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"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiewone.

Violence continues in Gaza despite President Trump's announcement of what he called a break

through agreement for Hamas to disarm.

The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli strikes killed 152 Palestinians in July, including

21 children and PR's Honest Baba has more." Israel continues to bomb across Gaza while expanding the territory under its military control to more than 2/3 of the strip. Those separations have continued even as U.S.-led efforts focus on securing a lasting ceasefire, Hamas disarmament, and a new administration for Gaza.

The latest Israeli air strike before tone Saturday hit medication warehouses. Israel's military says there were houses stored rifles without providing any evidence. The Gaza Health Ministry says two warehouses were destroyed while the blast also damaged

more than 2/110 children displaced family nearby.

The ministry says more than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the U.S.-backed ceasefire reached lost October. And a snowball and PR News goes a sec.

The U.S. State Department is urging American citizens to leave the Middle East saying

a significant escalation of attacks involving Iran and its allies is expected across the region in the coming days. Recent Trump is not pleased that federal prosecutors are dropping their case against a suspect accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. U.S. Attorney Janine Piro has now determined the pool's problems originated in shabby construction

work, and PR's Tamar Keith as the tail. So, claimed with vivid detail that there was a gash cut in the waterproof coating, and it was 250 feet long, 350 feet long, 300 yards long. The length of it kept changing. The interior secretary backed him up, arrests were made, all for the government to then admit

in last night's filing that it was, quote, "the result of flawed installation by the contractor at Lantic Industrial Codings," former Olympian David Hurns' case has now been dismissed.

The Trump administration is proposing changes to banking regulations to help community banks

and PR's even Bessaha reports. The more likely regulators were proved profitable mergers in acquisitions.

In 2020, Ford, the law encouraged about $170 billion in affordable housing and local infrastructure

lending. That's according to the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders. The group says the new rules would reclassify about 800 banks as small, so they would no longer need to follow those regulations. And that would likely lead to lower investment in rural housing, where those banks are often

located. Federal regulators say the proposed loosened rules will lower the burden on community banks. Steven Bessaha and PR news. This is NPR. In southern Europe, containment of one wildfire threat has allowed about 200,000 people to

go home in southwestern France, emergency crews have managed to pull back on fire threats and Spain and Portugal, as well, although fires persist elsewhere, including in other parts of France and Greece. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced it will honor John Galiana with a major exhibition at its high-profile Medgala next spring.

NPR's Chloe Veltman reports this submits the controversial British fashion designers come back. John Galiana joins Yves Sanohar and Rey Kawakubo of Komsigal-Song as the only living fashion designers to ever be the subjects of solo shows at the Met. This, plus the Met Garlo, come 15 years after Galiana was arrested and fired from his creative

director, Robert Christie and Yor, for making anti-Semitic comments at a Paris bar. He eventually rebuilt his reputation at Miss or Margilla. In a statement on social media, anti-deformation league CEO Jonathan Greenblad said he understands why some Jews may question the Met's decision to celebrate Galiana, given the growth of anti-Semitism in recent years.

But he also said he applauded the design as efforts to, quote, "repare the damage his words caused." Chloe Veltman and Piano's New York officials have sued prediction market platform Kalshi, for potentially billions of dollars calling it an illegal unlicensed gambling operation. As the state seeks to halt its operations and force the company to forfeit profits, New

York joins a growing number of states filing lawsuits against Kalshi and against other companies. "I'm Louis Kivori, and PR News," Washington. But that's not what they were designed for. We look at the risks.

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