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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Speaking last night at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Vice President Kamala Harris said the time is now to get a ceasefire deal in place in Gaza. Now is the time.
And the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done and bring the hostages home. Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are due to wrap up a week-long tour of swing states with a rally in Las Vegas today.
Harris's comments about a ceasefire deal came as Palestinian health authorities say more than 90 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a school in Gaza that was being used to house displaced people. The Israeli military has acknowledged the strike, saying it targeted a Hamas command center at the school.
Russia's defense ministry says troops are fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces who launched an offensive inside Russian territory. The Ukrainians crossed the border into the Kursk region five days ago.
While former President Trump is all but guaranteed to carry Montana, he made the trip to Bozeman Friday to drum up support for Senate candidate Tim Sheehy. A Sheehy victory this November would help flip the Senate. Montana Public Radio's Shailene Rager reports. The former president stumped for Sheehy, who's running to unseat Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator Jon Tester.
Trump has long criticized Tester after the senator opposed Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. You have to defeat John Tester. I'm telling you, you have to defeat him. Trump held four rallies in Montana in 2018 to support the last Republican who challenged Tester, but to no avail. Tester has outraised Sheehy this cycle 3-1. Republicans have swept recent elections in the state.
And Sheehy is gaining ground, according to a poll from Emerson College released this week, putting the candidates in a dead heat.
For NPR News, I'm Shaley Riker in Bozeman. A park fire in California has burned more than 427,000 acres, destroying homes and other structures. And as NPR's Julia Simon reports, the fire has also burned forests that were supposed to be permanent carbon offsets. A carbon offset is basically a promise. A promise that money goes towards some action that reduces or removes pollution that heats the planet.
In the case of carbon offsets from forests, often the promise is that the money will help protect a forest that would have been cut down. The problem is that forests sometimes burn. And at least 43,000 of the acres that burned in the Park Fire are forests that were supposed to stay standing for at least 100 years as carbon offsets. When trees burn, they end up releasing planet-heating carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Forest carbon offsets have also recently burned in New Mexico and Washington. Julia Simon, NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News.
The FDA's decision represents a significant setback for the company and the broader movement to bring psychedelics into the mainstream of mental health care.
In a letter to the drugmaker, the FDA said it could not approve MDMA in conjunction with psychotherapy based on the current data. Instead, it asked the company to conduct another large clinical trial, which could take years.
Dr. Boris Heifetz studies psychedelics, including MDMA, at Stanford University. It's an incredible disappointment and a huge blow to the fields. The future of MDMA was uncertain after advisors to the FDA rejected the evidence behind the treatment earlier this summer. Supporters, including veterans and prominent figures in psychedelics, pushed back on the criticism and rallied to build public support...
but the agency ended up siding with its advisors. Will Stone, NPR News. Remnants of Tropical Storm Debbie now moving over Atlantic Canada after soaking parts of New York and Pennsylvania yesterday, prompting evacuations and helicopter rescues and leaving behind states of emergency elsewhere on the East Coast due to flooding.
Ethiopian runner Tamrat Tola won gold today at the men's marathon at the Paris Olympics. Tola set an Olympic record, finishing in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 26 seconds. Two-time defending champion Eliud Kipchoge had been going for a historic third straight goal, but he did not finish. I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington.
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