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Africa’s white rhino population rebounds for 1st time in a decade, new figures show
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/africa-s-white-rhino-population-rebounds-for-1st-time-in-a-decade-new-figures-show/ar-AA1h8Xzq?cvid=47c46fbb7f8946d99055448688991051&ei=50
African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show.
The new figures, released Thursday, highlight that protection and biological management initiatives across the continent have resulted in black rhino populations rising by 4.2% to a population of 6,487, and white rhino populations rising by 5.6% to a population of 16,803.
It is the first time since 2012 that there has been an increase in the white rhino population, the species classified as 'near threatened' on the IUCN's Red List of threatened species.
A wild white rhino is seen at an undisclosed location in the North-West Province of South Africa, on April 2, 2023.
A wild white rhino is seen at an undisclosed location in the North-West Province of South Africa, on April 2, 2023.
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"With this good news, we can take a sigh of relief for the first time in a decade," said Dr. Michael Knight, chair of the IUCN's Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG). "However, it is imperative to further consolidate and build upon this positive development and not drop our guard."
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According to the World Wildlife Fund, there were 500,000 rhinos in Africa and Asia at the start of the 20th century. By the end of 2022, the African rhino population stood at just 23,290 according to latest figures by the IUCN.
However, thanks to "intense" and heightened protection and management efforts over the years, rhino populations on the continent are beginning to rebound.
"The rebounding rhino populations aren't just a win for rhinos, but for the many wildlife species that share their ecosystems and the people who steward these lands," Nina Fascione, Executive Director at the International Rhino Foundation, told ABC News.
"The growing rhino populations are a testament to the effectiveness of collaborative conservation efforts throughout Africa and the resilience of these species."
Poaching, however, remains the biggest threat to all rhino species, as highlighted in the 2023 State of the Rhino report; poachers changing their tactics, focusing attention from the largest rhino population to more susceptible ones.
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South Africa -- home to the continent's largest rhino population -- has suffered "devastating poaching losses" as poachers target its reserves.
"Large, protected areas like Kruger National Park in South Africa have also greatly increased security measures to reduce the number of poaching incursions on their land," says the International Rhino Foundation. "Poachers have reacted by targeting other, smaller areas, like province-run Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve, which has borne the brunt of South Africa's rhino poaching deaths in the past year."
Namibia -- home to the world's largest black rhino population -- saw a devastating 93% increase in rhino poaching from 2021 to 2022.
In January, the U.S. treasury secretary announced the launch of a joint U.S.-South Africa anti-poaching taskforce to combat poaching, and increase sharing of financial intelligence units to support law enforcement agencies and disrupt illicit trade.
"We must follow the money in the same way we do with other serious crimes," Yellen announced whilst touring South Africa's Dinokeng Game Reserve.
Climate change also poses a growing risk to Africa's rhino population as it's devastating impacts on human communities has a ripple effect on wildlife and increases the risk of human-wildlife conflict.
"Competition over water resources may also cause increasing strife and disruption between communities and between humans and wildlife, bringing people in ever closer contact with rhinos," says the IRF. "Poverty resulting from loss of crops and livestock may lead to increased poaching as a way to earn income."
A rhino wakes up after being darted to fit new anti poaching measures at Buffalo Kloof game reserve outside Gqeberha on April 5, 2023.
A rhino wakes up after being darted to fit new anti poaching measures at Buffalo Kloof game reserve outside Gqeberha on April 5, 2023.
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In early September, conservation group African Parks Foundation announced they are set to release 2,000 rhinos into the wild following the purchase of one of the world's largest private captive rhino farms, Platinum Rhino.
It is set to be Africa's largest rewilding programs of any species, set to take place over the next 10 years.
Only two surviving members of the critically endangered northern white rhino subspecies remain in the world -- Najin and Fatu -- both living under 24-hour protection in Kenya's Ol-Pejeta Conservancy.
"Continuing a positive population trend for both black and white rhinos will require enormous efforts by governments, land managers, community members and others to ensure conservation actions surpass poaching," says Fascione. "Rhinos have been around for millions of years -- we cannot let them go extinct on our watch."
Amazing what people can do if they choose it
Second year of a midwestern droght
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/23/us/freshwater-new-orleans-saltwater-mississippi-river/index.html
The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday.
The move comes as water levels are plummeting for the second consecutive year after this summer’s blistering heat and low rainfall triggered extreme drought over parts of the central US.
As water levels drop, the threat of saltwater intrusion grows in Louisiana as ocean water pushes north into drinking water systems, unimpeded by the Mississippi’s normally mighty flow rate.
The Mississippi River is forecast to reach “historic lows over the next several weeks,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said during a Friday news conference.
A tugboat pushing barges navigates between and around sandbars amid low water levels on the Mississippi River in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, on September 14.
Water levels on the Mississippi River are plummeting for the second year in a row
To help mitigate intrusion, the state and the Army Corps of Engineers are working to add 25 feet of height to a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee in the Mississippi River, which was constructed in July to slow the saltwater’s progression, Army Col. Cullen Jones said.
The corps also plans to barge millions of gallons of water daily to local water treatment facilities, Jones said during the news conference.
