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President Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner says he's optimistic about his
plan for Gaza.
“He was in Israel yesterday meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this after”
a rare meeting over the weekend with Hamas leaders in Egypt. And Piers Daniel Estran has more. He said it's called hard to trust a terrorist organization that committed what he called terrible atrocities, but he said the Hamas officials said all the right things. Then Kushner went to Israel and met Netanyahu, he said the meeting lasted nearly four
hours. They poured over the details of a new US-backed road map for how to move forward in Gaza. Netanyahu initially rejected that road map for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza alongside Hamas disarming. But Kushner said he sat with Netanyahu and his team and talked through what he called misunderstandings
and misinformation about the plan. Piers Daniel Estran reporting, Ukraine says Russia has no plans for a ceasefire or to sign a peace agreement by the end of this year and says Moscow plans to continue advancing on
“the front lines and target key infrastructure.”
And Piers Hannah Palamarenko has more. In an interview with Ukraine and media Vadim Skibitsky deputy head of the General Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that according to intelligence reports, Moscow plans to continue its offensive operations and intensify attacks on Ukraine and infrastructure. He noted that electricity and heating will remain the most vulnerable during the winter
and that gas infrastructure is also at risk. On the front lines according to Skibitsky, the Russian General Staff's plan include completing the capture of the Netanyahu by the end of this year. The Pentagon ordered 30 U.S. universities to conduct audits of their ties to foreign entities or risk losing federal research dollars.
As impairs a listen ed where any reports, the administration has targeted connections with China, Russia and Iran. 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. His 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. Elisna Adwani and PR News. Wall Street's trading lower at this hour, you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Disney is suing the FCC, alleging its violating its first amendment rights by challenging
its ABC broadcast licenses, and investigating the networks talk show the view. Disney says the administration is waging a retaliatory campaign against ABC because it doesn't approve of what it broadcasts. The suit sites social media posts by President Trump urging that ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses because of its news coverage and remarks by late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel.
In April, the FCC ordered Disney and the ABC stations at owns to renew broadcast licenses early as it investigated the view along with Disney's DEI policies. An erectile dysfunction drug is getting more buzz and wellness circles. Cialis is being promoted for a longevity and fears will stop reports. Online clinics and influencers are promoting to Dalafil as a kind of all-purpose long
Jevity drug. It belongs to the same class of drugs as Viagra. There is research suggesting to Dalafil could have benefits for blood vessels and that men taking it are at a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular related causes. Dr. Robert Kloner at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes has been studying this.
"We found an association, we found a signal, this does not prove causation." To do that, Kloner says there would need to be high-quality human trials. Along with erectile dysfunction to Dalafil is approved for a rare form of high blood pressure affecting the lungs as well as symptoms of enlarged prostate in men, Will Stone and PR News. On Wall Street that I was down 46 points, the Nasdaq down 35 points as in P500 down 37.
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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.”
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