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Israeli officials say the military has no plans to pull back from Gaza and the defense
“minister is again calling for Palestinians to leave the territory.”
NPR's Kerry Con reports the tougher rhetoric comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces at tight reelection race. During a surprise visit to Gaza, Netanyahu said Israel's military will not retreat from its current positions in the territory. Netanyahu said Israeli troops aren't moving.
They control 60% of the strip, and quote, "There is still more to come." Mapping analysis by NPR and others puts Israeli control of Gaza's territory, a closer to 70% Israeli-airstrikes continue in violation of the U.S. brokerate ceasefire. Meanwhile Defense Minister Israel Kat says Israel will facilitate mass migration out of
Gaza by, quote, "any means critics say force Palestinian migration constitutes ethnic cleansing."
Kat says President Trump and the U.S. backed board of peace have, quote, "frozen that plan," but says it still remains a possibility. Kerry Con and P.R. News tell Evieve.
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegsev has removed a growing number of senior military officers”
since taking office. Many of those dismissed are women or black, including commanders with decades of combat experience, and P.R.'s Quilarns reports the Secretary of the Army dendreschool resigned after defending some of those officers. "At least in one congressional hearing, he went to bat for a general who had been removed,
and we know from a person close to Dreschool who wasn't authorized to speak publicly, that
Dreschool did have a final meeting with President Trump, where he told him that Hegsev's
arbitrary firearms are making it harder to modernize the military, because really good people are getting fired, and it's hollowing out the senior ranks." M.P.R.'s Quilarns. Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem has died. She was a pivotal voice in long-standing presence in the modern women's rights movement,
and P.R.'s Kristen Wright report she implements generations of women.
“Gloria Steinem will long be remembered as an enduring symbol of the women's movement.”
For more than a half century, she advocated for feminist causes, helping women gain meaningful progress toward equality at home in the workplace and other aspects of American society. Steinem fought for abortion rights and shared that she had won herself. She advocated for pay equality, women in politics, and against domestic violence, her activism changed American life.
Steinem started out as a journalist, notably reporting undercover to expose conditions inside New York's Playboy Club in 1963. She co-founded Ms. Magazine of feminist publication "A Radical Idea at the Time." Steinem wrote books and essays and continued her work well until old age. She died peacefully at home in New York, Gloria Steinem was 92, Kristen Wright, and P.R. News.
This is N.P.R. Joy deliberations resumed for as sixth day in the Lindsey Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts. George's habit twice told the judge their deadlocked over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. The judge has ordered them to keep deliberating with the possibility of a mistrial if
they still cannot reach a verdict. New Jersey is asking the Supreme Court to step in to resolve a case involving prediction market site Calshy, and P.R.s. Bobby Allen reports on the move as 20 states are involved in litigation with the popular vetting service. New Jersey has asked the high court to decide who exactly should regulate the booming prediction
market industry. States like New Jersey that rely on gambling site tax revenues say they should oversee companies like Calshy and its rival polymarket, but the companies counter that the federal government should regulate them not as gambling operators but as a type of financial investment. On the line is an industry that sees billions of dollars traded every week on everything
from elections to wars to the outcome of criminal trials. The New Jersey case is focused on sports betting which makes up about 80% of Calshy's total volume. Bobby Allen and P.R. News. Nearly 38,000 homes and businesses in Texas remain without power after tropical depression
ed boards went through the region. The storm down trees flooded roads and dumped heavy rain across parts of Southeast Texas. Utility crews are working to restore service as conditions gradually improve. I'm Windsor-Johnston, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Hey, it's Ray from CarTalk.
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