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Sam Bankman-Fried, founding father of now-defunct cryptocurrency trade FTX, is due in court docket right this moment in his fraud trial. He’s pleaded responsible to seven prison counts and will spend the remainder of his life in jail if discovered responsible. Here’s everything you need to know concerning the trial.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail listening to at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on Aug. 11. Bankman-Fried is ready to begin his blockbuster trial on Tuesday. It’s anticipated to final about six weeks.

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Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail listening to at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on Aug. 11. Bankman-Fried is ready to begin his blockbuster trial on Tuesday. It’s anticipated to final about six weeks.

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• Central to the case is FTX’s relationship with Alameda Research, a crypt-focused hedge fund additionally based by Bankman-Fried. On Up First, NPR’s David Gura says prosecutors allege he used cash from FTX traders to plug a “giant hole” in Alameda’s funds. Defense attorneys are anticipated to assert that Bankman-Fried did not intend to defraud anybody and was in over his head. 

Ukrainian troops are making restricted progress in retaking Russian-occupied land as winter approaches. U.S. help can also be wavering because the battle drags on. The stopgap spending invoice Congress handed over the weekend to maintain the federal authorities open didn’t embrace additional assist for Ukraine. Here’s a take a look at key developments in the war prior to now week.

• Though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is still advocating for extra assist, NPR’s Joanna Kakissis says the Ukrainian authorities can also be looking for long-term alternatives to international assist. The nation’s new protection minister, Rustem Umerov, needs to companion with allies to supply weapons his nation wants and export them after the battle.

Pope Francis has steered there could possibly be methods to bless same-sex unions if the blessings aren’t confused with sacramental marriage. He was responding to a letter from 5 conservative cardinals who challenged him to make clear his place on church educating on homosexuality. His assertion comes forward of a three-week assembly, or synod, that begins tomorrow on the Vatican. LGBTQ+ Catholics will likely be a giant matter, and will probably be the primary time girls are allowed to vote on the way forward for the church.

• Morning Edition host Leila Fadel speaks to Kate McElwee, government director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, who says Catholic girls worldwide are longing for equality and the church should confront their requires better participation. Though Francis defended the longstanding educating that marriage is between a person and a girl, she says his name for “pastoral charity” is a step towards equality for LGBTQ+ Catholics. 

The U.N. Security Council authorized a decision written by the U.S. and Ecuador yesterday that will ship a multinational armed power led by Kenya to assist fight gang violence in Haiti. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry made the plea for worldwide assist practically a 12 months in the past.

• Ever since Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in 2021, the nation has been “spiraling out of control,” in response to NPR’s Eyder Peralta. Though Kenyan forces have been despatched on different peacekeeping missions, Peralta reviews they have been accused of human rights abuses again dwelling. He spoke to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield about them. She mentioned the decision included “strong language” on human rights.

Climate options week

This pure pond helps reserve precipitation within the ecological hall of Qian’an, a metropolis in China’s Hebei province. Like many different Chinese cities, Qian’an used to fall sufferer to city flooding throughout wet seasons. But issues have modified since 2015, when the town was included in a nationwide pilot program for “sponge city” building.

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This pure pond helps reserve precipitation within the ecological hall of Qian’an, a metropolis in China’s Hebei province. Like many different Chinese cities, Qian’an used to fall sufferer to city flooding throughout wet seasons. But issues have modified since 2015, when the town was included in a nationwide pilot program for “sponge city” building.

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NPR is dedicating this complete week to tales and conversations concerning the search for climate solutions.

Nearly all of China’s medium and enormous cities are inclined to floods. Climate change-driven excessive climate has made the issue worse. That’s why Yu Kongjian needs to build more “sponge cities.” Also referred to as inexperienced infrastructure, low-impact improvement or delicate city design, these locations are purposely designed to soak up water again into the Earth.

Check out all of NPR’s Climate Solutions Week stories, together with how villagers in a single area of Northern India are studying to recharge the dried, groundwater-fed springs they rely upon.

Body electrical

Body Electric is a 6-part investigation and interactive venture with TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi exploring the connection between our expertise and our our bodies…and the way we are able to enhance it.

Since the start of human historical past, our our bodies have morphed to adapt to the kind of work we do and the instruments we use. Our species began as hunter-gatherers. Now, practically 85% of individuals within the U.S. have sedentary jobs, and the typical U.S. grownup spends 11 hours a day utilizing some type of expertise. Hours of sitting and display screen time can enhance the dangers of diabetes, coronary heart illness, most cancers and extra — and figuring out as soon as a day is not sufficient to offset the harms. So what can we do about it?

• On the primary episode of Body Electric, creator Vybarr Cregan-Reid explains how different economic eras have formed the human physique. Plus, study a problem that might assist break our sedentary habits.

As a part of this particular collection, NPR is partnering with Columbia University researchers. They’ve discovered the least quantity of motion wanted to offset the harms of our sedentary habits. But can their suggestions work in the actual world? We need your assist to search out out. Here’s find out how to be a part of us.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

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1. Hey Barbie! Or ought to I say, Stevie? Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks joins Tina Turner, Gloria Estefan, David Bowie and Elvis Presley as one in every of Mattel’s newest Barbies based mostly on well-known musicians.
2. The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a brand new stamp that includes a portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Here’s the story behind the photograph that impressed the stamp. 
3. This 12 months’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to 2 scientists for his or her analysis that made mRNA COVID-19 vaccines possible. 

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.