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The New York Times — Thursday, May 9, 2024

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Johnson Survives Greene’s Ouster Attempt as Democrats Join G.O.P. to Kill It

Republicans and Democrats banded together to block a motion by the right-wing Georgia congresswoman to remove the speaker.

How 360,000 Haitians Wound Up Living in Empty Lots and Crowded Schools

In a worsening humanitarian crisis, Haitians have been forced to flee their homes in the face of gang onslaughts, but the international response has failed to keep up.

Turning Point or Breaking Point? Biden’s Pause on Weapons Tests Ties to Israel.

President Biden hopes the decision to withhold the delivery of 3,500 bombs will prompt Israel to change course in its war in Gaza.

House Republicans Clash With Leaders of Public Schools Over Antisemitism Claims

Politicians said educators had not done enough. But the New York chancellor said members were trying to elicit “gotcha moments” rather than stop antisemitism.

Politics: The Guardian Weekly – May 10, 2024

The Guardian Weekly (May 8, 2024) – The new issue features ‘Nowhere to call home’ – Inside Europe’s housing crisis…

Elections for the European parliament are less than a month away and far-right parties are predicted to make significant gains in many of the bloc’s 27 member states. The dire shortage of housing, leading to rising rents and property prices, is becoming a unifying focus for voters’ discontent with their current political leaders.

The issue has sparked protests from Amsterdam to Prague and Milan, as the Guardian’s Europe correspondent, Jon Henley, reports. The data is undeniably worrying as young Europeans spend up to 10 times an average salary on rent and mortgage payments, and big cities from the Baltic states to the Iberian peninsula have registered average property price rises of close to 50%. As a result more EU residents live with their parents for longer and put off life-decisions later into adulthood.

While housing does not fall within MEPs’ remit, it is a visible locus for the sense of social unease that has beset the whole bloc and has become a pivot for the far right to turn on racialised minorities. But as European community affairs correspondent Ashifa Kassam discovers, it is those communities that are doubly penalised through discrimination from landlords who, research has shown, turn away potential renters with “foreign” surnames. The political and social ramifications of the housing crisis in Europe is mirrored elsewhere across the globe and is a subject we will return to in the Guardian Weekly in this year of elections.

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 10, 2024

Times Literary Supplement (May 8 2024): The latest issue features ‘Reverie and revolution’ – Ian Penman on Surrealism; Crime fiction gets political; Scorsese’s English masters, women pianists and more….

News: Israel Seizes Rafah In Gaza, Russia Nuclear Drills, Xi Jinping In Serbia

The Globalist (May 8, 2024): We get the latest on the Rafah crossing as Israel and Hamas continue negotiations.

Then: Russia is ready to hold nuclear weapons drills, China’s Xi Jinping touches down in Belgrade and we speak with Neil J Young about his new book ‘Coming Out Republican’. Plus: fashion news and the economics behind doner kebabs in Germany.

The New York Times — Wednesday, May 8, 2024

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Stormy Daniels, Who Told of Sex With Trump, Returns to Stand on Thursday

The porn star at the center of the ex-president’s criminal trial testified about their encounter at a golf tournament in 2006, a meeting that could shape American history.

Israeli Tanks Enter Rafah as Cease-Fire Talks Resume in Cairo

An Israeli incursion into the southern Gaza city did not appear to be the long-anticipated, full-scale invasion of the city, home to about a million displaced Palestinians.

Biden Condemns a ‘Ferocious Surge’ of Antisemitism in the United States

President Biden’s speech at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony came during weeks of protests on U.S. college campuses against Israel’s war in Gaza.

The New Players in Brazilian Politics? Elon Musk and Republicans.

The billionaire businessman and House Republicans have given new life to former President Jair Bolsonaro by attacking Brazil’s Supreme Court.

News: Israel Strikes Rafah, Gaza Ceasefire Talks, India Elections, Putin Sworn In

The Globalist (May 7, 2024): Join Monocle’s Emma Nelson for the current-affairs stories of the day, including the third phase of India’s general election with Maya Sharma, the latest aviation news with Greg Waldron of Flight Global and the papers with Agnes Poirer.

The New York Times — Tuesday, May 7, 2024

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Israel Orders Partial Evacuation of Rafah, Fueling Fears of New Offensive

Hamas says it has agreed to a cease-fire plan that Israel said did not meet its demands, the latest in a long series of negotiating stumbles.

4 Children From Gaza Arrive in U.S. for Medical Treatment

The children, who were injured or suffered malnutrition, were greeted at Kennedy Airport with toys and balloons. “These are their first memories here,” one supporter said.

Judge Cites Trump for Contempt, and Says He Is Attacking the Rule of Law

Donald J. Trump again broke a gag order meant to bar him from attacking participants in his criminal trial, Justice Juan M. Merchan ruled. He threatened the former president with jail.

The New York Times — Sunday, May 5, 2024

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Family Values or Fighting Valor? Russia Grapples With Women’s Wartime Role.

Russian military efforts to recruit women from prisons and civilian life have clashed with President Vladimir V.

Putin’s conservative agenda

From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest

The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.

Dozens Arrested at U.Va. as Other Protests Disrupt Graduations

Police officers in riot gear cleared an encampment in Virginia, and protesters walked out of a commencement at Indiana University.

Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?

All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.

Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London

Monocle on Saturday (May 4, 2024): As the UK local election results come in, who will win the race for London mayor? On the other side of the pond, Trump’s hush-money trial continues ahead of the US election in November; Charles Hecker and Georgina Godwin discuss the latest developments.

Plus: co-founder of independent publisher Galley Beggar Press, Sam Jordison, joins to discuss how much it really costs to make a book and the effect that it can have on smaller presses.

The New York Times Magazine – May 5, 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (May 4, 2024): The latest issue features…

‘I Will Never Forget Any of It’: Brittney Griner Is Ready to Talk

In an interview, the basketball star reveals her humiliation — and friendships — in Russian prison, and her path to recovery.

By J Wortham

On the March afternoon when I met Brittney Griner in Phoenix, the wildflowers were in peak efflorescence, California poppies and violet cones of lupine exploding everywhere. Griner was in bloom too. She was practicing with some local ballers brought in by her W.N.B.A. team, the Mercury, to prepare its players for the start of the season in May. On the court, Griner was loose, confident, trading jokes with the other players between runs.

When a Bunch of Bloody Yanks Came for English Soccer

Spectators at a Premier League match between Aston Villa and Bournemouth in Birmingham in April.

American investors are gobbling up the storied teams of the English Premier League — and changing the stadium experience in ways that soccer fans resent.