Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 28, 2023

welcome to democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman Federal prosecutors have filed new charges against former president Donald Trump and another one of his aides and the indictment around his mishandling of classified documents the charges accuse Trump of attempting to quote alter destroy mutilate or conceal evidence unquote and inducing others to do so prosecutors also added a new count under the Espionage Act for showing classified National Security materials to visitors to his Bedminster Golf Club the revised indictment States Trump and Mar-A-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira pressured the director of I.T at Trump's Florida estate to delete security camera footage so it could not be seen by a Federal grand jury according to the indictment Dale Oliveira said quote the boss wanted the server deleted de Oliveira is also accused of lying to Federal investigators when he denied having knowledge of boxes of documents stashed at Mar-A-Lago prosecutors contend aloe vera oversaw and even helped move the boxes alongside Trump Aid Walt NADA who has already been indicted this superseding indictment is not to be confused with a possible third indictment against Trump related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election for which Trump's lawyers met with special counsel Jack Smith's office Thursday new climate data show July is on track to become the hottest month in human history with global temperatures rising to about 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels on Thursday the head of the World Meteorological organization said climate action is not a luxury but a must while U.N Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez schoolded world leaders over an action on the climate climate change is here it is terrifying and it is just the beginning the idea of global warming has ended the area the era of global boiling has arrived the air is unbreathable the heat is unbearable and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate in action is unacceptable the un's warning came as hundreds of wildfires fueled by record heat continue to burn out of control around the Mediterranean and Algeria Croatia France Greece Italy Portugal Spain Tunisia and turkey in China typhoon daksuri made landfall today in the Southeastern fujian Province sparking fires Downing power lines and shuttering schools and businesses on Thursday the storm lasts Southern Taiwan after battering the northern Philippines were killed at least 39 people here in the United States over 170 million people are under extreme heat alerts as sweltering temperatures spread across the country on Thursday President Biden announced a series of measures to tackle the impacts of the extreme heat we should be protecting workers from hazardous conditions and we will and those states where they do not I'm going to be calling them out where they refuse to protect these workers and that's awful heat but Biden made no mention of the fossil fuel industry's role in the climate crisis and continue to ignore calls from climate activists and scientists to declare a climate emergency we'll speak with congressmember Greg cassar who went on a thirst strike this week in Washington D.C in more climate news the Supreme Court has cleared the way for construction of the contested Mountain Valley pipeline to resume the court on Thursday lifted a halt on a section of the project that had been issued by a lower court earlier this month after a challenge by environmental groups leaders of niger's military have declared their support for the mutinous officers who declared a coup Wednesday against the nation's democratically elected president Muhammad bazoom two days after members of his own presidential guard deposed him president bazoom has refused to step down it's not clear who's currently running niger's government on Thursday supporters of the coup set fired to the headquarters of bazoom's governing party meanwhile The Intercept reports a leader of the attempted coup is trained by the U.S military at the army base formerly known as Fort Benning named after a confederate general which was recently renamed Fort Moore just last month cool leader in Brigadier General Musa Salo barmo met with the head of U.S army Special Operations Command Lieutenant General Jonathan Braga at a U.S drone base in Niger African officers trained by the U.S military have taken part in 11 coups in West Africa since 2008. the World Health Organization is warning of a growing Health crisis for the 3.4 million people forced to flee fighting in Sudan with Rising rates of infectious diseases reported among displaced populations heavy fighting continues to rage in the capital Khartoum where air strikes and artillery Fire have killed at least 16 civilians this week in Sudan's Western Darfur region a leader of the mass Elite Community says more than ten thousand people have been killed in the past two months more than 300 000 people the vast majority of the mass Elite have fled across the border into neighboring Chad refugees describe a harrowing journey to escape attacks by militias and Fighters with the rapid support forces I've been here for 13 days and the people we left behind were killed in their homes there are others who are trapped there and the road remains unsafe if there are three or four people they'll kill them and take their belongings Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed African leaders to Saint Petersburg for the annual africa-russia Summit