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 From NPR News in Washington, I’m Lakshmi Singh. Former President Jimmy Carter is receiving radiation treatment this afternoon for cancer, which doctors have diagnosed as melanoma. In a candid 1 exchange with reporters early today in Atlanta, Carter recounted when he was told that cancer, which he suspects may started somewhere else from his body, has spread to his liver. “And then that same afternoon, we had an MRI of my head and neck, and it showed up that it has already in four places of my brain. So I would say that night and next day until I came back up to Emory. I just thought I have a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease.”

The 90-year-old says he was surprisingly calmer than expected in part because he says he’s had a gratifying and adventurous 2 life. The Democrat 3 served one term in the White House (1977—1981). Asked if he had any regrets, Carter said he had sent one more helicopter in the field to attempt to rescue the Iran hostages. That might have got himself reelected he joked. But Carter says wouldn’t treat anything from the Carter Center in Atlanta, a non-profit he and his wife Rosalynn launched to promote healthcare and democracy. The two women to make military history by getting through US Army Ranger 4 School are speaking for the first time about the impact of their achievement. Army captain Kristen Griest speaks to the ongoing 5 campaign to reevaluate the ban on women combat rules. “With our performance in Ranger School, it’s been able to inform that decision as to what they can expect from women in the military, that we can handle things physically 6 and mentally on the same level as men. And now we can deal with the same stresses and training that the men can.” Two days ago, Griest and First Lieutenant 7 Shaye Haver became the first female to complete a grueling 62-day course that tests soldiers’ mental and physical ability, to function under combat conditions. They and 94 men will formally graduate Friday. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has resigned just seven months after rising to power. If opposition 8 party are unable to form a government, John Psaropoulos reports Greece is expected to have a general election a month from now. Alexis Tsipras says he has exhausted 9 the limits of January’s popular mandate 10. He’s asking the Greek people to renew it if they judge the bailout loan he got from the country’s creditors 11 last month on condition that he implemented 12 strict austerity measures is in the country’s interest. Recent opinion polls show his left-wing Syriza Party enjoying double the approval rates of the opposition conservatives he unseated. This despised Syriza from its election promise to stop austerity. Syriza came to power with 36 percent of the vote and rules with a coalition 13 partner. The most auspicious 14 polls suggest it could win reelection with broad enough support to rule alone. For NPR News, I’m John Psaropoulos in Athens. All major markets in the seats in the US down more than 2 percent This is NPR. UNICEF reports more than 1,000 children have been killed or mined in Yemen since Saudi Arabia began its bombing campaign against Houthi rebels at the end of March. Lisa Schlein reports from Geneva, ten million children nearly half the population need humanitarian 15 aid. Yemen’s children are bearing the brunt of this devastating 16 war, but UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac says children are victims not only of bombs and bullets. “Can’t take place normally. It’s about diarrhea due to the lack of safe water. It’s also a lot about health services *, then many children die just because they cannot see any doctor.” UNICEF warns 1.8 million children will suffer from malnutrition 17 this year. Millions of people lack food, clean drinking water and basic healthcare. Nearly two million children are missing out on school, and the number of child soldiers is on the rise. For NPR News, I’m Lisa Schlein in Geneva. In the US, homes are selling at their strongest pace in eight years. The National Association of Realtors says existing home sales jumped two percent in July, their third straight monthly increase. The number of Americans to file an unemployment claim is just higher for the week, but the less-than 280,000—the overall level still reflects strong growth in the labor 18 market. Less volatile 19 four-week average and jobless claims also reflects solid gains. We’ve seen a sharp drop in US stocks before the close, Dow down 358 points, more than two percent of its 16,991; NASDAQ and S&P also down more than two percent. This is NPR News.