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ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Varney & Co. on Fox Business to Discuss Tariffs on Israel, Affordability

WASHINGTON—Today, United States Senator Bill Hagerty, (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined Varney & Co. on Fox Business to discuss the foreign trade restrictions on Israel and affordability ahead of the midterm election. *Click the photo above or here to watch* Partial Transcript Hagerty on foreign trade restrictions on Israel: I’m disappointed, […]

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Sep 9 • 12:16 PM EDT • Business • hagerty.senate.gov
Poll shows two-thirds of U.S. Jewish voters will favor Democrats in November

Despite tensions over Israel and rising antisemitism, respondents ranked affordability and the future of democracy as their top issues in the midterms.

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Sep 9 • 10:12 AM EDT • Politics • jta.org
John Malkovich cancels performance in Israel over fabricated quote circulated by promoters

John Malkovich has canceled a planned performance in Israel after promoters circulated a false quote attributed to him.

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Sep 9 • 9:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
John Malkovich cancels performance in Israel over fabricated quote circulated by promoters

John Malkovich has canceled a planned performance in Israel after promoters circulated a false quote attributed to him | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM

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Sep 9 • 9:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
John Malkovich cancels performance in Israel over fabricated quote circulated by promoters

John Malkovich has canceled a planned performance in Israel after promoters circulated a false quote attributed to him | WBEN

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Sep 9 • 9:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
The Odds: Israel’s Image
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Sep 9 • 9:46 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Why conservatives have shifted on Israel

The political formation of young conservatives is increasingly happening on the internet.

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Sep 9 • 9:30 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Birthright launches Global Business Summit, connecting Diaspora donors, Israeli financial figures

Three-day gathering to take place in November, aimed at showing 'a different face of Israel' to group's funders — and maybe attracting new ones

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Sep 9 • 9:03 AM EDT • Business • ejewishphilanthropy.com
What impact will UK’s West Bank sanctions have?

‘Biggest reset in UK relations with Israel for decades’ is not without ‘political risks’

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Sep 9 • 8:01 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
Report that Netanyahu was warned before October 7 triggers political earthquake in Israel

An investigation published by 'Haaretz' claims the Israeli prime minister was informed by UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed, 10 days before the attack, that Hamas was planning a major operation against Israel.

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Sep 9 • 5:48 AM EDT • Politics • lemonde.fr
Twelve Countries Impose Sanctions on Trade With Israeli Settlements

For the record, Israeli settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law.

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Sep 9 • 3:57 AM EDT • Politics • politicstoday.org
Miliband defends sanctions on Israeli settlements and pushes back against chief rabbi’s criticism

UK foreign secretary ‘regrets’ Israel’s response to ban on trade with illegal settlements but ‘proud’ of his actions

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Sep 9 • 3:55 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
What ‘right’ and ‘left’ mean in Israel today

In Israel, the left-right divide is shaped less by economics than by positions on Palestinian statehood and occupation.

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Sep 9 • 3:22 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Playing politics with security: Jerusalem must review UK privileges amidst sanctions

Britain and Israel have genuine strategic interests in common even when their governments disagree sharply, but diplomatic relations require reciprocity.

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Sep 9 • 1:59 AM EDT • Politics • jpost.com
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More Than 5,000 Leaders Across Entertainment, Academia and Public Life Unite to Reject “Genocide” Accusation Against Israel

Boris Johnson, Deborah Lipstadt, Sir Niall Ferguson, Shari Redstone, Steven Pinker, Sherry Lansing, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Irwin Cotler, Debra Messing and thousands of others reject the genocide accusation against Israel and warn that it fuels antisemitism

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Sep 8 • 11:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • creativecommunityforpeace.com
Netanyahu will make a quick trip to speak at the UN after Mamdani urged his arrest, diplomat says

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making a whirlwind 24-hour trip to speak at the U.N.’s annual gathering of world leaders this month after New York’s mayor urged his arrest over the war in Gaza, That's according to Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon on Tuesday | WWJ Newsradio 950

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Sep 8 • 8:27 PM EDT • Politics • audacy.com
Netanyahu will make a quick trip to speak at the UN after Mamdani urged his arrest, diplomat says

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making a whirlwind 24-hour trip to speak at the U.N.’s annual gathering of world leaders this month after New York’s mayor urged his arrest over the war in Gaza, That's according to Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon on Tuesday | K-DAWN

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Sep 8 • 8:27 PM EDT • Politics • audacy.com
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Chris Mason: Burnham looks to show he will go further than Starmer with West Bank sanctions

It is hoped that coordinated action minimises the blowback to any one country from Israel or America, our political editor writes.

