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Israel says it's captured a top Hamas official during a deadly raid into Gaza City.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified him as the head of the militant groups”
internal security. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv. The unusual daytime raid on Tuesday saw Israeli special forces enter a part of Gaza controlled by Hamas as the Israeli military carried out airstrikes to protect the forces. Palestinian officials said four people were killed including children.
Hamas named him as internal security officer Moina Laura Bede and protested the deadly raid as a violation of the ceasefire. Netanyahu called it a daring operation, capturing one of Hamas's most senior leaders. Netanyahu said he'd been responsible for hiding and transporting Israeli hostages captured
and the October 7 attacks of 2023.
Netanyahu said Israel would continue to pursue Hamas leaders and those who took part in the October 7 attacks, Daniel Estrin and PR News Tel Aviv.
“President Trump is facing growing pressure to bring down gas prices with the midterm elections”
just two months away. NPR's Franco-Radonia's reports the White House is looking to U.S. producers and Venezuela for Relief, but neither is expected to lower prices quickly. Venezuela's oil reserves are so messed up that it'll likely take years before oil production meaningfully ramps up to make a difference.
A US official will not authorize to discuss this deal publicly admitted to reporters that the oil industry has been devastated by corruption and lack of investment and that it also needs to be rebuilt. I ask when we could reasonably see that and he did not answer, stating that there was no time table, but again experts say that this could take years." NPR's Franco-Radonia's
reporting President Trump met with oil and gas executives yesterday to discuss boosting production.
“The man accused of killing conservative activists Charlie Kirk will go on trial.”
Hugo Ricardo Bell from Member Station, KUER reports the judge on Tuesday heard final arguments from the prosecution and from Tyler Robinson's defense attorneys.
It was past 6pm local time when fourth district judge Tony Graff finally made his ruling.
This evidence is sufficient at this stage to support a reasonable belief that the defendant is the individual who shot and killed Charlie Kirk. Tyler Robinson will face a jury of his peers for seven charges including felony discharge of a firearm, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. The main charge aggravated murder carries the death penalty in Utah, following the judge's
ruling Robinson pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. For MPR News, I'm Hugo Ricardo Bell in Provo. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. George and the murder trial of Lindsey Clancy are returning for a fifth day of deliberations after telling the judge they were deadlocked.
The Massachusetts mother has admitted killing her three young children in 2023, but her lawyers argue postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible. The judge ordered the jury to continue deliberating after four days without a unanimous verdict. Scientists say last weekend's flash flooding in Arizona that left two people dead in the
Grand Canyon was unusual. Alex Hager with Member Station KJZZ reports. As a scientist at the University of New Mexico who's been studying the Canyon since the late 90s, Laura Crossey has seen a lot of floods. But she says these monsoon rains fell on a wildfire burn scar, then flowed into an area
with human infrastructure. That's not normally what you get in a flood in Grand Canyon. You normally have trees and maybe, you know, but rocks and mud and sand and so forth, but you don't usually have pieces of bridges and things like that. But even the huge amount of dirt and debris might not change the river too much.
Experienced rafters say big floods often form new rapids and reshape the water's course. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix. Tens of thousands of people are without power in Southeast Texas as a tropical depression dumps heavy rain across the region. Edward made landfall as a tropical storm Tuesday near Johnson Bayou in southwest Louisiana
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