"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
It's day two of a 10-day ceasefire to pause the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“The agreement seems to be holding amid several incidents of violence, but many in Lebanon”
are not convinced it will lead to lasting peace. And here's Catlaun Storef has more from Beirut. 46-year-old Abir Muhammad al-Masri has been living in a tent in a parking lot with her six kids for nearly seven weeks. He says that she'd much rather be in their apartment in the southern suburbs, but...
"Mabu, hey, this set up. Oh, man! I don't trust the ceasefire," she said. "It's more of a truce than a ceasefire. We can't go home yet."
Many of the more than one million people displaced in Lebanon during this war have headed
back to the south, where much of the fighting was happening, despite warnings not to. But Israel is still occupying about 10% of the country after destroying whole villages to
“create what it calls a buffer zone to keep Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel.”
Lebany's people from those villages cannot return. Catlaun Storef and Beirut. Pope Leo says he has no interest in debating President Trump, who's repeatedly hit out at the pontiff, apparently angry over Leo's advocacy for peace with Iran. But the Pope says his remark this week about the world being ravaged by handful of tyrants
was in about Trump, "The talk that I gave, if they were permitting for peace, a couple days ago was prepared two weeks ago, well before the President had ever commented out myself on the message of peace that I am promoting.
And yet as it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate again the President,
which is not my interest at all." Leo is on a four-nation 11-day tour of Africa. He left Cameroon this morning after celebrating mass at the airport, he's now in Angola, re-earched the faithful to work for a society free from the slavery imposed by the elite. Elected officials are making their last appeals to Virginians in a congressional redistricting
referendum that could see the state stand four more Democrats to Congress. Today's the last day of early voting ahead of Tuesday's election, Jag Khalil from VPM News has more. "At a house near Richmond, Governor Abigail Spamberger, a Democrat, rallied a crowd preparing to knock on doors."
"We want to stand up, reject what we are seeing, coming out of Washington, and ensure that we can be a counterweight to the actions of Texas," I'm sorry, a North Carolina." "Those states recently created new congressional districts that favor Republicans at the urging of President Trump, despite gains by Democrats and Virginia's election last November, polling indicates the contest is a toss-up.
Next door to where yes forces gathered were signs opposing the referendum. The new map proposed by Democrats would result in just one safe GOP seat in the state. Democrats would get 10. For in pair news, I'm Jag Khalil in Henrico, Virginia." "You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Hundreds of animal rights activists stormed a controversial Wisconsin dog breeding facility this morning, saying the animals are not being treated well. Wisconsin Public Radio's Korean Hess has more." Virginia and Farms near Madison, Wisconsin, is expected to close the summer. But animal rights activists say the 2000 dogs being held there are being mistreated.
Richmond is one of the country's largest breeders of bigals for research. Dane County Sheriff Kelvin Barrett says about 400 violent activists attempted to break into the facility. "I want to be very clear. This is not a peaceful protest, and we will do everything, and use every resource we have
to keep and maintain the peace." Medicine activists Amy Van Ardison says police used tear gas on protesters. "Many people are also with a rebel, the police response was just really devastating and disappointing." "The protest was planned for Sunday, but moved up a day by activists. For NPR News, I'm Korean Hess in Milwaukee."
"Forget the Lycra in England, hundreds of cyclists in tweet jackets and bowler hats, throw through the streets of London today for the annual Tweed Run. The goal is not to cycle fast, but to look good while riding past landmarks, including the famous Big Ben. The riders embrace vintage British attire, including Tweed suits, both highs and pantalones,
a rider from Sussex, told Reuters that everyone has to make an effort." "I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington." What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other aspect of our identities?
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whether we want to keep making this type of social progress or whether we want to go back in time." "This is the NPR's coach podcast and the NPR app or wherever you get your podcast."
