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Today’s prime tales

Former President Donald Trump capped a busy week yesterday after turning himself in at the Fulton County Jail on 13 felony fees associated to his makes an attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election outcomes. Authorities launched the mug shot exhibiting a scowling Trump yesterday evening, minutes after he left the jail.

Former President Donald Trump’s reserving picture was launched after he was booked in Atlanta.

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Former President Donald Trump’s reserving picture was launched after he was booked in Atlanta.

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• Trump’s reserving overshadowed his interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, although tens of tens of millions watched it, in line with NPR’s Franco Ordoñez. Still, he says on Up First at present that it does not seem like something can shake his voting base’s help. 
• With the primary Republican debate carried out, this is where the candidates stand now.
• Trump’s reserving is only the start. His first listening to on federal fees associated to Jan. 6 is subsequent Monday, when U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she is going to set a trial date. Here’s what we know about her powerful file. 
• Trump additionally returned to X, previously referred to as Twitter, for the primary time since his account was suspended to put up his mug shot. Within hours, his tremendous PAC was circulating it to stoke help and lift cash for his marketing campaign. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro analyzes why this matters.

“Rich Men North of Richmond,” the tune that opened the Republican major debate, has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart nearly in a single day. The tune, by musician Oliver Anthony, has been hailed by the appropriate as a working man’s tune. But extremism specialists say it raises red flags.

• NPR’s extremism correspondent Odette Yousef explains that one lyric that claims, “I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere,” seems to nod to the baseless QAnon conspiracy that highly effective elites are trafficking kids. A researcher on the Institute for Strategic Dialogue tells her the tune has been seized by far-right influencers, a few of whom peddle anti-semitism and transphobia. Yousef explains specialists are involved “mainstreaming this stuff helps to normalize it.” NPR reached out repeatedly to Anthony for an interview however acquired no response.

Shortly earlier than the aircraft carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed in Russia, the Wagner group chief launched a video about recruiting “strongmen” for Africa. Prigozhin’s possible demise raises questions on Wagner’s future in Africa and past. Here’s what we know — and do not — concerning the crash to this point.

• The Wagner group is important in a handful of African international locations just like the Central African Republic, Mali, and, to a lesser extent, Libya and Sudan, in line with NPR’s Emmanuel Akinwotu. They’ve helped secure governments by preventing insurgent teams in these international locations. In trade, they’ve taken management of key mineral assets, and rights teams have additionally documented the group’s abuses and killings. Akinwotu provides that whereas a authorities official lately lamented Prigozhin’s dying, he mentioned their partnership was with Russia, which suggests “you can infer Russia is going to determine if and how things change there.”
• Marat Gabidullin left the Wagner group after preventing in Syria. He’s the first former member to speak publicly about his expertise.

Makyyla Holland, a 25-year-old Black transgender girl, reached a settlement in her lawsuit towards Broome County, New York, yesterday over abuses she says she suffered whereas in jail — together with denial of medication and hormone therapy. Her settlement features a countywide coverage requiring inmates be housed in line with their gender identification. Holland hopes to proceed advocating for the trans neighborhood and people incarcerated.

From our hosts

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

Paperwork and cash. Money and paperwork. Those are the issues that assist to maintain in any other case certified and probably certified individuals from traditionally underrepresented teams out of some key professions.

That’s in line with a deceptively powerful interview I did this week with Fabiola Plaza, a fourth yr med scholar at Hofstra, who defined why Latinos as a gaggle (together with African Americans) stay vastly underrepresented in medical professions that require superior levels.

I say deceptively highly effective as a result of she’s already acquired that calm physician voice down—however simply listening to her describe how a lot time the paperwork takes and the way difficult all of it is–-not to say how costly it’s simply to use—makes a really highly effective argument that entry to those elite ranks has little or no to do with intelligence and skill, and an entire lot to do with entry and benefits.

Simple, you say? Just throw some extra scholarship cash at it? Not so easy. I used to be a primary technology faculty scholar myself, and I bear in mind how painful all of it was to navigate—the varieties, the unfamiliar bureaucratic lingo, the paperwork you had no concept find out how to get, or mother and father who did not perceive why you wanted them.

Honestly? I strive not to consider it. Once we have been by it, we simply wish to overlook. And to those that’ve by no means encountered it, it stays invisible.

Weekend picks

Quarterback Trilian Harris is likely one of the gamers swindled in a phony highschool soccer program the state of Ohio later referred to as a “scam.”

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Quarterback Trilian Harris is likely one of the gamers swindled in a phony highschool soccer program the state of Ohio later referred to as a “scam.”

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Check out what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:

Movies: Blue Beetle, the most recent DC superhero movie, has a three-pronged treatment for superhero fatigue. NPR’s Glen Weldon writes that its “grounded cultural touchstones” make it a narrative that is “highly specific and distinctly universal.”

TV: HBO has two new true-crime documentaries for many who love rip-off: BS High and Telemarketers each discover how scams exploit systemic weaknesses in society.

Books: Former park ranger Andrea Lankford’s Trail of the Lost is a gripping, nonfiction narrative of three hikers who vanished on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Music: Rhiannon Giddens’s latest album, You’re the One, is 14 years within the making. It’s stuffed with soul, nation, blues, and enjoyable, whereas tackling severe historic occasions.

Games: The builders of Elden Ring have revived its large robotic sequence with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, which delivers beautiful omnidirectional mech fight.

Quiz: I’ve been out all week with COVID and did horribly on this week’s NPR news quiz. I hope you paid higher consideration than me!

3 issues to know earlier than you go

The fireplace that devastated historic Lahaina in western Maui left a red-roofed home comparatively unscathed. Its proprietor says he needs to open the home to the neighborhood to assist the rebuilding course of.

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The fireplace that devastated historic Lahaina in western Maui left a red-roofed home comparatively unscathed. Its proprietor says he needs to open the home to the neighborhood to assist the rebuilding course of.

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1. People in Lahaina, Hawaii, are calling one house a “miracle house.” It survived the latest wildfires, which destroyed nearly each different constructing within the space. The proprietor says these components helped: a commercial-grade metallic roof, stone environment, palm bushes round the home that take in warmth and a number of “divine intervention.”
2. In Tokyo, there’s a restaurant the place customers are happy to get the improper order; its servers reside with dementia. The founder needs to lift consciousness and have fun the distinctiveness of residing with this situation.
3. FIFA is investigating Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips in the course of the celebrations of their ladies’s World Cup victory.

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.