The corps announced the plan to build the levee last year. It involved dredging sediment from the bottom of the river and pile it up to create what’s known as a sill, which acts as a dam for the denser saltwater in the lower levels of the river.
Phillip Young, a local resident from Jackson, Mississippi, takes a break while helping local volunteers distribute bottles of water as the city and areas around it go without reliable drinking water indefinitely after pumps at the water treatment plant failed on August 31, 2022.
These five cities could be one natural disaster away from a catastrophic water crisis
Typically, enough rainfall upstream helps ease drought conditions and keeps the saltwater at bay. However, during the news conference Friday, the governor said officials “don’t believe that there is sufficient precipitation in the near term anywhere along the Mississippi River to materially change the conditions for the better.”
“Unfortunately, we just haven’t had the relief from the dry conditions that we need and so that inclusion is worsening,” Edwards said.
State to deliver bottled water in bulk to New Orleans
Jones said it will take approximately 24 days to add to the sill. Once augmented, it will delay saltwater intrusion by 10 to 15 days, he said.
Fifteen million gallons of freshwater is expected to be brought in as soon as next week, Jones said, adding the area will need 36 million gallons per day to help mitigate the problem.
An aerial image taken on August 10, 2023 shows destroyed homes and buildings on the waterfront burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii. At least 36 people have died after a fast-moving wildfire turned Lahaina to ashes, officials said August 9, 2023 as visitors asked to leave the island of Maui found themselves stranded at the airport. The fires began burning early August 8, scorching thousands of acres and putting homes, businesses and 35,000 lives at risk on Maui, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said in a statement. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Number of billion-dollar weather disasters in US blows through annual record with four months left in the year
The water will be added to water at treatment centers and create a mixture that is safe for treatment, Jones added.
The governor also announced plans to deliver bottled water in bulk to the New Orleans area. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed an emergency declaration for the city on Friday due to saltwater intrusion.
The declaration allows city agencies to prepare and respond to any impacts and allows state and federal agencies to deploy resources as needed for a more streamlined process, the city said.
Last week, Plaquemines Parish President W. Keith Hinkley said at a news conference that clean water was being distributed to around 2,000 residents who were impacted by the saltwater intrusion.
It was not necessary to buy large amounts of bottled water, Edwards said Friday.
“There is not a shortage of bottled water around the state or around the country and our businesses are going to be able to bring in water as it’s needed,” he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/24/us/michigan-missing-toddler-found-woods/index.html
omahacolt
09-24-2023, 10:41 AM
thats not fake news
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Meadows burned papers after meeting with Scott Perry, Jan. 6 panel told
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/26/meadows-burned-papers-meeting-scott-perry-00035411
Meadows burned papers after meeting with Scott Perry, Jan. 6 panel told
The unusual move came after a meeting between then-President Donald Trump’s then-chief of staff and the Pennsylvania Republican, according to recent testimony.
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows talks to reporters at the White House.
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows talks to reporters at the White House on October 21, 2020. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
By BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN and KYLE CHENEY
05/26/2022 02:08 PM EDT
Updated: 05/26/2022 09:02 PM EDT
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers in his office after meeting with a House Republican who was working to challenge the 2020 election, according to testimony the Jan. 6 select committee has heard from one of his former aides.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked under Meadows when he was former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, told the panel investigating the Capitol attack that she saw Meadows incinerate documents after a meeting in his office with Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.). A person familiar with the testimony described it on condition of anonymity.
The Meadows-Perry meeting came in the weeks after Election Day 2020, as Trump and his allies searched for ways to reverse the election results.
It’s unclear whether Hutchinson told the committee which specific papers were burnt, and if federal records laws required the materials’ preservation. Meadows’ destruction of papers is a key focus for the select committee, and the person familiar with the testimony said investigators pressed Hutchinson for details about the issue for more than 90 minutes during a recent deposition.
POLITICO could not independently confirm that Meadows burned papers after a meeting with Perry.
A lawyer for Meadows declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee. A lawyer for Hutchinson did not respond to requests for comment, and neither did a spokesperson for Perry.
Before the 2020 election, Perry — who represents the Harrisburg, Pa. region — had a relatively low national profile. But testimony and documents obtained by congressional investigators show he was the first person to connect Trump with Jeffrey Clark, a top Justice Department official who sympathized with the then-president’s efforts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.
Senior Trump DOJ officials have testified that the former president came close to appointing Clark as acting attorney general in order to use the department’s extraordinary powers to sow doubt about the election results and urge state legislatures to consider overriding Biden’s victory.
Perry, now chair of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus, spent weeks pressing Meadows to implement the plan.
“Mark, just checking in as time continues to count down,” Perry texted Meadows on Dec. 26, 2020, according to messages released by the select panel. “11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration. We gotta get going!”
But the effort didn’t come to fruition. Instead, in an Oval Office meeting, the rest of DOJ leadership threatened to quit if Trump made Clark attorney general.
The select committee has also revealed that Meadows and Perry took steps to conceal some of their communications after the election. For example, in a Dec. 2020 text message exchange the committee included in an April court filing, Perry told Meadows he had “just sent you something on Signal,” referring to the encrypted messaging app popular with journalists and government officials.
