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Today’s high tales

Police in Lewiston, Maine, are looking for an individual of curiosity in a collection of mass shootings that occurred final evening. The county is under a shelter-in-place order. Police warn that 40-year-old Robert Card is taken into account armed and harmful.

• Maine Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck stated casualties occurred, however did not release a death toll. On Up First immediately, Maine Public’s Patty Wight says police are calling the scenario “fluid” and numbers “all over the map.” 

A manhunt is on in Maine after a collection of mass shootings. And, NPR needs to understand how the Israel-Gaza disaster is affecting you.

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A manhunt is on in Maine after a collection of mass shootings. And, NPR needs to understand how the Israel-Gaza disaster is affecting you.

Joseph Prezioso/AFP through Getty Images

• Just a few dozen help vehicles have entered Gaza in latest days. But the U.N. says it could actually’t proceed to distribute desperately wanted reduction unless fuel is delivered to energy hospitals, the water system and automobiles for transporting meals. Israel says gas deliveries could possibly be diverted by Hamas. 
• The gas disaster has left tens of millions of Gazans in darkness at evening, stockpiling supplies. NPR’s Elissa Nadworny is in Tel Aviv, the place she’s talking with Palestinians trapped in Gaza. Mahmoud Khuwaiter, who’s in Gaza City, says, “I’m afraid for the next day — afraid for the night to come.”
• Massachusetts resident Wafaa Abuzayda and her household have been attempting to depart Gaza for 2 weeks. “We’re trying to stay strong,” she tells NPR’s Leila Fadel in an replace. “But we can not assist however feel hopeless and deserted.”
• Who had been the militants who carried out the assaults that killed greater than 1,400 in Israel earlier this month? NPR’s Daniel Estrin and producer Abu Bakr Bashir convey the story of an attacker named Mohammed. Interviews together with his father and neighbor discover what draws some young men to affix Gaza’s militant teams.
• Historically, hate crimes within the U.S. surge throughout conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. NPR’s Odette Yousef spoke to consultants who say there is a “perfect storm” brewing for rising anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate.
• How have the Middle East battle and the U.S. response affected you? How are you coping? Share your thoughts with NPR, and you can be in a narrative on-line or on air. 

Check out npr.org/mideastupdates for extra protection, differing views and evaluation of this battle.

After weeks of chaos, GOP reps voted unanimously for Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson as the brand new speaker of the House. Johnson is a Trump supporter who voted in opposition to certifying the 2020 election. Here’s what we know concerning the ardent conservative.

• “It’s hard to overstate” how relieved Republicans feel proper now, NPR’s Eric McDaniel says.” But Johnson isn’t likely to have a “honeymoon” period. He must now work with President Biden and a Democrat-led Senate to tackle an impending government shutdown and aid packages for Israel and Ukraine.

Disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is set to testify in his defense for his fraud trial today. Throughout the trial, he’s maintained he never intended to defraud FTX customers and investors and was in over his head. His ex-girlfriend and closest mates inform a unique story.

Picture present

Left: Apolonia Plácido choosing up flowers. Right: Flowers supplied to the placenta of a new child who was simply born within the CAMI.

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Left: Apolonia Plácido choosing up flowers. Right: Flowers supplied to the placenta of a new child who was simply born within the CAMI.

Tania Barrientos

In Costa Chica de Guerrero, a coastal area in southwest Mexico, Indigenous ladies usually depend on conventional midwives. Photographer Tania Barrientos documents the lives of several midwives who work at ladies’s facilities known as CAMIs. Their intercultural method primarily serves Indigenous ladies who reside in distant areas with out entry to government-funded well being providers.

Life recommendation

Decades of analysis have proven that “forest bathing,” a observe the Japanese name shinrin-yoku, is nice to your well being. It can enhance your immune system, decrease blood stress and ease despair. Next time you want some self-care, try forest bathing with a few of Life Kit’s ideas:

• Set an excellent period of time apart to encompass your self with timber.
• Move slowly and give attention to reducing your coronary heart fee.
• Try meditating and taking note of the scents of the forest. 

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo Portuguese canine, poses for a photograph together with his Guinness World Record certificates for the oldest canine, at his dwelling in Conqueiros, central Portugal, on May 20.

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Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo Portuguese canine, poses for a photograph together with his Guinness World Record certificates for the oldest canine, at his dwelling in Conqueiros, central Portugal, on May 20.

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1. The world’s oldest canine has died. Bobi the purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo Portuguese canine was a good boy for a record-breaking 31 years.
2. Are films too attractive today? A UCLA research reveals that Gen Z needs to see more platonic relationships and asexual characters represented on display.
3. After weeks of backlash, Scholastic says it is going to no longer separate books about race, gender and sexuality from its principal Scholastic Book Fair assortment. 

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.