Carlson criticized for hosting Holocaust revisionist
(NYTimes) — Tucker Carlson, former Fox News star turned podcaster, has come under fire for hosting a Holocaust revisionist on his show. Carlson, who has hosted “Tucker on X” since Fox News severed ties with him in 2023, introduced Darryl Cooper as “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” Cooper made false claims about the Holocaust and World War II, including that millions of people in concentration camps “ended up dead” because the Nazis did not have enough resources to care for them. Cooper also claimed that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was “primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did.”
100 degrees at midnight: California coast swelters in ‘concerning’ heat
(NYTimes) — Temperatures hovered above 100 degrees Fahrenheit along parts of the California coast early Friday, creating unbearable conditions past midnight as officials warned that the excessive heat would last through the weekend. The nighttime heat ranged from the upper 80s to the 100s across the coasts of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, according to the National Weather Service. Such high temperatures happen at that time of night about once a year, Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist at the weather service office in Oxnard, California, said in a phone interview. More than 31 million people were under excessive heat warnings in parts of Arizona, California, Nevada and Oregon.
West Bank residents survey destruction as Israeli forces withdraw
(NYTimes) — Israeli military forces appeared to withdraw Friday from the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news media and residents, 10 days into a raid that has killed dozens of people, including children, and caused widespread destruction. Hours after the Israeli military pullback, Palestinian Civil Defense teams along with public works employees and volunteers fanned out to assess damaged homes, businesses, roads and water lines, and began trying to restore essential services. It wasn’t clear Friday whether all Israeli soldiers had left Jenin or whether they would return.
China stops foreign adoptions
(NYTimes) — For three decades, China sent tens of thousands of young children overseas for adoption as it enforced a strict one-child policy that forced many families to abandon their babies. Now the government will no longer allow most foreign adoptions, a move that it said was in line with global trends. The ban raises questions for many of the hundreds of families in the United States who were in the process of adopting children from China and had heard this week from adoption agencies that China was moving to bar international adoptions. The official confirmation came in a brief comment by China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday.
Meeting with allies, Zelenskyy presses for more weapons
(NYTimes) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine appealed directly Friday to Western military leaders for faster weapons deliveries on the heels of major Russian missile strikes. Better defense against such strikes and the ability to hit back at targets in Russia would help Ukraine put military pressure on Moscow “so that Russia is motivated to seek peace,” Zelenskyy said. He lamented that prohibitions on firing long-range, Western-provided missiles and rockets into Russia persisted. Zelenskyy spoke at a conference in Germany on weapons donations and, later in the day, at a forum on Europe’s future in Italy.
U.N. Panel calls for international peacekeeping force in Sudan
(NYTimes) — A united nations fact-finding mission friday called for an international peacekeeping force to protect civilians in sudan, where a brutal civil war has caused the world’s largest displacement crisis, leaving millions of people homeless and starving. Both sides in the 17-month conflict — the sudanese army and its rival, the rapid support forces paramilitaries — have killed, mutilated and tortured people, including children, the three-person mission said in a report they will present next week to the united nations human rights council in geneva. The war in sudan, a giant nation on the red sea in africa’s northeast, has threatened to destabilize its neighbors, and has drawn in other countries.
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