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What is the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza’s main hospital?

Lakshmi Singh 0:01

Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sangh. Gaza's main hospital receiving the wounded and dead, according to scenes captured by the Associated Press. Local officials say more than a hundred people at multiple sites in Gaza were killed yesterday by Israeli fire as they were trying to get food and other emergency aid. NPR's Michelle Kaliman reports United Nations food program says the desperation in Gaza has reached astonishing levels.

Michelle Kellerman 0:33

A top official with the World Food Program says he needs at least a hundred trucks a day to meet basic needs in Gaza. But Ross Smith says less than ten percent of what's needed has made it in since the middle of May.

Unknown 0:46

A third of the population are not eating for multiple days in a row. This includes women and children. And as I think is through our assessments that have been released publicly, a quarter of the population are facing famine like conditions.

How many food trucks does the UN World Food Programme say Gaza needs daily?

Michelle Kellerman 0:58

He spoke via video to reporters at the United Nations. The Secretary General Antonio Guterres also issued a statement saying he's appalled by what he calls the accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions in Gaza. Michel Kellan, NPR News, the State Department.

Lakshmi Singh 1:21

Have jointly condemned Israel's actions. State lawmakers in Texas began a special session today that's set to produce a controversial new map of congressional voting districts. NPS Hanzi Lo Wong reports Texas is one of multiple states that may end up holding next year's midterm election using new voting maps.

Hansi Lewong 1:38

Redistricting is usually a once a decade process after a census. But four years after the release of the results from the twenty twenty head count, Republican Governor Greg Abbott has called a special session of the Republican control legislature to redraw Texas's congressional map, with the support of President Trump.

Unknown 1:53

Just a very simple redrawing, we pick up five scenes.

Why did Texas call a special session to redraw congressional districts?

Hansi Lewong 1:57

There are a handful of other states in the South Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, plus Utah and Wisconsin that may end up with new congressional maps soon through lawsuits. And Ohio has to redistrict for its seats in the U.S. House because of a state law. With a narrowly divided Congress, it all means that any changes with voting districts could make a big difference in whether Republicans keep control of the House or lose it to the Democrats. Hanzi Lewong, NPR News.

Lakshmi Singh 2:20

The Cosby show star Malcolm Jamal Warner has died. Authorities in Costa Rica say he drowned while swimming during a family vacation. He was fifty four years old. Warner is being remembered for a string of roles, but perhaps most endearingly as a sometimes overly confident brother to his sisters on the Cosby show.

What happened to former Cosby Show star Malcolm Jamal Warner?

Lakshmi Singh 2:37

You're

Unknown 2:37

interested in sociology? Oh me

Lakshmi Singh 2:39

yeah, sure.

Unknown 2:40

Since when? Well, uh, you see, uh, sociology is the study of human behavior. And since we're all humans, it's something we should all be interested in.

Lakshmi Singh 2:48

Malcolm Jawal Warner playing Theo Huxtable. He was fifty four years old. From Washington, this is NPR News. Lawyers for Harvard University argued in federal court today that the federal government's freeze of more than two billion dollars in grants and contracts is illegal and should be reversed.

Why are Harvard lawyers challenging the federal freeze on university grants?

Lakshmi Singh 3:12

Emily Piper Valillo of Member Station WBUR was at the courthouse in Boston.

Unknown 3:17

Harvard's arguments were that this was a retaliation by the government that violates their First Amendment rights. They said that the government did not follow Title VI procedures. They said that the government's acts were arbitrary and capricious. denies these claims and and really tried to refocus their arguments on the fact that this was about funding and they tried to paint the university as just looking to get money from the federal government.

Lakshmi Singh 3:43

Emily Piper Valilla reporting An airline pilot says he was forced to change course to avoid a B fifty two bomber in North Dakota. Here's NPR Spill Chapel.

Bill Chappell 3:53

The Air Force says a B fifty two was performing a flyover at the North Dakota State Fair in Minut on Friday, but around the same time a Skywest Delta Connection flight from Minneapolis was looking to land at the airport close by.