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President Trump says in addition to Israel, his administration has been speaking to militant group Hezbollah, as he tries to end the conflict in Lebanon. "They called us and they said, "How about stopping?"
“And I think you're going to see things happen over there.”
That's been like a little bit of a different world, but it's interconnected with Iran. And it'd be really nice if Lebanon could have some peace." It's unusual for the U.S. to be talking with Hezbollah as it considers the Iran-Allide group to be a terrorist organization. The Israeli campaign in Lebanon has threatened Trump's efforts to end the Iran war and
reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Hezbollah rejected the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese government and demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
The Trump administration is announcing its providing $700 million for the nation's coal industry.
His MPR's Julia Simon reports the President invoked the Defense Production Act to keep dozens of coal plants open and build two new coal plants. Trump says that projects in Alaska and West Virginia will be America's first new coal plants built since 2013, and some of the $700 million would go to new coal export infrastructure. In his remarks from the Oval Office, Trump called coal a "clean energy source," but that
is inaccurate.
“Burning coal releases pollutants that cause smog and respiratory ailments.”
Co-production also releases planet heating carbon dioxide and methane. The Trump also repeatedly said that coal energy is affordable, but now, according to financial services firm Lizard, large-scale solar and wind projects are cheaper than energy from coal. Julia Simon and Pernus.
The Dow surged nearly one in three quarters of a percent today recovering from losses in the
previous session, but technology shares did not fare so well, and Piersofofil nom reports. For a while now, AI has been a hot trading stock market, but every once in a while investors get a little nervous, and they move out of tech stocks and into other sectors. That is effectively what happened when chip company brought com announced results that they set pointed investors.
Tech shares fell, but banks such as J.P. Morgan were big winners, while some healthcare stocks, such as United Health, rallied as well. As of result, the Dow hit a record close, but the tech have been asked at the end of the day with a small loss. Refundum in P.R. News.
“The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate eases this week from its highest level in nine months,”
mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell from 6.48% from 6.53% last week. The average rate remains below where it was a year ago, but higher than it was before the Warren Iran, when mortgage rates declined, they give home buyers more purchasing power. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Residents of Havana are dealing with a growing garbage crisis. Trash has been accumulating on street corners as U.S. energy blockade causes power outages and fuel crisis in Cuba. That's halted garbage collection forcing residents to burn waste in the streets. And citizens are trying to clean up neighborhoods and repurpose waste.
For decades, researchers have wondered how homing pigeons navigate using the Earth's magnetic field are a Daniel reports a team of researchers assert they may now have the answer. The scientists examine different parts of the homing pigeon. Certain immune cells in the bird's liver eat old red blood cells, which contain iron. The resulting bundle of iron atoms causes the immune cells to respond to a magnetic field.
In the researchers temporarily depleted these cells, the pigeons could no longer fly home under overcast conditions. But the ones with the cells intact could do it. And then I thought, well, my God, this could really be real. Martin Vickelsky directs the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.
He concludes these immune cells may act as a kind of internal compass. More researchers needed to see how such a magnetic signal may be relayed to the bird's brain. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. Los Angeles Angels, Wright Fielder, Joe Adele, reached up to catch a deep fly ball in
Anaheim on Tuesday, but the ball bounced off his head and over the wall.
The batter, TJ, rum field from the Colorado Rockies, stopped at second base initially.
After some brief confusion, it was ruled a home run. It was eerily similar to a play from 1993 when Oakland A Starhozy can sac a lost track of a long drive that bounced off his head for a homer. It's NPR. This week on the NPR Politics podcast.
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