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President Trump says a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw
“its forces from Gaza, but his NPR's Frank Lankfit explains many hurdles, conditions,”
and long timelines remain to wind down the war in the Palestinian territory. The President said Hamas would totally disarm. They give up their weapons and is that was concluding then its rarely forces would begin to pull back from parts of Gaza 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, Edom 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 2023.
NPR's Frank Lankfit reporting, California, Nevada and Arizona will soon be facing steep water cuts from the droughts stricken Colorado River, NPR's Kirk Sigler reports a new federal plan released by the Trump administration, mostly targets three of the seven states in the River Basin.
“The Colorado River is facing its most severe drought conditions on record due to climate”
change. Under this new plan, as expected, major cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas and countless Southern California communities could be forced to cut their river water used by close to 100
billion gallons every two years.
The Trump administration for now is only targeting those three states for mandatory cuts, states in the upper Colorado River Basin, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado are being asked to make voluntary cuts. This plan is likely to end up in cord with lower basin farmers and cities likely targeting the upper basin, where cities like Denver depend on the River Water but also aren't located
anywhere near it and pipe its water in. Kirk Sigler and Pior News The long legal battle to erase the debts of nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers is coming to an end, NPR's Cori Turner reports. The class section suit centered on a federal rule known as "barred defense."
“The rule allows borrowers to ask the U.S. education department to erase their debts if a”
school ripped them off by lying about things like job prospects or salary after graduation.
Advocates filed the suit in 2019 when the first Trump administration delayed discharging loans
for defrauded borrowers. In 2022, the Biden administration settled, but the current Trump administration asked the courts for a delay making good on that settlement. A July ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit told the department "no more delays."
When finished, the settlement will have discharged the debts of some 450,000 borrowers. Cori Turner, MPR News The Trump administration is dropping its case against a former U.S. Olympian who was accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C. and a court filing the Justice Department says that damage was caused by flawed work performed by a contractor, Trump
hired the company to coat the pool with what he called American flag blue liner. This is NPR News. Ukraine continues to target wild berries, Russia's largest online retailer over a dozen wild berries depots have been struck by Ukrainian drones since July 18th, observers say it's part of a strategy to make Russian citizens feel the consequences of the war.
Ukraine alleges the retailer supplies gear that can be used by Russia's military, although the Kremlin denies it. A film production company is suing Netflix after an unencrypted master hard drive containing the unreleased World War II spy thriller "Fortitude," starring Nicholas Cage, was stolen from the streamer's office, and PR's Chloe Valtman reports.
According to the Federal Court filing, the British production company behind Fortitude delivered the unencrypted drive containing a screen of the movie to Netflix's LA offices in mid-June for internal review. 10 days later, a Netflix executive notified the filmmakers of the theft of several hard drives including the one containing Fortitude.
The production companies lawsuit alleges the theft severely compromises Fortitude's commercial viability and distribution value in a statement to NPR Netflix says it, quote, "Despits any claim that it bears the risk of loss for a film delivered without the proper industry standard safeguards and that it is investigating the theft." Chloe Valtman and PR news.
Missouri voters are deciding on a measure that could make it much harder to amend the state constitution. Future amendments proposed by citizen initiatives would have to pass in all eight congressional districts, not just by a simple statewide majority. No other state has such a high-standard, supporters say it ensures all voices are heard,
the critics argue it undermines majority rule. This is NPR news. "Wilin, it seems like everything is being called a recession indicator these days." "Yeah, like the box of hamburger helper in my pantry." "Or the new Apple Neo book?"
"Or the resurgence of press on nails, or lipstick, or no lipstick, I've lost track." "There is only one way to know if these are actual economic warning signs, though. Listen to the indicator from planet money on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts."
