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Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew a ceasefire.
The plan creates a number of what a joint statement calls pilot security zones inside Lebanon. Where Hezbollah militants would be banned. It's not clear how the zones would be created, but the agreement calls for the Lebanese army to take full control of those areas.
This week, Iranian state news agencies said Iran had stopped communicating with mediators brokering a ceasefire with the U.S. because of Israel's incursion into Lebanon. A bipartisan majority in the Republican-led house has voted to end the war with Iran, and Piers Claudio Grisali reports this was the clearest review yet of President Trump's handling of the conflict and the subsequent fallout.
New York Democrat Gregory Meeks helped force the vote to end the Iran war that's now 90 days in. He thanked the five Republicans who joined Democrats to get the war powers resolution over
“the finish line, where at the point, where you have to put people, the American people,”
over politics. One of those Republicans, Pennsylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick argued, once a conflict passed the 60-day mark, it violated the war powers act. I follow the law. People have a hard time being consistent around here.
They apply different rules to different presidents, different wars, different areas. The law is a law. For now, the vote remains symbolic, even if it were to pass in the Senate too, Trump would be able to veto it. Claudio Grisali's impure news, the capital.
The Senate is debating legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after weeks of delay.
It comes after Republican leaders stripped $1 billion in funding for White House security
in President Trump's ballroom that had been included in an earlier draft. But there are still concerns over a proposed anti-weaponization fund for Trump's allies, which acting attorney general Todd Blanch said yesterday was not moving forward, but Trump suggested
“today could be resurrected, Democrats and some Republicans have said they won't support”
the measures. Copper prices are near an all-time high in part because of the AI data center boom. That means copper wire theft has been on the rise too, as NPR's John Ruach reports. The phone company AT&T says it counted more than 10,400 incidents of copper wire theft last year, some 4,000 of which were in California.
In Northern California, this year, the company says the numbers are up sharply. AT&T West President Susan Santana says the company has been bolting down manholes, putting alarms and spans of wire hiring security guards and is even offering money for information that leads to arrests. The company runs a legacy copper wire network that she says serves only about 3% of its
customers. AT&T is hoping to shift customers to other options, although it says state law is holding it back. AT&T recently filed suit against California to be able to wind down its century-old copper wire network.
“Take away a big target of would-be copper thieves, John Ruach NPR News.”
Oil prices rose following the latest threats to the U.S. Iran ceasefire, this is NPR News from Washington. The U.S. government has granted a visa to Woodensky Pierre, the only member of ATEEZ national soccer team living in the Caribbean country. He was awaiting permission to travel for the World Cup.
teammates arrived last week to start preparing. This is only the second time AT is qualified for the World Cup. NASA is officially ending one of its Mars missions as Joe Palka reports the space agency lost contact with the probe called Maven in December last year. Maven is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volta Revolution.
The probe's mission was to help scientists understand why the Martian Atmosphere has largely
disappeared over the last three to four billion years, a change that turned the planet
into the dry, cold place it is today. The spacecraft has been collecting data and sending it to Earth since it went into orbit around Mars more than a decade ago, but last December a brief radio signal indicated the craft had suddenly started spinning out of control. That meant it was no longer able to point its solar panels towards the Sun, and that meant
the batteries went dead, making the probe inoperable. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka. A rare albino buffalo named after Donald Trump before its distinctive blonde tough is drawing a huge crowd at the National Zoo in Bangladesh's capital. The animal was saved from being slaughtered as part of a religious ritual of sacrifice
during the Eid Festival. The animal had been already sold, but after widespread public interest authorities refunded the buyer and kept it in the zoo, where it's now the main attraction. U.S. stocks retreated from their records today that dow dropped more than 1% the S&P 500 fell nearly three quarters of a percent.
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