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President Trump says he is not satisfied with Iran's latest proposal to end the war.
“NPR's Frank Ordonia's reports Trump says Iran is asking for things he cannot agree”
with." President Trump says Iran wants to make a deal and that negotiations are continuing, but that it's difficult to make progress because of Iran's disjoined leadership. He says his team is trying to negotiate with two to four different groups of Iranians leaders and it puts us in the bad position.
One group wants to make a certain deal, the other group wants to make a certain deal." Speaking outside the White House on his way to Florida, Trump says negotiations continue by phone and that they've made strides during these talks, but he also said he wasn't sure if the Iranians would ever get to where they needed to be. Franco Ordonia's NPR News, the White House.
Iran Wars hit 60 days, but lawmakers disagree on whether that means today is the deadline under federal law for Congress to intervene. President Trump says he does not need congressional authorization for the conflict because as he sees it, last month, U.S. Iran ceasefire terminated hostilities that began at the end of February.
Well, shipment disruptions out of the straight-of-war moves persist, though, in the U.S. gas prices have soared again this week, the autoclubtripleasing, the average national cost for a gallon of regular gasoline jumped nine cents overnight. It's almost $4.40 that's up more than 30 cents in a week, rising energy prices mean higher cost for consumers, business analyst Jill Schlesinger says Americans need to watch
their spending.
“It is important to just budget in for this.”
Just note, if you can, find $50 or $100 somewhere for every month that you could pull back, even if it means a little bit less fun, be prepared. This is not going away anytime soon. Schlesinger speaking with NPR's morning edition. Major tech companies including Amazon and Nvidia are set to expand their classified military
work. NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the administration announced new deals to tap leading Silicon Valley firms for battlefield operations. Pentagon officials say Microsoft Amazon Google, open AI, and other companies will soon
make the U.S. military an AI-first fighting force.
The Pentagon's new deals mean cutting-edge AI tools will be used to generate target lists for military strikes and to analyze data before deploying lethal weapons. The deals come as anthropic refuses to let the defense department use its technology for
“things like mass surveillance and autonomous drones.”
Anthropics pushback has led till litigation and President Trump ordering the federal government to cut ties with the company. Trump officials are hoping the new deals with Silicon Valley's biggest players will lead to a compromise from Anthropic, which did not return a request for comment. Bobby Allen and PR news.
This is NPR. British authorities charged a 45-year-old man in connection with an attack investigators described as an act of terrorism. They say SS Haliman is accused of attacking a long-time friend in South London before he took a train to the north part of the city and targeted Jewish people to Jewish men sustained
stab wounds. And Israeli men who was detained in Israel for wearing a skull cap or keep up with an Israeli and Palestinian flag on it has been in the news in this country, and PR's owner briefly sat down with him in Tel Aviv to hear his story. The pandemic and religious Jew Alex Sinclair says he began wearing a Kipah with both flags
stitched into it many years ago because he didn't want to be put in a certain box. People see wearing a Kipah they think that your pro settler anti-Palestinian, right-wing, orthodox, fundamentalist, and that's a box that's very far from who I am and from my values and from my Judaism and from my Zionism. Sinclair believes in coexistence and supports the creation of a Palestinian state.
He was briefly detained for incitement. The police cut the Palestinian flag out of his Kipah. Sinclair feels Israeli society has become more fearful and less tolerant since the 2023 Hamas attack. Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre-News, Tel Aviv.
The fame artist, Banksy, has again left his mark this time with a statue of a man blinded by billowing flag, observers speculate the work that surface this week in central London is about blind patriotism, some were also left wondering how Banksy managed the installation in an area so close to Buckingham Palace, this is NPR News.
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