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Sep 8 • 7:52 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Michigan Jewish leaders call on El-Sayed to change posture on Israel
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Sep 8 • 6:44 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Michigan rabbis lay out demands for El-Sayed and state Democrats to earn their votes

As the candidate seeks Jewish voters, an open letter describes Jewish sovereignty in Israel and Jewish safety as “nonnegotiables.”

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Sep 8 • 6:16 PM EDT • Politics • jta.org
Women immigrant-owned businesses featured at massive market at HER Tel Aviv festival

“We really want to show the diversity and the connection and the love for Israel,” HER Tel Aviv founder and CEO Sivan Hadari said.

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Sep 8 • 2:56 PM EDT • Business • jpost.com
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Israel to mandate Iodine in table salt amid widespread deficiency

Studies have found widespread iodine deficiency in Israel, particularly among pregnant women and children. The condition can cause thyroid problems and, in severe cases, developmental and neurological damage

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Sep 8 • 2:21 PM EDT • Science • haaretz.com
The shift in British policy on Israel is palpable

But progress could be threatened if there is a new more diplomatic government in Israel.

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Sep 8 • 11:20 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
The Double-Edged Sword of Luis Arraez

Walk, what did you say?

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Sep 8 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Israel's Problems of Governance: Perennial Causes and Political Context

Essays – The State of Israel is not often associated with the persistent problems of governance that have beset many of its neighbors over the years. With a

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Sep 8 • 10:20 AM EDT • Politics • jstribune.com
Arsenal summer signing in contention for Napoli start

Bruno Guimaraes should be in contention to start for Arsenal against Napoli on Wednesday in the team’s Champions League opener, according to a report.Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty ImagesArsenal hav...

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Sep 8 • 9:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal Predicted XI vs Napoli as Arteta Handed Injury Boost

Mikel Arteta faces a selection dilemma in Naples as key stars return. Discover how Bruno Guimaraes and Ebere Eze could spearhead a refreshed lineup seeking European redemption.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Haredi political revolt is brewing – and it could shake up Israel's election

Veteran Haredi politicians are losing favor with top rabbis, shaking up party slates. Meanwhile, new parties are outflanking the establishment on its left and right. But will they really be any different?

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Sep 8 • 6:43 AM EDT • Politics • haaretz.com
Making Aliyah? Your healthcare plan should begin before the flight

Medical records, medication continuity and a plan for children’s care can make the move to Israel safer and far less stressful.

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Sep 8 • 6:02 AM EDT • Health • jpost.com
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Kings turned down Trae Young for Zach LaVine trade

Kings turned down Trae Young for Zach LaVine trade

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Sep 8 • 4:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eyal Golan’s ‘Science Fiction’ is Israel’s most played song of the year

Eyal Golan, Sarit Hadad and Avi Ohayon led ACUM’s annual rankings of Israel’s most played songs, performers, songwriters and composers. Eyal Golan’s “Mada Bidyoni” (“Science Fiction”) was the most-pla...

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Sep 8 • 4:12 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Israel records one of OECD’s steepest declines in reading, math and science scores

Israeli 15-year-olds lost 38 points in reading, 25 in math and 23 in science since 2022, leaving the country below the OECD average in every field; nearly 3 in 10 now lack basic proficiency across all three

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Sep 8 • 3:40 AM EDT • Science • ynetnews.com
UK-US trade could suffer as a result of sanctions for illegal Israeli settlements, American ambassador warns

UK foreign secretary to reassert support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution in move drawing criticism from US and Israel

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Sep 8 • 3:39 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Israeli students plunge to historic lows in reading, math and science

International PISA results reveal the steepest decline in Israel's history across literacy fields, erasing 15 years of improvement. The troubling implication:

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Sep 8 • 3:30 AM EDT • Science • israelhayom.com
Anthropic drops plans to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart

The companies had discussed a transaction worth roughly $6 billion, but the Claude maker ultimately decided against buying the company after reviewing its business and technology.

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Sep 7 • 11:56 PM EDT • Business • calcalistech.com
Duke professor Dan Ariely seeks political office in Israel with Pirate Party

After having an article retracted due to allegations of research fraud, Dan Ariely is taking his efforts elsewhere: Israel. He is running on the Pirate Party slate in the Israeli legislative elections Oct. 27.

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Sep 7 • 11:29 PM EDT • Politics • dukechronicle.com
Israel sees collapse in latest PISA education scores on math, reading, science

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Sep 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • timesofisrael.com
The war on Iran’s energy infrastructure creates rising political risk

When Israel targeted Tehran’s oil storage facilities in the initial days of the war launched on Feb. 28, black smoke blanketed the capital and plunged parts of the city into darkness. Roughly ten days later, strikes hit natural gas facilities at the giant South Pars field, key oil refineries, major steel plants, and petrochemical complexes, impacting thousands of workers. These attacks on vital energy and industrial assets revealed a critical dimension of the conflict: compounding an already acute domestic energy...

