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Fourth of July celebrations are getting underway in cities and towns across the country today,
“but a dangerous heat wave is forcing scheduled changes, prompting some cancellations and”
raising concerns about heat-related illnesses and PRs by and man reports. For a lot of Americans, like eight-year-old Logan Long's worth from New Jersey, this holiday is just about having fun. How I'm going to be celebrating the Fourth of July is, I'm going to like some firecrackers and stuff like that, and we also saw the statue of Liberty.
But people in much of the country are facing dangerous heat. An independent state parade scheduled per day in Washington DC was canceled. Many events have been rescheduled to start later to avoid the hottest part of the day. Fireworks have been banned in parts of the country because of high wildfire risk. Officials are warning the public to take lots of precautions, limit your time outdoors, bring
water, and stay in the shade whenever you can. Brian Man and PR News, New York. Republican lawmakers defended some health care providers that offer abortion under President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Lacked.
“His NPR, Salina Simmons, often reports that provision only lasted one year, and that year”
is now over. Under the provision, when patients enrolled in Medicaid came to plan parenthood and several other organizations for cancer screenings and annual exams, etc., Medicaid would not reimburse them for those visits. It's been a long-time goal of anti-abortion rights activists, and it was enacted for the
first time last July 4th, but only for a year because of Senate rules, which means
that now those organizations can bill Medicaid for non-abortion services again. There was pressure on congressional Republicans from anti-abortion groups to extend the defund provision, but with slim majorities and many other priorities, it didn't happen before Congress won on recess. Salina Simmons, Duffin, and PR News.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas says the Gaza Strip should remain central to any long-term ceasefire between Iran, the U.S. and Israel. His comments come as Tehran Hose, a belated funeral for its former Supreme Leader, who
“was killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes for months ago.”
NPR's Emily Feng reports. Speaking to a Hamas affiliated paper, "Havlet al-Kudumi," Hamas's representative in Tehran said he'd been reassured by Iranian officials that securing the rights of Palestinians was central to guaranteeing, quote, "genuine or lasting peace" in the Middle East. His remarks highlight the risk of a shaky U.S. and Iranian ceasefire collapsing.
Despite a preliminary ceasefire agreement with the U.S., Iran continues to stop ships from freely sailing through the straight-of-war moves, and the U.S. and Iran exchange strikes against one another just a week ago. The Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has also threatened to retaliate against Israel, as Israel continues to occupy much of southern Lebanon, Emily Feng and Pyrenees, Tel Aviv.
This is NPR. It was a nail-biter of a game, Argentina played, Cape Verde in the World Cup knockout round in one, three to two, but as NPR's Jasmine Guard's report, it was a tough battle. Argentina is the defending world champion, and Cape Verde was being hailed as a Cinderella story, the smallest nation to get to the knockout stage.
Cape Verde's defense was steely, Argentina struggled, and the game went into overtime, around 120 minutes played in over 90 degree heat, by the end, players on both teams were experiencing cramps.
Argentina's third goal came near the end of the game, they played Egypt on Tuesday, Jasmine
Guard's and Pyrenees Miami. The World Cup round of 16 continues today with two matches on tap, Canada faces Morocco this afternoon, followed by Paraguay taking on France. A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to immediately replace the slavery exhibit at George Washington's first presidential home on Philadelphia's
independent small. The city says it plans to appeal the ruling. Civil Rights Attorney Michael Cored says the exhibit should continue telling the full history of slavery at the site. "Well, we want is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to be told about
the horrors of slavery in Philadelphia under George Washington at America's first White House." The exhibit has focused on the lives of the nine enslaved people who lived and worked at the side while George Washington was president. The Trump administration plans to replace it with a broader exhibit on the founding
of the presidency. This is NPR.
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