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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Friendship Challenge</strong> - How envy destroyed the perfect connection between two teen-age girls. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/the-friendship-challenge">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Art World Before and After Thelma Golden, by Calvin Tomkins</strong> - When Golden was a young curator in the nineties, her shows, centering Black artists, were unprecedented. Today, those artists are the stars of the art market. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/the-art-world-before-and-after-thelma-golden">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld</strong> - After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents were shocked to learn that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Photos from a Late-Stage Abortion Clinic</strong> - At a clinic in Maryland, desperate patients arrive from all over the country to terminate their pregnancies. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-safe-haven-for-late-abortions">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Nikola Jokić Became the World’s Best Basketball Player</strong> - He doesn’t run very fast or jump very high, and seems to prefer the company of horses. But he has mastered the game’s new geometry like nobody else. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/how-nikola-jokic-became-the-worlds-best-basketball-player">link</a></p></li>
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Today, Explained is expanding into a multi-platform news brand, starting with a daily newsletter offering clarity on the day’s most significant story.
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I’m Vox’s senior editor of news, a role I’ve come to after five years at Vox, covering some of the biggest stories of those years. That included the Trump impeachments, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election">2020 election</a>, and one of the biggest <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus">Supreme Court</a> terms in recent memory,<em> </em>before I took over our international section just in time for the US withdrawal from <a href="https://www.vox.com/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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<li><strong>Abortion rights groups don’t want to “restore Roe” — but they won’t fight Biden on it</strong> -
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President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally to restore <em>Roe</em> at Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia, on January 23, 2024. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Many reproductive health organizations want to codify stronger standards. They’re not going to pick that fight this year.
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When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris held their first joint campaign event of 2024 last month in northern Virginia, they left no doubt that codifying <a href="https://www.vox.com/abortion">abortion</a> rights would be central to the president’s reelection bid. With the rally timed to honor what would have been the 51st anniversary of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23055125/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-supreme-court-dobbs-v-jackson"><em>Roe </em>v. <em>Wade</em></a><em>, </em>Biden stood under a large “Restore Roe” sign and beside supporters holding smaller posters to “Defend Choice.”
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“We need the protections of <em>Roe</em> v. <em>Wade</em> in every state. And we can do it. You can do it,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/01/24/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-event-manassas-va/">stressed</a> at the event. “Give me a Democratic House of Representatives and give me a bigger — a bigger Democratic Senate, and we will pass a new law restoring the protections of <em>Roe</em> v. <em>Wade</em>, and I will sign it immediately.”
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<img alt="They stand in a line onstage in front of signs saying “restore Roe” and “defend choice.”" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/WMwjrg2VX6gMZFjf50UAqDcE_Bo=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25260801/1948403542.jpg"/> <cite>Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images</cite>
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First lady Jill Biden, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her husband Doug Emhoff wave following a campaign rally to restore <em>Roe</em> at Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia, on January 23, 2024.
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In subsequent campaign blasts, the Biden-Harris team reiterated the <em>Roe </em>message. “A vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is a vote to restore <em>Roe</em>,” said Julie Chávez Rodriguez, Biden’s campaign manager. “It’s simple,” the president <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1749494901698375854">tweeted</a> to his nearly 34 million followers, under a graphic calling to “Restore the Protections of <em>Roe </em>v. <em>Wade </em>Once and For All.”
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After the 2022 and 2023 election cycles, it may not be surprising that Biden is running on an abortion rights platform. What’s new, though, is that prominent abortion rights groups are biting their tongues about <em>Roe </em>and <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahnferris/status/1524792388677402626">“pro-choice” messaging</a> they disdain and have been trying to steer politicians away from.
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In the weeks and months following the June 2022 <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23055125/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-supreme-court-dobbs-v-jackson"><em>Dobbs </em>v. <em>Jackson </em>decision</a><em>, </em>it was more common to hear<em> </em>influential leaders within the abortion rights movement talk about the necessity of going beyond <em>Roe </em>v. <em>Wade, </em>not going back to it. The old legal standard, they argued,<strong> </strong>was never good enough, and left too many people without access to the reproductive healthcare they needed.
