"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst," a 10-day ceasefire bet...
Lebanon, and announced by President Trump, is now in effect.
“This after Iran said it wouldn't engage in further ceasefire talks with the U.S. unless”
a ceasefire between those two countries was in place. It's their first direct diplomatic talk in decades, though the Iranian-backed militant group has below wasn't at the table. The civilians were also impacted by Israel's attacks, and here's Katlaan Storff says there
are more than a million people displaced by the war that's about a fifth of the population.
Here in Beirut, there are whole parking lots full of tents and people using a stadium here for shelter or sleeping in schools. Most of those people will not be allowed to return home yet, if ever. Israel has demolished more than 40,000 homes in the South according to Lebanese officials, taking over whole villages to create what it calls a security buffersome to keep Hezbollah
from firing rockets into Israel. Empires Katlaan Storff reporting from Beirut. The Senate again rejected a bid to block arms sales too, Israel, but several Democrats
“who previously opposed such efforts, voted in favor of the measure citing growing concerns”
about the war with Iran. If your Sam Greenglass has more. 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 in 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 respondent, 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. An environmental group is suing the Trump administration over its plans for a border wall
“in part of rural West Texas, Marfa Public Radio's Travis Bubanic has more.”
The big bend region of Texas is a rugged mountainous corner of the state where the Rio Grande bends through wide open desert ranches. It's historically seen some of the lowest border crossing numbers of any part of the southwest
and there's never been a border wall here.
The lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and Local Residence claims the Department of Homeland Security illegally bypassed a range of environmental laws for the project. The plaintiffs say the wall would destroy, quote, "Iconic sections of the river corridor that many in the region's outdoor tourism-centered towns depend on, the big bend border wall plan is prompted widespread pushback from Democrats and Republicans.
For MPR News, I'm Travis Bubanic and Marfa." You as future contracts are trading mixed, you're listening to NPR News. In Minnesota, state prosecutors charged ICE agent Gregory Morgan Jr. with two counts of second degree aggravated assault for appointing his service weapon at two civilians on a Minneapolis highway.
They say official say Morgan was driving illegally on the shoulder of the road. There's a nationwide warrant out for his arrest. Morgan told state investigators that he was afraid for his safety. Training robots to do household chores or manual labor is long been a goal in the field of robotics, and now a team of engineers say they've made a significant step toward producing
those robots. If he was Katie O'Rito, has more humans have long been able to train robots to do individual tasks. But teaching them to adapt and course correct their own behavior has flumics to many engineers. A team in Switzerland say they have cracked this code using a type of AI called machine
learning. Well, this may eventually allow for robots to help with lots of human conveniences. It also poses a danger that they can learn something we don't want them to do, like hurting people. That's according to Susan Schneider, who studies AI at Florida Atlantic University.
These are major AI safety challenges.
They're major philosophical challenges and of course they're incredible engineering seats.
The new research was published in the journal Science at Robotics, Katie O'Rito in Pair News. And news futures contracts are trading in mixed territory, Dow futures are up 85 points NASDAQ futures are down, 5 points. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. Want to understand the reason and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe
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