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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. NATO held an emergency meeting today to discuss the Russian drones that entered Polish airspace, prompting NATO fighter jets to shoot them down. NPR's Rob Schmitz with the latest. It was the first time in the history of NATO that alliance fighter jets had engaged enemy aircraft in allied airspace, and it came the same night Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine. German defense minister Boris Pistorius, says the drones were deliberately set on their course into Poland and were armed with ammunition.

NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta told reporters the incursion only reinforces the importance of NATO and of the need for Europe to build its defenses. Russia's defense ministry said it did not target Poland. Robschmits and Pierre News, Berlin. Houthi rebels in Yemen say Israeli forces attack the capital, Sena. The Iran-backed Houthis are aligned with Gaza's Hamas and their war with Israel. In an attempt to kill Hamas leaders, Israel launched an airstrike on a Hamas meeting in Doha, Qatar, yesterday. Several people were killed.

The Trump administration condemned the attack inside Qatar, which, like Israel, is also an important U.S. ally. NASA scientists say rock formed billions of years ago from sediment on the bottom of a lake contains possible signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy said during a news conference at the Space Agency's scientists studied the data for a year and, quote, cannot find another explanation. This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting. NASA released an image of reddish rock-bearing ring-shaped features. They resemble leopard spots and have dark poppy seed-like marks. Scientists say they still need to conduct more analysis, preferably in labs on Earth, before they reach any conclusions. The Inspector General of the Labor Department has launched a review of the way

the government gathers and reports some key economic figures. NPR Scott Horsley reports the review comes a little over a month after President Trump fired the leader of the department's number crunching bureau. In a memo announcing the audit, Assistant Inspector General Laura Nicolosi says her team plans to focus on the challenges the government faces in collecting the data behind the monthly inflation and jobs reports and ways those challenges might be mitigated. The departments acknowledge that it's conducting fewer price checks for its inflation reports, largely because of staffing cuts made by the Trump administration. President Trump has also criticized the government thumb or crunchers after big

downward revisions in the monthly jobs reports. Revised figures released last week showed the U.S. economy lost jobs in June for the first time since the pandemic winter of 2020. Scott Horsley, in Pair News, Washington. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow was down. More than 200 points or roughly half a percent at 45,488. This is NPR News. Nearly one in five children younger than 13 years of age, says they're spending up to four hours every day on social media.

NPR's Reto Chatterjee reports that's, according to a new study, by the Digital Security Company, ORA. Researchers at ORA looked at data of phone use among eight to 17-year-olds who have the company's software on their phones. Prolonged use of social media by those 13 and under suggest kids either override age verification or use social media excessively with parental consent. They also found that many kids stopped their mornings by checking their phones repeatedly. Psychologist Scott Collins, chief medical officer of aura, says use of AI chatbots is common among teens. The average message length is 10 or 12 times longer than the message length that they're just sending a text message to their parent or their friend or even, on Snapchat. He says more than 36% of these conversations involve sexually explicit or romantic scenarios. Read through Chatejee and PR News. Three Division I men's basketball players have

permanently lost their eligibility after the NCAA found the student athletes bet on their own games at San Jose State and Fresno State during the 2024-25 regular season. The governing body for college basketball says an investigation revealed Mikel Robinson, Stephen Vasquez, and Jalen Weaver also bet on each other's games or provided information that helped others to do so. The Dow is down 234 points. S&Ps gained 13. The NASDAQ is off 18 points. This is NPR News.