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As we speak’s high tales
President Biden obtained a hero’s welcome on the primary night time of the Democratic Nationwide Conference as he handed the torch to Vice President Harris. “I made numerous errors in my profession, however I gave my greatest to you for 50 years,” Biden instructed the cheering Chicago crowd that gave him a five-minute standing ovation. In the beginning, his makes an attempt to talk have been repeatedly drowned out by cheers and chants of “thanks, Joe.” Harris additionally made a shock early look to reward Biden, whose speech was largely a mirrored image on his legislative accomplishments since taking workplace.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks onstage throughout the first day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Middle on August 19, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.
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- 🎧 NPR’s Stephen Fowler tells Up First that night time one of many DNC despatched the message that it’s a brand new Democratic Occasion with Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz main the best way. Fowler says the president’s resolution to step apart and endorse Harris to run in opposition to Trump may very well be historic. Amongst those that spoke, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who hasn’t all the time seen eye-to-eye with the celebration institution, took the stage. She thanked Harris and Walz for his or her imaginative and prescient, and Biden for his management.
- ➡️ Catch up with the DNC’s night time one key speeches right here.
- ➡️ Former President Donald Trump is presently doing a sequence of occasions in swing states overlaying points equivalent to nationwide safety and immigration.
1000’s of protestors marched in Chicago in opposition to Israel’s conflict in Gaza because the DNC kicked off yesterday. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling mentioned the division had a respectful working relationship with protest leaders, and seemed ahead to supporting the marchers’ proper of free speech with out a downside.
- 🎧 Issues have been calm till a bunch of masked protestors tried to enter the DNC’s safety perimeter. Protestors took down a number of sections of a fence after which known as different protestors to comply with them by way of, NPR’s Martin Kaste says. Police closed in on them from reverse ends and arrested a handful of individuals. Kaste discovered an extended line of delegates and talked with some, however none of them had seen or heard any of the protests. Extra demonstrations are deliberate for the remaining three days of the DNC.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has agreed to a ceasefire proposal for the conflict in Gaza. That announcement got here after he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu for 3 hours Monday in Jerusalem. After asserting Israel’s backing of the deal, Blinken known as on Hamas to do the identical. Netanyahu has in a roundabout way mentioned he’s endorsing the brand new proposal introduced final week in Doha.
- 🎧 NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf says we’ve seen this earlier than – simply because the U.S. says it has an settlement from Israel, it doesn’t imply Israel is definitely dedicated. Netanyahu’s workplace did launch an announcement final night time that didn’t point out agreeing to the proposal and as an alternative centered on getting as many hostages out of Gaza alive as attainable. Hamas put out an announcement responding fairly negatively to the proposal, saying it caters to Netanyahu’s calls for an excessive amount of on a number of key sticking factors, and so they blame him totally for obstructing the deal. Egypt is anticipated to host the renewed cease-fire talks later this week. Qatar is the place some Hamas officers are primarily based, so it’s probably that Blinken will likely be there pushing for Hamas to log out.
Deep dive
There are greater than 4,600 hospitals within the U.S., and 49% of them are nonprofit and due to this fact tax-exempt. The CEOs of those nonprofit well being programs now earn, on common, $1.3 million a 12 months.
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Almost half of U.S. hospitals are tax-exempt nonprofits, tasked with offering medical care to their communities. However regardless of their community-focused missions, the CEOs accountable for these nonprofits command annual paychecks that now high $1 million on common. Researchers discovered that the CEOs with the biggest paychecks work at hospital programs with the most important monetary returns. The query this raises is whether or not the nonprofit medical programs reaching these revenue margins are doing so on the expense of their mission, subverting the meant function of their tax-exempt standing.
- 🏥 CEO compensation is ready by the hospital’s board members. Most of the members work in for-profit sectors, that means their skilled experiences and views are separate from the mission of nonprofit drugs.
- 🏥 Optimistic revenue working margins are what permits nonprofits to maintain up with inflation, retain the perfect medical expertise and stability treating insured sufferers with those that are underinsured or uninsured.
- 🏥 Tax breaks afforded to those nonprofits have allowed them to develop into hyper-competitive and this has led to a wave of mergers and acquisitions within the well being care sector, mentioned Ge Bai, a professor of well being coverage and administration at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg College of Public Well being.
- 🏥 Bai predicts that until policymakers intervene, the consolidation will proceed, driving down competitors and leaving sufferers with fewer choices and better costs.
As we speak’s hear
The “Los Angeles League of Musicians” needs you to bounce. LA LOM, because the band is thought, launched its debut album earlier this month. The trio of drums, bass and guitar performs a nostalgic, romanticized musical portrait of Los Angeles. Its tunes are like a time capsule that takes you again to the ‘50s and ‘60s.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Emmy award-winning speak present host Phil Donahue.
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- Phil Donahue, the TV host hailed as the daddy of the fashionable audience-participation daytime speak present, died on Sunday. Donahue’s present, which was on air for about 26 years, tackled hot-button points like racism and abortion. He was 88.
- Former Rep. George Santos pleaded responsible to wire fraud and id theft costs in a Lengthy Island federal courtroom yesterday. He’s anticipated to face sentencing on Feb. 7 for no less than two years and a most of twenty-two years in jail. (through Gothamist)
- In 1989, Julia Weber was strolling to a bus cease in downtown San Francisco when the sidewalk started to shake. Concern overtook her and she or he locked eyes with one other commuter. They stepped towards one another, embraced and held on till the earthquake ended. Now, 35 years later, Weber nonetheless thinks of her unsung hero and her kindness in a daunting second.
This text was edited by Obed Manuel.
