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The Department of Homeland Security, a abandoning plan to use a Georgia warehouse as an

ice detention center, it would have been one of the largest such proposed sites in the nation.

Grant Blankenship of Georgia Public Broadcasting has more. The warehouse in the city of Social Circle was slated to detain as many as 10,000 people tripling the city's population. The city said its water and sewer infrastructure couldn't support that. Now the Georgia District of Public and Congressman tells the city the plan for their

warehouse is dead. Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock also worked with the city to oppose the plan and credits popular resistance for the outcome. It's clear to me now that this White House and this administration viewed social circles concerns is nothing more than a thorn in their side.

Warnock says he's yet to confirm reports that DHS is selling almost all the ice warehouses. MPR News, I'm Grant Blankenship.

Abortion providers say they'll offer medication abortion to mazerians for the first time

in years.

The decision comes after a judge in Kansas ruled that many current abortion restrictions

violate that state's constitution. Seraphant of member stations St. Louis Public Radio reports. State voters in 2024 approved an amendment that put the right to an abortion in Missouri constitution. The state's plan parenthood affiliates soon sued to strike down dozens of restrictions

governing the procedure that they say violated the new law. In the meantime, providers resumed some abortions but said the rules made prescribing medication abortions impossible. The new ruling found rules such as a 72 hour waiting period and a rule that requires tissue to be sent to a lab after an abortion are now unlawful under the new amendment.

The state's attorney general says she'll fight to appeal the decision to the state's Supreme Court. Mr. NPR News, I'm Seraphantum in St. Louis. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says another round of talks between Israel and Lebanon

will be held next week in Washington, D.C.

This will be the fifth round of direct political talks between the two sides. They will take place at the State Department and PR's Jackie Northam pants more on our story. Secretary Rubio held a phone call with Lebanese President Joseph Ayun during which he reiterated the need to disarm the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and re-established control over

all Lebanese territory. That's according to a State Department readout of the conversation. Hezbollah has in the past rejected any piece deal between Israel and the government of Lebanon. Rubio also stressed that bilateral negotiations between Lebanon and Israel represent the only feasible path to ending recurrence cycles of violence.

Meanwhile, Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire after intense fighting threaten to derail fragile peace talks between the U.S. and Iran, Jackie Northam and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News. A six-month-old girl from the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo was buried on Friday.

She had died earlier in the week from Ebola.

She was the third child from the same orphanage to die from the disease over the past several

weeks. There are now 894 confirmed cases from the outbreak, and so far there have been more than 200 deaths. This outbreak is now three times worse than a previous one in Uganda back in 2000. The U.S. men's soccer team won two nil against Australia in Seattle today is the

loss of member-station KNKX spoke with some of the fans who turned out to watch the match. 18-year-old Apigilali was thrilled. She watched the game with her family in Seattle Stadium. "It was a electric, it's filled with USA fans, there's no similar experience like it when everybody is just chanting really loudly." Although the match was disappointing for Australian fans, it was still an experience to

remember for people like Jim coming. "I've lived in Seattle for 35 years waiting for this day, Australian business U.S." The next match in Seattle is Wednesday between Qatar and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the next game for Team USA is against Turkey on Thursday in Los Angeles. For NPR News, I'm Iziross in Seattle.

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