Live from MPR News on Jial Snyder.
Kushner, is trying to move forward with the U.S. road map for post-war Gaza.
“He held Marathon talks today with his Rayleigh Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and”
Pierce Daniel Estrin, is in Tel Aviv. The main points of contention between Israel and Hamas are these. The plan calls for Hamas to disarm, and, for Israel, to withdraw from the parts of Gaza that it still occupies. Now Trump's board of peace put out this 15-point road map a few weeks ago, and the road map
says that this would happen in stages, that Hamas would disarm bit by bit, and that Israel would withdraw its troops bit by bit. But Netanyahu came out and said he rejected that road map, and he said all disarmament
of Hamas would have to be completed first before a single soldier moves from Gaza.
The Pentagon is ordering 30 U.S. universities to conduct audits of their ties to foreign entities or risk-losing federal research dollars. The administration targeting connections with China, Russia, and Iran, has impurities to listen at warranty reports. The Trump administration has highlighted partnerships with and funding from foreign organizations
in the past in an attempt to root out what it sees as foreign influence. These latest audits follow the same goal. The administration said the scrutiny is to protect national security, warning off quote intellectual property theft and adversarial exploitation. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education created an online dashboard to track
foreign gifts and contracts. It shows Harvard University receiving the most foreign gifts with China as the leading source.
Harvard was among the 30 universities asked to do a new audit, along with New York University
and MIT. The universities have not provided comment on the request. It was not one of the NPR news. Now, two Indiana officials there estimate whether 1,000 people have been displaced by flooding that's affected the states since late last week.
Caroline Beck from Member Station WFI reports on the latest update from Indiana Governor Mike Braun. Governor Braun is requesting a federal disaster declaration through FEMA to help pay for things like individual assistance and hazard mitigation. Braun says the state is collecting data on the total damage right now and hopes to hear
back from FEMA in the next 10 days. It'll be as quickly as it can get done. It takes about a compile all that and we got a good relationship with the administration.
“So I think we'll be in a place to where we will know how to expedite it.”
We've got to see what it is and we go from there. Homeowners can submit damage reports and request temporary help including housing assistance with the state. For NPR news, I'm Caroline Beck in Indianapolis. In West Virginia, one person was killed and weakened flooding much of the state remains
under a flash flood watch. This is NPR. Amazon has changed its terms of service to give it more protection against class action lawsuits. Amazon has brought back what's called an arbitration agreement that will now generally require
shoppers to resolve any disputes outside the court system empirically to sell you reports. Amazon says anyone who uses its services now automatically bound by its new legal clauses. They're aimed at preventing customers from filing class action lawsuits. They also require any grievances against the company be resolved privately through arbitration rather than in front of a judge or a jury.
People can still file in small claims court. Note that Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters. Amazon previously removed to this kind of arbitration clause about five years ago after facing tens of thousands of claims over allegations the company's smart speaker recorded without permission.
Amazon's new terms have a way to handle a potential repeat by settling any waves of similar claims in batches. Alina Silu and PR news. Opening statements have begun in Las Vegas and the trial of a man linked to the killing of two packs of court.
Shakur was killed in a drive by shooting in 1996. Asking few have been willing to speak about it, but a prosecutor told jurors Monday that the man accused of orchestrating the shooting is the one person who has a hard time being silent. Duane Davis is charged with murder he wrote a tell-all memoir in 2019 that revived the cold case.
Major stock markets in Asia largely down into his day trading after Wall Street slipped the S&P 500 lost half a percentage point Monday, but remains near the all-time high set last week.
This week on up first the mid-terms and the Middle East were tracking major primary elections
in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming and abroad the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner pursues a peace plan in Gaza.
“Plus, the U.S. Iran ceasefire hits a crucial 60-day deadline.”
Stay caught up on the week's biggest stories with up first. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
