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President Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner visited Egypt and held a rare
“meeting today with officials from Hamas.”
He meets with Israel's prime minister tomorrow. Emperor Daniel Estrin has more on U.S. struggles to advance a post-war plan for Gaza." An official with knowledge of the meetings spoke anonymously to divulge details. The official said Kushner wants to advance a new road map for Gaza. Hamas, to give up its control of Gaza to a transitional Palestinian committee, to begin
the process of giving up its weapons to get an international stabilization force to enter Gaza and to get the Israeli military to gradually withdraw from Gaza. Hamas said it supports the U.S.-backed plan. Israel has publicly rejected the plan, saying Hamas needs to completely demilitarize
before Israel withdraws its troops.
A group of mid-East countries, including Saudi Arabia and the ceasefire mediators, Qatar and Egypt, said, "Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing peace efforts." Daniel Estrin and PR News, Tel Aviv. In Hawaii, Hurricane Lala has been downgraded to a tropical storm leaving one person dead. Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman reports, tropical storm winds and heavy rains are now
battering the state's most populous island. The worst of tropical storm, Lala, has passed beyond Hawaii Island and Maui, and now the storm is lingering over the state's most populous island of Oahu, that's whom to hold a Lulu and roughly 70% of the state's population. As the sun rose over, one Lulu Sunday morning, more than 125,000 people on the island
remained without electricity. 70 mile an hour winds are whipping across Oahu with higher gusts, streams and rivers around the island are flooding, roads are littered with tree branches and palm fronds. Authorities are asking people to stay off the roads, calling it a dangerous and life-threatening situation.
For NPR News, I'm Bill Dorman, in Honolulu. On Wall Street, Wal-Mart and other big retailers are set to report their earnings this week, giving us a glimpse on how consumer demand is shaping the economy, and here's Rafael Nom has more.
“For the most part, consumers continue to spend, and that's important, given how critical”
consumer spending is to the US economy, we'll get another glimpse into household finances when Wal-Mart and Target report earnings, and investors will also keep a close eye on the minutes from the latest federal reserve meeting. The minutes are becoming even more important, at a time when Fedcher, Kevin Worsh, is pairing down communications with markets.
Worsh released decades the Fed flexibility to act as needed, and the Fed doesn't need to telegraph its movements, but it does leave markets less shortened about the Fed's thinking. Hence, the erroneous to look at the minutes from the meeting, Rafael Nom and PR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Authorities are looking for additional people who fired weapons during a shooting at Virginia State University yesterday that left five people injured. On a 19-year-old suspect, Cameron Harris remains in custody, he's doing court tomorrow. Please say they're still trying to determine what led to the shooting, and whether anyone shot in self-defense or were among the aggressors.
The shooting yesterday came as students were getting ready for the new school year at the historically black university south of Richmond, which starts this week. Hollywood is about to set some fresh box office milestones, and PR's Bob Mondello takes a look at some of the biggest box office hits. Sometime before Labor Day, Spider-Man Brand New Day is expected to join the very exclusive
$2 billion club. I am totally out of control. Only seven films in history have ever reached that number in worldwide ticket sales. The Odyssey meanwhile has become filmmaker Christopher Nolan's biggest box office hit
at about $1.2 billion worldwide, and Toy Story 5 has passed all previous Toy Stories
to take in just over $1.1 billion, combined with the Michael Jackson Biopic Michael, and the animated Super Mario Galaxy movie. That means that even before Avengers dooms day and doom three arrive in December. 2026 has already produced $5 billion films, more than any years since the pandemic, Bob Mondello and PR news.
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