28 September 24
Charles Pierce | Project 2025 Wants To Eliminate The Agency That Warned Us About Hurricane Helene
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Turns out NOAA is good for something after all."
This Is What Can Land You in Jail for Sedition in Hong Kong
David Pierson and Tiffany May, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Three men were the first to be convicted under the city’s recently expanded national security law, which has greatly curtailed political speech."
Wrapping Up Mission, US Troops Will Leave Some Longstanding Bases in Iraq Under New Deal
Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Tara Copp, ABC News
Excerpt: "The U.S. has announced an agreement with the Iraqi government to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next year."
JD Vance, in 2020 Messages, Said Trump ‘Thoroughly Failed to Deliver’
Peter Jamison, The Washington Post
Jamison writes: "In previously undisclosed messages, the future vice-presidential nominee said Trump had not fulfilled his economic agenda and predicted he would lose to Biden."
Famine Is Ravaging Sudan, but the World Can’t Get Food Aid to Millions of Starving People
Maggie Michael, Reuters
Michael writes: "Sudan’s military and its paramilitary rival have blocked the UN's humanitarian agencies from delivering aid to large areas of the war-torn country where people are dying from starvation."
Hurricane Helene Blows Climate Deniers Trump and Vance Off Course Again
Oliver Milman, Guardian UK
Milman writes: "JD Vance had to cancel two events in Georgia on Thursday after the category 4 storm surged across the region."
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