An investigation by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee last year delved further into Perry’s involvement in the attempt to overturn the election and urged the Jan. 6 select panel to look into the Pennsylvanian further.
Earlier this month, the select panel also subpoenaed Perry and four other Republican lawmakers. Perry’s compliance deadline is today, and he hasn’t signaled whether or not he will cooperate. The select committee also subpoenaed Clark and later voted in favor of holding him in contempt of Congress, although the full House has not taken any such vote.
Since his involvement with the former president’s efforts, Perry has gained political clout. In November, he was elected head of the Freedom Caucus, which wields significant influence in the House Republican conference.
The New York Times first reported that the committee heard testimony indicating Meadows burned White House papers. The Trump White House’s unorthodox approach to document management has drawn significant media scrutiny in recent weeks — and has also caught the attention of DOJ.
During his presidency, Trump was known to tear up papers and throw them in the trash. Aides would scurry to reassemble those papers for archiving, as federal record-keeping laws require.
After leaving the White House, Trump had 15 boxes of documents shipped to Mar-a-Lago. Some of those boxes were marked as classified, according to The Washington Post, and the Justice Department is now investigating the matter. Mishandling classified material is illegal.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mocked-biden-us-world-war-ii-obama-2024-election-2023-9
Did we quit when the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?
Colts And Orioles
09-26-2023, 08:23 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mocked-biden-us-world-war-ii-obama-2024-election-2023-9
Did we quit when the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor ???
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Dan Quayle helps a kid spell "potato" ....... or is it "potatoe" ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNGCNtDb-w
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Dan Quayle helps a kid spell "potato" ....... or is it "potatoe" ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNGCNtDb-w
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Quayle knew enough about the Constitution, telling Pence he couldnt accept fake documents from fake electors
Lov2fish
09-26-2023, 01:17 PM
Quayle knew enough about the Constitution, telling Pence he couldnt accept fake documents from fake electors
To many in DC swear an oath to a document they know nothing about. People can like, or dislike Pence Certifying the election results. Pence did what the constitution requires of him. He did not cheat anyone, he done his job as prescribed by law.
To many in DC swear an oath to a document they know nothing about. People can like, or dislike Pence Certifying the election results. Pence did what the constitution requires of him. He did not cheat anyone, he done his job as prescribed by law.
My point was Quayle coundnt spell, but he was Pence’s source on his constitutional law. I agree with your comment, Pence was a big part of preserving the Republic
Racehorse
09-26-2023, 05:57 PM
My point was Quayle coundnt spell, but he was Pence’s source on his constitutional law. I agree with your comment, Pence was a big part of preserving the Republic
Quayle was a lot smarter than he was given credit for. His biggest issue was inexperience. Had he waited a few years, his story might have ended a lot better.
Donald Trump found liable for wide-scale fraud ahead of a trial in NY attorney general’s $250M lawsuit
https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/26/donald-trump-liable-fraud-charge-letitia-james/
A Manhattan judge found Donald Trump liable for wide-scale fraud Tuesday for lying about his net worth and stripped him of his New York business licenses in a stunning setback for the former president on the eve of state Attorney General Tish James’ sweeping case against his family real estate empire.
In a 35-page order, State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ruled on James’ top fraud claim, finding that Trump, his sons, Eric and Don Jr., and multiple Trump Organization executives lied about the value of such assets as skyscrapers and golf courses for a decade and repeatedly used those fake figures in business transactions.
In another devastating development for Trump, the judge canceled his and his co-defendants New York business certificates and gave them 10 days to find an independent receiver to oversee their dissolution.
The ruling means the upcoming trial starting Monday – previously estimated to run three months – will be dramatically shortened. Engoron is expected to hear final pretrial arguments on Wednesday.
Trump’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Engoron denied their motion to toss the whole case.
The AG ‘s office declined to comment. James’ office began investigating the case more than three years ago.
Trump last month brought proceedings against the judge and James in the First Dept. Court of Appeals seeking to delay the case, which the panel is expected to rule on this week. The AG has described Trump’s petition as a “brazen and meritless” attempt to evade accountability and undermine Engoron.
James’ lawsuit seeks to bar the Trumps from serving as head of New York-licensed businesses or doing business deals and taking out loans for five years.
omahacolt
09-26-2023, 07:13 PM
shocking
Colts And Orioles
09-26-2023, 10:45 PM
Quayle knew enough about the Constitution, telling Pence he couldn't accept fake documents from fake electors.
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Good for him ...... but since you started a thread in regard to Trump warning of the possibility of World War II breaking out, and especially since you facetiously quoted the famous Animal House spoof in regard to the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor, pointing out Dan Quayle's infamous gaffe in regard to spelling is about as appropriate as can be.
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Good for him ...... but since you started a thread in regard to Trump warning of the possibility of World War II breaking out, and especially since you facetiously quoted the famous Animal House spoof in regard to the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor, pointing out Dan Quayle's infamous gaffe in regard to spelling is about as appropriate as can be.
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My apologies.
Donald Trump's lawyers ask judge to clarify fraud ruling’s impact on ex-president's business
NEW YORK (AP) — Does a judge’s fraud finding spell the end of Donald Trump ’s real estate empire? The former president seems to think so. He decried Tuesday’s ruling, which shifts control of some of his companies to a court-appointed receiver, as the “KILL TRUMP” decision.
