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campaign against Iran. Trump said Tuesday he is extending the U.S. Iran cease fire until
“peace talks conclude. Another round of talks remains uncertain. Meanwhile, France says”
it's ready to help Lebanon prepare for a second round of talks with Israel this week as
Rebecca Rosman reports." French President Emmanuel Macron says France wants to help Lebanon prepare for upcoming negotiations with Israel, set for Thursday in Washington over the truth-time defining with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Macron's offer came as he welcomed Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Tuesday at the L.E.A. Palace. France and Lebanon have historic
ties. But both Israel and the United States have been reluctant to include France in the talks. The offer also came days after Macron condemned the killing of a French UN peacekeeper in Lebanon, and blamed Hezbollah for the soldier's death. Hezbollah denied responsibility for NPR News. I'm Rebecca Rosman in London.
"Supporters of psychedelic medicine are a plotting President Trump's move to speed up research.
“The docks are being studied for the treatment of mental health conditions like depression,”
anxiety, and PTSD. Trump signed the order over the weekend and stocks for psychedelic companies developing these treatments have shot up in Piersville stone reports." The President's executive order directs federal health agencies to prioritize research.
It sets aside $50 million in funding, aims to speed up approval of the drugs, and could
allow some terminally ill patients to access the drugs before they're approved. Alan Davis is a psychedelic researcher at Ohio State University. "I do think it is remarkable to have a sitting president come out and promote psychedelics and to attempt to try to decrease some of the federal barriers that make it more difficult to study these compounds."
The President emphasized the psychedelic eye-begining, which comes from a West African shrub. "Well, it has helped some veterans with PTSD in addiction. Davis says eye-begining has major safety concerns, and there's much more data supporting drugs like MDMA and psilocybin. Willstone and PR News." "The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges, acting attorney
general Todd Blanch announced the charges Tuesday." The S.P.L.C. is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups. As the indictment describes, the S.P.L.C. was not dismantling these groups.
It was instead manufacturing the extremism, it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred. "The Trump administration alleges the S.P.L.C. raised millions to secretly pay informants to infiltrate extremist groups, S.P.L.C. says it will unvigorously defend itself. This is in PR."
After Nevada, West Virginia and Alabama also reached settlements with the popular children's online gaming platform, Roblox. Grace Schultz, a West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports that the settlement requires a platform to implement age-veracave verification and other safety features.
West Virginia will receive more than $11 million from Roblox over several years to address
concerns of child endangerment and exploitation on the platform. But S.P.L.C. Attorney General J.B. McCusky says the settlement was reached before Alasu was ever filed, because Roblox was willing to collaborate on the issue. "These guys understood that there was something going wrong and worked with us to not only solve the problem, but to provide us with the resources we need to accomplish
to goals that we've set forth." McCusky says the money will be used in part to teach children, parents, and educators about online safety. Nevada and Alabama are the two other states receiving about $12 million each from Roblox under the settlements.
For MPR News, I'm Chris Schultz in Morgan Town, West Virginia. "Rock and roll Hall of Famer, Dave Mason has died." ♪ So let's leave it alone ♪ ♪ 'Cause we can't see how high ♪ ♪ There ain't no good guy ♪ ♪ There ain't no bad guy ♪ ♪ There's only you and me ♪ ♪ And we just disagree ♪ We just disagree among Mason's solo hits that made it into the top 20 in 1977. Mason was a founding member of traffic, writing, and singing lead for the band he was 79
a cause of death is not clear. I'm Joel Snyder, NPR News. Every episode of NPR's It's Been a Minute Podcast starts with a question about how culture shapes our lives.
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