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Harris and Walz will make a bus tour through rural southern Georgia in the last week of August.

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States that will count in US Congressional races and deciding who controls both Houses of Congress includes the big states Texas and Florida, New York and California.

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Little of what John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy fought hard for comes through in the next generation of Kennedys. Looking at Profiles of Courage and Kennedy's speeches one finds something authentic in its conversations about America past and present, about the world past and present. This authenticity is missing in the next generation and the passion for the themes of the day in Kennedy's time is long gone. Did Kennedy come in too early, too soon, Harry Truman would have him wait, giving Humphrey or others a chance. Profiles of Courage and its author would still have made a mark on America in the seventies and eighties. The examples JFK gives of people who put country before party are genuine and real, and they are relevant to today as others including Republican Lankford of Oklahoma who authored the immigration bill in the Senate -that Harris gave a pledge to sign in the nomination speech -are modern day embodiments of that courage They will join the list Kennedy covered. ...

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How could banks lend so much money in billions of dollars when educational work to educate people gets so little money and when so many billions of dollars are simply wasted on projects that deliver so little to the people or the Nation?

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Biden and Harris have closed the Border with Mexico with border crossings now below in August 2024 than in some months of the Trump administration.

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A new generation of players on the England cricket team in 2024 to play Australia.

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The longest US Open Tennis match? 5 hours and 35 minutes between Dan Evans of the US and Karen Khachanov of Russia just yesterday August 26, 2024. The first three sets were tie breakers. Dan Evans was down 0-4 in the fifth set and came out to win it 6-4. At 4 down he thought he was out and just kept on fighting. Fans gave a rousing ovation. Evans says "it was one hell of a match. I just want to go to bed." 

• Set 1 - 68 minutes
  
  
• Set 2 - 67 minutes
  
  
• Set 3 - 72 minutes
  
  
• Set 4 - 67 minutes
  
  
• Set 5 - 61 minutes
  
  

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England have a lot of luck at Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester. With Stuart Broad, Jimmy Andersen, and Stokes out of the team in the first test against Sri Lanka England had to bring new untested cricketers from the ranks. Jamie Smith is the new wicket keeper for England. He scored a maiden century in the first innings and then a breezy 39 in the second to get England the win against Sri Lanka. BBC Sport says England's future players are arriving quickly.

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Vinay Menon put Wellness and Yoga on a new pathbreaking pattern- making it part of team soccer. He is shown here with coach Tuchel at Chelsea when it won the Champion's League final in 2021 over Manchester City. He was with the Belgium team as it played in the World Cup in Germany. He says the big problem in India for 1.4 billion people is filtration. Having talent filter through the club level is important. 100 clubs are needed in India, says Menon. He is confident that India will one day be in the World Cup. The Modi government has put sports at the top of its priorities for the nation of over  billion people with new facilities and financial support for athletes and players. Modi personally met with athletes before and after the Olympic games in Paris and followed the athletes as they competed in the games. Indians watch European soccer on television and only cricket competes with soccer in fan support. When India competes at the international level in soccer it will be with huge audiences tuned in. ...

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Australia seeks to reduce migration to pre-pandemic levels by putting a cap on foreign students. The cap is set at 270,000 for 2025. Each college or university will be given a restriction.

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Scientist Kim Mishra at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has come up with a method to make chocolate not just from the cocoa seeds discarding the pulp, husk and juice as is done today. This is wasteful. The new method uses the cocoa pulp, the husk and the juice as a way to make chocolate without sugar and use the whole fruit. This will reduce the impact on the climate with more chocolate production and less deforestation for new cocoa planted in South American countries as an addition to production in African countries like Ghana. It will also benefit cocoa farmers in Africa and Guatemala by increasing their income. This report looks at the colonial past of chocolate production by companies such as Lindt as Swiss producers worked with French and British colonies to expand production in the late 19th century.

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A good way to prepare for travel to the Scandinavian region is information given by Sean Newsom in The Times.