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Israeli strikes killed more than 270 Lebanese in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war – September 23, 2024

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  • Israeli strikes killed more than 270 Lebanese in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
  • The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a “pact for the future” to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
  • The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump wrote a note months earlier saying he intended to kill the former president, according to a Justice Department detention memo that also said it plans to seek an attempted assassination charge.
  • Scott Baba spoke with Hannah Saggau, senior climate finance campaigner with Stand.earth and a lead author of the report titled “Citi: Funding Fossil-Fueled Environmental Racism in the Gulf South,” about the report and today’s protest at Citigroup global headquarters in Manhattan.
  • California took on big oil with a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, as Attorney General Rob Bonta announced alongside environmental groups filing their own lawsuit, following Governor Gavin Newsom’s ban on single-use plastic bags, with both lawsuits claiming ExxonMobil lied for years about plastic recycling to sell more petroleum products while California bears the cost of pollution.
  • San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a new school stabilization team for the San Francisco Unified School District today, after the district’s Board of Education held an emergency closed-session meeting over the weekend to decide whether or not to fire embattled Superintendent Matt Wayne.

    • Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on villages in the Nabatiyeh district, seen from the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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