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President Trump says any P. Still with Iran should include an agreement by more Middle
“Eastern and Muslim countries to normalize relations with Israel.”
Ampere's Bryan Man has more. Most US allies are focused on reopening the state of Hormuz and limiting Iran's nuclear program, but writing on his social media platform Trump added a new demand. It should be mandatory that these countries at a minimum simultaneously sign onto the Abram Accords, Trump said, referring to a diplomatic agreement now in place between Israel,
the U.S. and a handful of countries, including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Trump says Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia should also establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. The proposal comes after months of war, sparked by U.S. and Israeli strikes. The former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro calls Trump's bid for a sweeping regional
diplomatic breakthrough unrealistic.
Bryan Man and PR news. Federal agencies engaged in science are in turmoil. The Trump administration has dismissed leadership at both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Ampere's Katie O'rittle has more.
“Under the Trump administration, 8 of 10 high-ranking officials at the NIH have now been”
dismissed or left. In a recent hearing with Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin called for accountability for their departure. In midst of an emerging Ebola outbreak, we have a leadership vacuum at the world's premier infectious disease institute and across our health agencies.
This is a great concern.
NIH director, Jay Bautatariah, defended the administration and said that critical science
and research would continue. Katie O'rittle and PR news. Homeowner Association fees have been rising in recent years, and more homeowners are now in danger of losing their homes for not keeping up with those payments. And Piers Steven Bassaha has more.
H.O.A. fees went up about 8% last year according to realtor.com. In H.O.A. leans have also gone up 8% and a half percent during that time according to the real estate company Benutech.
“Alene is a claim of property owner O's debt, like unpaid H.O.A. fees, and that could lead to”
a home being foreclosed. Ryan Fox is the chief revenue officer of Benutech and says homeowners have little control over rising H.O.A. fees. It's control over fixed rate mortgage and what your payments can be each month, but there's not a control necessarily over what the H.O.A. is going to do into the future.
The median H.O.A. fee in the U.S. is around $135 a month. But in some metros, it's more than $600. Steven Bassaha and PR news. Wall Street was closed today in observance of Memorial Day. That's the day when the United States mourns its fallen service members.
Wall Street reopens at 9 a.m. for regular trading. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. The Education Department says students in short-term career and technical programs can now apply for federal education grants. The Pell grants are designed to help the country's lowest income students, excess schooling
beyond high school with the help of federal aid, and they're usually awarded to qualifying students who are pursuing undergraduate degrees or certificate, but under the new rule out this week, that money will also be available for students pursuing workforce training programs. The goal is to address labor shortages and health care and other high demand industries.
Researchers in South Africa and Namibia are reporting encouraging news about the survival chances of the largest animal on Earth. As do Palco reports, scientists say sightings of blue whales and Antarctic waters are rising. Once upon a time there were plenty of blue whales and Antarctic waters, but commercial whaling changed that.
Writing in the African Journal of Marine Science, the researchers say prior to 1978 some 350,000 blue whales were killed by some estimates the population declined by 97%. Thousands of blue whales remain rare. The researchers could only confirm 12 sightings off the coast of Namibia and South Africa between 1964 and 2025, but most occurred since 2012, seeming to confirm predictions that
whales are slowly returning to the waters of the southern Atlantic. Similar increases were seen for sightings of thin whales another endangered species. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palco. And I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. On Consider This NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the
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