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in southern Lebanon despite a U.S. brokered ceasefire aimed at ending fighting with the
“militant group Hezbollah. The Lebanese government says at least 18 people have been”
killed since Sunday, including two paramedics. NPR's Janeraf reports from they root." Lebanese state media and Lebanon's health ministry says Israel bombed a residential building in the town of Cuffer, Ramon, early Monday, killing nine people, including two children and a paramedic. The health ministry said a separate strike on a vehicle in the town
killed a second paramedic. Israel has said it is targeting Hezbollah in recent attacks
since 8 Lebanon. The Iran backed Lebanese militia group has been fighting to push back as rarely forces. On Sunday, Israeli air strikes destroyed a hospital in southern Lebanon. Israel said without providing proof that his bullet fighters were operating inside. Lebanon's president condemned the hospital attack as a dangerous escalation. Janeraf and Pianus Beirut, hundreds of anti-immigrant protesters clashed with police overnight
“on England's south coast, where boats of migrants had been crossing the English channel”
from France. NPR's Lauren Faire reports from London. The British government has condemned them as intimidating and thugged, hundreds of anti-immigrant protesters chanting "stop the boats" and shame on you. They rallied in the English coastal city of Portsmouth as 140 migrants were rescued and brought ashore there without visas. Similar protesters dressed in black wearing masks, blockaded the port of Dover over the
weekend, halting ferry services. Only about 5% of immigrants entering the UK last year came via these small boats. And the volume this summer has been lower than in the past four years. But thousands still cross annually and it's fueled support for far-right politicians here. Lauren Faire and PR News London. The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court again to clear the way for a US Postal
“Service Plan that could restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms. NPR's Hansi low-long”
reports are ruling could come as soon as Wednesday.
This is the third emergency request the Trump administration has made at the Supreme Court
for the President's attempt to limit mail-in voting. This time the Supreme Court has set to weigh in on the legality of the US Postal Services Plan. Under that plan, USPS would refuse to deliver mail-in ballots to voters and states where election officials do not turn over voter list to the mailing agency and do not have certain bar codes in their ballot envelopes. We should note USPS is a financial supporter of NPR. A federal judge in Boston
has blocked those requirements twice, after finding that USPS has no authority to impose them on states on zero-long NPR News. This is NPR. Three public and national committee opens its first-ever midterm convention Wednesday and Dallas. The two-day gathering is aimed at rallying GOP voters and candidates ahead of the November
elections. President Trump is expected to address the convention on both nights. Republicans are fighting to retain control of Congress with roughly three dozen races expected to be, especially competitive. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on its way to its destination about a million miles from Earth. Joe Palco reports, mission managers have begun turning on the telescope's instruments
and so far. Everything looks good. The school bus sized observatory has a number of scientific goals. It's looking for a special kind of exploding star called a "type 1a" supernova that astronomers used to study a mysterious force called dark energy. It will also search for planets around distant stars
as well as galaxies far beyond the Milky Way. Critical systems like the solar panels and
main antenna have successfully deployed has the sunshade designed to block out unwanted light. The spacecraft also completed a correction to its trajectory. The telescope should arrive at its parking place in about 90 days. After that, its five-year scientific mission will begin. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palco. Hurricane Loll is closing in on Hawaii as a category three storm with sustained winds of 115 miles
an hour. A hurricane morning is an effect for Hawaii County where four castors are warning of damaging winds, flooding, and mudslides through Tuesday. This is NPR News. This week on NewsMakers, after more than a decade in comedy, I wasn't sure that we would get here. Robbie Hoffman is fearless, I had a small feeling I wasn't Joe. And fully are herself.
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