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Here’s what you want to know at the end of the day.
By Remy Tumin and Merrill D. Oliver
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Good night. Here’s the one.
1. La west coast wildfire crisis is on an astonishing scale as tens of thousands more people have to evacuate.
The fires have fed on more than 3 million acres in California, nearly a million acres in Oregon and destroyed entire towns in Washington. The mayor of Portland has declared a state of emergency due to fires coming in his suburb. Here’s the last one.
At least 15 other people have died in the fires, and more deaths are expected as crews search for burned houses. Oregon Governor Kate Brown said dozens of others had been reported missing. The director of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management said the state “is preparing for a fatal mass turn of fate based on what we know and the number of structures that have been lost. “
The firefighting effort is compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, incorrect online information and the desire of more firefighters. Here we map the fires and have tips on how to do it.
If climate change was a summary perception a decade ago, it is now too genuine for Californians fleeing the worst year of fires ever recorded. As the state governor Gavin Newsom said, “California is America on the move. “
2. Another 11 September.
It’s been 19 years since passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and crashed into a box in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 more people died, adding 2,700 in New York.
The two presidential contenders suspended their enconado political combat for a day to pay tribute. President Trump made bleak comments in Shanksville; Joe Biden left at 0 before visiting Shanksville.
Mourners near the September 11 memorial in Lower Manhattan wore masks, and intimate, tearful hugs from years beyond were replaced by clumsily choreographed fist punches. But as they commemorate a tragedy beyond, New Yorkers still face an even more fatal crisis. That’s over.
Emboldened through President Trump’s message of public order, militias force them before Election Day by enlisting army veterans.
The vast majority of the country’s 20 million veterans do not enroll in the militias, however, national terrorism experts and law enforcement analysts estimate that veterans and active members of the military can now represent at least 25% of the militia force.
Many high-profile episodes of defense force teams, a foiled plan to incite violence at a recent protest in Las Vegas and violence at a 2017 protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, worried veterans.
4. La Florida law restricting the vote of criminals is constitutional, a federal appeals court has ruled on a revocation.
The law requires other people with serious felony convictions to pay fines and court fees before they can register to vote. The ruling comes 4 months after a federal ruling ruled that the law, which affects approximately 10% of adults of the state, amounted to an unconstitutional electoral tax. Above, the Miami-Dade County Elections Department in August.
The Florida electorate finalized state statutes in 2018 to end the deprivation of the voting rights of others convicted of crimes, murder and sexual offences. Because Florida is still close to the presidential election, any measure to restrict access to the polls can gain advantages for Republicans in November. the deadline to register is October 5.
5. The other who will kill the coronavirus: hunger.
Faced with the global pandemic, millions of people are experiencing a growing crisis in how to meet their fundamental food needs. The number of people facing life-threatening degrees of lack of food confidence is expected to double this year to 265 million.
The largest number of vulnerable communities is concentrated in South Asia and Africa. “We hear our young men scream hungry, but there’s nothing we can do,” an Afghan mother said. Upstairs, a malnourished child at Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul.
What, like a network of coronavirus infections among academics, is now a flood: last week, U. S. schools have been able to do so. But it’s not the first time They recorded more than 36,000 more cases, according to a Times poll.
This brings total campus infections to 88,000 since the start of the pandemic. Public fitness experts say schools and universities, such as New York State University in Oneonta above, have access points, as do hospitals, nursing homes, and packaging factories. meat earlier in the year.
Even the most comprehensive approaches to containing the virus can fail. An oversight at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: his experts speculated that academics would avoid the holidays after receiving a positive result.
7. Bahrain will normalize relations with Israel, a sign of a change in the dynamics that bring Arab nations closer to Israel.
President Trump announced the news on Twitter, issued a joint statement with Bahrain and Israel, and called the resolution a “historic breakthrough for greater peace in the Middle East. “Bahrain is of strategic importance to Washington as host of the United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet. Kushner, upstairs with Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, helped negotiate the deal.
The kingdom of the Persian Gulf Islands is the time in a month to brazenly embrace Israel, after the United Arab Emirates. This resolution further isolates the Palestinians and positions Trump as a campaign peacemaker.
8. What does the long tour of the theater look like?
Six months after the start of the pandemic, Broadway remains in the dark and thousands of artists are out of work. York, and by extension in the rest of the country?
Some of our critics’ concepts: opening the canon of classics, adopting streaming to build the audience, do it and make it fun. We also asked theatre personalities to share their suggestions. Above, Zoom’s reading “And So We Came Forth”.
9. Tan France has a lot to do with dressing.
The “Queer Eye” taste guru, who follows an organization of experts as “heroes” with undeniable life tips and home improvements, has turned his fame into many occasions: a memory, a contest, a series of comedians on the Internet and now a MasterClass. where you can also be informed of everything you’ve always wanted to know about capsule wardrobes.
He says it’s not about money. ” I accepted this task because I had an agenda. I needed other people to see my other people — Muslims, gays, Pakistanis, immigrants — like other genuine people, not just characters from a TV show,” he said.
Fashion Month begins on Sunday, with New York Fashion Week. Here’s an advisor for the season change.
10. And finally, six memoirs of words.
Since 2006, Larry Smith has challenged others to describe their lives in six words, his edition of the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway: “Toselling: Baby Shoes, Never Used. “
In recent months, he has asked adults and young people across the country to use the form to make sense of this moment in history. Here are some (you can read more here):
“He’s not a thief, a masked runner. “
“Every day is a day for the hair. “
“Lips kissed through the sun? Not kissed this year.
“That’s the way time is. “
“I dream of: warmth, members, crowds, concerts. “
Have a poetic weekend.
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