‘Solar eclipses still wield spiritual power’

Wednesday’s newspapers lead with Israel’s deadly strikes on World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza. The “backlash against Israel mounts” after the “deadly strike,” The Wall Street Journal says, and the attack “further slows aid” to Gaza, The Washington Post adds. Dallas, like smaller cities in the path of Monday’s solar eclipse, “preps for day in the sun,” The Dallas Morning News says. USA Today says that “for many, solar eclipses still wield spiritual power,” often featuring “fear or awe.”

The Post digs into the California billionaire who threw a “lifeline” for Donald Trump by covering his reduced $175 million bond in New York. And the Journal looks at some of the “schoolyard taunts” being deployed by Latin American leaders against each other. Some are quite colorful.

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