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Sep 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • amwaj.media
Netanyahu is the greatest hazard to Israelis' health

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Sep 7 • 6:30 PM EDT • Health • haaretz.com
Ahoy, Knesset: Israel’s Pirate Party sets sail with Dan Ariely on its slate

The veteran fringe party filed a 25-person list for the October election, with the behavioral economist and best-selling author taking the No. 3 spot.

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Sep 7 • 6:26 PM EDT • Politics • jpost.com
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Netanyahu's main rival accuses him of putting politics over security

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival, Gadi Eisenkot, accused him Monday of prioritizing his political survival over Israel’s...

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Sep 7 • 3:23 PM EDT • Politics • dailysabah.com
Climate is different at upcoming RNC as Israel becomes a political hot potato
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Sep 7 • 2:01 PM EDT • Politics • i24news.tv
As Elections Approach, Israeli Politics Should Not Be a Popularity Contest

For centuries, status was largely measured by wealth, power, and position. The person with the largest house, the greatest fortune,…

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Sep 7 • 12:44 PM EDT • Politics • algemeiner.com
Fuel prices at record Labor Day high in U.S.

Prices shot up after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February and have not settled down since

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Sep 7 • 11:17 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Wonder Woman in business too: Gal Gadot's exit

The Goodles mac-and-cheese brand, founded by the Israeli actress and her husband, was sold to global pasta giant Barilla.

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Sep 7 • 10:24 AM EDT • Business • jpost.com
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UN rights chief urges halt to arms transfers to Israel, business supporting illegal settlements

'We need far greater efforts by the international community towards sustainable peace,' says Volker Turk | Anadolu

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Sep 7 • 8:41 AM EDT • Business • aa.com.tr
Nvidia’s Israeli networking business is booming, and so is its economic footprint

The company’s networking revenue reached $32.3 billion in just the first half of fiscal 2027, already surpassing the previous full-year total. Much of the technology behind the business traces back to Mellanox and Nvidia’s Israeli development centers.

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Sep 7 • 7:16 AM EDT • Business • calcalistech.com
Israeli researchers find startling clue to black-eye disease in cats

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Sep 7 • 6:59 AM EDT • Science • haaretz.com
Iran Dismisses Push to Refer Nuclear File to UNSC

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned US and Israeli attempts to pressure the UN nuclear chief and pave the way for referring Iran’s nuclear file to the UN Security Council, warning that Tehran will take necessary measures in response to any such move.

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Sep 7 • 6:34 AM EDT • Politics • tasnimnews.ir
Michael Rapaport slams 'clown' Macklemore for anti-Israel performance

Michael Rapaport called Macklemore a "clown" after the rapper chanted "Free Palestine" and performed "Hind's Hall" at Ed Sheeran's MetLife shows.

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Sep 6 • 7:53 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com
The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers

Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week. The Verdict, by Kelsey Piper A lot of people hate AI for drowning the internet in slop and displacing human creatives. You might think that these people would be thrilled by a program that can identify and flag AI-generated work. But many people who hate AI also hate Pangram, an impressively accurate AI detector that produces very few false positives, according to high-quality independent research. This loathing found its most recent expression in a bizarre Wired article that amplifies a wide range of false arguments from Pangram skeptics: that AI detectors are racist (they’re not) or ableist (they’re not)1 or don’t work (this one does)2. Rather than starting from the premise that it would be really valuable to have a working AI detector and scrutinizing Pangram to make sure it lives up to that promise, the article starts from the premise that Pangram obviously has bad vibes and sets out to discover why. (One answer: The CEO microwaved lunch during an interview!) Why aren’t writers who resent Pangram more eager to distinguish themselves from posters who are having ChatGPT ghostwrite all their work? There are a few different things at play, but I think one key dynamic is this: These are often the same people. A core constituency for arguments like Wired’s is “writers” who are using AI to write their posts but resent this fact being made public. They stand to lose from AI detectors because AI detectors call them out. Share When Substack announced a partnership with Pangram, a sizable fraction of the platform’s authors rose up in outrage. Some people had experience with other AI detectors that didn’t work, and some felt that AI writing ought to be encouraged — both of which are fair enough. But the fury was fueled by authors passionately insisting that Pangram kept wrongly accusing them on almost every post they published. Pangram can be wrong, especially on short passages. But in the overwhelming majority of cases where Pangram looked at a whole blog post rather than a single paragraph, the program correctly detected work as AI. Even if we can’t be 100% sure in any individual case, we can notice the trend in the aggregate. Wired quotes Sam Illingworth, a professor of critical AI literacy at Edinburgh Napier University, who said, “I don’t think [AI detectors] work. … I think that detectors are prejudiced against certain people.” This spring, he said that he used AI for research and editing; this summer he acknowledged that in addition to research and editing, he also uses it “now and then for a turn of phrase I keep.” Pangram informs us that most of his posts are 100% AI-written (some are mixed AI-and-human) and that 100% AI-written posts started appearing last year. The favorable interpretation is that, as someone whose recent work Pangram consistently mistakes for AI, Illingworth sees Pangram’s flaws firsthand. The unfavorable interpretation is that the tool’s credibility trades off against his own, because its account of who writes his posts is not consistent with his. Illingworth is not alone in insisting the detector does not work. “It’s a Monday night in late July, and I’m pasting my own Substack draft into an AI detector for the first time. Not because I’m worried. Because I’m curious. I wrote every word of it myself, the way I write everything, out loud in my head first, in a rhythm that still carries the accent of a language I learned to think in before I learned to write in this one,” begins one Substack post by an author indignant that Pangram flags her writing as AI. “That’s the part I had to sit with before I could write this.” If you, like me, have worked with AIs a lot, you won’t even need Pangram there. The author of that piece is AI. It is obviously AI! I checked 10 other posts on the blog, and they were also obviously AI! “I have spent 22 years as an award-winning author and essayist. And now this bullshit tool that learned from MY writing is going to accuse me of plagiarism,” popular Substack writer Carlyn Beccia wrote in an anti-Pangram post. “For the last and final time, AI DETECTORS DO NOT WORK.” Here’s what her writing sounded like in 2020: “Most success stories revolve around one person who believed enough in you to say — give it a try. We call these people muses, but they are so much more than that. They are the strong man giants whose shoulders we stand on so we can see the horizon. Throughout the editing process, I am sure my editor felt less like a giant of greatness and more like Atlas with the world on her shoulders.” Pangram says it was 100% human-written. (So were other articles of hers in 2020.) And here’s what it sounds like now: “And then there is the reshuffling, which sounds like paperwork until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork. The Trump regime recently moved special education oversight from the Education Department to HHS. That is not a minor bureaucratic transfer. It changes the frame.”3 Pangram says this is mostly AI. I am not convinced that Pangram is wrong. In my own experience, Pangram is very effective on long texts — if it marks a long essay as AI, the essay was either written by AI or deliberately written to sound like AI. On tweet-length or paragraph-length texts, it’s not perfectly reliable. It seems to work just as well for non-native English speakers as for native speakers. While I have seen dozens of claims of pre-2022 text returning a positive result on Pangram, I have tried repeatedly to corroborate those and have never once succeeded. To be clear, I’m absolutely not saying that complaining about Pangram suggests a writer is a cheat. There are plenty of other concerns. Most are mistakenly premised, such as the false claim that Pangram trains on work you put into it, but others are reasonable: It’s unreliable on sufficiently short text segments; it creates an internet witch-hunt mentality when there are defensible uses of AI; people who are open about their AI use are sometimes blamed, when the only people really doing something wrong are the ones who hide it; and it isn’t perfect, so a single positive result shouldn’t be taken as decisive proof of misconduct. I’m happy to concede that Pangram is imperfect and possible to over-rely on. If an author’s posts are mostly non-AI and one scans as partially AI, this could be a mistake. It’s also possible to defeat Pangram with intentional effort. If you think we need something more robust and more reliable, fine! But if you don’t like AI and don’t like Pangram, your attitude really ought to be that it’s a shame that our existing tools for AI detection are imperfect, and it’s important to invent better ones. If your stance is instead that AI is evil and so is looking for AI, then ultimately you’re contributing to the sloppification of the internet. You’re making it harder for people who write their own text to distinguish themselves, and providing cover for authors who are definitely not writing their own text. Subscribe Top stories this week, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs Commentators often worry that the decline of reading could mean the decline of liberal democracy — but deliberative governance actually predated widespread literacy. This week, Maibritt Henkel pointed out that many liberal cultures thrive on a culture of raucous, interactive debate, which can happen in-person as easily, if not more so, than in text. Read on, dear reader, to learn more. It may actually cheer you up: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) [ Reading won’t save liberalism ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) Maibritt Henkel · Sep 1 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) It used to be bad to downplay climate change (if we mean denying its reality). Today, it’s actually good to downplay climate change (if we mean keeping the issue out of political fights so we can make real progress). This counterintuitive view is called “climate hushing,” and contributor Alex Trembath argued that it’s the key to enacting good policy going forward. Get up to speed on the latest in climate politics: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) [ We won’t stop climate change by talking about it ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) Alex Trembath · Sep 2 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing