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>> Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Luis Givone.

President Trump's son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner defended a stalled peace plan for

Gaza calling the territory a "former war zone" that's now flooded with aid, and he took

aim at Israel's rejection of the plan, and PR's Iowa trolley has details. >> Hamas has signed on to Trump's plan to decommission weapons alongside a phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but Israel's Prime Minister has rejected that plan, and Israel is military still launches attacks in Gaza, despite a ceasefire. Palestinian health officials say a six-year-old was killed in an air strike Sunday on

her way to school. While on a visit to Ukraine, Sunday, Kushner said this about Israel's policies in Gaza. >> We agree with them on the end-state. They just have crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards, but we're very determined and we're working through these things.

>> Kushner meanwhile touted conditions in Gaza, saying it now has one of the world's lowest Mount Nutrition rates, UNICEF reports a more complex picture, with one out of every eight kids under five stunted from Mount Nutrition. Able trolley and Pernus, Dubai. >> In Germany, the alternative for Germany party has declared victory after winning 43.8% of

the vote, in the first of several regional elections this fall.

As me Nicholson reports, the results puts the far-right party within reach of power at the state level for the first time since World War II. The AFD, which ran a campaign centered on the policy of remigration, or mass deportation of immigrants, more than double it share of the vote in the small eastern state of Saxony Unhalt compared to five years ago.

Chancellor Friedrich Mertz's center-right Christian Democrats more than harbbed their share of the vote. The CDU candidate in the state Sven Schroitzer congratulated the AFD and said, "Some say this is a dark day for Saxony Unhalt. I call it democracy."

The man hoping to become Germany's first AFD state governor, 35-year-old Orange Siegmund, called public broadcast to ARD, that the results sent a very clear signal to Berlin. But falling just short of a majority, the AFD will need support to form a government, most parties, refuse to work with a party that German domestic intelligence considers anti-constitutional.

For MPR News, I'm Esmericalson in Berlin. The two largest school districts in the U.S. are banning AI usage in classrooms for at least a year.

The restrictions affect more than a million youngsters in California, and New York, and

PR's Sequoia Carrillo reports. In New York City, public schools, elementary, and middle school students will not have any generative AI tools in classrooms this fall. The country's largest school district put a one-year pause on any learning tools that utilized the technology.

That same day, the second largest district, the Los Angeles Unified School District, also banned AI for all of its students. Both districts said they would use the year to study the impact of AI on young students that before making a final decision on whether it could be used in classes going forward. It's Sequoia Carrillo, and Parenthoods.

This is NPR News in Washington. Hundreds of thousands of airline passengers saw their flights scratched this weekend after Indonesia's Anakrakatoa volcano erupted, the dangerous ash cloud forced airlines to cancel flights. The height of ticksies in is nearing an end across the U.S., NPR's ping-wong reports.

On a national level, tick bites tend to drop off in September. That's according to data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Allison Hinkley, an epidemiologist there, says those in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Upper Midwest regions, should still keep an eye out for the black-legged deer take, which remains active through the fall.

"It's the type of tick that can transmit line disease, so especially in those regions,

we think it's still important to take steps to avoid tick bites."

Some winter, the ticks are less active, the hunker and leaf litter and soil, and hibernate through colder months. While researchers are working on methods to reduce tick populations, and the disease burdens they carry, Hinkley recommends people were closed, treated with tick repellent to prevent tick bites, and to remove ticks promptly if they latch, ping-wong and PR News.

"A suspect in a notorious 20-24 cyber theft is expected to plead guilty this week in Washington 2022-year-old Melon Lomb, is accused along with several others in a case where an individual

was scammed out of Bitcoin worth over $240 million, several co-conspirators have already entered

guilty. Please, authority say the victim was a stranger to the perpetrators who duped a man and did turning over the virtual keys to his holdings, prosecutors say the accused celebrated with a spending spray. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News."

You count on sunscreen to protect your skin, but that SPF rating on the bottle might not be exactly as advertised. "So you can measure an SPF 50 at one lob and an SPF 30 at another?"

On the Sunday Story, is it time to update sunscreen guidance?

Listen now to the Sunday Story from the UPF's podcast on the MDR app.

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