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>> Live from MPR News, I'm trial Snyder, Connecticut Democratic Senator Richa...

says voters are watching after the GOP lead Senate rejected the latest Democratic effort to halt the war in Iran.

>> Republicans are going to be held accountable now and in November for their unquestioning

support for a war of impulse and illusion, it is costing Americans literally billions of dollars. Lumenhol told MS now that he plans to bring up the war powers resolution again, perhaps as soon as next week. The resolution the Senate turned aside Wednesday would require the U.S. to withdraw military

forces until Congress authorizes further action. Pakistan's Army chief arrived in Tehran Wednesday to meet with Iranian officials, the latest diplomatic move to East tensions and arrange a second round of negotiations after

talks on Sunday, ended without a breakthrough.

White House press secretary Caroline Levitt calls the conversations mediated by Pakistan productive and ongoing, but she denied reports that the U.S. had formally requested an extension of the two-week ceasefire. Federal jury in New York has found that live nation in its ticket master's subsidiary illegally monopolized big concert venues and overcharged ticket buyers.

It appears that Isabella Gomez-Sarmiyento reports. >> The jury's decision is a victory for dozens of states, which accused live nation of controlling too many aspects of the live entertainment industry. That includes through venue ownership, concert promotion, artist management, and ticketing. The case against live nation in its subsidiary ticket master was initially led by the U.S.

Department of Justice. In March, one week after the trial began, the government and several states reached a settlement with the company. But the case went ahead with 33 states and the district of Columbia as the plaintiffs. Nation owns managers or works with hundreds of venues across the U.S.

The jury's decision has the potential to radically reshape the live music industry. Isabella Gomez-Sarmiyento and PR news. >> Judge in Austin, Texas is order camp mystic, the Christian girls camp were 27 people died during last summer's deadly flood to preserve cabins that were damaged. Kaylee, how do member station KUT report?

>> Camp mystic plans to welcome over 800 campers back this summer. But it will not be able to use cabins or other structures damaged during last July's flooding. Judge Maya Gaira Gamble says these sites need to be preserved, so attorneys for more than a dozen families suing the camp can collect evidence.

Here's Brad Beckworth, an attorney for the parents of missing eight-year-old campers seal steward. >> We don't know what we don't have, but we know a lot of things were destroyed, may not

work, may never be found.

>> That makes the duty to preserve what does exist, even more important.

>> The steward's another family's accused camp mystic of negligent behavior during and leading up to the flood, which the camp denies. >> You're listening to NPR news. Former NPR CEO Kevin Kloss has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer's, little shelter propelled NPR into the ranks of the nation's top news organizations.

>> St. Pierre's David Folkham, Blick reports. >> Kloss arrived at NPR in 1998 with a keen understanding of the importance of journalism. He had been a foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post and president of rate of free Europe where you'll liberty the international broadcaster funded by the U.S. government.

At NPR he pushed to stabilize the network. He connected with the late philanthropist Joan Crock, the widow of McDonald's Magnet Ray Crock, over a shared love of foreign news.

Her request in 2003 was valued at more than $200 million dollars.

It paid for new reporting jobs, expanded foreign coverage, as second-to-head quarters in Los Angeles area, and an endowment that helped NPR weather financial crises and political storms. Throughout his tenure, close to light and specific stories, stopping reporters in the networks hallways and firing off emails of praise, a journalist to the last David Folkham flick and

PR news. >> Another night of severe weather in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office reported a flooding overnight across the county in Milwaukee cars were submerged, trapping drivers and forcing officials to close portions of interstate 43. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency after at least three tornadoes

at the state this week. President Trump will be in Las Vegas today, expected to arrive in the afternoon on a trip aimed at highlighting workers who were in tips and overtime getting bigger returns this tax season. >> Thanks to the tax cut Billy signed into law last year, Trump also scheduled to make

a stop in Phoenix on Friday. This is NPR News. >> We've all been there, maybe somebody tells you too much about the twisting of a movie or they tell you who dies at the end. In other words, you've run into a spoiler.

How should you handle spoilers and what even counts as a spoiler?

We'll tell you how we handle spoilers as critics on NPR's pop culture hacky hour. Listen via the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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