Nation and world news — at a glance — for August 7
Virginia man threatened to kill Kamala Harris, authorities say
NYTimes — A Virginia man has been charged with posting repeated death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris on social media in the days after she became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, authorities said Monday. The man, Frank Lucio Carillo, of Winchester, Virginia, was arrested Friday and appeared in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Virginia, on Monday to face a charge of making threats against the vice president of the United States. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison. The arrest came after the FBI discovered nearly 20 threats against Harris from an account linked to Carillo on the social media site GETTR.
Study puts a $43 billion yearly price tag on cancer screening
NYTimes — The United States spent $43 billion annually on screening to prevent five cancers, according to one of the most comprehensive estimates of medically recommended cancer testing ever produced. The analysis, published Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine and based on data for the year 2021, shows that cancer screening makes up a substantial proportion of what is spent every year on cancer in the United States, which most likely exceeds $250 billion. The researchers focused their estimate on breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers, and found that more than 88% of screening was paid for by private insurance and the rest mostly by government programs.
Supreme court rejects long-shot challenge to Trump hush money case
NYTimes — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an audacious lawsuit by Missouri that asked the justices to intervene in the hush-money case in New York in which former President Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records. Andrew Bailey, Missouri’s attorney general, asked the court to defer Trump’s sentencing, scheduled for Sept. 18, until after the election and to lift a gag order limiting what he can say. The Supreme Court’s brief order did not lay out the court’s reasoning. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have let the state file the suit, but they did not express a view about whether it had merit.
US Troops in Iraq wounded in rocket attack on air base
NYTimes — A rocket attack targeting U.S. personnel housed at a base in Iraq’s western desert injured several American troops late Monday, according to U.S. defense officials. The attack on Ain al-Asad Air Base resembled previous ones carried out by Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups, which have targeted the base repeatedly over the past several years but intensified their attacks after Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip began in October. The latest attack involved at least two rockets that hit inside the base’s perimeter, according to a U.S. official and witnesses. Initial reports were that at least five people, both U.S. troops and contractors, were injured.
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