Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.
As Israel wages were in Iran, it's also expanding its campaign in Lebanon.
“Israel's military says it has launched a new ground incursion in two southern Lebanon”
to fight Hezbollah. As it prepares for possible cease fire talks with Lebanon, and Paris Daniel Asteran reports from Tel Aviv. The Israeli military says it has begun limited and targeted ground operations against Hezbollah, sending troops across the border into parts of southern Lebanon, where Israel has not
previously operated during this current war. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians have followed Israeli evacuation orders, and fled to southern Lebanon. The Norwegian refugee council aid group says one in seven people in Lebanon are now displaced. A person briefed on the matter not authorized to speak publicly and speaking on condition
of anonymity, says Israel intends to gradually increase its ground incursion deeper into Lebanon. While at the same time, there are behind the scenes efforts to try to hold direct ceasefire talks between Israel and Lebanon. Daniel Asteran and PR News, Tel Aviv.
"With Israel intensifying operations in Lebanon, air traffic is getting back to normal in the United Arab Emirates.
“The UAE had briefly closed its airspace because of incoming Iranian attacks.”
Trade talks underway in Mexico ahead of a review later this year on the trade agreement in the covers North America. Mexico's President Claudia Sheenbaum has said that she is very optimistic, Katie Silver, is in Mexico City." The U.S. MCA, which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement on NAFTA in 2020, is up
for renegotiation in a few months. And south of the border, there are a lot of nerves. With 80% of Mexico's exports heading to the U.S., a recent government survey found businesses here eager to maintain a free trade agreement. President Trump, however, has publicly questioned the need for the treaty, and threatened
to pull out of it altogether. Washington wants stronger rules to make sure goods from China don't slip into the U.S. from Mexico. For NPR News, I'm Katie Silver in Mexico City. "The Senate is set to vote this week on a priority for President Trump impures Miles Parks
reports on the election bill called the Save America Act."
“The Save America Act would overhaul U.S. elections procedures, as voters are already voting”
in primaries for this year's mid-terms. The bill requires people to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship, like a birth certificate or passport, to register to vote. That's something that could be difficult for millions of people, but the bill is not expected to pass.
Senate Majority Leader John Thoom said it doesn't have enough support to overcome a 60-vote filibuster in the Senate. "It's about the vote, it's about the man, and I'm, for better or worse, I'm the one who has to be a clear-eyed realist about what we can achieve here."
On citizen voting has never been shown to be a widespread problem in American elections.
The polls show a majority of Republican voters are concerned about voter fraud in the mid-terms. Miles Parks and PR News, Washington. "This is NPR. The storms that have been sweeping across the eastern half of the country are disrupting air travel.
The flight tracking website Flight Aware says more than 45 hundred U.S. flights were canceled Monday. To lays top to 11,000, the storms that already dumped heavy snow across parts of the mid-west are bringing strong winds and the threat of tornadoes to the east coast. A wild fire covering nearly 600,000 acres is burning in western Nebraska with few signs
of containment or basketball media's macy buyers reports." Constantly shifting high winds have made it difficult to control the spread of the largest wildfire in Nebraska history. Our firefighters from across the state have been pitching in since Thursday to fight it.
Volunteer Tyler Bendo worked for 24 hours straight. "I have been out here since yesterday since one o'clock. Still out here. I got a relief coming in right now to take me out so I can go home and get some rest."
When asked about the first thing he'll do when he gets home, Benda said, "Take
shower and go to sleep." Benda said he is thankful for the community support of firefighters and people affected. Federal help has arrived and winds have died down, but the large fire will still take some time to control. For NPR News, I'm Macy Byers.
"The financial markets in Asia are climbing in Tuesday trading, attempting a second day of gains amid the war in the Middle East. South Korean shares leading the way up more than two and a half percent, Japan's benchmark in the K is up half a percentage point. On Wall Street Monday, the S&P 500 snapped a four-day losing streak helped by gains in
artificial intelligence stocks. This is MPR News." As the war in Iran continues, get the latest in just a few minutes every weekday. From NPR's State of the World podcast, we have reporters throughout the Middle East giving you the facts on the ground.
"NPR News, Dubai, Beirut, Tel Aviv." In the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on the Turkish Iranian border, "Listen to state of the world on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts."
