Israel Protests Continue, Heat Wave Study, Emmett Till Memorial

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

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Israel's Knesset has passed a law limiting the powers of the country's judges and sparking mass protests. A new study indicates climate change causes increasing heat waves. And President Biden will designate a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother.

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0:00.0	Israel's right wing government added to its power.
0:05.3	Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition did that by removing a check on its actions.
0:09.6	How does the opposition respond to the right wing move against the Supreme Court?
0:13.6	I'm Steve Innskeap with Leyla Faddle and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.6	A climate scientist finds this fact so obvious it's a little boring.
0:25.8	The more heat that we put into our atmosphere, he will translate into bigger heat events.
0:30.7	Scientists find no mystery in this summer's record-breaking heat wave.
0:34.9	How can people respond to the heat?
0:37.1	Also, Emmett Till would have been 82 years old today.
0:40.3	Had he survived a mob attack in 1955.
0:43.7	His murder became a symbol for the civil rights movement.
0:46.8	How do new national monuments honor his story?
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1:25.0	Israelis woke up today to their three largest newspapers carrying a black front page.
1:31.0	The black pages were ads that protesters took out calling it a dark day for democracy in Israel.
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