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A bicycle owner passes via a park throughout a night journey, Monday, June 26, 2023, in San Antonio.

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A bicycle owner passes via a park throughout a night journey, Monday, June 26, 2023, in San Antonio.

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Millions of individuals in a lot of the Southern U.S. are beneath excessive warmth advisories. In Texas, residents have skilled 100-degree temperatures for 3 weeks and counting. (through KERA)

• Several cities in Texas are seeing record-breaking warmth index numbers, based on KUT’s Mose Buchele. He stories on Up First in the present day at the very least nine heat-related deaths have occurred, although some are nonetheless beneath investigation.
•  Here’s tips on how to keep protected in the event you’re experiencing extreme heat in your space.

A federal watchdog estimates that at the very least $200 billion of the $1.2 trillion federal support given to companies by the Small Business Administration through the pandemic was probably fraudulent. The Office of the Inspector General claims in a brand new report that the frenzy to supply pandemic support made it simpler for scammers to get loans for non-existent companies and have them forgiven.

• NPR’s Martin Kaste says the Biden administration is pushing again, saying potential fraud isn’t actual fraud. Gene Sperling, a senior advisor to Biden, tells Kaste he predicts the $200 billion determine might be a lot decrease as soon as the instances are examined extra intently.

The Supreme Court rejected the unbiased state legislature idea in a 6-3 ruling yesterday. Advocates of the idea wish to give state legislatures ultimate authority over federal elections. The court docket’s ruling means state courts and constitutions can defend voting rights.

After finishing a go to to the detention heart at U.S. naval station Guantánamo Bay, a U.N. investigator says prisoners nonetheless face “cruel, inhuman and degrading” remedy and that the location must be closed. The first official U.N. investigator to go to Guantánamo Bay, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, discovered “near-constant surveillance, forced cell extractions, [and] undue use of restraints” on the facility, the place 30 males stay detained.

Picture present

Patrons at a membership in Kharkiv maintain sparklers within the darkened room. Despite the continuing conflict, individuals are nonetheless discovering a method launch stress in nightclubs within the the battered metropolis.

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Patrons at a membership in Kharkiv maintain sparklers within the darkened room. Despite the continuing conflict, individuals are nonetheless discovering a method launch stress in nightclubs within the the battered metropolis.

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Despite greater than a yr of conflict in Ukraine, common missile strikes and energy outages, the occasion goes all night time lengthy at a basement membership in Kharkiv. See images of residents dancing the night away and shouting lyrics beneath flashing crimson, blue and inexperienced lights.

From our hosts

Left: A selfie Michel Martin took with Virginia Johnson. Right: A poster of the Dance Theatre of Harlem on Michel Martin’s wall.

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Left: A selfie Michel Martin took with Virginia Johnson. Right: A poster of the Dance Theatre of Harlem on Michel Martin’s wall.

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This essay was written by Michel Martin, Morning Edition’s latest host. She’s beforehand hosted Weekend All Things Considered, the Consider This Saturday podcast and Tell Me More.

As a bit lady, I might consider few issues extra magical than being a ballerina. It’s fascinating as a result of I do not suppose I noticed an expert ballet till I used to be an grownup. Television? Maybe…my household did not all the time have a TV (do not ask, okay?).

That dream — sparkly tutus, glittering headpieces and twirling — is widespread for little ladies.

But it is largely a dream. Ballet coaching is pricey. Professional alternatives are few, particularly for dancers of coloration. The traditional “white ballets” (which refers back to the costumes) are rooted within the white European aesthetic.

So think about the novel notion of a Dance Theatre of Harlem: a faculty and firm based by Arthur Mitchell to coach and showcase dancers of coloration, particularly black dancers.

Virginia Johnson, one of many founding members, returned as Artistic Director after 28 years as a dancer to carry the corporate again from a years-long interval of economic turmoil. Having achieved that, she is about to embark on a brand new journey.

When we sat down on the firm’s rehearsal studios in New York, it took me a minute to shake off being starstruck. It was as if she got here off the poster on my wall — which I nonetheless have as you may see!

But she was no diva. She was heat, type and really a lot of this earth. Her message: Dance is human, ballet is for everyone, and so is the magic.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Barbara Romero and her son Daniel.

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Barbara Romero and her son Daniel.

Barbara Romero

1. Before Barbara Romero’s son Daniel was identified with schizophrenia, she and her husband struggled together with his conduct. She says a name to her unsung hero, a social employee, remodeled her perspective of her son’s situation.
2. Chris Gloninger left his job as a meteorologist due to threats he obtained over his local weather change protection. Now, he is tackling climate change extra instantly.
3. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office confirmed actor Julian Sands’ dying after his remains were found on California’s Mount Baldy. Sands, identified for his position in A Room with a View, was final seen mountain climbing Mount Baldy in January.

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.