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The U.S. has been intensifying attacks and for American service members have died in the last week as Empire's Quil Lawrence reports.
“The President's statements over the past five months have sometimes been ignored or quickly walked back like his suggestion to put a U.S. toll on traffic in the state of Hormuz or they've been contradictory.”
Like ceasefire deals being dead, but also still under negotiation and many Democrats on the committee pointed out that whatever rationale for the war, as it evolves, none of these have landed well with the American people, certainly not well enough to understand why Americans are dying, albeit in relatively small numbers, but these are young soldiers who have died over the weekend. >> You know, private Isabella Gonzalez was just 19 years old. >> NPR's Quil Lawrence reporting, President Trump says he's directing his administration to allow U.S. airlines to fly commercial flights from the U.S. to Lebanon directly, it comes after Trump met at the White House with Lebanon's president and appears deep a shiver on has more.
>> Trump announced the news in a post on social media and says he hopes other countries will also allow direct flights into Lebanon.
The timeline on when those flights would be Greenland is unclear. It would be the first time in 40 years the route is available.
Trump's push for direct flights into Lebanon comes as the Trump administration issued guidance on Monday to all Americans abroad to quote exercise increased caution. >> The State Department said Americans should reconsider travel to and through the Middle East. Deepish Ivoram and PR news the White House only about one in eight nurses in the U.S. are men, but efforts to make the profession more gender neutral are taking hold, helped along by a favorable job market and appears address shoe reports. >> With nurses in high demand, the University of Alabama at Birmingham has worked for years to bring more men into its nursing school.
“Faculty there also know that in some cases male patients respond better to health care workers who look like them.”
Nursing student Connor Adderholz says it was seeing how nurses tended to his grandmother after a stroke that cemented his desire to become one himself. >> It made me realize like this is what I want to do like to deal with these tough situations that people have to deal with to be that calm in the storm. >> Good news for students the Labor Department projects steady job growth for nurses over the next decade and the jobs pay well. >> The national median wage for registered nurses tops $90,000 a year and reissue and PR news.
>> New Jersey's governor says about 6,600 people who indicated they were non citizens were nonetheless registered to vote in the state because of an error. >> Democratic governor Mikey Cheryl says it took place between 2023 and 2024 before she was in office, Cheryl says fewer than 400 of those people ended up casting ballots. >> This is NPR.
“>> The U.S. Center for Safe Sport has begun making public announcements of people placed on its disciplinary database.”
>> It's a move designed to increase transparency and bring more attention to what the center believes is one of its top tools to fight against sex abuse. >> The center will now share weekly updates about people added to the list. >> Oklahoma paramedics have responded to at least 29 suspected heat-related illness calls in the state's two biggest cities already this week. >> Sierra Fipher from Immersation KOSU reports. >> Many Oklahoma's are braving a week of triple digit temperatures as a high pressure heat dome traps hot air in the region.
Local first responders issued medical heat alerts in Tulsa and Oklahoma City after metrics treated 13 people with suspected heat-related illnesses in just one day.
>> Adam Paluca is a spokesperson for the state's largest emergency medical service. >> He says Oklahoma first responders are accustomed to operating in the heat, but paramedics are prepping for more temperature-related calls. >> The heat is undefeated against those who are prepared and don't take it seriously. >> He says the state's crews are ready as high temperatures persist. >> For MPR News, I'm Sierra Fipher in Oklahoma City.
>> Powerball ticket sales of the United Kingdom begin today, allowing people there to compete for the same jackpots as Americans. >> It's the first time a lottery outside the U.S. contributes to the Powerball jackpot. >> U.S. lottery officials say the expanded player base will help jackpots grow more quickly.
>> The odds of winning remain one in 292.2 million.
>> This is NPR. >> The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note the 16-year-old left in the family's garage. >> He told me you've no make me cry. >> Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there.
>> I need some a ref me, just as for my son.
