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Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys have till 5:00 p.m. immediately to answer a request by prosecutors for a protecting order in his prison case associated to Jan. 6 and his makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The order would limit what Trump and his lawyers could say publicly in regards to the case

Former President Donald Trump speaks because the keynote speaker on the 56th Annual Silver Elephant Dinner hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party on Aug. 5 in Columbia, S.C.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks because the keynote speaker on the 56th Annual Silver Elephant Dinner hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party on Aug. 5 in Columbia, S.C.

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• Trump’s legal professional John Lauro advised CNN that Americans have a “right to know” in regards to the proof within the case, however NPR’s Franco Ordoñez says on Up First thatprosecutors are apprehensive his public statements may have a “chilling effect” on witnesses. He provides that Trump’s workforce’s objective has been to delay the case, and he expects that “push and pull” between the protection and prosecution to be a centerpiece of the case.

A regional bloc known as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave coup leaders in Niger an ultimatum: Reinstate the ousted president by Sunday or face navy intervention. The deadline has handed, and Niger’s navy leaders have lower diplomatic ties with the U.S., Nigeria and France and aligned with leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea to defend themselves.

• NPR’s Emmanuel Akinwotu says a navy intervention seems to be “less and less likely.” The ultimatum backed navy leaders right into a nook, and “they’ve come out swinging,” which Akinwotu says raises the stakes for a regional battle.

The FDA has authorised the primary capsule to treat postpartum depression. The capsule is taken as soon as a day for 14 days, and two research from the capsule’s producer, Sage Therapeutics, confirmed outcomes appeared in as little as three days for a lot of sufferers. Pricing info for the capsule has not been launched.

• Jamille Nagtalon-Ramos, assistant professor of nursing at Rutgers University, tells Morning Edition the speedy response for the brand new remedy is very different from current treatments, which may take 1-2 months to take impact. But she’s involved that the trial was accomplished in 45 days and desires to know the long-term results of the drug. She additionally hopes the value will not be a barrier, as monetary constraints are a threat issue for postpartum melancholy.

Since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has seen glacial outburst flooding known as jökulhlaup each summer season when an ice dam from a close-by mountain releases water downstream. But this 12 months’s flooding has been the worst by far, destroying properties and catching residents off guard. (through KTOO)

From our hosts

Survivors of the 1998 bombing on the US embassy in Nairobi mild candles in entrance of a monument in reminiscence of the victims in Nairobi on August 7, 2015.

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Survivors of the 1998 bombing on the US embassy in Nairobi mild candles in entrance of a monument in reminiscence of the victims in Nairobi on August 7, 2015.

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

Today marks the twenty fifth anniversary of al-Qaeda’s bomb attacks on the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It was the primary time most of us exterior the intelligence neighborhood had heard of the group, but it surely clearly wouldn’t be the final; 9/11 got here three years later.

The East Africa Embassy bombings killed 224 individuals and injured greater than 4500, however I reported on the assault from Nairobi after I was at ABC News, and that is not what sticks with me.

I keep in mind the blood-stained folders on a ground of what was left of the workplace constructing subsequent to the embassy, which housed a faculty for aspiring workplace staff. Many of them saved the books for household ventures and weddings, particularly weddings, which had been historically giant.

Budgets for décor, meals and apparel had been all around the ground, smeared with blood or ripped by shattered glass — a stand-in for shattered lives. Of course, I questioned: Which of those hoped-for, saved-for weddings would really happen? Which households would now should take these financial savings and pay for a funeral as an alternative?

It was a selected sort of sorrow — an earthly day on the workplace turned to unimaginable horror — that we might quickly come to know ourselves.

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S. Epatha Merkerson (from left), Jerry Orbach, Dianne Wiest, Jesse L. Martin, Angie Harmon and Sam Waterston from Season 11 of Law & Order.

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S. Epatha Merkerson (from left), Jerry Orbach, Dianne Wiest, Jesse L. Martin, Angie Harmon and Sam Waterston from Season 11 of Law & Order.

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DUN DUN! NPR’s TV critic Eric Deggans cannot get sufficient of the long-lasting Law & Order sound impact. But it is not the present he is actually into — it is the brief excerpts of the episodes on YouTube. He writes that it is like “gorging on an endless stream of televised potato chips,” with a brand new situation supplied simply as you are tired of the final one. As lengthy because the movies carry on taking part in, he does not even have to know the way the story ends.

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3 issues to know earlier than you go

The well-known Ring Nebula is seen in sensible new readability, because of a brand new James Webb Space Telescope picture launched by researchers within the JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project. The picture was processed by Roger Wesson, based on Western University in Ontario.

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The well-known Ring Nebula is seen in sensible new readability, because of a brand new James Webb Space Telescope picture launched by researchers within the JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project. The picture was processed by Roger Wesson, based on Western University in Ontario.

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1. This is the clearest picture of the Ring Nebula ever. The intricate, colorful details of the brand new photos come from the James Webb Space Telescope. 
2. Barbie has surpassed $1 billion worldwide, making Greta Gerwig the first solo female director with a $1 billion hit.
3. Elon Musk says he’ll pay your authorized prices in case your actions on X, previously referred to as Twitter, get you in trouble at work — and there is “no limit” to how a lot he is keen to dole out.

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