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A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is due to take effect in one hour, President Trump
“first announced on social media that both countries had agreed to attend a truce.”
He says he has invited the Israeli and Lebanese leaders to the White House for talks. A ceasefire between the United States and Iran is set to expire early 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. NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Labin reports President Trump says he may travel to Pakistan.
Speaking next to the Marine One helicopter on the White House lawn, Trump told reporters he would be willing to travel to Islamabad to seal a peace steel. Peace talks in Islamabad last weekend yielded no deal between the U.S. and Iran. On Wednesday, Trump told the New York Post that more peace talks in Pakistan could be coming yet this week, but the White House has provided no further information.
Trump has now left Washington for an economic roundtable in Nevada, followed by a turning point USA event in Arizona on Friday, Danielle Kurtz-Labin and PR News. In Georgia, swing voters say they think the war is going poorly, and will lead to even more economic pressures at home. These voters recently participated in online focus groups observed by NPR's Ashley Lopez.
The 13 voters who participated in these groups voted for Biden in 2020 and then Trump in 2024, and all 13 said they don't think the war is going well. They say they're concerned the president is focused on the wrong issues, Dawn, who participated under the condition her last name would not be used, said she's particularly frustrated that the president is not focused on the economy.
Everything is higher now, it's not going down like he said, in cost of living of everything, food, oil, housing, health care, the name of it. Nearly all participants said they feel more economic anxiety now than they did before Trump took office again, Ashley Lopez and PR News. Just over a week after capping their historic slingshot around the moon, the crew of Artemis
two has some stories and advice during a news conference today at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Mission Commander, Reed Weissman, talked about how every member of the four person crew depended on each other. I've said it so many times, we are just we are bonded forever.
I mean, that's the closest four humans can be and not be a family, so it was just an amazing
adventure. And every single person on that crew lifted each other up the entire time, so I just can't thank the three of you enough. The astronauts were the first humans in 54 years to embark on a lunar mission. They traveled farther from Earth than anyone else, when asked if they advised for the
next Artemis crew. The astronauts, advisor, successors, ask more questions and no parts of the Suez craft really
“well and remember that they are part of a team from Washington, its NPR News.”
Democratic former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax killed his wife, then himself according to Fairfax County Police today. Police Chief Kevin Davis says the couple found dead at their north of Virginia home outside Washington, DC by their teenage son shortly after midnight. Davis says the couple living together while in the process of getting divorced, they're
survived by two children.
Maryland is on track to become the first state to ban grocery stores from using dynamic
pricing, a practice that allows price setting based on consumer data. Sarah Petroitch from Member Station of EYPR has details. Maryland lawmakers have passed one of Governor Westmore's top legislative priorities known as the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. The new law would ban food retailers and third-party delivery services like Instacart from
using personal consumer data to raise prices. More says this will stop big chain grocery stores from price gouging based on the weather or peak demand hours. But tech and retail advocates argue consumer data is often used to offer discounts and targeted promotions.
The bill was amended to ensure loyalty programs and promotional prices are not impacted by the ban and with more anticipated signature, the new law will go into effect on October 1st. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Petroitch in Baltimore. U.S. stocks have ended the day higher. The Dow closed up more than a hundred points to end at 48,572.
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