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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is departing for the U.S. today, he'll meet
“with President Trump as uncertainty mounts over the future of the war with Iran and PR's”
Emily Fang reports. "Friction between Trump and Netanyahu has been growing. Netanyahu is being accused by his critics and his role of fracturing his relationship with the U.S. and failing to stop the U.S. from signing a nuclear energy agreement with rival Saudi Arabia last week.
The U.S. has also been pushing Israel to withdraw from land inside Lebanon that Israel has occupied this year. Trump has criticized Israel for continuing to strike into Mollash homes inside Lebanon after a ceasefire. Plus, another ceasefire with Iran last month was not popular in Israel.
A survey released this week by an Israeli-Think Tank finds Israeli's consider a nuclear Iran plus conflict within Israeli society as the two biggest perceived threats to their country. Emily Fang and Pyrenees, Tel Aviv."
“French President Emmanuel Macron is leading a crisis meeting from Paris today as wildfires”
continue to rage out of control in southwestern France. And PR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, summer camps and the region have been canceled and more than 200,000 people evacuated from their homes. The France, two TV news broadcast showed firefighters battling a wall of flames rushing through the forest. They described virulent, unpredictable and unstoppable fires propelled by
high winds and fed by a landscape parched by three consecutive heat waves this summer. The flames are devouring forest, farmland and villages just 20 miles from the southwestern city of Bordeaux. Many Bordeaux suburbs have been evacuated. The military has been mobilized to help the firefighters and European Union firefighting
planes and helicopters called in to assist the usual French Canada water skimming planes. Eleanor Beardsley and Pyrenees, a Muranoxois France. Main Democrats have a new candidate for the U.S. Senate. Troy Jackson was picked at a state party convention over the weekend.
“He takes on incumbent Republicans, Susan Collins.”
Jackson replaces Graham Platner on the ballot, who dropped out earlier this month after rape allegations which he denies. Main public's Steve Misler says Jackson was able to quickly consolidate support with politics similar to Platners. Democrats are hoping that his working class bonafides and populist style could matter in this
race. He's a logger who helped lead a high profile labor dispute more than 20 years ago that really launched his political career. And while his positions on social issues have changed dramatically over time, his pro-worker pursuits have not.
He and Democrats think that Collins is especially vulnerable given that big corporations and wealthy people are spending heavily to support her reelection. With less than 100 days till the general election, Jackson faces an uphill fundraising battle and Collins has a comfortable war chest as she runs for her sixth term. This is NPR.
A new survey finds three in four voters say the cost of childcare is a major problem. NPR is Jennifer Lutton reports it's among reasons affordability is a top issue this election year. For parents who pay for childcare, more than a third say it's one of their top two expenses. That's according to a poll commissioned by the first five years fund which advocates for
expanding early learning and care. Nearly half of parents say childcare challenges affect their work and it's not just them,
nearly 40 percent of all voters say they're affected when a college childcare is disrupted.
Nationally, there is a serious shortage of childcare and in many places it can cause more than housing or college tuition, a growing number of cities and states are committing money to expand free and subsidize childcare. They say their local economies depend on it, critics argue it drives up government spending. Jennifer Lutton and peer news, Washington.
World leaders and national politicians plan to attend the funeral services for the late Senator Lindsey Graham this week, tomorrow he'll be honored at a ceremony in the capital building where Graham served as a Republican for more than 30 years. Washington National Cathedral will host a funeral service in the afternoon. And on Wednesday, there is a second day of services in his home state of South Carolina.
Graham died July 11 at the age of 71. Among those attending tomorrow's funeral, Ukrainian President Volodamir Zelensky, but today
he is in England, the first world leader to meet with new British Prime Minister Andy
Burnham, since he took office a week ago, Burnham says the visit is to underline unwavering British support for Ukraine, it's NPR. We've just marked one year since Congress voted to eliminate federal funding for public media. NPR remains committed to informing the public, but a free press doesn't just happen in something we need to protect.
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