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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. U.S. Envoy Amos Hochstein has left Israel after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hawstein had been in the region trying to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

NPR's Kat-Lansdorf reports from Tel Aviv.

Hoxstein didn't brief media in Israel before departing, but in Lebanon earlier this week,

he called talks, quote, very constructive.

Hoxstein had extended his stay in Beirut by an extra day and made what he called

additional progress in talks with the Lebanese parliament speaker, who's been negotiating

on Hezbollah's behalf. In Israel,

Hawkestein met with Netanyahu and Israel's new defense minister, Israel Katz. Israel launched

an invasion into southern Lebanon more than seven weeks ago after Hezbollah and Israel had been

trading cross-border fire for nearly a year. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Last demonstrations by white supremacist groups are on the rise across the nation. NPR's

Windsor Johnson reports experts are calling these displays a trend linked to changing demographics

and deep political divisions. The flash demonstrations are usually small groups made up of

mostly masked men who show up in communities waving offensive

banners, white power flags, enchanting hateful rhetoric. Orrin Siegel is with the Anti-Defamation

League's Center on Extremism. He says these groups then use videos of the displays to recruit or

inspire others on social media. Marchers that we've seen over the past couple of years, they really hit every part of the

country. If there is a divisive debate, that often can influence where they will show up.

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