coming just days after the Kremlin pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal that allowed safe passage of shipments of food and fertilizer from Ukraine heads of state from 17 African countries joined this year's Gathering down from 43 African leaders who attended in 2019. Putin said Russia will be able to replace Ukrainian grain exports and promise free shipments of food to six African nations our country can replace Ukrainian grain both commercially and as a free Aid to the poorest countries in Africa especially as we are again expecting a record Harvest this year Russian President Putin also pledged to consider a peace plan from African leaders to end the Ukraine war among those spotted on the sidelines of the summit was the leader of the Wagner group of Russian mercenaries Evgeni pagosian who is photographed shaking hands with the senior ambassador from the Central African Republic it was the first time burgosian has appeared publicly inside Russia since he led a failed revolt against Russia's military in June the United States Senate has approved the largest military budget in history its passage sets up a partisan clash with the Republican majority in the House of Representatives which narrowly approved a military budget packed with anti-abortion and anti-lgbtqia amendments on Thursday Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called passage of the Senate's 886 billion dollar National Defense authorization act quote a glimmer of hope for the American people and a bipartisan process is precisely what the American people are yearning for in a fractured Congress Democrats Republicans coming together to provide something as critical as our National Defense just 11 Senators voted against the record military budget six Democrat four Republican and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders Senators overwhelmingly rejected an amendment offered by Senators that would have slashed the military budget by 10 percent ahead of the vote Sanders said the U.S should prioritize spending on health care and social programs over a bloated military budget unbelievably our life expectancy is actually declining our child care system is dysfunctional millions of parents unable to find affordable sites for their kids we have a major housing crisis 600 000 Americans are homeless and oh yes the planet is on fire and the world we are leaving future Generations will be increasingly unhealthy but somehow we never have enough money to address those crises in El Salvador human rights Advocates or warning of severe due process violations after lawmakers approve the use of mass trials for the tens of thousands of people who've been arrested under President naive bukeli's brutal Crackdown on gangs Salvadoran officials set up to 900 defendants could be prosecuted at one time El Salvador has been under a state of exception for 16 months suspending several constitutional protections and leading to the arbitrary Detention of over 70 000 people without access to legal representation or Fair trials meanwhile Honduras is planning to build an Island prison to detain hundreds of suspected gang leaders this comes after president Shamara Castro earlier this month approved another extension of a state of emergency that's been in place since last year to tackle gang violence in Ecuador authorities have recovered the remains of people killed during a prison riot over the weekend in the city of guayaquillo at least 31 people were reported dead but the toll could be higher Ecuador's prison system has been plagued with violence and abuse with prisoners facing overcrowded and squalid conditions president guillermolasso has declared a state of emergency in Ecuadorian prisons over 400 people have died in prison riots in Ecuador since 2021. back in the United States data shows the rate of gun suicides among black teens has topped the rate among white teens for the first time as gun suicides reached an all-time high last year the data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control also shows black children and teens have begun homicide rate 20 times higher than white children in teens guns Remain the leading cause of death for children and teens with the rate of gun deaths among miners soaring by 87 percent over the last decade last year over 48 thousand people in the United States died from guns an average of one person every 11 minutes and in Texas the Houston Independent School Districts eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools in the upcoming school year and will replace some libraries with so-called team centers essentially disciplinary centers for students the widely blasted move comes after State Republicans forcibly took over the Houston Independent School District earlier this year those most affected will be children of color and lower income areas meanwhile two Texas bookstores and three National Bookseller associations have sued over a Texas Bill requiring private booksellers to rate books based on levels of quote appropriateness and banning quote sexually explicit material from libraries Valerie Kohler is the owner of the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston at co-plaintiff in the lawsuit we're not going to read them all and for us to have to rate them I think sends a message to the Librarians and to the students that you're allowed to read this you're not allowed to read that and those are some of the headlines this is democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman

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Published: Fri Jul 28 2023