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The U.S. and Iran are continuing to trade a tax for the second day, leaving the fragile
ceasefire agreement in limbo.
“The Pentagon says the U.S. hit more than 170 targets in Iran over the past two days,”
Iran says it fired at U.S. targets in Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Ambassador Nicholas Burns, who served in President George W. Bush's administration, unleashed negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, says the U.S. has faced many challenges in dealing with Tehran. "They suffered through it.
They didn't flinch. We're dealing with an exceedingly difficult and often very on-trust where the government in Tehran, and it appears to be a government that's divided. There seems to be one faction that does want to ceasefire of the United States, but the stronger faction is defiant."
Speaking there, two NPR's all things considered. A new study, published in Jama, finds that the number of people who died at the hands of
“law enforcement has grown significantly in the past couple of decades.”
And as NPR's reto-Chaturgy reports, young black men between the ages of 18 and 29 had the highest mortality rate of all groups. The researchers used mortality files from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. They found that there had been nearly 12,000 deaths caused by law enforcement officers between 2003 and 2024 that included 270 children.
Anual deaths of adults at the hands of law enforcement, more than doubled in that time period, for children aged 17 and under the annual deaths jumped by nearly 5 times from 8 to 37. Nearly 90% of all deaths were caused by firearms. However, the researchers note that deaths by law enforcement are under-reported and their analysis may be underestimating the real toll, treat-thu-chaturgy and PR news.
600 people have now died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to Africa CDC, in total more than 1,700 people have gotten sick, and here's Jonathan Lambert reports. Two new suspected Ebola cases were reported in Kiss and Johnny, nearly 500 miles west of the hardest hit atori province.
If confirmed, that'd bring the total number of affected provinces to four. In a press conference, he highlighted some good news, for instance, more than 2,000 Ebola tests are being processed each day.
“But health officials are still struggling with contact tracing, which is key to slowing down”
the outbreak. Ideally, nearly all new cases would come from known contacts, but right now, only about
a third of new cases are, underlining the virus's unchecked spread.
Jonathan Lambert and PR news. In men's World Cup soccer, France, meet Morocco, two-nil today, reaching the semi-finals, France plays the winner of the match between Spain and Belgium that takes place tomorrow. This is NPR. The head of the Smithsonian is defending the institution after a White House report accused
the National Museum of American History of being driven by a "radical activist ideology." If here's Anastasia Silucas has more. The Trump administration's Domestic Policy Council issued a 162-page report on July 4th, accusing the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., of telling a story of, quote, "regret, tragedy, and shame."
In response, Lonnie G. Bunch III sent a memo to Smithsonian's Staffers, which NPR has obtained. In that email, Bunch said this Smithsonian's work is, quote, "driven by scholarship, accuracy, and an uncompromising commitment to tell the fullness of America's story." According to the Smithsonian's charter, all of its museums, 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo, are meant to be run independently of the federal government, Anastasia
Silucas and PR News, New York. The former Olympic canoe racer, pleaded not guilty in D.C. Superior court today to charges of deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. David Heron faces a felony counter-property destruction. Prosecutors say he deliberately pulled off part of the peeling pool liner, but he says he
just put his hand in the water to examine the peeled liner.
President Trump ordered a multi-million-dollar renovation of the pool, but it has faced issues
including algae and that peeling liner earns attorney says it's a concocted narrative. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington. Fram Platner is out. On the latest NPR politics podcast, we are unpacking the downfall of a candidate once seen as a standard bearer for Democrats.
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