Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyan.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reports is rarely air strikes and shelling today, have killed
11 people in Southern Lebanon.
“As NPR's Frank Langford reports, Israel said it was targeting a Hezbollah headquarters”
after the militia seriously injured. Three Israeli soldiers, the attacks come ahead of another round of U.S. sponsored peace talks between Israel and Lebanon in Rome next month. These rally defense forces said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure, referring to the Iranian back militant group.
Israel struck the Lebanese city of Nopatee in the town of Ansar, some 30 miles north of these rally border. Writing on X, Lebanese prime minister Noah Salam said these rally air strike killed seven women and children in Ansar. whom he emphasized when either military infrastructure, nor military targets, Israel must halt
this escalation he wrote. Israel and Lebanon are under a ceasefire agreement, but both have accused the other of violating it for many weeks. Frank Langford NPR News, Tel Aviv.
“Government number crunchers gave us a flurry of economic data this week, put together”
it helps to color a picture of the ways that Americans are making, saving, borrowing, and spending money. NPR Scott Horsley says the federal debt is creating downward pressures affecting the overall economy. Congressional forecasters said this week they expect the federal government will run a deficit
of more than two trillion dollars this year. That's pushing the government's overall debt close to the $40 trillion mark, and just
the interest on all that debt is now the government's second biggest expense, trailing
only social security. And the investors who lend money to the government by buying bonds, they are demanding higher interest rates now, some of the highest rates in decades. Time is running out to register to vote in some of the last statewide primaries of the year, and PR's Hansi Lohong has a rundown of the upcoming deadlines.
If you're eligible to vote in Tuesday's primary in Wyoming, in person registration continues
“through primary day, Delaware and Massachusetts, whole primaries in September, eligible voters”
who haven't registered yet in those states have until Saturday, August 22nd to sign up online or in person, or to get their male application postmarked. New Hampshire's primaries, also coming up next month. Male and applications must be received by August 26th, and in person registration will be available at the polls on New Hampshire's primary day September 8th.
And if you're already registered, election officials recommend confirming your status and contact information before the deadline by visiting your state's official election website. Officials can remove your name from voter rolls, especially if you recently moved, change your name or haven't voted in a while. Hansi Lohong and PR News.
FDA investigators have traveled to Taylor Farms operation in Mexico for the first time this week
to start inspecting the facility's link to the largest cyclospora outbreak in the U.S. FDA acting Deputy Commissioner for Food Donald Prater told the Washington Post inspectors were onsite at the processing facility. You're listening to NPR. Spain has beefed up security in its northern African on-clave of Souta, amid calls for
a mass border breach today. A breach could replay a similar incursion of two weeks ago when thousands of migrants tried to enter the city, at least 96 people were killed during their rush to get into the country. Michael Cologue has more.
Spanish police are patrolling the streets of Souta, and military personnel are guarding government buildings. Souta is one of Spain's two autonomous cities in northern Morocco. According to Spanish officials, at least 72,000 migrants entered the territory last month. Most have since voluntarily returned to Morocco.
Authorities say their monitoring online calls for another mass crossing into Souta today, and warning that those who participate could face prosecution, security has been reinforced along the border with Souta, with some groups of people reportedly prevented by Moroccan authorities from travelling towards the Spanish territory, for NPR news, and Michael Cologue. A limited number of flights are once again arriving and departing from Sicily's largest airport,
after being shut down for five days due to ash, spewing from Mount Etna. The earlier closure at Catania Airport had stranded summer holiday travelers during the biggest travel week of the year. Volcanic ash poses a significant risk to aircraft, potentially stalling their engines. The closure led to re-rooted flights and forced hundreds more to be cancelled.
In addition, the earlier closure placed additional pressures on Sicily's other airports. I'm Lynda Kenyan and Piorneus in Washington. This week on sources and methods for a year now, members of the National Guard, patrolled the streets of Washington, D.C., might they be tasked with patrolling polling places this November?
You know, the military may be going to some states and seizing ballot boxes. I know that sounds outlandish, but there is that concern. Why some election experts are worried that's this week on sources and methods
