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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected President Trump's peace plan for Gaza. Netanyahu says Israeli forces will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas disarms first. His comments yesterday came a little over a week after Trump announced that his board of peace have reached what he called a historic agreement.
Long time US diplomat Richard Haaz tells NPR the Netanyahu was focused on saving his own political future ahead of elections in October. On one hand, his biggest claim to political power is that he has managed Israel's
relationship with its most important patron in the United States.
On the other hand, he's got to look independent. He's got to look strong.
“So I think for it's a real dilemma for the Prime Minister and the question for the president”
is how much he lets this go and how much to see a pile on in frustration. Israel still controls roughly 70% of Gaza according to Palestinian officials and aid agencies. Wildfires have led to evacuations throughout Western portions of the U.S. and in Canada. NPR's Shandalese Duster has more.
"Evacuation orders have been issued across Western parts of the U.S. and South West Canada as extremely hot and dry conditions fueled the spread of wildfires in the region. In Utah, officials say close to a dozen active wildfires have scorched more than 300,000 acres as of Sunday evening. Israel officials say two helicopter pilots died on Friday while battling a wildfire in
the state that has burned over 100,000 acres. The National Interagency Fire Center says firefighters are working to contain more than 90 large wildfires across the U.S. The center also says more than 180 new fires, including eight large ones, have been reported nationwide since Saturday.
“A state of emergency has also been declared in Canada's British Columbia Province, where”
more than 100 wildfires are burning, Sondalese Duster and PR news. A former gang member is going on trial today in Nevada for the 1996 murder of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur. Steve Futterman has more from Las Vegas. Join Davis of former influential gang members accused of orchestrating the killing of Shakur.
Prosecutors say it was a retaliation hit. Two hours after Shakur and his entourage were in an altercation with another gang member Orlando Anderson. The case against Davis focuses on what he himself has said previously, former Federal Prosecutor Laurie Levinson.
If Davis is convicted, it's likely to be based upon his own words. He wrote a memoir in 2019 that talked all about his involvement in the crime. Davis claims his comments in the book were an embellishment to increase sales. In addition, he says he wasn't even in Las Vegas the night of the shooting.
“For impure news, I'm Steve Futterman in Las Vegas.”
The United Kingdom and France are bracing for a fifth heat wave of summer. Western Europe notchets highest average temperatures ever in a June, July. It's NPR. Airlines are exploring how artificial intelligence could help set ticket prices by analyzing demand, available seats, and competing fairs in real time.
NPR's Windsor Johnston reports, economists say the technology could also make airfare less transparent and harder for regulators to oversee. Airlines have long adjusted fairs as flights fill up. Carnegie Mellon economist, Danico Ares, says AI could process more data and change prices continuously.
But it's unclear whether airline algorithms would push fairs higher or lower, or offer different prices to different travelers. Ares says regulation is already falling behind. I'm pretty convinced that AI is advancing faster than consumer protection rules, and I think we don't understand many consequences of AI very well yet, in particular, in kind
of competitive settings. Ares says airlines are especially complicated, because prices must account for demand, connecting flights, and the number of seats still available. Windsor Johnston and PR news.
China has evacuated more than 1.6 million people from their homes at risk from typhoon
dolphin over 2,600 flights have been canceled as of this morning, and heavy rain is forecast to continue for a week. The next battlegrounds for primary fights are in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Vermont, which all host elections tomorrow, and South Carolina where there's a special primary for the GOP nomination to replace the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
Progressive candidates are taking on establishment Democrats for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota. This is NPR News in Washington. 50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today, it's back at rates not seen in half a century.
These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. On the Sunday Story, why coal miners and Appalachia are getting sicker faster.
Listen now to the Sunday Story from the Up First Podcast on the NPR app.
