"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nor-Rom.
The Israeli military said today its troops have captured a strategic mountain in the south
“of the country, including a castle built by the Crusaders.”
It follows days of intense fighting and air strikes in nearby villages between Israel and inspezbelat troops. This is Israel's deepest ground invasion into Lebanon since 2000. Iran has said it once a deal to end the fighting in Lebanon as part of an overall agreement to end the war in the Middle East.
The unrest has meant higher gas prices because of the shutdown of the straight-up or moves. Kevin Hassid is director of the White House National Economic Council. He says prices will come back down. "Energy prices are high and they're high around the world.
Gas prices are high.
That's extremely frustrating.
And it's something that we're working on doing lots of different things to minimize the disruption. And hopefully, again, the problem of the Gulf will be overshoot and then things will go back to normal." It was interviewed on ABC.
“Detainees are suing ICE, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon for what they claim are human”
rights abuses at the US facility in El Paso, Texas, and PR's Kristen Wright reports. The lawsuit describes inhumane treatment, including physical violence, squalid conditions, and a lack of medical care. It claims detainees with serious medical conditions like tuberculosis and HIV are denied, timely access to medication.
A Homeland Security spokesperson called the allegations categorically false in an email to NPR and said ICE detainees received comprehensive medical care and are not beaten or abused. Three people have died at Camp East Montana since the Trump administration opened it last year, as part of its immigration crackdown. One death was ruled a homicide.
There was a measles outbreak at the facility earlier this year. ICE's own inspectors have found violations of detention standards. Question right, NPR News.
Questions remain about what the entertainment line-up will ultimately look like for this
summer's America 250 celebration in the nation's capital.
“Several performers have withdrawn amid concerns the events are becoming political.”
NPR's Windsor Johnson has more. Interior Secretary Doug Bergen was asked by CNN about the decision by some artists to withdraw from the celebration. "I can't wait into the politics and musicians because some musicians want to play music for everybody in some musicians seem to have segmented their audiences the same way politicians
have." Several artists including Martina McBride, young MC, and the Commodores 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. Mr. Johnson and P.R. News, Washington. This is NPR News in Washington. A sonic boom shook parts of the north-eastern U.S. this weekend, including in the Boston
area, NPR's Amy Held reports of fireball was seen in the skies. Just after 2 p.m. on Saturday, it hit. Rattled Residence posted video to social media wondering where the boom came from. Turns out, some 40 miles above, a meteor, that's a space rock that enters our atmosphere and burns up in a fiery flash.
NASA says this one appears to have fragmented above northeast Massachusetts and Southeast New Hampshire. Meteors actually happen all the time. We just don't see that most of Earth is uninhabited. This one flashed over a densely populated area.
Even Rurer, it was visible midday. NASA says it came in at an estimated 75,000 miles per hour. When it broke up, it released the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT. The American Meteor Society says people reported sightings from Maryland to Montreal, Amy Held and P.R. News.
Colombia is holding a presidential election today. The incumbent Gustafo Pedro is barred by the constitution from running for reelection. The race is shaping up as a referendum on his policies. Pedro, a former member of a guerrilla group, has entered into peace negotiations with the country's remaining rebel groups.
Environmentalists are cheering relative newcomers to the Venetian lagoon, flamingos. The pale pink birds nest in Spain and France, and began showing up in Venice, Italy, in the early 2000s. They're now flocking there in record numbers. Scientists say this is a sign of the lagoon's health instability as a feeding ground.
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