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of a harsh response of Israel, does not halt its attacks in Lebanon.
“Israel continues to strike the Iranian-backed militants' Hezbollah, despite a tentative”
deal reached between the U.S. and Iran. And beer's A.A. Batroy has more.
Iran's revolutionary guard says Israel's violated the ceasefire and southern Lebanon
84 times in the past two days. But warned in a statement, Israel should expect a "harsh response" if it does not end its war against Hezbollah. Iran says the agreement with the U.S. set to be signed Friday, states "attacks on Lebanon will be halted."
Iran also says it views any continued Israeli occupation of Lebanon as a violation of this initial agreement. Israel says its forces will remain in southern Lebanon for as long as necessary. Hezbollah's attacks at Israel have killed 23 soldiers and two civilians.
“He is authorities say Israel's attacks have killed more than 3800 people, hundreds of”
the women and children, and displaced more than a million.
A.A. Batroy and Pyrenees, Cairo. President Trump has been talking about the tentative agreement with Iran at the G7 Summit in France. The G7 leaders released a statement praising Trump's "strong leadership on the issue," even though no text of the potential agreement has been publicly released.
The G7 leaders also called for an additional diplomatic agreement to bring peace and stability to the Middle East. President Trump says he's delaying a hearing for his nominee for the Director of National Intelligence, and Pyre's Franco-Ardonius reports that's because Trump wants to force Congress to approve his far-reaching voter ID bill.
President Trump says he wants Congress to link the expansive voting bill, which Democrats and some Republicans oppose with a more popular measure that extends federal surveillance powers, FISA, and a lengthy post-Trump accused Democrats of re-nigging on an agreement to renew FISA in exchange for nominating Jay Clayton to serve as the Director of National Intelligence, instead of Bill Polty, who has been in the acting role.
Lawmakers from both parties oppose Polty serving in the role, he's known as an ardent supporter of Trump and has little to no experience in intelligence, Franco, Ordonius, and Pyrenees, Evian, France. Results from yesterday's primaries and runoff elections are still coming in.
“One key race is in Washington, D.C.'s Democratic Mayoral Primary.”
Reported role, Bolly says a winner has not yet been declared. "There's a lot of attention to this race because Mayor Murrell Bowser is leaving after 12 years. The Democratic primary includes a Democratic socialist that's Janice Lewis George who's on the city council. President Trump has threatened to have the federal government takeover if she's elected right now Lewis George's leading. That's ranked choice voting
there so the votes are still being counted." "Oh, Bolly reporting. You're listening to NPR. The Justice Department is accusing 15 people of violently impeding federal immigration officers this year. In Minneapolis, it happened during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Federal prosecutors claim the people stock agents and use ice blocks to slow down convoys. The defense attorneys have
said several similar cases brought by the government have been dropped. The two greatest soccer players of the past two decades are embarking on what will likely be their last FIFA World Cup. MPR's William Jones reports." An emotional, Lionel Messi wiped away tears as he opened the scoring for Argentina against Algeria last night. He'd go on to score three, becoming the joint top scorer in men's world
cup history. Today sees the tournament arrival of the other greatest player of their generation, 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo. Simon Cooper, who authored World Cup FIFA, explains how the Portugal forward has remained at the pinnacle for so long.
Ronaldo always lived like a monk, does hundreds of push-ups every day.
And in terms of Messi's longevity, it became so serious they pretty much went vegan during the football season. If Ronaldo follows Messi with a goal, he'd be the first ever player to score six successive World Cups. William Jones and P.R. News The National Hurricane Center says a tropical disturbance off Texas's Gulf Coast is too disorganized to be named a tropical storm but forecasters warn up to ten inches of rain could fall from
Texas and Louisiana into Mississippi and Alabama. This is NPR. "This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes about really big things. But most times, the little mysteries are the best. Our lost and found is currently filled with pants. I don't know what I've never seen this happen. This is true." Mysteries of every size, each week, this American life, wherever you get your podcasts.