up for the forces of liberalism against Donald Trump’s assault on our closest ally. So, why is one prominent left-wing commenter attacking Carney? Columnist Matthew Yglesias explains: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) [ When "economic liberty" means central planning ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) Matthew Yglesias · Aug 31 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) 🌟Abundance Wins of the Week🌟 Shout out to my home state of California, whose legislature passed two housing bills this week. One requires a housing density minimum in transit-oriented areas of the state’s most transit-rich cities (Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, and Long Beach). Another bill closes two common loopholes used by third parties to delay housing projects, including an opportunity to challenge maps of a given lot created by the developer after a project has been approved. Shout out to our big-state rival, Texas, where pro-housing SB 785 took effect this week. The new state law requires municipalities to have at least one district permitted for manufactured housing without a special permit. This will promote zoning changes in 44% of municipalities. The company Fervo Energy signed a deal with Google for what is set to be the world’s largest enhanced geothermal facility, proving a technology can work at a scale that could be crucial to a decarbonized, energy-abundant economy. Share Worth watching… This week, forecasting legend Nate Silver joined Jerusalem, Matt, and Jeremiah on a crowded episode of the pod. It was a party. And speaking of parties, our round table debated the factional lines within the Democratic Party: Is it possible to be center-left and also anti-establishment? Watch or listen to find out: The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is one of the areas that swung hardest toward Trump in 2024, but musician Bobby Pulido is running to flip it back. Right now, The Argument/Split Ticket’s model has him running 1.1 points behind his Republican opponent in a district Trump won by 18 points. Tune in to find out how he differs from national Democrats and what he thinks he can to do win this seat. On Thursday, Bernie Sanders was among the first politicians to call for a ban on superintelligence. My guest this week, Andrea Miotti, has been lobbying to ban superintelligence for several years, most recently in the U.K., U.S., and Canada. I asked him how he gets legislators to take speculative risks seriously, and we dug into what plans might look like to actually pass a ban. Listen to learn more: What’s News with The Argument The Argument recommends, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs If we ever lose track of Justin Zuckerman, I’ll have the team split up and check all the movie theaters in the city. I’m shocked (and a little jealous) at how often he gets out to see good cinema. This week, he brings us It Ends, a “horror-ish movie,” which he described as a “Gen Z Waiting for Godot.” I was intrigued before he added that it was “funny, dark and existential” — at which point I was fully locked in. I guess I also had existential themes on the mind this week. One morning, a single line from a poem I read long ago just came to me: “Is death a stretch of time in which a life is just a flash?” The poem is called “From 20,000 Feet” by Heather McHugh. I suggest the version in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, which, by tradition, my best friend and I always bring backpacking, extra weight be damned. We’ll stay thematically dark for just one more rec from senior editor John Robert Thomason, whose upcoming trip to Baltimore reminded him to suggest Michael Clune’s memoir White Out (about being addicted to heroin in Baltimore in the 1990s). Ben Lerner’s blurb called it _“_Disturbing, brilliant, hilarious—it’s as if Proust had written Jesus’ Son.” John told me this “seems accurate, with the caveat that I’ve never read Proust.” I, personally, have also shelved Proust until retirement. At this point, I was a little concerned for the team since all of us tossed out such psychologically grim material — maybe we’re all down about the end of summer — but thankfully, at least a few of us were into more upbeat selections. Milan Singh recommended Made In’s 5-quart stainless clad saucier, suggesting he had some fun in the kitchen. Jeremiah Johnson asked if he could recommend yet more Carly Rae Jepsen. Once denied, he offered up Game Changer instead_,_ calling it “the most wildly creative game show, maybe in the entire history of the genre.” Eli Richman mentioned _Lucky, “_a B-tier show with an A-tier cast and an S-tier theme song.” I suppose he was recommending the song, Horns of a Bull. Still, despite these cheerier recs, I couldn’t help but be concerned that we were subconsciously worried about racing toward summer’s end — the end of swim trunks and splashing around. Then a message landed reminding me of the three-day weekend to come. A whole extra day for sunshine. One more swim in the lake. I was grateful this called to mind yet another line from a poem, one by Mary Oliver, the patron saint of every gorgeous summer day (and about whom a documentary is now out). Speaking to God in the poem “Thirst,” she wrote: grant me, in your mercy,a little more time. Love for the earthand love for you are having such a longconversation in my heart. We have merch! We have quarter-zips, keychains, hats, and stickers. Each one is a great conversation starter in its own way. Buy them here. Subscribe More to read: [ The Opening Argument ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite)[ Seeing like an elite ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite) Kobe Yank-Jacobs · Sep 4 What do Americans hear when they watch Sen. Bernie Sanders or Vice President JD Vance rail against the elite? Are they thinking of right-wing tech billionaires? Imperious college professors? Liberal magazine writers? [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite) [ The Weekly Scroll ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline)[ God is back on the timeline ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) Jeremiah Johnson · Sep 5 This week, we’re talking about Substack’s new religious debates, the continuing MAGA influencer scandal, how to retire from YouTube, and aura battles. [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) 1 This was a legitimate thing to worry about, but doesn’t seem to be a problem given the actual technology: Marijke Van Vlasselaer, Filip Van Droogenbroeck, and Bram Spruyt’s 2026 paper looks at whether Pangram is less accurate when evaluating the work of non-native speakers of English. It isn’t. That’s because Pangram isn’t really looking at how “unusual” a piece of writing is but whether it has the characteristic patterns of LLMs. The Wired article makes an odd gesture at a different Pangram-is-racist argument. There were several controversies this summer during which upcoming books were canceled after being discovered to be AI-written: “The three novels mentioned earlier — Shy Girl, Daggermouth, and Call Me, easily publishing’s biggest AI-detection scandals — were all written by writers of color.” But come on! As Zvi Mowshowitz put it: “They were not primarily written by people of color. They were primarily written by AIs.” That’s the whole problem! And as my colleague Jeremiah Johnson recently observed with respect to Cambridge’s Arday scandal, a community being unwilling to call out fraud if it’s perpetuated by people of color is not an anti-racist tendency; it is ultimately quite racist. 2 Many non-Pangram detectors don’t work, but many possible airplane designs also don’t work, and no one considers this a general argument against aviation; the thing that matters is whether any detection works. 3 The phrase “empires have always loved” mysteriously became all the rage in the last few years. See here, here, here, here and here. Before 2025, the only use of that phrase I have been able to find is a single Tweet. The logic of the sentence, too, is incoherent in an AI-characteristic way. “...sounds like paperwork, until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork”? Does remembering that make it sound less like paperwork? It’s a craft-ful sentence, but what is it actually saying??

