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The U.S. military says it's struck various rigdars and drone launch sites near the
straight-of-formu's and recent days. U.S. Central Command says these attacks came in response to Iran shooting down a U.S. drone operating over international waters. Over the weekend, President Trump said the U.S. and Iran are close to a peace deal. But State Department spokesman Tommy Pigut told NPR's morning edition that there is
not yet a deal. "The President has been very clear he wants to see a good deal here, and the President describing over the weekend that we are close to a circumstance in his belief of having a deal.
“But we're not going to have a deal that doesn't address some of the important parameters”
the President has outlined from the beginning."
Pigut pushed back on Republican concerns that the U.S. might unfreeze Iranian assets as part of an agreement and said there will be no exchange of money over the short term. U. Crane targeted oil and gas infrastructure in several regions of Russia over the weekend, the attacks of the latest and a growing campaign of Ukrainian strikes on Russia's energy industry that key calls long-range sanctions from Moscow NPR's Charles Mayans reports.
U. Crane said its drone struck an oil refinery in the Russian city of Saratov, some 500 miles to the southeast of Moscow, with local governor confirming damage to civilian infrastructure. Importantly authorities in Russia's southern, crossed into our region said a drone struck a large fuel depot causing a massive fire, months of Ukrainian attacks of degraded Russia's oil export capacity by some estimates up to 40%. Yet the attacks also appear to be taken
at toll on domestic consumption, the Kremlin back government in occupied Crimea announced rationing of petrol on the peninsula with social media users reporting long lines of cars outside gas stations.
“The same technology used to produce COVID vaccines is behind a new advance in skincare cancer”
treatment, and PR's Allison Aubrey reports a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds a messenger RNA vaccine can be very effective at preventing a recurrence of melanoma when used in combination with an immunotherapy drug. Scientists used mRNA technology to create a personalized immunotherapy for melanoma patients who are at high risk of having the cancer come back and spread.
Dr. Janis Mayner of NYU is one of the authors of the new study. After five years of follow-up, 68.8% of patients who took the combination therapy remained cancer-free. In addition, 92% of patients who received the personalized immunotherapy were still alive at the five-year mark, a significant reduction in the risk of dying from melanoma.
Each year, about 112,000 melanomas are diagnosed in the U.S., it can also spread to organs including the brain and lungs. Melanoma experts say this is a landmark advance and how high risk melanomas could be treated, Allison Aubrey and PR news. This is NPR News.
Opposition to AI data centers is growing in many parts of the country, where some residents worry about environmental and quality of life impacts, and PR's Windsor Johnston reports
“supporters argue the facilities are essential to powering the next generation of technology.”
residents in several communities say they're worried about noise, electricity demand, water use, and environmental impacts that AI data centers could bring. Terry Clower with George Mason University says some of those concerns are not supported by evidence. It almost reminds me of the stuff that we used to hear about cell phone towers in the
1990s. We were all going to become X-Men because we were radiated or, you know, we had brain cancer from using our cell phones, and it's just become almost hysteria in some cases now.
Clower says AI data centers are becoming critical infrastructure for technologies like artificial
intelligence and cyber security, but says that communities need facts to weigh the trade offs. Windsor Johnston and PR news. Melasia has begun enforcing its ban on social media accounts for children under 16, starting today platforms like Facebook and TikTok must implement age verification systems
or face fines. It's part of a global push to create online guardrails for young users. Australia, Brazil, and Indonesia have created similar bands. Rescue workers in Laos are searching for an alternative way into a flooded cave where two people have been trapped for nearly two weeks.
Heavy rain has made the main entry impossible. Five of the seven people initially trapped have been rescued. This is NPR. 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.
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