The first named storm of the hurricane season hits Texas and Mexico. A misleading video of President Biden goes viral on major platforms despite fact-checking. And the oldest wine in the world has a strange taste.
Here’s what you should know today.
First tropical storm of hurricane season causes flooding in Texas
Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the hurricane season, has strengthened slightly as it moves closer to making landfall in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, threatening rainfall of up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) as well as flooding and heavy rain in Texas, authorities. he said. The storm is large, with tropical storm-force winds stretching 460 miles.
A tropical storm warning is in effect for the northeast coast of Mexico as well as the Texas coast from the mouth of the Rio Grande to San Luis Pass, which is near Houston. Strong winds and up to 10 to 15 inches of rain are expected in Corpus Christi.
Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 51 Texas counties “to ensure Texans and at-risk regions have the resources and personnel needed to respond to this storm,” he said in a statement.
The National Weather Service said Moderate coastal flooding was observed across the Texas Gulf Coast.
As Biden is preparing for his first debate with Trump
There has been a tendency for sitting presidents to lose or perform poorly in their first re-election debate, something Biden hopes to counter when he and former President donald trump we will face next week in Atlanta.
Jimmy Carter in 1980, George W. Bush in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2012 they were considered to have failed in the first debate with their opponents, illustrated in public opinion polls. “Every president thinks, ‘I know how to run a presidential campaign because I won one a few years ago,’” said Samuel Popkin, who played Ronald Reagan during the Carter run-up.
The first Biden-Trump debate occupies a unique place in historynot only because of its unprecedented early date, but also because it will be the first time that two candidates who occupied the Oval Office will face each other.
Biden’s campaign previewed the president’s debate preparation, noting that Biden “has become increasingly vocal in recent remarks about Trump and plans to bring that issue into the debate.”
Family of taekwondo instructors saves Texas woman from sexual assault
The high-pitched scream, like the sound of a horror movie, made taekwondo instructor Simon An draw inspiration from his years of martial arts training.
Simon and his mother, father, sister and brother, each with a fourth-degree black belt, run the Yong-in Taekwondo dojo in Katy, outside Houston. Initially, they ignored the sounds, assuming they were coming from employees playing in the break room. But then a shrill “final scream” prompted the family to act, An said.
He and his family ran to the store and opened a door. There they found a man on top of a young woman with his hands “in [in]appropriate places” as she tried to push him away, An said. An’s father, Hong, pulled the attacker by his shirt and pinned him to the ground. An’s sister, Hannah, grabbed the girl and carried her out of the room while An and her brother helped subdue the attacker.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Department credits An and her family with saving the young girl from a sexual assault. “Per utilizing your training and disciplinethey were able to stop the attack and hold it off,” said Sheriff Ed Gonzalez in a series of posts on X.
New Louisiana law requires Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms
A display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” will be required in Louisiana public classrooms, under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.
The law describes the Ten Commandments as “fundamental documents of our state and national government.” The displays will be accompanied by a statement describing how the Ten Commandments “have been a prominent part of American public education for nearly three centuries” and should be in place in classrooms by early 2025.
Civil liberties groups announced they planned to challenge the Louisiana law in court, saying it “violates the separation of church and state and is blatantly unconstitutional.”
The world’s oldest wine has been discovered – with an unexpected extra ingredient
The oldest wine in the world was discovered in a Roman cemetery in Spain, and one thing is certain: it definitely had body.
For about 2,000 years, wine was kept in a glass burial urn along with a man’s cremated ashes and a gold ring inside an ancient mausoleum, according to a new analysis by a team of scientists.
The “conservation conditions of the tomb were extraordinary; fully intact and well sealed,” said one of the report’s authors, adding that this had “allowed the wine to maintain its natural state” centuries later.
Politics at a glance
Football advertising blitz: Biden’s campaign aims reach millions of Latino voters who watch the Copa América football tournament with a 30-second spot broadcast in swing states.
Viral Video: Misleading videos and false claims that Biden wandered aimlessly from the G7 conference continued to go viral on Google, X and other Big Tech platforms despite debunks and fact checks.
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Team Pick: Ukraine’s Second City Relieved by Biden’s Switch to US Arms
Earlier this year, Russian forces advanced into northeastern Ukraine as support for Kiev began to waver in Washington, with the Biden administration the only holdout among the country’s allies in failing to sanction the use of Western-supplied weapons on the territory. Russian. But that changed late last month when the president secretly made a U-turn. This change allowed Ukrainian units to begin reacting against Moscow’s soldiers and also coincided with the beginning of summer.
With the weather warming and the sky now clearer over Kharkiv – Ukraine’s young and creative second city – many residents are able to breathe, make some repairs and even enjoy a trip to the beach. For others, however, the frequent wail of air raid sirens and the lingering threat of bombing are a constant worry.
NBC News’ Yuliya Talmazan captures the mood as citizens balance relative calm against the backdrop of a long war.– David Hodari, editor
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