Articles from the July 19, 2023 edition


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  • Cracks are emerging in Israel's military. Reservists threaten not to serve if government plan passes

    TIA GOLDENBERG|Jul 19, 2023

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Cracks are emerging in Israel's military. The Middle East's best equipped and most powerful force is under one of the worst assaults it has encountered — a battle within its own ranks. A contentious government plan to overhaul the country's judiciary has cleaved deep rifts within Israeli society. Those rifts have infiltrated the military, where reservists in key units have pledged not to show up for duty if the legislative changes are pushed through. The letters, signed by thousands of reservists over the last seven mon...

  • Jason Aldean's new music video was filmed at a lynching site. A big country music network pulled it

    MARIA SHERMAN|Jul 19, 2023

    Country music star Jason Aldean 's latest music video for "Try That In A Small Town," lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry over historically charged references. In the video, Aldean — who has been awarded county music artist of the decade by the Academy of Country Music — performs in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. This is the site of the 1946 Columbia race riot and the 1927 mob lynching of an 18-year-old Black teenager named Henry Choate. Ald...

  • American soldier's dash into North Korea leaves family members wondering why

    SCOTT BAUER and MELISSA WINDER|Jul 19, 2023

    KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Family members of the U.S. Army private whosprinted across the border into North Korea said Wednesday that he may have felt overwhelmed as he faced legal troubles and his possible looming discharge from the military. Relatives described Pvt. Travis King, 23, as a quiet loner who did not drink or smoke and enjoyed reading the Bible. After growing up up in southeast Wisconsin, he was excited about serving his country in South Korea. Now King's family is struggling to understand what changed before he dashed into a country w...