But the judge himself isn't so sure, telling Trump's lawyers at a hearing Wednesday that he isn't ready to discuss what the ruling — which strips Trump’s entities of their New York-issued business licenses — will mean for his company and the marquee properties bearing his name.
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Judge Arthur Engoron, who will preside over a non-jury trial next week on issues remaining in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit against Trump, acknowledged that the “contours of the case (have) changed significantly," but declined to elaborate on the real-world impacts of his fraud finding.
FILE —Trump Tower is shown in this photo, in New York, March 21, 2023. New York Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, found that Trump and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing loans. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE —Trump Tower is shown in this photo, in New York, March 21, 2023. New York Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, found that Trump and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing loans. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Engoron, in a blistering 35-page opinion Tuesday, found that Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, routinely deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing loans.
Trump’s lawyers said they would appeal Engoron’s decision. In a post Wednesday on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “I have a Deranged, Trump Hating Judge, who RAILROADED this FAKE CASE through a NYS Court at a speed never before seen.”
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Trump lawyer Christopher Kise pressed Engoron to clarify whether his ruling meant the 2024 Republican front-runner would be required simply to close up some corporate entities or if he'd be forced to relinquish some of his most prized assets, as Trump and his allies suggested in their reactions.
FILE - An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. New York Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, found that Trump and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing loans. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
FILE - An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. New York Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, found that Trump and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing loans. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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As he quizzed the judge, Kise noted that some of the Trump entities being stripped of their business licenses own properties such as Trump Tower and an office building at 40 Wall Street, both in Manhattan.
“Is it the court’s position that those assets are now going to be sold or just going to be managed under the direction of the (receiver)?” Kise asked.
Engoron turned to speak with his principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield, sitting by his side at the bench, before returning to the microphone a few minutes later.
“I’m not prepared to issue a ruling right now but we will take that up in various contexts, I’m sure," Engoron said.
Kise also raised concerns about the scope of the ruling, noting that some limited liability corporations controlled by Trump and other defendants were used to purchase private homes, not skyscrapers or other commercial properties.
“Because they’re owned through LLCs at least under a technical reading of the statute or the order, then those entities would be surrendering their (business) certificates even though they technically don’t have any connection to the proceedings?” Kise said.
Engoron appeared open to working out a compromise on that issue, but did not commit to a specific resolution. Instead, he extended the deadline for the sides to suggest potential receivers to 30 days after saying in his ruling that he wanted names in 10 days.
After the hearing, Kise said he was confident they would get answers eventually, once Engoron appoints a receiver and they start to discuss the parameters of the ruling.
Kise suggested that Barbara Jones, the retired federal judge who's been overseeing the Trump Organization’s operations as a court-appointed monitor in the case, also be named as the receiver because she's already familiar with the company’s inner workings.
Engoron’s ruling, in a phase of the case known as summary judgment, resolved the key claim in James’ lawsuit, but several others remain. He is to decide on those claims and James’ request for $250 million in penalties at a trial starting Oct. 2, though Trump’s lawyers have asked an appeals court for a delay. A ruling is expected Thursday.
Kise raised the possibility of canceling the trial altogether since Engoron had already ruled on the biggest issue, asking: “What’s the point?”
Kevin Wallace, senior enforcement counsel in James' office, said the trial would allow them to pursue conspiracy allegations and introduce evidence that could bolster their case for the full monetary penalty, which James' has said was the estimated worth of benefits derived from the alleged fraud.
Engoron reiterated Wednesday his suggestion that the trial might take three months. James’ office named Trump, his two eldest sons and other Trump Organization executives among 57 potential witnesses on a preliminary list filed in the case on Sept. 8.
Among the findings in Engoron's decision Tuesday was that Trump lied about the size of his Manhattan apartment, claiming his three-story Trump Tower penthouse was nearly three times its actual size and valuing it at $327 million.
Engoron, echoing allegations in James’ lawsuit, also found that Trump consistently overvalued his Mar-a-Lago estate, inflating its value on one financial statement by as much as 2,300%.
In a Truth Social post, Trump remained committed to his lofty Mar-a-Lago price tags, arguing that the “MOST SPECTACULAR PROPERTY” in Palm Beach, Florida, could be worth as much as $1.8 billion. That would far exceed even the highest value he listed for Mar-a-Lago on his financial statements, $739 million in 2018.
Engoron, he wrote, “made up this crazy ‘KILL TRUMP’ decision, assigning insanely low values to properties, despite overwhelming evidence.”
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Trump New York fraud trial cleared to start Monday after appeals panel ruling
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/28/trump-new-york-fraud-trial-cleared-to-start-monday-after-appeals-panel-ruling.html
They will call him to testify and he will plead the fifth.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-bid-to-delay-civil-fraud-trial-is-rejected/ar-AA1hpM53?cvid=22e6fc26a08b4a7982ba42de5c81f269&ei=47
A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Donald Trump’s trial on civil-fraud allegations will begin next week as scheduled, handing the former president a loss on his Hail Mary bid to delay the proceedings.
A band of malcontents refuses to support funding bills while accomplishing nothing.
