Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Thousands of people are still displaced in Spokane, Washington, after a 10th day of wildfires.
Doug Ned Vornick from Spokane Public Radio has more. Three major wildfires continue burning in and around Spokane, charring several thousand acres. Go now of accusations remain in place for all the areas affected. Twenty to thirty mile an hour winds spread the fires quickly yesterday.
Local authorities say several hundred structures burned. Spokane police chief Kevin Hall says he knows people are eager to go back and check on their homes, but he's urging patients. We understand there's a combination of property about your pets that you may need medication.
“Don't we can not allow you back into the area when it's unsafe to do so?”
The winds are abating a bit, but conditions remain challenging for firefighters. For NPR News, I'm Doug Ned Vornick in Spokane. A senior envoy for President Trump's Board of Peace says two days of Israeli strikes in Gaza, kills civilians and destroyed medical supplies. This comes as the board and mediators push to implement a final piece road map while Israel
continues bombing without official comment. Emperors and usbaba has more. In a post-unex, Board of Peace, envoy Nikolai Miletinov, say the strikes followed weeks of efforts by the Board of Peace and mediators, including Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United States, to get Palestinian factions in Gaza to agree to President Trump's final plan.
He said his team is working around the clock to de-escalate, adding that both sides had obligations under their agreement, but Gaza hold official say, Israeli or strikes have killed at least 19 Palestinians in Sunday morning, including women and children.
“Board Palestinians hear the violence is not limited to the past two days, nearly nine months”
after the Board of Peace announced the ceasefire after two years of war. Palestinians continue to live under the Israeli bombardment, while more than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip remains under Israeli military control, and a small-bought, unperonuous Gaza. The Trump administration is proposing changes to banking regulations meant to lighten the
burden on community banks. If you're seeing a Bassaha reports, though, it could lead to banks investing fewer dollars in affordable housing. Under the Community Investment Act, the more a bank invests locally, the more likely regulators would prove profitable mergers and 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 Bassaha and PR News.
You're listening to NPR News, from Washington. Police say he opened fire at an in-and-out burger restaurant and say an off-duty police officer and citizen actively engaged him by returning fire. At least three people died, several others were injured. The restaurant says one of the dead was an employee.
There's no word on a motive.
Canada's second largest airliner's on strike, Dan Carpenter reports more than 4,000
flight attendants at Westchester walked off the job this morning. In the statement the airline says its latest offer to the flight attendants' union is industry leading and transformative and directly addresses the main issues behind the walkout on paid work. In response to the strike Westjet issued a lockout.
The union for the flight attendants says it's ready to go back to the bargaining table. It says flight attendants work about 35 hours a month without pay before and after flights. In Ottawa, Jobs Minister Patty Haidou says the strike is a disappointing development, and that federal mediators are available to help with negotiations. But the union has urged the government not to intervene within any back-to-work legislation.
Meanwhile, thousands of travelers are scrambling to make arrangements on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year in Canada. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenterak in Toronto. U.S. Futures Contracts are trading higher at this hour, Dow Futures up about 3/10 of a percent-nastic Futures up more than a half percent.
I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. There's something wrong with the plumbing in Cincinnati, billions of gallons of raw sewage ends up in waterways every year, and for some, that raw sewage is a lot closer to home. When it's coming out of the drain down there, it's sewage, the stench was terrible.
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