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"I from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.

President Trump appears to be backing off his political demands as he claims he end of

war and Iran is near."

And Pierce Franco Ordonius reports that the White House says Trump will determine whether

Iran has unconditionally surrendered. The White House has been clear about its four military objectives, but it's been less clear about the political ones. Trump has said he would settle for nothing short of unconditional surrender and that the U.S. needed to be part of the selection of an acceptable leader.

White House press secretary Caroline Levitt told reporters Trump did not mean that literally. "When President Trump says that Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender, he's not reclaiming the Iranian regime is going to come out and say that themselves." She says he meant that when Iran no longer poses a credible threat to the U.S.

That's when he would determine the end of U.S. operations.

In the meantime, Iran's choice of a new Supreme Leader is the late Iotola's son, who Trump is called "acceptable." Franco Ordonius, MPR News, the White House.

China says it's evacuated thousands of its citizens from the Middle East and Iran as

U.S. and Israeli strikes continue. MPR's Emily Fang reports that the scale of the evacuations underlines a closer ties to China's been building with countries in the region. Over 10,000 Chinese citizens were brought out of Gulf countries like Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, according to a Chinese ministry spokesperson.

And more than 3,000 Chinese citizens had to be evacuated out of Iran, mostly overland or Azerbaijan. With scores of flights canceled in the region, Beijing had to work with Chinese Airlines to boost special evacuation flights out of the Gulf, where China has pursued close economic insecurity ties with Gulf countries.

Wang Yi, China's Foreign Minister, is that earlier this week that the U.S. really wore with Iran should not have happened, and he warned against what he called the "law of the jungle coming back," Emily Fang and Pernus.

To Ohio now, where a federal judge has ruled that prediction markets are avoiding the law.

MPR's bombing Allen reports here are more than 20 federal lawsuits over the bedding crisis future. U.S. District Judge Sarah Morrison says, "Apps like calcium, polymarket, are no different than gambling." Calshy argued it should not be regulated like a gambling operation because it's technically

a type of futures contract, not a gambling site. But billions of dollars are spent every week on Calshy, where people bet on who will win the latest season of survivor, whether Trump will say midnight hammer, and how many times sports announcers will say the word foul. And her ruling, Morrison wrote, "Treating this as anything other than gambling is absurd."

She says it plans to appeal.

Nearly $6 billion was traded in the past week on Calshy and polymarket, which is up nearly

2,000 percent from last year, Bobby Allen and Pernus. This is MPR news. Serious storm damage is being reported in Kankyke County, Illinois about an hour south of Chicago. No injuries have been reported, but the Illinois State Police, as there is major damage from a reported tornado on the south side of Kankyke City, the National Weather Services

Warning that severe storms could spin off tornadoes and bring large hail from Texas to Michigan. The race to replace Marjorie Taylor Green and Congress is heading to a runoff, no candidate was able to break the 50 percent threshold to avoid the runoff in Georgia's 14th congressional district.

The top two vocators in Tuesday's specially-lection will face each other next month. Trump endorsed Republican, Clay Fuller, and Democrat Sean Harris. A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University shows the active ingredient in magic mushrooms could help smokers quit, and piers will stone has more. The study enrolled just over 80 current smokers who were randomly separated into two groups,

one used a nicotine patch. The other ingested a relatively high dose of pure psilocybin, just one time. To six month mark, the psilocybin group had more than six times greater odds of being abstinent from cigarettes than their counterparts who had nicotine. Matthew Johnson at Johns Hopkins led the study.

"I was surprised by the sheer magnitude of the effect." Everyone in the trial also underwent 13 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy. Recent interest in psychedelics has mostly focused on depression and other mental health conditions. psilocybin could be considered for drug approval in the next few years.

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