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Just smart, straightforward advice right away. Listen to the Life Kit podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcast. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump says there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. And as NPR's Frank Ordonia's reports, Trump says he plans to play a role in accepting the next leader in Iraq, Iran.

President Trump has predicted fighting will continue for the next four to five weeks. He's repeatedly said that Iran has wanted to reach a deal, but this morning he wrote on social media that he'll accept no deal except, quote, unconditional surrender. He continued that after an acceptable leader is chosen, U.S. will work with partners to bring Iran back and rebuild its economy. He closed by writing, Iran will have a great future. Make Iran great again.

Adding in parentheses, M-I-G-A, M-E-G-A.

Clearly a play on MAGA. This prime leader Ali Haman-A was killed in the initial era strikes in Iran on Saturday. His replacement has yet to be chosen. Franco, Ordonia's, NPR News. The European Union has criticized Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky for remarks he made about Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban,

that could be interpreted as a threat. As Terry Schultz reports, the two leaders have a long history of animosity between them. President Zelensky on Thursday suggested he was going to give the address of what he called a certain person to Ukrainian troops to deal with, a reference widely interpreted to mean Hungarian Prime Minister Orban. While the EU's executive arm the European Commission is often battling Hungary on behalf of Ukraine,

this time's spokesperson Olaf Gail said Zelensky had gone too far. That type of language is not acceptable. There must not be threats against EU member states.

Tensions are high between Zelensky and Orban as the Hungarian leader is refusing to let a 90-billion-year-old loan package

for Ukraine go through until key restores Russian oil flows through a pipeline Zelensky says was damaged by a Russian strike. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz and Brussels. President Trump says the entire U.S. collegiate sports system is going to be destroyed unless that system is fixed quickly. At a conference on Friday, he suggested he would write an executive order within a week. It hopes it would spark action from Congress.

Former Alabama football coach Nick Sabin also spoke at the conference.

I think we have a challenge here today about the ramifications of this current system

on how it helps players be successful in their future and how we can impact and create a system that will help and preserve the opportunity for student athletes to be able to have success in their future beyond athletics. A large celebration of the life of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson was held in Chicago on Friday, thousands of people gathered at a church on the city's south side, including three former presidents,

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. Jackson died on February 17, he was 84 years old. This is NPR News meta is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising. Over its artificial intelligence classes, his empire's Bobby Allen reports the suit claims meta has misled consumers about the products privacy protections. Meta has promised users of its Ray Band meta glasses that what's being recorded is not

viewable by the company, but a Swedish newspaper investigation found that subcontractors for meta were able to watch footage taken with the glasses of intimate material including bathroom visits and sexual encounters.

Now a new lawsuit alleges that meta failed to disclose how the glasses can be used as a secret

surveillance tool with footage being sent to AI data collection centers. Meta says whatever is recorded is intended to stay on a user's device, but that occasionally the smart glasses can share footage with contractors. The lawsuit says contractors have at times viewed credit card numbers, nudity, and identifiable faces. Bobby Allen and PR News.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Andrew Mountbatten Windsor should be removed from the royal line of succession, Carney says the former prince's deplorable actions that caused him to be stripped of his royal titles, also necessitate his removal from the line of succession. He lost those titles over his close ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Iceland will be holding a rep for end of the fall on weather to restart talks about possible

membership in the European Union. The country's cabinet approved a plan Friday for a vote on August 29th. Parliament will need to agree before that vote takes place. The push comes as security threats continue to grow in the area and as President Trump threatens to take over neighboring Greenland.

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