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Six states have now promised to ship their Nationwide Guard troops to Washington, D.C., which can lead to over 1,100 new troopers patrolling the streets. The entire states to this point have Republican governors: Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ohio. The deployment follows President Trump’s declaration that there’s a “crime emergency” within the nation’s capital.
Members of the Nationwide Guard patrol close to the Washington Monument on Saturday.
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- 🎧 NPR’s Meg Anderson tells Up First that after final 12 months’s homicide charges, she discovered that most of the states sending troops have cities with greater crime counts than the capital. In Jackson, Miss., the homicide charge is 4 occasions greater than that of Washington, and in Memphis, it’s practically triple. Washington nonetheless has a better violent crime charge than another main cities, together with New York Metropolis, however the numbers are falling. Insha Rahman, with the advocacy group the Vera Institute of Justice, says the president’s enlisting of governors to ship troops signals a political power grab, and it isn’t about making cities safer.
European leaders have been urgently working to determine the subsequent steps to ending Russia’s practically four-year struggle in Ukraine following their assembly on the White Home on Monday. Trump has dominated out sending U.S. troops to hitch a European-led power that will guard towards one other potential Russian invasion. Lower than 24 hours after the conferences with Trump, the European Union leaders who have been current have been in digital periods debriefing their counterparts.
- 🎧 The urgency reveals how high-stakes that is for Europe, says reporter Teri Schultz. Trump has pledged that the U.S. will assist with safety ensures for Ukraine, however the president has made it clear he desires Europe to take the lead. European Council President António Costa says there’s a tough highway forward, however the U.S.’s assist has introduced reassurance. A big unanswered query is how keen Europeans are to ship their individuals to Ukraine as a result of it’s unclear whether or not the mission could be to observe, reinforce or defend a ceasefire. These phrases all imply very various things and carry different levels of danger for these deployed.
Texas lawmakers are anticipated to vote in favor of redrawing the state’s congressional map at this time. The invoice would then head to the Senate tomorrow after which to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is anticipated to signal it. Texas Democrats left the state for a few weeks to decelerate this course of. Upon their return, Texas Republican Home Speaker Dustin Burrows ordered Democrats to signal a paper pledging they’d present up at this time in the event that they needed to depart the constructing after work earlier this week.
- 🎧 The brand new map, which might carry 5 new GOP seats, might make all of the distinction for Republicans, who at the moment maintain the Home by just a few seats, Blaise Gainey of The Texas Newsroom says. Democrats say the brand new map weakens Black and Latino votes in unlawful methods, they usually will challenge it in court. California Democrats additionally plan to vote this week on a map that will give an edge to 5 extra Democrats within the Home subsequent 12 months. In California, the regulation requires an unbiased fee to do the redistricting, however the state is in search of voters’ approval in a particular election in November.
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There is a rising consensus amongst researchers on what number of each day steps are wanted to enhance well being.
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Residing Higher is a special series about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.
Counting steps is the principle means many individuals observe their each day exercise — or lack of it. Many Individuals spend nine-plus hours sitting day by day and will in all probability stand to take just a few extra steps. However what number of each day steps do it is advisable enhance your well being? New analysis, printed in The Lancet Public Well being, suggests 7,000 is an effective goal, and the extra you progress, the much less doubtless you’re to die from heart problems and different illnesses. Nonetheless, the proof does not low cost the worth of getting greater than that many steps per day. Here is what else the research found:
- 🚶♀️ The extensively cited goal of 10,000 steps is just not rooted in strong science; as a substitute, it was popularized by a Japanese promotional marketing campaign.
- 🚶♀️ The examine discovered that taking 7,000 steps a day diminished the possibility of creating Kind 2 diabetes by 14%, heart problems by 25%, signs of melancholy by 22% and dementia by 38%.
- 🚶♀️ The examine was unable to attract any definitive conclusions about whether or not the pace you are taking your steps makes a distinction. There are numerous methods to measure depth and noticed distinctions might merely mirror higher general health and bodily operate.
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Members of Calling All Brothers welcome the scholars of Dr. Martin Luther King Faculty of Social Justice and Breakthrough Magnet Faculty to their first day of faculty in Hartford on August 17, 2024.
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