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President Trump has given Iran until APM eastern time to give into his demands or the
“U.S. will launch a major attack, including on bridges and power plants.”
The morning President Trump posted on social media a whole civilization will die tonight
never be brought back again.
Vice President J.D. Vance said today there is still negotiation going on and he hopes they get to a resolution, but if not, the President is prepared to act." "We've got tools at our tool kit that we so far haven't decided to use. The President of the United States can decide to use them and he will decide to use them if the Iranians don't change their course of conduct."
The Iranian ambassador to his Lama Bond posted on social media today that Pakistan's efforts to negotiate an end to the U.S. Israel war against Iran are, quote, "approaching a critical sensitive stage." NPR's D.A. Hadid reports from Mumbai. Iranian ambassador, Reza, Amiri Muhaddam, did not offer more detail about the negotiations led by Pakistan, a country that offers good relations with both Iran and the United States.
Muhaddam followed his post on ex with an interview to stay run media, where he set
“up one of Iran's key conditions to end the war, a total halt to attacks, along with”
the guarantee they will not restart. That condition reflects Iranian concerns that the U.S. and Israel will use negotiations as a time to prepare for more attacks. D.A. Hadid and Pian use, Mumbai. The federal agency that runs Medicare has told health insurance companies, they'll get a two and a half percent rate increase for Medicare-advantaged plans that takes effect in
2027. NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin reports the government reversed his decision to keep the rate flat. A 2.5 percent increase for companies that run private Medicare Advantage plans is a smaller bump than the last few years, but it's much more than what the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed in January, 0.09%. That sent health insurance stocks down.
“Companies lobbied for a bigger increase, pointing to rising health costs. The lobbying”
and market reaction seemed to have made an impact. Medicare official Chris Clump spoke to reporters on Monday. "We are balancing our stewardship, both in near-term stability and launch our sustainability while trying to send the light signals to the market."
The Trump administration has been critical of Medicare Advantage because it costs tax payers
more per in-worldly than traditional Medicare. Selena Simmons Duffin and Pian use. Artemis, too, is heading back to Earth after making a record-breaking trip around the moon. The four astronauts, three Americans and one Canadian, traveled farther from Earth than anyone else, and saw views of the far side of the moon ever seen before. They're now in a path for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday. The mission is
part of NASA's plans to put astronauts on the moon in 2028. This is NPR News in Washington. The United Nations Migration Agency says more than 80 migrants are missing after their boat capsized in the Central Mediterranean. It had left Libya Sunday and took on water during severe weather conditions. The British government has blocked Kanye West the rapper now known as EA from entering the U.K. in response to anti-Semitic commences made
in the past. NPR's Fatima Al-Qasabi reports this comes after days of controversy over his scheduled appearance at a music festival in London this summer. The U.K. government said it had made the decision to block West from traveling to the U.K. on the grounds his presence in the U.K. would quote, "not be conducive to the public good." The rapper has made several anti-Semitic remarks in recent years, last year selling
swastika t-shirts on his website. He has since apologized for the comments, attributing them to his bipolar disorder, but his scheduled appearance as the headline act of London's wireless festival prompted widespread outrage. The festival scheduled for July has now been
cancelled all together. British Prime Minister Keerstama said West should never have been
invited to perform and that his government would not stop fighting the poison of anti-Semitism, Fatima Al-Qasabi MPR News London. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says Ford Motor Company is recalling more than 422,000 vehicles. The windshield wipers might fail, which could reduce visibility and cause an accident. The recall includes Lincoln Navigators and Ford Expeditions as well as certain F-Series trucks. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News in Washington.
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