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Today’s high tales

President Biden will designate practically 1,000,000 acres of land close to the Grand Canyon as a nationwide monument immediately. The monument will protect lands sacred to Indigenous populations and stop new uranium mining within the space.

A portion of Grand Canyon National Park and the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument

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A portion of Grand Canyon National Park and the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument

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• Native nations have advocated for land safety for greater than a decade. The Havasupai tribe within the Grand Canyon says uranium mining threatens their sole water source.
• Biden’s journey can also be tied to the intense warmth threatening the Southwest, a Biden official tells NPR’s Tamara Keith. On Up First immediately, she says Biden can even announce $44 million in funding to spice up local weather resilience in nationwide parks nationwide and notes his journey comes forward of the one-year anniversary of the local weather and well being care invoice often called the Inflation Reduction Act. She provides the journey is a chance for Biden to make native headlines forward of the 2024 election.

Ohioans head to the ballots immediately to resolve whether or not to make it harder to change the state’s constitution. Issue 1 goals to boost the brink of approval for future amendments to 60% as a substitute of a easy majority. The end result of immediately’s vote would have an effect on a November vote on a constitutional modification to guard abortion rights. (through Statehouse News Bureau)

• Statehouse News Bureau’s Karen Kasler says an “under the radar” a part of Issue 1 would additionally make it harder to get issues on the ballot at all by requiring teams to get signatures from all 88 counties in Ohio as a substitute of 44. She provides that Republicans say the vote is about greater than abortion, and Issue 1 is supposed to stop out-of-state particular pursuits from affecting the state Constitution.

The American Red Cross has adopted new eligibility tips for giving blood that may permit homosexual and bisexual males to donate. The group is implementing tips from the FDA that concentrate on particular person danger elements reasonably than sexual orientation. The new guidelines apply to anybody who has had new or a number of new companions within the final three months and has participated in anal intercourse.

• The Washington Post’s Fenit Nirappil explains that for the primary time, heterosexuals could be banned from giving blood underneath the brand new guidelines. He says it is one of many largest shifts seen in a long time from a corporation that contributes a big portion of the nation’s blood provide.

Living higher

NPR’s Yuki Noguchi awaits a bowl of ramen noodles in a Tokyo restaurant.

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NPR’s Yuki Noguchi awaits a bowl of ramen noodles in a Tokyo restaurant.

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Living Better is a special series about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

NPR’s Yuki Noguchi was born and raised within the Midwest and infrequently visits her household’s homeland in Japan. There, she’s struck by the quantity of scrumptious, contemporary meals out there. While Japan and the U.S. are each rich, industrialized cities, they’ve vastly totally different weight problems ranges. Noguchi seems to be into how Japanese society makes healthy living easier:

• Japan’s “default design” is protected and densely populated, with a inhabitants that depends closely on public transportation. This means they get extra train by strolling.
• The nation’s conventional weight-reduction plan leans greens, seaweed and seafood, with an emphasis on high quality vs amount.
• Even comfort retailer meals is contemporary: noodle salads, rice balls and bento packing containers are swapped out a number of instances every day.
• Japanese college lunches are free and produced from scratch. Students find out about vitamin, serving and cleansing.

Today’s hear

Pakistan’s Nawai Waqt newspaper reveals a narrative about Shahnaz Gul and Mustafa Zaidi, revealed on October 28, 1970. Newspapers in West Pakistan ran intensive protection of the dying of Mustafa Zaidi. This article is concerning the police’s investigation in 1970.

Saba Imtiaz.

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Saba Imtiaz.

Pakistan’s Nawai Waqt newspaper reveals a narrative about Shahnaz Gul and Mustafa Zaidi, revealed on October 28, 1970. Newspapers in West Pakistan ran intensive protection of the dying of Mustafa Zaidi. This article is concerning the police’s investigation in 1970.

Saba Imtiaz.

Poet Mustafa Zaidi’s dying in Karachi, Pakistan in 1970 triggered a media frenzy. At the time, it was reported as a love affair gone unhealthy — Zaidi was embroiled in a public affair with socialite Shehnaz Gul. Both had been married with youngsters. NPR’s Diaa Hadid talks to 2 authors who reexamined the case in a real crime podcast. Clips from the podcast present how Saba Imtiaz and Tooba Masood uncovered a more disturbing story as they dropped at life Karachi within the 60s and 70s.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

A big black bear often called 64F was captured by state authorities within the space round Lake Tahoe, Calif., on Friday after being liable for at the least 21 house break-ins.

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A big black bear often called 64F was captured by state authorities within the space round Lake Tahoe, Calif., on Friday after being liable for at the least 21 house break-ins.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

1. “Hank the Tank,” the bear behind 21 house invasions close to Lake Tahoe, Calif., has been caught. But here is the twist: Hank is actually a Henrietta — and he or she has three bear cubs together with her.
2. Police in Montgomery, Ala., arrested a number of folks after a waterfront brawl rapidly spiraled out of control. Videos of the battle went viral on X, previously often called Twitter.
3. Where do bees come from? Scientists have lastly answered the query — the world’s first bees emerged more than 120 million years ago from a supercontinent encompassing Africa and South America. 

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.