"Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
President Trump says that the United States will bomb Iran again, reigniting conflict
“in the war that he repeatedly says is winding down soon.”
Here's NPR's Deepa Shiveram. Trump says Iran down to U.S. Army helicopter earlier this week, both pilots were unharmed. On Tuesday, the U.S. resumes strikes on Iran to retaliate, and Trump said more strikes would follow. "We'll see what happens, but we hit him hard yesterday, and we're going to hit him
again hard today." The renewed conflict likely means the war with Iran that Trump and Israel started will go on even longer, contrary to the president's repeated claims that it would be short and that an end is incite. Trump also claims that a p-steal has been fully negotiated with Iran, but Iran just needs
to sign it. Negotiations have been going on for weeks, with little signs of a deal being reached soon. But Shiveram and PR news, the White House.
“U.S. stocks are falling sharply after government report showed inflation soared to its”
highest level in three years, hitting 4.2 percent last month.
More on that from NPR's Windsor, Johnston. Rising energy costs continue to work their way through the economy, pushing up the price of everything from food and airfare to shipping and manufacturing. Economist Mark Sandi says consumers shouldn't expect much relief anytime soon. And you know that all of that, it just prices go up like a rocket that come down like
a feather. Or prices now are kind of surrounded by 90 bucks a barrel. That may be as low as it gets for a while, even if the president nails down some kind of deal here in the next few days, few weeks. Sandi says that typical household has paid more than $500 in added energy costs since February.
That alone is more than the roughly $350 families received in tax relief this year. Windsor, Johnston and PR news. Democratic Party sees a path through Maine to edge at Republicans in the U.S. Senate in the midterms, one of the most vulnerable seats is that of public and senator Susan Collins. Yesterday, voters decided she will face Democrat Graham Platner.
Susan Collins, may have started, may have started her career decades ago in Washington with good intentions, but she has become just as spyingless and corrupt as the establishment she now serves. Today, Wasterman senior editor and elections analyst with the nonpartisan cook political reports as Platner's chances are still a toss up.
We don't have a lot of polling data to draw on since these most recent revelations about Platner's treatment of women. However, we do know that he needs to win a robust share of women, particularly older women, to defeat Susan Collins. Wasterman on NPR's morning edition at last check on Wall Street, the Dow is down 565
points. You're listening to NPR news. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he made a grave error in judgment in ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in a New York federal jail in 2019.
Gates has been meeting with members of Congress behind closed doors to data answer questions, about his relationship with Epstein.
He maintains he never witnessed any criminal conduct.
Melinda French Gates has publicly said that her ex-husband's association with Epstein was a source of their marital problems. A new analysis of the number of abortions in the United States in 2025 finds that the overall number increased compared to the previous year. Piersalina Simmons-Duffin reports, numbers increased every year for the last four years.
The Society of Family Planning launched the We-Count Project to measure the number of abortions nationally just before the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion. So, we're now four years after dogs and seeing that people are still getting abortions here, although the ways that they're getting that care have shifted. That's Leah Canick, who directs the We-Count Project.
We've seen this really enormous growth in telehealth abortion which now makes up 29% of U.S. abortion.
Their latest study found that there were 1.13 million abortions in the U.S. in 2025, an increase
from the previous year despite many state bands across the country, Selina Simmons-Duffin and PR News. I'm Lakshmi Seng and PR News in Washington. 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 U.S. podcast on the MPR app.