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The old saw is that faculty politics are so bitter because the stakes are so low. The same principle now seems to hold sway in the U.S. House of Representatives, which is on the verge of shutting down the U.S. government in order to achieve—nothing at all.
Funding for the government runs out at the end of the fiscal year at midnight Saturday, and a handful of House backbenchers have refused to vote for bills to keep it open. On Friday they blocked a bill that would have kept it open for a month while also reducing spending, fortifying border security, and creating a bipartisan fiscal commission.
This stopgap bill would have failed in the Senate in any case. And a Senate bill to keep the government open for 47 days with $12 billion for disaster relief and aid for Ukraine also can’t pass the House without Democratic votes. But the GOP malcontents promise to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy if he passes something with Democrats. Bluto and the Faber College boys in “Animal House” couldn’t have come up with a more stupid and futile political gesture as this looming shutdown.
The responsibility lies with the likes of Florida’s Matt Gaetz and Arizona’s Andy Biggs, who seem to want a shutdown as a show of political manhood. They certainly won’t end up cutting any spending, and a shutdown will probably result in more. Republicans control only the House, so a bipartisan agreement is inevitable to fund the government.
But this isn’t really about policy at all. If it were, House Republicans would have passed the 12 annual spending bills that they could then negotiate with the Senate. It’s their only chance to get something past President Biden’s veto pen. Yet until this week the same Republicans calling for “regular order” in appropriations and who slam continuing resolutions were blocking spending bills out of pique.
The real goal of the malcontents seems to be to topple Mr. McCarthy for personal spite. If Mr. McCarthy is forced to seek Democratic House votes, the Democratic price will be even more spending. Then the Gaetz Republicans will call for a motion to vacate the chair, and Mr. McCarthy could lose his speakership.
But then what? What suicidal imperative would cause anyone else to sign up to be Speaker? At this point it’s like volunteering to be the next wife of King Henry VIII. The result is unlikely to be different.
It’s a shame that a handful of holdouts are able to hold the entire GOP House hostage. Most House Republicans came to Washington to check Democratic spending and achieve what else may be possible in divided government. They put a ceiling on spending in the debt-ceiling deal this year, but they risk giving that back with the shutdown stunt.
It’s all so pointlessly stupid, with failure foreordained. Their constituents wanted conservative policies, but the Gaetz Republicans are playing personal games.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman laid the groundwork for immunizations that were rolled out during the pandemic at record-breaking speed.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
The vaccines have been administered more than 13 billion times, saved millions of lives and prevented millions of cases of severe COVID-19, said the Nobel committee.
Karikó, who is at Szeged University in Hungary, and Weissman, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (UPenn), paved the way for the vaccines’ development by finding a way to deliver genetic material called messenger RNA into cells without triggering an unwanted immune response.
They will each receive an equal share of the prize, which totals 11 million Swedish krona (US$1 million).
Karikó is the 13th female scientist to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. She was born in Hungary, and moved to the United States in the 1980s. “Hopefully, this prize will inspire women and immigrants and all of the young ones to persevere and be resilient. That’s what I hope,” she tells Nature.
A new chapter
The COVID-19 vaccines developed by Moderna and the Pfizer–BioNTech collaboration deliver mRNA that instructs cells to create copies of a protein that is found on SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, called the spike protein. This stimulates the body to make antibodies that target the protein, as well as triggering other immune responses.
The tangled history of mRNA vaccines
For decades, mRNA vaccines were considered unfeasible because the injection of mRNA into the body triggered an immune reaction that immediately broke down the mRNA. In the mid-2000s, working at UPenn, Karikó and Weissman demonstrated that swapping one type of molecule in mRNA, called uridine, with a similar one called pseudouridine bypasses the cells’ innate immune defences1.
“I’m delighted to see them recognized,” says Robin Shattock, a vaccine scientist at Imperial College London, who has worked on mRNA vaccines. “Their contribution was really fundamental in the success of the COVID-19 vaccines, and I think will underlie RNA technology for some time to come.”
“They demonstrated that changing the type of the RNA nucleotides within the vaccine altered the way in which cells see it,” said John Tregoning, a vaccine immunologist at Imperial College London, in a press statement for the UK Science Media Centre. “This increased the amount of vaccine protein made following the injection of the RNA, effectively increasing the efficiency of the vaccination: more response for less RNA.”
“This discovery has opened a new chapter for medicine,” said Nobel committee member Qiang Pan Hammarström, an immunologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, at a press conference after the prize announcement. “Investment in long-term basic research is very important.”
Vaccine revolution
There are now mRNA vaccines in development for a number of other diseases, including influenza, HIV, malaria and Zika.
“It’s really like a revolution starting since the COVID pandemic,” says Rein Verbeke, an mRNA vaccine researcher at the Ghent University in Belgium. He adds that Karikó and Weissman’s contributions were essential to the vaccines’ success during the pandemic, and beyond. “Their part was really crucial to the development of this platform.”
A COVID-19 mRNA vaccine containing unmodified RNA, developed by CureVac, based in Tübingen, Germany, was widely seen as a flop after its mediocre performance in clinical trials.
