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Up First briefing: Climate worsens heat waves; Israel protests; Emmett Till monument
发布日期:2024-12-19 07:07:48
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Climate change is not only making heat waves more common — it's also making them hotter, according to a new study from a team of international researchers from the World Weather Attribution.

Thousands of Israel's military reservists are refusing to serve, doctors are on strike, and protesters hit the streets last night after the Israeli government passed a controversial overhaul of its judicial branch. Under the new law, Israel's Supreme Court can no longer block the hiring and firing of officials if they find it unreasonable. The law was passed despite President Biden's urging against it.

President Biden is expected to designate three sites as a national monument for Emmett Till today. Two sites are in Mississippi, where Till was abducted, tortured, and killed in 1955 at 14 years old. Today would have been his 82nd birthday. A third site in Illinois will honor his mother, who insisted on an open casket funeral for her son to show the brutality of the Jim Crow South.

The DOJ has sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over his refusal to remove a stretch of buoys placed in the Rio Grande between Mexico and Texas to hinder border crossings. Abbott missed yesterday's deadline to remove the buoys. The DOJ says Abbott's efforts to hinder migrants were "unlawful" and presented "humanitarian concerns."

Deep dive

The Supreme Court may have ended race-based affirmative action, but a different kind of bias in college admissions still exists – and it favors rich kids.

Enlighten me

Enlighten Me is a special series with NPR's Rachel Martin on in-depth conversations about the human condition.

Editor's note: This conversation contains mentions of grief and suicide. If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 9-8-8 or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

Poet, author and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib lost his mom when he was 12 years old. Over the years, he's lost many friends by suicide or drug overdoses. Raised Muslim, he tells Rachel Martin that his spiritual identity and belief in the afterlife are "inextricably linked to loss." Abdurraqib discusses how grief can "make a home within us" and how music can help us process loss.

3 things to know before you go

  1. At 16 years old, New Jersey teen Casey Phair is the youngest player ever to compete in the World Cup. Only she's not playing for America — she's on the South Korean team.
  2. Carlee Russell, who went missing for two days in Alabama after telling 911 that she saw a stranded toddler, has admitted she wasn't kidnapped and didn't see a child wandering the highway.
  3. Check your pantries if you shop at Trader Joe's. The company is recalling two types of cookies because they could contain rocks.
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