News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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US Army issues stark rebuke of Trump campaign for incident with employee at Arlington National Cemetery https://t.co/c8oTTPohOa
— CNN (@CNN) August 29, 2024
The Trump campaign tells Axios it's "weighing options" on whether to release its footage of an altercation with Arlington National Cemetery officials. https://t.co/4JBbMcHjJw
— Axios (@axios) August 29, 2024
The Israeli military and Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, a senior WHO official tells Reuters. https://t.co/Gu8mVqOO4B
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 29, 2024
A top Ukrainian pilot was killed when a US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed on Monday, a Ukrainian military source said https://t.co/FE6GeYopAP
— CNN (@CNN) August 29, 2024
Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said he spent several days on the eastern Pokrovsk front and described fighting there as 'exceptionally tough' https://t.co/4CAS500NaB
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 29, 2024
Pavel Durov, CEO of the messaging app Telegram, is facing criminal charges in France, as he is accused of being complicit in the dissemination of child pornography, drug trafficking and fraud. https://t.co/ubH3xilI0t pic.twitter.com/PyYlmUQTg9
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) August 29, 2024
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as the U.S. labor market remains healthy in the face of high interest rates. https://t.co/FXMuY2r9mJ
— ABC News (@ABC) August 29, 2024
The U.S. will reopen a migrant sponsorship program it paused abruptly earlier this summer due to fraud concerns. https://t.co/P5frqaJaV3
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 29, 2024
Postmaster general is confident about ability to process mail-in ballots https://t.co/w4ukeMMY2s
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2024
Egypt's biggest ever wheat tender, nearly 20 times its usual size, stemmed from food security concerns sparked by an intelligence briefing given to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to three security and government sources https://t.co/EnpK38TDsj
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 29, 2024
The suspects who plotted an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna earlier this month planned to kill "a huge number" of people, according to a CIA official. https://t.co/2y71aEPTxy
— ABC News (@ABC) August 29, 2024
Donald Trump used his social-media website on Wednesday to amplify a crude remark about Vice President Kamala Harris. https://t.co/3FjnzC7JTF
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 29, 2024
