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- Iran threatens to react in nuclear dispute: Iran announced that it will "react" if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passes a resolution against the country, according to a report from Iran's Fars News Agency.
- India election: Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi is expected to clinch a rare third consecutive term when election results are announced today.
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TL/DR: First Lady Jill Biden watched from the courtroom's front row as Hunter Biden became the first child of a sitting U.S. president to be criminally tried.
A jury was sworn in Monday in the federal firearms case against Hunter Biden after panelists were probed during the selection process, according to The Associated Press (AP).
Why it matters: Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, is on trial in Wilmington, Delaware, for federal charges of illegally possessing a firearm after allegedly lying about his status as a drug user when buying a pistol in 2018. The charges against Hunter Biden stem from investigations of DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump.
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What happens now? The jury was seated by the end of the day after six men and six women were selected, in addition to four women chosen to serve as alternates. Judge Maryellen Noreika instructed the jurors not to talk or read about the case and set opening statements to begin today, the AP reported.
TL/DR: "For better or worse, 2024 will be the TikTok election," James Haggerty, president and CEO of strategic communications firm PRCG, told Newsweek.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are signaling that TikTok will be critical to reaching voters, especially young ones, before the November election. Both now have accounts on the platform: Trump launched his account during a weekend UFC fight, and Biden launched his during the Super Bowl.
Why it matters: Biden and Trump have both called for a ban on the Chinese-owned app; however, the Biden campaign said it's important to "meet voters where they are." Gen Z youth alone will make up over 40 million potential voters this year. The Spring 2024 Harvard Youth Poll released in April found Biden leading Trump by a narrow eight points, 45 percent to 37 percent, among voters under 30.
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What happens now? Biden’s reelection campaign said it plans to keep using TikTok until Election Day, despite the president signing a law in April that would ban the app nationwide if its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, doesn't sell it by January 2025.
TL/DR: During Monday's hearing, Fauci described the death threats he and his family had received while director of the NIAID.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has said that Marjorie Taylor Greene's vocal criticisms of him during a congressional hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic had increased the number of death threats he receives.
Why it matters: Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years, was the public face of the government's early response to COVID-19. He testified voluntarily on Monday before a GOP-led subcommittee that has spent more than a year probing the nation's response to the pandemic. The hearing quickly deteriorated into partisan attacks, with Fauci facing the most hostility from Greene, who refused to address him as a "doctor" and said he "belongs in prison."
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What happens now? In response to a question from Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell, Fauci said, "There have been credible death threats, leading to the arrests of two individuals, and that means someone who was clearly on their way to kill me. And it's required that I have protective services essentially all the time."
TL/DR: Desertion has been an issue for Russia's military throughout President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is forcibly sending its military deserters to the front line in Ukraine, according to an investigation.
Why it matters: Verstka, an independent Russian news outlet that was founded shortly after the Ukraine war began, said in an investigation published on Monday that hundreds of Russians who refuse to fight in Ukraine are being forcibly deployed to the battlefield. Some are held at gunpoint and are physically abused or detained if they resist. Verstka found that at least 170 men who deserted the Russian military were deprived of the right to trial and forcibly sent to Ukraine.
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What happens now? Verstka's investigation said that Russian authorities may be pivoting away from prosecuting military deserters and canceling their trials to redeploy them to the front lines in Ukraine in an attempt to boost the army's power in the war.
TL/DR: Americans of all generations purchased fewer homes last year than the year before, according to Redfin data, making 2023 the least affordable year on record.
After waiting years for the right time to buy, millennials are now getting on the property ladder in droves, especially in California's Bay Area.
Why it matters: In San Francisco, 37.8 percent of new mortgages issued last year went to older millennials aged between 35 and 44, according to Redfin analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data covering purchases of primary homes. It's the biggest share of mortgages taken by older millennials in 2023 out of all the 50 most populous metropolitan areas analyzed by the real estate platform.
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What happens now? Buying a home in the U.S. remains expensive and unaffordable for many, despite a brief price correction between late summer 2022 and spring 2023. In April, the latest data on Redfin's website revealed that the median sale price of a home in the U.S. was $432,902, up 6.1 percent compared to a year earlier.
Why You Think Ty Cobb Was a Racist (When He Wasn't)
We live in a time when villains never seem to get their comeuppance. So, the recent news that Major League Baseball had re-crunched its trove of statistics and taken the legendary Ty Cobb down a notch from first to second place among all-time batting champs had many sports fans celebrating. Cobb, who played mostly for the Detroit Tigers from 1905 to 1928, was a pioneering superstar who had an astounding lifetime batting average of .367, a number that was until recently considered unsurpassable. He was also the most exciting player of his era, once stealing second, third and home on three consecutive pitches and on another occasion turning a squibbler back to the pitcher into an inside the park home run.
But the Georgia Peach, as he was known in his day, also owns a reputation as a thoroughly despicable human being (it was said that he sharpened his spikes and kept them high when sliding into opposing infielders) and, most of all, a virulent racist. Rumor had it that he'd once stabbed a Black hotel clerk whose attitude he didn't fancy. A baseball historian wrote that Cobb "brutally pistol whipped African-American men" he saw on the street. Cobb was insulted in the movie Field of Dreams ("No one liked that son of a bitch," one character said), depicted as a sexual predator in the 1995 biopic Cobb starring Tommy Lee Jones, and decried in the Ken Burns documentary Baseball as "an embarrassment to the game." In the long history of America's National Pastime, it's safe to say that no player has been more despised.
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