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Hasina's speech marked the second anniversary of her ouster. She fled Bangladesh by helicopter following nearly two months of protests in 2024 that left nearly 1,400 people dead, according to the United Nations.
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Sesame Street Has A New Extreme Weather Episode. Here's What Climate Experts Think
It’s been a summer of climate extremes—from record-breaking heat waves to deadly flash floods to a fire season that has seen a number of acres burned well above the 10-year average. Even Sesame Street, where sunny days once swept the clouds away, can’t seem to keep the storms at bay.
A new special, Storm on Sesame Street, which aired on Aug. 3, follows Elmo and friends as they work together to get ready for a big storm, and help rebuild in its aftermath. The episode was created to help kids better understand extreme weather as it becomes increasingly more frequent.
“Extreme weather is now a reality for many families, and young children need support they can understand and trust,” Joseph Giraldi, chief operating officer of Sesame Workshop, said in a press release. “With our Extreme Weather response initiative, we’re using the power of Sesame Street to help children prepare for what’s ahead, cope with big emotions during moments of disruption, and begin to recover afterward. From our new storm special to year‑round resources and community outreach, this initiative reflects our commitment to showing up for children and families when they need it most.”
The episode provides an opening for adults to help prepare kids about what to expect during an extreme weather event—before it actually happens. Elmo and his father help hand out food and water to their neighbors, talk through the big emotions the storm brings up, and find ways to help their friends when the storm leaves Sesame Street unrecognizable.
“It's really important, and I think it can fall off a lot of our radars to have emergency plans or to know what should be in an emergency kit,” says Samantha Harrington, director of audience experience for Yale Climate Connections. “People don't always make great decisions when they're in an emergency situation, or when they're stressed. So as much as you can make that decision-making earlier before the emergency happens, then you're going to be a lot better prepared to react and respond in a way that is going to be the safest and calmest for you and your child.”
Sesame Street first tackled extreme weather in the episode, Sesame Street Gets Through a Storm, which premiered in 2001 and featured Big Bird rebuilding his nest after it was destroyed in a hurricane. The episode re-aired in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy.
In the years since, extreme weather events, fueled in no small part by climate change, have become hard for most Americans to ignore. There has been a “staggering rise” in climate-related disasters in the 21st century, according to the United Nations. Nearly one in five Americans have had to evacuate their homes due to extreme weather conditions, according to an October 2024 poll conducted by YouGov. Children born in 2020 are projected to experience up to seven times more extreme weather events than those born in 1960.
Sesame Street plans to provide resources to help families, including a printed and digital storybook, to help children heal when the things they love are lost, articles and activities that support children and families as they deal with environmental stressors like heat or air quality, and plans to distribute “go bags” with essentials to support families during evacuations and periods of displacement.
It’s an important first step in getting children and families more equipped for dealing with extreme weather events—which most Americans are woefully underprepared for. In one 2025 survey of 2,000 adults by Talker Research, 90% said it's critical to be prepared for extreme weather, but only 46% had an emergency plan in place.
The episode opens the channel of communication in an age appropriate way, experts say. “It's covering all of the bases,” says Adam Rainear, associate professor of communication and media at West Chester University, whose work focuses on climate communications. “It's giving the messaging so that kids are aware and alert, but also not making them afraid of everything around them.” While Elmo and his friend Abby acknowledge their fear, they focus on having courage—and when Elmo’s courage falters as the power goes out, his dad steps in to help with words of encouragement and an exercise to help calm him down.
Tina Grotzer, principal research scientist at Harvard University, who works at the intersection of climate change and education, hopes that any future episodes on the topic can be more explicit in drawing the connection between extreme weather and climate change, which is not mentioned in the episode.
“This is a generation of kids for whom extreme weather is becoming more and more common, and they have to somehow walk this balance of normalizing kids' experiences, but also helping kids to know that this is only the new normal in terms of recent times,” she says. “It may seem subtle, but if we talk about people all around the world engaging in actions, a lot of people together can make a difference. We can't change the weather we're getting today, but over time we can do things to care for Earth.”
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Judge tosses Alex Murdaugh’s $600,000 suit against former court clerk
Murdaugh, whose murder convictions were overturned due to clerk’s misconduct, will face trial again
A US federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by Alex Murdaugh seeking $600,000 in legal fees from the former court clerk whose misconduct led to his murder convictions being overturned on appeal.
Murdaugh sued Becky Hill in May, saying she violated his right to a fair trial over the deaths of his wife and son.
