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The U.S. and Iran are preparing for high-level talks, expected to start in Pakistan tomorrow.
“A two-week ceasefire reached earlier this week has been fragile, with Israeli strikes in Lebanon”
continuing, and today, Kuwait accuses Iran of launching drone attacks despite the ceasefire. Vice President Vance is traveling to Islamabad to lead the U.S. delegation. The war between the U.S. is real and Iran has been going on for more than five weeks. NPR's D Parvaz went to the border of Turkey and Iran to hear what Iranians have to say about the ceasefire.
The first two days of the ceasefire have been shaky, with strikes of very severity happening
in Lebanon, Iran, Israel and the Gulf Arab states. The Iranians, I spoke to the border, didn't want to be named fear and reprisal upon the return, and none of them believe that the temporary truce would hold. After two weeks, it's highly likely that there will be war set of 30-year-old from Tehran.
D Parvaz and PR News Vaughan Turkey. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin 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 NPR's”
law and summer reports. Zeldin 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. Zeldin 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 and summer, NPR News.
Researchers say climate change has pushed a beloved species toward extinction. The Emperor Penguin is now listed as endangered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature made the declaration. Emperor penguins in Antarctica rely on sea ice for many purposes, but it is melting rapidly.
“The Antarctic First Seal was also moved to the endangered category.”
The four Artemis-2 astronauts are on track to return home tonight after a 10-day mission
around the moon and back, splash down in the Pacific off southern California is scheduled
for 807 p.m. eastern time. The crew ventured to the far side of the moon traveling deeper into space than any humans had before. Pilot Victor Glover says the mission sets the stage for future exploration. This is just the beginning, and there's nothing that we can accomplish when we pull all
of our differences together, not in spite of them, but when we pull them together, and we work on something big for the good of everyone. NASA says on their return the crew hit the halfway mark between the moon and Earth last night. This is NPR News in Washington.
A new study appears to show how the brain is able to imagine things it can't see. NPR's John Hamilton reports on the research in the journal Science. Researchers wanted to understand how memory and imagination work together in the brain. Theroon Wadiya of Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Caltech says it takes both functions to accomplish something people do every day.
I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object. So Wadiya and a team studied the activity of more than 700 neurons in 16 people. The scientists found that the same neurons that fire when someone looks at an object also fire when a person imagines that object.
Finding supports earlier evidence from brain scans, suggesting that seeing and imagining activate the same circuits. John Hamilton, NPR News The future of ticket master will be in the hands of a jury today. The anti-trust trial in New York focuses on whether live nation illegally monopolize the concert industry at the expense of fans, artists, and venues, dozens of state attorneys
general brought the suit to break up live nation and its subsidiary ticket master. Early in the trial, live nation reached a settlement with the justice department, but the states moved ahead with their case. Global oil prices have risen amid that shaky ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Brent Crude, the international standard, rose above $97 a barrel today.
The status of the major shipping route, the rate of harm moves is unclear. In the U.S., the national average cost of regular gas is $4.15 a gallon today, depending more than yesterday. This is NPR. On Consider This, NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the
economy to the world, but every story starts with a question. NPR, we stand for your right to be curious, to make sense of the biggest story of the day and what it means for you. Follow Consider This, wherever you get your podcasts.
