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Israel says it's ready for direct talks with Lebanon's government to try to end its conflict
with Hezbollah, but Lebanon does not control the Iranian-backed group, which rejects negotiations with Israel. That standoff could threaten the fragile U.S. Iran ceasefire ahead of talks this weekend in Pakistan, and PR's carry-con reports from Tel Aviv. Iran's foreign ministry says it won't be involved in talks unless Lebanon is part of the
deal. Israel insists its fight with Hezbollah is not part of the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, and continues hitting Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Wednesday, Israel struck multiple targets, including in Beirut, killing more than 300 people.
President Trump says he told Israel's prime minister to pull back and speaking to NBC.
“Trump said Benjamin Netanyahu is "going to low-key it." Many Israelis, especially”
Northern residents, do not want Netanyahu to stop, and in a video message Netanyahu told
them he is still hitting Hezbollah with "great force." Carry-con and PR news, Tel Aviv. As prices in the U.S. continue to climb, the average price for a regular grade is now $4.15 per gallon. When PR's morning edition hit the road this week to talk to drivers as the price of fuel
climbs amid the war in Iran, they spoke to Rob Clease who was filling up at a gas station in Frederick, Maryland. "I fully support Trump, all hundred percent, it was long overdue, every president talked about it, and no one had to guess to do it. Either we deal with it now, or the future generations deal with somebody with a nuclear
bomb." No, I had a way who was part that a convenience store in Frostburg, Maryland, says he's frustrated with the president.
“"I wouldn't trust anything that the man has to say, and someone who can't paint on”
large ass prices, and keeps climbing and climbing."
Surging gas prices, help push inflation to 3.3 percent in March, the largest increase in
nearly two years, that's according to the latest numbers by the Labor Department. The astronauts aboard the Artemis II are making their way back to Earth, and PR's no greenfield-boys reports, NASA says this part of the mission is nerve-wracking. The astronauts will hit Earth's atmosphere, going nearly 24,000 to miles per hour. Amit Shathria is NASA's associate administrator.
"There's no question that will be anxious." One source of anxiety, the heat shield, after a test flight without a crew, found some unexpected damage a few years ago, NASA investigated and changed the re-entry procedures to deal with this issue. He says the Artemis II astronauts were heavily involved.
They were not just doing what we were telling him to do that co-created the solution with us. He says NASA has done the work needed to be confident that the spacecraft will perform well, Nell Greenfield-boys and PR news. This is NPR News in Washington.
“The Trump administration is taking steps toward automatic registration for the military”
draft, the Selective Service has required eligible men ages 18 to 25 to register since 1980. That could change later this year. The agency says it will begin registering men automatically instead of requiring them to sign up themselves. Failing to register is a felony, penalties can include up to five years in prison, and
the loss of some federal benefits. The new study appears to show how the brain is able to imagine things it can't see. NPR's John Hamilton reports on the research in the journal science. Researchers wanted to understand how memory and imagination work together in the brain. Theroon Wadiah of Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Caltech says it takes both functions to accomplish
something people do every day. I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object. Wadiah and a team studied the activity of more than 700 neurons in 16 people. The scientists found that the same neurons that fire when someone looks at an object also
fire when a person imagines that object. The finding supports earlier evidence from brain scans, suggesting that seeing and imagining activate the same circuits. John Hamilton and PR News Preliminary data from the CDC show women in the U.S. gave birth to about 710,000 fewer
babies last year compared to the nation's peak in 2007. The agency says the drop is part of a larger downward trend in the birth rate. This is NPR. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, in Iran, President Trump is both escalating and de-escalating.
Pausing strikes on energy sites claiming Iran wants to make a deal, but also, moving troops to the region. We impact what we know about where those troops are headed, and how talks are playing out behind closed doors. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
