{"id":33517,"date":"2024-09-17T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/tuesday-headlines-mini-moon#id33243"},"modified":"2024-09-17T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:40:00","slug":"tuesday-headlines-mini-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/tuesday-headlines-mini-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday headlines: Mini-moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people killed or wounded in the Russia-Ukraine war has reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/one-million-are-now-dead-or-injured-in-the-russia-ukraine-war-b09d04e5?st=q1C2Hw&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">roughly one million.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Wall Street Journal [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Devastating flooding sweeps through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/floods-devastate-west-and-central-africa\/a-70231593\">Central and Western Africa.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ DW<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Europeans are upset about Gaza, but they don&#39;t appear to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2024\/09\/15\/why-israel-has-not-yet-lost-europe\">voting like it.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Economist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: &#8220;I will not tell you why Brazilians cannot buy <a href=\"https:\/\/theholdupproblem.com\/2024\/09\/10\/buying-sunglasses-in-brazil-or-how-to-restore-commitment-in-bargaining\/\">cheap and safe sunglasses.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The hold-up problem<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both liberal and conservative Taylor Swift fans are trying to persuade right-leaning Swifties, perhaps disappointed by the Harris endorsement, to sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/taylor-swift-maga-eras-tour-tickets\">their tickets and merch.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Vanity Fair<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In politics, &#8220;sanewashing&#8221; is the act of packaging outrageous statements in a way that makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/ethics-trust\/2024\/sanewashing-meaning-donald-trump-journalists\/\">them seem normal.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Poynter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>JD Vance&#39;s hometown is happy to receive $500 million in funding from climate legislation that Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2024\/sep\/16\/trump-vance-election-climate-ohio\">calls a &#8220;scam.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton Nolan: For elected leaders, everything is on the table <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/how-to-think-about-politics-without\">to be traded away.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ How Things Work<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earth gets a new &#8220;mini-moon&#8221; for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/newsletter\/09\/16\/2024\/semafor-flagship-a-feature-not-a-bug?utm_source=nowshare&amp;utm_medium=flagship+asia&amp;utm_campaign=flagshipnumbered8#j\">next two months.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Semafor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Things to know about tonight&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/16\/nx-s1-5107675\/lunar-eclipse-harvest-moon-supermoon-tuesday-what-to-know\">lunar eclipse.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From around the United States, satellite imagery of 59,507 <a href=\"https:\/\/pudding.cool\/2024\/09\/courts\/\">outdoor basketball courts.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Pudding<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two new books offer different ideas on where to look for the basic properties that <a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/2024\/09\/12\/opinion-selective-pressure-fundamental-life\/\">define living things.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Undark Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Twilley: Part of the problem I have with refrigeration is that we have conflated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopeofwork.net\/frostbitten\/\">it with freshness.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Scope of Work<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Should the Louvre spend half a billion Euros to rehouse the Mona Lisa? 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