10.2.2024

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Vice Presidential Face-Off

​​Sen. JD Vance (R) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) faced off last night for the first and only planned vice presidential debate of the 2024 election season.

The debate—moderated by CBS' Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan—featured exchanges on issues including immigration, abortion, childcare, gun violence, and the economy. Vance and Walz took the opportunity to reintroduce themselves to the American public, and—in what analysts largely described as a civil and substantive debate—regularly highlighted areas of agreement, directing attack lines toward opponents at the top of the ticket.

Vance criticized the Biden-Harris administration on migrant border crossings and the cost of living. Walz pointed to the events of January 6th, challenging Vance to say who won the 2020 election. Rewatch the debate here.

With Election Day five weeks away, Vice President Kamala Harris is ahead of former President Donald Trump by roughly two percentage points (see polling data). 

Iran Fires into Israel

Iran launched around 180 ballistic missiles into Israel yesterday, killing one West Bank Palestinian and wounding two Israelis, in what Iran called retaliation for assassinations of leaders of allied proxy groups Hezbollah and Hamas. Israel’s defense system, supported by the US Navy, intercepted most missiles. See videos here.

The attack came a day after Israel launched a ground invasion into Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based, and nearly one year after Hamas—and subsequently Hezbollah— attacked Israel, prompting an ongoing war in Gaza. Israel warned residents of dozens of southern Lebanese towns yesterday to evacuate north (see maps) as it continued to launch missiles into the country. Israeli-attributed device sabotage and artillery attacks in Lebanon have killed over 1,000 people in recent weeks, with millions displaced.

Israeli and US leaders vowed to retaliate against Iran for the barrage, which featured high-elevation ballistic missiles rather than the drones and cruise missiles deployed in a similar attack in April. See updates here.

Ghost Ship Recovered

The wreck of the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific,” or the USS Stewart (DD-224), has been found off the California coast, ending an 82-year mystery. The 314-foot-long vessel was found nearly 3,500 feet beneath the ocean's surface.

The Clemson-class destroyer was the only US Navy destroyer captured by Japanese forces during World War II. After the US scuttled and abandoned it near Java, Indonesia, in 1942, Japanese forces salvaged it and used it to escort naval convoys. After the war, the US Navy recommissioned the ship and ultimately sank it during target practice in 1946. See the ship's history here. 

The wreck, sitting upright and intact, was located using advanced robotic sonar technology and underwater drones. The torpedo-shaped drones were able to survey 50 square miles of ocean floor in one day. Only about 26% of the ocean floor has been mapped in high definition, with goals to map the entire ocean floor by 2030.

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