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The U.N. 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.”
He says the world needs more diplomacy as NPR's Michelle Kalman reports. Just back from a trip to Syria, Jordan and Cyprus. Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez tells reporters that there's one message that's impossible to ignore. Region and the world cannot afford more war.
Gutierrez says the war in Iran is driving global instability upending energy in food markets. He's calling for a return to diplomacy. The only good news in recent days the U.N. 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 U.N. chief is urging all sides to follow it. Michelle Kalman and PR news, the State Department.
“After Dr. Anthony Fauci's contentious Senate hearing earlier this week, experts worry”
that Republicans pursuit of the retired federal infectious disease researcher could further a road trust in public health. Here's NPR's Ari Daniel. Public health officials say that declining confidence in their field may make people more vulnerable to current pathogens and future pandemics, leading to more illness and injury.
Mr. George's Benjamin, who heads the American Public Health Association, says his colleagues need to be able to provide educated and evidence-based information to lawmakers. We can't be tanked by a fear that if we say something, those do something to destroy our careers and maybe put our lives in this. Benjamin adds that those considering a career in public health may end up having second
thoughts in light of the recent attacks on Fauci and sweeping cuts to federal programs. The Trump administration wants taxpayers to pay millions of dollars in reimbursements for security around its 250th anniversary celebrations, and appears a reachable treatment reports.
The Department of the Interior is asking Congress for $10 million to cover what it says
are elevated security costs for three events on the National Mall. A prayer event in May, the Great American State Fair, and the Fourth of July fireworks. Congress already allocated $150 million to event celebrating America's milestone birthday. Most of that money went to freedom to 50. The White House backed group behind the high profile events in DC.
The group has not disclosed how much money it raised from donors. Democrats say freedom to 50, not taxpayers, should cover the additional costs. The group has more events planned for August, including in IndyCar Race near the National Mall. Rachel Treesman and PR News
New York officials are suing prediction market platform Calshy calling it an illegal, unlicensed gambling operation, a growing number of states are suing prediction market companies, year listening to NPR News from Washington. 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.
"Thanks to President Trump, we flipped the food pyramid and put real food accurate belongs at the center of the American way." 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. The U.S. State Department is apologizing for mislabeling all six countries it named
on a map of Africa on a slide at a global AIDS conference this week, and PR's Kate Bartlett and Johannesburg has more. Coast on Nigeria is landlocked, Mozambique has been transported from Southern Africa to the Horn of Africa, and Ivory Coast has shifted from West Africa across the continent to East Africa.
Those are among some of the errors on a state department's slide that was part of a presentation at an AIDS conference in Brazil. Right as news agency said its analysis found evidence the slide had been made using artificial intelligence. The state department apologized for the quote "unfortunate error and confusion caused."
On social media, former state department officials and some Democrats blamed substantial
personnel cuts at the department during President Trump's second term for the Bungle,
Kate Bartlett in PR News, Johannesburg. "Swallows of sargassum seaweed are blanketing the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, suffocating shorelines
“and snuffing out marine life is the first time so much sargassum has been in the Caribbean”
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