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President Trump says Iran is intent on making a deal to end the war, but adds they
are "negotiating on fumes."
“NPR's Mara Lysen has more in Trump's remarks during his lengthy cabinet meeting today.”
The threat was a familiar one from President Trump, either Iran "gives us what we want, or we'll finish them off." The President and his party are under pressure to end the war, which is sent gas prices soaring. That's her Republican candidates in the midterm elections.
But when the President was asked why he hadn't moved faster to end the war, given the financial pain it's causing Americans, he said this. "I think you're about to midterm." The President also laid out another red line for Iran. He says he wants the straight-of-war moves to be open without any tolls.
He said the straight was "international waters that no single country should control." Mara Lysen and PR News. The President is supporting prediction market companies in their fight with state-gambling regulators.
“NPR's Bobby Allen reports Trump's family has come under increased scrutiny over its ties”
to the industry. Trump wrote in a true social post that companies like Kalshi and Polly Market will thrive under his leadership. He wrote, quote, "We are setting the rules of the road that are the gold standard for the states before disparaging the governors of several states that have tried to rein in
the companies."
Trump and his second term has embraced the prediction market industry where people bet billions
of dollars a week on sports elections, news events, and federal policy. The administration has rolled back regulations and sued states that have attempted to apply gambling laws to the sites. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., is an adviser to Kalshi and Polly Market, and is venture capital firm 1789 capital is a major polymarket investor, Bobby Allen and PR News.
The deadly shooting last week at a mosque in San Diego has been linked to suspects who appear to hold neo-nazi white nationalist views, but writings that they are believed to have left
“behind also highlight an area of conspiratorial thinking that is often overlooked and that”
increasingly ties to extremist violence. Here's NPR's Audit Yusuf. The writings lay out grievances against a wide spectrum of people, but at the top, they identify two primary sources of anger, Jews, and women. Alex DeBranco of the Institute for Research on Mail Supremicism says that, increasingly,
the scaffolding of those narratives is being mapped onto women to similarly justify attacks on a broad range of targets. As we have seen, the growth in anti-feminist movements, we've seen similar kind of conspiratorial thinking about women pulling the strings behind the scenes as well. DeBranco says that, in addition to the San Diego attack, anti-women conspiracies drove
a 2011 attack on a summer camp in Norway, Odit Yusuf and PR News. A rescue operations underway in last for two people believed to be trapped in a cave several were rescued, it's NPR News. The attorneys general of New York and Ejurzier investigating FIFA's World Cup taking practices.
A rune of Enugopol with the conversation WNY says soccer is governing body, was served with a subpoena this morning. New York Attorney General Littisha James and her New Jersey counterpart, Jennifer Davinport, say their investigation follows widespread complaints from fans about high ticket prices. And complaints that some fans paid for premium seats only to learn they've been placed
in cheaper sections. Tickets for the eight games at MetLife Stadium are averaging $2,800, that's more than twice the rate of other host cities. In a statement, James said, New Yorkers have been waiting years for the world cup to come to their backyard, and they deserve a fair shot at a
affordable tickets. FIFA declined to comment on the investigation, but has in the past defended high ticket prices as reflective of market forces. For NPR News, I'm Arun Vinigopol in New York. In the nation's capital students from across the U.S. and U.S. territories are battling
it outward by word letter by letter. For a shot at becoming champion of the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, hundreds of contestants such as Illinois teen Y.M. Muhammad have taken a stage, faced down the clock, and took the leap to spell out a dictionary word.
They may never hear again like a risk of mucoyed from the Scripps preliminary round
this year. Definition one more time. A plasma glycoprotein believed to be associated with inflammation. Oh, the pressure of the National Spelling Bee is now a hundred one and for the first time in years, it's being held in Washington, D.C. instead of Maryland, finals are tomorrow.
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