"Live from NPR News in Washington," 9 Corva Coleman, "It's the final full day...
in Iran."
“Pakistan is preparing to host peace talks, but neither the U.S. nor Iran have apparently”
sent negotiators to Pakistan's capital for talks. Separately, a different ceasefire continues to hold between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Pierre's cat Lonstorv has more from Tire, Lebanon. "Driving around southern Lebanon, destruction from Israeli air and drone strikes is everywhere. People bridges, tops, blasted off high-rise apartments, pull buildings, toppled to the ground.
Temporary graves dot the roadside to bury the dead until they can be returned to their home villages." These really military is still occupying a huge swath of land along the border for what it calls a buffer zone, to keep his blow from attacking Israel. That means many in Lebanon can't go home, like 50-year-old Zayna Mahdi, whose village is now
occupied. "I feel anger, sadness, but also fear," she says, "how long will it be before we can go home?" Israel has said it's prepared to stay for months, even years. Cat Lonstorv and Pierre-News, Tire, Lebanon.
“"Labor's secretary, Larry Chavez, Deremer, has resigned, NPR's Andrea Schubert-Portz,”
she was under investigation over allegations of misconduct while in office." White House communications director Steven Chung announced the departure on X. He wrote that Chavez Deremer was leaving for a job in the private sector, and added that she'd done "a phenomenal job in her role." The Chavez Deremer's short tenure was marked by controversy.
The Labor Department's Inspector General was looking into complaints that the secretary was having an affair with a subordinate, drinking alcohol on the job, and using taxpayer funded travel to visit with friends and family members, that's according to the New York Post and other media outlets. MPR has not independently verified the contents of the investigation.
Her deputy Keith Sonderling has been named acting labor secretary, Andrea Schu and Pierre-News.
The cost of buying U.S. land has gone up on average more than 75 percent since before
the pandemic, that is significantly faster than inflation. And Pierre-S Steven Bissahe reports that will likely make the country's housing shortage even worse. "Not only is land more expensive, there's a lot less of it to buy according to a new report from reocturne.com.
Both houses and land got snatched up in a pandemic era buying frenzy. And the problem when it comes to land." This is my grandpa would say, "God only makes so much ground." Joel Burner is a senior economist at reocturne.com. As for the consequences of less more expensive land, what that means is that homes are
going to continue to be expensive, that new construction is going to continue to be challenged. And we'll continue to face a housing shortage in the U.S. The average price for an acre in the North East has more than doubled since 2019 to more than $47,000. Steven Bissahe and PR News.
"On Wall Street, Dow Futures are higher. This is NPR." President Trump's choice to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve Board has his confirmation hearing today. Kevin Warsh will testify before the Senate Banking Committee.
He is facing potential roadblocks when Republican senators says he won't support Warsh until President Trump drops the investigation into current Fed, Chair Jerome Powell. Democratic senators want to know if Warsh will be fully independent of Trump. British Prime Minister Kier-Starmer is facing renewed calls to resign. This is over his appointment of a close friend of late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein,
to be the British Ambassador to the United States. Prime Minister Starmer fired the Ambassador several months into his tenure, but anger over that appointment erupted again yesterday in the U.K. parliament. Piers-Lorn Freyer reports from London. Starmer admits he knew Peter Mandelson was friends with Epstein, but made him ambassador
anyway and then fired him when he learned the extent of those ties. The Prime Minister has apologized repeatedly for his judgment. Now let's come out that Mandelson failed the government's own vetting process. And Starmer has had to face lawmakers anger in Parliament yet again.
Mr. Speaker, I know many members across the House will find these facts to be incredible.
Starmer says he didn't know Mandelson failed the vetting one of his top aides has resigned over this. But opposition politicians are calling for Starmer to resign, too. This uproar is happening a little over two weeks before municipal elections across the U.K.
Lauren Freyer and PR News, London. And I'm Corvaculman, NPR News, from Washington. You know, every day and up first NPR's golden globe nominated morning news podcast, we bring
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