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Progressives Rack Up Primary Wins, Testing Democratic Assumptions Ahead of the Midterms
Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan is the latest in a string of progressive primary wins that are challenging the Democratic Party’s thinking about electability—and it could reshape the party's strategy heading into November.
Michigan offered the clearest example yet on Tuesday. El-Sayed won the Senate primary, while progressives also notched victories in key House races. William Lawrence, the founder of the Sunrise Movement, captured the nomination in the battleground 7th Congressional District, and Donavan McKinney unseated Rep. Shri Thanedar in the safely Democratic 13th District.
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Progressives had already accumulated a series of high-profile wins this summer: Janeese Lewis George claimed victory in the mayoral primary race for Washington, D.C., in June; Chris Rabb beat out two moderates for a House seat in Pennsylvania; and Graham Platner won Maine’s Senate primary, although he later dropped out.
But Democratic strategists have already acknowledged that progressive candidates can do well in safely blue districts; Michigan signaled that they can stand out in competitive states.
What makes El-Sayed’s win even more notable is that he’s the first progressive to carry a senatorial primary in a state that President Donald Trump won in 2024. The outcome suggests that progressives may be able to secure wins when and where Democrats need them most.
It’s a theory that more centrist party members have long doubted—but if proven, it could also shift the party’s strategy not only this fall, but also looking ahead to elections in 2028.
What does this mean for the future of the Democratic Party?
El-Sayed’s victory is representative of a shift in the Democratic Party, according to Evan Roth Smith, a pollster and political consultant. He tells TIME that it could settle a 10-year debate among left-wing politicians who have tried to find the best strategy to respond to Trump-era Republicans.
The questions on either side of the debate, he says, are: “Is the party’s future about passion and organizing and envelope-pushing?” He explains that progressives believe this approach can appeal to “ideologically eclectic voters in the middle.”
Or, he asks, do the centrists present a stronger strategy for the party, which is to lean into candidates who are “optimized around the median voter” in the hopes of swinging them to the left.
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Smith believes that progressive candidates’ wins show that the base is fed up with the more conventional approach put forth by establishment Democrats. Instead of emphasizing electability, the party could find success by putting its support behind those who are “optimized around the truest and innermost desires of the primary electorate.”
“That calculus collapsed because of the events of 2024,” Smith says, referring to the period in which President Donald Trump won his second term and Democrats lost the Senate.
Importantly, El-Sayed’s win was not as much of a landslide as polls had projected, something Trump noted in his reaction on Truth Social.
“As usual, the polls were way off on this one,” he wrote.
These polling inaccuracies may reveal a potential blind spot toward progressives, Smith says, explaining that Democrats are likely to take note as Wisconsin heads into its primary next week. Polls show progressive gubernatorial candidate Rep. Francesca Hong winning in the state.
“Hong is in many ways the presumptive nominee for governor of Wisconsin at this point,” he says. “But what we saw last night is a major polling miss that heavily overestimated the progressive candidate, which will make people in Wisconsin raise their eyebrows and say, ‘Well, we all think Hong the frontrunner, but maybe this polling's no good.’”
Smith says there is reason to believe Wisconsin has more accurate polling practices than Michigan. Either way, Democrats will watch Hong’s primary closely. Establishment Democrats claim that she is unlikely to beat the GOP’s presumptive nominee, Rep. Tom Tiffany, and that her loss could even hurt Democratic candidates in downballot state races.
Red-state progressives faced some losses on Tuesday. Notably, Missouri Rep. Wesley Bell, a moderate, crushed a comeback attempt by his progressive predecessor, Cori Bush.
The real proving ground comes in November, Smith says. Midterm elections are the first real chance for progressives to topple longstanding narratives from within their own party that their ideology is not electable.
Midterm wins might show that there is “a better path to victory than the caricature of establishment Democrats as lab-grown moderates,” he says. It would give progressives the chance to show that their policies “get people who are disengaged or tuned out, excited.”
But the biggest takeaway from El-Sayed’s race is that the Democratic Party can no longer be made up of factions, Smith says.
“What the Democratic Party has to look at itself and say is: ‘How do we make the party a home for both of these camps?’” he explains. “Because otherwise, it’s not tenable.”
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Social media users have criticized TikTok after the celebrity blogger Perez Hilton livestreamed himself self-harming on the platform, prompting many to question how long the broadcast remained live and others to share mental health resources and encourage those in need to seek help.