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It seems impossible not to mention Gaza if you meet Israelis on holiday in Europe

I made friends with two Israeli couples while on holiday in Greece this summer and when the conversation inevitably turned to Palestine, I was struck by how misinformed, scared, and ashamed they were.

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Sep 6 • 2:00 PM EDT • Politics • euobserver.com
Weekly Briefing: Politicians confront genocide and democracy as elections loom in Palestine, Israel, and the U.S.

Gaza’s markets have food but no buyers, Lebanon’s camps lose critical aid, and Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. head toward elections.

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Sep 6 • 1:14 PM EDT • Politics • mondoweiss.net
PayPal layoffs hit Israel as payment giant restructures global operations

The cut will hit the Tel Aviv development center, which develops artificial intelligence systems to analyze transactions in real time, detect fraud, prevent money laundering, and monitor the company’

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Sep 6 • 1:03 PM EDT • Business • jpost.com
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'Only got worse since Oct. 7': Over 1,300 doctors have left Israel since 2023, study shows

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Sep 6 • 10:54 AM EDT • Science • haaretz.com
Israeli airstrikes completely destroyed hospital in southern Lebanon: Health Ministry

17 hospitals damaged by Israeli strikes since March 2, ministry says | Anadolu

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Sep 6 • 10:23 AM EDT • Health • aa.com.tr
Wonderful is growing like Wiz, but its business is very different

The Israeli AI startup has reached a $5 billion valuation and a $70 million revenue run rate in less than two years, but its economics look far less like those of a traditional software company.

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Sep 6 • 2:57 AM EDT • Business • calcalistech.com
Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill four, wound 20, Health Ministry says

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Sep 6 • 2:26 AM EDT • Health • haaretz.com
The dissonance of an American Jew thinking about Israel

The Jewish High Holidays will soon be upon us. The third anniversary of Oct. 7 will then quickly follow. Three weeks later, Israeli voters will head to the polls to elect all 120 members of its parliament, the Knesset and thereby their next prime minister. It has been a couple of years since I’ve addressed […]

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Sep 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Queers for Palestine? The complicated politics of being LGBTQ in Israel

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Sep 5 • 5:36 AM EDT • Politics • haaretz.com
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Three killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, health ministry says

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon "in response to Hezbollah’s attempted attack yesterday against IDF troops operating in the security zone."

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Sep 5 • 5:04 AM EDT • Health • euronews.com
Mansour Abbas is betting on a Zionist to make Palestinian votes count

By allying with Segalovich in the Israeli vote, Abbas is hoping for greater acceptance in Israeli coalition politics.

