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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Israel launched its deepest ground invasion into Lebanon in more than 25 years, capturing a strategic mountain in the southern part of the country. |
| 0:13.7 | NPR's Jane Arraf has more. The last time Israeli forces were this far into Lebanon was in 2000 at the end of an 18-year occupation when they withdrew |
| 0:23.5 | amid fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah. On Sunday, the Israeli military said it captured a |
| 0:29.3 | mountaintop crusader-era castle near the southern city of Nabatia. Last week, Lebanon's |
| 0:35.8 | culture minister said the castle had suffered a direct hit from an |
| 0:39.2 | Israeli strike. Israel has sent tanks and troops into Lebanon, as well as launching hundreds of |
| 0:44.3 | strikes a day, according to UN peacekeepers. Hezbollah has fired back with a much smaller number of attacks |
| 0:50.1 | on Israeli forces. It has recently deployed low-tech drones that Israel's prime minister has |
| 0:56.6 | called a major threat. Jane Arraf, NPR News, Beirut. President Trump is now set to kick off an |
| 1:03.7 | event on the National Mall next month as part of the celebration of America's 250th birthday, |
| 1:09.7 | this after a number of musical acts, pulled out. And Pierce Tamara |
| 1:13.0 | Keith reports. The Great American State Fair is meant to be a two-week-long World's Fair, |
| 1:18.6 | complete with Ferris wheel. But as soon as the slate of nostalgic musical performers was |
| 1:23.6 | announced, artists started pulling out, saying they didn't realize the association with Trump. |
| 1:29.7 | Trump called them third-rate artists and said they would be replaced with the, quote, |
| 1:34.4 | number one attraction anywhere in the world, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis |
| 1:40.6 | in his prime. Trump even suggested making it a MAGA rally. In a statement |
| 1:46.3 | Freedom 250 spokesperson, Danielle Alvarez, said Trump will now personally kick off the fair with an |
| 1:52.7 | opening ceremony on June 24th. Tamara Keith, NPR News. There's big news in cancer treatments. A new |
| 2:00.2 | drug is proving much more effective than |
| 2:02.8 | standard chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. And here's Yuki Noguchi has more. |
| 2:08.5 | The data is from a phase three clinical study on a drug called Diraxon RASIP. It's a breakthrough |
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