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Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former confidant to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the pinnacle of the Wagner mercenary group, launched a rise up over the weekend and commenced marching towards Moscow. Within hours, he known as it off and agreed to go away Russia. Still, some analysts say the incident will weaken Putin’s authority.

Members of Wagner Group stand on the balcony of a constructing within the metropolis of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday, June 24.

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Members of Wagner Group stand on the balcony of a constructing within the metropolis of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday, June 24.

Roman Romokhov/AFP through Getty Images

• NPR’s Greg Myre studies Putin has been quiet since Saturday morning, and nobody has heard from Prigozhin after he introduced he would go away Russia and go to Belarus. On Up First this morning, Myre says the rise up got here at an opportune time for Ukrainians, and President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said it proved Russia is weak.
• The incident has left the destiny of the Wagner group unclear. Here’s what could happen next.

Activists in Atlanta are gathering for every week of motion towards a proposed police and hearth coaching facility. Police abolitionists and racial justice advocates oppose the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, derisively known as “Cop City.” Environmental activists say it should destroy a forest some name one in all Atlanta’s “four lungs.”

• Law enforcement started arresting dozens of activists in December and alleged they belonged to a domestic violent extremism group, in accordance with NPR’s Odette Yousef. She says these actions have precipitated confusion as a result of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security does not hold a listing of home violent extremism teams. It’s led to disagreements amongst native officers: Dekalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston not too long ago introduced her workplace would not prosecute 42 defendants.

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association estimates that greater than 7,500 pedestrians had been killed by drivers final 12 months — the highest number in decades. It may take years to implement insurance policies to guard pedestrians. But specialists say small adjustments like implementing sharp corners as a substitute of rounded curves at turns, decreasing velocity limits and putting in dashing and pink mild cameras may make an enormous distinction now.

The FDA is poised to approve the primary drug proven to decelerate Alzheimer’s illness by July 6. The approval means Medicare will begin to cover lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, making it obtainable for greater than one million sufferers. Still, many hurdles stay.

• Even with insurance coverage, the drug’s worth might be an impediment, and mind scans and associated providers associated to the therapy may not be covered, studies NPR’s Jon Hamilton. On Morning Edition, he says that Medicare would require docs to affix a registry monitoring the drug’s security, and the additional paperwork may discourage them from prescribing the drug.

Life recommendation

Martinus Evans is the creator of the Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run.

Left: Photograph by Drew Reynolds; Right: Avery Publishing Group

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Martinus Evans is the creator of the Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run.

Left: Photograph by Drew Reynolds; Right: Avery Publishing Group

Contrary to common perception, working is for everybody. At least, Martinus Evans thinks so. He wrote Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run and has recommendation for individuals who need to get began.

• Check your kind: Don’t clench your fists or take a look at your toes.
• Breathe deliberately out of your stomach, not your chest.
• Find your “sexy pace:” It’s the velocity at which you are capable of have a full, lengthy dialog whereas nonetheless working. 
• Pick up specialty trainers, and do not put on cotton — it chafes.

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Abdullah Saif Ahmed Numan and his grandson, Mohammad, stand within the constructing the place they reside in Al Dawah neighborhood of Taiz, Yemen. The neighborhood is on the entrance line of a divided metropolis in Yemen’s civil conflict.

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Abdullah Saif Ahmed Numan and his grandson, Mohammad, stand within the constructing the place they reside in Al Dawah neighborhood of Taiz, Yemen. The neighborhood is on the entrance line of a divided metropolis in Yemen’s civil conflict.

Claire Harbage/NPR

Nearly a decade of civil conflict has destroyed thousands and thousands of Yemeni lives, however maybe nowhere has it been felt greater than in Taiz neighborhoods closest to the combating. Violence has slowed prior to now 12 months, and most streets at the moment are calm as Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia negotiate. But to this point, talks haven’t led to a deal to finish the siege. Photos from the realm inform the tales of residents desperate for change.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Judges on the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest declared Scooter, a 7-year-old Chinese Crested, the ruffest-looking pup of all.

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Judges on the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest declared Scooter, a 7-year-old Chinese Crested, the ruffest-looking pup of all.

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1. Meet Scooter. He stands out as the “World’s Ugliest Dog” this 12 months, but it surely doesn’t suggest he is not an excellent boy.
2. Salsa music has been on the coronary heart of New York for many years. Now, the town is house to the first museum devoted to the fast-tempo, horn-heavy and hip-swinging dance.
3. The Haudenosaunee Nationals are reclaiming their Indigenous identity on the World Lacrosse Championships. Current staff members say their former identify, the Iroquois Nationals, was derogatory.

This e-newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.