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| These are our top stories today: - Israeli troops surrounded Gaza City on Monday as the Palestinian death toll surpassed 10,000
- Bumble stock fell by as much as 10% after it was announced that founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down
- New research shows that practicing tai chi can help older adults stave off dementia and cognitive decline
Your faithful IDB writer, Daniel
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| 1 | | An Israeli military spokesman said that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) had encircled Gaza City on Monday. The next phase of Israel's invasion of Gaza comes after the IDF escalated its bombing campaign on the Palestinian territory over the weekend. More: - The Israeli military on Monday said that its fighter jets struck ~450 targets over the past 24 hours.
- The Gazan health ministry said the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 10,000, including over 4,000 children.
- Gazan residents and doctors said Israeli strikes hit targets near Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, as well as a refugee camp.
- The Israeli military is targeting civilian infrastructure and tunnels in a bid to neutralize Hamas' leadership, an IDF spokesperson said.
- The official estimated that Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, has between 30,000 and 40,000 fighters.
Zoom Out: - The four-week-old Israel-Hamas war is already the deadliest Israel-Palestine conflict since the foundation of Israel 75 years ago.
- Roughly 70% of Gaza's 2.3 million residents have fled their homes since Oct. 7, when Hamas killed over ~1,400 people and took around 200 hostages in a brutal attack against Israel.
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| 2 | | Bumble (BMBL) stock fell by as much as 10% after it was announced that founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down as CEO. 
What happened: Wolfe Herd will stay at Bumble as executive chair. She will be replaced as CEO by Salesforce chief executive Lidiane Jones. Jones previously worked in senior roles at Microsoft, where she spent more than 12 years. Tariq Shaukat stepped down in May after three years as Bumble president. Context: The 33-year-old Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 after leaving Tinder, which she co-founded. Industry rival Match Group, the other major publicly traded dating app company, owns Tinder. After acquiring other dating apps, Bumble raised over $2B when it went public in February 2021. The stock is down over 80% from its IPO price. Bumble will report its Q3 earnings on Thursday. | | | |
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| 3 | | A referendum in Ohio will decide whether to enshrine access to abortion services in the state's constitution. A separate vote on Tuesday could legalize recreational marijuana use for adults in the state. Abortion referendum: - Ohioans will vote on whether to enshrine the right to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions" about abortion, birth control, and fertility treatment.
- A 2022 poll found that 59% of voters who cast ballots in Ohio's midterms supported abortion being legal in most or all instances.
- Ohio voters in August rejected a proposal to require a 60% majority instead of a simple majority for future referendums.
Marijuana Referendum: - Ohio could become the 24th U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults.
- Governor Mike DeWine and other Republicans have campaigned against legalizing cannabis.
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| 4 | | GOOD NEWS: New research found that the Chinese practice of tai chi can protect against dementia and cognitive decline in older adults. Lead study author Dr. Elizabeth Eckstrom said that practicing tai chi effectively staves off cognitive decline by three years. More: - The study included ~300 older adults who had reported that their memories were deteriorating.
- The subjects, who were in their mid-70s on average, took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment to determine how much their memory had declined.
- The participants had an average score of 25, which is on the high end of the score range for people with mild cognitive impairment but who don't have dementia.
- Participants who practiced a simplified version of tai chi called Tai Ji Quan twice a week for roughly six months had scores that were, on average, 1.5 points higher.
- People suffering from mild cognitive decline can expect to have their test scores drop by 0.5 points per year.
- Participants who practiced a more challenging type of tai chi called Cognitive Enhanced Tai Ji Quan, in which practitioners do spelling and word problems while doing physical tai chi moves, saw their scores increase by six points.
- Mary Beth Van Cleave, an 86-year-old tai chi practitioner, said that tai chi is a meditative practice that can help with concentration.
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| 5 | | Former President Donald Trump took the stand in his civil fraud trial in New York on Monday. Arthur Engoron, the presiding judge in the case, criticized Trump for his outbursts and evasive answers. More: - Trump is accused of having fraudulently inflated his net worth in order to access credit from banks and insurers.
- During a heated exchange between Engoron and Trump's lawyer, Trump said: "This is a very unfair trial — very, very — and I hope the public is watching."
- After Trump gave a series of evasive answers to questions from the opposing counsel, Engoron ordered Trump's attorney to direct him to answer questions.
- "This is not a political rally. This is a courtroom," Engoron said.
- In a fundraising email for his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump described the trial as a "sham."
Zoom Out: - Trump has previously criticized Engoron, calling him "tyrannical and unhinged," prompting the judge to issue a gag order.
- A federal appeals court temporarily paused a separate gag order against the former President in relation to the federal criminal case in which Trump is accused of meddling in the 2020 election.
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| 6 | | Schools in the Indian capital of Delhi will be closed until Friday due to high levels of air pollution in the city of nearly 33 million. Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) is ten times higher than what is considered acceptable. More: - The AQI, which measures the level of fine particulate matter in the air, has recently risen above the 450 mark.
- Lung specialists say that breathing this polluted air is the equivalent of smoking 25 to 30 cigarettes per day.
- Delhi's Environment Minister Gopal Rai ordered schools to remain shut until Friday, with only high school students being allowed to take in-person classes.
- Delhi schools often have to shut their doors due to air pollution. A school principal said that the closures are getting longer every year.
Zoom Out: - Delhi is one of the most polluted cities on Earth, with hundreds of thousands of premature deaths being attributed to the city's toxic air every year.
- The Delhi state government imposes restrictions on construction and mandates that some vehicles stay off the road when the smog hits extreme levels.
- Pre-match training sessions for a cricket World Cup match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were canceled due to health concerns.
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 | Writer | | Dr. Daniel Smith is an Inside writer with a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cambridge. Follow him on Twitter @DJS12321 or email him at Daniel@inside.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Eduardo Garcia | |
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