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Today’s high tales
Syrians are transitioning from celebrating the ousting of long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad and the toppling of his regime to occupied with the massive challenges going through the war-torn nation. Ahmed al-Shara, who’s on the forefront of the insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, is a minimum of nominally in control of the nation. Here are 5 issues to look at as Syria appears towards a brand new future.
Syrian residents wave the revolutionary flag and shout slogans, as they rejoice in the course of the second day of the take over of the town by the insurgents in Damascus on Monday.
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- 🎧 “What is kind of extraordinary is they appear to now be dealing with a comparatively managed handover of energy,” NPR’s Ruth Sherlock tells Up First. A brand new transitional authorities has been shaped, which incorporates some politicians from the previous regime. Soldiers conscripted into army service are being pardoned, and leaders are working to dismantle the regime’s feared safety equipment. Sherlock visited the Sednaya jail, one of the crucial feared complexes identified for torture and mass executions. It is now open, and rebels have launched prisoners. Many of those that had been imprisoned are nonetheless lacking, and the power is stuffed with their family members in search of clues as to the place they could be.
- ➡️ More than 1,000,000 Syrians now stay in Germany after fleeing Syria on account of violence below Assad’s regime. Now, many are debating whether or not to return. Some Syrians share their ideas with NPR’s Rob Schmitz about whether or not to return.
- ➡️ Journalist Austin Tice went lacking 12 years in the past throughout a reporting journey in Syria. After the autumn of the Assad regime, there was elevated hope that he’s nonetheless alive. U.S. officers say they’re working with sources on the bottom to get details about Tice.
Investigators and a few extremism researchers are wanting into whether or not there’s proof of a transparent ideology behind the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing after particulars about suspect Luigi Mangione surfaced on-line. Mangione is a member of a outstanding Maryland household, graduated high of his class from an elite prep faculty and obtained two Ivy League faculty levels. He reportedly suffered a serious again damage and underwent surgical procedure a few years in the past.
- 🎧 Mangione had a number of social media accounts, together with one on Goodreads the place he posted an excerpt from the writings of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, NPR’s Odette Yousef says. One of the pictures on his X account is an X-ray of a backbone with 4 massive screws inserted. It is not sure that that is his X-ray. His digital footprint would not make clear a lot as a result of it cuts off within the spring. Police discovered a handwritten observe conveying a deep anger in direction of the healthcare business and a sense that somebody needed to take motion, Yousef says.
- ➡️ Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was doubtless killed with a ghost gun. Here’s what they’re and the way they’re made.
Two separate judges blocked the $24.6 billion merger deal for Kroger and Albertsons yesterday. One of the instances was introduced by federal regulators whereas the opposite was introduced by the Washington state legal professional common. It would have been the largest grocery merger in U.S. historical past. Now, after two years of delays, its destiny is unknown.
- 🎧 The block is technically short-term and Kroger and Albertsons may hold combating and enchantment, NPR’s Alina Selyukh says. The state choose dominated the merger violated state shopper safety regulation and the federal case blocked the merger nationwide. Government legal professionals argued the merger would go away buyers worse off. Kroger and Albertsons made the case that the merger was a matter of survival and that their largest rivals should not standard supermarkets however giants like Walmart and Costco. The corporations say they’re disillusioned and disagree with the choice and are at present weighing their choices going ahead.
Life recommendation
It will be onerous to know what to say to somebody whose beloved one has died. You need to present love and help, however you additionally know there is not a lot you possibly can say to heal their ache. If you’re feeling perplexed, psychologist and grief guide Mekel Harris and writer of Grief is Love Marisa Renee Lee have some dos and don’ts when expressing condolences.
- ❤️ Don’t begin something with “a minimum of.” This phrase might decrease your good friend’s expertise and will impose a viewpoint that won’t ring true.
- ❤️ Saying “no want to reply” releases the grieving particular person from any stress or expectation to answer.
- ❤️ Clichés like “time heals all wounds” can sound hole and impersonal.
- ❤️ Keep reaching out, even months after the dying. Grief is a protracted highway, and every particular person heals at their very own tempo.
Check out the extra ideas right here.
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Clockwise, from high left: Laura Forer, Michelle Alette, Domenique Rice, Jen Loga, Dr. Patty Ng and Marise Angibeau-Gray
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Nancy Borowick discovered that images was therapeutic for her after she misplaced each of her dad and mom inside 364 days of each other. It continued to have therapeutic energy when she discovered herself deep in melancholy 13 months after the traumatic beginning of her son. Borowick turned to social media to ask others about their experiences with beginning trauma. One grandmother requested her, “Are you in search of tales about stillbirth?” The query prompted her to begin The Loss Mother’s Stone, a challenge she hopes will draw consciousness to girls’s tales, educate Americans and destigmatize the dialog between medical doctors and sufferers.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
After The Onion was named the profitable bidder for Alex Jones’ belongings at a chapter public sale final month, the shedding bidder tried to cease the sale, saying the method was rigged and “fatally flawed.”
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- A chapter choose has rejected a bid by The Onion’s house owners to purchase Alex Jones’ Infowars, saying the supply and course of had been flawed.
- New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a brand new regulation Monday that limits how a guide will be banned in faculties and public libraries and protects librarians from lawsuits. (by way of WHYY)
- The U.S.’ first state-sanctioned facility for folks to make use of unlawful medication below medical supervision opened yesterday in Rhode Island. The services are a part of an effort to stop overdoses. (by way of The Public’s Radio)
This e-newsletter was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