COVID advances win US$3-million Breakthrough prizes
Another key component of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines was the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) that surround the modified RNA and ease its entry into cells. Numerous scientists contributed to the development of LNPs, says Verbeke, and it would have been nice if the Nobel committee had also recognized their contributions to mRNA vaccines. The modification of mRNA and the development of LNPs “were the two major steps that were necessary to have mRNA vaccines working”, he says.
Many people were involved in developing LNPs, however, and it would be difficult to single out any one contribution, says Pierre Meulien, who worked on using mRNA to trigger immune responses in the 1990s at Transgène, a small biotech firm near Strasbourg in France. Karikó and Weissman “really created the key to success of the whole enterprise around mRNA vaccines”, he adds.
The development of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics is still in its infancy, says Shattock. Scientists and biotechnology companies are busy coming up with new applications for mRNA technology, from cancer treatments to next-generation COVID-19 vaccines. Many teams are also working on improved ways of delivering mRNA. “What we see used today is not what’s going to be used in the future,” he says. “We’re at the beginning of an RNA revolution.”
Although COVID-19 jabs put mRNA vaccines on the map, the technology’s impact is likely to reach far and wide, says Karikó. “It is just limitless.”
Lov2fish
10-02-2023, 07:03 PM
Biggest fucking scam ever perpetuated on the American people.
Biggest fucking scam ever perpetuated on the American people.
Yeah what in the world would a bunch of the world renowned scientist know about saving millions of lives.
1. They dont use live virus to create the vaccine.
2. They take a section of the viruses genetic information, the section of RNA that your immune cell recognizes as a foreign body, and starts the process of activating the immune system.
3. As the virus evolves, pharmaceutical companies can counter faster than past methods.
And if you go compare the amount of mRNA vaccine distributed and rate of decline in illnesses, PROVES that it works. More evidence, rate of boosters has declined and covid illness are increasing.
Gee hizz, only the “best” lawyers work for trump
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/experts-mock-trump-whining-it-s-unfair-he-doesn-t-get-jury-after-lawyer-messed-up-the-paperwork/ar-AA1hCVT6?cvid=9c19ce9c839a47e18ef69c625750af85&ei=19
New York judge issues limited gag order after Trump makes disparaging post about court clerk
What kind of person attacks the court clerk in his own trial? Thats Trump, and has always been. Attacking those who cant fight back. So arrogant that that he thinks no one will fight back.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-new-york-371675a2482c1de01f516f29b5a43d33
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Man returns to Wisconsin Capitol with assault rifle and asks to see Gov. Tony Evers, hours after being arrested for bringing gun inside.
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Holy shit
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mypillow-lawyers-say-ceo-mike-lindell-owes-millions-dollars-rcna119058
Why getting eaten by a shark is more likely than winning the $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot
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Colts And Orioles
10-06-2023, 10:33 AM
Why getting eaten by a shark is more likely than winning the $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot.
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The lottery preys on the lower-middle class, and the poor ...... you don't see upper-middle class executives standing on line at the grocery store like idiots, deciding which ticket to buy, and which game to play.
The jack-offs that play actually stand there on line at the courtesy desk, pondering which form that they should throw away the little bit of money that they have.
The Lottery: The Poor Are Playing, and the Wealthy Are Winning
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https://www.focusforhealth.org/the-lottery-the-poor-are-playing-and-the-wealthy-are-winning/
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omahacolt
10-06-2023, 01:51 PM
absolutely love to see it
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/10/06/trump-nuclear-submarine-information-allegations-sot-vpx.cnn
absolutely love to see it
Glad I could help
Lov2fish
10-06-2023, 05:55 PM
Yeah what in the world would a bunch of the world renowned scientist know about saving millions of lives.
1. They dont use live virus to create the vaccine.
2. They take a section of the viruses genetic information, the section of RNA that your immune cell recognizes as a foreign body, and starts the process of activating the immune system.
3. As the virus evolves, pharmaceutical companies can counter faster than past methods.
And if you go compare the amount of mRNA vaccine distributed and rate of decline in illnesses, PROVES that it works. More evidence, rate of boosters has declined and covid illness are increasing.
Yes, lets just act like the people who got sick, or died from the shot didn't matter, or all the scientist who said the shot didn't work and would never work. Lets not look at how the CDC has walked back its take on the shot. Also, stop calling it a vaccine. Its not.
Yes, lets just act like the people who got sick, or died from the shot didn't matter, or all the scientist who said the shot didn't work and would never work. Lets not look at how the CDC has walked back its take on the shot. Also, stop calling it a vaccine. Its not.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
I just got my covid and flu shot today. I feel fine. The above link is the CDC report.
Soon, the flu shot will be mRNA vaccine. They work. My kids and my grand kids never got mumps measles. We have practically wiped those virus off the planet.
Data is on my side. I got covid after first booster. I had a cough for a day, and then felt normal. My wife was sick for two days, then recovered. My grand boys both have Asthma, and I know the vaccine prevented them from getting very sick.
Look at the death rate in India before vaccination and after.
omahacolt
10-07-2023, 12:35 PM
of course he is
and republicans couldn't care less
https://newsone.com/playlist/famous-anti-vaxxers-who-have-died-from-covid-19/item/12
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-the-end-of-the-mississippi-a-saltwater-wedge-overwhelms-a-community/ar-AA1hQmTP?cvid=551daf5fe7c743ea8614e5ed914c4443&ei=12
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/world/cayo-margarita-snail-florida-keys-jimmy-buffett-scn/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html
Israel Said to Be Source of Secret Intelligence Trump Gave to Russians
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President Trump escorting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel into the White House in February.
