Black Skin, White Domination/US’s Huge Israel Aid Package/And More
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French PM: ‘There Will Be New Attacks’ (Jeff C.)
With Manuel Valls taking a hard right shift in an appeal to fearful voters, he said there were at least 15,000 people “on the radar of police and intelligent (sic) services who were in the process of being radicalized.”
Assange to Release Medical Records to Challenge Trump, Clinton (Dan)
Calling it the “transparency” challenge, Wikileaks has promised to “dump” its founder’s health records.
Report: US Endured Record Summer Rainfall (Jeff C.)
“The average summer U.S. temperature was 73.5 degrees F, 2.1 degrees above average, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information,” the NOAA said in a press release. “Every state in the continental U.S. and Alaska were warmer than average this summer.”
Leaders on Both Sides of Brutal South Sudan War Profit (Russ)
That’s according to a new report from George Clooney’s group
US to Give Israel $38 Billion in Military Aid (Trevin)
The plan, the largest of its kind in history, phases out a previous provision where Israel could use a fourth of the money to buy Israeli arms. “It will have to use the American money to buy American military systems, just as other aid recipients are required to do.”
Watch Rick Perry on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ (Dan)
Because why not?
