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Vice President JD Vance says the U.S. is prepared to go back to striking Iran if negotiations don't end in a deal.
“President Trump said earlier that he called off an attack on Iran after allies like”
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates said Iran was close to agreeing to a deal. And PR's Deepa Shiveron has more." The VP said Iran recognizes that having a nuclear weapon is a red line for the U.S. and that no deal can be reached unless Iran agrees not to have a nuclear weapon. But Vance also says resorting back to military tax on Iran is still an option.
"We're locked and loaded. We don't want to go down that pathway, but the President is willing and able to go down that pathway if we have to." Vance says he believes that increased prices of gas and other goods that have come from the war are a temporary increase and they will come down.
But in the meantime, voters are not happy with how the administration is handling the economy. Deepa Shiveron and PR news, the White House. Air travel continues to get more expensive, a domestic flight and mid-May costs about an average of $94 more than it did a year ago, according to data published by the travel
“site Kayak, and PR's Stephen Bassaha reports international flights have gone up even more.”
The war with Iran is really what's to blame here. The closure of the street of Formus has sent up the cost of jet fuel, and with it, airline prices. A flight to London costs about $350 more than it did a year ago, according to Kayak. PR-bular is Kayak CEO, and he says demand for international flights is down.
"In response, you see people with increased interest in domestic travel. Maybe staying closer to home, adjusting their trips."
While domestic flights are cheaper than international, they have still gone up 30 percent
compared with a year ago. The cost will be up more than 40 percent. Stephen Bassaha and PR news. Today, some Kentucky voters are deciding of Congressman Thomas Massey becomes the latest casualty, and President Trump's effort to out-stripe public and lawmakers he views as
adversaries. It's become one of the most expensive US House primaries in history, Karen Zarr with MemberStation W.U.K.Y. reports. Massey's Trump back-to-ponent Ed Gowrine told conservative broadcaster Mark Levin, "The poll showed Trump supporters want Massey out."
"He has the nerve to say, "Well, I'll work for the people I answer them." "Well, ever, evidently, not they'd be giving him a pink flip."
Trump branded Massey a "third-rate congressman on social media," and a day ahead of
the primary, "centre-fence secretary-peat" headset to Kentucky to rally voters for Gowrine, Massey's response. "President Trump would not be doing this if they were confident that they were winning, and they're worried that I'm going to win."
“Massey believes the key is turnout among voters under 55.”
For NPR News, I'm Karen Zarr in Lexington, Kentucky. The US stock market gave back more of its record setting rally today. This is NPR. A 56-year-old woman has died after falling into an open manhole on a busy New York City street.
Police, saying she was exiting her SUV in Midtown, Manhattan when she fell into the whole late last night. It remains unclear why the hole was uncovered. The utility con Edison is investigating an expressed condolences to her family. A group of cities and towns and conservative Utah is working to bring more renewable energy
to the electric grid. The effort could be a model for other cities to take climate action, even as the federal government pulls back on clean power, David Condos of member-station KUER reports. The coalition, called Utah Renewable Communities, has a big goal. Generate enough clean power to offset the electricity used in nearly 300,000 homes in businesses.
To do this, the communities planned to build new energy projects, like solar and wind. It's a unique collaboration with the projects funded by a small monthly fee on customers' bills and the regional utility delivering the power to the grid. Emily Quinton is sustainability director with Summit County, one of the coalition's 19 members.
She shows us that, at the local level, you couldn't continue to move on climate strategies kind of regardless of the federal wins. The group plans to begin adding new power to the grid by 2030. For NPR News, I'm David Condos in Castle Valley, Utah.
Billy Jean King celebrated earning a college degree 65 years after first-taking classes.
She initially enrolled in 1961, but left to pursue a legendary tennis career. The 82-year-old is the first-ever family to graduate, she received a bachelor's in history from Cal State Los Angeles. This is NPR. For poor people in one of the world's fastest growing, mega cities, development means displacement
and violence. We owe them less now. We owe them more. We owe them more. We owe them more.
On the Sunday Story, the human cost of building Lagos Nigeria into the Dubai of Africa. This is now to the Sunday Story from the Up First Podcast on the NPR app.
