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Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group agreed to halt heavy fighting in southern
“Lebanon that had threatened to unravel an interim agreement between the U.S. and Iran”
to extend a ceasefire. Just before that, in Israeli-airstrike killed two paramedics in southern Lebanon. And here as Jawad Rizkullah has more. "Jamil Bittar, a paramedic, said he arrived at the site of an earlier strike in Habbuz on Friday morning.
After an earlier team at Rescue 3 survivors, a second strike then hit the area, killing
his two colleagues, rescue operations were halted due to continuing air strikes, and the bodies of the two paramedics were later recovered. Bittar also said the family of six, including three children and an infant, remained trapped under the rubble. The UN says Israeli air strikes in March 2 have killed at least 130 refers to responders.
Israel had no immediate comment on the deaths. Jawad Rizkullah and Piyan-Yuz Beirut." President Trump says the preliminary agreement between the U.S. and Iran is holding,
“even though Vice President Vance's expected trip to Switzerland to engage in talks today”
was postponed. "And now we have an agreement that was signed last night, and at 60 days have to make a deal.
Otherwise, we will do things that won't make them happy, but I don't think it's going
to get to that. I think it's going to be very good." President Trump also praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after earlier this week criticizing him and Israel for its attacks in Lebanon. Yesterday, Vice President Vance warned Israeli politicians not to take American support for
granted. In association representing thousands of reproductive health centers is suing the Trump administration, its members say the White House is trying to change a program designed to provide access to birth control, and Piyan-Yuz Selina Simmons' Duffin reports. The program is called Title 10.
“It was signed to a law by President Nixon, and for five decades, it has helped fund free”
birth control for millions of patients. This spring, the Trump administration issued an unusual call for Title 10 funding. "The word contraception is mentioned exactly once in the 60+ page document." That's clear, Coleman President of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
She says, "Applicants face new political alignment rules." If you're required to follow the Title 10 regulation and you're required to follow the President's executive orders on anti-GEI and anti-gender ideology, we think it's impossible." Coleman's group sued asking the federal judge to block those requirements. Selina Simmons' Duffin and Piyan-Yuz.
Juneteenth celebrations have taken place throughout the country today, parades, concerts, and community gatherings to mark the day more than two years after the emancipation proclamation. When enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned that they were free. This is NPR News, live in Washington. Scientists say they found the oldest known traces of the plague in prehistoric teeth, and
PR's Nate Roth reports. At international team of researchers, we're doing a genetic analysis of ancient human teeth found in southern Siberia when they found a surprise. DNA belonging to the bacteria that causes the plague. The 5,500-year-old bacteria was different from later versions that caused the black death
in Europe millennia later, but the study's lead author, Rowing the Cloud, and anthropologists at the University of Oxford, says its existence in hunter-gatherers changes a long-held theory. The theory was that we shouldn't see major devastating outbreaks of its disease at effect in power communities until the neolithic until we have this farming revolution.
When people started living in closer quarters, this new finding, he says, shows dangerous pathogens can affect people in all social structures. Nate Roth and PR News British Prime Minister Kier-Stormer says he will fight to stay in office. He's expecting a challenge from inside his own party from Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater
Manchester, who won a seat in Parliament in a special election yesterday. Stormer said today that he will not walk away and will run if a leadership contest is triggered. In Oak Tree, that was between 800 and 1200 years old and linked to the legend of Robin Hood is believed to have died.
The major oak in Sherwood Forest did not sprout leaves this spring, tourism, climate change, and damage from past attempts to save it likely contributed to its demise. The tree will remain a national monument, a natural monument rather, and will continue to support the Forest ecosystem, its NPR. This is our class, on this American life, when they me like, it's a good mystery, sometimes
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