President Trump escorting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel into the White House in February.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
By Adam Goldman, Eric Schmitt and Peter Baker
May 16, 2017
WASHINGTON — The classified intelligence that President Trump disclosed in a meeting last week with Russian officials at the White House was provided by Israel, according to a current and a former American official familiar with how the United States obtained the information. The revelation adds a potential diplomatic complication to an episode that has renewed questions about how the White House handles sensitive intelligence.
Israel is one of the United States’ most important allies and runs one of the most active espionage networks in the Middle East. Mr. Trump’s boasting about some of Israel’s most sensitive information to the Russians could damage the relationship between the two countries and raises the possibility that the information could be passed to Iran, Russia’s close ally and Israel’s main threat in the region.
Israeli officials would not confirm that they were the source of the information that Mr. Trump shared, which was about an Islamic State plot. In a statement emailed to The New York Times, Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, reaffirmed that the two countries would maintain a close counterterrorism relationship.
“Israel has full confidence in our intelligence-sharing relationship with the United States and looks forward to deepening that relationship in the years ahead under President Trump,” Mr. Dermer said.
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Mr. Trump said on Twitter that he had an “absolute right” to share information in the interest of fighting terrorism and called his meeting with the Russians “very, very successful” in a brief appearance later at the White House.
On Capitol Hill, reaction split along party lines, but even many Republicans indicated that they wanted the White House to show more discipline.
“There’s some alignments that need to take place over there, and I think they’re fully aware of that,” said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. “Just the decision-making processes and everybody being on the same page.”
In the meeting last week, Mr. Trump told Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, details about the Islamic State plot, including the city in Syria where the ally learned the information, the current official said. At least some of the details that the United States has about the Islamic State plot came from the Israelis, said the officials, who were not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
It was not clear whether the president or the other Americans in the meeting were aware of the sensitivity of what was shared. Only afterward, when notes on the discussion were circulated among National Security Council officials, was the information flagged as too sensitive to be shared, even among many American officials, the officials said.
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Intelligence officials worried that Mr. Trump provided enough details to effectively expose the source of the information and the manner in which it had been collected.
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Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, defended Mr. Trump’s move, saying the president made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tell the Russians what he knew and did not expose the source of the intelligence because he was not told where it came from.
Moreover, General McMaster said that by discussing the city where the information originated, the president had not given away secrets. “It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting in terms of a source of concern,” he said. “And it had all to do with operations that are already ongoing, had been made public for months.”
Two senior United States military officials said that Mr. Trump’s disclosures seemed to align with an increasing concern that militants responsible for such attacks were slipping out of Raqqa, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital, and taking refuge in other cities under their control, such as Deir al-Zour and Mayadeen.
These officials said they had no specific knowledge of what Mr. Trump told the two senior Russian diplomats in the Oval Office last week, or how that related to a likely decision expected soon by the Homeland Security Department to expand its ban on carrying portable electronics. But the officials said the timing of the events seemed hardly a coincidence.
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American and British authorities in March barred passengers from airports in 10 predominantly Muslim countries from carrying laptop computers, iPads and other devices larger than a cellphone aboard inbound flights to the United States after intelligence analysts concluded that the Islamic State was developing a type of bomb hidden in batteries. Homeland Security officials are considering whether to broaden the ban to include airports in Europe and possibly other places, American security officials said Tuesday.
Mr. Trump’s disclosure was also likely to fuel questions about the president’s relationship with Moscow at the same time that the F.B.I. and congressional committees are investigating whether his associates cooperated with Russian meddling in last year’s election. Mr. Trump has repeatedly dismissed such suspicions as false stories spread by Democrats to explain their election defeat, but his friendly approach toward President Vladimir V. Putin in spite of Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine and other actions has stirred controversy.
The timing of the episode also threatened to overshadow Mr. Trump’s first trip abroad as president. He is scheduled to leave on Friday for Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy and Belgium.
In Israel, he was already likely to contend with Israeli officials rattled by the administration’s refusal to say outright that the Western Wall, one of the holiest prayer sites in Judaism, lies in Israel, and is not subject to territorial claims by the Palestinians. The wall is in Jerusalem — part of what is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary — and is considered one of the holiest sites in Islam. Both the Israelis and Palestinians claim the city as their capital.
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Now, the Americans and Israelis will have to contend with the serious breach of espionage etiquette. Israel had previously urged the United States to be careful about the handling of the intelligence that Mr. Trump discussed, the officials said.
Former officials said it was not uncommon for presidents to unintentionally say too much in meetings, and they said that in administrations from both parties, staff members typically established bright lines for their bosses to avoid crossing before such meetings.
“The Russians have the widest intelligence collection mechanism in the world outside of our own,” said John Sipher, a 28-year veteran of the C.I.A. who served in Moscow in the 1990s and later ran the agency’s Russia program for three years. “They can put together a good picture with just a few details. They can marry President Trump’s comments with their own intelligence, and intelligence from their allies. They can also deploy additional resources to find out details.”
