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Chicago Sun-Times: ‘White supremacist’ remark sparks City Council member’s ouster from hearing on public art dubbed antisemitic by Fran Spielman
A City Council hearing called to determine why an artwork viewed as antisemitic was placed on display at the Cultural Center dissolved into name-calling Tuesday with one member being evicted after accusing another of being a “white supremacist.”
Progressive firebrand Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) ended up apologizing to Ald. Bill Conway (34th), but only after being thrown out by normally affable Special Events Committee Chair Nick Sposato (38th).
“You should be out of here. … You can’t call anybody a white supremacist. You gotta go,” Sposato said, directing the sergeant-at-arms to remove Sigcho-Lopez.
“We’re not gonna take that. We’re not gonna stand for that,” Sposato added. “You’re not gonna be here disrupting my meeting. ... You disrespected a colleague. ... Get out of here. For calling him a white supremacist, plain and simple.”
Sposato then called a five-minute recess to give combatants in the ever-widening rift between the Council’s progressive and conservative members time to cool off.
The New York Times: Want Eggs With Your Breakfast? Pay a Surcharge, Waffle House Says. By Kate Christobek
Anyone craving the all-day breakfast at Waffle House will have to shell out an extra 50 cents for each egg in their omelet or scrambled eggs, the restaurant chain said on Monday.
Waffle House said in a statement that the temporary surcharge, which went into effect the same day, was being added to address the rising cost of eggs resulting from the bird flu.
The “continuing egg shortage” caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza “has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices,” Waffle House said in the statement. “Consumers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions.”
Grocery stores and restaurants are now paying around $7.79 for a dozen Midwest large eggs, the industry standard, up from $3.33 a year ago, according to Expana, a firm that collects and tracks the price of eggs. At that price, each egg would cost about 65 cents.
CNN: US Postal Service suspends incoming parcels from China and Hong Kong by Eric Cheung and Ramishah Maruf
The US Postal Service says it has temporarily suspended the acceptance of incoming international parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
It did not provide a reason for the suspension, but said in a statement Tuesday the flow of letters will not be affected. The Postal Service did not provide any additional information on the suspension when contacted by CNN.
The announcement comes just days after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that terminated the “de minimis” exemption, a long-standing rule that allowed anyone, including exporters, to ship packages worth less than $800 to the United States without duties or needing to undergo inspections.
The new rule is likely to affect e-commerce sites like Shein and Temu, which have built their gargantuan business models around this exemption. The relaxed restrictions and tax exemptions on cheap products have allowed more than a billion packages to pour into the US at low prices for consumers looking for deals on clothing to household goods.
NBC News: All 67 victims of D.C. midair collision recovered from Potomac River; only 1 left unidentified by Doha Madani
Authorities recovered all of the 67 victims from the Potomac River less than a week after an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.
Search and recovery efforts are over after the crash last Wednesday, with 66 people identified, Washington officials said in a statement Tuesday. The chief medical examiner’s office is still working to identify the final victim.
Officials called it a "significant step" to bring closure after the collision.
"Our hearts are with the victims’ families as they navigate this tragic loss," the statement said. "We extend our deepest condolences and remain committed to supporting them through this difficult time."
Authorities will turn to clearing the wreckage from the Potomac River.
Guardian: Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit by David Smith
Donald Trump has vowed that the US would “take over” war ravaged Gaza and “own it”, effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, in an announcement shocking even by the standards of his norm-shattering presidency.
Trump, who has previously threatened Greenland and Panama and suggested that Canada should become the 51st state, added Gaza to his expansionist agenda, claiming that it could become the “Riviera of the Middle East” and declined to rule out sending US troops to make it happen.
“The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative,” the president told a joint press conference with Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday evening. “It’s right now a demolition site. This is just a demolition site. Virtually every building is down.”
BBC News: Police say around 10 people killed in Sweden school campus shooting by Johanna Chisholm
Police say around 10 people have been killed in a shooting at an education centre in central Sweden, including the suspected gunman.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described Tuesday's attack at Risbergska school in Orebro, 200km (124 miles) west of the capital city Stockholm, as the "worst mass shooting in Swedish history".
Police said they believe the male perpetrator to be among the dead and that he was not previously known to them. There was no immediately identifiable motive and he was believed to be acting alone, they said.
"It is difficult to take in the magnitude of what has happened today," Kristersson said at an evening news conference.
El País in English: Bonobos recognize the ignorance of others, a trait once thought to be unique to humans by Constanza Cabrera
Shy and rarely seen outside the dense African forests south of the Congo River, bonobos have a strong social memory. They can be aggressive at times but also resolve conflicts through affectionate gestures and sex. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have identified another striking similarity between bonobos and humans: the ability to recognize ignorance in others, communicate to correct it, and cooperate accordingly.
Once again, a cognitive ability once thought to be uniquely human is revealed to exist in other animals. The bonobo (Pan paniscus), along with its close relative, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), is the species most closely related to humans. According to the authors of the study, published on Monday in PNAS, the sophisticated social ability to recognize gaps in others’ knowledge is fundamental to human cooperation, communication, and strategic collaboration. Their findings suggest that “these elaborate mental capacities must have emerged millions of years ago in the common ancestors we share with other apes.” During evolution, hominids diverged from the lineage of chimpanzees and bonobos approximately 8 million years ago.
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