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Three months into the war launched by the U.S. and Israel, Iran now says it's suspending
“all talks with the U.S. until Israel stops its "aggression against Lebanon and Gaza."”
President Trump insists talks will continue as NPR's ideal al-shalchi explains. President Trump had actually seemed like he was confident about talks with Iran, just this morning he posted on truth social also that quote, "Iron really wants to make a deal and it will be a good one for the USA." He went on to say, "Just sit back and relax.
It will all work out well in the end, it always does."
But then the semi-efficient Iranian news agency, Tuscanym, that has ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that Iran was going to hold off those talks. From the beginning, Iran has said Israel has to end its invasion of southern Lebanon, where it's occupied large swaths of land. And the U.S. and Iran said last week they were actually close to a tentative 60 days ceasefire
extension and framework to start talks to the end of the war, but the agreement is still waiting on President Trump's approval. And then this morning, the two countries exchanged fire with the U.S. striking Iranian radar sites. NPR's ideal al-shalchi reporting, "The Trump administration says it will abide by a
court ruling that paused a $1.8 million fund to compensate alleged victims of the federal government.
The administration had said the fund would be available to those who say the government had
been weaponized against them, Democrats and even some Republican lawmakers were reluctant to support it. The Trump administration has released details on how the federal work requirement for Medicaid should operate, as NPR's salina Simmons' "duffin" reports states have only a few months before the work requirements are supposed to take effect."
The Republicans' big, beautiful bill-act past last year used major cuts to Medicaid to fund President Trump's policy priorities.
“A key way to get the cost of Medicaid down is to limit who can be on the public health”
plan. Right now, all but a few states allow any low income adult to enroll. As of January, all of those adults from age 19 to 64 will have to prove that they are working or are exempt from the requirement. The Department of Health and Human Services has now published the details states need
to set up the new system in a document that's nearly 400 pages long. Critics of the new rule say it takes a narrow view of medical exemptions, which could lead to many people with complicated health needs becoming uninsured. Salina Simmons' "duffin" and "Pierre News," Washington. Former Colorado elections clerk in conspiracy theorists, Tina Peters has been released from
prison. Democratic Governor Jared Pollis commuted her nine-year sentence for tampering with voting machines before she served a quarter of it, saying she had expressed regret. Today, she appeared on right-wing podcast or Steve Bannon's program, repeating the
“debunked conspiracy theories that voting machines cheated Trump out of reelection in 2020.”
Oil prices rose following the latest fighting in Iran, but U.S. stocks ticked to more records. This is NPR. AI Company and Thropic is moving toward going public on Wall Street. The maker of chatbot Claude says it has submitted a confidential filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering, and Thropic has risen from
a little-known research laboratory to one of the leading AI companies valued at $965 billion.
Nearly 900 people were arrested after a soccer match in France when Paris, Sean Germain, beat Arsenal to clinch its second Champions League title, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports authorities say they're worried about violence around future matches. The scenes of celebration that turned to violence Saturday night after PSG's victory have set off a national debate.
Like this one on TV News Channel BFM where panelists discuss who's at fault why it occurs and how to stop it. Far-right politicians link the chaos to immigration. Many of the young people who raised havoc in Paris Street Saturday come from similar immigrant working-class backgrounds as many of the PSG players.
The team is enormously popular in the blue-collar Paris suburbs where trust in police is also low with the world cup around the corner. There's talk of corraling people in fan zones, closing Paris's Sean's Aleusay, or even establishing a curfew for minors, Eleanor Beardsley and Piano's Paris. Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions at a psychiatric hospital
near Paris. The program offers weekly sessions where patients walk and care for donkeys. And say the interaction provides relief, similar to medication the program began in 2016 and now includes other animals like guinea pigs and rabbits. This is NPR News.
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