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Live from NPR news on trial Snyder, President Trump is expressing confidence ...

at the pump will drop once your raw and war comes to an end.

"The gas will go down, as soon as the war's open, it will drop like a rock, there's so

much out there, so all over the place, sitting all over the oceans of the world." Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, the AAA Motor Club says gas prices have climbed 27 cents in one week. With an national average now $4.30 for a gallon of regular, and with a straight-up for move, still close, a price of print crude is currently around $114 per barrel.

The GOP led Senate has once again blocked a Democratic led measure to limit President Trump's war powers in Iran. And here's Claudia Grossallish reports that Democrats have forced to fail to vote six times since the conflict began 60 days ago.

Co-sponsor California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff notes current law dictates the conflict

must end at the 60-day mark. "The President must terminate this use of force until Congress says otherwise." Two Republicans Kentucky's rampal and main Susan Collins voted with Democrats.

Under the current War Powers Act, Trump can invoke a 30-day extension to wind down operations.

Several Republicans have pointed to that provision as a potential way to, by time, in the midst of ceasefire negotiations to end the conflict. Some are also warning once the war crosses that 60-day mark. They will no longer support funding the operation until the administration defends the plans.

Claudia dissatisfied. And beer news, the capital. "On Capitol Hill Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hague says suggests that the ceasefire that it's been in effect since early April effectively stopped the clock on those 60 days. You have sent it as banning its members, staff, and officers from betting on upcoming events

in prediction markets. The ban was unanimously approved Thursday and took effect immediately. Physicians for human rights as rail has petitioned the country's high court for the release

of 14 Palestinian doctors from Gaza who were being held in Israeli detention without

charge. And Perez-Etae Stern, report from Tel Aviv." The Israel-based rights group says the doctors include surgeons and senior specialists who were taken from Gaza after the Delhi Hamas led attack on Israel. Some were detained in Israeli raids while working inside hospitals that were barely damaged

or destroyed. The doctors are being held in Israel as unlawful combatants, a designation that carries no formal charges or trial. Israel is holding an unknown number of detainees from Gaza on suspicion of ties to Hamas. But physicians for human rights has the detention of the 14 doctors is unlawful and

is worsening the collapse of Gaza health care system. To detain doctors from Gaza died in Israeli custody in the war. For MPR News, Imitized Stern, in Tel Aviv." And this is MPR News. President Trump has signed a bill that funds much of the homeland security to Parliament

ending the longest agency shut down in history. The House gave the bill final approval Thursday the shutdown lasted more than 70 days. A mid-democratic demands at immigration enforcement operations be reigned in. In the end, Republicans adopted a budget resolution that cut Democrats out of the process. In Texas, camp mystic is dropping plans to reopen this summer.

State officials say the camp has withdrawn its application for a license to operate, following outrage by Texas lawmakers and from families of the 25 young campers and two teenage counselors who were killed during the devastating floods over the 4th of July weekend last year. The camp's owner was also killed. The vast majority of cervical cancer, deaths are in low and middle-income countries, and

MPR's Gabriella Emmanuel reports at a news study forecast that the gap between regions will get even more dramatic in the next few decades. High-income countries could eliminate cervical cancer before 2050, with HPV vaccinations and regular screening programs. However, the study published in the medical journal, the Lancet, found low and middle-income

countries are on track to see only a 23% drop in cervical cancer rates by then. Researchers say recent advancements, including cheaper cost HPV vaccines and more than 40 lower resource countries rolling out the immunizations, could help close the projected gap. Gabriella Emmanuel and PR News.

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