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‘It is devastating’: unprecedented floods in US strain small businesses

Thursday, 18 July 2024 19:12

Alejandra Palma lives in perpetual fear of the next storm.

“We are constantly checking the weather,” said Palma, who co-owns Root Hill Cafe in Brooklyn’s low-lying Gowanus neighborhood. “If we see that there’s a hurricane in Florida, it’s like, oh my God, please let it not come here.”

Last September, when record rain hit New York, it flooded her small businesses, damaging walls and floors already weakened from previous flooding and causing gasoline from a nearby construction site to leak into her basement. It took almost two days to clean up and reopen the shop.

Last year wasn’t entirely a fluke: Palma said that each year she loses about five business days to flooding and estimates that each day Root Hill is closed, it costs her business about $3,500 in lost sales and employee pay.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon, US civil rights activist and singer, dies aged 81

Thursday, 18 July 2024 16:41

Bernice Johnson Reagon, an American civil rights activist who used her stirring alto and lyrics to fight racism, died on Tuesday at age 81, her daughter said on Wednesday.

“As a scholar, singer, composer, organizer and activist, Dr Reagon spent over half a century speaking out against racism and systemic inequities in the US and globally,” said daughter Toshi Reagon, who like her mother is a musician and activist, in announcing her death on Facebook.

No cause of death was given.

Born in 1942 in Dougherty county, Georgia, she became active in the civil rights movement at Georgia’s Albany State College, a historically Black institution that now is a university, according to a biography on her website.

Reagon was a member of the original Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers, formed in 1962. The Freedom Singers performed to raise money for SNCC projects and to rally activists.

In an online SNCC archive, Reagon is quoted describing her early work. At one of the first large meetings she helped organize in Albany, she was asked to lead a song and started an African American spiritual: “Over my head, I see Trouble in the Air.” She replaced “trouble” with “freedom,” and said that “by the second line everyone was singing”.

In 1973 she formed Sweet Honey in the Rock, an a cappella group of African American women. Among the best-known of the Johnson compositions the group performed was Ella’s Song, with its driving refrain – “we who believe in freedom cannot rest, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes” – and other lines inspired by the speeches of another pioneering civil rights figure, Ella Baker. Ella’s Song can still be heard at demonstrations today.

She also was a music scholar who studied the African American spiritual. She was professor emeritus of history at American University and curator emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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Heat Wave Hits Europe: Greece Shuts Acropolis, 2 Firefighters Killed In Italy

Thursday, 18 July 2024 16:35

A heat wave across southern Europe forced authorities in Greece to close the Acropolis Wednesday for several hours and two firefighters died while putting out a fire in the Basilicata region in southern Italy, Italian authorities said.

Italy added Palermo, Sicily, to the list of 13 cities in the country with a severe heat warning. Elderly people in the city of Verona were urged to stay indoors, while sprinklers were set up to cool passersby.

Greece’s Culture Ministry ordered the closure of the Acropolis — the country’s biggest cultural attraction — from midday for five hours.

Tourists hoping to visit the Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis queued early in the morning to beat the worst of the heat, while the Red Cross handed chilled bottled water and information fliers to those waiting in line.

“We got it done and got out quick, and now we’re going to some air conditions and some more libation and enjoy the day,” said Toby Dunlap, who was visiting from Pennsylvania and had just toured the Acropolis. “But it’s hot up there, it really is. If you don’t come prepared, you’re going to sweat.”

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Far-Right Israeli Minister Visits Jerusalem Holy Site, Threatening Gaza Cease-Fire Talks

Thursday, 18 July 2024 16:31

Israel’s far-right national security minister visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday, threatening to disrupt Gaza cease-fire talks.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist settler leader, said he had gone up to the contested Jerusalem hilltop compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray for the return of the hostages “but without a reckless deal, without surrendering.”

The move threatens to disrupt sensitive talks aimed at reaching a cease-fire in the 9-month-old Israel-Hamas war. Israeli negotiators landed in Cairo on Wednesday to continue talks.

He Went To A White Supremacist Conference. He Just Spoke At The RNC.

