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Why is everyone so obsessed with

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traditional wives or tradwives on social

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media? This week we're

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talking about the viral videos of women

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making marshmallows and mozzarella from scratch, and

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how behind the sheen of calm kitchens

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and cute fits, there's some interesting pessimism

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about our modern world. And

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that's worth digging into. Next time

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on It's Been a Minute from NPR. Live

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from NPR News in Washington, I'm

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Janine Herbst. Tens of thousands

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of displaced Palestinians are being forced

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to move again as Israeli

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troops maneuver around Rafah, Gaza's

0:36

southernmost city. Israel's

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military says it's also hitting Hamas

0:40

targets in northern Gaza, as NPR's

0:42

Lauren Freire reports from Tel Aviv.

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With Israeli tanks in Rafah but

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the U.S. urging them to hold

0:48

back, the military says it's attacking

0:50

northern Gaza now too. A

0:53

spokesman says it's trying to prevent Hamas from

0:55

re-establishing there. Explosions could be heard

0:57

as far away as central Israel.

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Meanwhile, Israel says it's evacuated the

1:02

eastern third of Rafah, where half

1:04

of the population had taken shelter.

1:07

Ever since Israeli tanks rolled in Monday,

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the United Nations says the border with

1:11

Egypt has been closed and U.N. missions

1:13

have been blocked. Inside Israel,

1:16

families of the October 7th hostages

1:18

held a rally Saturday night, demanding

1:20

their government halt its Rafah offensive

1:22

and reach a deal to bring

1:24

their loved ones home. Lauren

1:26

Freire, NPR News, Tel Aviv. The

1:29

United Nations World Food Program says that more

1:31

than 300 people have been

1:33

killed in flash flooding in Afghanistan.

1:36

The WFP says it's

1:38

distributing fortified biscuits to

1:40

survivors. And Piers Deahadeed has

1:42

more from Mumbai. The U.N.'s

1:45

World Food Program shared a video

1:47

on X, formerly Twitter, showing what

1:49

looked like a gushing river of

1:51

muddy water, presumably where a road

1:53

had once been in the northern

1:55

province of Badla. Afghan

2:00

in recent recent days killing these

2:02

people. But flooding in Bakhlan

2:04

appears to be the deadliest so far.

2:07

Afghans are some of the world's poorest

2:09

people and they've suffered

2:11

deeply because of extreme weather made

2:14

more severe by climate change from

2:16

relentless droughts to unusually heavy rains.

2:19

But they've done almost nothing to cause

2:21

the emissions that are warming up the

2:23

planet. Taya Hadid and

2:25

Tianyuan News, Mumbai. Former

2:29

President Donald Trump's hush money trial

2:31

continues next week in New York.

2:34

But Judge Mershan warned him once

2:36

again about violating the gag order

2:39

to not disparage witnesses, jurors or

2:41

court staff. And here's Ron Elving

2:43

has more. The judge

2:45

has been trying to restrain Trump's

2:48

public statements about the trial and

2:50

about participants in it. This

2:52

week he made it clear he would be

2:54

willing to send Trump to jail if his

2:56

violations of the gag order continue. There are

2:58

those who have said Trump actually

3:01

wants a brief sentence for contempt

3:03

for the sympathy factor. It might get him

3:05

as well as a goad to his supporters.

3:08

We shall see how that sorts out next week when

3:11

former attorney Michael Cohen, the president's

3:13

own former attorney, appears as

3:16

the key witness against him. NPR's

3:19

Ron Elving reporting. You're listening to

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NPR News from Washington. A social

3:26

media campaign aimed at pushing celebrities

3:28

to speak out about the conflict

3:30

in Gaza went into overdrive this

3:32

week after the Met Gala. NPR's

3:35

Chloe Veltman reports users on TikTok

3:37

earned millions of views for their

3:40

videos telling people to block stars

3:42

like Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj and

3:44

Matt Damon. The calls to

3:46

block celebrities on social media have

3:48

been going on for months. But

3:50

Mondays Met Gala with its unchecked

3:53

display of privilege and wealth enraged

3:55

TikTokers like Christopher Claflin. Selecting on the

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peasants only works when the peasants aren't

3:59

watching. other peasants be wiped off

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the face of the planet. The star-studded

4:03

annual event took place just as thousands

4:06

of Palestinians were fleeing an Israeli assault

4:08

on Rafa Gaza. The

4:10

bloc seeks to undermine stars' advertising revenue

4:12

on social media. But many

4:14

users on these platforms are also complaining

4:16

that they are still receiving ads related

4:19

to stars they blocked. That's because ads

4:21

are often not run through the celebrities'

4:23

accounts, but third parties. Chloe Waltman, NPR

4:25

News. A

4:28

federal judge in Texas has temporarily

4:30

halted the Biden administration's plan to

4:32

lower credit card late fees to

4:34

$8. It was

4:36

set to go into effect next week. Judge

4:38

Mark Pittman's nationwide injunction Friday is a

4:41

win for banks and credit card companies

4:43

and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which

4:45

led the suit on behalf of the

4:47

banks, which collect billions of dollars from

4:49

those late fees. The Consumer

4:51

Financial Protection Bureau's proposed regulations would have set

4:54

a late fee ceiling of

4:56

$8.00 or required banks to prove why

4:58

they should charge more. I'm Janine

5:00

Herbst, NPR News, in Washington. Listen

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