Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The latest Israeli strike in Lebanon: “Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including a father and his son and daughter, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting.”
* On the other hand: “Lebanese and Israeli officials met in Washington on Tuesday for a new round of U.S.-mediated talks on ending the war.”
* More Russian-imposed bloodshed in Ukraine: “Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding 138 others, authorities said Tuesday.”
* Willful ignorance is a dangerous thing: “The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.”
* It’s not at all normal for a major political party to honor a convicted murderer who’s currently in prison: “Like many other GOP state chapters, the Minnesota Republican Party has been unabashed about flaunting its extremism in recent years. … But even so, a moment of silence the party held for Derek Chauvin over the weekend — that is, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — underscores a uniquely sadistic strain of racial bigotry within the state Republican Party.”
* A very modest step toward public safeguards: “President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asked technology companies to voluntarily give the government oversight of new artificial intelligence models before releasing them to the public, a shift for an administration that had promoted a hands-off approach to the powerful technology.”
* Another case worth watching: “Seven Democratic-controlled states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its move to block a planned wind farm off the coast of New York.”
* We’re stuck in such an absurd timeline: “A bed bug infestation at an Agriculture Department building is riling agency staff, reigniting frustrations over remote work policy and making at least some employees sick. The bugs were found in the building that houses the Animal and Plant Inspection Service, the agency responsible for containing and mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the U.S. The irony, one USDA employee said, ‘was lost on no one.’”
* All is not well at CBS: “CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil on Monday after Scott Pelley, the ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a staff meeting and accused Bari Weiss, the network’s editor in chief, of ‘murdering’ the longstanding Sunday news program.”
See you tomorrow.
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