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Israel and the militant group has below in Lebanon, announced a ceasefire today, but
the fighting hasn't stopped.
“Lebanon says at least 47 people, including children, were killed in Israeli strikes today.”
Israel says for soldiers died as troops pushed further into southern Lebanon. This after Iran postponed today's planned talks on the U.S. Iranian ceasefire deal. Before Republican lawmakers have blasted that deal, and Aliyah Shainlin, a political adviser, based in Tel Aviv, says, "It's not good for the U.S. or Israel." The current memorandum of understanding is extremely vague.
It stops the war before Israelis believe the goals have been accomplished. I mean, it's not just a matter of belief. The aims Israel and the U.S. that out had not been accomplished, and it's opening the pathway for an agreement that looks very poor from Israeli perspective.
So there's a lot of confusion and disappointment and fear.
Speaking there to NPRs here and now, for Iran, she says the country has much more leverage now, because it showed the world that its control of the Strait of Hormuz gives Tehran considerable bargaining power. Researchers are calling on the Trump administration to revoke a new ban on a certain type of data-privacy protection at the Census Bureau.
And here is Hansi Lewan, has more.
“Federal law requires a sense of spirit of key people anonymous in its statistics.”
The Trump administration has been one of the main ways of bureau has done that, adding what's known as statistical noise to make certain data fuzzy, especially data about local areas and minority populations who could be easy to identify. And a statement, Congress Department spokesperson, Chris and Icomer, says the indiscriminate use of noise infusion has undermined confidence in the department's products and casted
out on their integrity. Icomer did not respond when NPR asks for examples. Beth Jaris of the Association of Public Data Users is concerned the ban comes with little explanation. It takes the public out of the process.
It takes the experts out of the process. This feels very much like a political choice. The Census Bureau took down multiple pages about data privacy protections from its website on Zila Wong and Fjarnese.
“At least 159 service members have the flu to our hospitalized and made a flu outbreak at”
Lockeland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies has more. San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro confirmed the spike in cases in a social media post. He also said one recruit from the 37th Training Wing died this week from a medical emergency, but it's not clear at this time if that was directly related to the flu.
Military medical personnel are isolating and treating trainees who show symptoms and monitoring those who may have been exposed. Two months ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsef ended mandatory influenza vaccinations for military personnel. Castro was calling that decision reckless and has requested a full investigation into
the outbreak and the training's death for NPR News on David Martin Davies in San Antonio. You're listening to NPR News. The Pentagon says the U.S. military attacked and alleged drug smuggling boat in the Pacific yesterday, killing three people. It's the latest in the months long campaign by the Trump administration against suspected
drug traffickers in Latin America. The both strikes have drug criticism from Democrats and military legal scholars who say they amount to extra-traditional killings and senators are demanding that the Pentagon released the un-edited video of the strikes. This latest attack brings the number of people killed in boats by the U.S. military to at least
211. Two baby giraffes who went missing for more than a year have been found safe and appears Amy Held reports the owners of a 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,
world wide more than a half million animals are held at un-acredited 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 PR News.
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