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When a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill in summer 2022 to codify the legal protections that existed under <em>Roe </em>just before the <em>Dobbs </em>decision was issued, a coalition of reproductive rights groups <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/8/22/23306142/kaine-collins-codify-roe-abortion-congress">came out quickly against it</a>. Activists instead had their eyes set on the <a href="https://www.vox.com/20930358/codify-roe-wade-womens-health-protection-act-supreme-court-nancy-pelosi-democrats">Women’s Health Protection Act</a>, a more sweeping federal bill that would not only restore the pre-<em>Dobbs</em> status quo but also ban most state-level restrictions as well as religious exemptions for health care providers. (WHPA passed the House in 2021 but failed twice in the Senate.)
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The groups’ opposition to anything incremental meant a more moderate, compromise effort to protect abortion rights in Congress was never seriously attempted after <em>Roe</em>.
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The hope to go beyond <em>Roe</em> hasn’t disappeared. Bolstered by <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23451074/abortion-ballot-measure-midterms-kentucky-montana-michigan">decisive ballot measures</a> to protect abortion rights over the last 18 months, election wins for Democrats who campaigned heavily on reproductive freedom, and surveys that suggest voters <a href="https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/May-2-Release-FINAL.pdf">have grown</a> even <a href="https://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NPR_PBS-News-Hour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_0426_202304211458.pdf">more supportive</a> of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/support-for-legalized-abortion-grows-since-dobbs-ruling-wsj-poll-shows-11662210020">abortion rights</a> since <em>Roe</em>’s repeal<em>, </em>many activists have pressed Democrats to avoid using “<em>Roe”</em> language at all, and even steer clear of popular “pro-choice” messaging they believe helped normalize restricting abortion over the years.
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Yet with the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections">2024 election</a> now closer and stakes on abortion access even higher, reproductive rights groups have decided to swallow their concerns and enthusiastically endorse the president’s reelection strategy. Vox reached out to a dozen abortion rights groups, and while many offered statements about the need to do more to protect abortion access, no organization went so far as to say they disagreed with the president on his call to restore <em>Roe</em>, or explicitly object to his language.
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Most groups handled the tension by saying they supported codifying “real protections” that restore the “original promise” of <em>Roe — </em>even if the restoration of <em>Roe</em> could mean restoring the legal rights available before <em>Dobbs. </em>
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“Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s long-term vision includes short-term strategies, and it’s very simple,” Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, told Vox. “This November, voters will have to decide between an administration that continues to work with us in the fight for freedom or an administration that caused our current public health crisis and will go further with a national abortion ban. We have a very clear choice between holding the line or descending further into what will be irreparable chaos and confusion.”
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Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/planned-parenthood-endorses-biden-for-re-election-amid-continued-attacks-on-reproductive-freedom">endorsed</a> Biden’s reelection bid last June and recently published a <a href="https://cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/60/42/6042b0b9-6c7e-4560-bb75-25de3bb6ec01/2024-biden-3yr-report_2.pdf">glowing review</a> of the administration’s record on abortion access. “You can be certain that we are fighting for more than <em>Roe v. Wade,” </em>McGill Johnson told me.
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“We absolutely need to restore the protections of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>, and so much more,” said Katie O’Connor, the National Women’s Law Center’s director of federal abortion policy. “We are proud to have endorsed President Biden, and pleased he has committed to signing a bill that would lock the federal right to abortion into law,” Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All,<strong> </strong>added.
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“Restore <em>Roe</em>” is Biden’s politics, not his policy
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Biden’s campaign and surrogates are quick to point out that the president has already taken steps to protect abortion rights that go beyond the standards of <em>Roe </em>v. <em>Wade. </em>He’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/11/statement-from-president-biden-on-the-senate-vote-on-the-womens-health-protection-act/#:~:text=May%2011%2C%202022-,Statement%20from%20President%20Biden%20on%20the%20Senate,the%20Women's%20Health%20Protection%20Act&text=Once%20again%20%E2%80%93%20as%20fundamental%20rights,access%20to%20reproductive%20health%20care.">on record</a> supporting the Women’s Health Protection Act, and his administration has expanded access to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/health/covid-abortion-pills-mailed.html">abortion pills via telemedicine</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/03/1146860433/the-fda-finalizes-rule-expanding-the-availability-of-abortion-pills">at pharmacies</a>.
