Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher

🎧 NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi says that while Israelis can sometimes be nonchalant about missile fire, this conflict "isn't the same at all." The Israeli air defense system, known as the Iron Dome, hasn't been able to intercept all of the missiles, leading to a level of destruction previously unseen in central Israel. In Bat Yam, one of the worst-hit strongholds, residents tell Al-Shalchi that they're rattled, but that this war was inevitable and had been hanging over their heads for decades. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on continuing the war in an interview with Fox News last night. Iran has not publicly signaled that ceasefire talks were imminent. 

🎧 Trump and his fellow G7 leaders have clashed in the past over differing values, NPR White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben says. Trump's team wanted narrowly focused G7 agendas, centered mostly on economics, while other leaders wanted to talk about more expansive topics like climate change and gender equality. Leaders usually wrap the summit with a joint statement called a communique, but they've scrapped that approach this year. Kelly Ann Shaw, Trump's lead negotiator in 2019, calls the move "an improvement" and said last year's communique was "full of empty promises and platitudes."