Urban warfare expert debunks lies about Israel, explains how it shows restraint in Gaza

John Spencer is one of the world’s preeminent experts on urban warfare. He’s been inside Gaza three times since December, embedded with the Israel Defense Forces, analyzing the war against Hamas from multiple angles. He interviewed the prime minister, the IDF chief of staff, division commanders, brigade commanders, battalion commanders, “all the way down to soldiers in the field.”

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Jill Biden Orchestrated Kimberly Cheatle Heading the Secret Service, Now Everyone Is Doubling Down

How exactly did Kimberly Cheatle rise the lead the United States Secret Service? A new report points the finger at Jill Biden, stating that she and her top advisor pushed for the appointment.

That decision culminated in an attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday. The former president was shot in the ear, narrowly avoiding death while a chaotic and clumsy response from the Secret Service followed. It was a disastrous event for an agency with a zero-fail mission.

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Scientists Gather To Debate Renaming Plant Names Riddled With Racial Slurs

One proposal aims to remove all species names based on the word “caffra” and its derivatives — which are ethnic slurs against southern African blacks — and substitute the word “afr” and other derivatives in their place, according to Nature. This proposal would affect some 218 species. The second proposal would establish a committee to deal with offensive names. The amendments would require a supermajority of 60 percent of attendees approving it in order to pass.

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Editor at a ‘Major’ News Outlet Suggests Iconic Photo of Trump is ‘Propaganda’ and Shouldn’t Be Used

The photo, taken by AP’s Evan Vucci, along with the photo shot through the legs of a Secret Service agent of Trump on the ground taken by Getty’s Anna Moneymaker, and the “bullet photo” showing the trajectory of the near-fatal bullet by the New York Times photographer Doug Mills have all appeared on countless websites.

But an Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday suggested that news outlets should refrain from using the photos lest they be seen as “propaganda.”

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Pittsburgh schools earmark $52,000 to address racism in math

The School District of Pittsburgh will hire a consultant to put on a series of virtual workshops addressing racism in math.

The district is paying $52,000 to Nth Education Partners for a series of eight, two-hour long virtual workshops where “participants will reflect on the instruction and pedagogy that supports schools in moving toward justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in math classrooms,” according to the district.

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Extreme temperatures make fighting bird flu harder, officials say

Federal public health officials say high temperatures are making it harder to fight the bird flu outbreak in poultry and dairy processing plants.

“Understanding why an outbreak occurs at a particular time and place is a key question,” Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters Tuesday following the announcement of four new cases of bird flu contracted by poultry workers in Colorado last week.

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