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

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

that would immediately reopen a straight-of-formuase, in a social media post-Trump city was

asked to hold off on attacks by Iran and other Middle Eastern nations. Trump is 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 appears on a spot for reports from Gaza City." Israel continues to bomb across Gaza while expanding the territory under its military control to more than two-thirds of the strip. Those separations have continued even as U.S. lid efforts focus on securing a lasting

ceasefire, Hamas disarmament, and a new administration for Gaza. The latest Israeli Earth 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 two hundred-tenths, sheltering displaced family nearby.

The ministry says more than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the U.S. Baxter's fire reached lost October, and a small-bo and pure news goes a stay. Dry conditions across the Western continuing to create wildfire problems, in Washington State there are more than two dozen active wildfires underway at this hour.

The old trails fire, near Spokane, has caused some evacuations in the city, and it's threatening some 4,000 structures. Governor Bob Ferguson is declared a statewide emergency. Our state's facing a very serious situation with multiple fires, and our hearts go out to Washingtonians who are losing their homes and being evacuated.

And in the eastern Washington, 60,000 people have lost power because of wildfires there.

Canada's second largest airline west jet says its canceled more than 270 flights because

of a strike by flight attendants, Dan Carpenchuk reports.

The two sides are still at the bargaining table, and there are reports of some progress,

but the main issue remains unpaid work, work before and after a flight. West jet says grounding some flights is aimed at preventing crew and passengers from getting stranded. The timing of the threatened strike couldn't have come at a worse time at the height of the holiday travel season, and West jet passengers are bracing for travel disruptions.

Analysts say with the pressure on both sides ramping up, they're still time to make a deal. 3 people were killed in seven more injured in a shooting at a chain restaurant in Southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon, police responded to the shooting and found the body the suspected gunmen in an area near the restaurant, so far they have no idea of what the gunmen's

motive was. You're listening to NPR news. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the canals of Amsterdam Saturday for that city's annual Pride Festival boat parade. The event took place just one week after a deadly attack and a pride event in Berlin.

One person was killed in as many as 30 others injured in that attack. The parade featured 80 boats and coincided with the global world Pride celebration. It's been two weeks since the Trump administration said it had found 250,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls, just four states, but as NPR's Jude Jaffee block reports, the White House still has an offer to any details on those claims.

The letters the Department of Homeland Security wrote to California Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were not as definitive as the public announcements the agency made. Instead the letters said a preliminary review of the four states' public photo rolls found they may contain as many as 250,000 non-citizens combined. The letters gave the states a July 30 deadline to respond, and P.R. reviewed three states'

responses back. They asked for details about how DHS did its calculations and expressed a commitment to ensuring eligible voters would not be removed from the rolls based on unreliable data. DHS did not respond to NPR's questions about its methodology. Jude Jaffee block and P.R. News.

A Senate measure aimed at regulating college sports is moving forward after receiving support from two of the country's largest college conferences. The Big Ten and the Southeast Conference agreed to offer their support after some concessions

were made regarding third-party name, image and likeness deals known as NIL.

Imagine how needs 60 votes to end a bay before a final vote on the bill can be taken. I'm Dale Wilman and P.R. 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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