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"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.

President Trump says U.S. attacks on Iran will stop for now because of a potential deal

that would immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz, in a social media post-Trump said he

was asked to hold off an attacks by Iran and other Middle Eastern nations. Trump has in the past announced a number of other peace deals that eventually fell apart. Violence is continuing in Gaza despite President Trump's announcement of what he called

a breakthrough agreement that has Hamas disarming and Israel withdrawing.

The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli strikes killed 152 Palestinians in July, including 21 children. And Paris Anasbaba reports from Gaza City." 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. lit efforts focus on securing a lasting ceasefire, Hamas disarmament, and a new administration for Gaza. The latest Israeli earthquake, before tone, Saturday, hit medication warehouses. Israel's military says the warehouses stored rifles without providing any evidence. The Gaza Health Ministry says two warehouses were destroyed, while the blast also damaged

more than 210 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, Anasbaba and Pyorniyus Gaza City. In Spain, the death toll has reached 67 people after tens of thousands of Moroccan's tried this week to cross into the Spanish enclave of Saita. M.P.R.'s Miguel M.S.S. reports from Sivil.

The expansion to the minister's post today and said the army had been mobilized and things

were under control in 24 hours, basically.

The ministry also said it's begun installing a 500-meter long floating barrier to stand to see what separates Saita and Morocco. Many of the migrants entered Thursday by swimming around the brickwater in the major area. And according to the government, most of the 50 to 60,000 people who enter the country

have gone back to Morocco. At least three people are dead and two injured after a shooter open fire at an in-and-out

restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, Saturday afternoon, Boise State Public Radio's James

Dawson as more. When Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks says he believes the threat to the community is over, with the suspected shooter found dead nearby, but that it isn't immediately clear how he died. At a press conference, Hicks described the scene as very chaotic.

"We have literally hundreds of people that weren't suddenly shaped before me in the area of this restaurant at the time, that are being interviewed right now." The shooting took place in Twin Falls, busiest commercial area, with police shutting down roads in a nearby bridge, which is the city's only access to Interstate 84. A Twin Falls city spokesperson says he expects the death and injury count to rise as the

investigation continues. For NPR News, I'm James Dawson and Boisey. And you're listening to NPR News. 11 police officers were injured early Saturday morning and a bombing in Colombia, police dog was also killed.

Government officials are blaming the attack the nation's largest remaining rebel group. The attack happened along the country's border with Venezuela, where drug gangs and rebel groups fight over smuggling routes. Police say the explosion came from a truck left outside a police headquarters. The metropolitan museum of art announced Friday, it will honor John Galliano with a major

exhibition at its high profile met Gala next spring, and Pierce Chloe Velpin as more. John Galliano joins Yves Senorra and Rey Kawakubo as the only living fashion designers to ever be the subjects of solo shows at the met. This, plus the met Gala, come 15 years after Galliano was arrested and fired from his creative director, Robert Christie and Yorra, for making anti-Semitic comments at a Paris

bar. He eventually rebuilt his reputation at Missile 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 Galaiano, 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 Velpin and Pian use. Both the Big Ten and the Southeast Conference have agreed to support a Senate bill that would regulate college sports.

The bill had been at risk of dying until some concessions were made over language on third-party

name, image, and likeness deals, known as NIL. The measure still needs 60 votes in the Senate before debate on that measure can be ended. I'm Dale Wilman and you're listening to NPR News. On our weekly politics series, if you can keep it, the focus isn't the horse race but the stakes.

Your part of the conversation Mondays on the WEDA podcast from WAMU and NPR.

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