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The war with Iran is now in its fourth month with no clear indication it will be resolved anytime soon. NPR's Tamar Keith has more.
“On Friday, President Trump announced he was heading into the situation room for a high-level”
meeting about the potential deal, "to make a final determination." He was there for two hours, and we still don't know what he decided. Over the past two months there have been many threats from President Trump and claims of a deal being near, then last week he said he might not even sign the deal unless Gulf Arab states like Qatar signed the Abraham Accord, normalizing relations with Israel.
NPR's Tamar Keith Israel has launched its deepest ground invasion into Lebanon in more than 25 years. NPR's Jaina Raff reports the military captured a strategic mountain in the southern part of the country. The last time Israeli forces were this foreign to Lebanon was in 2000 at the end of an 18-year
occupation, when they withdrew a mid-fighting with Iran back Pizbola. On Sunday, the Israeli military set a captured a mountain-top crusader, Eric Castle. Near the southern city of Nabatea, last week Lebanon's culture minister said the castle
“had suffered a direct hit from Israeli strike.”
Israel has sent tanks and troops into Lebanon as well as launching hundreds of strikes a day, according to U.N. peacekeepers. His Bola has fired back with a much smaller number of attacks on Israeli forces. It has recently deployed low-tech drones that Israel's Prime Minister has called a major threat.
Jaina Raff and Pyrenees Beirut.
Poles close in about an hour in Colombia where voters are casting ballots in a first-round
presidential election. John Otis reports from Bogota. According to Poles, the front-runner is Ivan Sapeda, a left-wing senator and prodigy of President Gustavo Petro, who is banned by the Constitution from seeking a second term. Sapeda, speaking here at a campaign rally, says Hill Negotiate peace treaties with drug-trafficking
rebels.
“By contrast, his main rivals, right-wing lawyer Abelardlo, the Lesprea, and conservative Senator”
Paloma Valencia are promising military crackdowns. If no one secures more than half the votes in today's balloting, the top two finishers will meet in a June 21 runoff. For MPR News, I'm John Otis in Bogota, Colombia. Civil rights groups are suing the U.S. government over conditions at an immigration detention
center in El Paso, Texas. The suit claims horrific conditions and inhumane treatment, including physical violence, three people of die since it was open last year, a government spokeswoman called the allegations categorically false. This is NPR News.
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has announced a nighttime curfew around an immigration detention center until further notice. This follows a series of clashes between protesters and police.
Homelessness drops slightly in the last year of the Biden administration, the first national
decline in nearly a decade. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the latest federal count. This annual count was taken way back in January 2025. The federal housing agency HUD released the report months later than usual. It found the number of people sleeping outside or in shelters was down more than 3% to
go about 745,000 a bit fewer than a record high the year before. In a statement, the National Alliance to End Homelessness says that decline proved that programs to get people into permanent housing do work. The Trump administration has criticized that approach and wants a major shift toward transitional housing and forced treatment.
Local providers worried that could push many people back onto the streets. Jennifer Ludden and peer news, Washington. A two week long event called the Great American State Fair is planned for the National Mall next month. Part of the celebration of the nation's 250th birthday.
Several musicians have backed out, saying they didn't want to participate in a political event.
President Trump called them "third-rate artists," he said that would be replaced, with what
he called the number one attraction anywhere in the world. Donald J. Trump, Trump is now scheduled to personally open the fair on June 24th. I'm Nora Ram, MPR News in Washington. So the next time someone says, "Did you see that?" You can say, "Yeah, obviously."
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