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There has been a pause in attacks between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend.
“The U.S. says the halt is giving space for potential negotiations, and P.R.s.”
J.N.R.F. has more. The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz told NBC the pause as meant to give, quote, "talks some space." Iran was a bit more reticent, foreign ministry spokesman, Asma'il Barahi, said mediators were exchanging messages, but there were known negotiations with the U.S. going on, and Iran had not requested a return to talks.
And while Iran has paused attacks in Jordan and the Gulf, most of the maimed at U.S. bases, its Yemeni allies have not. Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck Saudi oil assets over the weekend to reinforce their
control over a second shipping lane, Babam Mendeb.
The U.S. Secretary-in-Arath, and P.R. News, among. Main Democrats have nominated Troy Jackson as their candidate for U.S. Senate. Jackson is a longtime state lawmaker who served as president of the Main Senate and a former logger.
“He was picked in a Democratic convention process this weekend to replace Graham Platner, who”
dropped out of the Senate race after facing rape allegations which he denies. Main public's Steve Missler says Jackson was able to consolidate support because his politics mirror Platner's. Jackson will face incumbent Republicans, Senator Susan Collins, who's running for her sixth term. The Senate is in town for one more week before a long August recess and the Republican majority
has a lot on the agenda, much of it needs Democratic support to pass. NPR's Congressional Reporter Eric McDaniel has details. Funding to keep the federal government open past November elections after two record-setting shutdowns since Trump took office, one trillion one hundred billion dollars in Pentagon cash.
The Chambers de facto 60 vote threshold to pass most legislation means that the 53 Republican senators will need a hand from at least some Democrats to get the bills across the finish line.
“Democrats on eager either to grant more money for Trump's immigration enforcement agenda or”
his unpopular Warren Iran, one that's never been approved by Congress as the Constitution
requires. And Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, came into the confirmation process with a tailwind, he expected bipartisan support. But his equivocation on Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories are Democrats. Republicans can confirm him on a party line vote, though Eric McDaniel and P.R. Newswashing
Clinton shares of Chinese chipmaker CXMT sword in their Shanghai trading debut, making in the most valuable China-listed company. Its chips are used in AI servers and consumer electronics such as smartphones. This is NPR News Live in Washington. A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics finds that one in five teens and young adults are turning
to AI chat bots for mental health advice, up by a 40% since the past year. But mental health care experts say that these chat bots can pose risks to vulnerable individuals, especially those in suicidal crisis. NPR's Ritu Chattergy reports "General News Chat bots like chatchipiT and Gemini, one design for mental health support, but people are turning to them anyway, even in the midst
of serious mental health crises. There have been several cases where vulnerable individuals have died by suicide after prolonged interactions with chat bots. While chat bots are a convenience source of support, connection to other humans is what protects people from suicide, says psychologists Ursula White's side.
She runs a suicide prevention on profit called now matters now." "If I'm with other people, I'm less likely to kill myself. If I'm building a relationship, I'm less likely to kill myself." Ritu Chattergy and P.R. News The Pentagon has changed how its reporting American Iran war deaths, making it more difficult
to account for the war's toll. The four troops killed during recent renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran are no longer listed as part of the Iran War death toll on the Pentagon website, instead they've been replaced and they've been placed rather in a new separate category called overseas operations. That means telling work casualties requires looking at separate lists.
France's President Emmanuel Macron has called a crisis meeting as uncontrolled wildfires rage in his country, more than 250,000 people had been forced to flee their homes. I'm Libby Casey, this is NPR News in Washington."
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