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Diplomatic efforts to ease tensions between Israel and Lebanon are continuing to spite
“a deadly flare up along the border to Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.”
NPR's Etay Stern reports that's raising new questions about the durability of the U.S. "The Israeli military said the soldiers were killed when explosive planted by Hizballa, which is not part of the talks, detonated during operations in southern Lebanon. For other soldiers were seriously wounded.
On Wednesday, Israel ordered evacuations in a village in southern Lebanon for the first time in weeks and carried out strikes.
Lebanon's health ministry says one person was killed and twelve others were wounded. The fighting prompted U.S. mediated talks between Israel and Lebanon to pause early on Tuesday. The negotiations are expected to resume today. A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect in late June and it has largely held until the latest escalation. For NPR News, I'm United Stern, in Tel Aviv."
President Trump used a stop in Las Vegas yesterday to promote his administration's economic agenda, and P.R.s. Davis shiver on reports, recent polling suggests many Americans remain unconvinced as prices for everyday goods continue to rise. "A new Reuters episode poll shows that for the first time in almost ten years,
more Americans prefer Democrats to Republicans on handling the economy.
And that's bad news for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. But in the last few months, I will say Trump's message hasn't really changed much. He continues to insist that the economy is great. He says any high prices are there because he inherited it from Democrats."
“NPR's deepest shiver on Trump's stop in Nevada comes as Republicans look to defend key house seats”
and build more momentum ahead of the November midterms. Federal health officials say cases of cyclists, barriacists have now been reported in almost every state. NPR's Maria Gidoi reports on the biggest outbreak of the illness on record. The CDC says 10,468 cases of cyclists' borough infection have been confirmed through laboratory testing since early May. That's a jump of more than 3,700 cases since last week.
The agency says it's aware of more than 12,000 additional cases nationwide that still have to be confirmed by labs. Officials in Missouri and Arkansas confirm to NPR that their states have been added to a multi-state cluster of cyclists' bridesis cases linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce from tailor farms. The CDC says more than 500 people across the U.S. have been hospitalized and two people have died. Maria Gidoi and PR News.
“Stocks are trading mixed on Wall Street of the Sauer. The Dow was down 193 points. This is NPR News.”
Civil rights advocates are marking the anniversary of the signing of the Federal Voting
Rights Act of 1965 for the first time since the Supreme Court's latest weekening of that
landmark law. Some Democratic-led states are responding with new state laws for protecting minority voters from racial discrimination. NPR tons a low-wong reports. Delaware's Democratic Governor met Myers signing the latest state-level Voting Rights Act after a similar bill New Jersey became law in July. They're about a dozen state laws like those around the country. The newest ones come months after the Supreme Court's
conservative Supermajority further weakened the Federal Voting Rights Act. Legal experts say that ruling has made it extremely difficult in places where voting is racially polarized to challenge redistricting plans for shutting out minority voters from an opportunity to like their preferred candidate. Delaware and New Jersey's laws offer minority voters' additional protections in local redistricting and requirements for language assistance.
Some legal experts, though, are bracing for new lawsuits and may end up bringing certain state-booting rights act protections to the Supreme Court for a review on Zila Long and Piano's. The childhood home of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong is up for sale. The house in Ohio has been preserved for nearly 40 years and contains photos and other space memorabilia. The owner is hoping a buyer will eventually donate it to the Armstrong Museum,
but the property has no legal protection from future changes. Stocks continue to trade mixed on Wall Street, the Dow was down 187 points, the NASDAQ composite up 60. This is NPR News. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, another progressive Democrat, Edges Out, and Establishment Candidate, a dual L.A. Ed, one Michigan Senate primary,
campaigning on affordability, healthcare, and ending U.S. military aid to Israel. Join us as we break down his victory and what it could signal for November's mid-terms on the NPR Politics podcast. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts.
