockbroker.”But the two men hit it off immediately. Mr. Gates was surprised by the penetrating questions Mr. Buffett directed at him about the software business, and found himself warming to the avuncular Midwestern billionaire. Once, recounting the story of their meeting to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mr. Gates called it an “unbelievable friendship.” Mr. Buffett quipped, “The moral of that is, listen to your mother.”

Persons: Mary Gates, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Gates, Buffett, —, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Microsoft, University of Nebraska Locations: Hood, Seattle, Omaha, Lincoln

☆ Ukraine Has Received F-16 Fighter Jets, Zelensky Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Sunday that his army had received a first batch of F-16 fighter jets. The long-awaited arrival of the Western-supplied jets should bolster the country’s defenses, although Kyiv appears to have received too few of them so far to have an immediate impact on the battlefield. We did it,” Mr. Zelensky said in a video posted on social media networks showing him at an air base addressing and meeting Ukrainian pilots. Mr. Zelensky said Ukrainian pilots “have already started using them for our country,” but he did not say whether they had already flown combat missions in Ukraine. Nor did he say how many jets had arrived in the country.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Mr, Zelensky, “ Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv

An Israeli airstrike on a school functioning as a shelter in Gaza City killed at least 25 people and injured dozens more on Sunday, according to the Palestinian emergency response agency in Gaza and Palestinian news outlets. Most of the victims were women and children, said Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense. He said that an F-16 fighter jet hit a school called Hassan Salame, where at least 14 people were still buried under the rubble. The Israeli military said it had targeted “terrorists” in “Hamas command and control centers” located at the Hassan Salame and Nasser schools. “If you want to kill someone, kill him away from other people.”

Persons: Mahmoud, Hassan Salame, Nasser, ” Organizations: Palestinian Civil Defense Locations: Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian, ”

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