Wednesday Briefing: Harris Picked a Running Mate

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The presidential election is less than 100 days away. This is what we’re watching.

Harris picked Tim Walz to be her running mate

Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday named Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a former football coach and schoolteacher who championed state-funded programs to support families, as her running mate.

Walz, 60, edged out better-known contenders for the job with his straight-talking style, which saw him declare Donald Trump and some other Republicans “weird” — a word that caught on fast.

“Walz’s ‘weird’ ******* has delighted Democrats who have been looking for resonant attacks on Trump for eight years,” my colleague Jess Bidgood, who writes our On Politics newsletter, said. “Add in his rural background, his support of ******** policies like paid family leave and his merry sense of humor, and you have something most Democrats can be happy about in a moment when unity is seen as paramount.”

Background: Born in Nebraska, Walz served for 24 years in the National Guard, taught social studies and coached a high school football team. He got his start in politics in 2006 by winning a congressional race in a rural, largely ************* district of Minnesota. Here are 19 things to know about Walz.

Politics: After his election as governor of Minnesota, Walz has worked to enact an ambitious agenda of ******** policies: free college tuition for low-income students, free meals for schoolchildren, legal recreational ********** and protections for transgender people. He has also championed climate issues but has faced criticism for his response to the George Floyd protests.

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****** appointed a new political leader

****** announced yesterday that Yahya Sinwar, the presumed mastermind of the deadly Oct. 7 attacks against *******, was selected as the group’s new political leader. The move consolidates his power as ****** fights ******* in Gaza.

Sinwar will replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was ******* in an ********** last week in Tehran. ****** and Iran blamed ******* for the **************, although ******* has not publicly taken responsibility.

Sinwar has served as the leader of ****** in Gaza since 2017, and is widely believed to be hiding out in tunnels underneath the enclave. Born in the Gaza Strip, he spent years in an ******** prison before his release in a prisoner exchange with ******* in 2011.

West Bank: ******** forces have ******* at least 12 Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, in raids across the occupied West Bank since Monday, ************ officials said.

*******: Hezbollah launched a drone ******* into northern *******, which it said was a response to an ******** strike a day earlier that ******* said had ******* a field commander.

A Nobel laureate will lead Bangladesh’s interim government

Accommodating demands by protesters, the president of Bangladesh appointed Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer in microfinance and a Nobel laureate, to oversee an interim government.

Yunus has two immediate tasks. First, to restore order in a country of 170 million people that has been roiled by weeks of student protests and violent clashes with security forces that have ******* more than 100 people. And second, to define the role of the interim government and its mandate until Bangladesh holds elections to choose a new leader.

Her final hours: Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina insisted that she could hold on as an ****** crowd closed in on her residence. Her family urged her to go.

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: A U.S. survey found promising signs that sadness among teens, especially ******, seems to have improved since the depths of the pandemic.

To save his city, a mayor looks to Central Asia

Like many South Korean cities, Jecheon is being eroded by rapid aging and rock-bottom birthrates. Other cities have tried offering money to entice newlyweds or free housing to parents of school-age children.

Kim Chang-gyu, the mayor and a retired diplomat, looked farther afield: a pocket of about a half-million Koreans who emigrated to Siberia 100 years ago and were deported by Stalin in 1937 to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Kim said he hoped the Koreans from Central Asia would be more readily accepted in South Korea, which has only reluctantly taken in limited numbers of migrant workers.

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