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Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The latest out of Georgia: “The teenager accused of shooting dead two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school appeared in court for the first time on Friday to face murder charges, hours after his father was arrested on suspicion of facilitating the shootings by allowing his son to possess a deadly weapon.”
* In the West Bank: “The White House on Friday requested that Israel investigate the death of a 26-year-old American woman, Aysenur Eygi, in the occupied West Bank. Earlier, a protester told The Associated Press that Israeli forces had shot an American woman at an anti-settlement demonstration in the West Bank. Two doctors said she was shot in the head, the AP reported.”
* Patience is a virtue: “A New York judge has delayed former President Donald Trump’s sentencing on felony criminal charges until Nov. 26. Judge Juan Merchan ... issued the ruling after Trump’s attorneys had asked him to postpone the Sept. 18 sentencing until after the election to allow them to appeal a pending ruling involving presidential immunity.”
* The judge in this case was appointed by George W. Bush: “A federal judge placed a temporary hold on another component of President Biden’s student debt relief plan on Thursday, siding with a coalition of seven Republican states that filed a lawsuit to halt the program on Tuesday. The ruling comes as yet another blow to the president’s student debt relief agenda after the Supreme Court upheld a similar hold on the SAVE program, the centerpiece of his strategy to cancel tens of millions of dollars in student debt.”
* The mpox threat: “Senior Biden administration officials said Friday that the United States is preparing for the possible arrival of a more severe version of mpox, which has taken off in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries in Africa resulting in more than 600 deaths there.”
* Wait, you mean Donald Trump is an unreliable source for anti-immigrant information? “Police in a Denver suburb are disputing claims by some Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, that a Venezuelan gang has taken over an apartment complex there, the latest political flash point in the immigration debate.”
* An intensifying climate emergency: “With the hottest time of year on average in the rear view, Europe is still scorching as summer transitions to fall. In recent days, many parts of Scandinavia have posted their highest temperatures on record so late in the year. Several other European countries have also set notable September heat milestones, including Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia. The September heat wave follows Europe’s hottest summer on record and the hottest summer for the planet.”
Have a safe weekend.