{"id":33521,"date":"2024-09-19T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/thursday-headlines-three-bikes-and-youre-out#id33245"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:04:00","slug":"thursday-headlines-three-bikes-and-youre-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thursday-headlines-three-bikes-and-youre-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday headlines: Three bikes and you\u2019re out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts weigh in on Israel&#39;s use of exploding pagers and hand-held radios as <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/hezbollah-pager-explosion-israel-lebanon.html\">weapons against Hezbollah.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ New York Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A group of former Donald Trump advisers have helped to build a pro-Russia website that frequently spreads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/sep\/19\/intelligencer-pro-russia-website-trump\">debunked conspiracy theories.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A little more than half of Trump supporters say they believe his lies about <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/df9376af-a4b1-4994-ae03-ba857b235531?j=eyJ1IjoiMW5rcHcifQ.1uMTgbOvRMh0bvsWhLBJt58_ILfFLrFxq3rKfTEIDbM\">Haitian immigrants eating pets.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Washington Post [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: &#8220;How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants&mdash;After Being Told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/springfield-ohio-pet-eating-claims-haitian-migrants-04598d48?st=Y4aNi9&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">They Weren&#39;t True.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Wall Street Journal [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Elizabeth Spiers, when Trump says things like, &#8220;I love the uneducated,&#8221; he&#39;s not so much code-switching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/18\/opinion\/kamala-harris-accent-language.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Lk4.IxYc.3Ipv_sb4ko8z&amp;smid=url-share\">as code-hitching.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris turns around a 17-point polling deficit in less than two months&mdash;something that doesn&#39;t happen frequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakeuptopolitics.com\/p\/kamala-harris-has-done-something\">in presidential politics.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Wake Up to Politics<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: National surveys show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/18\/nx-s1-5107417\/overdose-fatal-fentanyl-death-opioid\">in the United States<\/a>, though they&#39;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/09\/19\/opioid-overdose-deaths-falling\">still extremely high.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ NPR, axios<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new Disney short film series dramatizes traditional African storytelling&mdash;and appears to do <a href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2024\/09\/animating-the-oral-tradition\/\">a good job of it.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Africa Is a Country<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Post-pandemic, American students are being asked less often ??to read <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/great-expectations-students-reading-fewer-books-english-class-113746824\">full-length books.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ ABC News<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s it like to be a college student with helicopter parents who are still helicopter-ing? 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