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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's authorized negotiations with Lebanon, aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants, and establishing relations between the countries. The nations have technically been at war since Israel was established in 1948, meanwhile President Trump posted on social media that Iran is doing a very poor job of allowing oil
through the state of Hormuz, and it is "not the agreement we have as NPR's Daniel Eastern reports after more than a month of war Iran is feeling emboldened."
The regime is still there, it is proven that it can withstand the most powerful army in
the world and the most powerful army in the region, Israel, and it's discovered the state of Hormuz, and what havoc it can wreak, not only on the Gulf, but on the entire globe, NPR's Daniel Eastern reporting.
“A California court has unsealed the secret warrants that a sheriff used to seize hundreds”
of thousands of ballots, the warrants race questions as to whether the sheriff's investigation is valid from member station KVCR, Madison Alment reports. At issue is whether a crime was committed to justify a judge signing off on the warrants. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, obtained them to investigate an alleged vote count discrepancy in a statewide election last year.
In that election, California's voted to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats. Bianco recently sees some 650,000 of those ballots. Loyal-Amarie Mount Law Professor, Justin Levitt, says probable cause must be established to get a warrant, and that didn't happen.
"Most disturbingly, there doesn't seem to be any indication of criminal wrongdoing." The California Supreme Court has halted Bianco's investigation while reviews the case. For NPR News, I'm Madison Alment and San Bernardino. A private investigator accused of orchestrating a hacking campaign against U.S. Climate Activist
“has been extradited to the U.S. and P.R.'s Michael Koppler reports the hacking was allegedly”
commissioned by a former ex-son mobile lobbyist. "Israeli Private Investigator a meet forlet has been extradited from the U.K. on charges including conspiracy to commit computer hacking?" Forlet's U.K. legal team has said the hacking is alleged to have been carried out at the best of former ex-son mobile lobbyists DCI group.
But our prosecutors say the goal was to discredit climate activists and fight lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry. Prosecutors told a federal judge, the case involves multiple alleged co-conspirators, that they expect to produce a lot of information from search warrants on email and other electronic accounts.
Ex-son mobile and DCI deny having any involvement in hacking. Forlet has denied ordering or paying for hacking. Michael Koppler and P.R. News eligible men between the ages of 18 and 25 will automatically be registered into the U.S.
“military draft pool, starting in December, and it's a change from the current requirement”
to self-register. The military has not held a draft since 1973 during the Vietnam War. This is NPR News. Calls are increasing for Congress to investigate the prediction market platform Polymarket, the AP reported at least 50 new Polymarket accounts placed substantial bets on a U.S.
Iran ceasefire hours before President Trump made the announcement.
It isn't the first time such well-timed bets have occurred.
Donald Trump Jr. has a sizable stake in Polymarket. Rush's highest court has designated the country's most storied human rights group as an extreme organization. It's the latest crackdown on Russian civil society that accelerated amid the war in Ukraine and P.R.T. Charles Mainz has more.
According to the later years of the U.S.S.S.R. Memorial has often been at odds with the Kremlin, not only documenting the darker chapters of the Soviet past, but also abuses in Vladimir Putin's Russia. For that work, Memorial was among human rights groups awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023. Now Russia's highest court has effectively criminalized any and all of memorials' activities.
The decision was expected previous courts. It ordered the group's liquidation allegedly for promoting terrorism and violating foreign agent laws. In a statement, Memorial rejects the latest legal decision as another attempt to silence civil society. Bound it would quote outlive the Putin regime and some day, resumes work in Russia.
Charles Mainz and P.R. News. Moscow
A minor league baseball team in New Hampshire scored eight runs in the second inning before
getting its first hit of the game. The Fisher Cats benefited from eight walks, four wild pitches, two hit batters, and a sacrifice fly before finally getting a base hit. The reponent was the Portland Sea Dogs. This is NPR News from Washington.
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