Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Iran says it end of talks with the U.S. because of Israel's continued invasion into Lebanon.
“This after Israel warned residents of South Bay route, said to be a stronghold of the”
Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group that they needed to evacuate ahead of planned air strikes. President Trump says he spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday telling him to stop bombing Lebanon. And here's Ayah Batrawi has more.
Keep in mind, both these men are facing elections this year. The Iran War is not popular in the U.S., but it does have broad support in Israel. And expanding the war in Lebanon derails those peace efforts with Iran. And Netanyahu put out a turh statement yesterday after his call with Trump that sounded like he was the one calling the shots.
He said he told Trump, Israel would bomb a route if his bullet doesn't hold its fire.
But Israel's position remains unchanged, and that the military will continue to operate
as planned in southern Lebanon. And here's Ayah Batrawi reporting. At least 18 people are dead, more than 100 wounded in Ukraine, following massive Russian air strikes overnight. From Moscow, and here's Charles Mainz reports, the attack comes days after the Kremlin warned
it would launch "systematic strikes" on Ukraine. Ukraine's Air Force says Russia launched more than 70 missiles and 600 drones, with several apartment buildings reduced to rubble in the capital Kiev in other cities. In a statement, Russia's defense ministry said it struck defense-related targets in response to what it called terrorist attacks by Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has seized on drone strikes on a college dormitory in occupied Luhansk last month that he says killed 21 students to justify more intense bombardment of Ukraine. Kiev insists it struck a military unit. Yet the apparent new phase in air attacks comes as Russia's own ground campaign is largely
stalled, and polls show growing public fatigue with the war, now in its fifth year. Charles Mainz impure news, Moscow. The number of children in the U.S. without health insurance is growing fast, according to a new report. Impure selenism and stuff and says the report found Texas, Florida, and Georgia accounted for
more than half of the increase. Parents know that young children have a lot of doctors appointments in their first three years.
“That's part of the reason why health insurance is so important during that time.”
This is Elizabeth Burak, senior research fellow at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. When they don't have access to the care that they need those early years, they're at higher risk of falling behind developmentally. She co-authored the recent report, which looked at data through 2024.
What we found is we are now at the highest level of uninsurance for children under the age of six and nearly a decade. There are signs that this trend is only going to get worse, and analysis by Burak's colleagues
found two million fewer children covered by Medicaid now than there were when President Trump
took office. Selenism and stuff and peer news, Washington. You're listening to NPR News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to testify before Congress this morning to present his department's annual budget request.
But lawmakers are also likely to focus on the Trump administration's diplomatic efforts around the world. Rubio today will sit before a house and a Senate committee, and it's the first time he's going before Congress, since the U.S. war and Iran started. Rubio has defended President Trump's decision to start that war, despite promising in
the past not to engage in "forever wars." Researchers are starting to understand how the brain identifies individual words that are spoken in sentences, and Pierce John Hamilton has more. 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 team studied brain activity as people listen to different languages. 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 findings suggest that the brain creates its own punctuation to help extract words from speech. John Hamilton and PR News U.S. features contracts are trading lower this morning.
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