Thursday, 18 July 2024 16:25

On Wednesday evening, Thomas Homan, who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant regime as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stepped onto the main stage of the Republican National Convention and described immigrants as an existential threat to America.

“This isn’t mismanagement,” Homan said of President Joe Biden’s border polices. “This isn’t incompetence. This is by design. It’s a choice. This is national suicide!”

Trump recently promised to rehire Homan if he retakes the White House — something Homan described as inevitable.

“I have a message for the millions of illegal aliens who Joe Biden allowed to enter the country in violation of federal law,” Homan said. “Start packing, because you’re going home!”

The crowd roared.

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Bob Newhart, sitcom star and deadpan comedy legend, dies at 94

Thursday, 18 July 2024 16:16

Bob Newhart dies at 94 No one ever listened funnier than Bob Newhart.

Any acting coach will tell you, of course, that an ability to really, fully listen to what another actor is saying is one of the trade’s essential tools. It’s one thing to do so when someone is actually speaking to you — but to appear to listen when nothing is being said? Newhart, who died Thursday at 94, turned that into an art.

The droll standup comedian and actor died at home in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses, his longtime publicist Jerry Digney announced.

Obviously, we cherished his delivery of a line as well: the pauses, the stutters, the sudden bursts of exasperation as this gifted man — who always occupied the sane, quiet center — finally got pushed over the edge. But it was his mastery of a slow-burn silence that made him a TV star, one of the few to have his name in the title of two beloved, classic and critically acclaimed CBS sitcom hits: "The Bob Newhart Show" in the 1970s and, a few years later, "Newhart."

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In a reversal, board in key Nevada swing county certifies election

Thursday, 18 July 2024 16:06

Washoe commissioners ratify election In an abrupt reversal, a majority of commissioners in the Reno, Nevada area voted to certify the results of two local elections, one week after three Republicans on the five-member board blocked the certification.

Two of the Washoe County Commission members who voted against certification last week, Clara Andriola and Michael Clark, changed their votes, saying they learned that the law required a “yes” vote. The third, Commissioner Jeanne Herman, held her ground.

The vote is a test run for November, when the same commission will be responsible for certifying the results of the presidential, statewide and local races. Home to Reno, Washoe County is Nevada's second largest after Clark County around Las Vegas. The closely divided swing county may decide who wins elections in the battleground state.

Since 2020, local officials all over the country have attempted to block certification of election results they disagreed with, including in swing states like Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. It’s less common for a majority of a board to vote against certifying a vote.

Russian anger builds as Greece prepares a military deal with Ukraine

Wednesday, 17 July 2024 22:35

Russian anger at Greece for deal with Ukraine

On March 6, Russia fired a missile into the Ukrainian port of Odesa that exploded about 400 metres (1,300ft) from where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preparing to tour the city with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

“As we were getting into our cars, we heard a large explosion,” Mitsotakis later told reporters. “We were all concerned, especially if you consider that we were in an open space with no cover. It was quite savage.”

Many Western leaders have visited Zelenskyy, but this was the only occasion when there was a plausible threat to their life and safety. Analysts in Athens do not believe it was an accident.

“It was a message to Greece, a message to the Russophilic portion of Greek society,” said Konstantinos Filis, a professor of international relations who directs the Institute of Global Affairs at the American College of Greece.

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US military ends Gaza floating pier mission to bring aid to Palestinians by sea

Wednesday, 17 July 2024 22:30

US military removes pier The U.S. military announced on Wednesday that its mission to install and operate a temporary, floating pier off the coast of Gaza was complete, formally ending an extraordinary but troubled effort to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

The pier, announced by President Joe Biden during a televised address to Congress in March, was a massive endeavor that took about 1,000 U.S. forces to execute. Aid began flowing via the pier to Gaza in May, an operation aimed at helping avert famine after months of war between Israel and Hamas.

But bad weather and distribution challenges inside Gaza limited the effectiveness of what the U.S. military says was its biggest aid delivery effort ever in the Middle East. The pier was only operational for about 20 days.

"The maritime surge mission involving the pier is complete. So there's no more need to use the pier," Navy Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, told a news briefing.

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