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By from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.

After several reports of supply issues in some sailors dealing with mental health issues

aboard the Long Deployed Aircraft Carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, a replacement carrier

the USS George Washington, is in rock to the Middle East. The Abraham Lincoln is better to see for 240 more days in numerous Navy families have complained of collapsing morale on the ship in food rationing because of the shortages and P.R.'s Tom Bowman, who went to what both heads out the Navy officials deny those reports. And here's the other thing.

I'm hearing a similar concerns about lack of food, soap, clean water on the USS Boxer, which is also in the region. So again, a lot of concerns from sailors from their families about these conditions. Meanwhile central command said today said its commander Admiral Brad Cooper met with sailors

and Marines aboard the Abraham Lincoln where he thanked them for their dedication.

The Lebanese health ministry reports is where the air strikes and shelling today killed 11 people in southern Lebanon.

As NPR's Frank Langford reports Israel says, it was targeting a Hezbollah headquarters

after the malicious seriously injured three Israeli soldiers. He's rally defense forces said its struck Hezbollah infrastructure referring to the Iranian back militant group. Israel struck the Lebanese city of Navati 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 in 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 ceasefire agreement, but both have accused the other of violating

it for many weeks. Frank Langford NPR news, Tel Aviv.

Lala has strengthened into a category one hurricane as it approaches Hawaii's big island.

NPR's Avapu catch reports that Lala has maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. Hawaii governor Josh Greene declared a state of emergency prior to Lala's arrival. It's not just the amount of wind, it's the heavy rainfall, it's the flooding, it's the entirety of this storm which gives us pause, and again, this is a very serious storm. We have not had a hurricane make landfall in quite some time.

So none of us really have experienced this in, you know, the last couple decades. Lala could jump up to 25 inches of rain across Hawaii's big island. The Hawaiian National Guard is mobilized to help with emergency response efforts. The last hurricane to make landfall on the big island was in 1871. Anybody who catch NPR news?

Five people, including at least one student were injured today at a shooting early this morning at Virginia State University, which is about 24 miles south of Richmond, from Washington, this is NPR news. The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is studying a new obesity drug. It's not yet approved by the FDA, but it hasn't stopped people from selling unapproved versions.

As NPRs, Sydney Lumpkin reports now the drug company is suing. Eli Lilly says it is filed six lawsuits against businesses selling what it calls black market ready true tide. They include a medical spa chain in California and a compounding pharmacy in Texas. The drug company is also suing companies that sell so-called research only peptides online.

But a true tide is currently in phase three clinical trials.

Because it targets three hormones, GLP-1, GIP, and Glucogon, it's more powerful than GLP-1s

already on the market. However, since breter true tide isn't FDA approved, compounding it, repackaging it, or selling its active ingredient to compounders is illegal at the FDA says. Unapproved products may be contaminated, contain too much or too little of the active ingredient, or be counterfeit products that contain none at all. Sydney Lumpkin and PR news.

When Alex Murdoch is retried from murder in South Carolina, the location for the trial is going to be moved to a different part of the state. A new location is not yet been selected, but the judge Friday agreed with the defense that Murdoch would not receive a fair trial in Coltson County. A former attorney Murdoch was convicted in 2023 in connection with the deaths of his wife and son. But South Carolina's Supreme Court overturned the conviction because of jury interference

by a former court official during the trial. His attorneys are seeking to move the trial to Charleston County. This is NPR. Support for NPR. 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 is stench was terrible. Listen to the back-up podcast from the NPR network and Cincinnati Public Radio.

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