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President Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal to end the war earlier this week.
“He called it unacceptable and said the ceasefire was on life support.”
But the White House in Tehran did not disclose details of what was in the proposal. NPR's Abatrami has more and what Iran was asking for. So there are new demands that didn't exist before this war. And those include, for example, an end to Israel's war on the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, where Israel controls a huge part of the south of Lebanon and where people are being killed daily in Lebanon.
And also some of these demands now include war reparations, a total lifting of a U.S. Naval blockade out at sea that's keeping Iran from freely being able to export its oil. NPR's Abatrami reporting, southern legislatures are continuing their redistricting efforts. President Trump is urging Republican-led states to draw new congressional districts to boost the party's chances of keeping control of Congress this year.
That broke Tharrington of Membersation WRKF reports that Louisiana lawmakers are moving forward with a new map after a meeting that ended shortly before dawn today. After heated debate and opposition from members of the public, a state Senate committee
“advanced a redistricting plan that could help Republicans flip a house seat now represented”
by a Democrat. Under the plan that state would have five Republican-leaning districts in one Democratic state Senator Royce De Plessis opposed it. Hundreds of people showed up to support the diversity and true democracy of this state in the way ignored.
The bill's author said he wanted to give Republicans an advantage in the mid-terms. Governor Jeff Landry suspended House primaries after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act. The plan goes before the full Senate on Thursday and the House next. For MPR News, I'm Brooke Tharrington and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It's clear the outpouring of interest in psychedelics has increased visibility.
Most voters had heard about psychedelics in the news on social media or from conversations with friends, close to two-thirds want to make it easier for scientists to study the substances, and nearly half said therapeutic use should be legal.
But under a third of respondents said they would like to see criminal penalties removed,
and about one in four still has very negative views of people who use psychedelics across the survey conservative voters were less receptive to reforms. The University of California Berkeley survey was conducted last year before President Trump's executive order aimed at expanding research and access to the drugs for medical purposes. Willstone and PR News.
The price of food eaten at home rose 2.9% last month compared to a year earlier, high gas prices tariffs and extreme weather were to blame. That's the highest year over year inflation for the category since August 2023. This is NPR News. The U.S. military says the remains of the second Army soldier who went missing during military
exercises in Morocco have been recovered, specialist Mariah Simone Collington was 19 years
old, she's the second soldier who fell off a cliff during a recreational hike in Morocco.
The remains of Lieutenant Kendrick Lamont-Key Jr. were recovered earlier this week. META is introducing an incognito mode for WhatsApp to allow private conversations with its AI chat bond. The feature aims to address privacy concerns about sharing sensitive information, META says messages in this mode will be processed securely won't be saved by default and will disappear upon
exiting. Every World Cup brings a different soccer ball design, sometimes people love it other times not so much. As Freddie Madade reports from META KNKX. Adidas has designed a new soccer ball for each World Cup since 1970, starting with a traditional
black and white checkered ball. Mike Baitola is the executive editor at the online publication Soccer America and he has a theory about why this is done.
“I think they basically want to ramp up the conversation about the ball because they're trying”
to sell it. Former U.S. men soccer reserve keeper, Marcus Hanuman thinks Adidas is trying to make the game better. I don't know if they do, but that's their idea right and they're trying to keep advancing the game.
Adidas says the ball is designed to reflect each tournament it's used in. This year's ball features symbols for each of the three host countries, a blue star for the U.S., a red maple leaf for Canada and a green eagle for Mexico. For NPR News, I'm Freddie Monadis. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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