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Israel launched its deepest ground invasion into Lebanon in more than 25 years, capturing
“a strategic mountain in the southern part of the country, and here's J.R.F. has more.”
The last time Israeli forces were this far into Lebanon was in 2000, at the end of an 18-year occupation, when they withdrew a mid-fighting with Iran-backed Hisbola. On Sunday, the Israeli military set a captured a mountain-top crusade or era castle. Now, the southern city of Nabatea, last week Lebanon's culture minister, said the castle had suffered a direct hit from Israeli strike.
Israel has sent tanks and troops into Lebanon, as well as launching hundreds of strikes a day, according to UN peacekeepers. Hisbola has fired back with a much smaller number of attacks on Israeli forces. It has recently deployed low-tech drones that Israel's Prime Minister has called a major threat, J.R.F. and Pyrenees Beirut.
President Trump is now set to kick off an event on the National Mall next month, as part of the celebration of America's 250th birthday, this after a number of musical acts pulled out. And here's Tamara Keith reports.
“The great American state fair is meant to be a two-week-long world's fair, complete”
with faires wheel. But as soon as the slate of nostalgic musical performers was announced, artists started pulling out, saying they didn't realize the association with Trump. Trump called them third-rate artists, and said they would be replaced with the "number-one attraction anywhere in the world," the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in
his prime. Trump even suggested making it a "maga rally." In a statement freedom 250 spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said Trump will now personally kick off the fair with an opening ceremony on June 24th, Tamara Keith and Pyrenees. "There's big news in cancer treatments, a new drug is proving much more effective than
standard chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, if here's you can goochie has more." The data is from a phase three clinical study on a drug called Diracx on Rassip.
It's a breakthrough in that it locks into pancreatic cancer cells in a clever way when
certain genetic mutations are present. Julie Graylow is chief medical officer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which publishes the most promising research during its annual meeting.
“She called the drug "the most innovative in terms of a new drug strategy and important”
in terms of immediately changing practice and offering a lot of hope." Though it is not yet food and drug administration approved, the agency is already expanded early patient access to it. You can goochie and Pyrenees." And you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Americans eat more than five pounds of shrimp per person every year on average, but as you Hawkins from the Gulf States Newsroom reports, seven shrimpers are getting squeezed by imported seafood and skyrocketing fuel costs. AC Cooper has shrimped the Gulf for more than 50 years. Now his boat sits tied to the dock in Port Sulphur, Louisiana.
He's taken a second job varying little rig workers to make ends meet. "You can't make enough money during this Trump season in order to make it all here. So we have to supplement our way of life." Diesel has spiked to over $5 a gallon. Cooper says he has to catch at least a thousand pounds of shrimp just to break even on fuel
costs. He says he hopes he can get back to shrimping to doing what he loves. Until then, his boat remains tied to the dock. For NPR News, I'm Drew Hawkins and Port Sulphur, Louisiana. At the weekend box office, back rooms, an indie horror film with internet origins took
the top spot with an estimated $81 million in its first weekend in theaters.
It's a small budget horror from a 20-year-old first-time filmmaker. In second place, another indie horror obsession with $26 million in their play Star Wars, the man did Lorian and Gormgo, which fell sharply in its second weekend, which is $25 million. All this as young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the weekend or the country this weekend.
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