Good morning. It is July 31st. A heat advisory is on the way in New York City as the heat builds up into Thursday and Friday. And this is your Indignity Morning Podcast. I'm your host, Tom Scocca, taking a look at the day and the news. This morning's breaking news is that Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran on a trip to attend the Iranian presidential inauguration.

Everyone seems to be assuming that Israel is behind the killing, which casts a rather grim light on the notion that Israel has spent these last few months engaged in good faith negotiations with the political leadership of Hamas to try to reach a ceasefire in Gaza. Seems hard to carry that diplomacy those last few difficult inches over the goal line to stop the slaughter if you're going to kill your negotiating partner. Online, the New York Times uses the headline, "Ismail Haniyeh's assassination raises fears of war engulfing the region." That is not to be confused with the lead sub -headline on the front of today's paper, New York Times, which is, "heightening fears of full -blown war." That one is on the older news about Israel's airstrike in the suburbs of Beirut, which was supposed to be targeting a commander of Hezbollah. The Times reports there's no verification of whether they got their target, but Lebanon's Ministry of Health said it did kill a woman and two children and the Times' writes, wounded at least 74 others, five critically. 

Elsewhere on page one, there's a four -column photo of the U .S. Women's Gymnastics Team waving the flag to celebrate winning the team gold medal in the Paris Olympics. Below that, "post -election protests turned deadly in Venezuela, 16 dead and about 750 arrested." And the lead part of a strangely bifurcated story, "Senate passes bill to protect youth online, passage of the measure," the Times writes, "which has been the subject of a dogged advocacy campaign by parents who say their children lost their lives because of something they found or saw on social media, marked a rare bipartisan achievement at a time of deep polarization in Congress." Down at the bottom of that column is a little referral, "Teen Fears." The bill faces an uphill battle in the House because of censorship concerns. Sending you clear out of the front section to page B1. where the story is, "Teens Fear Censorship in Safety Act." Here the front section is where bipartisan achievement is recast as a heated political war. "At the heart of the battle, the story says, are concerns about how the bill could affect free speech on culturally divisive issues, which both sides of the spectrum worry could be weaponized under the guise of child safety." Seems like it might have been a worthwhile editorial exercise to try to integrate those two stories into one. 

Elsewhere on page one, there's an investigation in which the Times finds that the company that audits labor conditions in India's sugar industry is set up to ignore the abuses and issue positive labor certifications anyway. 

And down at the bottom right, the Times has dug out its presumably long -prepared Robert McFadden obituary of William Calley with a line near the top acknowledging that the Washington Post beat the Times to the news that the lone convicted murderer, at My Lai, had died.

Not in the newspaper, but online is the news that the ubiquitous deli brand Boar's Head has now recalled seven million pounds of meat on top of an earlier recall of 200,000 pounds of meat. Because of a listeria outbreak, the Times writes, that has left two people dead and sickened nearly three dozen. The agriculture department found tainted liverwurst in Maryland. The FDA list of the products involved includes not just liverwurst, head cheese, olive loaf, frankfurters, porchetta, and a truly staggering array of varieties of ham. Sweet slice ham, tavern ham, Virginia ham, black forest ham, Italian cappuccino ham. Basically, if you're gonna get a deli sandwich, just get an egg and cheese and skip the meats for a while. 

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