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So abortion rights groups and their congressional allies looking to pass stronger protections have decided to tolerate the president’s <em>Roe</em><strong> </strong>messaging, trusting his team will do more if reelected, despite what he’s saying publicly now to voters.
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“I support President Biden’s campaign message to restore <em>Roe</em> and his administration’s actions to defend abortion access,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren told me, drawing a distinction between his campaign rhetoric and his executive policies.
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Whether voters know that “restoring <em>Roe</em>” is not the president’s end goal for abortion policy, though, is less clear. He’s never specifically articulated that fact, and his surrogates are wary to do so on the record, either. They suggest, rather, that a person should be able to infer the president’s policy goals based on a close reading of his administration’s record.
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The Biden campaign, for its part, wants to keep the conversation stationed on friendly political ground — where codifying or restoring <em>Roe </em>simply means legalizing or protecting abortion rights. This is safer territory, since <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abortion-quandary/">most Americans believe</a> abortion should be legal in all or most cases and that <a href="https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/May-2-Release-FINAL.pdf">overturning <em>Roe </em>v. <em>Wade </em>was a mistake</a>. However, when one starts drilling down into the details about specific limits or restrictions, public opinion becomes murkier and more complex.
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Where things get tricky is that Biden has not just praised <em>Roe </em>as a shorthand for legal abortion rights. He also continues to praise the specifics of the Supreme Court decision itself.
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“It was a decision on a complex matter that drew a careful balance between a woman’s right to choose earlier in her pregnancy and the state’s ability to regulate later in her pregnancy,” <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/06/24/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-supreme-court-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/#:~:text=This%20fall%2C%20Roe%20is%20on,the%20consequences%20of%20today's%20decision">the president said</a> when the <em>Dobbs </em>ruling came down. “A decision with broad national consensus that most Americans of faiths and backgrounds found acceptable.”
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Even at this recent Virginia campaign event in January the president went so far as to say, “I believe <em>Roe v. Wade</em> got it right, and so do a majority of Americans.”
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This tendency to try and have it both ways on <em>Roe </em>has been frustrating for anti-abortion groups, as they point out the administration will praise the Supreme Court decision that endorsed limits and regulations but won’t say today which, if any, limits they’d now support.
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For example, last fall, when Harris was asked if there should be any limits on the right to an abortion, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vice-president-kamala-harris-face-the-nation-transcript-09-10-2023/">said at least five times</a> that “we need to restore the protections of <em>Roe </em>v. <em>Wade” </em>but dodged clarifying what she meant by that in practice.
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Some Democratic political strategists say this waffling is simply necessary to get through November, to avoid Republicans spreading the lie that third-trimester abortions will become more common if Biden is reelected. Recently the Republican National Committee <a href="https://gop.com/research/democrats-are-extreme-on-abortion-rsr/">claimed in a press release</a> that Biden supports “abortion-on-demand up until the moment of birth and after.”
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The GOP also tried to attack Democrats in Virginia for supporting abortion “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/new-gop-ad-campaign-control-virginia-centers-abortion-limits-rcna111492">up until birth</a>” in the recent 2023 election cycle, but voters didn’t seem to buy it. While Americans do tend to be more uncomfortable with third-trimester abortions, they <a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/23910990/abortion-midterms-elections-dobbs-roe">also seem to understand</a> they <a href="https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/abortions-later-in-pregnancy/">are extremely rare</a>, and are typically associated with fetal anomalies, threats to a mother’s life, and barriers to care that delay access to the procedure.
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Abortion rights groups still plan to push for more than <em>Roe</em>
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As of now, the two major bills to codify abortion rights on the federal level are the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Reproductive Freedom for All Act, which would legalize abortion before fetal viability and permit so-called conscience protections for health care providers who oppose abortion.
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When I asked a dozen abortion rights groups if they’d support codifying reproductive rights in legislation if the proposed federal bill did not go as far as the Women’s Health Protection Act, most organizations demurred or declined to answer directly. Only Catholics for Choice offered a clear affirmative statement that they’d be willing to consider any bill that allows a pregnant person to choose abortion. “This is not a time to make good legislation the enemy of the perfect,” president Jamie Manson told me.
