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troops have captured a strategic mountain in the south of the country, including a castle built
“by the Crusaders. This follows days of intense fighting and airstrikes in nearby villages”
between Israeli and Hezbollah troops. This is Israel's deepest ground invasion into Lebanon since 2000. The war with Iran is now in its fourth month, with no clear indication it will be resolved anytime soon. NPR's Tamar Keith has more." On Friday, President Trump announced he was heading into the situation room for a high-level meeting about the potential deal "to make a final determination." He was there for two hours and we still don't know what he decided.
Over the past two months there have been many threats from President Trump and claims of a deal being near, then last week he said he might not even sign the deal unless Gulf Arab states like Qatar signed the Abraham Accord, normalizing relations with Israel. NPR's Tamar Keith, last week of federal judge reopened President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS, over Alika was tax returns for further investigation. She had questions about a settlement that
among other aspects, created a fund to compensate people who say they were wrongly targeted in
the federal judicial system. Today, Mike Pence, the vice president in the first Trump administration,
said it was a bad idea from the start. "Let's get rid of this fund." I mean, it's deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted
“police officers or vandalized the capital on January 6. And I think that's broadly held by”
most Republicans and most Americans." He was interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press. Amy Gertner has responded to reports that her husband, Graham Platner, exchange sexually explicit texts with other women. Platner is running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maine. She posted a video that said no marriage is perfect, but they have a great marriage.
Officials have recovered the 11th and final victim of a major tank rupture at a paper bill
in Longview, Washington. Joni Odin-Lan from Oregon Public Broadcasting Reports. "The Cowlits County Corner read aloud the names of all 11 victims, as the huge paper mill loomed in the background. Family members of the latest identified victim, Norman Barlow, watched from behind a fence. His sister, Cindy Bickford, said she wants more safety protocols put
“in place. "This is not right. We don't want to be a victim. You need to do something here.”
You'll prevent this from happening ever again." The disaster occurred when a large tank full of dangerous chemicals suddenly collapsed. Officials say they can now intensify their investigation to the cause. Now that all victims have been recovered. For NPR News, I'm Joni Odin-Lan in Longview, Washington. "This is NPR News in Washington. At least 46 people were killed in an explosion
in northeastern Myanmar today. dozens more were wounded. It happened near the Chinese border in an area controlled by an armed ethnic rebel group since it launched a major offensive against the military in 2023. Officials say the building was storing explosives for mining. A sonic boom shook parts of the northeastern 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 residents 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 north-east Massachusetts and Southeast New Hampshire. Meteors actually happen all the time. We just don't see them. Most of Earth is uninhabited. This one flashed over a densely populated area. Even Rarer,
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 PR News. Environmentalists are cheering relative newcomers to the Venetian Lagoon flamingos. The pale pink birds nest in Spain and France, and begins 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. Every episode of its Venetian Lagoon is what's happening in culture podcasts. Starts by asking three questions. Who? How? Why now? If the culture is asking it, we're talking about it. At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious and indulge your cultural curiosity. Follow its Venetian Lagoon wherever you get your podcasts and we'll break down the
