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support. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday that Iran's response to his
“proposal was in his words unbelievably weak, and he dismissed it as garbage.”
"And frankly, the leaders have been killed at the first level, second level, and half
in the third level, and then they come back, and they want to negotiate, and they give a system, and it's a stupid proposal." Iranian state media say Iran's demands included end to the blockade, reparations, and sovereignty over the state of Formus. Iran's chokehold over the state is fueling high gas prices.
Iran were likely to loom over Trump's meeting this week, but Chinese leader Xi Jinping he is to leave for Beijing later today. Non-profit suing the federal government over its decision to resurface and paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, before July 4th, and appears on Estosia, Siyoka's reports. The Aviski 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 Bergum 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. An Asosia Tsukus and PR News.
After a Virginia court nullified a redistricting referendum that would have given Democrats for more favorable districts in the 2026 midterms, the state's Democrats are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to pause that ruling, Jack Khalil, of Member Station VPM reports. Democrats in Virginia have been rushing to join an effort to counter a gerrymandering push President Trump started in July.
Last month, voters approved the constitutional amendment that would lead to a map with a big advantage for Democrats.
“But Friday, the Supreme Court of Virginia rule that the legislature didn't follow the state”
constitutions amendment process. Meanwhile, Republicans this week in Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina are taking steps to redistrict at Trump's urging. After the Supreme Court, we can protections for minority voters. Friend pair news, I'm Chad Khalil in Richmond.
U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Alabama to pursue using a voting map that eliminates one of the states to largely black congressional districts. Alabama have been under a court order to use two black districts, but as a court to reconsider, and light of the ruling that further limited the landmark voting rights act, Alabama wants to instead use a map past in 2023.
This is in PR news. European Union has agreed on news sanctions at Target as Rayleigh settlers in the occupied West Bank, who've committed violence against Palestinians and leaders of Hamas, in pairs with Sherlock reports. The sanctions package that targets three settlers and four settler organizations had been
repeatedly blocked by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Hungry's new leader, Peter Magia, though, has not blocked the measure.
Last week, the European Commission said the EU would spend six million euros on volunteer
monitors and emergency responders to settle a violence in the occupied West Bank after a sharp rise in the tax against Palestinians. Is Rayleigh foreign minister, Gideon Sar, on X, called the EU sanctions on settlers, arbitrary, and said the decision to target both Hamas officials and settlers created a quote distorted moral equivalence.
Ruth Sherlock and Pianneus, Rammalla, in the occupied West Bank. British Prime Minister Keer, Starmer, under renewed pressure to step down for a ministerial aid step to side Monday, and more than 70 of Starmer's Labour Party lawmakers publicly called for his resignation after Labour's poor showing in last week's elections during a speech on Monday, Starmer urged Labour to stick with him, saying a party leadership
contest would only bring chaos, following Monday's rally on Wall Street shares in Asia mostly declined stocks and Tokyo advanced, but they were down in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Shanghai. South Korea's benchmark closed down more than one and a half percent on profit-taking. Oil prices, steady it around $100 per barrel.
This is in PR news. As hurricane season approaches, a political storm is brewing at the federal disaster agency. But can we afford to lose this vital agency? Whenever there's a disaster, the first thing people say is, "Where's FEMA?" American emergency, the movement to kill FEMA, is a brand new series from WNYC's on
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