Headlines for August 23, 2024

Kamala Harris Accepts Democratic Presidential Nomination, Backs Israel While Calling for End to War, Uncommitted Delegates Walk DNC Halls Arm in Arm After Being Denied Opportunity to Take the Stage, New Round of Ceasefire Talks in Cairo as Israel Rebuffs Demand to Withdraw Troops from Gaza, Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinians, Destroy Homes in West Bank Raid on Tulkarm, Desperately Needed U.N. Food Trucks Begin to Enter Darfur After Sudan Military Reopens Chad Border, Arkansas’s Top Court Rejects Abortion Ballot Measure over Technicality, SCOTUS Allows AZ GOP to Demand New Voters Prove Citizenship When Registering, NLRB Rules Amazon Must Bargain with Subcontracted Unionized Delivery Workers, Israel’s War on Palestinian Territories Has Driven a Spike in Water-Related Violence, U.N. Head Meets with Displaced Samoans, Warns Pacific Island Nations Face Existential Climate Threat, Flooding Causes Death, Misery for Millions in Bangladesh; Amazon Wildfires Spurred by Historic Drought, Billions of Crabs in Bering Sea Died Off in 2022 Due to Higher Water Temps in Arctic, Modi in Ukraine After Visiting Moscow; Putin Accuses Ukraine of Attacking Nuclear Plant in Kursk, Thousands More Rohingya Forces to Flee Burma Amid Deadly Attacks by Armed Groups, MIT Enrollment of Black Students Plummets After SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling, University of California Bans Protest Encampments in Wake of Student Uprising for Gaza, FDA Approves New COVID Vaccines Amid Major Summer Surge in Cases, Deadlier Strain of Mpox Detected in Thailand