Today’s News Brief include former MSNBC host calling St. Louis Cardinals Nazis; Atlantic Sailing couple dead; Hamas hits own school with rocket; Kamala Harris delegates.
Couple sailing across Atlantic found dead
A couple on a cross-Atlantic sail have been found dead off the coast of Canada. Brett Clibbery, 70, and his wife, Sarah Packwood, 60, had been sailing on their 42-foot sailboat the SV Theros, Their bodies were found in a lifeboat that washed up on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, according to CNN. The couple left Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia on June 11 en route to the Azores, a group of Portuguese islands in the mid-Atlantic, about 2,000 miles away. The voyage in their electric boat was meant to prove travel without burning fossil fuels was possible. “We have an electric boat,” said Clibbery in a video posted on YouTube on May 13. “We charge the engine with solar panels.”
Keith Olbermann tirade equates St. Louis Cardinals to “Trump Nazis”
Keith Olbermann is accusing St. Louis Cardinal teammates of imitating the fist pump Donald Trump gave after an assassin shot him. Cardinals designated hitter Alec Burleson was “trotting around the bases after a long home run against the Atlanta Braves, and he and his teammates in the dugout put one hand over their right ears and put a fist in the air,” reports Fox News. Cardinals veteran Matt Carpenter insisted it was not an imitation of the former president. Olbermann wasn’t convinced, tweeting “Attn @mlb ban these guys from baseball for life, confiscate the @Cardinals franchise, and implode the stadium,” he wrote on X, equating the players to “Trump Nazis” and that they should “stick to sports.” In 2011, Olbermann was suspended and then his contract not renewed by MSNBC over his political donations to Democrats which violated network policy.
Hamas rocket slams into Gaza school
The Jerusalem Post reports Hamas launched several rockets from central Gaza towards Israel, with all of them failing to fly into Israel and one slamming into a school in the area of Nuseirat, the IDF reported Tuesday. Both Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have misfired rockets, with projectiles landing within the Gaza Strip. The damage and deaths are almost always blamed on Israel. The IDF has previously stated that one-fifth of the rockets fired by terror groups in the Gaza Strip land in Gaza, killing civilians.
Kamala Harris passes benchmark for nomination
Vice-President Kamala Harris has seemingly secured enough delegate support to become the nominee for president. A survey by the Associated Press on Monday evening said she had received the endorsement of more than the 1,976 in the first round of voting. If no in-fighting erupts at the convention, Harris could become the nominee. The Democrat Party is unique in that it will vote ahead of the convention to select the nominee. The convention begins Aug. 19 with its delegates comprised primarily of party insiders and donors descending on Chicago, according to CNN.
–Dwight Widaman and wire services