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Former President Donald Trump's fate rests in the hands of 12 Manhattan jurors. Bird flu is costing the farming industry as stock are culled to cut infections and how natural disasters contribute to homelessness in America. |
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Jurors continue deliberations Thursday after hearing six weeks of testimony from a parade of 22 witnesses in the first criminal trial ever involving a former U.S. president (Recap: Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of allegedly falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels). |
The case is in the hands of a dozen Manhattanites in a New York courthouse's jury room who will either issue a unanimous verdict or force a mistrial. |
Here's the update on bird flu |
Bird flu outbreaks have continued across the U.S. as officials work to keep the spread at bay. While the outbreak likely began amongst chicken flocks and spread to dairy cows, reports of the virus infecting other animals have come out of several states. Commercial farming facilities have taken to destroying infected flocks in an attempt to quell the ongoing spread. Even so, a new large-scale infection was reported in Iowa this week, impacting millions of egg-laying chickens. Read more |
Life on Ukraine's front line 'worse than hell' |
Now in the third year of full-scale war, Ukraine's top military leaders openly admit that the battlefield situation on the eastern front has deteriorated. Two years of war have sapped Ukraine's ammunition and manpower, while the country's failed counter-offensive last year sank morale. And a new push by Moscow earlier this month near Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, is likely to further divert precious ammunition and personnel from other sections of the front, stretching Kyiv's military thin at a critical moment in the war. Read more |
Hurricane Ian destroyed his house. He's still homeless. |
Javier Velez has been homeless ever since Hurricane Ian blew the roof off his Fort Myers, Florida, home and filled it with more than 4 feet of water in September 2022. This summer will be his second living without proper shelter. His work as a truck driver brought him north to New Jersey in May, and with summer forecasts predicting unusually hot temperatures in the northeast, he'll likely face sweltering conditions for weeks. Velez is one of millions of Americans who have been displaced by natural disasters in recent years, facing extreme conditions without a shelter. Read more |
Giants pandas are coming back (!) |
The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute announced this week it will welcome a new pair of giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao to the zoo by the end of the year. This comes months after the zoo returned three bears, Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji, to China. Read more |
Photo of the day: The inaugural Walter Cup | Liz Schepers (21) of Minnesota celebrates her goal against Boston in the second period of Game 5. Troy Parla, Getty Images |
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