grown into something larger an more fruitful than we uppe match and. the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting a removal of so many important books from libraries and school curricula across th country. according to p.e.n. america, and nonprofit organization the champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2021 to june 2022, there were 2532 instances of individual books been banned that s a shocking number what the figure doesn t make clear is the types of book that have been fans. as we begin to compile our own list of banned literature, or feature for you, with author from margaret atwood to a clear pattern emerged. it became apparent that th most frequently targeted boo shared at least one of the sam three topics sexuality or gender, and sexua identity, race, and bodily autonomy including sexual and physica violence we re moving books that deal with these three very real topics sends a clear message t readers that those
as we begin day 202 of russia s war of choice, ukrainians are pushing on with their two front counter offensive which has retaken russian occupied territory at a blistering pace. in parts, ukrainian officials claim their forces are just miles from the russian border. in liberated towns and villages, there is evidence everywhere of a hasty russian retreat. tanks and other weapons left abandoned. for weeks, ukraine has been publicly hinting at a counteroffensive at the south. plans for their independence day last month or thereabouts. but it appears the russians might have been duped by abeyance which. with this major push in the northeast. numbers are hard to verify, but in less than two weeks, russia might have suffered one of its biggest losses of the war so far. here is the ukrainian president. since the start of september, our soldiers have already liberated 6000 square kilometers of ukrainian territory in the east and south. we are moving further. the russian ground r
i can t sleep most of the time. a crime, like a storm everyone could see it coming. i want to ten had a dispositions. she was missing, matriarch with the grip on her power family fortune. did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm? i saw bruisers on bonnie s arm like somebody had grabbed her. so the image that you tried to kill me. who was behind this? a search in the dark. a secret in the family. and they jailhouse interview to make your jaw drop. this is a twisted tale, deep in the heart of texas,. people who are desperate, we ll do desperate things. hello and welcome to dateline, san saba city in texas hill country though tiny in size it was huge in the cloud growing business. even called the pecan capital of the world. the name kharkiv was synonymous with pecan harvesting. so when the matriarch of the family bonnie harkey went missing it sent shockwaves through the community. where was bonnie harkey? harris josh make-a-wish with queen of the count
and a top climate group is warning of worldwide, quote, heat. what can we do about all this before it s too late? our chief climate correspondent bill weir joins us now. bill, let s talk about why we re in this mess. i know that there are a couple of factors, one is on the new. explain what that is and once that passes, can we go back to some level of normality? you d like to hope, right? i would like to. there is la niña, which is a natural air conditioning in the oceans, and there is el niño, which is the opposite, a heating phenomenon. it s echoes every two or four years between the two, and the oceans have been covering a multitude of our if you imagine heating up a cool backed up with one candle at a time with boiling water, you ll not feel it the way you would if you splash it on your foot. the oceans have been absorbing this, hiding it from us, the full extent of it, and then when la niña is replaced by el niño, boom, we see these records. these heat dome s, these bo
pulaski, graphic novel, whit bird, which follows a youn jewish girl in the zone libra, part of france, during world war ii, calls for including from one paren saying it is not true. of course it s not true, white bird is a work of fiction. historical fiction, but fictio on the less. it is marketed, labeled, i organizing labor s bookstore as fiction but the most unsettling and gu wrenching parts of this book are categorically true young jewish children did rely on the kindness of strangers t survive, nazis shoulders did shoot members of the frenc resistance, neighbors di suspect one another of not see collusion. it s becoming clearer an clearer that la niña recitin the holocaust death toll i just not enough. facts, figures, and causality, make up just one part of the historical picture understanding that behind ever one of those states in you textbook as a human life tha was just enrich and textured and nuanced, is your own it s never been more necessary to read books like white boar