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Jack Spear
In Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he is cautiously optimistic about a proposed 30 day ceasefire proposal between Ukraine and R. Russia wants more Talks. More from NPR's Michelle Kellerman.
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Michelle Kellerman
Wrapping up a visit to Canada, where he took part in a G7 meeting. Secretary Rubio says it's been a good week on the diplomatic front.
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We certainly feel like we're at least some steps closer to ending this war and bringing peace, but it's still a long journey. It's a journey of many steps.
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Michelle Kellerman
Rubio says the administration will decide on its next steps after consulting with special envoy Steve Witkoff, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Asked if the US should trust Putin, Rubio called it an irrelevant question, adding, quote, this is not a reality show. It's not about personalities. It's about doing things to end the war. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
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Jack Spear
The former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has appeared via video link for an initial hearing at the International Criminal Court. As Villa Marx reports, he faces charges of crimes against humanity.
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Willem Marks
A court spokesperson said Duterte would follow proceedings via video as he learned for the first time formally of the charges prosecutors have levelled against. The court was eventually told Duterte's long flight was the reason he did not appear in person following his transfer from Manila earlier this week. The presiding judge said a pretrial hearing would take place in September to confirm whether the evidence behind the charges was sufficiently strong for a trial to proceed. Duterte's attorney said his client had been abducted from his country. For NPR News, I'm Willem Marks.
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Jack Spear
Arlington National Cemetery has removed historical sections about prominent African American, Hispanic and female vets from its website. That's According to a U.S. official not authorized to speak to the media. The official says it's in compliance with an order from top Pentagon officials to remove all DoD news and feature articles, photos and videos that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Stories of many prominent vets like General Coleman Powell, the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs, can still be found. A SpaceX rocket is launched with four astronauts to the International Space Station. NPR's Jeff Bromfield reports. The launch is a big step toward getting two other astronauts home.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off smoothly from its pad in Florida.
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Michelle Kellerman
Four, three, two, one, ignition.
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And on board are two NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut. They'll be part of the next crew at the station. Their launch clears astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams to come back to Earth. Wilmore and Williams arrived at the station last June aboard an experimental spacecraft built by Boeing. But problems with that spacecraft caused NASA to send it home empty and extended the stay of Wilmore and Williams from roughly a week to to more than nine months. Jeff Brumfiel, NPR News.
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Jack Spear
On Wall street, The Dow rose 674 points. This is NPR. It's apparently a very large weather system and it's wreaking havoc in a big part of the country tonight. The storm system has brought tornadoes to the Midwest with threats looming from the Mississippi Valley into the Deep south through the weekend. National Weather Service says upwards of 100 million people could be affected, predicting the possibility of powerful wind gusts from the Canadian border to Texas, possibly fueling wildfires in some drier areas. In Oklahoma, high winds apparently toppled tractor trailers. The mayor of Miami beach is threatening to shut down a small independent movie theater that's been screening the film no other land. NPR's Mandalito Barko explains the documentary spotlights Israeli Palestinian conflicts.
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Mandalit del Barco
O Cinema south beach has had sold out screenings of the Oscar winning documentary no Other Land. Palestinian activist Basil Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham chronicled Israeli military forces continually destroying a community on the West Bank.
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This is what's happening in my village now. Soldiers are everywhere.
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Mandalit del Barco
Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Miner calls the film, quote, a one sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people. He's threatened to cut off city grant money to the nonprofit theater and to terminate its lease. That's alarming to filmmaker Kareem Tapsh, co founder and chair of the board of O Cinema. The threats of closing a cinema down.
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Jack Spear
Because some people do not like the films we show certainly sounds like censorship to me.
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Mandalit del Barco
He says O Cinema will continue screening the film while Miami beach officials consider shuttering the theater. Mandalit del Barco, NPR news.
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Jack Spear
We'll rose 63 cents a barrel to 67.18 a barrel. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News, in Washington.
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