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What are Palestinians feeling about the paused cease‑fire talks?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Palestinians in the shattered Gaza Strip expressed disappointment and anger. As ceasefire talks between Israel, Hamas, and the US were paused. More than two million people in Gaza are experiencing hunger. NPR's Emily Fang reports
NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, polled Palestinian civilians there. Many said they were thrilled about recent news that France's president would recognize Palestine as a state, but they despaired at news that Israel and the US had left ceasefire talks, and that the US's Middle East envoy Steve Whitkopf accused Hamas of negotiating, in quote, bad faith. Here's Dr. Taufik Abu Jarad, a professor in Gaza before the war. He says the war needs to end.
Why does a Gaza professor say the war must end now?
He says when you see your child fall asleep holding a piece of bread from the day before, you know how badly we need a ceasefire. Every day, he says, costs them blood, and lives lost due to Israeli artillery strikes or starvation. Emily Fang and Pierre News.
Florida's governor says deportation flights have begun from an immigration detention center in the Everglades. He and other officials have dubbed alligator alcatraz. NPR's Greg Allen reports, elected officials and lawyers for detainees have filed lawsuits after they've been denied access to the facilities.
Governor Ron DeSantis says a hundred detainees who had final removal orders have been deported from the facility, located at an airport in the heart of the Everglades.
This provides an ability to enhance the mission to increase the number and frequency of deportations.
DeSantis says hundreds more have been flown from the facility to other locations in the U.S.
How is Florida handling deportations from the Everglades detention center?
before being deported. Several lawsuits are challenging operations at the facility, including one filed by attorneys who've been denied access to their clients. Florida's emergency management director says the lawyers weren't allowed to speak to their clients for technology issues, but that on-site representation will be possible by Monday. Greg Allen in PR News, Miami.
President Trump has signed an executive order designed to reduce homelessness. It would make it easier for officials to move people off the street and into treatment for addiction or mental illness. NPR's Jennifer Ludden has more. It directs
several agencies, housing, health, transportation, to immediately start looking at their grant programs to make the shift. It says money should go to states and cities that crack down on illicit drug use, urban camping.
What changes does President Trump’s new executive order bring to homelessness services?
urban squatting as well as the mentally ill who pose a danger. Now, you know, this could put places in jeopardy for continued funding. It could also mean we see even more cities move to ban homeless camps, for example, if that's what they think they need to do to get federal
financial support. NPR's Jennifer Ludden. Critics say this change in approach would effectively treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. The best way is to provide more affordable housing. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. The University of New Mexico is closed today after a shooting at a dormitory complex this morning. Officials say one person was killed and a second was wounded.
What happened in the University of New Mexico shooting and how are authorities responding?
Police say the suspect may still be on the main campus in Albuquerque. New students have been visiting the school for orientation before the fall semester begins. Living around polluted air increases the risk of developing dementia. According to new findings published in the medical journal The Lancet, NPR's Alejandra Berunda reports.
The new study is called a meta analysis. It's a powerful way to combine information from many published studies, in this case more than thirty. It found higher levels of pollution were associated with higher levels of dementia. Lead author Claire Bestrogowski of the University of Cambridge says there's a clear message.
We can see that there would be a massive reward to decreasing our exposure to air pollution.
How does air pollution increase the risk of dementia, according to new research?
She says it shows the value of policies that clean up air, like congestion pricing. Scientists are still learning exactly how air pollution hurts brains, but they know that when you breathe in pollution like black carbon or fine particles.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are Palestinians feeling about the paused cease‑fire talks?
0:01–0:49
2
Why does a Gaza professor say the war must end now?
0:49–1:45
3
How is Florida handling deportations from the Everglades detention center?
1:45–2:31
4
What changes does President Trump’s new executive order bring to homelessness services?
2:31–3:10
5
What happened in the University of New Mexico shooting and how are authorities responding?
3:10–3:54
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How does air pollution increase the risk of dementia, according to new research?
3:54–4:39