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are trading fire, but Iranian civilians may have also come under attack. Iranian state media

report, a wedding party was hit in a U.S. strike that killed at least five people in

injured scores more. U.S. Central Command says it does not target civilians but is aware of the reports. NPR's Hadeel Al-Shaljee is monitoring diplomatic efforts to end the more than six-month-old war. Iranian President-Muslim Peshishkyan said Iran would go back to a ceasefire. It reached with the U.S. in June if President Trump is willing to do so also. He said that Iran would quote immediately reciprocate if the U.S. commits to the promises

it made in a memorandum of understanding that NPR's Hadeel Al-Shaljee reporting. It has

been a week since a powerful flood devastated Riverside communities in Nepal and Tibet.

And rescuers are still trying to locate hundreds of people reported missing from around a dozen hydro-power plants that include some five-hundred-belief-to-be-trap inside, more from NPR's Hadeel.

Nipol's military is leading rescue effort, and on X they shared a video of coffee-clad man

pulling themselves through on ropes in a narrow, dark, dripping tunnel. And just finding that tunnel is an achievement. Arnold Dix, a tunneling expert, describes the flood. Like a bomb's gone off. We've got multiple power stations all blown up. In each of them, we've potentially got people trapped. And he says it's a challenge to find the power stations

because they were covered up by mud, debris, and boulders. They're trying to locate the tunnels

of the plants because that will lead them into the turbines. A government spokesman said to tunnel rescue teams from India and another from China had arrived to assist Nipoli workers. The spokesman said crews had not yet made any rescues. Dear Dix, NPR News. "Open AI is facing 30 new lawsuits over a deadly school shooting in Canada earlier this year. NPR as Shannon Bond reports a company is accused of failing to alert police about

the alleged shooter's violent conversations with chat GPT."

The lawsuits filed in federal court in San Francisco accused Open AI of putting its public image ahead of safety. They alleged the company's chief global affairs team, which handles

public relations, overruled calls from Open AI's safety team, to notify police about

chats, investigators believe, posed a credible threat. Open AI denies the claims and says the safety team does not report to global affairs. The new cases billed on seven lawsuits brought against Open AI in April, from victims of a shooting that killed five students and a teacher at a secondary school in Tumblr Ridge, British Columbia, and February. Open AI says it has a zero tolerance policy for using its tools to assist in committing

violence. Shannon Bond's NPR News. From Washington, this is NPR. At a court hearing in Martin County, Florida, ProGolf or Tiger Woods has pleaded no contest to reckless driving as part of a plea deal. His driver's license is suspended for five years, this stemming from a rollover crash in March. His girlfriend Vanessa Trump, president

Trump's former daughter-in-law, was at the hearing. A new independent analysis finds the COVID-19 flu and RSV vaccines are still very safe and effective, and based on the results several major medical groups are issuing new guidelines urging the public to get the shots. Here's NPR's Rob Stein. The analyses were conducted by the University of Minnesota's Vaccine Integrity Project, which

was created to counter questions raised by the Trump administration about the shots and the federal government's failure to issue updated guidelines for the COVID, flu, and RSV vaccines. Based on the results, groups representing family doctors, pediatricians, obstetricians, and other specialists recommend the shots for more people than the federal government, including the health of your adults, young children, and pregnant people. Rob Stein and Pierre News.

A steady stream of people continues to pass through the palace chapel in Norway to pay their respects to the late King Harold V. Each person bows before his casket, which will remain in the chapel until the funeral next Wednesday. Harold died last week at the age of 89. He was Europe's longest living monarch. His son, Hoke and the 8th is Norway's new king. This is NPR News.

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