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Chapter 1: What are President Trump's latest discussions regarding the conflict in Lebanon?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump says in addition to Israel, his administration has been speaking to militant group Hezbollah as he tries to end the conflict in Lebanon.
They called us and they said, how about stopping? And I think you're going to see things happen over there. That's been like... A little bit of a different world, but it's interconnected with Iran. And it would be really nice if Lebanon could have some peace.
It's unusual for the U.S. to be talking with Hezbollah as it considers the Iran-allied group to be a terrorist organization. The Israeli campaign in Lebanon has threatened Trump's efforts to end the Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Hezbollah rejected the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese government and demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
The Trump administration is announcing it's providing $700 million for the nation's coal industry. As NPR's Julia Simon reports, the president invoked the Defense Production Act to keep dozens of coal plants open and build two new coal plants.
Trump says that projects in Alaska and West Virginia will be America's first new coal plants built since 2013. And some of the $700 million would go to new coal export infrastructure. In his remarks from the Oval Office, Trump called coal a, quote, clean energy source, but that isn't accurate. Burning coal releases pollutants that cause smog and respiratory ailments.
Coal production also releases planet-heating carbon dioxide and methane. Trump also repeatedly said that coal energy is affordable. But now, according to financial services firm Lazard, large-scale solar and wind projects are cheaper than energy from coal. Julia Simon, NPR News.
The Dow surged nearly one and three quarters of a percent today, recovering from losses in the previous session. But Technology shares did not fare so well, NPR's Rafael Nam reports.
For a while now, AI has been a hot trade in stock markets. But every once in a while, investors get a little nervous and they move out of tech stocks and into other sectors. That is effectively what happened when chip company Broadcom announced results that disappointed investors. Tech shares fell, but banks such as J.P.
Morgan were big winners, while some health care stocks such as UnitedHealth rallied as well. As a result, the Dow hit a record close, but the tech-heavy Nasdaq ended the day with a small loss. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
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Chapter 2: How is the Trump administration supporting the coal industry?
And then I thought, well, my God, this could really be real.
Martin Bichelski directs the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany. He concludes these immune cells may act as a kind of internal compass. More research is needed to see how such a magnetic signal may be relayed to the bird's brain. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
Los Angeles Angels right fielder Joe Adele reached up to catch a deep fly ball in Anaheim on Tuesday, but the ball bounced off his head and over the wall. The batter, T.J. Rumfield from the Colorado Rockies, stopped at second base initially. After some brief confusion, it was ruled a home run.
It was eerily similar to a play from 1993 when Oakland A-star Jose Canseco lost track of a long drive that bounced off his head for a homer. It's NPR.
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