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Sep 5 • 4:40 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Israeli scientists find ‘multitasking’ gene controls mood and metabolism in mice

Weizmann Institute researchers find Orthopedia gene plays critical role throughout life after aiding in-utero brain development; study may help treatment of anxiety and metabolic disorders

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Sep 4 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • timesofisrael.com
New blood wanted: Israeli politics needs an infusion of unpolluted leaders

I eagerly await the day, perhaps in the 2028 or 2030 elections, when the current crop of politicians will have passed – and that means everybody from Netanyahu to Lapid and Gafni.

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Sep 4 • 3:52 PM EDT • Politics • jpost.com
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Opinion: San Diego must reject the demonization of Jews in politics

Describing Jewish political participation as foreign, corrupt, or subversive is a clear attempt to normalize prejudice and hatred.

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Sep 4 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • timesofsandiego.com
October 7 attack shapes Israel’s elections and fuels political blame
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Sep 4 • 12:20 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
‘Fauda’ Creator Calls Mark Ruffalo ‘Ignorant’ Over 'Genocide' Remarks

'Fauda' creator Avi Issacharoff has called Mark Ruffalo as 'ignorant' on Israel-Hamas conflict.

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Sep 4 • 11:44 AM EDT • Politics • variety.com
From High Tech to Politics: Mati Gill Bets on Bennett To Rebuild Israel

Mati Gill grew up looking at photographs of […]

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Sep 4 • 9:51 AM EDT • Politics • themedialine.org
CT to spend $10 million to continue health care subsidies for paraeducators

Connecticut is spending $10 million this academic year to continue a health care subsidy program for public school paraeducators.

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Sep 4 • 8:11 AM EDT • Health • wshu.org
Israel's water crisis eases, but algae bloom still threatens desalination

Israel's Water Authority said supplies to households and agriculture have stabilized through controlled desalination, increased flows from the Sea of Galilee and hundreds of groundwater wells, but it gave no estimate for when the algae bloom will subside

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Sep 4 • 7:41 AM EDT • Science • haaretz.com
Israel's water crisis eases, but algae bloom still threatens desalination

The Water Authority said supplies to households and agriculture have stabilized through controlled desalination, increased flows from the Sea of Galilee and hundreds of groundwater wells, but it gave no estimate for when the algae bloom will subside

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Sep 4 • 7:41 AM EDT • Science • haaretz.com
Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator

The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.

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Sep 3 • 9:00 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Vance says Iran conflict isn’t a ‘war,’ even as he refuses to say when it will end

Vice President JD Vance could provide neither a timeline for the Iran war to end nor a date when gas prices might sink below pre-war levels during a White House appearance Thursday, suggesting instead it was up to Iran to conclude the conflict that began with joint US-Israeli airstrikes six months ago.

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Sep 3 • 5:01 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Is the Israel Lobby Doomed?

Pro-Israel influence over US politics is weaker than ever—but that doesn’t mean the lobby’s demise is inevitable.

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Sep 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • thenation.com
As election looms, Netanyahu turns his focus to his divided base

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks reelection, his main concern these days isn’t his political rivals. It’s some of his biggest supporters.

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Sep 3 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • apnews.com
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With his eye on reelection, Israel's Netanyahu turns his focus to his divided base

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks reelection, his main concern these days isn’t his political rivals | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

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Sep 3 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • audacy.com
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Erin Rae of V-103 has the latest in entertainment headlines

Lionel Richie is recovering in the hospital, Dyson releases a new smart toothbrush, and a man who was pretending to be an NFL player has gone viral.

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Sep 2 • 10:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
Rahm Emanuel on MAGA, the DSA, Israel, and If He'll Run for President

Rahm Emanuel wants to take on Republicans and Democrats from the "pragmatic center." He talks Israel, the DSA, a possible run for president and more.

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Sep 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • rollingstone.com
A coffee-table-size scorpion roamed Earth before forests existed

A meter-long scorpion with massive pincers stalked ancient Britain 415 million years ago, long before forests and the better-known age of giant insects. Its surprising size and possible semi-aquatic lifestyle could reshape ideas about how early arthropods became giants.

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Sep 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
‘Israel is politics’: Was a woman kicked out of a salon for supporting Israel or being Israeli-American?

Brandeis Center files civil rights complaint after a customer was kicked out of an Alexandria, Virginia salon

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Sep 2 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • forward.com
Former Florida governor hopeful hauled out of county meeting after protesting Isarael investments

James Fischback was forcibly removed from a Miami-Dade commissioners meeting after protesting the county's raised investment limit in Israel bonds.

