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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's sending a delegation to the United States
“to make sure Israel's position is heard as negotiations continue between the US and Iran”
to find a permanent end to the war. Israel's ongoing fighting with Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and southern Lebanon has become a major sticking point in the talks. NPR's carry-con reports. Speaking to reporters Netanyahu says he wants to make sure Israel's position that Iran
cannot have future nuclear capabilities is front and center. Israel was not invited to talks between the US and Iran, nor did it sign on to the memorandum of understanding the preliminary proposal to end the war. Netanyahu said, "We weren't party to the agreement, but we have interests, and we will express them."
While Netanyahu backs a deal between Israel and Lebanon to end fighting there, he does
not back in Israel with Thrall until Hezbollah militants are disarmed. Hezbollah's leader says that won't happen until Israel leaves Lebanon, and he rejected
“the US broker, Dio, which the militant group was not a party to.”
Carry-con, NPR News, Tel Aviv. US representative Julia Letlow has won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana, handing President Trump a political victory after he endorsed her bid to replace Senator Bill Cassidy. "I am also so incredibly feel gratitude for the greatest President of this country.
It's ever had President Donald K. Trump!" But low-defeated state treasurer John Fleming in Saturdays run off after both advance from the May primary, Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump at his 2021 impeachment trials spent the past year trying unsuccessfully to fend off a Trump-back challenge. Investors on Wall Street will be watching for an update on the US job market during the
holiday short and trading week, and PR Scott Horsley reports. "Before they fire up their independence day, barbecues, traders will take the temperature of the US labor market, employers added an average of 188,000 jobs a month in March, April and May.
“Forecasters think "June's hiring pace might be a little bit slower, but still strong enough”
to keep the unemployment rate in check." We'll find out on Thursday when the Labor Department delivers its monthly jobs report, average wages were up 3.4% for the 12 months ending in May. That was not enough to keep pace with rising prices. The new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Worses promised to restore price stability.
He set the take part in a panel discussion with other central bankers in Portugal on Wednesday. Scott Horsley, in pair of news, Washington. Hot dry weather and strong winds are fueling dangerous wildfire conditions across parts of the Western US. The cottonwood fire and southern Utah has scorched more than 92,000 acres.
This is NPR News. 80 years after it was born in post-war Italy, the Vespiscuder is still turning heads, and this weekend, thousands of riders have descended on Rome to prove it. They arrive in the summer heat like a cloud of wasps, zipping past and red, sky blue, and classic medical green.
Around the Coliseum and back again, flags fluttering everyone grinning. "It's a lifestyle, you go a little bit slower, you enjoy life a little bit more." Said Houston writer Greg DeLong, who's been on his Vespiscour for 25 years. Born in Tuscany in 1946, the Vespiscuder wasp in Italian, they post-war Italy cheap stylish wheels, whose appeal went global when Audrey Hepburn wrote on one in the 1953 movie "Roman
Holiday." 80 years on, the wasps are still buzzing. For NPR News, I'm Megan Williams in Rome. Legendary comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks is celebrating his 100th birthday today. Within the 1995 comedy, Dracula dead and loving it, Brooks offered a line that still holds
up. "I still got it." The Oscar Emmy Grammy and Tony Winner helped redefine American comedy with classics including the producers blazing saddles and young Frankenstein. Brooks says he was born to make people laugh, a mission that has spanned more than 70 years.
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