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to Pakistan for talks this weekend on the ceasefire with Iran. The truth has been under strain.
“Iran says Israel's deadly attacks in Lebanon violate the Pakistan brokered ceasefire, and”
has choked off access to the Strait of Ormuz, here's in purest annual ester. From Iran's perspective, they feel emboldened. This war that started with a call to replace the regime, well, one humane was replaced by another humane. So the regime is still there.
It is proven that it can withstand the most powerful army in the world and the most powerful
army in the region, Israel, and it discovered the Strait of Ormuz, and what havoc it can wreak, not only on the Gulf, but on the entire globe. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian back-hospital militancy made that announcement Thursday amid disagreement over whether the Iran ceasefire included Lebanon.
EPA Administrator Lee Zelden delivered the keynote speech at a conference for those who say climate change is not a problem. He championed the Trump administration's efforts to roll back climate policies as imperial and summer reports. Zelden spoke at a conference of the Heartland Institute, a free market group that denies
that humans are contributing to climate change. Scientific research shows that burning fossil fuels has increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the highest level in human history. That traps heat, raising temperatures, and making weather events like hurricanes more extreme. Zelden celebrated the EPA's decision to stop regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant
He says that policy was government overreach and focused too much on the worst case scenarios, more in summer and PR news. "Merala now, which has reached a settlement agreement with the owner of a cargo ship
“that hit Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in 2024, causing its collapse.”
From Member Station W.Y.P.R. Scott Muskelli reports." Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown says the state's reached a settlement with Gray-Sotion Private and Synergy Marine Group, the owner and manager of the Dali. The ship accidentally hit the bridge more than two years ago. Brown says the settlement resolves a portion of the state's claims to deal with the crash
and subsequent collapse of the bridge. The settlement does not resolve claims against shipbuilder Hyundai. The National Transportation Safety Board report found a loose wire was responsible for the ship losing power and ultimately hitting the bridge. The announcement comes after Ace American Insurance Company settled with the ship owner
last week.
The insurance company paid out $350 million to the state of Maryland after the incident.
There are still more than 50 parties including the city of Baltimore, suing Gray-Sotion and Synergy over the crash. For MPR News, I'm Scott Masceoni, and Baltimore. "This is in PR."
“California Accord has unsealed the secret warrants that a sheriff used to seize hundreds of”
thousands of ballots that were on the race question says to whether the sheriff's investigation is valid from a member's Haitian KVCR medicine element reports. At issue is whether a crime was committed to justify a judge signing off on the warrants. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, obtained them to investigate and alleged vote count discrepancy in a statewide election last year.
In that election, Californians voted to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats. Bianco recently seized some 650,000 of those ballots. William Mary Mount La Professor, Justin Levitt, says probable cause must be established to get a warrant, and that didn't happen.
"Most disturbingly, there doesn't seem to be any indication of criminal wrongdoing." The California Supreme Court has halted Bianco's investigation while reviews the case. For NPR News, I'm Madison Amit, and San Bernardino. According to a study by the Associated Press Major League Baseball's average salary has
climbed 3.4% to a record of more than $5.3 million.
The AP says in New York Matt's stop spending at the season's start for the fourth straight year, and Matt's outputer Juan Soto, a highest paid player for the second consecutive season followed by New York Yankees outfielder, Cody Belinger. But actual markets in Asia have mostly higher stocks in South Korea, Japan, and China all seeing gains in Friday trading, Brent Crude Oil, the International Standard, is above $96
a barrel in Asia, ahead of talks in Pakistan, Saturday, and a potential permanent ceasefire. This is NPR News. This week on the MPR Politics podcast, in Iran, President Trump is both escalating and de-escalating, pausing strikes on energy sites, claiming Iran wants to make a deal, but also moving troops to the region.
We impact what we know about where those troops are headed, and how talks are playing out behind closed doors. This week on the MPR Politics podcast, listen on the MPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
