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Bella DiPaolo is glad if you're happily married, but she is perfectly happy being single. I would love to have someone who took care of my car or someone who cleaned up the dishes after dinner. But then I'd want them to leave. From yourself to your dog to your spouse are significant others. That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Canada has elected a new Prime Minister. Mark Carney won the ruling Liberal Party's leadership contest today and he'll now replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau announced his resignation earlier this year. NPR's Jackie Northam has more.

59-year-old Mark Carney is considered a political outsider. A Harvard and Oxford graduate, Carney comes from the world of finance, which includes stints on Wall Street and as head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. That expertise could be critical to tackle Canada's economic challenges. But Carney vows he will also be tough with President Trump and his corrosive trade policies against Canada. Trump helped energize the Liberal Party's leadership contest. His taunts about turning Canada into a 51st state have sparked a wave of nationalism and gave the Liberals a large bounce in the polls.

Carney is expected to be sworn in within a week. Jackie Northam, NPR News. The Syrian government is sealed off the coastal communities where security members and hundreds of people from a religious minority were killed over the past few days. The country's president spoke about the situation today. NPR's Jane Arath has more from Damascus. Syrian President Ahmad Isharra spoke briefly at mosque prayers on Sunday. Only a shaky cell phone video seemed to record the moment.

He said the country has to preserve national unity and that Syrians were capable of living together. Hundreds of Syrians, many of them Alawite civilians, the religious sect of deposed leader Bashar al-Assad, were killed in Latakia and Tartus provinces after government security forces were ambushed there. The Syrian government blamed it on fighters not under control of the government. The UN and the US called on Ashara to protect Syrians. Jane Araf and PR News Damascus. The city of Selma, Alabama commemorated the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday today. That's when peaceful protesters were violently beat while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. As Troy Public Radio's

Jack Anderson tells us, speakers at a pre-march rally discussed the current state of voting rights in the U.S. Bridge crossing director, Johanse MacBella, spoke at the historic Brown Chapel AME Church where the original march began. For over 60 years, the world has stood on the backs of Selma. And instead of just being held up, Selma has been pushed down further and further and further and further. The rain didn't stop thousands of participants from marching across the bridge with signs and banners supporting voting rights.

Sitting presidents and vice presidents have been among the special guests in the past, but neither President Trump nor Vice President Vance were at this year's commemoration. For NPR News, I'm Jack Anderson in Selma, Alabama. And you're listening to NPR News. Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza. Sunday's move follows last weekend's end to aid deliveries to the region. Without electricity, a desalination plant will likely shut down. Hamas is calling the move part of Israel's starvation policy.

Israel is pushing Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. Negotiations for a second phase are expected to get underway as soon as this week. The mayor of San Jose, California is offering a plan to help people who are experiencing homelessness as Elise Manukian of member station KQED reports, unhoused people would be offered shelter three times before being arrested. San Jose resident Jacqueline Eden says she hopes the effort to reduce homelessness will be productive. They're not just telling them hey we're gonna arrest you they're giving them three chance to maybe the first time they don't accept it. Do they say okay well just think about it. Mayor Matt Mahan's plan would make San Jose the latest California city

to attempt to reduce unsheltered homelessness. The move comes after the US Supreme Court ruled last year to allow arrests of people who are sleeping in public. Critics of Mahan's plan point to a report from February that shows most city shelter beds are already full. They say the mayor's proposal won't help unhoused people get what they need, permanent, stable housing. For NPR News, I'm Elise Minuchin. Russell Henley chipped in from 50 feet on the 16th hole for an eagle today and went on to win the Arnold Palmer Golf Invitational in Orlando. It's his biggest career win so far. He was down three strokes with just five holes left to play, but he finished with the eagle, a birdie, and two pars to take a one-stroke win over Colin Morikawa.

I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. Hey, it's a Martinez. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.