"Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.
Benjamin Netanyahu to reduce his country's attacks on Lebanon. Trump confirmed the request
in an interview with NBC News as MPR's Daniel Kurtz-Lavin reports."
“President Trump told NBC that, quote, "I spoke with BB and he's going to low-key it.”
I just think we have to be sort of a little more low-key," unquote. After a ceasefire was announced on Tuesday between the U.S. and Iran, Israel continued attacking Lebanon where the Iran-backed group Hezbollah is based. "There has been disagreement among the countries involved in the ceasefire as to whether attacks on Lebanon are a part of that agreement."
Trump posted on social media late Wednesday night that U.S. military personnel will remain in and around Iran until there's a "real agreement." Vice President J.D. Vance will lead a delegation to Pakistan for Saturday peace talks. Daniel Kurtz-Lavin and PR News the White House. "I'm Minister Netanyahu says he has authorized to ret negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants.
He made the announcement Thursday giving a potential boost to ceasefire talks,
“Lebanese authorities have not yet responded. Health officials say Wednesdays”
Israeli attacks against Hezbollah and Central Bay route and other areas in Lebanon killed more than 300 people and wounded more than 1150." EPA Administrator Lee Zelden delivered the keynote speech at a conference for those who say climate change is not a problem. He championed the Trump administration's efforts to roll back climate policies as MPR's Lawrence Summer reports.
Zelden spoke at a conference of the Heartland Institute, a free market group that denies that humans are contributing to climate change. Scientific research shows that burning fossil fuels has increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the highest level in human history. That traps heat, raising temperatures, and making weather events like hurricanes more extreme. Zelden celebrated the EPA's decision to stop regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
He says that policy was government overreach and focused too much on the worst-case scenarios. Lauren Summer and PR News. "According to the American Gaming Association,
Americans wagered more than $166 billion on sports in 2025.
Young adults and teens are joining in legally or otherwise leaving parents to think about how to talk to children about gambling, and PR's Sequoia Carillo reports." Experts say the most common mistake parents make is waiting to talk about gambling until they're worried about their kid. "You're coming in talking with your teenager about problem gambling,
“but you're coming in fire and brimstone. This is the worst thing in the world."”
That's Matt Mastar. He's an addiction counselor in Pittsburgh. "Teenagers are going to shut down. They're not going to want to have that conversation." Most of Mastar's clients are boys and young men. He says parents need to take a beat and avoid a confrontation. Whether or not you're worried, approach it with curiosity, not judgment.
Sequoia Carillo and PR News. "This is in PR."
First lady Melania Trump delivered a statement at the White House Thursday,
denying ties to Jeffrey Epstein and any knowledge of his crime. She called allegations that she was involved in Epstein's crime's baseless lies. Her statement seemed to come out of the blue, a spokesman for the first lady said the West Wing knew beforehand that she'd be giving a statement, but it's not clear for a specific remarks or no. Anyone else's finds the Emperor Pengwin's V.C. is at risk of extinction.
Empires' Nate Rod reports that melting sea ice and changing food availability are causing the decline. "The world is getting warmer thanks to human activities and temperatures at the poles arising significantly faster than the global average." Hotter temperatures means less sea ice, and for Emperor Pengwin's which rely on sea ice for breeding in his places to rest, it means fewer penguins are surviving. Twice in recent years, the ice is broken up early,
causing thousands of chicks to drown in the frigid water. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says Emperor Pengwin's are now considered to be endangered, Antarctic fur seals as well, scientists involved in the analysis say urgent action is needed to reduce climate warming pollution. Nate Rod and PR News. "The financial markets and Asia ticking up amid questions about the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Japan's benchmark
Nikkei is up more than 1% and Brent crude oil. The International Standard is trading above $96 a barrel in Asia after stocks on Wall Street advanced in Thursday trading both the Dow and the S&P 500 rose six tenths of a percent. I'm Jail Snyder, MPR News." On Consider This, NPR's afternoon news podcast we cover everything from politics to the economy to the world, but every story starts with a question.
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