"Line from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
A protracted political fight over immigration enforcement funding ended today, when President Trump
signed a $70 billion package this morning, however, a resolution to the U.S. Iran war continues
to elude the president. He's threatening to bomb Iran again, but also predicts, once again, the conflict will "wine down soon," and PRC Peshivaram has more. Trump says Iran down to U.S. Army helicopter earlier this week, both pilots were unharmed. On Tuesday, the U.S. resumed 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 in sight. Trump also claims that a peace deal 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.
Deepashivaram and PR News, the White House. Both parties are taking stock after yesterday's primary elections in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina.
“NPR's Sage Miller reports that includes a key Senate race in Maine, and two gubernatorial”
races in South Carolina, and Nevada. Democrats want to take control of the Senate, which likely depends and part on flipping Maine's Senate seat. Blue. Voters there looked past a litany of claims about character and alleged behavior to pick
"Grand Platner" as their nominee. He will face longtime Republican Senator, Susan Collins. In South Carolina, Trump's opinion still matters. Two Trump's supporting candidates are heading to a runoff election in the governor's race.
The one of them, Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evett, is endorsed by the president. And Nevada Democrats hope their nominee, state attorney general, Aaron Ford, can win the governor's office. Ford be a more left-wing challenger, and will take on Republican Governor Joe Lombardo. The race is seen as a signal of what kind of Democratic candidate can win in swing states
nationally. Sage Miller and PR News. Not just a matter of hours before the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, largest in history, 48 teams participating in games across the US, Mexico, and Canada over the next month, and Pierre's Becky Sullivan's in Los Angeles, where Team USA plays its first match Friday night
against Bergwan. There is this sort of generation of players who are now in their prime. And so the sort of stars, the focal points of the team I would say, are this core group of, you know, you have forward Christian Policic. It's probably the biggest star on the team. He's a forwarder place in the front left. He's
the, the active leading score for the US men's national team. Plus you have these midfielders, Tyler Adams and Weston McKinney. All three of these guys are 27 years old. They're the faces of the team. They've been playing for the US together since they were teenagers. It's NPR. Inflation pushed up last month to its highest level in three years, fueled by gas prices
sharply elevated by the oil ship and disruptions in the US's role war with Iran.
The labor department reports today that May's consumer prices were 4.2 percent higher than
the year before. A new report shows younger students in the US are making gains in reading and math and PR's Sequoia Corrilla reports on the findings from the national assessment of educational progress. Every few years, thousands of nine and 13 year old students around the country sit down
to take a pencil and paper exam. Many of the questions have been the same since the test
“started in the 1970s. The federal trend report looks at achievement in two key subject”
areas and this reliefs had some good news. Seeing some really encouraging signs for our nine year olds, they are making progress of both in reading and in mathematics. The 13 year olds aren't so lucky. Still stagnating where they were in last assessment. So what happened with those younger students? One thing maybe that they were only four years
old during the COVID-19 pandemic. So unlike their older counterparts, their schooling wasn't really disrupted. Sequoia Corrilla and Pernus. Scientists have uncovered an ancient whale graveyard that is currently teeming with marine life at the bottom of the southeastern Indian Ocean. The findings published in the journal
Nature reveal the 5.3 million year old deep sea whale necropolis is the oldest and deepest
ever found. I'm Lakshmi Seng and PR News in Washington. On June 11th, 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
