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What is the latest update on humanitarian aid and airdrops in Gaza?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Israel's military says airdrops of Vade are beginning this weekend in Gaza, and it says humanitarian quarters will be established for UN convoys to bring food and supplies into the area. But Channelow of the Norwegian Refugee Council says it's not enough to reverse the damage being done in the region by a lack of food and other basic needs.
Medical supplies, fuel to power the bakeries, the water desalination plants, hospitals. We need shelter materials for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been newly displaced since the ceasefire collapsed back in March. Those are the things that would provide immediate relief to the people in Gaza. Unfortunately, the airdrops that that have been announced will fail to make a dent in the tremendous sea of needs. that that we are facing.
How are the border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand affecting displaced populations?
Lo says even some of her colleagues in Gaza are starving right now. At least thirty three people have died following three days of fighting between Cambodia and Thailand. Each country is blaming the other for more border clashes over a disputed piece of land. Officials say more than one hundred sixty eight thousand people have been forced to leave their homes because of the fighting. North Texas Congressman Keith Self received both praise and criticism during his town hall meeting Saturday morning, and as Bill Zebel from Member Station KERA reports, the Republican says he supports releasing the Epstein files.
Self's a second term congressman in Deep Red Texas, north of Dallas. He strongly backs President Trump and the one big beautiful bill act that's now law.
Why is Congressman Keith Self’s stance on releasing the Epstein files generating controversy?
He told constituents that he's pushed back against those leaders whose actions helped delay, for now anyway, the release of the Epstein files that could possibly hurt the president. Here's self responding to a question from a constituent.
And I don't mind pushing back against the leadership because as I said, all of y'all have been promised this for so long. We've we've got to make it happen.
Representatives are on break across the country, starting to hold town hall meetings in their communities. I'm Bill Zebel in Dallas.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a grenade is missing from the scene of an explosion that killed three deputies on july eighteenth. Steve Futterman has more.
Initially, sheriff's explosive experts recovered two grenades at a townhouse.
What happened to the missing grenade in the Los Angeles sheriff’s department explosion?
The grenades were determined not capable of exploding and were transported back to the bomb squad headquarters. The next day, though, officials say one of the military-style grenades exploded, resulting in the three deaths. Now the Sheriff's Department cannot figure out what happened to the second grenade. L.A. Sheriff Robert Luna says investigators have explored.
This included X rain all special enforcement bureau vehicles, a grid search. We have looked at everything.
When asked if possibly both grenades blew up in the explosion, Special Agent Kenny Cooper said, right now they know of only one grenade exploding. For NPR News, I'm Steve Federman in Los Angeles.
And you're listening to NPR News. Hackers have accessed the personal data of most of the one point four million customers of the Alliance Life Insurance Company of North America. The Minneapolis based company says the breach took place on july sixteenth.
How did Venus Williams explain her return to tennis and the role of health insurance?
Officials say the data was accessed through a third party cloud based system, but they did not breach the company's own computer system. Forty-five year old Venus Williams won two tennis matches before getting knocked out of the DC Open this weekend. She caused a stir when she said she started competing after a year-long break because she needed the health benefits, NPR Selena Simmons Duffin reports.
Venus Williams explained in a post match interview Tuesday what brought her back to the court.
So I was like, I got to get my benefits up.
Cobra allows people who had health insurance through their jobs to keep their plan after the job ends. The Women's Tennis Association told NPR that players are only eligible for WTA health plans if they have a certain ranking and play a certain number of events.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the latest update on humanitarian aid and airdrops in Gaza?
0:01–0:48
2
How are the border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand affecting displaced populations?
0:48–1:31
3
Why is Congressman Keith Self’s stance on releasing the Epstein files generating controversy?
1:31–2:14
4
What happened to the missing grenade in the Los Angeles sheriff’s department explosion?
2:14–3:12
5
How did Venus Williams explain her return to tennis and the role of health insurance?
3:12–4:21
6
What are the demands of Fenway Park concession workers during their ongoing strike?
4:21–4:39