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Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump confronted off final night time over subjects together with the economic system, abortion, overseas coverage and immigration. All through the controversy, Trump’s tried to tie Harris to President Biden’s document and distance himself from abortion restrictions. Harris tried to outline herself to voters as a brand new and youthful chief who cares about them and tie Trump to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and its aftermath. Listed below are some takeaways from the controversy.

• 🎧 “Trump’s tendency to veer between subjects and traffic in falsehoods and conspiracy theories was quite striking,” NPR’s Tamara Keith tells Up First. In response to a query about why he had requested Republicans to kill a bipartisan deal to spice up border safety, Trump boasted about his rallies’ crowds, claimed Harris busses individuals in to attend hers and mentioned we’re headed for World Battle III earlier than saying immigrants are destroying the nation. He additionally almost accused Harris of being accountable for the assassination try in opposition to him and insisted he gained the 2020 election. Harris responded to the election denial by saying it’s an issue that somebody who needs to be president is confused by information. Harris’s marketing campaign mentioned this debate was nice and so they look ahead to one other one in October. Trump remarked that this one wasn’t truthful.
• ➡️ NPR reality checked the Harris-Trump presidential debate. Here is what we discovered.
• ➡️ After the controversy, pop star Taylor Swift endorsed one of many candidates on Instagram. Learn the put up right here.

A authorities shutdown looms as Congress should move a stop-gap spending invoice earlier than the tip of the month. The Home is about to vote immediately on a gap supply from Home Republicans that may start the negotiations. Republicans wish to connect what they name the SAVE Act to the invoice, which might require voters to show citizenship to stop noncitizens from voting. The partisan invoice is drawing opposition from Democrats and a few Republicans.

• 🎧 NPR’s Claudia Grisales says Trump weighed in on the subject yesterday, saying Republicans shouldn’t conform to something except the availability is within the short-term funding plan. Democrats alternatively desire a comparatively simple short-term funding invoice that maybe consists of some catastrophe assist. Grisales says it’s normal for one or each side to start negotiations with proposals they know won’t ever get handed — normally to show a political level. Democrats and a few reasonable Republicans say the best way out is to fund the federal government and depart the fights to the aspect.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, immediately on a joint go to with British Overseas Secretary David Lammy. The journey comes hours after the presidential debate, the place the candidates had starkly completely different views on what to do about Ukraine. The nation needs the U.S. to elevate restrictions on the usage of long-range weapons supplied by the U.S. to hit navy targets in Russia.

• 🎧 There appears to be some momentum to elevate restrictions, particularly after Blinken and Lammy revealed that Iran was supplying Russia with ballistic missiles, NPR’s Joanna Kakissis says. Ukraine says utilizing these long-range weapons is one of the best ways to cease Russian troops advancing on Ukrainian land and killing individuals in its cities. Ukrainians adopted final night time’s debate. Harris made it clear she would proceed assist for Ukraine, whereas Trump appeared to evade speaking about assist, saying solely that he’ll finish the struggle, however not specifying how.

Local weather options week

An Uber Eats supply courier rides an electrical bicycle via the Park Slope neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York.

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Meals manufacturing and transportation make up as a lot as one-third of a typical U.S. family’s annual contribution to local weather change-inducing emissions. An estimated 30% of meals produced within the nation is wasted. As soon as it is in landfills, rotting meals creates methane — a potent gasoline that heats the Earth. Minimizing waste and lowering transportation might need a major impression on the air pollution that causes local weather change. One potential higher resolution: residence supply. That’s as a result of with a supply car, when a driver drops off your groceries they’re typically additionally delivering to neighbors throughout the identical run.

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by Michel Martin, Morning Version host

Do you bear in mind the place you have been on Sept. 11, 2001? 

For some individuals the query is nearly an insult. How might they overlook? For the households of the two,977 individuals who died and the tens of hundreds of individuals estimated to have been affected by the smoke, mud, falling particles and trauma, the day marks the tip of 1 life and the start of one other.

Flags and flowers are positioned by the names of these killed throughout the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults, on the reflecting swimming pools on the Nationwide September 11 Memorial & Museum, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in New York.

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However for different individuals, particularly individuals born after the 9/11 assaults, who have been too younger to recollect, who lived distant or who’ve a number of different issues to fret about — the query may really feel like a scolding in disguise. What number of unhappy days are individuals supposed to carry shut? What number of tragedies?

We’re not nice with reminiscence in America. We regularly suppose different individuals’s recollections are too lengthy. We marvel why their historical hatreds loom so massive immediately. However typically it appears as if our recollections are too quick; we don’t perceive why ache lingers or why some individuals can’t “just get over it” — no matter “it” is.

Perhaps there’s a center floor. On a day like 9/11, possibly we might simply take a second to note the individuals round us and ask, “Is this a special day for you? Do you want to talk about it? Did you lose someone? Tell me about that person.”

It may possibly’t harm to ask, and to pay attention.

In reminiscence of Hearth Patrol Sgt Norman E. McQueen, Jr.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei (third from left), died after being set on fireplace in her residence. The person who allegedly attacked her has additionally died, in a case that has renewed requires extra consciousness and protections for girls in opposition to home violence in Kenya.

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1. Dickson Ndiema Marangach, who allegedly poured gasoline on Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei and set her on fireplace, killing her, has additionally died of burns, in accordance with the hospital the place the 2 had been handled.
2. A Delta plane clipped the tail of one other airplane on Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport’s tarmac yesterday, officers mentioned. No accidents have been reported.
3. Mauricio Pochettino, the Argentinian soccer coach who led a few of Europe’s prime membership groups over the previous decade, has been named the brand new coach of the U.S. males’s nationwide soccer staff via a much-anticipated run on the FIFA World Cup in 2026.

This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.