Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
President Trump has announced a three-week extension to pause the fighting between Israel
and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“A 10-day ceasefire was set to expire in the coming days, but as NPR's Katlaan store for”
reports from Beirut, both sides have continued to acknowledge attacks despite the agreement. Hezbollah says it fired rockets into northern Israel Thursday night. These really military says all were intercepted. That's after in Israeli air strike killed prominent Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, while she was reporting in the south.
The eighth journalist killed by Israel and Lebanon in the past two months. The Israeli military responded to Hezbollah's attack by carrying out several more air strikes in the south on what it says were military structures. All of this occurred as the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors were in Washington to discuss the extension of the ceasefire.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has been opposed to direct talks while Iran insisted on a ceasefire and
Lebanon to continue peace talks with the U.S. Katlaan store of M.P.R. News, Beirut. Search and rescue operations will continue this morning in Oklahoma. Multiple tornado swept the northern part of the state late last night.
“The city of Init is one of the hardest hit areas.”
It's about a hundred miles north of Oklahoma City. Vance Air Force Base is there. It's closed now. David Mason is the mayor of Init. We did have a tornado hit south side of Init.
I had been in touch with the base commander, Josh London, the Colonel, and he has assured me that they've got minimal damage out on the base to get some vents and signage.
Officials say the number of people injured in the tornado should become more clear as
teams resume operations this morning. People are leaving their homes in southern Georgia to escape wildfires. Governor Brian Kemp is planning to tour hard-hit areas today. Federal fire managers are stepping in to help contain one fire that's destroyed close to 90 homes so far.
Emily Jones from Member Station W. A.B.E. reports. Fire crews from all over Georgia have flocked to this rural area in the state's southeast.
“Local officials have asked for more help.”
The blaze seemed mostly under control a couple of days ago. Gail Schumann says she didn't even know there was a fire nearby. Then her neighbors shed caught fire. Before you know it, we had fire all around surrounding us. Schumann got lucky.
Her house survived, but the fire destroyed the pump for her well so she's staying at a nearby church for now. More people have been forced to evacuate as the shifting winds send the fire in new directions. For NPR news, I'm Emily Jones in Nehana, Georgia. An American soldier involved in the U.S. capture of Venezuela and President Nicholas Maduro
is charged with using his insider knowledge to place bets on the prediction market site polymarket, winning more than $400,000. This is NPR news from Washington. The White House says China has been engaged in an industrial scale campaign to steal U.S. artificial intelligence models.
And P.R.s John Ruitch reports. This comes less than a month before President Trump is due to visit Beijing. The accusation came in a White House office of science and technology policy leder to executive departments and agencies. Director Michael Cratzio says the U.S. is leading the world in AI and that reflects decades
of research, entrepreneurial risk taking and billions of dollars of investment. But now he says the U.S. has information indicating that foreign entities, mostly in China, are engaged in deliberate industrial scale campaigns to distill frontier AI systems, steel proprietary information, and extract American AI capabilities. Cratzio says this undermines American research and development and is unacceptable.
The U.S. will explore measures to hold foreign actors accountable. This escalates the feud between the U.S. and China over technology just weeks before President Trump heads to China for talks with Chinese leaders Xi Jinping. John Ruitch and PR news. Tech giant meta is laying off about 10% of its workforce next month.
It's about 8,000 people. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram has been putting a lot of investment into artificial intelligence. The company says it's making cuts for efficiency and to offset AI spending. The Las Vegas Raiders drafted Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza last night as the number
one overall pick. The Heisman winner watched from home with his family in Florida. I'm Kristen Wright and PR news from Washington. Ford for NPO This week on the NPR politics podcast for decades the southern poverty law center has tracked and even infiltrated hate groups.
But the Justice Department now alleges the way they funded that work amounted to bank fraud. Is it an honest pursuit of justice or just the latest example of the Trump DOJ targeting the President's political opponents?
