Daily Dump with Jasmine Sherman

https://apnews.com/article/libya-floods-derna-storm-daniel-39081eb32e4fd426119f4b486c9c2ade

Articles Mentioned:

1. Earthquake damages centuries-old sites in Marrakech but spares modern city

(https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/africa/mosque-earthquake-damage-marrakech-intl/index.html)

2. Explosion at Archer Daniels Midland facility in Illinois injures employees

(https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/explosion-archer-daniels-midland-facility-illinois-injures-employees-103078181)

3. Number of billion-dollar weather disasters in US blows through annual record with four months left in the year

(https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/us/billion-dollar-weather-climate-disasters-noaa/index.html)

4. 61 indicted on racketeering charges in Georgia in Stop Cop City movement

(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/61-indicted-racketeering-charges-georgia-stop-cop-city-movement-rcna103561)

5. Climate change made record-setting Canada wildfires likelier, scientists say

(https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/climate-change-made-record-setting-canada-wildfires-likely-scientists-rcna101219)

6. Florida teachers face stiffer sanctions over classroom restrictions

(https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/09/11/florida-teachers-face-stiffer-sanctions-over-classroom-restrictions/)

7. NICKELBACK Is Done With The Joke Of People Not Liking Them, Thank You Very Much

(https://metalinjection.net/news/nickelback-is-done-with-the-joke-of-people-not-liking-them-thank-you-very-much)

8. Moment fast-moving rivers of wine floods village after 2.2million litre tanks burst

(https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/moment-fast-moving-rivers-wine-30915132)

9. A divided Chile marks 50 years since Pinochet's bloody military coup

(https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/divided-chile-marks-50-years-since-pinochets-bloody-military-coup-2023-09-11/)

10. Why the United Auto Workers union is poised to strike major US car makers this week

(https://apnews.com/article/auto-workers-general-motors-stellantis-ford-strike-0c41761e174236151a29cc698f5dc7d5)

11. Americans have never been wealthier

(https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/economy/household-wealth-economy-stocks/index.html)

12. CHART OF THE DAY: The US is importing more goods from Mexico than China for the first time since 2003

(https://finance.yahoo.com/m/3488b0b3-c5b7-3888-aaa5-65df4916f1ee/chart-of-the-day%3A-the-us-is.html?guccounter=1)

13. Walmart Pays Less for Some New Hires

(https://progressivegrocer.com/walmart-pays-less-some-new-hires)

Articles Mentioned:

Danelo Cavalcante update: New video shows prison escape as Pennsylvania police track more sightings

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/daniel-cavalcante-update-chester-county-pa-b2405628.html

Tropical Storm Lee is expected to rapidly intensify into an ‘extremely dangerous’ hurricane in the Atlantic by this weekend

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/weather/atlantic-tropical-storm-hurricane-season-climate/index.html

Blinken makes surprise trip to Kyiv as fatal blast hits Donetsk region

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/06/ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-news-on-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html

All signs point to a rise in Covid

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/signs-point-rise-covid-rcna103439

Family of woman killed in Maui fire sues state and county, alleging negligence

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-woman-killed-maui-fire-sues-state-county-alleging-negligence-rcna103471

Stephen King’s Played ‘Mambo No. 5’ So Often That His Wife Said She Was Going To ‘F*cking Leave’ Him

https://uproxx.com/movies/stephen-king-mambo-no-5-wife-nearly-left-him/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Earth just had its hottest summer on record, U.N. says, warning "climate breakdown has begun"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hottest-summer-on-record-2023-un-says-climate-change-global-warming-data/

Mother sues Snohomish County over son’s 2020 jail death

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/mother-sues-snohomish-county-over-sons-2020-jail-death/

Tesla launches accessory so dumb, Elon Musk thought it wasn’t real

https://electrek.co/2023/09/06/tesla-launches-accessory-dumb-elon-musk-thought-it-wasnt-real/ "capitalism breeds innovation"

Why Communal Living Might Be the Answer

https://lifehacker.com/why-communal-living-might-be-the-answer-1850804509

‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861047/car-user-privacy-report-mozilla-foundation-data-collection

Biden blocks oil drilling on 10M acres in Alaska, including leases Trump sold

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/biden-to-cancel-trumps-oil-drilling-leases-in-alaskan-nature-refuge-00114243

