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President Trump praised his administration's war against Iran today, and signaled it

will likely continue for some time, Trump expressed frustration with negotiations after

the country's resumed, exchanging fire following a law in fighting. "I'm losing faith in them because they do lie and do the new mess we're presenting." "Well, the other day I defied missiles we shot, we knocked them down, but we were in the minutes of the negotiations." In a statement, press secretary Caroline Levitt says, "Aran will continue to pay until

they come to the table in what President Trump deems a meaningful way." President Trump says a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, and PR's a frank length that explains hurdles remain. The president said Hamas would totally disarm. They give up their weapons, and as that was concluding, then its rarely forces would begin

to pull back from parts of Gaza, and now within hours.

Hamas official told NPR, Israel would have to withdraw first before he gave up any weapons.

Now this evening Israeli minister of national security, Edam Mar Bengear, he called the agreement

unacceptable. He said Israel must be allowed to continue to target Hamas fighters. Otherwise, Hamas could regroup, prepare to attack Israel again, as it did back in October 7th of 23. "NPR's frank length at reporting, FIFA scrapped a plan to sell stakes of the world

cut to private investors, and PR's Raphael Nam has the story." In a statement, FIFA President Johnny Fentino acknowledged the project had created too many divisions. Under the plan unveiled in Tuesday, FIFA would have created a separate company to handle all commercial operations involving the world cut and other tournaments.

Even more controversially, FIFA said it would also sell stakes to minority investors. But U.S., which represents European members, threatened to boycott the world cut, saying

soccer should never be for sale.

FIFA top advisor Carlos Cordero quit on Friday to protest a plan, while the organization's

chief operating officer, Kevin Lamor, sent the statement to the Associated Press, also strongly opposing the project, Raphael Nam and PR news. Officials in Arizona are criticizing a new federal plan for sharing the Colorado River from Member Station KJZZ, Alex Hager reports. Arizona's Democratic Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly say the new plan would place

an unfair burden on those states, Governor Katie Hobbs called the steepest cuts unacceptable. The State Department of Water Resources says they could devastate Arizona's economy. Officials are pushing the federal government to adopt a counter-proposal that would limit those cutbacks by about half for the next two years. Arizona, California, and Nevada are volunteering to reduce their take from the river to make

the plan work. More details about the exact size of cuts for 2027 and 2028 are expected soon. They're likely to hit cities in the Phoenix area of the hardest, and many utilities have robust backup plans to keep taps from going dry. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager and Phoenix.

It's NPR. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a cooking show. He says is all about teaching Americans how to cook healthy and expensive meals. In January, Kennedy unveiled new dietary guidelines placing fruits, vegetables, proteins and fats at the top of a new inverted food pyramid and grains at the bottom. Google has removed a tool that let users create AI-generated satellite images.

NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports many experts feared it could be used to spread misinformation. The tool on Google Earth was removed just a day after it was unveiled. That unveiling cost an out-crime on journalist's open source investigators and human right-tech visits to use Google Earth to verify events all over the world. Many were horrified by the new tool, which allowed users to generate AI versions of real satellite images with the click of a button.

NPR was easily able to generate imagery depicting a U.S. attack on Iran and the flooding of the capital building. Neither of them happened in real life. The company said it removed the new tool because people were sharing imagery that quote appears to violate our policies. It said it's working to develop stronger guardrails. Jeff Brumfield and PR news.

Swoths of Sargasm C. Wheat are blanketing the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, suffocating shorelines and snuffing out marine life.

The University of South Florida's optical oceanography labs is 27 million metric tons of Sargasm have been recorded.

The first time so much Sargasm has been in the Caribbean and Gulf, this is NPR. This message comes from the Date Line Original Podcast, Date Line, Missing in America. Each episode explores an unsolved disappearance where one new tip could make all the difference. Search Date Line, Missing in America to follow now.

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