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Six states have now promised to ship their Nationwide Guard troops to Washington, D.C., which is able to lead to over 1,100 new troopers patrolling the streets. The entire states up to now have Republican governors: Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ohio. The deployment follows President Trump’s declaration that there’s a “crime emergency” within the nation’s capital.

• 🎧 NPR’s Meg Anderson tells Up First that after final 12 months’s homicide charges, she discovered that lots of the states sending troops have cities with increased crime counts than the capital. In Jackson, Miss., the homicide fee is 4 occasions increased than that of Washington, and in Memphis, it’s practically triple. Washington nonetheless has a better violent crime fee than another main cities, together with New York Metropolis, however the numbers are falling. Insha Rahman, with the advocacy group the Vera Institute of Justice, says the president’s enlisting of governors to ship troops alerts a political energy seize, and it is not about making cities safer.

European leaders have been urgently working to determine the subsequent steps to ending Russia’s practically four-year conflict in Ukraine following their assembly on the White Home on Monday. Trump has dominated out sending U.S. troops to hitch a European-led pressure that may guard towards one other potential Russian invasion. Lower than 24 hours after the conferences with Trump, the European Union leaders who had been current had been in digital classes debriefing their counterparts.

• 🎧 The urgency exhibits how high-stakes that is for Europe, says reporter Teri Schultz. Trump has pledged that the U.S. will assist with safety ensures for Ukraine, however the president has made it clear he desires Europe to take the lead. European Council President António Costa says there’s a troublesome street forward, however the U.S.’s assist has introduced reassurance. A big unanswered query is how keen Europeans are to ship their individuals to Ukraine as a result of it’s unclear whether or not the mission could be to observe, reinforce or defend a ceasefire. These phrases all imply very various things and carry totally different ranges of hazard for these deployed.

Texas lawmakers are anticipated to vote in favor of redrawing the state’s congressional map at the moment. The invoice would then head to the Senate tomorrow after which to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is predicted to signal it. Texas Democrats left the state for a few weeks to decelerate this course of. Upon their return, Texas Republican Home Speaker Dustin Burrows ordered Democrats to signal a paper pledging they might present up at the moment in the event that they wished to depart the constructing after work earlier this week.

• 🎧 The brand new map, which may convey 5 new GOP seats, may make all of the distinction for Republicans, who at the moment maintain the Home by just a few seats, Blaise Gainey of The Texas Newsroom says. Democrats say the brand new map weakens Black and Latino votes in unlawful methods, they usually will problem it in courtroom. California Democrats additionally plan to vote this week on a map that may give an edge to 5 extra Democrats within the Home subsequent 12 months. In California, the legislation requires an unbiased fee to do the redistricting, however the state is searching for voters’ approval in a particular election in November.

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There is a rising consensus amongst researchers on what number of day by day steps are wanted to enhance well being.

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Residing Higher is a particular sequence about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

Counting steps is the principle approach many individuals monitor their day by day exercise — or lack of it. Many Individuals spend nine-plus hours sitting every single day and will in all probability stand to take just a few extra steps. However what number of day by day steps do it’s essential enhance your well being? New analysis, revealed in The Lancet Public Well being, suggests 7,000 is an effective goal, and the extra you progress, the much less doubtless you might be to die from heart problems and different illnesses. Nonetheless, the proof would not low cost the worth of getting greater than that many steps per day. This is what else the analysis discovered:

• 🚶‍♀️ The broadly cited goal of 10,000 steps isn’t rooted in stable science; as a substitute, it was popularized by a Japanese promotional marketing campaign.
• 🚶‍♀️ The examine discovered that taking 7,000 steps a day diminished the possibility of growing Sort 2 diabetes by 14%, heart problems by 25%, signs of melancholy by 22% and dementia by 38%.
• 🚶‍♀️ The examine was unable to attract any definitive conclusions about whether or not the velocity you’re taking your steps makes a distinction. There are numerous methods to measure depth and noticed distinctions may merely replicate higher total health and bodily perform.

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Members of Calling All Brothers welcome the scholars of Dr. Martin Luther King College of Social Justice and Breakthrough Magnet College to their first day of college in Hartford on August 17, 2024.

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NPR community photographers all cowl all kinds of tales in numerous components of the U.S., and perceive that photographs join individuals in methods phrases cannot. In every project, they typically discover widespread floor within the on a regular basis moments of communities gathering. To have fun World Pictures Day, they shared these moments in Right here, collectively, a visible exploration of scenes of household, buddies, neighbors and strangers that showcase distinctive experiences of pleasure and challenges. Every photographer displays on the complicated methods we join, coexist and navigate life. From a whole bunch gathering for Seattle’s annual “From Hiroshima to Hope” occasion to the weiner canine race in St. Louis, try their work.

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This undated artist’s conception launched by NASA 13 April, 1999 exhibits an intermediate-sized black gap, which exists within the coronary heart of spiral galaxies all through the universe. Black holes emit no gentle. What’s seen from Earth is the accretion disk (matter swirling into the black gap, typically glowing in x-ray power) and jets (beams of particles shifting away from the black gap). An intermediate-sized black gap is 100 to 10,000 occasions as huge because the Solar, but occupies a area smaller than the Moon. Beforehand, solely two kinds of black holes had been thought to exist: stellar black holes, a number of occasions extra huge than the Solar, and supermassive black holes, with the mass of one million or billion occasions that of the Solar. AFP PHOTO NASA (Picture by NASA / AFP) (Picture by NASA/AFP through Getty Photographs)

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1. A analysis crew detected the oldest and most distant black gap utilizing information from NASA’s James Webb Telescope. It shaped shortly after the Large Bang.
2. College students at Central Excessive College in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., got here again to highschool dressed to impress. They shared model suggestions everybody can use. (through KCUR)
3. Extra ladies within the U.S. are having infants with out companions. NPR is occupied with exploring the distinctive conditions and challenges that single mothers face. In case you have a narrative to share, fill out this manner, and you can be featured in a future story.

This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.