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Ryland Barton
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.
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Unnamed Interviewee or Commentator
They called us and they said, how about stopping? And I think you're going to see things happen over there that 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.
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Ryland Barton
It's unusual for the US 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 Strai. 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.
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Julia Simon
Trump says that projects in Alaska and West Virginia will be America's first new coal plants built since 2013 and and some of the $700 million would go to new coal export infrastructure. In his remarks from the Oval Office, Trump called coal a 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.
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Ryland Barton
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.
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Rafael Nam
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 to announced results that disappointed investors. Tech shares fell, but banks such as JP Morgan were big winners, while some healthcare 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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Ryland Barton
The average long term US Mortgage rate eased this week from its highest level in nine months. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the benchmark 30 year fixed rate mortgage fell from 6.48% from 6.53% last week. The average rate remains below where it was a year ago, but higher than it was before the war in Iran. When mortgage rates declined, they give home buyers more purchasing power. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Residents of Havana are dealing with a growing garbage crisis. Trash has been accumulating on street corners as US Energy blockade causes power outages. And a fuel crisis in Cuba that's halted garbage, forcing residents to burn waste in the streets. Some citizens are trying to clean up neighborhoods and repurpose waste. For decades, researchers have wondered how homing pigeons navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. Ari Daniel reports. A team of researchers assert they may now have the answer.
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Ari Daniel
The scientists examine different parts of the homing pigeon. Certain immune cells in the bird's liver eat old red blood cells, which contain iron. The resulting bundle of iron atoms causes the immune cells to respond to a magnetic field temporarily depleted these cells. The pigeons could no longer fly home under overcast conditions, but the ones with the cells intact could do it.
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Rafael Nam
And then I thought, well, my God,
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Julia Simon
this could really be real.
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Ari Daniel
Martin Bukowski 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.
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Ryland Barton
Los Angeles Angels right fielder Joe Adell reached up to a deep fly ball in Anaheim on Tuesday, but the ball bounced off his head and over the wall. The batter, TJ 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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DataIQ Announcer
This message comes from Data iku. AI is everywhere, but companies struggle to prove results. For that, they need people, orchestration and governance working as1.Data IQ is the platform for AI success built to bring it all together. Visit Dataiku.com NPR.