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A bipartisan majority in the Republican-led house has voted to end the war with Iran.
NPR's "Clotty-Gitty-Salus" reports this was the clearest review yet of President Trump's handling of the conflict. New York Democrat Gregory Meeks helped force the vote to end the Iran war that's now 90 days in. He thanked Republicans who joined Democrats to get the war powers resolution over the
finish line.
“At the point, where you have to put people, the American people, over politics.”
One of those Republicans, Pennsylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick, argued, went to conflict past the 60-day mark it violated the War Powers Act. "I follow the law. People have a hard time being consistent around here. They apply different rules to different presidents, different wars, different areas.
The law is a law." For now, the vote remains symbolic, even if it were to pass in the Senate too, Trump would be able to veto it. "Clotty-de-Salus" impure news, the capital.
John Bolton, once the National Security Advisor in President Trump's first term before
becoming an outspoken critic, has reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents this according to a person familiar with the matter. A major gun-controlled group is suing the federal government over its refusal to hand over records. The group wants information that shows who are the largest sellers of guns using crime
in the U.S., more from NPRs, Jacqueline Diaz. The gun-controlled group Brady is suing the Bureau of Alcohol to Back-O, Firearms and Explosives, and the Justice Department. Brady is demanding the federal government release information tied to something called "demand letter 2s."
These are letters ATF sends to gun dealers and other sellers who have been identified as selling a lot of guns recovered at crime scenes.
Josh Sharf is Brady's general counsel and senior director of programs.
“He says this information is important to monitor how the federal government keeps tabs”
on gun dealers. It's an information that we need to improve public safety in this country. The DOJ and ATF did not respond to the loss we get. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. With the soccer World Cup set to start next Thursday and NPR analysis finds more than one
in three World Cup matches face dangerous heat risk. And PR's Rebecca Hershey reports that includes the World Cup final. NPR found 39 of the 104 World Cup matches this summer are very likely to see dangerously hot humid weather. Donald Mullin studies heat risk at Queen's University Belfast.
Obviously, if you schedule these matches in the mid-afternoon, that's some of these hottest locations, then that's your recipe for disasters. For example, the World Cup final is scheduled for 3pm on July 19th in New Jersey. That game is at high risk for dangerous heat in humidity. ATF says extra water breaks will help protect players, but did not respond to questions
“about exactly how fans will be protected.”
Rebecca Hershey and PR News. This is NPR. President Trump says he plans to nominate his former personal lawyer to permanently take charge of the Justice Department. Todd Blanch has been the acting attorney general since his boss Pambody was acid in April.
Upper prices are near an all-time high in part because of the Artificial Intelligence State of Center Boom. That means copper wire theft has been on the rise as well, more from NPR's John Ruiz. The phone company AT&T says it counted more than 10,400 incidents of copper wire theft last year, some 4,000 of which were in California.
In Northern California this year, the company says the numbers are up sharply. AT&T West President Susan Santana says the company has been bolting down manholes, putting alarms in spans of wire hiring security guards and is even offering money for information that leads to arrests. The company runs a legacy copper wire network that she says serves only about 3% of its
customers. AT&T is hoping to shift customers to other options, although it says state law is holding it back. AT&T recently filed suit against California to be able to wind down its century-old copper wire network and take away a big target of would-be copper thieves.
John Ruiz and PR News. People in the market for a home or finding fixed mortgage rates below six and a half percent for 30 year loans and 5.8% on 15 year fixed rate mortgages, a latest numbers from the finance giant Freddie Mac shows rates of ease, rates have been training mostly higher since the war with Iran began in late February, alongside inflation fears, stemming from oil-shipping
disruptions and price surges on the home front. This is NPR News. Want to hear this podcast without sponsor bricks? Amazon Prime members can listen to NPR News now, sponsor free through Amazon Music. Or you can also support NPR's vital journalism and get NPR+ at plus.npr.org.
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