Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
The House has approved a resolution directing President Trump to remove forces from the
“Iran war for Republicans joined Democrats to pass it.”
The vote marked a rare bipartisan rebuked by Congress of President Trump's handling of the war, which is clinging to a fragile ceasefire, but even if the legislation passes the Senate, it would almost certainly be vetoed by Trump. The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee is blasting a deal to exempt President Trump and his family from tax audits as a "brazen" abuse of power, and P.R.S. Scott
Horsey reports Oregon Senator Ron Wyden tried to grill the Treasury Secretary about the agreement today. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declined to answer questions about a deal granting the President and his family immunity from tax audits, saying that's the subject of ongoing litigation. But Senator Wyden was not satisfied.
Wyden says it's wrong to exempt the President and his family from the kind of tax scrutiny that other Americans routinely face. It's the ultimate case of an ultra wealthy individual living under one set of rules, while everybody else lives under another, a crooked double-standard that benefits Trump and family.
“The Justice Department agreed to the audit immunity after Trump sued the IRS over leaked”
tax returns.
Another part of the settlement, a multi-billion dollar restitution fund, was dropped after
bipartisan complaints. Scott Horsey and P.R. News, Washington. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen doubled down on his threat to remove customs and border protection officers from airports and cities that don't typically cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
Mullen criticized what the administration calls sanctuary cities for letting local police refuse to cooperate with immigration agents. "That means I got to pull them out of customer and border protection from process international flights I will, as they're cooperating with us, and I don't have to do that." Mullen's threat has sparked criticism from the travel industry for its potential
to cause chaos just ahead of the world cup. Ukrainian drone struck Russia's historical capital St. Petersburg this morning. The attacks came just hours before the start of a marquee economic form promoted by Russian
“president Vladimir Putin from St. Petersburg and P.R. Charles Mains reports.”
Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelensky took to social media to say drone struck an oil terminal in a naval base in the outskirts of St. Petersburg, and in the city residents woke to large banks and a massive plume of smoke drifting over the horizon. The regional governor claimed Russian air defenses also destroyed some 60 drones in the surrounding air space, prompting authorities to delay dozens of flights from St. Petersburg's main
airport. The attacks seemed time to disrupt the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. An annual event President Putin has used to promote Russian economic might and continued global partnerships despite Western sanctions over his invasion of Ukraine.
Donald's Mains and P.R. News, St. Petersburg. U.S. stocks retreated from their records today, the Dow dropped more than one percent. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. A United Nations University report says the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries.
It predicts that their water and energy use and pollution will double in just four years. Last year, global data centers used a 448 trillion watt hours of electricity and produced
about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide and it's about the same as Argentina.
New research plummet published in Nature Medicine finds people with diet related diseases who received dietitian-designed meals have lower health care costs and fewer hospitalizations and P.R.'s Allison Aubrey reports. The study is the latest from the food as medicine institute at Thompson University. The analysis includes people with diabetes, heart disease, depression, and other conditions
who received free meals delivered to their homes about 10 per week. Each patient met with the registered dietitian who tailored meals to meet their medical needs and food preferences. The study shows participants who received the meals had about 30 percent fewer hospitalizations and lower health care costs.
Researchers say the results show food really can be a form of medicine. Several states are piloting similar, medically tailored meal programs through Medicaid at a time when diet related diseases are a leading cause of death. Allison Aubrey and PR News A series of bizarre sightings of people popping out of New York's vast sewer system has
the city wondering what's going on. Videos show groups of people entering and exiting the sewers at night in the burrows of Brooklyn and Queens. Police say they don't believe there's any threat to public safety after conducting a thorough sweep.
I'm Ryland Barton, this is NPR News from Washington. It's June and another big week in the run-up to the midterms, primaries and half a dozen states including California where new congressional maps are in place and a chaotic race for governor is wide open. We're also following gas prices and Iran.
So far talk of a peace deal is just talk. We'll keep you posted.
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