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Sep 1 • 7:29 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Israel’s politics pivot to shared good health

A prominent Zionist politician will run in the next election with an Israeli Arab party, perhaps making it a political kingmaker. His vision: an Israel that can heal its many divides in a way similar to how institutions of healing provide universal care based on equal dignity.

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Sep 1 • 3:02 PM EDT • Politics • csmonitor.com
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Online entertainment sites in the context of U.S.-Israel business and technology

How American market scale and Israeli expertise in cybersecurity, AI, fintech and software are shaping the technology behind digital entertainment.

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Sep 1 • 2:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • jpost.com
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From Israel to international markets: How geography shapes digital entertainment apps

From local regulations to payment systems and user experience, geography plays a defining role in shaping how digital entertainment apps work across international markets.

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Sep 1 • 2:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • jpost.com
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Ada Yonath, Chemist and First Israeli Woman to Receive a Nobel, Dies at 87

Her mapping of the ribosome, which led to new designs for antibiotics, faced years of derision, as many scientists saw it as a dead-end effort.

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Sep 1 • 11:02 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
JD Vance confronts Jewish GOP skeptics ahead of a 2028 run

Vice President JD Vance has in recent months given voice to a rising skepticism in America toward Israel, leaving some Jewish Republicans uncomfortable, if not openly concerned, about the expected GOP frontrunner in the next presidential election.

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Sep 1 • 9:21 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Arteta builds on firm foundations - still business to be done?

Arsenal have one of the best squads in Europe. The Gunners spent £250m last summer, bringing in eight players as they won the Premier League, and have already spent about £200m this year, turning Piero Hincapie's loan deal into a permanent one (£34.5m), signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United (£75m), Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge (£34m) and Ezri Konsa from Aston Villa (£55m).

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Sep 1 • 2:46 AM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
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Can this unlikely pair reshape Israeli politics?

In Israel’s divided politics, an Islamist leader is teaming up with a former Israeli police officer. CNN’s Tal Shalev explains that the unlikely pairing hopes to break new ground as they reshape what’s possible and address the everyday issues that affect the country’s Arab population.

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Aug 31 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Lebanon asks Greece to help enforce agreement with Israel

After Greece agrees to Israeli weapons deal, Joseph Aoun asks Athens to help advance US-brokered framework agreement.

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Aug 31 • 4:24 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
JD Vance set to address Jewish conservatives, as some Jews in GOP share concerns about his recent Israel remarks

Vice President JD Vance is set to address a gathering of Jewish conservatives on Monday, even as some Jews in the GOP have raised concerns about his remarks on Israel.

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Aug 31 • 5:23 AM EDT • Politics • abcnews.com
Vance to privately address Republican Jewish Coalition during tension over Israel and antisemitism

Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to speak Monday at the annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

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Aug 31 • 12:07 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
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Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander faces anti-Israel hecklers at New York protest

Brad Lander, a Democratic congressional nominee in New York City, faced heckling Saturday over his stance on Israel as he protested a Hindu nationalist politician speaking at Madison Square Garden.

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Aug 30 • 8:23 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Israel’s Youngest Political Candidate Shuns 'Petty Politics,' Represents War Generation

When asked where he wanted to work in […]

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Aug 30 • 10:04 AM EDT • Politics • themedialine.org
Palestinian health officials say Israeli attacks killed three in central Gaza

Israeli strikes and fire in central Gaza killed three Palestinians and wounded others on Saturday, according to local health officials.

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Aug 30 • 5:29 AM EDT • Health • apnews.com
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Denver Broncos have waived defensive lineman Israel Antwine

According to Chris Tomasson of the Denver Gazette, the Denver Broncos have waived defensive lineman Israel Antwine.

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Aug 29 • 4:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules

The decision largely piggybacks on findings from nearly a year ago by a U.S. district judge in Boston

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Aug 29 • 3:55 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules

The decision largely piggybacks on findings from nearly a year ago by a U.S. district judge in Boston

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Aug 29 • 3:55 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com
Analysis: Encouraging signs for new boss Jaissle

Newcastle fans may well have found themselves in the opposite position to Spurs supporters before the campaign had started - fearful of what was coming. Tonali was one of three key departures from St James' Park, along with captain Bruno Guimaraes, who went to Arsenal for £85m this month, and England winger Anthony Gordon after his £69m move to Barcelona. Manager Eddie Howe left on 31 July after nearly five successful years, which included guiding the Magpies to their first domestic trophy in 70 years with victory in the 2025 Carabao Cup.

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Aug 29 • 3:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules

The decision largely piggybacks on findings from nearly a year ago by a U.S. district judge in Boston

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Aug 29 • 2:20 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules

The decision largely piggybacks on findings from nearly a year ago by a U.S. district judge in Boston

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Aug 29 • 2:20 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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