Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner held a rare meeting with Hamas officials today. It's a new diplomatic effort to make progress on the stalled Israeli Hamas ceasefire in Gaza. Kushner meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow. The talks are meant to salvage the new 15-point US-backed road map for the militant group to disarm in Gaza and with straw from the area that's been shattered by war.
At stake, the lives of some 2 million people who live in Gaza and the reconstruction of the crowded enclave not largely controlled by Israeli forces, more than 10 months since the ceasefire ended major military operations.
Todd Blanche is refusing to say that he will always be independent from President Trump.
But the new attorney general says Trump never asked him to prosecute specific people and that he never will. Blanche speaking there two NBC's meet the press. Ukraine carried out drone strikes on the Moscow and Rostov regions of Russia this weekend
“appears Hanna Palamarenko has more from key.”
The press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported that Ukraine has disabled seven of the ten largest wild-braised logistics centers in Russia. Since July 18, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have attacked a number of warehouses belonging to the Russian market place. According to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, these facilities supplied sanctioned
components for the production of drones and navigation equipment. Meanwhile, overnight and morning Russian attacks on Ukraine damaged the power generation and blast furnace operations in the Nipropetrovsk region, postal service warehouses, and the hardware store in Odessa. Hanna Palamarenko and Pernews, Kyiv.
At least six people are dead after historic flooding and parts of Indiana caused by days of severe weather. Repair Shandali Stuster has more.
“Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hawksett says the city is experiencing its most severe flooding”
in more than 30 years. The Indianapolis Department of Public Works says some of the flood waters have started to receive and the city has reopened some floodgates. While some of the worst hit areas are beginning to recover, severe weather is expected to impact the region again through Sunday night.
President Trump also approved an emergency declaration for Indiana, FEMA says federal disaster assistance is available to support response efforts. Shandali Stuster and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Nearly 30 years after rapper Tupak Shakur was killed in a drive by shooting, the trial
of Duane Davis gets underway in Las Vegas tomorrow.
Police pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
“The 63-year-old is the first and only person to be charged in Tupak's death, probably”
because of a memoir he wrote and in-related interviews where he claimed he orchestrated the confrontation and provided the gun, but says someone else shot Tupak. The judge says the book and the interviews are admissible, but Davis says parts of that book were fictionalized. Italian police have recovered three paintings, stole and several months ago from a museum
near Parma, but as Villa Marx reports, a day later, separate threes, struck again, stealing four Renaissance works from a museum far to the south, in Sicily. The Italian police branch known as the Caribbean Yery announced on Friday they'd recovered a Suzanne, a Renoir, and a Matisse stolen back in March from a museum outside Parma.
That hall was worth around $10 million and nine suspects from the small European nation
of Moldova remained under investigation, but for the dedicated police squad focused on protecting Italy's cultural heritage, the celebrations were short-lived. For unsacited a night at the height of nationwide summer celebrations known as Thedagallstor, Theeb's broke into a museum in the Sicilian city of Messina. They made off with panels by a local Renaissance master, Antonello de Messina, the latest
in a wave of high-st Targeting Museums and galleries across Europe, for NPR news, I'm Bella Marx. And I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. One A is named for the first amendment, which protects the freedom of the press and your freedom to speak out.
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