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that allows the U.S. to gather intelligence on people overseas.
“Lawmakers would not support the FISA extension; it's as a disagreement with President Trump's”
decision to name Bill Pulti as the U.S. acting director of intelligence. Pulti runs an agency responsible for mortgage lending. He has no intelligence experience. President Trump says the U.S. will launch heavier attacks on Iran tonight, he made the claim on social media this morning.
The two countries have been trading military strikes since the downing of an Apache attack helicopter Monday. President Trump blamed that on Iran. NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reports. The President has continually made threats and pronouncements about the war on social media,
and this latest post amps up his rhetoric. He wrote that the U.S. will be, quote, "hitting Iran," adding later in all caps, "very hard tonight."
“Trump also threatened to attack Carg Island, which is central to Iran's oil exports.”
However, Trump told Fox News this morning that the U.S. and Iran are still in talks. He added that he doesn't want to have boots on the ground, but that if he wants, he could send in, quote, "a small group of soldiers." President Trump has said many times that an end to the war could come imminently. Earlier this week, he said an agreement to end the war could be coming within days.
Daniel Kurtzleben and PR news the White House. The latest edition of the Men's World Cup Soccer Tournament kicks off in a few hours.
NPR's Aitor Paralta is in Mexico City, where the first game will be played between
Mexico and South Africa. The favorites are who you might expect, Spain, France, Portugal, England, and the defending champion Argentina, the U.S. and Mexico, are very likely to get out of the group stage, but it's hard to believe they'll make it much further than that. But I'm not going to say that too loudly here, historically the national team here has
been nothing but disappointment, but this tournament is yet to start, so hope is intact. NPR's Aitor Paralta reporting The largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. has moved to step closer to banning women from serving as pastors, thousands of Southern Baptists voted in favor of the formal ban during an annual meeting in Florida. NPR's Christian Wright has more.
Southern Baptist leaders invoked 17th Century Church doctrine in bringing the initial vote to the floor. The proposed amendment to the Southern Baptist Convention's Constitution specifies that only men should preach the word of God to the conservative evangelical congregations. But advocacy group, Baptist women in ministry, put up a billboard near the meeting venue that says God calls women to pastor preach and minister, Reverend Meredith Stone is the
executive director. "While they were hearing these negative messages from the SBC, they would also hear the positive message that God values them equally, and that they should be equally valued in the church." A final vote is planned for next year's meeting, Kristen Wright and P.R. News. "You're listening to NPR News from Washington." Authorities in Chicago say a burning cross was left in the city's iconic grant park Tuesday afternoon.
The fire was put out. There were no injuries. Chicago police have now released two photos of a person of interest in the case. Cross-burnings in the U.S. are linked with racial violence and the Ku Klux Klan. Chicago has a large black community. A Republican-led effort in Congress is getting support that would repeal a ban on logging in what are known as Roadless National Forests. NPR's Kirk Seaguller reports sent a Republican successfully attached an amendment to a broader bill that aims to
prevent wildfires. The quarter-century-old roadless rule bans logging on tens of millions of acres of pristine national forests, though there are carvouts for wildfire prevention work.
Republicans on the powerful Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee want a full repeal, though.
It's Chairman Mike Lee of Utah has gained national attention for pushing to sell federal public lands, which in a hearing caught the eye of Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell. On our side of the aisle, we would like to continue to acquire public land and set it aside for the general public to use. The GOP push coincides with the Trump administration's recent plans to
“repeal the roadless rule by administrative action. That's how it was originally created by President”
Clinton in 2001. Kirk Seaguller and PR News. In men's pro hockey, game five of the Stanley Cup finalist tonight in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Carolina Hurricanes will host the Vegas Golden Nights. The Stanley Cup final is tied at two games of peace. I'm Corva Coleman 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 up first podcast
