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The U.S. House has canceled a vote tonight on legislation to compel President Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran.
“Democrats had hoped the vote would be a turning point after the Senate approved the”
measure earlier this week. The White House argues congressional approval isn't required because of the ceasefire with Iran. The White House is rolling back environmental regulations on refrigerants. The moves intended to ease grocery prices, but it also relaxes a role meant to limit
greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. As NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Lavin reports, the rule change will give businesses more time to comply with a 2023 rule that aimed to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons,
which are powerful greenhouse gases.
Flanked by grocery store executives and owners, the President claimed that compliance was expensive. "These people had a live with it, not only refrigerants, but a lot more, and it was making the equipment unaffordable, and the actual benefit was nothing. It just made it worse."
In response to a question about whether businesses will pass the savings on to consumers, Kroger CEO Greg Foren said his company is "right in the middle of doing that at the moment." However, he did not elaborate. Danielle Kurtz-Lavin and PR News to the White House. The former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit has been sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison
for her role in a $250 million fraud case, Amy Bach ran feeding our future, which had claimed it provided millions of meals to children in need during the pandemic. Her lawyer argues she has been unfairly painted as the mastermind. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approved the design plan for President Trump's 250-foot arts across from the national mall, and PR's Rachel Treesman reports.
The Seven-member Commission, appointed by President Trump, approved an earlier design last month with proposed changes. The version that the Greenlight was very similar to the original, even keeping the 84-foot gold statues on top that the Commission had suggested nixing. Members of the public shared concerns at the meeting about the arches scale, tone, and
location, near Arlington National Cemetery. The Commission's secretary says they got some 600 written comments overwhelmingly against it. Another federal agency, the National Capital Planning Commission, will consider the arch at its next meeting in early June.
Rachel Treesman and PR News. And SpaceX has canceled a launch of it the latest version of the massive Starship Rocket tonight, just as the company prepares an initial public stock offering. When it eventually flies, it will be uncrued, but a subsequent version could return astronauts to the surface of the moon.
“The company says Starship is key to launching more satellites for its Starlink wireless”
internet network, and it plans to use the rocket to lift cargo, and eventually, as many as 100 people at a time into orbit as part of its goal of colonizing Mars. U.S. stocks ticked higher today, following the latest reversal for oil prices, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Newsreel says it has deported hundreds of activists who took part in a flotilla attempting
to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, about 420 activists were flown to Istanbul, the flotilla attempted to draw attention to Gaza's conditions with over 50 boats, Israel called it a PR stunt for Hamas. A leading national science advocacy group is calling for a public hearing for the nomination of Jim O'Neill to head the National Science Foundation.
The agency has been in turmoil recently under the Trump Administration, and PR's Acadia Riddle reports. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the largest general advocacy group of its kind. Its leadership expressed grave concern about Jim O'Neill, President Trump's choice to
“head one of the most important federal agencies in the country, writing quote, "a confirmation”
hearing is essential if Congress is to determine whether Mr. O'Neill is up to the task."
With experience in Silicon Valley among other fields, O'Neill does not have a deep science background. The organization stressed that science is already suffering, noting that money is not being distributed to researchers, and that scientists are fleeing to other countries, including China.
The U.S. it warns is gambling with the pipeline of talent for the next generation, when it comes to scientific discovery. Katie Riddle, in PR News. Some lucky New York City residents will get a chance to snag cheap seats to this summer's high-priced world cup.
Mayors Iran-Mondania announced that $1,000 tickets costing $50 will be made available to residents of the city. It will be available for all games, played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, except for the finals. This is NPR News from Washington.
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