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The UN Secretary General is urging Israel and Hamas to follow through on a peace plan
“and says Syria needs more international help to recover from its long civil war.”
And as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports, he says the world also needs more diplomacy." Just back from a trip to Syria, Jordan and Cyprus, Secretary General Antonio Guterre stills reporters that there's one message that's impossible to ignore. The region and the world cannot afford more war. Guterre says the war in Iran is driving global instability upending energy in food markets.
He's calling for return to diplomacy. The only good news in recent days the UN chief says is a Trump administration announcement that Hamas and Gaza will disarm and Israel will withdraw as part of a plan announced last year. Now there's a road map and the UN chief is urging all sides to follow it.
Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. Shevron today reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. While Exxon and Shell also did well, the news comes as problems shipping crewed through the straight-up for Moose Continue.
“And Paris Camilla Dominozki says the profits for the oil giants were huge.”
"If you take Shell Exxon and Chevron together, these are the three big oil companies that
reported this week, combined they made $444 million in profit every day for the last quarter."
For Shell, these are the second highest quarterly earnings ever, Exxon doubled its profits compared to this time last year. And this is even though Shell and Exxon in particular have operations in the Middle East that are damaged or paused because of the war, but the high price of crude has more than made up for that.
That's NPR's Camilla Dominozki with our report. A federal judge today rejected an emergency request to halt a new Minnesota ban on AI technology that generates a realistic nude image of someone without their consent. Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson reports. A federal judge in St. Paul denied a request from Elon Musk's company ExAI to block
the law set to take effect on Saturday.
“It would ban so-called "neudification" technology.”
The company argued the law violates its first amendment rights and those of its users in
Minnesota. They sought a preliminary injunction. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison defended the law, saying it passed with near-unanimous support, and he said that while it would ban the tool that depicts people naked without their permission, there would be exceptions for artistic expressions and satirical images.
The court will hold a hearing on the motion challenging the law on August 19th. For NPR News, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul. Alex Rose on Wall Street today, the S&P 500, climbed 7% that Dow added half a percent of the NASDAQ composite, jumped 1%, Amazon's sword after delivering a stronger profit for the spring than Alice expected.
This is NPR News. Migrant children who came to the U.S. alone could soon face immigration court without legal representation. The Trump administration has allowed a contract with legal service providers for the children to expire, the contract's afforded help for about 20,000 children, and providers warn
that children will be more likely to be deported, and they say the government is with held payments for more than six months. Florida's attorney general is warning Catholic schools to update their religious exemption policies when it comes to vaccines as Cathy Carter of member station WUSF reports. The AG says not doing so could mean losing eligibility for state scholarships.
The attorney general says he's learned that some Catholic schools don't recognize that religious exemption is valid because the church does not view vaccines, including those developed using historical cell lines from a boarded fetal tissue as intrinsically evil. Many Catholic school students in Florida pay intuition with help from the state's voucher program.
In a statement, the conference said church leaders are reviewing the letter and that Florida Catholic schools are operating in accord with the law and church teaching. Both Myers says he expects a response within 10 days. For NPR News, I'm Cathy Carter in Tampa. The world governing body of soccer is dropped its controversial plan to sell stakes in
the World Cup to private investors, including the brother of President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. FIFA's presidents said the plan would strengthen the soccer programs for smaller member stations, but many countries expressed concern about the ownership plan. The dozens of countries said they would boycott the World Cup if the plan moved forward.
I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News Zendaya and Tom Holland are back in Spider-Man brand new day and the movie has a more grounded tone than we've seen from the franchise, but does it strike the right balance of fun and darkness? We'll talk about it on NPR's pop culture happy hour.
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