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President Trump says he's meeting with his top advisors to make a final determination about the war in Iran.
“U.S. sources confirm yesterday that negotiators had reached a deal for a six-month ceasefire”
but Trump still needed to weigh in. NPR's "Depeshivaram" reports. On Thursday, there was a potential outline for a continued 60-day ceasefire, but the president and Iran had not yet agreed to it. Trump posted on social media Friday, repeating his stance that Iran should not have a nuclear
weapon and that the straight of Hormuz should be opened. The Iran War has gone on for months, tanking the president's approval ratings as his party faces a challenging midterm election year. Trump has gone back and forth in the last several weeks at times saying he's close to reaching a deal with Iran and saying he'll ramp up attacks once again.
President Trump's chief shiver on and PR news the White House. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with
a nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund tied to claims of government weaponization.
The fund would compensate people who say they were politically targeted by the federal government.
“NPR's "Tom Drysbock" reports opponents argue the plan is unconstitutional.”
They are presuming that all of the money from this fund will only go to the president's friends and allies not his perceived enemies like themselves. And so they argue the fund is unconstitutional. They ask a judge to stop it all together or at least pause it while they're suing. And so a federal judge in Virginia today ordered that the administration do that.
They're pausing any action to create this fund or make any payments. At SMPR's "Tom Drysbock" reporting the fund stems from President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the disclosure of his tax returns. The director of the World Health Organization has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is battling an Ebola outbreak, and at Livingstone reports, workers there
are struggling to contain the virus. According to revised data, authorities have recorded more than 900 suspected cases in three provinces and over 220 suspected Ebola deaths. The virus is spreading in a region plagued by armed groups, which is complicating the health response. WHO Director General Tedros Adonon DiBrey Jesus is seeking to rally those
confronting the outbreak.
“"I came here to show that the community's territory, the North Hebrew and South Hebrew”
that they're not alone, and that we are here to support." Congo's Health Minister Roger Kamba criticized what he called a "larmest fuse" regarding the outbreak, saying Ebola will be stopped within about six months. After MPR News, I'm Emmett Livingstone in Canchasa.
On Wall Street, the Dow Cross, the 51,000 mark for the first time today, right now, would
sub-319 points. This is NPR News in Washington. Major League Baseballs team owners are proposing a salary cap next season. The player's union is pushing back on the move, vowing not to accept it. The ceiling on team salaries was last proposed in 1994, leading to a more than seven-month
players strike. A 14-year-old from California won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in a rapid fire spell off, NPR's Rachel Treesman reports. 247 spellers arrived in DC for B week, but only nine made it to Thursday's finals. was ended in a spell-off, where two contestants each had 90 seconds on stage alone, to spell
as many words correctly as possible. "Cashaw." "Cashaw." "Cashaw." "Cashaw."
"Cashaw." "Cashaw." "Cashaw." "Cashaw." "Akritra Shrey Poreak emerged triumphant with 32."
"That's a new record for the spell-off, which has been used three times since its introduction in 2021.
Poreak leaves his third and final B with over $50,000 in cash.
His message to viewers is to just keep trying. Rachel Treesman and PR News." "And Thropic is now Silicon Valley's most valuable artificial intelligence company, surpassing open AI. The company announced a new round of funding that values the maker of the Cloud Chatbot at $965
billion. And Thropic was founded by former open AI employees and has emerged as one of the company's biggest competitors and the race to develop advanced AI systems. I'm Mr. Johnston and PR News in Washington. Want to hear this podcast without sponsor bricks?
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