Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Thursday.
🇺🇸 2024 The presidential election is 68 days away. Here's the latest from the campaign trail.
Harris sat for her first major interview as a candidateKamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, sat down this afternoon with a CNN anchor for an interview that was set to air at 9 p.m. Eastern. It is Harris's first major television interview since she became the Democratic nominee for president. It's a high-stakes moment. Harris's nascent campaign has fueled a surge in enthusiasm among Democratic voters, and a significant uptick in the polls. But she has mostly avoided extended engagements with journalists. "We have not had a chance to hear her be pressed on specific policy issues, nor has she dealt with even remotely challenging questions about what her administration would be like," our politics reporter Reid Epstein told me. When Harris is asked about policy, Reid said, it will be interesting to see if she engages with the details or mostly tries to turn the conversation toward warnings about Donald Trump. Her answers could help define her campaign for voters, and will test her political dexterity. Here's what else to know:
Israel agreed to pauses in the war for polio vaccinationsStarting this weekend, Israel will temporarily pause its military operations in specific areas of Gaza to allow health workers to give polio vaccinations to about 640,000 children under the age of 10, according to the U.N. Israeli officials emphasized that the move was not the first step to a cease-fire, but rather an effort to stem a potential outbreak of the virus. In related news, American officials have frantically worked to stave off a broader war in the Middle East that they fear could pull the U.S. into the fighting.
Congo is struggling to confront mpoxHealth officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of the mpox outbreak, said they lack even the most basic tools necessary to contain the virus. The country is struggling to diagnose cases and is still waiting for vaccines, which are trapped in a byzantine drug regulatory process at the World Health Organization. The virus has killed nearly 600 people in Africa and left many more with painful lesions that make it difficult to walk, eat or even breathe. My colleagues recently visited a remote Congolese hospital overwhelmed with patients. For more, here's what scientists have learned about the virus.
California has become a new center of political corruptionJose Huizar, a former Los Angeles City Council member, is scheduled to report to prison this week to begin a 13-year sentence for tax evasion and racketeering. He is just one of 576 public officials in California who have been convicted over the past decade on federal corruption charges, outpacing states that are better known for influence-peddling like New York and Illinois. More top news
Why tipping is everywhereTips are a core part of American culture. We love having the power to reward good work and punish bad service. However, many of us complain that tipping has gotten out of hand — especially when a convenience store or a self-service checkout asks for 20, or even 30, percent. Despite the gripes, you are likely to hear more about tipping in the coming months. Both Trump and Harris support a tax exemption for tips. On "The Daily," my colleague Ben Casselman explained how tipping exploded, and what economists think of the no tax on tips debate. Need tipping advice: We talked to experts and consulted polls for guidance.
What school nurses want parents to knowSchool nurses see parents making the same mistakes, year after year. As American schoolchildren return to the classroom, we asked more than a dozen nurses across the country to share their tips and gripes. One suggestion: Make sure your child gets enough sleep, which could require a limit on phone use. For middle schoolers, a librarian has suggestions for books that capture the first days of tweendom.
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Cook: Top your hot dogs with bright pico de gallo. Watch: Here are three great documentaries to stream. Read: "The Devil Raises His Own" is a romp with a steely emotional core. Listen: Isata Kanneh-Mason's new Mendelssohn album is worth checking out. Travel: T Magazine picked the most exciting hotels in London right now. Train: These six exercises are fundamental to how you move. Hunt: Which Brooklyn home would you buy with a $1.4 million budget? Play: Here are today's Spelling Bee, Wordle and Mini Crossword. Find all of our games here.
These birds embrace local architectural stylesFor white-browed sparrow weavers, nest building is a local tradition. When scientists followed more than 40 groups of the birds in the South African part of the Kalahari Desert, they found that they built their homes with consistent architectural styles, distinct from others just a few dozen feet away. The research upends longstanding assumptions that bird brains are too small and too limited to learn complex tasks. Have a clever evening. Thanks for reading. I'll be back tomorrow. — Matthew Philip Pacheco was our photo editor today. We welcome your feedback. Write to us at evening@nytimes.com.
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