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Israel's expanded its invasion of Lebanon with its deepest incursion of ground forces in that country in 26 years.
“It's also intensified air strikes in southern Lebanon, where it's damaged a hospital.”
That's according to Lebanon's health ministry and Piers' generosity as more. Israeli forces have been closing in on the city of Nabatea and southern Lebanon while Israel continues strikes in the ancient city of Tyre. Lebanon's health ministry said 13 health workers were wounded in an attack close to Tyre's Hiram Hospital, which was also significantly damaged.
The Milton group has Bola claimed attacks on Israeli tanks and troops within Lebanon and launched rockets into northern Israel. Israeli forces to control of a strategic crusader, Eric Castle, with fused cross-southern Lebanon, raising the Israeli flag above the stone walls. France is called for an emergency U.N. Security Council session to discuss the invasion.
Jane Arath and Pyrenees Beirut.
Questions remain about what the entertainment lineup will ultimately look like for
this summer as America, 250 celebration in the nation's capital. As NPR's Windsor Johnston reports, several performers have withdrawn over concerns that the
“events are becoming increasingly political.”
Teary your secretary, Doug Bergen, was asked by CNN about the decision by some artist withdrawal from the celebration. I can't wait into the politics of musicians because some musicians want to play music for everybody and in some musicians seem to have segmented their audiences the same way politicians have.
Several artists, including Martina McBride, young MC and the Commodore's have withdrawn from the festivities on the national mall. Many said they agreed to appear after being told the event was nonpartisan, but later said they had been misled. After the withdrawals, President Trump said he expects to headline the kickoff celebration
himself. Windsor Johnston and Pyrenees, Washington. The wife of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has responded to news reports about her husband's alleged sexually explicit texts.
“In a video posted on the Democrats YouTube channel, Amy Gertner called the news coverage”
shameful. And Piers Camilla Damanoski has more. On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gertner had told her husband's campaign about sexually explicit text messages he had sent other women as part of a process checking for any risks to his bid for Senate.
Gertner and Platner were married in 2023. In her video, Gertner said that being newly married, while going through infertility, and a Senate campaign was hard, but the counseling helps. No marriage is perfect, and I don't want a perfect marriage, I want my marriage. She criticized the media for spreading gossip instead of talking about issues, Camilla
Damanoski and Pyrenees. And you're listening to NPR news. A prominent indigenous leader in Nicaragua, his died while in state custody, as NPR was able to report, the government says he died of complications from COVID. Brooklyn, who was at one point a political rival to longtime Nicaraguan president
Daniel Ortega in 2023, who was thrown in jail as the government conducted a broad crack down on dissent. In a statement, the Nicaraguan government said that he had a died of a bacterial infection caused by COVID, but his friend Carlos Hendi Thomas told NPR that he was in sick that
he was likely mistreated or tortured in jail, and he ended up in critical condition.
The U.S. State Department condemned regret as detention, saying the government was trying to hide his condition in jail. The repression, violence, and lack of humanity is abominable, the State Department said. Itapalta and Pyrenees were al-Hara. An explosion Sunday, a Northeastern, and Myanmar killed more than 45 people, including at least
six children, more than 70 others were injured. A number of houses near the blast site were damaged. The explosion occurred less than three miles from the Chinese border. His media reports say the blast happened at a site where large quantities of explosive used for mining were stored.
Young audiences took over North American box offices this weekend, turning out for two movies from YouTube creators, backrooms by Kane Parsons landed in first place in broad in an astonishing anyone $.5 million over three days, he cost just $10 million to produce, and obsession brought in 26.4 million dollars.
It's in its third week of distribution, and cost just around $1 million to make.
The latest Star Wars movie was in third, with $25 million dollars in ticket sales. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. Each story you hear on planet money starts with a question. What happens if we refund tariffs? Why are grocery so expensive?
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