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"Line from NPR News in Washington"

"Line Corps of a Coleman"

"House Law Makers at Pastor Resolution"

"Limiting President Trump's War of Powers in Iran"

"For Republicans joined the Democrats to adopt the measure" "90 days after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran" "New York Democrat Gregory Meek says not much has changed" "Since President Trump launched the war" "They still hack that I told them"

"just these younger" "They still have weapons" "And the spread of hopelessness closed" "It's not clear if the Senate will pass the war" "For power's resolution, but if it does"

"President Trump is expected to veto it" "Israel and Lebanon said yesterday they agreed to renew a ceasefire" "that has not quite taken hold" "But today Israel issued new warnings" "and southern Lebanon that it would continue attacking"

"Lebany stayed media"

"Say Israel has fired multiple artillery and air strikes this morning"

"President Trump says he intends to nominate Todd Blanche to serve" "As he is permanent, U.S. Attorney General" "And PR's Carrie Johnson reports" "The president is offering praise for Blanche" "Once served as Trump's personal lawyer"

"The president told an audience in the Rose Garden"

"Tod Blanche has been doing a great job" "Since he took over his acting attorney General in April" "Blanche once defended Trump against criminal charges in Florida" "New York and Washington, D.C" "And if the top of the Justice Department"

"He's Trumpeted indictments of the president's perceived foes" "including former FBI director Jim Comey" "And the southern poverty law center" "Blanche has been promoting a wide scale investigation" "and a possible conspiracy"

"by former intelligence officials" "another top priority of the White House" "And recent weeks, Blanche signed papers" "that would give Trump and his companies" "a immunity from IRS tax audits"

"Carey Johnson and PR news, Washington" "The nation is facing new health threats" "like haunt of virus and Ebola" "but many stayed in local health departments" "of less power to protect the public from outbreaks"

"than they did during the COVID-19 pandemic" "and PR's Rob Steing as the story"

"All the lockdowns school closures, mass mandates and vaccine requirements"

"during the COVID pandemic" "angued many Americans" "as a result" "many states placed new restraints on some of their authorities" "to respond to outbreaks"

"some imposed limitations on the power to declare public health emergencies" "others pulled back powers to impose mass mandates" "require vaccinations" "or restrict public gatherings" "many public health experts worry"

"the changes combined with budget and staff cuts" "leave the nation more vulnerable" "Rob Steing and PR news"

"The U.S. agriculture department says it has confirmed the first finding"

"of the new world's screw-worm fly in Texas in decades" "the larvae of the flight can eat the flesh of livestock" "this could threaten the nation's cattle industry" "on Wall Street stocks are higher" "the Dow Jones industrial average"

"is up nearly 780 points" "you're listening to NPR news from Washington" "A New York state judge hearing the upcoming trial against the alleged killer" "of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson" "closed a hearing yesterday"

"the press and the public were shut out" "of Luigi Man Gianni's pre-trial hearing" "judged Gregory Caro said he sealed it" "at the request of the defense" "he gave no other reason"

"cored hearings aren't supposed to be public" "the Pentagon says the U.S. has conducted another deadly strike" "on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific" "to alleged drug traffickers were killed" "the Trump administration does not provide evidence of their links"

"to drug trafficking" "water officials from California, Arizona, and Nevada" "have agreed to explore selling Colorado River" "water across state lines" "drowned heat and a record low snowpack"

"have cut the river supply" "from Emperor station KPBS, Katie Anastas reports" "Millions of people rely on Colorado River Water" "water officials signed a memorandum of understanding" "to kick off efforts to sell Colorado River Water across state lines"

"The San Diego County Water Authority" "has added to its water supply by desalinating sea water" "Dan Dunham is the water authorities general manager" "he says that could allow the agency to leave" "some of its Colorado River Water in Lake Mead"

"for other states to buy" "Navada can take it through their intake" "at Lake Mead" "or it can travel south through the central Arizona project" "into the communities of Phoenix, Tucson, etc"

"The next step is for water officials to negotiate prices" "and other terms" "For NPR News and Katie Anastas in San Diego" "You're listening to NPR" The surreal horror film "Backrooms"

"is a smash" "the director is a 20-year-old YouTuber" "and it's based on his popular web series" "Why is this online phenomenon taking off at the box office?" "We get into it on NPR's pop culture happy hour"

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