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Texas National Guard troops arrived in the Chicago area on Tuesday, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s pressure on the city, in a move condemned as a “military occupation.”

Chicago has seen increased immigration enforcement over the past few weeks and increasingly violent clashes in suburban Broadview, where law enforcement was filmed firing tear gas and pepper spray at protesters.

The latest military presence comes after a district judge refused to block troops from entering the city during a lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago challenging the Trump administration’s actions.

• How are Illinois elected officials reacting to Trump’s attack? The state governor, JB Pritzker, condemned the move, saying: “Unless there is an insurrection, any troops on the streets of an American city do not belong here… I will do everything in my power to stop him from taking away people’s rights and using the military to occupy states.”

Pam Bondi and Senate Democrats Clashes broke out in front of former FBI Director James Comey court appearance

Attorney General Pam Bondi sparred with Democratic senators on Tuesday over her involvement in Trump’s crackdown on political opponents, the deployment of national guard troops to cities across the country and her handling of the Epstein files.

The clashes at the annual Senate judiciary committee hearing followed months of warnings by Democrats that Trump was compromising the justice department’s traditional independence and pursuing political opponents.

Former FBI director James Comey will make his first court appearance Wednesday on federal charges that he lied to Congress in 2020.

• How did Trump try to weaponize? attorney general’s office? The president has publicly pressured Bondi to more aggressively pursue senior public officials he views as political enemies, including Comey.

• How did Bondi react to the Democrats? interrogation of senators? When pressed during the five-hour hearing, he personally attacked several senators or invoked the ongoing government shutdown to portray them as negligent.

Israelis gather to mark the second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people

Israelis gathered across the country on Tuesday to commemorate the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack, in which Hamas-led militants killed nearly 1,200 people and took 251 hostage in an attack on southern Israel.

The attack was the most brutal in Israeli history; shook the country’s sense of security and prompted Israel to launch a war in Gaza; this resulted in the deaths of more than 67,000 Palestinians and Israel being accused of genocide by the UN commission of inquiry.

• What was the national mood? The lasting trauma of the October 7 attack is clearly visible, writes William Christou. At the Nova music festival site, where more than 370 people were killed and dozens taken hostage, relatives returned at dawn to mourn the dead. A minute’s silence was held at 6.29am, when Hamas launched its attack.

In other news…

• The White House argues that furloughed federal employees are not entitled to back pay. Axios reported that he was in the midst of a government shutdown.

• The Supreme Court appears poised to overturn a law banning “conversion therapy” in Colorado. after questioning the state on freedom of expression grounds.

• Denmark’s prime minister says the country will ban social media for under-15s. He accuses phones and social networks of stealing childhood.

• A New Orleans couple found a nearly 1,900-year-old Roman tombstone in their yard. It sparked a mystery about how it got there.

Status of the day: Israeli bomb518 (90%) of schools in Gaza were damaged or destroyed

Since October 2023, 745,000 students in Gaza have been forced to leave school for more than two academic years; 518 schools (90%) were destroyed or damaged by Israeli bombing. Ceasefire talks continue in Egypt as Israel continues to attack Gaza city. Here is the Guardian’s interactive article The Destruction of Gaza: How Israel’s two-year offensive has devastated the region:

• 67,074 Palestinians were killed and 168,716 He was injured in Israeli attacks.

• 18,457 The names and identities of the children were determined was killed (As of July).

• 436,000 there were houses damaged or destroyed (92% of total).

• 2.1 million people became displaced (95% of the population).

• 654 Attacks on health facilities in Gaza have been recorded.

• more than that 1,700 healthcare workers was killed.

• 400 related to malnutrition deaths were recorded (101 children).

• Only 1.5% of Gaza’s cultivated areas remains accessible and suitable for cultivation.

Don’t miss this: The Pushkin affair – unmasking the thieves behind international rare book heist

Some 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe between 2022 and 2023. Philip Oltermann has long been investigating whether the thieves were merely low-level opportunists or whether greater forces were at work.

Climate control: Melting glaciers will lead to ice-free peaks in California for the first time in human history

Massive glaciers deep within California’s Sierra Nevada are disappearing and are predicted to melt completely by the beginning of the next century, leaving ice-free peaks for the first time in human history, according to a paper published last week in the journal Science Advances.

Growing up, Emma Loffhagen devoured books until her eyes became blurry. “But in recent years I have seen the capacity for intense concentration turn into endless scrolling,” he writes. “About a year ago I made a little vow: Whenever I came across a word I didn’t know, I would research it and write it down… The list now runs almost 20 pages, and this little ritual has been quite transformative.”

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