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By Sarah Naffa August 29, 2024

In the news today: Ukraine’s offensive intensifies pressure on the US; a Trump campaign clash at Arlington; and kidney donors face an even lower risk of death than doctors have long thought. Also, a cheesy zucchini pasta that’s luxurious but not heavy. A Russian military column moves to fight Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) WORLD NEWS Ukraine wants less US caution on weapons against Russia Ukraine’s daring ground offensive has taken the fight to Russia, but not nearly as much as its leaders would like because, they say, the United States won’t let them. Read more.

Why this matters: The U.S. restricts the use of long-range ballistic missiles it provides to Ukraine. Ukraine’s offensive has intensified pressure on the Biden administration to ease its cautious approach to the use of Western weapons in escalating Ukrainian attacks. The Biden administration says its careful deliberations are necessary to avoid provoking retaliation from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some analysts agree Putin would take a Ukrainian strike by an American long-range ballistic missile as an attack by the U.S. itself. Other American and European supporters of Ukraine say the White House should see that Putin’s threats are bluster. They fear that the U.S. support for Ukraine comes with delays and caveats that could ultimately contribute to its defeat. “This war is going to end exactly how Western policymakers decide it will end,’' said Philip Breedlove, a retired U.S. general who led NATO in Europe from 2013 to 2016.

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Key points: It came a day after NPR reported that two Trump campaign staff members “verbally abused and pushed” aside a cemetery official who tried to stop them from filming and photographing in Section 60, the burial site for military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The defense official told the AP that the Trump campaign was warned about not taking photographs in Section 60 before their arrival and the altercation. Trump was at Arlington on Monday at the invitation of some of the families of the 13 service members who were killed in the Kabul airport bombing. Trump’s spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said the Republican presidential candidate’s team was granted access to have a photographer. He contested the allegation that a campaign staffer pushed a cemetery official.

RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Utah Gov. Cox faces scrutiny for using military cemetery photo with Trump in campaign email Trump shares social media posts with QAnon phrases and calls for jailing lawmakers, special counsel Trump to visit swing districts in Michigan and Wisconsin as battleground campaigning increases HEALTH Donating a kidney is even safer than previously thought People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. Read more.

Why this matters: The study tracked 30 years of living kidney donation and found that by 2022, fewer than 1 of every 10,000 donors died within three months of the surgery. Transplant centers have been using older data when counseling donors about potential surgical complications – citing a risk of 3 deaths per 10,000 living donors. Newer surgical techniques are the key reason, said Dr. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at NYU Langone Health. He often finds transplant recipients more worried about potential risks to their donors than the would-be donors themselves. Thousands of people die each year waiting for an organ transplant. With nearly 90,000 people on the U.S. list for a kidney transplant, finding a living donor not only shortens the yearslong wait – those organs also tend to survive longer than ones from deceased donors.

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