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Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire.
“That's according to a senior U.S. official who declined to be identified.”
The conflict in southern Lebanon became a major sticking point in peace talks between the U.S. and Iran, with Tehran insisting that any broader agreement addressed the violence there. P.R.'s Rob Schmitz reports negotiations between the U.S. and Iran in Switzerland were caught off today.
After the two sides had announced a preliminary agreement this week." Here we are in Switzerland waiting for a peace deal across this beautiful alpine lake from me here in Lacer and the Swiss government has taken a range of security measures to host this event. And there are hundreds of journalists here to record it, but for now, Iran's Foreign Ministry
said the signing ceremony is off. The White House said a statement that the plans for the upcoming technical talks have not been finalized. And either side is here, they're threatening to strike each other, and this agreement appears to be on very shaky road.
And some P.R.'s Rob Schmitz reporting from Laceran. The Barack Obama Presidential Center opens to the public in Chicago today, and P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports the 19-acre campus is expected to draw visitors from around the world. "I got a chance to visit the center and walk through it earlier this month, and any really does like that concert event capture the vibes of the Obama years as if the past decade
never happened, but Obama said he doesn't see it as a time capsule."
The exhibits in the center are not meant to evoke nostalgia for some gauze-bygone era. He's an unattainable past that we can dream about, and say, "Oh, we miss you, Barack." He's at he wants to remind visitors of what's possible. M.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reporting from Chicago. The first flu vaccine that uses the same technology as the COVID-19 shots has taken an
“important step toward a possible approval, and P.R.'s Rob Stein has more.”
The flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology won the endorsement of a key food and drug administration advisory committee after a day-long meeting. The FDA's vaccines and related biological products advisory committee voted unanimously that the benefits of the mRNA flu vaccine appear to outweigh any risks for adults, age 50, and older.
The fit of the vaccine is being closely watched because mRNA technology has been both clarified and vilified in the wake of the pandemic. The FDA usually follows the advice of its advisory committees, but health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a vocal critic of vaccines, especially mRNA vaccines. Rob Stein and P.R. News.
This is N.P.R. An investigation into two baby giraffes who went missing for more than a year has ended on a happy note they were found safe.
“P.R. S.A. may help reports the owners of Virginia Zoo, though, are facing animal cruelty”
charges. At six feet tall and well over 100 pounds newborn giraffes stand out. Still too vanished in April 2025 from Virginia's Natural Bridge Zoo. The state attorney general's office said this week they found them. They did not say where.
The zoo's owners and staff had been charged with animal cruelty, accused of abusing dozens of animals, underfeeding and crowding them which they deny, worldwide more than a half
million animals are held at unaccredited wildlife attractions.
A new Virginia state law aims to protect those animals. Inspired by the baby giraffes, the law bans early separation from mothers. These, as yet unnamed, young giraffes have a new home at a conservation park in Georgia. Their mothers are there too. Amy Held and P.R. News.
Elizabeth Arnold, an award-winning MPR, correspondent who covered presidential politics, Congress and the environment has died. Arnold began her journalism career in Bethel Alasca before moving to Washington to cover presidential campaigns and other national stories for NPR. She later returned to Alasca where she taught journalism, an avid Fisherwoman, runner and
hardly Davidson writer Arnold maintained "deties" to the state throughout her life. Her family says she died from complications of cancer, Elizabeth Arnold was 66 years old. This is NPR News. This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery.
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