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Israel and Lebanon are set to hold a second round of talks in Washington, tomorrow, a
“10-day ceasefire that has pause fighting between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be holding.”
NPR's Cat-Lonstor reports from southern Lebanon. Looking south from a hill atop the village of Moshtal-Zoon, you can see in Israeli flag waving in the wind over the neighboring Lebanese village. Israel is still occupying a large swath of land in Lebanon's south, including dozens of towns and villages.
Hezbollah's spokesperson, Salman Harb, tells NPR that the Iran-backed group does not agree with direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. But if the result of the negotiations is that Israel will withdraw from the Lebanese land, Harb says, "Then we're fine with that." But on the other hand, he says, "If the land remains occupied, it's our right to resist
of that occupation." Cat-Lonstor, and Pianus, Moshtal-Zoon, and southern Lebanon. A routine, and you will paper about COVID-19 vaccines by staff at the CDC, has been blocked. NPR's Pink Long reports on the unusual move.
“Every spring, after the winter peaks of cold and flu, the CDC reports on how well”
seasonal vaccines worked. For those who got them, how much they're likely were they to get hospitalized for to die from the disease. The smart CDC staff published a paper on flu vaccine effectiveness, and the agency's flagship weekly publication, and they planned to do the same for the COVID vaccine, but acting director
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya held the COVID paper for weeks. Now, the planned publication has been canceled. The stoppage was first reported in the Washington Post and confirmed by Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services. Nixon cited concerns about how the paper estimates vaccine effectiveness, even though
the CDC's methodology has been the same for years. Pink Long and PR News The popular prediction market site, Calshy, has find three political candidates for betting on their own campaigns. NPR's Bobby Allen reports concerns are growing in Washington over insider trading on the
apps. Calshy find a Texas House candidate, a Minnesota State Senator, and a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia. This site's say all three place bets on their own political campaigns, which violates Calshy's rules against insider trading.
The enforcement actions were announced as state and federal lawmakers vowed to crack down on political insiders profiting off of insider information. Billions of dollars are traded every week on Calshy and Polly Market. The prediction market site's say they self-police for abuse. Observers of the industry fear foreign actors or campaign insiders could try to use the
midterm elections as an opportunity to manipulate the markets or turn internal data into profit, Bobby Allen and PR News. At the close on Wall Street, dial was up 340 points. This is NPR.
A tech billionaire has donated more than $100 million to one of the most visited museums in
the United States. NPR's net-oil to be reports the gift is intended to loan art owned by the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. to smaller museums around the country. This gift comes at a challenging moment for American museums. Tourism is down, federal funding has been cut.
In ever since, President Trump started targeting museums as, quote, "the last remaining segment of Woke, corporations have been cautious about philanthropy." But now, the National Gallery has announced that a wealthy art collector and entrepreneur named Mitchell P. Rails, who used to run its board of trustees, will help some of the
“museum's most important works be seen at regional museums starting next year.”
The National Gallery owns nearly 200,000 works of art, including major pieces by the likes of Claude Monet and George O'Keefe. The costs of shipping, ensuring, and installing such art are staggering, but bringing these works to museums across the U.S. can help draw local visitors and support. Wildfires are intensifying across parts of the southeast.
Some of the largest fires are burning along the coast of Georgia and near Jacksonville, Florida. Firefighters there are battling more than 100 active places with conditions expected to remain dangerous. For castors say, drought conditions, low humidity, and strong winds are feeling the rapid spread.
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