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What recent agreement has been reached between Iran, the United States, and Israel?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Iran, the United States, and Israel have reached an agreement to cease fire for two weeks. The deal came last night, less than two hours before President Trump's deadline for Iran to meet his demands, or he wrote, a whole civilization will die tonight. NPR's Deepa Shivaram has more.
In announcing this ceasefire, Trump also shared some other details of the negotiations, and he sounded pretty optimistic in his post on social media. He said that the U.S. received a 10-point proposal from Iran and called that a, quote, workable basis on which to negotiate. And he said that almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the U.S. and Iran today. And so that two-week period will allow for some of the agreements here to be finalized.
NPR's Deepa Shivaram reporting. The ceasefire has sparked confusion in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it does not cover his country's military invasion of Lebanon. Iran's proxy there, Hezbollah, insists that it does. It's threatening a response if Israel does not hold fire. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Beirut. Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue today.
Local media show a car in flames hit by an Israeli airstrike on the seafront in Sidon, a city in south Lebanon, which is not one of the areas Israel's military warned it would strike. Many of the more than a million people displaced by Israel's invasion more than six weeks ago heard the ceasefire news, rejoiced, packed up and started driving home, but have been met with attacks. Israeli troops are still inside Lebanon. Their military has issued fresh evacuation orders for Lebanese villages across the south. And artillery shelling also continues there. State media say there have been additional airstrikes in Tyre and on a unit of paramedics affiliated with Hezbollah. Lebanon's government is asking people to stay put that it's still dangerous.
Lauren Fryer, NPR News, Beirut.
The Associated Press has called a Wisconsin State Supreme Court race for liberal judge Chris Taylor. The race is considered nonpartisan. The candidates are backed by conservative or liberal activists in Wisconsin. From member station WUWM, Mayan Silver has more.
Liberal appellate judge Chris Taylor bested conservative appellate judge Maria Lazar, slanking a 10-year term on the court. Control of the court wasn't at stake, and now it won't be for a while, even though the state is gearing up for three more Supreme Court races in the next three years. Here's Barry Burden, politics professor at UW-Madison.
Liberals have the court now until at least 2030. Even if they don't do well in each of these next few elections, they have a large enough majority, they're going to be in the majority for a while.
He says that means liberals see the court as their, quote, savior in a state with divided government. It will be taking up lots of controversial issues on everything from labor rights to redistricting. For NPR News, I'm Ayaan Silver in Milwaukee.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Republican Clay Fuller has won a special congressional runoff election in Georgia. He was endorsed by President Trump, and he will fill out the rest of the term of former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Fuller defeated Democrat Sean Harris, who had led the voting in the first round of the special election. Scientists have been poring over photos sent back by the Artemis crew. The astronauts captured thousands of images when they flew by the moon Monday. They also recorded themselves describing the colors, craters, and ridges they saw on the lunar surface. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce has more.
Kelsey Young is a geologist who leads the science team for the Artemis II mission. She says several dozen scientists are in a room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, scrutinizing the thousands of images. And there is something in every image that surprises me, right?
How is the ceasefire impacting the situation in Lebanon?
I mean, you might think that after looking at hundreds of images taken of the lunar surface, I would get sick of it.
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