Biden orders Israel to change course on Gaza aid; No Labels backs out of 2024 race

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For the first time, President Biden has said that Israel’s behavior will determine the U.S.’s policy on Gaza moving forward.must take a series of “specific, concrete, and measurable steps

NPR’s Daniel Estrin tells Up First that the strike appears to have led to a turning point in U.S. support for Israel. He adds that Biden’s patience is “wearing thin” with the civilian death toll, humanitarian crisis and domestic opposition to his support for Israel’s offensive. “In other words, Israel cannot continue the war in Gaza without U.S. support,” Estrin says. “More aid is a direct U.S. demand.”
The seven World Central Kitchen workers who were killed were Australian, British, Palestinian, Polish and a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, according to WCK. Read more about their lives here.

The No Labels group said yesterday it will not run a presidential candidate in the 2024 election. put forth a Unity ticket

It’s easy “in the abstract” to talk about running a third-party candidate, NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben says. But it’s “way harder” to actually find the right person to “buck the system to bring people together.” She explains that the negative partisanship surrounding the 2024 election makes this task even harder. Regardless of how discontented some may feel about their own party, they’re more scared that the other party will win. Kurtzleban adds that Democrats seem to be breathing easy after the No Labels announcement, as some were worried the organization could break up the anti-Trump vote.

A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that border officials are responsible for the welfare of children

Reporting from NPR network station KQED in San Francisco, Tyche Hendricks says this ruling is significant because a legal settlement from the 90s known as the Flores settlement requires the government to provide safe and sanitary conditions to children who are in immigration custody. Hendricks speaks to Lee-sha Welch of Children’s Rights, one of the lawyers who asked Judge Gee to weigh in on these children’s treatment. Welch says this case isn’t about politics but “how we as a country want to take care of children.”

Many on the far right are distrustful of traditional institutions.

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A large fish tanker truck accidentally released more than 100,000 young salmon smolts into Oregon’s Lookingglass Creek after it crashed and turned upside down on an embankment. The truck’s driver suffered only minor injuries. More than 25,000 smolts died. The surviving ones are now living in the wrong waterway.
McDonald’s is buying back 225 of its restaurants owned and operated by Alonyal Ltd. in Israel. The franchisee has owned the stores for more than 30 years.

This newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Anandita Bhalerao and Mansee Khurana contributed.