"Lie from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Iran says it is suspending talks via mediators with the U.S. over Israeli military operations in Lebanon and in Gaza.
“Israel has continued to bomb South Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut considered”
his bullets strongholds, even though a ceasefire was reached in April. The semi-efficient Iranian news agency, Tuscanym, which is associated with the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Tehran was demanding the end of what it called
the aggressive and brutal Israeli army operations in Gaza and Lebanon. It also called for the complete withdrawal of Israeli military forces from Lebanon. Iran said that unless those conditions were fulfilled, talks with the U.S. to end the war would halt. There was no immediate confirmation from senior Iranian officials that messages, mostly
relayed via Pakistan, between the war and parties, were being suspended. The U.S. in Iran said last week they were close to a tentative 60-day ceasefire extension and framework to start talks to end the war, but the agreement is waiting on President Trump's approval. Hadil al-Shalci and PR news.
With a rising gas prices and unpopular war in Iran and affordability concerns top of mind, American voters say they are unhappy with Republican leadership, and PRC and Fowler has this report on the party's effort to explain why they should stay in power. There's roughly five months to go until the November General Election and the GOP message is mixed at best.
At a campaign event in Iowa last month, Vice President Man said the election is actually not any specific question of public policy. But voters disagree, polls show Americans have sowered on multiple Trump administration policies. At a cabinet meeting last week, President Trump touted policies like a prescription drug
savings program as proof his administration was working, but in a defense of the Iran
“war, he also said the next set of midterm primaries Tuesday include key races in Iowa”
and California, Stephen Valler, and PR News. New Jersey officials say several protesters were arrested overnight for ignoring a curfew at Newark's Delaney Hall. The immigration detention center has been the site of days of clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters over allegedly poor facility conditions.
This morning on NPR, Democratic Senator Cory Booker spoke of outside agitators, but stopped short of accusing them of inciting violence in the first place. We have a lot of people from the proud boys to Greg Bavino coming from outside of our state to try to escalate violence and conflict and from the facility and distract from the moral urgency of this facility that should be closed.
That's Democratic Senator Cory Booker on NPR's morning edition. From Washington, this is NPR News. An anthropic maker of Claude Artificial Intelligence Models says it confidentially filed a proposal today with a securities and exchange commission to possibly go public. It says moving forward with an initial public offering would depend on market conditions
and other factors. The number and price of shares have yet to be determined. Anthropic has experienced booming growth over the past year.
Last week, it's funding round close at a more than $960 billion valuation far surpassing
rival open AI. Opposition to AI data centers is growing in many parts of the United States where some residents worry about environmental and quality of life impacts.
“NPR's Windsor Johnson report supporters argue the facilities are essential, empowering the”
next generation of technology. Incidents in several communities say they're worried about noise, electricity demand, water use, and environmental impacts that AI data centers could bring. Terry Clower with George Mason University says some of those concerns are not supported by evidence.
It almost reminds me of the stuff that we used to hear about cell phone towers in the 1990s. We were all going to become X-Men because we were radiated or, you know, we had brain cancer from using our cell phones, and it's just become almost hysteria in some cases now.
Clower says AI data centers are becoming critical infrastructure for technologies like artificial
intelligence and cyber security, but says that communities need facts to weigh the trade offs. Windsor Johnson and PR news. You're listening to NPR. Hi, it's Mary Louise Kelly.
My podcast sources and methods is one of the top rated national security shows on Apple, average rating 4.9 out of 5. We're one of the best for a reason. Correspondence around the world, veteran journalists, trusted analysis and on the ground reporting.
To understand war, geopolitics and our changing world.