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A spokesperson for Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, one of the lead sponsors of the Reproductive Freedom for All Act, told Vox that he remains focused on passing his bill to codify “the essential holdings of <em>Roe</em> and related cases to protect reproductive freedom and access to contraception.” In <a href="https://voxmedia.stories.usechorus.com/compose/e98cae4a-98a4-47cc-a74c-aed0a417f954">a press interview</a> following Biden’s Virginia campaign event, Kaine stressed his bill is the only bipartisan one pending in Congress now to restore <em>Roe </em>as a statutory protection.
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Despite his campaign mantra to restore <em>Roe</em>, the Biden campaign declined to comment on whether the president would sign the Reproductive Freedom for All Act if it passed Congress.
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Democratic Sen. Tina Smith suggested lawmakers would be open to different pieces of legislation to protect abortion rights. <strong>“</strong>Our goal is to restore women’s reproductive freedoms,” she told me. “If that’s the Women’s Health Protection Act or something else remains to be seen, but that’s where I stand.”
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<li><strong>America is exporting more arms than ever. Here’s why.</strong> -
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<img alt="A soldier sits in the turret of a tank." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/PsZZDQ5wwnOekjIYH2X2RGcZIoU=/665x0:5896x3923/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73110620/1931925303.0.jpg"/>
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A soldier of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Zakarpattia Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is seen during special training exercises to maintain professional skills involving T-72 tanks in the Zaporizhzhia sector of southeastern Ukraine. | Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images
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Record arms exports are a sign of America’s commitment to Europe — and its foreign policy failures during the war in Ukraine.
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US foreign military sales recently reached a <a href="https://www.state.gov/fiscal-year-2023-u-s-arms-transfers-and-defense-trade/">record high</a>, largely driven by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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The 2023 fiscal year, ending October 1, saw $80.9 billion in US government arms transfers, foreign defense services, and security cooperation — a figure up more than 55 percent from $51.9 billion in 2022. Direct commercial sales by US arms manufacturers to other countries also rose from $153.6 billion to $157.5 billion over the previous fiscal year. (The US government approves both types of sales but is only directly involved in negotiations for the former, making that a stronger indicator of US foreign policy priorities.)
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/6hKG6YZVf90UHMcC6epw1lbhQyQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25263410/GaAyA_foreign_military_transfers_hit_record_levels_in_2023.png"/> <cite>Nicole Narea/Vox</cite>
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US officials have indicated that they intend to starve the Russian arms export industry, encouraging their allies in Europe and globally to buy American weapons instead.
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“We see that because Russia’s defense industry is denied the resources that come from exports, that helps to contribute to Russian strategic failure on the battlefield,” Mira Resnick, who runs the State Department’s Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/us-foreign-arms-sales-russia-china-00138390">told Politico</a>.
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The military transfers also serve the purpose of signaling the Biden administration’s commitment to its European partners. Some European allies are buying US weapons in preparation for a feared <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/politics/europe-nato-russia-trump.html#:~:text=Europe's%20worry%20has%20been%20further,limit%20American%20aid%20to%20Ukraine.">broader war in Europe</a> against Russia; the European Union approved <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/europe/eu-ukraine-funding-deal-intl/index.html">$50 billion</a> in funding for Ukraine Thursday.
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Recent large-scale Russian investments in its army and weapons industry have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/politics/europe-nato-russia-trump.html#:~:text=Europe's%20worry%20has%20been%20further,limit%20American%20aid%20to%20Ukraine.">fueled those fears</a>. And Europe is worried that it may not be able to rely exclusively on the US for protection: US aid for Ukraine has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-money-congress-weapons-dd5076b30bf8fab5c914a1222186e7f0">run out</a>, and a deal to <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/deal-on-wartime-ukraine-aid-and-border-security-stalls-in-congress-as-time-runs-short">secure additional funding</a> in exchange for border security measures has stalled in the Senate <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/1/25/24050278/senate-immigration-border-ukraine-trump-mcconnell-romney">following former President Donald Trump’s meddling</a>.
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But the increase in US arms sales is not necessarily a testament to the success of Biden’s foreign policy, said Elias Yousif, a research analyst with the Stimson Center’s Conventional Defense Program.
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“This really reflects just a degree of insecurity in Europe and anxieties about the war in Ukraine,” he said. “I’m not sure that the acceleration of arms transfers is really a cure.”
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Every one of these foreign military transfers goes through a detailed agency review process that involves evaluating whether it serves a partner country’s legitimate self-defense, and most major sales have to be approved by Congress with rare exceptions for emergencies.