The radical new experiments that hint at plant consciousness

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534012-800-the-radical-new-experiments-that-hint-at-plant-consciousness/

Americans are feeling the worst about their money since the Great Recession

https://fortune.com/2023/02/08/americans-feeling-financially-worse-since-great-recession/

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Burning Man attendees make a mass exodus after a dramatic weekend that left thousands stuck in the Nevada desert

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/us/burning-man-storms-shelter-exodus-tuesday/index.html

Researchers applaud health officials’ push to ease cannabis restrictions

https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-applaud-hhs-push-ease-marijuana-restrictions

McConnell showed 'no evidence' of a seizure disorder or stroke, Capitol doctor says

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-showed-no-evidence-seizure-disorder-stroke-capitol-doctor-sa-rcna103429

Federal Court Again Strikes Down Alabama’s Congressional Map

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/politics/alabama-congressional-map.html

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22-year prison sentence, longest yet from Jan. 6 riot

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/05/proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-set-to-be-sentenced-for-role-in-jan-6-riot.html

Trump vows to end ‘madness’ of EV push

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4187159-trump-vows-to-end-madness-of-ev-push/

Kim Jong Un may soon meet with Putin in Russia for arms talks, U.S. says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kim-jong-un-putin-talks-russia-north-korea-weapons-ukraine-rcna103329

Pier collapses into lake on college campus, 1 hospitalized, 20 others injured

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pier-collapses-lake-wisconsin-college-campus-1-hospitalized-102928459

Massachusetts teen dies after eating spicy tortilla chip

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/05/massachusetts-teen-dies-spicy-tortilla-chip-pacqui

Federal court strikes down Alabama congressional map after legislature snubbed Supreme Court

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/politics/alabama-congressional-district/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1FhXXxPN4Oc9l2fIf110doZJwhoJpP8z-jf1dMPw91H4w5r0Gj0jrZB-0

USA to provide Taiwan with $80m in defence hardware

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/usa-to-provide-taiwan-with-80m-in-defence-hardware/154812.article

Articles Mentioned:

Military officers in Gabon declare coup and place president under house arrest

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/africa/gabon-military-officers-say-power-seized-election-intl-hnk/index.html

Hurricane Idalia hits Florida with 125 mph winds, flooding streets, snapping trees and cutting power

https://apnews.com/article/florida-hurricane-idalia-2136985ceea53f5deb600c43aeea1138

University of North Carolina graduate student left building right after killing adviser, police say

https://apnews.com/article/university-north-carolina-chapel-hill-shooting-a5eb7268934f7f416b7cfa2e2e3e24db

Sushi-loving Japan scrambles to save its fishing industry as oceans heat up

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-sushi-loving-japan-scrambles-fishing-industry.html

Be prepared: Biden is setting the stage for another round of COVID-19 lockdowns

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/be-prepared-biden-is-setting-the-stage-for-another-round-of-covid-19-lockdowns

New bioink promotes growth & regeneration of 3D-printed muscle tissue

https://newatlas.com/medical/bioink-promotes-growth-regeneration-3d-printed-muscle-tissue/

Tennessee State House votes to ‘silence’ Rep. Justin Jones, 1 of 2 Democrats expelled earlier this year

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/us/rep-justin-jones-tennessee-vote/index.html

Crackdowns underway on foreign government water deals

https://www.kvoa.com/news/crackdowns-underway-on-foreign-government-water-deals/article_9c72806e-474d-11ee-8615-3b3334f16f73.html

The Master Debaters on Stage

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum

*Becoming the company's president in 1984, he grew Great Plains into a successful large software company. Burgum sold the

company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001.

* has the support of the fossil fuel industry

* supports a near complete abortion ban

* As governor of North Dakota, he has deployed the National Guard to the southern border with Mexico numerous times

* in crutches with leg injury

former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

* In January 2013, Christie vetoed a New Jersey Legislature bill that would have raised the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50

per hour

* stated in 2023 that he believed that abortion should be a state-by-state issue, and that he would oppose a federal ban

on abortion.

* opposes legalizing the recreational use of marijuana

former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson

* demanded that Republicans who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election and spread Trump's "Big Lie" about the election not be

put in positions of leadership

* signed SB6, a near-total abortion ban

* stated he would block all Syrian refugees from entering the state in response to the November 2015 Paris attacks.

