Extra, Extra

Therapeutic Tock: “Four countries — Mali, Nigeria, Niger and Chad — have exhausted their supplies of the peanut-based, high-nutrient product, called ready-to-use therapeutic food, or are on the brink of doing so. Another eight nations, including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, could run out by mid-2025.” NYT (Gift Article): Therapeutic Food Shortage Puts African Children at Risk of Starvation, U.N. Agency Says.

+ Balm For Bomb: “The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding.” Meanwhile, according to US officials, Israel has assured the president it won’t strike Iranian nuclear or oil sites.

+ Wait, So Votes Count? “If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so — because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud — refuse to certify election results, Georgia voters would be silenced.” Local board members in Georgia can’t refuse to certify election results, judge rules. (Expect an appeal.)

+ Soiled Relationship: “India and Canada have expelled their top diplomats amid escalating tensions over the assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil, marking a new low in a historically cordial relationship. While past disagreements have strained ties, none have reached this level of open confrontation.”

+ Bulletin Board System Administrator: Ward Christensen recently died at the age of 78. You may not know the name, but the product he helped create led to much of what we do on the Internet. Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78.

+ Oasis Reunion: The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like.