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The Trump administration says it will abide by a court ruling that paused a $1.8 billion
“fund to compensate alleged victims of the federal government.”
The fund was to be created as part of a settlement between President Trump and his own justice department, Democrats, and even some Republican lawmakers were reluctant to support it. And President Trump says Israel and Hezbollah plan to de-escalate their fight in southern Lebanon, Trump says he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, and
PR's a deep-a-shiver on hezbollah. Netanyahu had ordered Israeli troops to target areas surrounding Beirut, but now Trump says after his call with Netanyahu, there will be no troops going to Beirut, and that any Israeli troops on their way, quote, "have already been turned back." Trump says he also spoke with representatives from Hezbollah.
Israel's increased aggression against Lebanon, which violates the ceasefire agreed on weeks
ago, has complicated ongoing talks to end the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran.
Iran pulled out of negotiations after Israel's attacks on Beirut. Trump says the talks are continuing with Iran, though, and moving at what he calls a "rapid pace." Deep-a-shiver on and PR news.
“The number of teens and young adults turning to AI chat bots for mental health advice”
jumped by nearly 40% in the past year, that's according to a study in JAMA Pediatrics as NPR's Retube Chattergy reports nearly 20% of those aged 12 to 21, say they turned to chat bots for mental health advice. In 2025, nearly one in eight adolescents and young adults said they were turning to AI chat bots like chatjipiti, Claude, and Gemini for advice when they felt sad, angry, nervous,
or stressed. Now, one in five young people say they do the same. More than 40% of those individuals said they do so at least monthly or more often. And in majority of teens said they don't tell anyone about the use of chat bots for mental health advice.
The researchers recommend that parents and healthcare providers ask youth about their use of chat bots for mental health needs, so they can correct any inaccurate information that may be presented by chat bots, and raise awareness about the risk of relying on general use chat bots for mental health advice. Retouchatogy and PR news.
“Hundreds of people took to the streets in Kenya today, protesting U.S. plans to set up”
an Ebola quarantine facility there, like a colloquie has more. protests witnessed in the central town of Nanuki, with local media showing police engaging demonstrators in running battles. Many businesses remain closed. Protesters called on the Kenyan government to block the United States from setting up
an Ebola quarantine center, at an air force base located in the area. The White House had said last week that the U.S. was establishing a facility in Kenya where Americans who had been exposed to Ebola would be quarantined, adding that those exhibiting
symptoms of the disease would be moved to a third country.
A Kenyan court later temporarily suspended those plans for NPR news and Michael Calokey and Nairobi. This is NPR news from Washington. Several states are extending bar hours during the World Cup, Kansas, Missouri, New Jersey, and Washington have approved measures for later alcohol sales, and Pennsylvania bars can
stay open until 4am during the World Cup and America's 250th Anniversary celebrations. Researchers are beginning to understand how the brain identifies individual words and spoken sentences and PRs at John Hamilton reports. When we listen to a familiar language, we hear words. But Dr. Eddie Chang of the University of California, San Francisco, says it's different
when the language is unfamiliar. One of the reasons why a foreign language sounds so fast is that you can't hear the pauses between words because there aren't many. When we speak, one word just bumps into the next. So Chang's teams studied brain activity as people listen to different languages.
When it was the person's mother tongue, the brain produced a special signal between each word. But in an unfamiliar language, that signal disappeared. The binding suggests that the brain creates its own punctuation to help extract words from speech. John Hamilton and PR news.
New York City mayors Iran-Mundani, signed in an executive order today, allowing kids to stay up to watch the next take on the San Antonio spurs and the NBA finals. There is our mayor's order, repealing kids' bedtimes, who here was alive in 1999. That was the last time the next made the finals, the roster featured Patrick Ywing and Nick Brunton, father of current Nick Jalen Brunton.
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