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These deals are often completed over multiple years. The $80.9 billion figure encompasses deals that were actually implemented over the last fiscal year, but the US has also announced some major deals with European allies that may not yet count towards that total: Ukraine’s neighbor Poland, for example, struck a series of deals amounting to more than $45 billion, per <a href="https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales">congressional disclosures</a>.
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There’s a question whether those deals will actually be implemented going forward. Poland’s annual military budget is just $16 billion, and it also made a big purchase from South Korea last year, so “they’ll either need to jack up their military budget dramatically, or spread out payment over many years, or scale back their ambitions,” said William<strong> </strong>Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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While Poland made the largest commitment in the last fiscal year, the US also made <a href="https://www.state.gov/fiscal-year-2023-u-s-arms-transfers-and-defense-trade/">sales agreements</a> with other European countries, including ones valued at about $11.4 billion with Germany and $6.3 billion with the Czech Republic, as well as smaller deals with Norway and Bulgaria.
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These massive deals will help <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/us-foreign-arms-sales-russia-china-00138390">reduce European reliance</a> on Russian arms. But they should also be raising concern about how well the US is reassuring its allies and what it’s doing to decrease the demand for these weapons in the first place, Yousif said. In that sense, the increased military transfers reflect Europe’s uncertainty about the US’s commitments to its allies in an unstable world, as well as the US’s explicit attempts to placate them.
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How the war in Gaza is impacting weapons sales
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Israel’s war in Gaza wasn’t a factor in the 2023 increase in sales, since the war started after the fiscal year ended. Much of what’s being transferred to Israel now is part of sales that Congress was notified of in previous years, but the fulfillment of those orders has been accelerated since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, Yousif said. In other words, those sales were already tallied up in previous years’ totals. But there are some new sales: Biden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f">twice circumvented Congress</a> to make emergency weapons sales to Israel in December, totaling over $250 million.
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Much like the Ukraine war, Israel’s war in Gaza could become a major driver of arms transfers going forward as regional tensions escalate and US allies work to ensure their militaries are well supplied for any potential conflict. Arms deals could also be a part of any normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia — an agreement the US had made great efforts to broker before the outbreak of the war.
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“Next year could be the ‘year of the Middle East’ as regional tensions sparked by the Gaza war and the Biden administration’s desire to cozy up to Saudi Arabia to persuade it to join the Abraham Accords could spur large new sales,” Hartung said.
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Regardless of what happens with other partners in the Middle East, arms transfers to Israel appear likely to continue. That’s despite the fact that continued sales to Israel “violate the spirit and letter of US law as well as stated Biden administration policy, and they make a mockery of the administration’s claims to support a ‘rules-based international order,’” Hartung said.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24011316/us-aid-israel-biden-human-rights-leahy-law">Some foreign affairs experts</a> have argued that existing US laws meant to safeguard human rights, including the “Leahy Law,” should have long restricted the flow of such assistance to Israel due to the high death toll in its conflict. Unlike with respect to Ukraine, whose use of controversial weapons like cluster munitions and landmines has led to restrictions on US aid, that law has not been adequately enforced against Israel, they say.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="5T4gr9">
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But the Biden administration has maintained that it is abiding by the law and is on track to make 2024 another strong year for weapons sales.
