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Israel and Lebanon are agreeing to a 10-day ceasefire, President Trump first announced
the truce on social media today.
“He told reporters this afternoon that the leaders of both countries are invited to Washington”
for talks. "Actually, it's very exciting because it's 48 years. We're going to be meeting with Phoebe Netanyahu, as you know, and the president of Lebanon. I had a great talk with both of them today. They're going to be having a ceasefire, and that'll include Hezbollah."
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, allied with the Iranian government, receives far between Iran and the United States, is set to expire next week. Pakistan is attempting to mediate a longer truce that would lead to an agreement to end a war, the U.S. and Israel initiated against Iran in late February.
The U.S. and Iran have had one round of talks a second has yet to be scheduled.
The U.S. Senate again rejected a bid to block arms sales to Israel, but several Democrats who previously opposed such efforts voted in favor of the measure citing growing concerns about the war with Iran. Here's NPR Sam Greenglass. "36 Democrats voted to advance a measure to cancel the sale of 1,000 pound bombs.
40 Democrats, some 85% of the caucus supported blocking the sale of bulldozers, used by Israel in Lebanon and Gaza to level homes and neighborhoods. Republicans voted to block the measures. Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona was among the roughly dozen Democrats who supported blocking the transfers after previously opposing similar measures.
"We are in a moment where we have to ask ourselves, does this bring us closer to peace and security?"
A March Pew Survey found that a majority of respondents, some 60% reported an unfavorable
view of Israel up from 42% in 2022 when a majority had a favorable view. Sam Greenglass and PR News Washington. Some federal employees say the Trump administration is blocking their work against housing discrimination and violating civil rights law. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports a union that represents them has launched a website with anonymous
letters that begin with "Dear America." The letters expressed concern about cases they say investigators have been forced to drop. They also describe a culture of fear that's keeping them anonymous. Last year, HUD fired fair housing was so blower Paul Osadabe, a civil rights lawyer and union steward who helped put out these letters.
"We're not being allowed to help the people that were supposed to be serving." HUD's Secretary Scott Turner has accused the Biden administration of twisting the law by focusing on DEI. "There are so many Americans who are racist until a proven innocent." Osadabe says political interference goes beyond HUD and he hopes employees that other
agencies also speak up, Jennifer Ludden and PR News Washington. "It's NPR.
“A digital movement played a key role in bringing to light sexual assault allegations against”
now former Congressman Eric Swallwell and PR's Elena Morp has that story." It all started when a few left-leaning content creators began posting online about Swallwell prompting dozens of women to send them messages with their own experiences. Cheyenne Hunt was one of the creators receiving messages after posting about Swallwell in late March.
She says she quickly became part of a small movement. "And it was really three girls in a group chat that were figuring out how we were going to bring this story forward, consolidate a group of women together and get their story told the right way." Within days, it captured the attention of major news organizations.
In last Friday, some of the most serious allegations were published by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN, Elena Morp and PR News. Swallwell denies the criminal allegations but under pressure from members of his own party, the Democrat dropped his campaign for Governor California, and ahead of an expected expulsion vote in the House while resigned from Congress Tuesday, so did his Republican
colleague Tony Gonzalez weeks after the lawmaker from Texas acknowledged in a fair with the staffer later died by suicide. New economic data out today in jobs, the Labor Department is saying the number of Americans so apply for jobless insurance last week, fell by 11,207,000, in housing the mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac reports the average long-term fixed rate on a 30-year loan has fallen
this week to 6.3%, 15-year fixed rate mortgage is also eased. What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other aspect of our identities?
“What we're living through, I think, is really the two parties taking opposite sides on”
whether we want to keep making this type of social progress or whether we want to go back in time. This is the MPR's coach podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