On Tuesday night, Hilton, 48, livestreamed himself engaging in self-harm as viewers pleaded for him to stop. Shortly after, local authorities responded to his home in Miami, Florida, where he was transported to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.
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Continue reading...Republican who withdrew last month beats Trump-backed rival in Michigan
Thomas Smith, whose name remained on ballot, beats Republican rivals in primary contest for eighth district
Thomas Smith withdrew from the Republican primary contest for Michigan’s eighth district last month. On Tuesday, he won the nomination.
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Continue reading...Adapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather?
As NHS told to prepare for extreme weather, strain also felt in other areas including transport and farming
The NHS has been told it must become more resilient to increasingly frequent heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis, as the UK government puts adaptation to extreme heat high on its agenda. But what other public services are already feeling the strain?
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Health secretary says global heating means UK hospitals and GPs will have to prepare for summer as well as winter peaks of demand
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The health secretary, Yvette Cooper, said NHS staff were feeling A&E pressures that would normally be expected only during flu season – and said the government would use major investment in NHS infrastructure to tackle the health service’s resilience to high summer temperatures.
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Chief constable considers joining legal action if PC’s killers are released early
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The chief constable of Thames Valley police has said he will consider joining legal action against the government if it fails to block the early release of two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers.
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Schwartz was confirmed by a 51-44 vote that broke largely along party lines, with Tim Kaine of Virginia the sole Democrat to support her nomination.
Continue reading...Argentina’s Albornoz given four-match ban for intimidating referee after England defeat
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Tomás Albornoz, the Argentina fly-half, has been banned for four matches for intimidating the referee after the full-time whistle of England’s controversial victory against the Pumas last month.
Albornoz accepted allegations of misconduct at a disciplinary hearing, and that his behaviour was intimidatory. He will miss Argentina’s Test against South Africa on Saturday as well as their forthcoming double header with Australia and a Toulon fixture.
Continue reading...Infantino is getting his karmic kicking, but why did football take so long to rebel against Fifa? | Jonathan Liew
Federation leaders are massing forces at the gates, but years after the first proposed selling off of its commercial legacy and the Qatar World Cup
In recent decades the city of Salé, just across the river from Rabat on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, has undergone a remarkable transformation. At the start of this century it was a gritty working-class area, whose old town was still weathered enough to serve as a body double for the Somali capital Mogadishu in the film Black Hawk Down. But in recent decades, under the country’s autocratic government, the area has been transformed beyond measure, and largely beyond control.
The population has trebled in the space of 40 years. Slums have been cleared, often forcibly, to make way for grand megaprojects: a new tram system, luxury tourist spaces, a sparkling marina, a blue-chip business park called Technopolis, and – since last July – the African headquarters of Fifa. And in a way, this hub of disruption and avarice, unshakeable volition and rampant capitalism, feels like the perfect location from which a besieged warlord might choose to make his desperate last stand.
Continue reading...Real Madrid agree club-record £115m deal for Yan Diomande and want to keep Vinícius
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Real Madrid have agreed a club-record fee of €135m (£115.7m) with RB Leipzig for Yan Diomande and are confident of warding off Arsenal’s interest in Vinícius Júnior after offering an improved contract to the Brazil forward.
After several weeks of negotiations that saw Paris Saint-Germain pull out of the race, the deal for Diomande – the 19-year-old who joined the German side from Leganés last summer and starred for Côte d’Ivoire at the World Cup – was finally struck on Wednesday afternoon. It is understood that Madrid will pay an initial €125m plus another €10m in add-ons, a total that would eclipse the fee the Spanish side paid Borussia Dortmund to sign Jude Bellingham in 2023, believed to have been worth up to €134m including add-ons.
Continue reading...‘Fifa Super League’: Infantino discussed having governing body’s name on European breakaway
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Gianni Infantino held talks about rebranding the ill-fated European breakaway competition the “Fifa Super League”, with negotiations going as far as the term sheet for an agreement that would have changed the face of European football.
The term sheet, whose full contents can be revealed for the first time, is dated October 2020 and proposes renaming any new competition under Fifa’s branding. It outlines the extent to which Infantino’s administration were implicated in a scheme that caused widespread revulsion among fans and excluded clubs in April 2021. It also reveals that Fifa was prepared to sideline its member associations in pushing plans to cut back the number of international windows and outlines how global football’s governing body would have been given special governance and political rights with a “golden share”.
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Schwartz was confirmed by a 51-44 vote that broke largely along party lines, with Tim Kaine of Virginia the sole Democrat to support her nomination.
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