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</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>To be adventurous or safe — the Mercedes conundrum after Hamilton’s shock exit</strong> - Replacing arguably one of the greatest drivers in the sport’s history is not going to be an easy task for the German marquee; who it selects could indicate how the team looks to build its post-Hamilton future</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Dash, and Rush show out</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Magnus and Stellantis impress</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ranji Trophy | Tamil Nadu cruises to seven-wicket win over Goa</strong> - This is Tamil Nadu’s third consecutive win and it retains the top spot in Group-C with 21 points and superior run quotient over Karnataka</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ind vs Eng 2nd Test | India dismiss England for 292, register series-levelling 106-run win</strong> - England’s no holds barred approach did not pay off as India picked up nine wickets over the course of two sessions to bounce back in the five-match series</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kerala Budget 2024-25: State to adopt Chinese model of development at Vizhinjam</strong> - Special development zones will be created in partnership with the private sector by attracting investment from institutions and individuals, including non-resident Keralites.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Here are the big stories from Karnataka today</strong> - Welcome to the Karnataka Today newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories to follow today. Curated and written by Nalme Nachiyar.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Suspended Panjagutta SHO nabbed in Guntakal, Andhra Pradesh by Hyderabad police</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bihar Congress MLAs in Hyderabad to avoid the lure of NDA Govt</strong> - The MLAs are likely to be in Hyderabad till February 11; the floor test for the new government is on February 12</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Stones pelted at Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat Express damage glass windows in six coaches</strong> - The incident took place when the train was running between Gangaikondan and Naraikinaru stations around 10 p.m. on February 4; the police are surveilling CCTV footage to identify the culprits</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Does Germany’s economy need more than a cup of coffee?</strong> - Germany’s growth is being held back by the twin shocks of expensive energy and higher interest rates.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Dozens dead in strike on Russia-held Ukraine city</strong> - Russia blames Ukraine for the attack on a bakery, which the Kremlin said left 28 people dead.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Parisians vote for rise in parking fees for SUVs</strong> - The vote was called by mayor Anne Hidalgo, who says SUVs are dangerous and bad for the environment.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>UN top court can rule on Ukraine case against Russia</strong> - Ukraine brought the case in 2022, accusing Russia of falsely using genocide law to justify its invasion.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Thunberg cleared after unlawful protest arrest</strong> - Greta Thunberg was arrested at a protest in October, with the judge ruling the law was unclear.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Humans are living longer than ever no matter where they come from</strong> - Disease outbreaks and human conflicts help dictate regional differences in longevity. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000942">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Hermit crabs find new homes in plastic waste: Shell shortage or clever choice?</strong> - The crustaceans are making the most of what they find on the seafloor. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000814">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The 2024 Rolex 24 at Daytona put on very close racing for a record crowd</strong> - The around-the-clock race marked the start of the North American racing calendar. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000564">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead</strong> - Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000802">link</a></p></li>
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Husband;<br/> When I fired the pool boy, she said, “Well, you know, you’re only firing him because he’s so young and good looking, and you feel threatened and insecure, because it reminds you of your own mortality, and you’re projecting all these insecurities onto someone else in a very passive/aggressive way, because these feelings are just too traumatic for you to deal with.”
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His wife screams, “You fucking Idiot,” my hair and makeup are a mess, the house has not been cleaned , the dishes aren’t done, I’m still in my pyjamas, I can’t be bothered to cook and it’s my time of the month! Why the fuck did you bring him home? The husband replies “Because he is thinking of getting married”…
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I went downstairs for breakfast hoping my wife would be pleasant and say, ‘Happy Birthday,’ and possibly have a small present for me. As it turned out, she barely said good morning, let alone ‘Happy Birthday.’<br/> I thought …. well, that’s marriage for you, but the kids …. they will remember. My kids came bouncing down stairs to breakfast and didn’t say a word. So when I left for work I felt pretty low and somewhat dejected.<br/> As I walked into my office, my hot boss, Pam, said, ‘Good morning, and by the way Happy Birthday!’ It felt a little better that at least someone had remembered. I worked until one o’clock, when Pam knocked on my door and said, ‘It’s such a beautiful day outside, and it is your birthday, what do you say we go out to lunch, just you and me.’<br/> I said, ‘Thanks, Pam, that’s the greatest thing I’ve heard all day. Let’s go!’<br/> We went to lunch. But we didn’t go where we normally would go. She chose instead a quiet bistro with a private table. We had two red wines each and I enjoyed the meal tremendously. On the way back to the office, Pam said, ‘It’s such a beautiful day … we don’t need to go straight back to work, do we?’<br/> I responded, ‘I guess not. What do you have in mind?’ She said, ‘Let’s drop by my place, it’s just around the corner.<br/> After arriving at her house, Pam turned to me and said, ’If you don’t mind, I’m going to step into the bedroom for just a moment. I’ll be right back.’<br/> ‘Ok.’ I nervously replied.<br/> She went into the bedroom and, after a couple of minutes, she came out carrying a huge birthday cake, followed by my wife, my kids, and dozens of my friends and co-workers, all singing ‘Happy Birthday.’<br/> And I just sat there ….<br/> on the sofa ….<br/> butt naked.
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