Line from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman, in Lebanon nearly 700,00...
have been displaced and more than 500 people killed as Israel intensifies its air strikes
there.
“A running-backed Hezbollah militants sparked the new fighting when they shot missiles into Israel.”
The constant barrage of cross-border rocket fire has residents of northern Israel on edge and refusing to leave, and Pierre's carry con reports. In the city of Kiryach Mona, the sound of Israeli military fire into Lebanon is constant. As are the multiple air raid sirens warning of incoming Hezbollah rockets. Two Israeli soldiers have been killed since the start of the fighting.
71-year-old Ahuva Lipman says she evacuated along with the entire city during the Gaza war. This time she's not leaving, residents want tax breaks to get people to stay and government
incentives to get others to relocate to Israel's north.
Kerry Con and Pierre News, Kiryach Mona. In the U.S. senators received a classified briefing yesterday from the Trump administration about the war in Iran, Democratic senators say they are fearful. The U.S. is going to get dragged into another long conflict in the Middle East.
“Connecticut Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal, President says that it's nearly complete,”
but the Department of Defense says that it's just begun and the President almost in a single breath, says it's almost done and at the same time, it's just begun. Blumenthal is also asking whether the Trump administration wants to send U.S. ground forces to Iran.
Democrats are calling on the President to clearly explain to Americans what the U.S. is going
to do in the war and how much the war effort will cost taxpayers. The special election in Georgia held yesterday to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green will now move to a runoff. None of the 17 candidates on the ballot garnered the 50% of votes needed for an outright win, and Pierre Stephen Fowler reports from Atlanta.
The Democrats Sean Harris will face Republican Clay Fuller. Democrats coalesce behind Harris, the retired Army Brigadier General, was the party's choice to run against Marjorie Taylor Green in the 2024 election. While a majority of Republicans supported President Trump's pick, Northwest Georgia District Attorney Clay Fuller.
The winner of April's runoff will have to run again later this year in midterm elections to secure a full two-year term. The race is notable because Green was one of Trump's biggest fans, then critics before she resigned her seat in January.
“The state is notable because it's home to one of two key Republican U.S. Senate primaries”
where Trump hasn't weighed in with his endorsement. Stephen Fowler and PR news, Atlanta. You're listening to NPR. The National Weather Service got several reports of tornadoes yesterday and some of those tornadoes were damaging.
Officials in some Indiana and Illinois County's report, the tornado smashed homes and businesses, one tornado struck about 50 miles south of Chicago. The owner of Facebook and Instagram, Big Tech Company Mehta, says it's cracking down on scams and PR Shannon Bond reports Mehta has been criticized for making money off ads from scammers.
Mehta says online scams are getting more sophisticated. They use AI to create convincing fake accounts and lure unsuspecting users into conversations. And they buy ads that sometimes impersonate celebrities or known brands. Mehta says it recently took down 150,000 accounts connected to scam networks in Southeast Asia, which is a hub for organized scammers.
Police in Thailand arrested 21 people involved in the scams. Mehta says it's also working to increase the number of advertisers whose identity it verifies to reduce abuse. It says it wants 90% of ad revenue to come from verified advertisers by the end of the year up from 70% now.
Shannon Bond and pianists. The government of Australia has granted asylum to several members of Iran's Women's Soccer team. Iranian state media had labeled the women traders because they did not sing the Iranian national anthem before one match in Australia last week, but Australian officials now
say one of the women who asked for asylum has changed her mind. She will return to Iran with some other team players. on Crore of a Coleman and PR News in Washington.
