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The Biden administration is urging Israel’s military to make major changes to its “drastically increased” pace of mass evacuation orders that is driving repeated displacement of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, according to a U.S. Embassy memo obtained by NPR.

For the first time since the war began last October, Israel’s military withdrew evacuation orders and announced Palestinian civilians could return to their homes in an area of central Gaza on Thursday, a day after the U.S. government memo said officials had urged Israel to rescind evacuation orders it no longer deems necessary. A spokesman for the Israeli military, Nadav Shoshani, told NPR it declared the area a safe zone again following operations thwarting militant rocket launchers and retrieving an Israeli hostage and the body of a soldier.

The Aug. 28 cable by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, marked “sensitive but not classified” and addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the State Department, contained an assessment by officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development on the effects of Israel’s evacuation orders on the Palestinian population.

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A group of major book publishers sued the state of Florida over what they called an “unconstitutional” book ban law that allows challenges to books in school libraries.

Six publishers, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks, along with Authors Guild and some prominent book authors, filed the 94-page lawsuit on Thursday in federal court in Orlando.

In the suit, they argued that book bans have surged in violation of the First Amendment because of the passage of Florida’s 2023 education bill, HB 1069. HB 1069 allows parents to try to remove materials from schools if they are seen as pornographic by the school boards.

Abba have demanded that Donald Trump stop using their music after the former US president played several of their songs and used footage of the group at a campaign rally.

The Republican presidential candidate played hits including Money, Money, Money, The Winner Takes It All and Dancing Queen at his event in St Cloud, Minnesota, the US state with the highest Swedish population, on Tuesday, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.

The campaign also showed film footage of Abba members on a big video screen at the hockey stadium alongside messages urging supports to donate.

Universal Music, the Swedish group’s record company, said they had not been asked for permission to use Abba music or videos by the Trump campaign and that footage from the event must be “immediately taken down and removed”.

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The U.S. Army on Thursday said that an Arlington National Cemetery employee was "abruptly pushed aside" earlier this week during a dispute with members of the Trump campaign.

Former President Donald Trump visited the cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Monday to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He was with the families of the 13 American troops who were killed when the U.S. military pulled its troops from Afghanistan in 2021.

After the wreath-laying ceremony, Trump accompanied the families and two Marines who were injured in the attack, Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews and Corporal Kelsee Lainhart, to Section 60 of the cemetery. It’s an area that’s mostly reserved for U.S. veterans who have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The service members Trump was honoring were killed in a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate at the airport in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2021.

The National Hurricane Center is tracking two disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean, the agency said in its latest advisory issued Wednesday.

In the western Atlantic, an area of low pressure located a few hundred miles southeast of Bermuda is producing a "small area of disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity," the NHC said. However, dry air and strong upper-level winds "are expected to limit additional development of this system during the next day or so."

The hurricane center now gives the disturbance a "near 0% chance" of development in the next seven days.

In the central Tropical Atlantic, the NHC said "an area of disorganized showers is associated with a tropical wave. Some slow development of this system is possible this weekend into early next week while it moves westward to west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph," the hurricane center said in its 2:00 p.m. forecast update.

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Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the war with Russia would eventually end in dialogue, but that Kyiv had to be in a strong position and that he would present a plan to U.S. President Joe Biden and his two potential successors.

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