The Daily Populous

Monday January 8th, 2024 night edition

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Social media users can't stop scratching their heads after watching former President Donald Trump insist at an Iowa rally that dropping magnets in water causes them to stop working.

"All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets," Trump declared from the podium in Mason City Friday night.

He was criticizing a decision by the Navy to use giant magnets to lift elevators by plane onto an aircraft carrier (floating on the water) — instead of using equipment from Midwestern company John Deere.

"Why didn't they use John Deere?

Former president repeated pushes again his baseless complaints of a 'rigged' 2020 election in Mason City, Iowa.

"Um, this is awkward," Democratic research group American Bridge 21st Century wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

"Trump doesn't know that magnets work underwater.". »

NYC is more ethnically diverse, less racially segregated, report finds

Authored by gothamist.com

New York City grew more ethnically diverse and less racially segregated between 2010 and 2020, according to a new CUNY report for the city’s Districting Commission.

On a smaller scale, many neighborhoods are becoming more racially diverse, shifting the city’s racial geography, the report found.

The rise of Asian New Yorkers Across the board, the city’s racial groups have grown more ethnically diverse, researchers found. »

Israel’s talk of expanding war to Lebanon alarms U.S.

Authored by washingtonpost.com
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In private conversations, the administration has warned Israel against a significant escalation in Lebanon.

Officials fear that a full-scale conflict between Israel and Lebanon would surpass the bloodshed of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war on account of Hezbollah’s substantially larger arsenal of long-range and precision weaponry.

Others said that if the Gaza war ends tomorrow, Netanyahu’s political career will end with it, incentivizing him to broaden the conflict. »

A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames

Authored by gizmodo.com
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Despite the danger, Pino and her students rummaged, pulling out specimens to examine from among unburned portions of the pile.

Those dry conditions, coupled with the nonbiodegradable, predominantly synthetic, petroleum-derived fibers that modern clothes are made with, meant that the pile never shrank.

But the mountain of clothes depicted by that 2021 drone photo is utterly gone. »