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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' 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.
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 Shaylee 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.
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