Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Rich President Emmanuel Macron today accused the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah of
“killing a French UN peacekeeper in Lebanon.”
And here's a lot of why it's hezbollah. Florian Montaurio was killed in what Macron described as an attack on the UN's peace service. Three additional soldiers had been injured as well. Macron said, quote, "Everything suggests that Hezbollah was behind the attack." The accusation against the group comes just a day into the 10-day ceasefire between Israel
and Lebanon. The Israeli military says it has conducted strikes against a threatening target in Lebanon.
More than a million people in Lebanon have been forced out of the south of the country
where Israel is trying to create a buffer zone to prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets into northern Israel, a lot of ways in P.R. News. The Treasury Department says it's extending a one-month pause on sanctions against Russian oil to tamp down global energy prices amid the war with Iran. That reverses an announcement earlier this week by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant
ruling out such a move. And P.R.'s Charles Means has more. The Trump administration first introduced the sanctions waiver in March, part of an attempt to level out global energy prices amid the war in Iran. The policy's extension effectively allows countries to legally purchase previously sanctioned
Russian oil for the second month in a row. The Kremlin's U.S. envoy, Krill Demetrius, said the move amounted to an acknowledgement
“of the crucial role of Russian energy in maintaining the stability of the global economy.”
Demetrius predicted more than 100 million additional barrels of Russian oil would soon reach
global markets. Critics of the U.S. sanctions waiver say it provides the Kremlin with a windfall for its war in Ukraine in a moment when the Russian economy had otherwise been struggling. Charles Means and P.R. News, Moscow. President Trump today signed an executive order, loosening restrictions on psychedelic
drugs. It's meant to accelerate research into the therapeutic benefits of Ibo gain, LSD, ecstasy, and other drugs in treating mental health issues, including severe depression and anxiety. It seems as the move will help dramatically accelerate that access to potential treatments. Today's order will ensure that people suffering from debilitating symptoms might finally
have a chance to reclaim their lives and lead a happier life, just lead a happier life. They've been through so much. Speaking there from the White House after signing the executive order, the move was long wanted by researchers and drug reform advocates and veteran's groups and others say Ibo gain, which is made from a shrub in West Africa, shows promise and helping people with
hard to treat conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and opioid addiction.
The FDA is working to clear away for the first human trials of the drug in the U.S.
This is NPR. The threat in strike by Dorman and New York City has been averted. The union representing thousands of Dorman, borders and superintendents across the city says it reached a tentative agreement with the group that represents building owners. Members had threatened to walk off the job Tuesday, over wages and health care in what
would have been the first strike since 1991. Exact terms of the agreement though have not been made public. The Census Bureau has released new lists of the most common names of people in the United States from the 2020 census. NPR's Hansi Lowang reports, among last names, Rodriguez has become more frequently
used than Davis Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Garcia and Miller held onto their top seven spots from the 2010 list of the most common last names in the United States. In 2020 though, Rodriguez moved up to number 8 bumping down Davis to the ninth spot. They're filed by Martinez or Nendez, Lopez Gonzalez, Wilson and Anderson. The Census Bureau says many of the countries most used last names have stayed the same
since the first US headcount back in 1790, but the last names of people who identified as Latino have been on the rise since 2000. Most of the fastest growing last names in the US were from people who identified as Asian, including John Liu, Wang Ahmed, and Corps. As for first names, Michael Tops to list, filed by John James David, Robert William,
Mary, Maria, Daniel, and Joseph, Hanzi Lowang and Pernuys. Stocks soared on Wall Street yesterday for the week. The Dow rose more than 3%. The S&P 500 index jumped four and a half percent of the NASDAQ was up 6.8%. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News. What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other
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