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Israel and Iran backed away from further strikes today after they traded fire for the
first time since the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire with Iran two months ago.
The renewed hostilities raised concerns that the Middle East could plunge back into a full-scale war during a tele rally supporting Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tonight, Trump predicted the war would end soon.
“I think we're winning that battle, but you're really going to win it over the next two weeks”
when we declare total victory. It'll be a total victory that'll happen very soon. And oil prices will come tumbling down. Industry experts say even if the war ends, it could take a while for gas prices to return to what is considered normal. A federal judge's rule that President Trump's $100,000 fee for highly skilled worker
visas is unlawful. Twenty states sued over the policy saying it would impede their ability to hire teachers and medical workers. The judge ruled the change and treated on Congress's powers and that the administration had no authority to impose the fee.
The Trump administration is ordering the census bureau to come up with new plans for protecting people's privacy when it produces statistics based on people's personal information. His MPR's Hansi LaWong reports the new policy could limit the data released from the census and other federal government surveys.
“Federal law requires a census bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics.”
For decades when the main ways of bureau has done that is by adding what's known as statistical noise to make certain data fuzzy, especially data about small geographic areas and minority populations who could be easy to identify. But the Trump administration is now banning the approach to data privacy protection. Spokespeople for the Congress Department, which oversees a bureau, do not merely respond
to MPR's questions about why the ban was issued. For the 2020 census, no statistical noise was added to the state level population numbers used to redistribute congressional seats and electoral college votes. The last year the bureau said it was playing to keep using this privacy protection for neighborhood level results from the 2030 census.
On Zila Wang and Pierre News. The U.S. men's national soccer team is set to face Paraguay and it's opening game with the World Cup on Friday. His MPR's Raphael non-reports are still plenty of tickets left for the game. The opening game for the World Cup is traditionally one of the hardest tickets to get in the
tournament.
But this time FIFA still has over a hundred tickets left for the U.S. first game this week.
And there's thousands more in-resil platforms such as Stophob or FIFA's own marketplace. Many at below face value. A big reason for that, the prices. The most expensive tickets for that game cost over $2700. While the cheapest are over a thousand.
Canada, one of the three co-hosts of the tournament, also had unsolved tickets for its opening game against Bosnia Herzegovina this week. Raphael non- MPR News. Wall Street held steadier today and recovered some of its sell-off from last week. But oil prices rose following fighting between Israel and Iran.
The S&P 500 added a quarter of a percent coming off one of the two and a half percent drop on Friday. This is NPR News. Iran's World Cup team arrived in Mexico wearing pins highlighting the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school. The pins included the number 168 referring to the people killed most of them children.
When a likely U.S. strike hit the school in southern Iran. The head of the World Health Organization is calling on Uganda to reconsider its decision to close its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo as both countries deal with an Ebola outbreak. Michael Coloki has more. Tedros Gabriesus, the WHO director general, said Uganda, which temporarily
shot its border with Congo last month should rethink the move. Uganda authorities had previously said the action was taken to limit the spread of Ebola. However, the WHO chief warned that blanket travel restrictions are not effective. Uganda's president, U.S., called for regional cross-border collaboration in tackling the disease. The White House had said last month that the U.S. was setting up a facility in Kenya
to quarantine Americans exposed to Ebola, which a Kenyan court later temporarily suspended. For NPR News, a Michael Coloki in Nairobi. Researchers at 23andMe say they have identified the lost remains of Maryland's second colonial governor, Thomas Green, who died in 1651. According to Maryland matters, the discovery came after dozens of bodies were discovered in a graveyard in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
Researchers compared DNA with those bodies with those of more than 11.5 million people in 23andMe's
genetic database. It's the first time ancient DNA has been used in this way to identify people in a situation where researchers had no idea who they might be. This is NPR News. On June 11, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to North America, the FIFA World Cup. The Super Bowl, and you might say, averages something over a hundred million live viewers,
“but the World Cup final, I think like five times that much. The favorites, the underdogs,”
and the Americanization of the world's game. Listen now to the Sunday Story from the
