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President Trump says the Iran ceasefires on life support after he rejected Tehran's latest proposal to end the war.
“Officials said the proposal included some concessions on Iran's disputed nuclear”
program, but Trump dismissed it as garbage.
>> And frankly, the leaders have been killed at the first level, second level, and half
of the third level, and then they come back and they want to negotiate and they give this is stupid. It's a stupid proposal, and nobody would take it, although Obama would have taken it, Biden would have taken it, when they took was far worse. >> Iran's chokehold on the straight-of-war moves in America's blockade of Iranian ports are
still in place. Trump said he would suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder higher fuel prices caused by the war. Some businesses that have applied for tear-free funds are expected to begin receiving their money this week.
This is almost three months after the Supreme Court found most of President Trump's tariffs from last year illegal, and Peras Alina Seljuk reports.
“>> The U.S. government took about two months to set up an online system where companies”
that paid illegal tariffs could request their money back.
That's an estimated $166 billion, though, not all that is being processed in this first
wave. U.S. customs has also acknowledged that it did reject more than a third of refund claims for technical and data errors, though importers can re-file. This is about two weeks ago, the agency said it had accepted claims covering about a fifth of all the shipments that are due refunds.
Nike is the latest big company to face a class-action lawsuit that argues shoppers should get a cut of any refunds because they paid the costs through higher prices. Nike declined comment. Alina Seljuk and Pierre News. >> A nonprofit organization is suing the federal government over its decision to resurface
and paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, blue before July 4th, as NPR's Anastasia Silcus reports the advocacy group is asking a federal judge to halt the project.
“>> The Cultural Landscape Foundation filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington,”
D.C., it's suing the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum saying there was no federal review of the plans, which is mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act.
Last month, President Trump said the project would cost no more than $2 million.
But the New York Times has reported that the project's final cost could be upwards of $13 million in a no-bid contract. The Interior Department would not confirm the cost to NPR, but said it was necessary to get the project done by the Fourth of July. Anastasia Silcus and Pierre News.
The new poll finds that younger Americans are more pessimistic than older ones about the state of the job market, the Gallup poll results are reversal from just three years ago when older Americans were more pessimistic. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The EU has unanimously agreed to impose new sanctions on the leaders of the Palestinian
militant group Hamas and the Israeli settler movement. It's a decision sparked by growing outrage over the devastation in Gaza during the Israel Hamas War. It comes after Hungary's new government dropped opposition to the move. The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondent
Center last month has pleaded not guilty in court, meanwhile NPR so debt UCEF says the survey shows many are skeptical that this and two other assassination attempts were all real. The new scarred UGov poll surveyed 1,000 Americans. It asked about the incident at the dinner as well as incidents at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and on golf grounds
in West Palm Beach, Florida. 30% of respondents thought at least one of those was staged. Sophia Rubinson is with Newsguard. She says that previously uptake of conspiracy theories has been a feature of the political right in the U.S. But this is really one area where the political left seems to be very susceptible for
you know, believing this type of baseless narratives. Across all three events, Democrats were most skeptical of the Butler incident with 42 percent saying they thought it was staged. ODET UCEF and PR news. The eyes of the movie world are turning to the can film festival.
The coat-deserved spectacular starts tomorrow, playing host to some of the most anticipated movies of the year in a parade of glamorous red carpets and premieres, highlights include new films by James Gray and Pedro Almadova. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. For a growing number of women, single motherhood feels like the right choice. She walked eyes with me and that was the moment that I knew we were about to have one
hell of a life together. On the Sunday story, how these single mothers are making it work. Listen now to the Sunday story from the U.S. podcast on the NPR app.