* signed bills into law that prohibited businesses and government facilities from requiring proof of COVID-19

vaccination for staff and customers to enter facilities

former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley

* first Indian (Asia) American to serve in a presidential cabinet

* affirmed the United States's willingness to use military force in response

to further North Korean missile tests

* In April 2016, Haley indicated she would not support legislation introduced by the South Carolina State Senate that would require

transgender individuals to use restrooms based on their gender assigned at birth

Vivek Ramaswamy

* started his campaign claiming that the United States is in the middle of a national identity crisis precipitated by what he

called "new secular religions like COVID-ism, climate-ism, and gender ideology"

* Net Worth of 950 Million

* favors ending U.S. military aid to Ukraine, excluding Ukraine from NATO

* said that he is "not a climate denier" but sees global climate change as "not entirely bad" and has said that "people

should be proud to live a high-carbon lifestyle."

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina

* became the first African-American senator to be elected from the Southern United States since the Reconstruction era.[

believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed

* would sign a 20-week federal abortion ban into law if elected president

* introduced a bill that would deny food stamps to families whose incomes declined to the point of eligibility because a family

member was participating in a labor strike

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

* met his wife golfing at the driving range at the University of North Florida. ...

* got married at Disney World

* people commented on him being handsome

* baseball star at Yale

* He read The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams, whose advice was to be choosy about the swings one took. “I must have thrown

a half-million pitches to Ron,” his father once said to a reporter from the New Yorker, “and I think he swung at about 500 of them.”

former Vice President Mike Pence

* From 1992 to 1999, Pence hosted an Indiana radio talk show ("The Mike Pence Show") that he described as "Rush Limbaugh on decaf."

* In 1991 Pence wrote an essay called "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner," in which he apologized for the negative campaign ads that

had been used during his bid for the U.S. House of Representatives the previous year.

* Pence is named after his grandfather, Richard Michael Cawley, an Irish immigrant who settled in Chicago after arriving in the United States in 1923.

Articles Mentioned:

Japan’s release of radioactive water from Fukushima angers China

https://www.ft.com/content/e7603aeb-e9a0-4500-9455-491e4fe00e01

18 bodies found as fires rage in Greece and Europe suffers another heat wave

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/europe/greece-wildfires-france-heat-climate-change-intl/index.html

In states with few legal protections, students say they’ve been unfairly punished at school

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/expulsion-rights-suspension-students-state-law-school-punishment-rcna100438

Tropical Storm Harold makes landfall in Texas with threat of flash flooding and tornadoes

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tropical-storm-harold-south-texas-rain-floods-rcna101128

DOJ and Texas face off in court over border buoys to deter migrants after state moves barrier to U.S. side

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/feds-texas-face-court-border-buoys-deter-migrants-rcna101198

A Tacoma Restaurant’s Milkshakes Have Been Linked to a Deadly Listeria Outbreak

https://seattle.eater.com/2023/8/22/23841678/frugals-restaurant-tacomas-milkshakes-listeria-outbreak-hospitalizations-deaths

As thousands flee homes across British Columbia from wildfires, chiefs in one region report progress

https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-british-columbia-northwest-territories-2450568b1db8152ad8f39b8197df321b

Weather tracker: tropical storm makes landfall in California for first time in 84 years

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/21/weatherwatch-tropical-storm-hilary-makes-landfall-in-california-for-first-time-in-84-years

Store owner shot to death by man who made "disparaging remarks" about Pride flag, authorities say

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/storeowner-shot-dead-dispute-lgbtq-pride-flag/

American workers are demanding almost $80,000 a year to take a new job

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/american-workers-are-demanding-almost-80000-a-year-to-take-a-new-job.html

Georgia sheriff pleads guilty to groping TV Judge Hatchett

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/georgia-sheriff-pleads-guilty-groping-tv-judge-hatchett-102428804

After Hilary, three tropical storms form in the Atlantic

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4162331-after-hilary-three-tropical-storms-form-in-the-atlantic/

Banking lobbyists, lawmakers gear up for a fight over new exec pay bill spurred by crisis

https://thehill.com/homenews/4159161-banking-lobbyists-lawmakers-gear-up-for-a-fight-over-new-exec-pay-bill-spurred-by-crisis/

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