Headlines for July 8, 2024

France’s Leftist Coalition Pulls Off Shock Victory in Upset for Far Right and Macron’s Centrist Gov’t, U.K.’s Labour Party Returns to Power with Keir Starmer as New PM After 14 Years of Conservative Rule, Iran Elects More Moderate Candidate Masoud Pezeshkian as New President, The Lancet: Gaza’s True Death Toll Could Be 186,000 or Higher, Another Israeli Attack on an UNRWA School Kills at Least 16 Gazans, Including Children, 5,300 New Illegal Settlements Approved in Occupied West Bank, Israelis Protest Against Netanyahu, Demand Ceasefire and Hostage Deal, Haaretz: Israeli Officials OK’d Using Hannibal Directive to Turn Border Area on Oct. 7 into “Extermination Zone”, Democrats Split on Biden’s Fitness to Lead Party to Victory as He Continues to Stumble in Public, Boeing Agrees to DOJ Plea Deal over 737 MAX Crashes to Avoid Criminal Trial, NATO Members Pledge $43B to Ukraine as Russian Strikes Kill 29, Damage Infrastructure, Heat Wave Sizzles Much of U.S. as Wildfires Displace Californians, Hurricane Beryl Makes Landfall in Texas After Ravaging Yucatán and Caribbean Nations, Karen Community in Utica, NY, Mourning After Police Killing of 13-Year-Old Nyah Mway, Jane McAlevey, Beloved Labor Organizer and Author, Has Died at 59