Nonetheless, General McMaster said he was not concerned that information sharing among partner countries might stop.
“What the president discussed with the foreign minister was wholly appropriate to that conversation and is consistent with the routine sharing of information between the president and any leaders with whom he’s engaged,” General McMaster said at a White House briefing, seeking to play down the sensitivity of the information that Mr. Trump disclosed.
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Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, declined to tell reporters whether the White House had reached out to the ally that provided the sensitive intelligence.
But General McMaster appeared to acknowledge that Thomas P. Bossert, the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and counterterrorism, had called the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency after the meeting with the Russian officials. Other officials have said that the spy agencies were contacted to help contain the damage from the leak to the Russians.
General McMaster would not confirm that Mr. Bossert made the calls but suggested that if he did, he was acting “maybe from an overabundance of caution.”
The episode could have far-reaching consequences, Democrats warned. Any country that shares intelligence with American officials “could decide it can’t trust the United States with information, or worse, that it can’t trust the president of the United States with information,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
“I have to hope that someone will counsel the president about just what it means to protect closely held information and why this is so dangerous, ultimately, to our national security,” Mr. Schiff said at a policy conference in Washington sponsored by the Center for American Progress, a liberal group.
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Russia dismissed the reports. A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry denied that Mr. Trump had given classified information to Russian officials, and she denigrated American news reports of the disclosure as “fake.”
Sharing the United States’ own intelligence with Russia, much less information from a foreign ally, has long been a contentious issues in American national security circles. In fact, many Republicans strenuously objected last year when the Obama administration proposed sharing limited intelligence about Syria with Russia.
One of the Republicans was Mike Pompeo, the former congressman from Kansas who now runs the C.I.A. In an appearance last year on a podcast hosted by Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan administration official now best known for his anti-Muslim views, Mr. Pompeo said sharing intelligence with the Russians was a “dumb idea.”
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A sign the other Arab nations do not support Hamas
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Its all about him.
Trump criticizes Netanyahu over Hamas attack, calls Hezbollah 'smart'
Israel, White House and Republican opponents condemn former president's comments
Thomson Reuters · Posted: Oct 12, 2023 5:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 12
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Donald Trump delivered remarks to supporters at the Club 47 USA event in West Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, during which the former U.S. president criticized Israeli President Bejamin Netanyahu and called Hezbollah 'smart.' (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Israel and the White House on Thursday condemned remarks by former U.S. president Donald Trump in which he praised the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a deadly attack by Palestinian Hamas militants.
Trump is the current frontrunner to become the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee.
In a speech in Florida Wednesday, he called the Lebanese Hezbollah group, a sworn enemy of Israel, "very smart," and accused Netanyahu of being "not prepared" for the Hamas attack, which also killed 22 Americans.
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Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said Trump's comments to supporters and in a television interview on Wednesday night showed he could not be relied on.
It is "shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel's fighters and its citizens," Karhi told Israel's Channel 13.
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates called Trump's comments "dangerous and unhinged."
"It's completely lost on us why any American would ever praise an Iran-backed terrorist organization as 'smart,' " Bates said.
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Republican opponents critical
Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden has condemned the Hamas attack as "an act of sheer evil" and declared his unwavering support for Israel.
"This is a time for all of us to stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel against 'unadulterated evil,'" Bates said on Thursday. "That's what the president is doing."
Several of Trump's opponents in the Republican contest also criticized the former president.
"It is absurd that anyone, much less someone running for President, would choose now to attack our friend and ally, Israel, much less praise Hezbollah terrorists as 'very smart,' " Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote on X, formerly called Twitter.
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Asa Hutchinson, a former Arkansas governor and a Republican 2024 candidate, said on X that Trump was "out of his mind if he thinks that any candidate for President of the United States should praise the terrorists attacking one of our most important allies."
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Trump meets with Netanyahu in the Oval Office in January 2020. While the two initially got along, their relationship soured when Netanyahu called to congratulate Joe Biden on winning the 2020 presidential election. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Trump-Netanyahu relationship soured
Trump and Netanyahu had a close relationship during Trump's time as president, though cracks have appeared in their once ironclad rapport. Trump was annoyed when Netanyahu called to congratulate Biden on winning the 2020 presidential election against Trump, an election Trump still calls fraudulent.
Speaking to supporters in West Palm Beach, Trump said he was disclosing for the first time that Israel decided at the last minute not to take part in the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, killed in Iraq in a drone strike on Jan. 3, 2020, which was ordered by Trump.
Trump said Israel relayed to the United States on the night before the operation that it had decided not to participate. He said Israel officials did not explain why they came to that decision.
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"I'll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing," Trump said, using Netanyahu's nickname.
Israel has vowed to annihilate the Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip, in retribution for the deadliest militant attack on civilians in Israeli history, when hundreds of gunmen crossed the barrier and rampaged through towns on Saturday.
Israeli officials say the death toll inside Israel has risen to more than 1,300. Most were civilians gunned down in their homes, on the streets or at a dance party. Scores of Israeli and foreign hostages, including Americans, were taken back to Gaza; Israel says it has identified 97 of them.
Gaza authorities said more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed and more than 6,000 have been wounded in retaliatory airstrikes by Israel.
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